Chapter 22: Chinese New Year

"How is it? How many letters of employment do you have now?" In the mountain villa, Zhou Yang, who had just returned to the study, found that Yue Feng had already sat in front of the computer early to check the information.

"Hey, it's still not good, after a few days, plus the previous total, there are only fifteen in total, of which ten are in security, five are teachers, and none are in medical affairs. Yue Feng, who was a little depressed, said about the difficulties of the welfare home that was about to be established.

"It's really a problem...."Zhou Yang frowned, the salary issue has always been in the first place, not that he is unwilling to raise the salary of personnel.

It's just that this is a welfare home, and it is impossible to generate income in addition to investment, according to the previous budget, the staff needs to be at least close to 100, maybe more, and this is not counting volunteers.

The main thing is that no one can estimate how many orphans this welfare home will take in in the future.

Some time ago, Zhou Yang collected a lot of information and learned that there are at least nearly 20,000 orphans in the entire Jiangnan Province, but there are only 14 welfare homes, and the largest welfare home only takes in more than 500 orphans, which means that there may be no less than 10,000 orphans who have no fixed residence.

As for the annual living expenses of each orphan, according to the Jiang family's welfare home, I am afraid that it is not less than 10,000 or 20,000 yuan.

Every extra penny spent on personnel will be squeezed out of the living expenses of the orphans in the future.

Either you don't do it, you have to do it to the best, this is Zhou Yang's consistent style, so in his vision, his welfare home must be the best in all aspects.

While the two were meditating, a phone rang.

Looking at the caller number, Zhou Yang looked puzzled, Zhao Hanya, what's the matter with him at this time?

"Hey, Mr. Zhao. Zhou Yang answered the phone.

After only three minutes of calling, Zhou Yang gradually showed a look of ecstasy, and it was really Zhao Hanya who brought him great news for the time being.

"Okay, that's it, even if I don't have time after the year, I will ask Brother Jiang to come out and meet them, thank you, Teacher Zhao. Zhou Yang hung up the phone in joy.

Zhao Hanya's phone call helped Zhou Yang a big favor no less than anything.

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yang did not delay and immediately called Jiang Tianming.

"Brother Jiang, just now Teacher Zhao gave me good news, she helped us find a group of retired teachers, almost thirty or forty people...."

Yue Feng looked at Zhou Yang on the call, and was also shocked by this sudden good news, according to this, the personnel of the teachers in the early stage were almost all at once.

"Eh, yes, yes..."

"Okay, then let's do it first...."After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yang felt a sense of relief, the most important part of the teacher in terms of personnel has been finalized.

He didn't expect that at this juncture, Zhao Hanya would be able to recommend so many teachers to him like charcoal in the snow, although they are all retired old teachers, but those people don't care about the salary at all, they just want to take advantage of the ability to exert their residual heat.

Next, all you need to do is find a way to find medical staff and security.

Don't look at the land that has not been bought yet, it is really waiting for everything to settle and start construction soon, during this period, it is necessary to arrange people to go out to find and gather orphans, so the time is still quite urgent.

Zhou Yang hopes that he will get all the major things done before entering Beijing.

Spend the morning in peace.

Zhou Yang, who had just returned to the ancestral house of the Zhou family in the afternoon, had not had time to say a few words to the old man, and received a call from Mu Ming again.

It was Zhou Yang's expectation to be able to buy the land smoothly, but he didn't expect Mu Ming's actions to be so fast, although he didn't know how to operate it very well, but Mu Ming's words could be heard, saving a lot of cumbersome steps.

He didn't understand what bidding, what land resources, what transfer procedures.

Successfully agreed on the signing time with Mu Ming, Zhou Yang called Jiang Tianming again, and basically didn't have to worry about the next things, he only needed to transfer the money on the account to the Jiang family, and all the fragmented processes were followed up by the professionals of the Jiang family.

The first time Zhou Yang operated such a large sum of money through his hands, he did not feel distressed, but felt a kind of relief after completing a great thing.

I was busy with all this, and before I knew it, a day had passed.

In the next two days, Zhou Yang did not have a moment idle, in addition to helping Yue Feng continue to recruit people, he began to try to give full play to his few connections.

For example, he didn't think of martial arts before, but after the news of the welfare institute was released, Geng Weihai soon contacted him.

The other party spread the news for him in the entire Nanzhou martial arts community.

However, in just half a morning, Zhou Yang received calls from more than a dozen martial arts halls in Nanzhou, all of which claimed that they were willing to provide security services to Zhou Yang for free, but there was a premise.

It is necessary for Zhou Yang to provide a place that they usually use for teaching.

Zhou Yang thinks that the condition they put forward could not be simpler, and the welfare institute itself has a plan to build a sports venue, which is nothing more than setting aside a piece for them to use.

The security team composed of all martial artists is probably the first in the national welfare institutions.

Zhou Yang can understand the significance of the other party's approach, for those martial arts masters, changing places to teach will not have an impact, in the era of declining martial arts, how can there be any martial arts hall willing to pay expensive rent to open in the downtown area?

As for the apprentices, they all paid the tuition, they could collect money and get rent-free, the master did not lose, and he could also sell a martial arts master like Zhou Yang a face, why not do it.

This investment alone can save the welfare institute at least millions of investments every year, but Zhou Yang also considered that the vast majority of apprentices in the martial arts hall rarely stay in the martial arts hall all day, basically for hobbies, and in real calculations, the number of martial artists stationed in the martial arts hall does not exceed one hand.

I am afraid that the use of these personnel will not be able to fully maintain the security of the welfare home.

In this way, Zhou Yang felt that at least two martial arts halls needed to be settled at the same time to ensure the security of the welfare institute, and after half a day of consideration, Zhou Yang decided to ask two schools in Nanzhou City named Zhengdong Martial Arts Hall and Xianglong Martial Arts Hall to settle in the welfare institute at the same time.

As for how to cooperate between the two martial arts halls, Zhou Yang simply left it to Yue Feng to consider.

Coincidentally, the masters of these two martial arts halls have a good relationship with Geng Weihai, and they are in the same lineage, and when it comes to seniority, the masters of the two martial arts halls also call Geng Weihai a master.

Although the master only has external strength, and the apprentices have not even reached the external strength, it is more than enough as a security guard.

After the security personnel are confirmed, only the medical personnel are left now, and I am afraid that there is no way to improve it before the year, so we can only wait for the next year to find a way.

Time passed day by day, and in a blink of an eye, it was the Chinese New Year's Eve, which is the Chinese New Year's Eve that the Chinese people were looking forward to.

Outsiders should go home, and the whole Nanzhou seems to be quieter all of a sudden.

On this morning, Zhou Yang received a message from Jiang Tianming that the purchase of the land had been completed, and construction would start after the tenth day of the new year.

Zhou Yang had to sigh again at the power of connections, if it wasn't for the Jiang family's intervention this time, even if the Zhou family had Zhou Weijin, who was the secretary of the Jiawang District Party Committee, I am afraid that it would be difficult for him to do what he wanted to do so quickly.

On the afternoon of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhou Yang stayed in the ancestral house and never went out.

The people of the Zhou family have been busy for a year, and they can finally relax for a few days, according to the customs of the New Year, except for Zhou Weijin and Zhou Yang, everyone else has joined the ranks of purchasing New Year's goods.

In the evening, Ji Guangsheng took his daughter Ji Rumo to the ancestral house, a few years ago, for Ji Rumo's illness, Ji Guangsheng spent almost all his savings, and he still owed a lot.

At the beginning, those relatives knew the situation of Ji Guangsheng's family, for fear that the other party would borrow money from them, and the last few relatives saw him and tried to hide, but Ji Guangsheng was really desperate to give up his old face to apply for that special bodyguard job.

It was that bodyguard job that allowed him to get acquainted with Jiang Tianming and Zhou Yang, and at the same time changed his life and his daughter's life.

In the past two days, after the Jiang family's salary for him arrived, he has been in his hometown, paying off all the money he owed in the past, and there are still tens of thousands of yuan left.

Ji Guangsheng, who is middle-aged, is quite lamented by his encounter, and after thinking about it, he still decided to return to Zhouyang's side to celebrate the New Year together.

In the evening, the ancestral hall of the Zhou family.

The so-called ancestral hall is just a separate wing room in the southeast corner of the old house of the Zhou family, which not only enshrines the Buddha statue, but also the tablets of the ancestors of the Zhou family.

The tablet of Zhou Yang's adoptive parents is among them.

"From right to left, Guanyin, Zaojun, Manjushri, Zhong Kui, Jingshen ....." Listening to the old man's words, Zhou Yang personally placed the Bodhisattva statue folded in yellow paper on the incense table according to what the old man said.

Please Bodhisattva is a big tradition of Nanzhou people, of course, each family has its own different small traditions, Zhou Yang, who doesn't know anything about this, didn't want to do this, but he couldn't resist the old man's persistence, in the other party's words, you will be the head of the Zhou family in the future, and these things can only be done by the head of the family.

It seems that the old man is determined to let Zhou Yang be the head of the Zhou family.

Zhou Weijin looked at the pair of grandchildren with envy and grievance, he understood these traditions, and he was also in charge of the old man's dementia in those years, but now the old man did not shy away from saying that he was not qualified.

"Ah Wei, have you heard of these gods?" Zhou Yang, who was busy with work, suddenly asked with interest Ah Wei in the sea of knowledge.

Combined with the passages about gods that he has heard from mythological stories, Zhou Yang, who is a cultivator himself, thinks that he can also have the means of these gods in the future, so according to this, he can also become a god in the future?

"I haven't heard of it, maybe these people are the earliest cultivators in this world, but it's not right, there are cultivators, there are cultivators, there are demon cultivators, it's too chaotic, I've seen a lot of people from other worlds, and the beliefs over there are more single-minded. "Ah Wei's words are chattering.

"When you cultivate to the Heavenly Pass Realm, you will understand that the power of faith is also a cultivation method. At this point, Ah Wei stopped speaking, and seemed to have no interest in this at all.

It took half an hour, and Zhou Yang finally prepared all the sacrifices under the old man's hand-in-hand teaching.

As the old man spoke, the Zhou family all entered the ancestral hall from the outside.

The old man worshipped from right to left with the support of Zhou Yang, and when the old man finished worshipping, Zhou Yang continued to worship, and then it was the turn of the descendants of the Zhou family.

"Remember that, and you'll probably have to do it alone in the future. Before leaving the ancestral hall, the old man reluctantly glanced behind him and said to Zhou Yang.

At dinner, the Zhou family gathered together, this was the first time in five years that Zhou Yang "went home" for the New Year, there was not so much hypocrisy, and everything was put down with that annual meeting.

The old man drank a lot of wine that night despite the dissuasion, and constantly sighed that the world is impermanent, this year because of Zhou Yang's joining, although the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is not as lively as in previous years, but for some reason, Zhou Weijin and several people feel more comfortable in their hearts.

Night.

The city of Nanzhou is shrouded in splendor.

With the sound of fireworks, Zhou Yang walked out of the old man's inner courtyard, and under a few rounds of spiritual energy, that bit of alcohol naturally could not cause harm to the old man, and he fell asleep early.

"Master, let's go set off fireworks. Ji Rumo is holding a lot of gadgets in her arms, although her childhood is different from Zhou Yang, but it is very similar, she has been plagued by diseases all the year round, and has missed many happy times that her peers should have.

"Let's go. Zhou Yang happily agreed, and took the lead in picking up those small firecrackers and running outside the hospital.

Watching the small fireworks in his hand boiling into the air, Ji Rumo couldn't stop jumping, but Zhou Yang's happy face unconsciously had a few tear stains.

Happy times fly by.

When Zhou Yang was immersed in cultivation at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, suddenly, a text message came from his mobile phone.

"Happy New Year!"

Looking at the owner of the message, Zhou Yang couldn't help but wonder, Bai Xiaorou, how to give New Year's greetings is like being angry.

"Thank you, and I wish you and Uncle Bai a happy New Year. Zhou Yang shook his head with a smile, and quickly edited it back to the past.

In less than a few breaths, the message came again, "Your Uncle Bai, I said to !! by myself" Four exclamation marks, making Zhou Yanghu wonder if he had offended this little aunt and grandmother somewhere.

Yes, just say it yourself.

Just sent a message to Bai Mufan, Zhou Yang thought to himself, why don't you send everything you know?

Five minutes later, Zhou Yang sent a group message to everyone in the phone's address book, and then took the trouble to receive replies from others.

Out of politeness, Zhou Yang replied to some of the messages that were not just blessings.

But then, send a message, reply to a message, send another message, send another message, and then reply to a message, and suddenly it can't stop.

It took nearly an hour for Zhou Yang to finish replying to the last one, and after breathing a sigh of relief, he turned off his phone directly and threw his phone aside, so that he could continue his cultivation cleanly.

The next day, the first day of the new year.

Early in the morning, Ji Rumo came to Zhou Yang's side and kowtowed to Zhou Yang for the New Year, when Zhou Yang wanted to help the other party up, Ji Rumo knelt on the ground and said "obediently", "Master, where is the red envelope?"

Zhou Yang, who had long forgotten this stubble, was in a hurry, and only found the red paper after rummaging through the cabinets, where did he care about the identity of his elders, fortunately, he knew that a lot of cash was stored in the sea at any time, mainly for auspiciousness, Zhou Yang gave Ji Rumo a whole number, one thousand, and the other party got up and left happily.

According to the custom, on the first day of the new year every year, all the descendants of the Zhou family first kowtow to the old man, and the old man was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.

He is not Zhou Yang, he has already prepared a red envelope for each person, and when Zhou Yang got this red envelope, it seemed to have returned to the state of mind when he was a child.

I don't know if it's because of Zhou Weijin's identity, after breakfast, the Zhou family was more lively than in previous years, and there was an endless stream of people, all they said was to pay New Year's greetings to the secretary of the district party committee, but they would pretend to say a few polite words to Zhou Yang "by the way".

After dealing with one stubble of visitors, Zhou Yang was able to get out and pull Ji Guangsheng and Ji Rumo out of the house, and he also had to go out to greet others for the New Year.

In the morning, it was the Jiang family, talking and playing small cards with the old man Jiang, drinking tea, with the status of the Jiang family in Nanzhou, the threshold was almost broken, but from beginning to end, only Zhou Yang could stay by the side of the old man Jiang in the envious eyes of others.

After lunch, when he went to Mu's house, Mu Ming was very surprised that Zhou Yang could come to visit on the first day of the new year, and introduced Zhou Yang's identity to other people who came to visit his Mu family without hesitation.

On the contrary, Zhou Yang and Mu Xinyu didn't have time to speak, and Zhou Yang could only keep looking at Mu Xinyu with apologetic eyes.

Next, there is Zhao Yunhong, when he came to Zhao's house, it was almost dusk, so he could only give the other party a hasty New Year's greeting, and laughed with his friend Zhao Chuan for a while, and Zhou Yang left again.

In the evening, Zhou Yang rushed to the mountain villa, after all, this was also the first New Year that Yue Feng and his mother had come to Nanzhou to spend on it.

No matter what Zhou Yang said, it was impossible to hang them out, if it wasn't for Yue Feng's refusal, he would have wanted to take the mother and son to the ancestral house to live together for a while.

After a busy day, Zhou Yang visited the people closest to him in Nanzhou, and it was not until it was dark that Zhou Yang returned to the ancestral house of the Zhou family.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, it was spent in such a joyful and busy way.

On the second day, third and fourth days of the Lunar New Year, there were no relatives to visit, and since Zhou Yang remembered, he had never heard that he had grandparents, nor had he heard that his adoptive mother had any brothers and sisters.

Later, the old man told Zhou Yang that his adoptive mother Hang Suxin was actually an orphan, and she suffered a lot when she was young, and after marrying into the Zhou family, her life improved a lot, but she never thought about it, and she didn't live a good life for a few years.

In the past three days, Zhou Yang simply stayed in the old house, accompanied the old man to walk around, play chess and chat.

The day he entered Beijing was getting closer and closer, and Zhou Yang wanted to use this short time to accompany the old man more.