Seeing her eldest grandson come to see her, her grandmother, who was as happy as a child, hurriedly took out her treasured osmanthus cake and placed it on the stone table.

Speaking of which, Liu Rui's grandmother was not an ordinary farmer, but the eldest lady of the time-honored pastry shop 'Osmanthus Fragrance' in Qingyun Town. When my grandmother married Liu Rui's grandfather, the two families were right, and they were talented and beautiful, which was also a good story at that time. Now my grandmother is gray-haired and old, but the ancestral pastry-making skills have not been lost, but are becoming more and more exquisite.

Zhang Guizhi's skills in making osmanthus cakes were learned from his grandmother, and after eating the osmanthus cakes made by his grandmother and mother, Liu Rui was no longer interested in the pastries sold outside. It's just that in the past few years, the old lady has been old, old and weak, and she has rarely made osmanthus cakes, and it is not easy to eat them. These osmanthus cakes were left over after the old lady made a batch in the autumn and distributed them to her sons and daughters. The old lady has always been reluctant to eat, but now when she sees her eldest grandson, she takes it out.

Eating the sweet and soft osmanthus cake and drinking a sip of fragrant chrysanthemum tea, Liu Rui suddenly felt a warmth surging from the bottom of his heart, as if he had returned to his carefree childhood.

Zhang Huaizhong and his wife looked at Liu Rui, the appearance of him dragging his snot at the beginning seemed to be vivid, and in a blink of an eye, he became the pillar of the family, and it was really a time flies.

After eating osmanthus cake, drinking chrysanthemum tea, and chatting with his grandparents for a while, Liu Rui got up and prepared to leave. However, at this time, a sentence from the outside world stopped his steps.

"Xiao Rui, are you in trouble?" Although Zhang Huaizhong said that he was already seventy years old, his eyes were still sharp. After Liu Rui entered the door today, although his face was full of smiles, the sadness under his smile could not be concealed. Others may not be able to see it, but for Zhang Huaizhong, who watched Liu Rui grow up, any subtle changes in Liu Rui will not escape his eyes.

"Nothing!" Liu Rui, who was told by his grandfather to think about it, trembled in his heart, and shook his head stiffly and said.

"Don't pretend in front of your grandfather, your thoughts are written on your face!" The old man looked at his grandson's reckless appearance, and couldn't help but be a little funny, pointed to the stone bench and said, "Sit down, tell your grandfather about the matter first, and see if I can solve it for you?" ”

Seeing his grandfather's posture, Liu Rui knew that things were not so easy to fool, so he could only sit back with a wry smile.

"That's right, the village plans to use the grain station as a share to attract investment, and transform it into a leisure farm to receive guests." Liu Rui did not beat around the bush, and directly told everything, including the idea that he wanted to become a shareholder.

For Liu Rui, his grandfather is a good listener, even if he can't help Liu Rui with anything, it will be easier to talk about things and less stress.

The old man listened very carefully, and asked questions on some key issues from time to time, although Liu Rui didn't understand why the old man was so concerned about the situation of the grain station, but he still honestly explained all the situations clearly.

The situation of the grain station, the future prospects, the way of cooperation, and the approximate investment, Liu Rui said to the old man 1510, even the proportion of shares he wants to invest in and the funds he needs are not hidden from the old man.

"So, you need 200,000 yuan to get 30% of the shares of the grain station?" After listening to Liu Rui's words, the old man asked rhetorically: "With 200,000 yuan, can you ensure that the leisure farm can operate?" ”

The old man is in his seventies, but he insists on listening to the radio every day, and has recently had extensive contact with the research institute, and he has learned a lot of new terms.

"Guo Hailan's big family has a four-star hotel and a well-known restaurant chain enterprise in the provincial capital, and has experience in management and personnel, as long as we invest a certain amount of money and help deal with some relationships in the village, it is equivalent to getting a hen that will lay golden eggs!" Liu Rui said as he spoke, thinking of the scene of being able to become a shareholder of the future leisure farm, and couldn't help but be a little excited.

However, soon, Liu Rui found out that he was dreaming like this, as far as the current situation of the Zhang and Liu families is concerned, where to get 200,000?

"Rui'er, are you sure about the future of this project?" At this time, Zhang Huaizhong stared at Liu Rui with blazing eyes, as if the jungle hunter who used to be decisive in killing was back.

"Yes!" I don't know what's going on, seeing my grandfather's sharp eyes, Liu Rui didn't have the emotion to shirk at all, and nodded involuntarily.

Although Liu Rui has no knowledge, he has collected a lot of newspapers and magazines during this period of time, and has a certain understanding of the tourism industry, and is not an ignorant country doll. In addition, from Yu Shanwei, Ji Xiaojun and others, Liu Rui also learned about some development trends of the tourism industry, and he is quite optimistic about the prospects of the tourism industry. With the natural conditions of Xiaoqingshan and a large number of rare animal and plant resources, the division of Xiaoqingshan area into a national protected area is already a certainty, and there will be nothing wrong.

With the name of a national nature reserve, this is a golden signboard that can attract tourists from all over the world to come for leisure, vacation, adventure and so on throughout the year. After taking the grain station, rectification can become the first large-scale leisure manor in the entire Qingyun Town, which plays an extremely important role in seizing the opportunity.

However, what makes Liu Rui feel pity is that this plan was proposed a year earlier, which made Liu Rui seem a little passive. If a year later, the income from the new winery and various crops is enough for Liu Rui to hold hundreds of thousands of funds, and he will not have to worry about it at that time.

"Okay, since you can guarantee the return on the investment, this money is out of my grandfather!" The old man looked at Liu Rui's firm gaze, nodded, and said something that surprised Liu Rui.

"What?! Grandpa, you want to pay this money? After listening to his grandfather's words, Liu Rui thought that he had auditory hallucinations, and he was a little incoherent.

In Liu Rui's impression, his grandfather includes several uncles, except for the second uncle in the provincial capital, who is a little better, everyone else's son is average, and even the well-off has not yet reached. As for Zhang Zhenzu, who was dragged down by Xiao Zhang Peng, he said that he had a tight life, and if it weren't for everyone helping each other, he would have been unable to hold on. Now, Liu Rui suddenly heard that his grandfather was willing to invest, how could he not let him think about it?

"Don't look at my grandfather with such eyes, I have wanted to take out this money for a long time, but there has been no suitable project, and no one can use it!" Seeing his grandson's shocked gaze, Zhang Huaizhong seemed to be very satisfied, and began to tell Liu Rui about the origin of the money.

Before liberation, the Zhang family was a well-known landlord in ten miles and eight townships, not only sitting on thousands of acres of fertile land, but also opened several shops on Qingyun Old Street, and even had a warehouse on Qingyun Wharf. With the help of the prosperity of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, the Zhang family accumulated a lot of wealth, in addition to creating a huge Zhang family compound, but also left a large number of gold and silver as family heirlooms.

After the liberation, the Zhang family's shops, warehouses and fertile land were all owned by the communists, and only the Zhang family's compound and the gold bars buried deep in the compound survived. As the only heir of the Zhang family, Zhang Huaizhong naturally knew the huge wealth left to him by his ancestors, but he was very smart and did not use this money in that turbulent era, but raised several children by his own ability.

When Liu Rui's uncles began to go out to study, the old man began to secretly sell the gold bars on hand and provide his sons to study, and finally the Zhang family harvested two college students. When Zhang Zhenguang and Zhang Zhenyao got married and started the house, the lord also gave great support, which made their living standards much better than those of ordinary villagers.

After Zhang Peng was born, a large amount of treatment costs made Zhang Zhenzu anxious, and later the old man quietly supported him, and Zhang Zhenzu was able to survive on his meager salary.

Even when Liu Jiahong was in a car accident, the 100,000 yuan of medical expenses paid by his second uncle Zhang Zhenzong were also cash after the old man sold three gold bars. The reason why he pretended to be Zhang Zhenzong was to prevent the people in the village from blushing, after all, the difference between an old farmer taking out 100,000 yuan and a doctor in a provincial city giving people a shock is heaven and earth.

Over the years, the Zhang and Liu families have encountered any difficulties that they can't overcome, and the old man has taken the gold bars accumulated by his ancestors to get them one by one. It is precisely because of these gold bars that the quality of life of the Zhang and Liu families can be regarded as the upper middle level in Liangcun, and it is not too difficult.

For a long time, the Zhang family also knew that the old man had some savings on hand, but everyone didn't dig deeper, thinking that after so many years, the old man should have no inventory. Of course, it is also because the children of the Zhang family are more filial and care about each other, and they did not stage the kind of bloody plot of separating the family and fighting for property.

Some time ago, Zhang Ji Pig Farm started construction, and then purchased a large number of breeding pigs and piglets, and most of the large amount of money needed was also provided by the old man who sold the gold bars on hand and then provided them to his three sons. If this weren't for this, the three brothers of the Zhang family really didn't know where to get hundreds of thousands of funds to build a pig farm and still be able to operate normally?

I thought that the old man should exchange all the gold at this time, but Liu Rui never thought that his grandfather still had gold!

"Grandpa, if you give me this money, how can you explain it to your uncle?" Although his grandfather said that he would invest the money in himself, Liu Rui was still uneasy in his heart.

In the countryside, the daughter who marries out is like water spilled out, and the daughter is not qualified to inherit property at all, let alone that she is just a grandson. Liu Rui is worried that once the money is invested in the grain station project through his own hands, it will cause dissatisfaction among several uncles, and then affect everyone's feelings.

Liu Rui has seen many examples of brothers turning against each other and sisters becoming enemies in the countryside because of the unequal division of property, and that kind of scene always makes Liu Rui feel chilled, how can he accept this kind of thing to happen to his family?

"That's a problem, so what do you say?" Hearing Liu Rui's words, the old man's somewhat hot head was a little sober.

The old man knew that although he was a good parent in the Zhang family, all this was only limited to when he was alive. If a hundred years from now, several children in the family quarrel because of the uneven distribution of these properties, and finally turn against each other, I am afraid that I will really climb out of the coffin!

The family's property is generally divided among his sons, which is already a common custom in Liang Village, and Zhang Huaizhong has no intention of challenging these rules. If it is said that Liu Jiahong paid medical expenses because his life was at stake, and he was in a hurry, he is investing in Liu Rui now, it is too much to say. Even if the old man likes Zhang Guizhi and Liu Rui no matter how much he likes, he has no way to challenge the customs of the entire Liang Village.

"Why don't you lend me this money, grandfather, and let a few uncles testify, and I will return the money to you in two years, do you think it?" Liu Rui knew that although this money was urgently needed, he was still able to calm down. For Liu Rui, family affection is much more important than everything, even if he can't take a stake in the leisure farm, Liu Rui is not willing to have conflicts with several uncles.

If you become a betrayal of your relatives, no matter how much money you make, it will be in vain!

"That's it, one day I'll call your uncles together, tell them about the matter, and when you pay back the money, I'll give them the money!" Hearing Liu Rui's suggestion, Zhang Huaizhong didn't have a good way, so he could only nod and agree.

Solving the most headache of the current financial problem, Liu Rui was in a good mood, and he was not in a hurry to leave the Zhang family compound, but pestered the old man and asked about the gold bars.

Since the old man had lifted all the hole cards, he didn't hide too much from Liu Rui, and began to tell Liu Rui the story of the Zhang family's wealth.

Before the liberation of the hundred years, the Zhang family has always been a famous rich and large landowner in Qingyun Town, several generations of shrewd management so that their business in the upper and lower reaches of the Tongjiang River, relying on the circulation of materials on the ancient tea horse road, the Zhang family has accumulated a lot of wealth in hundreds of years. According to the traditional habits of the Chinese, after earning money, it is to build houses and buy land, so the Zhang family compound is getting bigger and bigger, and the number of good fields under the name of the Zhang family is also increasing. However, there are many mountains and little land here in Qingyun, even if the ancestors of the Zhang family desperately bought land, they quickly reached the limit and could no longer expand.

At this time, the shrewd ancestors of the Zhang family began to buy some of their property into gold, quietly melted it into gold bars, and stored it. Slowly, this habit became a tradition of the Zhang family, and as soon as the head of each generation had money to spare, it would melt into gold bars and become heirloom wealth. After hundreds of years of accumulation, the Zhang family also has a staggering gold fortune.

However, with the emancipation and land reform, this gold was largely useless. Zhang Huaizhong knew that in such a turbulent period, the Zhang family could not do anything eye-catching, so he buried the secret of owning gold bars deep in his heart, and did not touch the gold bars on the floor tiles of his bedroom.

It was not until after the reform and opening up, when the policy was loosened and the private economy began to be encouraged, that the old man took out these gold bars in batches and sold them to support his son's education, build houses for the children, treat diseases, and even bear the study expenses of his grandchildren and granddaughters. Fortunately, the old man's actions were relatively secretive, and the rest of the people in the village didn't see too many clues.

"Grandpa, how many gold bars are there?" Liu Rui was a little curious, because he hadn't seen gold bars yet.

"There are a hundred of them!" The old man tilted his head and tried to think about it, and said affirmatively: "Each one is four taels, and it is placed in a box, buried deep under the floor of the bedroom. ”

Speaking of the time when he dug up the treasure, a trace of pride appeared on the old man's face, and the whole person was immersed in the memories of the past glory. Zhang Huaizhong can only admire his father, grandfather and those ancestors. It is a miracle that they were able to amass such a huge fortune in such turbulent times. On the other hand, I have become a gentleman who sits on the empty mountain, which is really a bit ashamed!

"Isn't that worth millions?" When Liu Rui heard this, he was immediately taken aback.

According to the current market price of 100 yuan per gram of gold, each gold bar is about 20,000 yuan, and 100 gold bars are 2 million. Liu Rui originally thought that even if his grandfather had gold bars, he would only look like a dozen or so gold bars, but he didn't expect that this was indeed an amazing fortune.

"How can there be so many?" Zhang Huaizhong smiled and said: "Ten or twenty years ago, the price of gold was not high, only ten or twenty yuan per gram, but it has only risen so high in recent years. However, my grandfather had already exchanged a lot of money before, and now there are less than twenty left in the house. ”

After Zhang Huaizhong's explanation, Liu Rui realized that most of the gold had been converted into RMB and spent for various reasons.

"Rui'er, you have to remember that even if there is a mountain of gold at home, there will always be a day when it will run out!" Looking at his grandson's somewhat confused eyes, Zhang Huaizhong had to remind him and said: "Only by mastering a skill and having an industry that can generate profits can there be a steady stream of wealth, and it is impossible to sit on the mountain and eat nothing!" ”

Grandpa's words were like a slap in the face, which suddenly woke Liu Rui up!

Jinshan will always have a day when it finishes eating, and only by self-reliance will you never have to worry! Liu Rui thought of his own winery, which has been passed down from generation to generation, no matter how poor he is, as long as there is a winery, the Liu family will never fall. As long as you master the ancestral secret recipe of winemaking, there will always be a time for a comeback.

If you don't want to make progress by guarding the gold mountain, people will be decadent, they will become lazy, and even if they have more savings, they will decline.

Now, Liu Rui has a cheat like Shennong Space in hand, and it has become his unshirkable responsibility to carry forward the winery! In the following days, in addition to investing funds in the leisure farm, letting Guo Hailan operate, and becoming a steady stream of cash cows for Liu Jiaai, Liu Rui's main energy should be put on the winery.

Carrying forward the winery and reproducing the glory of the ancestors has become Liu Rui's most important task in the period of time!

(To be continued)