Yonga Middle School, Unit 1, Building 2, Staff Building, Room 302.

Chen Xia's family was discussing Fang Bai's school banquet.

Fang Lei asked his wife: "How many gifts should we give?" ”

"Five dollars for a head.

Your brother's family is not short of money, giving red envelopes is just a formality, if it weren't for the notice, for the sake of face, I don't want to go, this matter makes me angry, and now the principal doesn't want to see me, and the reward from last semester is gone.

Hmph, in the end, it's still your brother and sister who complained to the principal that I confiscated Fang Baijin Yongjia Middle School.

You say that I did something wrong, the first college entrance examination is a big difference from the score line, and it is strange that I can be admitted to university after repeating.

Who knew that my nephew was so lucky, and he was admitted to the top prize, it's outrageous to think about, how is it possible. Chen Xia was full of resentment, she blamed her brother-in-law, even more blamed her mother-in-law, and she also hated herself for being a little blind at the beginning.

Thinking that others are so rich, and they are so unlucky, they get angry when they think of these things.

But she had to admit that Fang Bai, this kid, is really capable and has a lot of crooked ideas, so he actually started a business.

It's just that her nephew has an opinion about her, and she didn't say hello to him last time I saw him.

"Hey, let's be less verbose, what's the use of talking about this now." Fang Lei wants to ease the relationship between the two brothers now, he is now complaining a little about his wife, what did he do so ruthlessly, and he quarreled a few times in this matter.

Chen Xia said sarcastically: "Heh, now it's my head to blame, how good are you, you haven't always looked down on your brother, and you don't have any opinions, everything is arranged by your mother, and now the two families are so stiff, your mother has the greatest responsibility, and she always makes trouble from it." ”

Fang Lei has always been submissive, but he didn't want to admit it, so he changed the topic: "Speaking of serious things, isn't the first five yuan a bit small?" ”

"It's a lot, it's just a meal at the hotel, anyway, your brother's family is not short of money."

"Then you can arrange it."

Fang Lei didn't have any opinions after thinking about it, his wife was in charge of everything at home, and at the same time, he felt that it didn't matter if his brother's family was not short of money.

The two families basically have nothing to do with each other, and now they are rich, just like they did to them back then.

"You guys go, I'm not going, today's class reunion." Fang Hai, who was admitted to Shencheng University of Technology last year, found an excuse not to go, mainly because he was not familiar with his cousin who was two months younger than him.

One lives in the countryside for a long time, and the other lives in the county town for a long time, and they haven't seen each other twice a year, and they can't play together, and they have a fart brother relationship.

The two families have a lot of conflicts due to the separation of their elders, and now they don't want to see others show off.

When he came back from vacation, he listened to his parents often nag about his uncle's family, and he felt unbelievable that he had become rich.

If he starts his own business, maybe he can do it, and when the next semester starts, he plans to give it a try.

"If you don't go, you won't go." Chen Xia dotes on her son more, and often talks about his son's admission to college in front of students, which has always been her pride.

I have never seen my brother-in-law deliver electrical appliances to his house, and they don't want to see him.

Fang Lei heard that his son didn't want to go, so he stopped talking, but in the end he didn't say anything and went out with his wife.

When passers-by met Principal Luo, Chen Xia greeted him enthusiastically and took the initiative to say hello, and emphasized: "My nephew is not the top student in the college entrance examination, he will hold a college banquet and invite us to participate, and he will go to drink." ”

"Oh, that's pretty good."

Hearing the principal say with a smile on his face, Chen Xia felt much more comfortable.

The two left the school and took a car, crossed the river by boat at Oubei Wharf, and walked 100 meters to the Sheraton Hotel in the city center.

The history of Sheraton can be traced back to 1937, and the Sheraton Hotel was the first international hotel chain to start operating in China, mostly five-star hotels, and a few four-star hotels.

Liu Fengqing originally wanted to hold it in Oubei, but there were too few hotels in Oubei, and the grade was low, so there were no dozens of tables.

In fact, the price of the dishes is just a little more expensive than the average hotel, and it is not too outrageous.

Even if there are dozens of tables, it won't cost them much, and it's just a day's profit in the mall.

In addition, the hotel looks at the popularity of the top student in the college entrance examination and gives a lot of discounts.

Therefore, Fang Bai's parents were also very arrogant, so they settled down generously.

When Chen Xia and his wife came to the Sheraton Hotel, they were shocked by the more than 10-storey hotel snacks in front of them.

If it weren't for the fact that he knew that his younger siblings' family was rich, and there were two big banners hanging outside the hotel: "Welcome to Fang Bai, the champion of the national college entrance examination, to hold a banquet at the Sheraton Hotel" and "Champion new dishes are on the market", both of them thought they had come to the wrong place.

What they didn't know was that in order to play these advertisements, the hotel gave a 50% discount for Fang Bai's family banquet, and also gave two more new dishes "Fish Leaping Dragon Gate" and "Gold List Title", named "Champion Dish", which was intended to be launched to other parents who held a college banquet.

"Fish Leaping Dragon Gate" naturally has fish, and the "Gold List Title" is actually pig's trotters roasted soybeans.

At the entrance of the hall, there is a large poster on the ground, which reads "College Entrance Examination Champion Fang Bai Admission Banquet, please go to the banquet hall on the second floor".

Walking through the revolving glass doors, stepping on the marble floor, I was quickly shocked by what I saw.

The spacious hall is like a solemn and elegant palace, exuding an atmosphere of nobility and luxury, showing luxury and dignity.

At the center of the hall is a spacious and sophisticated reception desk, made of smooth marble with a gold frame. Behind the reception desk, a neat line of staff in noble uniforms and smiling faces is ready to provide attentive service to guests.

"It's really high-end, how much does it cost to hold a banquet here?" Chen Xia was a little surprised, she thought that the hotel where the banquet was held was just a small restaurant.

Fang Lei had some knowledge, but he had never been on such an occasion, and he also praised: "This has to look at what kind of dishes, it's not cheap anyway." ”

Chen Xia suddenly felt that the two of them gave ten yuan as a gift, but after thinking about it for a while, she still didn't add it, anyway, she felt that her brother-in-law's family was rich, and she was still holding her breath for the past.

Not only them, but many relatives and friends who have never seen the world, when they step into the Sheraton Hotel, they feel that they can eat here and have more face.

"Dad, my cousin's family is so open-minded, it costs a lot of money to hold a banquet here."

"When we came over, didn't you see the Xinghai Electric Appliance Mall, it's his, and your cousin's family is not short of money."

"Dad, how much money does my cousin's family have?"

"I don't know, it's rich anyway. Children don't ask about this, but when you see your cousin, talk to them. ”

A family of four passed by Chen Xia, as if they were relatives of Liu Fengqing's mother's family, and they spoke very casually, and they didn't pay attention to this kind of occasion at all, so they couldn't speak loudly.

Chen Xia pretended to have seen the world, did not look around, and tried not to talk as much as possible, after all, the more she talked, the easier it was to make a fool of herself.

The crowd had never taken the elevator, and there was an elevator attendant who helped them open the elevator and personally send them to the second floor.

At this time, it was already more than ten o'clock in the morning, and Fang Bai and his parents stood at the door of the hall on the second floor to greet the guests.

"Congratulations, this is Abai, I haven't seen him for many years, I hugged it when I was a child, I didn't expect it to grow so big."

"Congratulations to Aba for the top student in the college entrance examination, the future is limitless!"

"Fang Bai, congratulations, the school is proud of you."

"Mr. Fang, I wish you a bright future and a great future. Please sign it for the kid and get some luck, haha. ”

The guests were like a cloud, sending blessings to Fang Bai's family, and many parents asked Fang Bai for signatures for their children, hoping that their children would learn better.

On the side of the door, there are two tables dedicated to the registration of gifts.

Wencheng people give a lot of gifts, if it is twenty years later, the normal head gift for each person at the entrance banquet is 500, and the wedding gift is 1,000.

Now, in other places, the wedding gift may be five or ten yuan, and giving twenty yuan is too much, and the entrance banquet is less.

But in Wencheng, you can't get it for less than ten yuan for the college entrance banquet, and you can start with twenty yuan.

Now that Fang Bai's family is rich and held in a hotel, there are more guests, and the pressure of poor economic conditions at home is not small.

The accountant of Xinghai Shopping Mall is responsible for collecting money, and the person in charge of registration is another person who is good at calligraphy.

Each red envelope has the name of the guest written on it, and Liu Fengqing has already explained to the accountant this morning that as much as there is in the red envelope, he will stuff it in.

If you don't give a red envelope but give other gifts, then estimate it according to the value.

When the guests are almost there, she will distribute them again, which will make everyone eat happily.

A red envelope is accompanied by a small gift box, which contains candy and tea, which are unified into a small gift bag.

If the table is served after the meal, some guests will leave when they are full.

Chen Xia and her husband said hello to their brother and daughter-in-law's family, put down the red envelope, and found a table to sit down according to the area, brothers and sisters, relatives, teachers, VIPs, etc.

VIPs are business partners and county leaders, who are arranged in private rooms.

For example, business partners and county leaders don't accept red envelopes, and people come to save face.

Fang Lei worked in the Family Planning Office of Shangtang Town, Yongjia County, and was not a big or small clerk, if he had a background back then, he would go directly to the county.

When he walked through the box just now, he saw that all the leaders of the county had come, including the county magistrate Gu, drinking tea and chatting in the box.

This surprised him so much that he invited the county leaders to attend the banquet.

"Who do you see? What a fuss! Chen Xia just saw her husband stunned for a while in front of a box door.

"A few county leaders, I didn't expect them to come." Fang Lei lowered his head and said in surprise.

"This ......" Chen Xia was stunned for a moment, a little envious, "Your brother has a really big face." ”

"Xinghai shopping mall has a large investment, maybe the county leaders pay attention to it." Fang Lei felt that he had missed something again, thinking that his brother's family was just rich, but he didn't notice that the relationship with the county was so good.

If you think about it, he can figure it out.

Before, he felt that he didn't go up because of his background and couldn't speak, but now he feels like he's a little slow to react to these things.

Just like now, if he is a sociable person, if he goes up to say hello, he may be able to rub his face familiar, but he just doesn't dare, he is not as good as his wife in terms of communication.

I used to think that my brother and daughter-in-law spoke at a very high level of education, but now people are very good at receiving people and things, it is difficult to say, maybe the environment creates people.

The people he looks down on are now better mixed than him, and the more he compares, the greater the sense of loss.

Sometimes, he feels quite sad.

He turned around, but he didn't see his old man and mother, it seems that his brother and daughter-in-law didn't notice it, and he was afraid that the two old men would make trouble, and there have been a lot of quarrels in recent years.

Chen Xia suggested: "I think you can find an opportunity to say hello to the county leaders in a while, which will be better for your future development." ”

"Forget it, people in their forties and fifties, don't toss." Fang Lei waved his hand.

"I haven't grown at all, I don't have any opinions, I'm angry."

When Chen Xia heard her husband's words, she wanted to lose her temper, but after thinking about it for so many years, she had always been the one who made the idea.

As the two spoke, more and more people arrived.

It was almost half past eleven o'clock at noon, the guests were basically all here, and before the banquet was about to start, Liu Fengqing went to deliver gift boxes and red envelopes, she took red envelopes, and asked a few relatives and friends to help get the gift boxes.

"I forgot to tell you, we don't accept red envelopes for wine, and everyone can come to the banquet to give our family face, so that we can add glory. So, we double the return of the red envelope as an apology and thank you. ”

Liu Fengqing's words did not leak, which made everyone feel very comfortable.

It's just that what everyone didn't expect was that the host returned the red envelope twice!

I never expected this approach!

Some guests didn't want to receive red envelopes, but Liu Fengqing persuaded: "We have accepted everyone's hearts and blessings, thank you for coming to the banquet."

If you don't accept it, other relatives and friends will be embarrassed to accept it. ”

"Haha, I can really talk, I deserve to be the champion mother."

The guest who wanted to refuse had to smile and accept his red envelope.

Some new friends are not very good, for this banquet, even borrowed money to make a gift, but did not think that the last point did not come out, but accepted a big gift, Fang Bai's family was grateful, thinking that people are atmospheric, no wonder they can make a fortune in business.

Overall, all the guests were happy, with only a small number regretting that they had given too few gifts.

The banquet soon began, and Fang Bai never refused to toast, and even overturned the tables of county leaders and business partners.

He had drunk with Fang Bai, and no one who knew how much he drank would persuade him to drink.

Chen Shile said: "You are looking for Fang Baibi to drink, isn't it unpleasant to find it, this guy can drink better than us old drunkards." ”

"We have a table of people, maybe we will drink it, and we won't be able to turn over Fang Bai."

At two o'clock in the afternoon, there was no banquet, and Fang Bai's college banquet ended.

The most satisfied is Fang Bai's parents, relatives and friends warmly compliment them, I feel too embarrassed.

On the way home for Chen Xia and her husband, they have been regretting that they gave too few gifts, and the four 5 yuan bills in the red envelope are simply sarcastic to them.

"I knew that I would have sealed more gifts, and I regretted dying." Chen Xia kept muttering about this.

"Didn't I tell you at the beginning, let you pack more, you said that five yuan for the first person is enough."

"Then why don't you stuff it into it yourself, a big man doesn't have a point of opinion in doing things."

"......" Fang Lei didn't want to say anything.

"When Fang Bai gets engaged and gets married, he will have to borrow more money!" Chen Xia said fiercely that she missed the super red envelope today.

She saw that her younger siblings' families gave a lot of red envelopes, so Aunt Fang Bai gave five hundred, and as a result, they returned five hundred.

"What if you don't go back?"

"Hmph, I don't think my brother-in-law cares about this money at all, it's just a show, a nouveau riche, if you don't believe it, just look at it."

Compared with these red envelopes, Fang Lei felt that his family had missed an opportunity to get rich and had lost too much.

If my wife hadn't been so greedy when we split up, and I could have stood up and spoken a little, and the two families didn't quarrel, maybe it wouldn't have ended up like this today.

Now that they are on their faces, they ignore them and just say hello normally.

……

After the banquet, Fang Bai put more energy into the trial production of the 6-inch PN600 wedge double gate gate valve.

A day later, August 20.

After the casting mold was done and Fang Bai checked it, he asked the workers to make a small repair and end the preliminary work.

The next step is casting, inspected three foundries, and selected one of them, with 20 pieces of valve body, valve cover and ram plate each, with a total weight of about 1.4 tons, which is about 10% lighter than similar products on the market.

The tax-included price of dewaxing precision casting is more than three times the market price of steel, about 5,000 yuan per ton, and the market price of steel has the greatest impact.

Three more days passed, August 23.

Fang Bai got the casting, and after inspection, there was no casting problem, and he sent a car to pull it back to the Jiayu processing factory.

Fang Bai couldn't catch up with the next follow-up work, he had to rush to school and let his father-in-law slowly do the follow-up work.

Welding, grinding, machining, grinding, assembly, pressure testing and other processes, at present, Jiayu company does not have this condition to carry out the next process, and it is necessary to purchase relevant equipment and recruit relevant personnel before it can be carried out.

This gate valve product is not in a hurry, and the trial production will be carried out after the construction of the new valve factory is put into use, and there is still a year to go.

Fang Bai turned his attention to professional study and floor pump design, and at the same time, he began to prepare for the subscription warrants.

He only remembered that it was the beginning of January 1992, and he couldn't remember the exact time, so he had to keep an eye on this message at all times.

In other words, it could be more than four months.

Time flies, especially when every day is busy.

If Fang Bai didn't pay attention a little, he would miss this opportunity if he didn't get it right.

Before that, he needed to do a lot of preparation, the first step was to buy a nearby house that had been laid out, but it had not yet been renovated, and he asked that it must be renovated within two months.

On August 26, Fang Bai and Qin Shuyu set off for Shencheng.

It's still a while before I leave school, but there's not much to do at home.

The decoration company in Shencheng had already called, saying that Qin Shuyu's house had been renovated and asked him to go for acceptance.

Before leaving, Fang Bai took three million yuan from his home again.

His current wealth totals 19.8 million yuan, which has removed the two million yuan he gave to his father-in-law and about 2.53 million yuan in five-month bank interest.

Fang Bai borrowed a total of 42 million yuan, 22 million yuan from the branch of Bank G on Nanjiang West Road, 10 million yuan from the head office of Nong Bank in Yongjia County, and 10 million yuan from the head office of Zhongxing Bank in Yongjia County.

The budget of the first phase of the shopping mall is 25 million yuan, Xinghai Construction Company invested 850,000 yuan, the last time it cost 2 million yuan to Shencheng, and 400 acres of land in Yongjia County need to spend 20 million yuan (full payment).

There is also a big expenditure, 2,000 acres of industrial land and 100 acres of commercial land in Shencheng Sha County, with a total cost of about 30 million yuan including tax, but only 1 million yuan was prepaid.

In fact, Fang Bai has about 8 million yuan at his disposal.

He took three million dollars in cash, and the family still had several million dollars at his disposal.

In addition, the 25 million yuan invested in the mall was only partially spent.

Now the popularity of the electrical appliance mall is very hot, and the monthly profit exceeds the bank interest, as if picking up money, Fang Bai is not worried for the time being.

After ten months of rebirth, it is not easy to earn 20 million yuan from scratch without speculating in stocks or playing leverage, and it can be regarded as a success.

Now, Fang Bai has really transferred the map to Shencheng.

A new journey has officially begun.

Today's one shift, two in one, the last day, rest for a while, back pain, and old illness again

(End of chapter)