There is no doubt that the closer to the end of the year, the busier Hong Yanwu becomes.

Because not only the preparations for the "New Year's Party Dinner" have reached the busiest time, but his own tobacco and alcohol trading has also reached a peak of transactions. At the same time, he also had to spare Sundays to accompany Hong Yanwen and Xu Chongya to continue shopping, and worry about New Year's gifts.

To say that the relationships between all parties that need to be taken care of by Hong Yanwu this year are really not old and young, there are not only many more than in previous years. Moreover, with the deepening and intensification of exchanges, the "treatment" of many old relationships has also to be improved.

Like Yang Weifan's family and Director Song's side, they can no longer be perfunctory, and they have to raise the content of the gift. You have to have both face and lining.

In contrast, He Jiefu's family, District Chief's Xu family, and even Zhang Baocheng's place are more worry-free. Because the value of the gift will determine their level of satisfaction.

As for Aunt Bao, although she is no longer in the capital, she, like Uncle Xue and Lao Daoyu, is an elder who has been of great help to Hong Yanwu. I have to send some local products from the capital to express my heart.

And at Mr. Shan and Wang Hanping's home, you also have to prepare "tobacco, wine, sugar and tea" four-color gifts to take a look. Employing people to face forward instead of people to face backward is not the Hong family's style.

Even the friendship between the rivers and lakes such as "Da Dehe", "Red Leaves", "Old Ghost", "Little Leizi", "Eight Forks" and "Little Landlord" has to go to the same place. Because the sedan chair has to be carried by everyone, while giving face to others, it is equivalent to giving face to yourself.

One can imagine how trivial and complicated these things are together, and how much energy it takes.

If you want to put it on others, it will leak on all sides, and it is inevitable that you will be burned, and messing up is a high probability result.

But fortunately, Hong Yanwu has both a seven-clever and exquisite heart, as well as three heads and six arms.

The sophistication of the world, the availability of many of his subordinates, and the abundance of money are all effective aids for him to handle all aspects with ease.

In addition, this year he also has an advantage in material channels that no one can match.

Not to mention how rich the New Year's goods issued by the "polar bear" to the employees are. Now, if you look at the internal relations of "Polar Bear", he can also get a number of "internal products" exclusively for "Diaoyutai" and "Great Hall of the People". I can't see it outside at all, and it's still the factory price.

And with foreign exchange coupons, the Friendship Mall has also become his foreign goods warehouse.

Many of the good things that he used to have to work so hard to get, many things that he could only look at, can now be moved home.

So in this way, at the end of the year, the last "trembling", Hong Yanwu was "trembling" very beautifully.

The unit is satisfied, the family is satisfied, the money is earned, and the relationship between all parties is also maintained in all aspects, which can be called perfect.

In fact, this is like when he was holding a big bubble of urine, he had to untie his pants in the cold and windy corners, and finally "safely" completed the last "nourishment" through a relatively long "adventure" process.

No one saw it, and it was extremely pleasant and comfortable to lose the weight of the body.

In this way, on the Chinese New Year's Eve on February 4, Hong Yanwu's whole body and mind suddenly relaxed, and only left to happily celebrate the New Year with his family to welcome the arrival of the Spring Festival.

So what is the scene of the New Year in the Guanyin Temple this year?

Not to mention, in keeping pace with the astonishing speed of social development, there is really a big difference in all aspects.

First of all, it is clear at a glance that the overall brightness of the small courtyard has more than doubled, and it has become white and yellow.

But this is neither because there are more people setting off firecrackers, nor because there are new varieties of fireworks. It is because several families in the small courtyard have gradually begun to introduce fluorescent tubes into their homes as the main lighting due to the comprehensive consideration of the government's power-saving requirements and the increase in electricity bills at home.

The advantage of this kind of light is that it saves electricity and has high brightness, it is not color cast to see things, and it is especially convenient for the elderly.

And the other way around, the not so good thing is that this kind of light is dazzling, overwhelming, and unobstructed. While creating an illusion of daylight, it also deprives the details in the darkness and the beauty of the dusky and soft light colors of the past.

And it is a pity that if the children of any family come back from outside after dark in the season when the water is dripping into ice, they can only sense the direction of home from this light, and it is difficult to feel the warmth of the home.

Secondly, in terms of taste. People are most familiar with the smell of Chinese cabbage, soot and dust in winter storage. Although it still constitutes the main flavor of the winter environment of the East Courtyard of Kannon-in Temple every year.

But what is different this year is that the houses of each house are less filthy with closed doors, but filled with the fragrance of ancient ice chips, which makes people refresh their minds and breathe well.

This is one of the New Year's gifts from the Shou family of Shiye Medical Tao to the Hong family, and the "Ping An San" that Shou Jing has just made before the festival this year. This medicine should not be taken, and it is mainly sprinkled around the fire that rises in winter, especially to prevent gas poisoning in winter. With this medicine, even if there is no wind duct in the house, there is no risk of gas poisoning.

It's just that the medicine is burned every day, and a house has to be burned for five cents a day, which is not something that ordinary people can afford. Several neighbors are completely stained with the light of the Hong family, so it is difficult to dedicate the prescription to the government according to Aunt Bian's thoughts, and use it to benefit the people of the entire capital.

As for the concept of taste, in addition to the sense of smell, it also includes the sense of taste.

For example, in the Spring Festival supply of Beijing residents this year, eggs, liquor and semi-bargaining rapeseed oil are no longer limited. Among the limited supply of food, the additional items include two taels of flower tea of four to eight yuan per catty, two taels of rice rice, two taels of yellow flowers, and fungus, 20 catties of Chinese cabbage, one catty of grain stamp tofu, and one catty of grain stamp soy products.

In addition, the "Nanlai Shun" at the entrance of the vegetable market has also added snacks such as "Honey Three Knife" that are not usually served.

And the place where several families in the East Courtyard far exceed the overall level of the capital is that each family can enjoy the high-quality products of "polar bears" in addition. Concentrated orange juice, bayberry juice, pineapple, lychee, mud sausage, quail eggs, duck with plum cabbage, stewed duck with mushrooms, braised pork, canned hot and sour vegetables, it's even more complete than the store.

Like the Hong family itself, it is even more amazing. Except for these "polar bear" stuff. Dunhill and Marlboro smoked in the mouths of several brothers of the Hong family.

The "Cointreau liqueur", which is a French red wine and orange flavored with "AOC" certification, is also on the table of the Hong family.

And Xiao Hongjun and Hong Yi ate real chocolate, which is no longer an artificial cocoa butter substitute produced by Yili.

But what made the Hong family's juniors grin the most and collectively criticized was the four-cent foreign exchange coupon and a bottle of Coca-Cola.

Except for Hong Lucheng, Wang Yunlin, and Hong Yanwu, whoever drank it scolded as a pit for being a pit person. Even Chen Liquan, who had drunk it, ignored it, and was more enthusiastic about the "special soda" and "bayberry soda" of "polar bear".

As for the sound, fireworks are incessant and can only occupy the outside world. As for the interior, in the East Courtyard, the chatting, laughter and the sound of the radio in the chatterbox are no longer completely dominant. As soon as the TV screen is turned on, it's the turn of the thing.

Whether it is "Astro Boy", which just started at 6 o'clock in the evening, "News Network" that started at 7 o'clock, or "Eighteen Years in the Enemy Camp" that started at 8 o'clock. The children, the elderly, the men, and the women of the family have to take turns at its mercy.

Yesterday's evening newspaper just made a relevant report, saying that there are already 420,000 television sets in Beijing, with an average of one for three. And of these 420,000 units, 390,000 units have been sold in the past two years. This speed can only be described as "exploding".

In the end, the biggest difference is in people's spirits.

For example, the Spring Festival couplets of the Hong family this year are written "Ape cries thousands of mountains, chickens dance thousands of families", and the horizontal criticism is "farewell to the old and welcome the new".

Although it is only a few simple sentences, it can contain a lot of content, and it is easy to see the feelings in the hearts of the Hong family.

If you think about it, not only has the social atmosphere changed greatly this year, Hong Yanwu has come out of depression, Hong Yanwen's future and marriage have also been settled, and what is even more incredible is that the Hong family's past enemies have actually become in-laws. Which one does not respond to the word "change"?

And to switch to other families related to the Hong family, the biggest commonality this year is that everyone misses Hong Yanwu's goodness.

Like the Bian family, the Su family next door, and the Shui family in the courtyard. There are also the Song family, the Chang family, the "Little Baizi" family, and the Yang Weifan family.

Even the "Da Dehe" who was guarding the lonely lamp and drinking nonsense with You San, the "generals" and the sea bumpers who were far away in Bincheng, as long as they talked about Hong Yanwu, no matter whose hearts were full of sincere admiration and gratitude.

This year, it is no exaggeration to say that Hong Yanwu's image in everyone's minds is indeed a little close to Comrade Lei Feng.

The second group has been opened, group number: 608640021

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