Chapter 394: Routine New Year's Greetings

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Spring was on the fourth day of the first lunar month to visit Xu Dan's parents for the New Year, and after drinking two meals of wine with his two brothers-in-law, he returned to the family home of Hushan Middle School alone in the evening, and Xu Dan took his son Chunguang to stay at his parents' house.

No one lived in the house for more than ten days, and it was as cold as an ice hole, but fortunately I drank a lot of wine in the spring, but I didn't feel how cold it was. Because it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening, I didn't bother to make a stove in the spring, so I plugged in the electric mattress and got into the bed.

The next morning, after getting up and washing up, after eating breakfast, I began my routine New Year's greetings in the family courtyard on campus.

Still as in previous years, the spring starts from the principal Qian enters the house, and one by one goes over, each family sends a few auspicious words, drinks a few cups of hot tea, smokes a few cigarettes, talks about the short trivial matters of the parents, exchanges their own holiday experiences, and then says goodbye to each other, and then goes to the next family.

When I walked to the warehouse near the canteen, I saw Song Xiuwen leading two logistics staff and directing several migrant workers to pull water and electricity and paint the walls on the side of the warehouse.

Spring smiled and leaned over to say hello to Song Xiuwen and the two logistics teachers, and then the four of them found a sheltered place to squat together to smoke and gossip.

Since the preparation for the construction of the sheep soup restaurant was approved by Qian Jin on the morning of the third day of the first lunar month, Song Xiuwen gave up the opportunity to visit relatives and friends in the first month, and has been busy preparing for the sheep soup restaurant non-stop in the past two days, looking for labor, pulling water and electricity, and building infrastructure. The first month is the slack season, but the migrant workers are not easy to find, the New Year, even if you give more money, no one wants to earn, than to make money, the mountain people pay more attention to the gathering of relatives and friends during the New Year's holidays. Fortunately, Song Xiuwen has been in charge of the school's logistics work for many years, and has also met a lot of "contract foremen" who are engaged in infrastructure construction, plus Song Xiuwen has doubled his salary, and there are still a few widowers in the town who have no jobs and no relatives to leave come to the school, which relieved Song Xiuwen's urgent need.

In fact, if this is not his uncle and uncle Ji Ping'an's business (in the final analysis, it is also Song Xiuwen's own business, but it has to be said to be Ji Ping'an's business), Song Xiuwen would not be in such a hurry to start work at all, the weather is cold, it is not the season to engage in infrastructure construction at all, and the other work is easy to say, it took two days to just plane the tap ditch, a pickaxe is just a white spot, the ground is frozen as hard as a stone, and the two migrant workers in the cold day planing ditch are sweating profusely. If this sheep soup restaurant is someone else's, Song Xiuwen can simply push off the work with the sentence "The time for infrastructure construction is not appropriate", and no one can find fault with him.

Also, if it is someone else's business, it is a good cigarette and tea to serve, and Song Xiuwen will not personally squat on the construction site to supervise the work. The reason why Song Xiuwen has to rely on it in person is because when he is engaged in infrastructure construction, there are many "greasy" or "small actions" that need to be done by Song Xiuwen himself. For example, Song Xiuwen pulled two wires for the electricity of the Sheep Soup Restaurant, one was a dark wire buried in the wall, which was connected to various high-power electrical appliances, and the other was a bright wire, which was only connected to the two light bulbs for lighting in the house, and the electricity meter of the Sheep Soup Restaurant. In this way, the electricity bill generated by the sheep soup restaurant is only for lighting, and the other electricity bills have to be paid by the school on behalf of the school, which is Song Xiuwen's shrewdness. Such practices, Song Xiuwen also engaged in several places in the sheep soup restaurant.

Smoking a cigarette, Song Xiuwen told Spring with a smile that the Sheep Soup Restaurant was officially opened on the tenth day of the first lunar month, and then I would like to invite Spring to cheer more. At this time in the spring, I didn't know that the sheep soup restaurant was a business partnered by Song Xiuwen and his brother-in-law Ji Ping'an, and after a few haha, Song Xiuwen was dealt with.

2.

said goodbye to Song Xiuwen and others, went to Feng Shu's house in the spring, and didn't see Liu Shuzhen for several days, and in the spring, she was a little worried about Liu Shuzhen's physical health.

Pushing the door in the spring, Feng Shu was the only one in the house, leaning on the bedside in the bedroom watching the cross talk and sketches played on TV, Liu Shuzhen's mental state looked pretty good, but, a faint smile couldn't hide the sick look on her face, Liu Shuzhen's face was pale and a little scary, and she kept coughing.

After saying hello to Liu Shuzhen in the spring, he sat on the edge of the bed and asked about Liu Shuzhen's physical condition. Liu Shuzhen told Spring that her condition was good and bad, all by taking medicine, and occasionally coughing up blood, and sighed and said that her disease was probably not cured. Spring hurriedly comforted Liu Shuzhen, telling her not to think about it, and to take medicine on time according to the doctor's instructions, and when the spring flowers bloom, her body will slowly get better.

Spring asked about Feng Shu, Liu Shuzhen smiled sadly, she told Spring that since the second day of the first month of this year, Feng Shu has been drinking big wine outside every day, and sometimes he doesn't even cook for her, she is really hungry, Liu Shuzhen can only soak cold rice in hot water. Liu Shuzhen also told that Feng Shu fell asleep every time he came home after drinking, and didn't care about her life or death at all...

Liu Shuzhen's words shocked Spring, in his impression, Feng Shu, in addition to being a little greedy for money, power and cautious eyes, the essence of a person is not too bad, and he looks good to Liu Shuzhen. Spring doesn't understand why Feng Shu became like this, does it really respond to the ancient adage of "husband and wife are birds in the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster comes"?

While comforting Liu Shuzhen in the spring, she made up her mind in her heart that she would have to talk about Feng Shu when she found time in two days.

When saying goodbye to Feng Shu's family, Liu Shuzhen repeatedly asked Spring to let Xu Dan have time to bring the children over to play, and Spring agreed.

3.

When I went to Song Xiuwen's house to pay New Year's greetings, I met Ji Hua's "three-inch" cousin in the spring, and I also knew from Ji Hua's mouth that Ji Ping'an was going to open a sheep soup restaurant in the school.

However, in the spring, I can't guess why Qian Jin promised Ji Ping'an to open a sheep soup restaurant in the school, and the opening of the sheep soup restaurant will definitely compete with the school canteen for business, and now Han Changzheng has done the school canteen as his own business, which the teachers in the school can see. The Sheep Soup Restaurant has robbed the school canteen business, and Han Changzheng will definitely find a way to deal with the Sheep Soup Restaurant and Song Xiuwen behind the Sheep Soup Restaurant. Could it be that Qian Jin is not afraid of provoking the contradiction between Song Xiuwen and Han Changzheng because of the conflict of interests?

Spring secretly speculated, with the cunning of Song Xiuwen and Ji Hua and the shrewdness of Han Changzheng, there will definitely be a good show between the school cafeteria and the sheep soup restaurant in the future.