Time passed in Fang Wanshan, and in a blink of an eye, it was the New Year's Day, the New Year's Day of the gentlemen, and they began to prepare for this most important festival for Westerners from the government television. However, for ordinary people in Xiangjiang, it is far from being as important as the Laba Festival of the lunar calendar a week later, and for this group of young people as big as Fang Wanshan, the only feeling is that they are going to have a holiday, and there are some annoying people on the street from time to time, Santa Claus dressed as a clown, distributing all kinds of candy and flyers on the street.

The eldest sister Fang Qin began to gather a few brothers and sisters to start getting together, well, her own family began to take stock of the input of milk tea snacks, etc., Fang Wanshan actually couldn't figure it out a little, as the heir of the dragon, why should everyone use the new calendar as a year-end summary, even if it is the future generations.

There are now 8 bubble tea shops, and the competition for bubble tea shops has been big since November, but the total profit has not decreased in the slightest, mainly because the two in Central are growing too fast.

The revenue in August was more than 26,000 yuan (mainly only about 10 days, one store)

In September, the revenue was more than 150,000 yuan

In October, the revenue reached 320,000 yuan

In November, the revenue reached 350,000 yuan, although the number of people drinking milk tea in November was less and the weather cooled down, but a new store was opened. Someone else's new store has just opened.

In December, the revenue directly exceeded the 500,000 mark, and the other 6 stores declined slightly, but the company's customized afternoon tea in Central doubled several times, and then the outbreak of Christmas and New Year's Day

The brothers didn't expect that there would be just a few bubble tea shops, and the revenue would reach more than 1.3 million in just a few months, although the eldest sister probably knew that it should be more than 1 million, but she didn't expect it to be so much, and finally the total profit reached more than 800,000. Fang Wanshan didn't feel it, the second brother Fang Qiang, and the second sister Fang Jiao were stunned as soon as they calculated that they would be close to 100,000 immediately.

Originally, the eldest sister wanted to continue to expand her business, but Fang Wanshan strongly objected, although she could still earn a little, but relatively speaking, it was not much, the price of Xiangjiang soared this year, and at the beginning of the year it was about 5 yuan a beef brisket rice, and now there is basically no less than 7 yuan. The eldest sister got more than 400,000 yuan, and she didn't know what to do with it, Fang Wanshan got about 250,000 yuan in her hand (10% with brother-in-law, 10% from the eldest brother). Fang Wanshan let the eldest sister have two choices, one is to give the money to Fang Wanshan, see what to invest next year, count her 30% shares, and the other is to suggest that she buy a house for rent and wait for appreciation.

The eldest sister thought about it and decided to buy a house, although the younger brother brought a lot of surprise to himself this year, but it was more than 400,000 yuan, wasn't it. After determining how much each person has, the eldest sister will go to HSBC to deposit everyone's money into their respective accounts, and the account was opened by her brother-in-law who took them to HSBC around November. Fang Wanshan actually doesn't like HSBC at all. Fang Wanshan and they returned home in the evening, and on the way, Fang Wanshan told the brothers and sisters that they couldn't tell their parents about this matter, or they wouldn't confiscate it. didn't expect the eldest sister to give her father a little more thoroughly, to Fang Wanshan's surprise, this time the parents didn't mention confiscating their money, so they let the brothers and sisters take it themselves. In the evening, the Fang family held a family meeting, which was presided over by his father Fang Yuansheng, and his grandmother, who usually didn't care about anything, also lived in the back.

"The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and for us Chinese, a busy year is now a day of immediate rest and joy. Dad Fang Yuansheng first came to an opening remark:

The six brothers and sisters plus the brother-in-law were all sitting and listening, and the father continued:

"According to the habits of foreigners, 1972 has passed, we need to sum up this year's experience, and look forward to next year, we will leave it until the Chinese New Year."

Dad cleared his throat: "Well, this year, the family's tea restaurant made some money, except for buying a house for your eldest brother and sister-in-law, this should have been given to them before, but there was no such condition before, and today I finally made it up for them." ”

Dad paused and continued: "This year, the second, third, and second sisters, and the third sister have all helped the family a lot, and I will buy you two new clothes, which are more expensive." Originally, I wanted to give you some pocket money to buy you something you wanted, but you earned a sum of money with your eldest sister, so you saved it. ”

The third sister Fang Fang began to want to cry, their brothers all went, the only thing was that there was no herself, she felt very wronged.

Dad found the third sister pouting, and immediately said, "Third sister, you asked your mother to ask for it, and you can buy whatever you want." ”

After comforting the third sister, my father began to continue: "Originally, you are still young, except for the eldest and eldest sister, everyone else is studying, and how much money the family earns, I shouldn't tell you, but what you did this year, Dad, I still feel that you have grown up, and the family can come up with some ideas." ”

Dad Fang Yuansheng looked at the reactions of several children with satisfaction, paused and said: "This year, in addition to the house bought for your eldest brother and your uncle's shop, there is still about 78,000 yuan left in the family.

Dad smiled awkwardly and continued: "There is another one that your Uncle Zhang should not sell, although their family is better than ours before, but it is also a family of 5 people living in that place." ”

After everyone digested it, Dad waved his hand and said, "How can you use this money today." ”

After listening to it, grandma said: "What are you doing, save it, the second baby is about to be admitted to university, and if you don't get in, you need to find something to do, keep it for him"

Grandma loves her second brother Fang Qiang the most, because he looks the most like grandpa. My mother also agreed to save it, but she said that she was pregnant because her sister-in-law was pregnant, and she was about to give birth to her eldest grandson.

The eldest sister glanced at Fang Wanshan, Fang Wanshan didn't understand what it meant, so he whispered next to the eldest sister:

"Eldest sister, do you want me to come up with an idea, then I will suggest that my father give me the money to do business next year. ”

The eldest sister Fang Qin was very curious about the younger brother's thoughts, and asked in a low voice:

"Didn't I just give you 250,000 yuan, and you have more than 80,000 in yourself, which is not enough for you. ”

Without waiting for Fang Wanshan to reply, he continued:

"Hurry up and give the rest of the money to Dad, this is their dividend. ”

The eldest sister never knew that the 1,000 yuan at the beginning was her brother-in-law, and Fang Wanshan kept saying that it was given by her father.

Fang Wanshan couldn't help but hurriedly say:

"Wait and tell my dad alone, you just said that the dividend is only more than 10,000, and now there are so many more, what does dad think. ”

The eldest sister Fang Qin didn't say anything, so Fang Wanshan instigated the eldest brother-in-law and said:

"Brother-in-law, look at the house now, my parents still live in the store, and my uncle is basically, very crowded, the second sister, the third sister, and the second brother are all older, or they will borrow some money for their father to buy a house. So you don't lose money. ”

The eldest sister glanced at Fang Wanshan when she heard this, and let Fang Wanshan's treacherous plan succeed. The brother-in-law stood up and said:

"Dad, you see that your old man and mother are still living in the store, and there is also a grandmother at home, and you have to take care of the four of them, the second sister, the third sister, and the second brother are also older, don't they all need their own houses. ”

The brother-in-law looked at his father-in-law and they all looked at him, so he continued: "This year, Qinqin has made some money in her own business, and she has probably made more than 100,000 yuan. ”

Hearing what my brother-in-law said, my mother didn't say it, my father and grandmother resolutely disagreed, but there were a few traitor children in the family, and finally agreed to borrow 80,000 yuan. The interest is calculated by the father, but the eldest sister resolutely does not want to.

After solving the house problem, my father began to name several brothers and sisters individually, focusing on the second brother Fang Qiang, he was about to take the exam, and the results were probably too good or not, but there was still a little hope, but after the results came out this year, I couldn't see any hope, and the angry dad slapped him a few times when he saw it. Dad is actually very gentle to his brothers and sisters, and he is mainly reasonable. Sometimes he can make a little joke with him, and Fang Wanshan has the impression that "himself" is riding on that shoulder and making a nest with his hair.

I saw Fang's father pointing at Fang Qiang and said in a low voice:

"Second child, how did you do it this semester, it dropped so much at once. Your grandfather is a top student, although your father and I didn't read much, but your grandmother taught me and your aunt by herself, and our family is also a scholar. ”

Then he sighed and said: "I said that there are no conditions, your eldest brother was delayed, the family is poor, what about you, now that the family conditions are good, there is no problem in sending you to college." You have to study hard and win glory for your family. ”

Then he pointed at Fang Wanshan, "Look at your brother, he is basically full marks, the first in age, how much progress he has made." If you're like that kid Dayong, Dad won't care about you in the future. ”

After that, Fang Yuansheng said in an accentuated tone:

"I'm afraid you'll embarrass my family. ”

This time, grandma didn't say a good word for the second brother, and resolutely supported Fang's father.

Two days after the family meeting, the eldest sister gave 80,000 yuan to Fang's father. Well, taking it from Fang Wanshan's account, Fang Wanshan directly said to his brother-in-law in private, this is his. The brother-in-law didn't say anything either.

January 26, 1973, this day is the twenty-third day of the lunar month, commonly known as the small year, but there are few people in Xiangjiang, the Fang family is Jingchu people, the small year is twenty-four, the week before, the university in Xiangjiang is basically on winter vacation, today Fang Wanshan went to Jiulong Village, convened Li Fei's mother, Du Zhou's parents to have an annual meeting together, the two small shops brought Fang Wanshan a profit of 180,000, some time ago a few part-time college students Fang Wanshan asked the manager of the two stores to give one of them a 100 New Year's red envelope. Just the day before yesterday, the second store began to close on vacation, and today Fang Wanshan came over to comfort the heroes.

Li Fei's mother and Du Zhou's parents, although they often dealt with Fang Wanshan during this time, they were still very uncomfortable watching children as old as their own children give them red envelopes. Fang Wanshan is still very generous, and each store packs a big red envelope of 1,000 yuan. The place to eat was booked in a seafood restaurant, Fang Wanshan was still not used to this taste of Cantonese cuisine, so he didn't eat long before going back.

On the twenty-fifth of the lunar month, the Fang family bought a room downstairs in their own house, and heard Fang's father say that the male protagonist went to Macau to gamble, and lost very badly, so he sold the house to him because he really had no money. Up and down close. Originally, the family planned to let grandma live with her parents below, and the four brothers and sisters lived in the original house, but grandma was unwilling to move down, and finally the three brothers and sisters lived below, and the grandmother and parents lived in the middle, and the third sister also lived above. It is the original small room where Fang Wanshan lives, and the eldest brother and sister-in-law live on the upper floor, and it is very inconvenient for the family to be divided into three floors.

It was twenty-eight when I moved down, and on January 31, 1973, Fang Wanshan had his own small room, this room was really small, that is, it could put a small bed, and he could barely put down a desk, but it was also his own private space. Fang Wanshan has finally improved his life, he feels very good, and he will continue to work hard next year.

Fang Wanshan lay on his small bed and began to take stock of the harvest of his willingness during this time, the willingness power was 452, and the middle was a wave of skyrocketing in December, mainly because the number of newcomers began to increase, and I didn't expect it to fall a little more this month, but the total number of people who contributed did not decrease, and the organization of more than 30 people now has almost everyone to provide, and the conversion rate is still very good. Stephen Chow, who Fang Wanshan is looking forward to the most, is now at 10 o'clock, Fang Wanshan estimates that the trust level should reach about 70, and the highest is Du Zhou, which is now 15 points.

Fang Wanshan now has nearly 400,000 funds in his hand, some of which belong to the eldest brother, and he secretly found an opportunity to tell the eldest brother last time, and did not let the sister-in-law know. The eldest brother said that he was not in a hurry first, so he would put Fang Wanshan there first. With so much money, Fang Wanshan has to do something, buying a house is the safest, but for Fang Wanshan, it is also the most wasteful.

In the past, I aimed at the northern escapees, basically lived in Dawei, and some were in the Kowloon Village, and now in this chaotic era, there is still a lot of gold hidden in it. They are in dire need of money, or a formal and stable job. This is Fang Wanshan's opportunity, and besides, they are also Chinese, aren't they? Now that I have such a sum of money in my hand, I can barely start it by myself, and sending charcoal in the snow is the most touching, this is an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. There is also a candidate now, that is, Du Zhou's father and his eldest brother. Although Du Zhou's father has not yet reached the bottom line of trust, he has the basis for cooperation before, and through Fang Wanshan's own observation for half a year, he also understands that he is a very principled cultural person, plus the eldest brother is helping Fang Wanshan watch in front, it should not be a big problem.

The headache is what to do now, it is generally not what Fang Wanshan can do, open a chain fast food restaurant, KFC has not yet entered Xiangjiang, these Fang Wanshan have thought about it, but Fang Wanshan himself does not understand it at all, the eldest brother is even more bad, being a chef is almost the same, this is not allowed by Fang Wanshan, at present, the eldest brother must stand at the front desk for Fang Wanshan. Fang Wanshan currently has no management talents in this area, so these relatively mature ones can only give up, then think of some new things, as long as these are even rough management, they can make a lot of money.

After thinking about it for a long time, Fang Wanshan didn't come up with it, so he simply didn't want to sleep first. The next day, when I went downstairs for breakfast, my mother called my brothers and sisters:

"Tomorrow is the New Year, you haven't bought your clothes yet, what do you want, third sister, my mother will take you to buy it today." ”

Hearing his mother ask about this, Fang Wanshan remembered that he hadn't bought any clothes for the New Year, and he hadn't gone shopping since he was reborn, so he was looking forward to it. About 10 o'clock, my mother went out with a few brothers and sisters, and did not go to Nathan Road, which is closer to Nathan Road, which is very expensive. Temple Street is located in Yau Ma Tei, Yau Tsim Mong District, Kowloon, Hong Kong, and is a street full of character. The street runs north-south, and is famous for its night market selling affordable goods, and is known as the civilian nightclub of Xiangjiang.

At this time, the temple street was crowded with people, and the old mother led Fang Wanshan and the third sister Fangfang, and followed the crowd forward, while looking back from time to time to see if there were a few other sisters, and from time to time shouting the second sister who was looking around with great interest, the second brother and the eldest sister were very calm, and they felt that they couldn't raise any interest. In fact, Fang Wanshan couldn't arouse any interest, there were bells and whistles everywhere in children's clothing, none of them could be eye-catching, and he didn't dare to agree with the aesthetics recognized by this era.

After squeezing in the crowd for almost three hours, the second sister gained the most, and in addition to buying him a set of Chinese-style lady's clothes, his mother also spent money to buy a bunch of trinkets, a few skirts, and bought skirts in winter, Fang Wanshan was powerless to complain. Fang Wanshan was also forced into a small suit by his mother, well, this Fang Wanshan was a little less resistant. Anyway, everyone stuffed their mother before they planned to go back. At this time, the third sister began to put forward her own request, an electronic watch. At this time, electronic watches were still relatively valuable items, and Temple Street was not sold. I went back to the bubble tea shop and started to choose at the watch shop next to it.

There are very few electronic watches to choose from in the watch shop on the side, that is, to display the time, and then more is the choice of style. Let Fang Wanshan be boring. But the others were very interested, and Fang Wanshan felt that he had found a doorway. Electronic watches were invented in the United States, and in Fang Wanshan's impression, this kind of liquid crystal quartz electronic watch is now produced by the Japanese, and the structure is also very simple, and there are imitations on the side of Xiangjiang. In the 70s, Xiangjiang and Wanwan were the kings of cottages, but later their manufacturing industries declined, and many of them moved to the mainland.

Fang Wanshan wants to make electronic watches, he used to go to college to learn some electronic circuits, the university teacher came out of the original electronics factory, and talked about some of the principles in this regard, it is really not good, and he can spend some energy to check it. Fang Wanshan didn't expect that the project that bothered him would be found today. Although the electronic watch was basically eliminated, it did not prevent itself from making a fortune, and the other ones were sold back to the mainland in the 80s. After reading so many novels, Fang Wanshan can remember the electronic watch, how popular sunglasses are in the mainland, Fang Wanshan still remembers that when he was in junior high school, his dream was to have an electronic watch with luminous light, which was in the mid-90s, although the small county town does not know how many first-tier cities.

February 2, 1973 was the New Year. The tea restaurant at home closed the stall early, although the upper layer of Xiangjiang has very little New Year's atmosphere, but the lower layer is still very heavy at this time, from time to time there are firecrackers from all directions, everywhere are children in new clothes running crazy on the street, so that Fang Wanshan can find a little similar to the memory of his previous life. The reunion dinner of the Fang family was arranged at eight o'clock in the evening, and the grandmother wore a new old-fashioned traditional coat on the top, and Fang's father was on the side.

First of all, Fang's father, the head of the family, began to speak, first took the lead in toasting to grandma and said blessings, then the whole Fang family stood up and drank a cup together, and then Fang Wanshan and these small ones toasted to their parents (the younger two drank tea instead), during the toast, Fang's parents and Fang's parents said blessings and hopes to everyone alone.