Chapter 21: Beating Brother-in-law During Chinese New Year

Chapter 21: Beating Brother-in-law During Chinese New Year

Chapter 21: Beating Brother-in-law During Chinese New Year

A few days later, Jiang Ning came to Building No. 6.

He has been quite busy recently, having conducted two days of inspections and negotiations with the county industrial park. He has been so busy that he has basically eaten out. Today he had some free time, so he came to Building No. 6 to eat, mainly because Feng Xue and Feng Yu had returned to Qi Ze to celebrate the New Year.

Otherwise, I wouldn't come here to eat.

At the dinner table, Zhang Yulan mentioned that Guo Youping and Su Hongyan came to visit her uncle.

Holding cigarettes, alcohol, two bottles of Moutai and two packs of Huazi.

Chen Huiru also shared a message.

The next day after coming home, Guo Youping and Su Hongyan went to visit their elder and second uncles.

I heard it from my two cousins.

News about women always spreads the fastest.

Jiang Ning asked his father: "What's the matter, second cousin?"

Jiang Youxin said: "I didn't say what it was, but I have to ask for something when I give a gift to someone. It should be related to his farm."

Jiang Ning nodded. What else could it be?

However, the project has entered the negotiation stage, and my second cousin can no longer take advantage of this favorable situation. It is impossible to start over again. He must have other ideas, but after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't come up with any ideas, so he simply gave up.

After a few days, the project entered the substantive stage.

After comprehensive comparison, Jiang Ning has decided to buy a piece of land in the north of the city.

He didn't consider other places because the conditions were better too far away. He didn't want to run dozens of kilometers to get to the farm. Anyway, he was smart and was not afraid of poor soil. Even if he was given a desert, he could turn it into an oasis. Poor conditions were not a problem.

Must be close to the county seat.

After selecting a location, the next step is to demarcate the land.

The park took out a map, which was a satellite map of Beian.

The longitude and latitude are also marked on it, and every corner is very detailed.

Jiang Ning looked for a long time, marked a small area in the northwest corner of the county, and said, "That's all."

The park leader asked, "Are you sure you want this much?"

Jiang Ning asked: "How much land are there?"

The park leader said: "According to the area you have drawn, it is about 100 square kilometers."

Jiang Ning subconsciously asked, "How many acres are there in more than 100 square kilometers?"

Shen Liming calculated quickly: "About 200,000 acres!"

"so much!"

Jiang Ning was shocked, and he wanted 5,000 acres of land.

Two hundred thousand acres is too much.

It's such a small area on the map, I didn't expect there would be so many.

Jiang Ning patted his forehead and said, "It's too big. Five thousand acres will be enough for me."

The park leader said at this time: "Five thousand acres is too little. According to your plan, you don't need to level the land, but plant trees. In this way, the land leveling fee, which is the largest cost of developing wasteland, can be saved. The investment in digging wells and building roads is actually not much. The investment in building fences and buying seedlings is not large either. The main part is the irrigation project. If it is simple, one acre of land can be invested only five hundred. Even if you add forage grass and develop a few hundred acres of medicinal fields, it will not cost fifty million. It is better to get more land at once."

Jiang Ning stared at the map and drew another line: "This is it."

It's probably half the size of the one I drew before.

The leader simply allocated him an area: "Why not take this one? It's to Qingyangkou in the west, Liusha River in the north, and Goujiazhuangzi in the southeast. Build a road from Goujiazhuangzi and it's only two or three kilometers away. It's also convenient to build a road."

Jiang Ning looked at it for a while and found it quite good. He asked, "How much is this land?"

The staff calculated: "More than 30,000 acres!"

Jiang Ning took a breath of cold air. It was too much.

With so much land, is 50 million enough?

Isn't this forcing him to make additional investments?
The leader’s calculations are too loud.

Jiang Ning thought about it and decided that it was not a big problem. He had a cheat anyway, and digging a well was free, so he could do it himself. If all else failed, he could just scatter some grass seeds, and he could make money back by selling the grass, or he could not even use grass seeds.

That's not next door, there's grass there.

It's just too dry for grass to grow.

As long as the irrigation project is built, there will be water and grass will grow.

If you give it some Yi wood essence, it will grow rapidly.

When the time comes, I will get a harvester to sell silage and sell it to those large-scale breeders.

After the land is demarcated, the formal negotiation phase will begin.

Policy support, tax incentives, resource fees for well digging, how to build the road, where to build it, and who will build it, all of these are being discussed in detail. As a public official, Shen Liming has to consider the official interests on the one hand.

But as a friend, I also have to fight for the interests that Jiang Ning deserves.

Taking care of both ends, feeling both pain and happiness.

As for registering a company, that's just a small matter.

Since Jiang Ning had no one available, the park directly assigned someone to take care of it.

I was busy until the end of the twelfth lunar month before everything was finally settled.

The details have been basically finalized and we will start construction after the Spring Festival.

After the Little New Year, Jiang Ning started to have banquets every day again.

The relatives of the Jiang family have long agreed that they will no longer carry gifts to visit relatives during the Chinese New Year. Not only is it too troublesome, but it is also too wasteful to receive a lot of gifts and then have to wait for them to expire and be thrown away if they cannot be eaten or drunk.

Why not treat everyone to a meal and get together to celebrate the New Year?

My second cousin Guo Youping invited us first and booked two large private rooms.

The table that can seat more than 20 people was basically full.

It can be seen that the population is prosperous.

Jiang Ning is the youngest among his brothers and sisters, while his eldest cousin from his eldest aunt's family is the eldest. She is only two years younger than his father, but his cousin's son is one year older than him. He also returned home after graduating from university and works in the Urban Management Bureau. He has already decided on a marriage and will get married next year.

The second cousin made a point of chatting with Jiang Ning for a few words.

Asked about the progress of the project.

We made an appointment to have dinner together when we are free.

Jiang Ning discovered that his eldest cousin did not come.

I waited until the food was served, but no one showed up.

I asked Jiang Hua: "Why didn't my cousin come over?"

Jiang Hua lowered his voice: "The eldest cousin and the second cousin can't pee in the same pot." Jiang Ning: "..."

How discordant this must be among the relatives!

I looked at my eldest aunt and my second aunt, and there was nothing unusual.

After all, they are sisters, and they are both old ladies in their sixties.

Apparently the grudges of the next generation had no effect on them.

On the way home after dinner.

Jiang Ning also asked his parents: "What's going on with the eldest cousin and the second cousin?"

Jiang Youxin said: "One of them looks down on the other. Zhou Aiguo thinks Guo Youping is unkind and does not recognize relatives as a leader. Guo Youping thinks Zhou Aiguo is just a lazy person who is waiting for death and has no ambition. Anyway, the two of them always avoid each other when eating."

Jiang Ning smacked his lips. This is really...

I don’t know what to say.

The next day, the eldest cousin treated everyone to a meal, but the second cousin did not come.

However, my second cousin's wife, Su Hongyan, came and chatted and laughed with my eldest cousin's wife.

It seems that the men’s grudges have no effect on the women.

Jiang Ning felt that this was not right. No matter how incompatible they were, they were cousins ​​after all. It was not so difficult that they could not even maintain superficial harmony. On the way home, he asked Jiang's father, "Cousin Eldest and Cousin Second Don't Just Dislike Each Other, Right?"

Zhang Yulan told the truth: "Your eldest cousin's uncle used to be a county leader. Your second cousin wanted to climb up the ladder, so your second uncle asked your eldest uncle for help. Your eldest uncle failed to help, so Guo Youping and Zhou Aiguo stopped associating with each other."

Jiang Ning suddenly realized: "That's what I said. If there was no other reason, why would they end up not communicating with each other for the rest of their lives?"

Later, when he was treating guests, his second cousin came.

But the eldest cousin didn't come. He sent him a message saying that he was busy.

Jiang Wei invited his eldest cousin to dinner, but his second cousin didn't.

I don’t know who leaked the information, how did they know that the other party was coming and how they were able to avoid it.

It wasn't until the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month that the festival came to an end.

Looking back, I realized I lost money.

Two tables of food cost several thousand yuan, plus cigarettes and alcohol cost tens of thousands.

The gifts given to relatives only cost a few dollars.

If you don't bring cigarettes or alcohol, two gift boxes for a hundred yuan will be enough.

My cousins ​​can take the invoice to ask for compensation, or just put it on credit.

People like him can only pay for it out of their own pockets.

On New Year’s Eve, Dad Jiang was still busy in the greenhouse.

Jiang Hua also went to the store early and was so busy that he couldn't stop.

Sister-in-law Chen Huiru gave the couplets to Jiang Ning and asked him to post them.

Jiang Ning was so miserable that he couldn't say anything. There was no one to help him. He worked by himself for a long time before he finally pasted the couplets. Then he went on to paste couplets on his own house, and finally went on to paste couplets on the door of the house that Feng Yu rented.

This is the first time I spend Chinese New Year at home as an adult.

Jiang Ning was full of anticipation and bought fireworks worth more than 20,000 yuan.

It was set off in the community for more than half an hour in the early morning to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year.

Then I went to play cards with my two cousins, and originally wanted to ask Jiang Hua to go.

It's just enough for one table, but Jiang Hua never plays.

So I called my cousin’s husband Wei Tao.

My cousin is not the sister of Jiang Wei and Jiang Ze. They never play cards with their brothers-in-law. My cousin is the eldest daughter of my second cousin on my third grandfather’s side. My cousin’s husband works in the financial industry and is said to have worked in a trading cell. He is a very tough guy and is never afraid of anything.

After playing for two hours, Jiang Ning won enough money for food.

If I work hard all night, I can afford the money for cigarettes and alcohol.

Wei Tao had bad luck tonight and lost the most among the three.

He was very angry and the mahjong tiles were thrown loudly.

then……

A fortune was thrown up and hit Jiang Ning on the bridge of the nose.

Jiang Ning was unhappy in the first place. Some people have a bad drinking style, and some people have a bad card playing style. I don't know about Wei Tao's drinking style, but his card playing style is really bad. He said without any politeness: "Can you be gentler, brother-in-law, your card playing style is really bad!"

Wei Tao was already quite angry, and seeing that he was not being polite, he was also a little unhappy: "What's the matter, do you have any objections?"

Seeing that he didn't know how to restrain himself and was still so aggressive, Jiang Ning became even more unhappy: "You hit my nose with your mahjong, and I can't have an opinion?"

Wei Tao rolled his eyes: "What's wrong with hitting your nose? You have a worse temper than me!"

Jiang Ning stared at him and said, "Then you have to endure it even if I hit you on the nose with a mahjong, right?"

"Calm down your anger."

"It's New Year's Day, isn't it?"

When Jiang Ze and Jiang Wei saw the two men arguing, they hurried to try to stop them.

They also don't like Wei Tao's playing card style and remind him occasionally.

It’s not easy to say much.

But I didn’t expect that Jiang Ning couldn’t pretend and started to argue directly.

After some words of persuasion, the two of them didn't calm down.

Instead, the more he talked, the angrier he got.

Wei Tao said directly: "If you want to fight, fight. If you don't want to fight, get out!"

Jiang Ning casually threw the red pill in his hand away: "We three brothers asked you to come here because we think highly of you. If I were to look down on you, who the hell would you think you are? You have little ability but a bad temper. What are you showing off for?"

The mahjong hit Wei Tao's nose.

It hurt quite a bit.

"Grass!"

Wei Tao got furious and stood up and started hitting someone.

A slap came across the mahjong table.

There was no way Jiang Ning would let him hit him, so he pushed the attack away and stood up.

He slapped him in the face with his backhand.

(End of this chapter)