Surprise! The rough husband is the hidden boss of the period literature

Chapter 455 Happy Event
Jiang Baohua and Zhou Guizhi came all the way from Shangjiang Brigade, and Jiang Xingye drove to the train station to pick them up, which made him very happy.

Xu Qinghuan had the feeling that this beat-up car belonged to his second wife.

With one daughter remarried and another engaged, Jiang Baohua and his wife had no choice but to come over in person.

The two of them brought nothing else but two large bags of food, one bag of rice and one bag of flour, which they carried with great effort, leaving Xu Qinghuan astonished.

I was also very touched.

"Everything is great in the city, except there are no food coupons, so we have to buy expensive food. Sigh, your uncle is so worried about it every day. It's too far away. If it were closer, it would be much better."

"Your sister-in-law has given birth again. This time, she finally had a son. She's overjoyed. I just finished taking care of her during her postpartum period. Sigh, I'm such an old woman, I really don't want to take care of her again." Zhou Guizhi secretly complained to Xu Qinghuan.

"Why did she have so many children? She doesn't cherish her own body!"

Xu Qinghuan laughed so hard, "Second sister-in-law just had another son too."

“That’s different. This son’s surname is Dong, and he’s been taken care of by your Aunt Li. I haven’t interfered at all,” Zhou Guizhi said with emotion. “It was her grandmother who had foresight. She said that Lanzi would come and follow you, because there are more opportunities in the big city.”

"If we stayed in that remote corner of the world, would we even be able to find such a decent man?"

Zhou Jingsong was also remarried, but he has no children.

He used to be a soldier and had a wife in the countryside. The two rarely saw each other and hadn't conceived after three years of marriage. His wife began to suspect that there was something wrong with him. Later, he became lame, and his wife wanted to stay with him even less, so they divorced.

The family was reunited that day.

Jiang Xingye bought two roast ducks from Quanjude.

Xu Qinghuan took charge of cooking, and together with Zhou Guizhi, they prepared a lot of dishes, filling the table to the brim.

Huo Chi also came, and he and Zhou Jingsong got along quite well.

Zhou Jingsong and Jiang Xinglan fell in love on their own and decided to get married as soon as possible.

After Zhou Jingsong recovered from his leg injury, he returned to Dong Province and brought his letter of introduction. Zhou Guizhi also brought Jiang Xinglan's letter of introduction this time. After having their reunion dinner tonight, they plan to get their marriage certificate tomorrow.

"We'll have a proper celebration tomorrow after you get your marriage certificate," Xu Qinghuan said with a smile.

Jiang Xinglan smiled, tears welling in her eyes. Looking at the man beside her, a blush rose on her fair and delicate cheeks.

After Jiang Xinglan's wedding was over, it was time for the New Year.

With the old man and woman here, Jiang Baohua and his wife definitely won't go back for the New Year. This house is quite spacious, so they might as well stay here for the New Year.

Jiang Baohua was busy helping Jiang Xingye renovate the storefront, while Xu Qinghuan led Zhou Guizhi to visit all the major and minor attractions in Yancheng.

Zhou Guizhi called the old lady over, but the old lady waved her hand and said, "Go see for yourself, we've already seen it."

There are quite a few elderly people in this area, and they often get together to stroll around. The old man and woman have participated in many of these city tours, but they are not very interested in going out to visit tourist attractions in the cold weather.

Xu Qinghuan took many photos of her.

After the Lantern Festival, Jiang Baohua and his wife went back home. Xu Qinghuan packed the developed photos into an album for her to take back with her, along with gifts she had bought for them at the department store, filling several large suitcases.

Everything else was fine, but Zhou Guizhi treasured this photo album terribly.

As soon as she returned to Shangjiang Brigade, she showed it off before anyone even asked.

The entire album is filled with photos of her with scenic spots. The only photo of the two of them together is a picture of her and Jiang Baohua when they went to watch the flag-raising ceremony.

The photos are all in color, much better than black and white photos.

It looks so high-end when you put it in an album.

This made everyone in the Shangjiang Brigade extremely envious.

Zhou Guizhi ran her hand through her hair. “My hair didn’t look good in photos before, so Huanhuan said she would take me to get a haircut. We had a professional hairdresser do it, and it cost a lot of money, only 50 cents. I bought these hair clips at a department store. I bought two in total so we can switch them up.”

Seeing the envious and jealous looks from everyone, Zhou Guizhi enjoyed it. "Sigh, I'm getting old, but I'm still trying to be fashionable. I'm only doing this because of my children!" Sure enough, someone asked, "Your Lanzi really found such a good man, a former soldier. What's he doing now?"

“Now I’m helping Xiao Wu with business,” Zhou Guizhi said. “I originally thought I was going to marry my daughter off to Dong Province, but who knew that my son-in-law bought a house in Yancheng? Now the whole family can transfer their household registration there, so I don’t have to worry anymore.”

The onlookers exclaimed in admiration.

Hu Hai asked, "Auntie, is Brother Ye not coming back? If he doesn't come back, what will happen to our factories?"

The longer it went on, the more the brigade headquarters and commune members realized how formidable Jiang Xingye was. For no other reason than that, in just one year, the factory's business shrank dramatically.

There are no solutions to production problems, and no way to handle sales problems. Only the timber factory is doing alright.

The garment factory no longer has designers and is still producing the same old three items. With more and more imitations from outside, it is becoming increasingly difficult to sell its products.

"I don't know!" Zhou Guizhi thought for a moment, "He's already bought a car over there, why would he come back?"

"Wow, Jiang Xiaowu has even bought a car! My goodness, how come he's living so well! Your Xu Zhiqing is really a lucky charm for her husband!"

“Absolutely!” Zhou Guizhi brushed a strand of hair behind her ear and raised her face. “If it weren’t for Xu Zhiqing, my Xiao Wu wouldn’t be where he is today. My Jiang family must have had some incredible luck to marry Xu Zhiqing.”

But most people are still concerned about their wallets.

"If Brother Ye doesn't come back, our factory will have to close down."

"It's not that bad!" Zhou Guizhi was afraid these people would bring her nephew back. "Xiao Wu is still in school, how could he come back!"

In May, after the shop was renovated, Jiang Xingye obtained his personal business license.

He wasn't the first; the first person in the country to obtain a personal business license was a woman, who got it last December.

During the summer vacation, Jiang Xingye took Zhou Jingsong to the south again. This time, they shipped a lot of goods back from the south. He also asked Luo Jinhao, who was far away in Shangjiang Brigade, to send him a lot of small wooden furniture from the furniture factory to put on the counter.

Of the five storefronts, Jiang Xingye contributed three, and Yancheng's first supermarket began operations.

The supermarket mainly sells clothing, electronic products, and small furniture.

Because it operates on a self-service basis, this novel business model has attracted many customers.

In addition, the prices are indeed very low, so business is booming.

Jiang Xinglan was in charge of collecting fees.

The supermarket hired security guards who were all veterans. Zhou Jingsong recommended a few people, and Jian Jingchuan also helped select a few. Some of them were assigned to Dong Province, while four people stayed at the supermarket to help out.

Jiang Xingye renovated the small courtyard with two sections and used it as staff housing.

With this, Jiang Xingye's business empire was officially established.

The old man was thrilled to hear that he could sell the vegetables he grew at the supermarket, and his enthusiasm for growing vegetables increased significantly every day.

On the first day, he made more than three yuan. The old man was so excited that he stopped taking his birds out and playing chess. He took care of his vegetables, weighing them in bundles according to Xu Qinghuan's instructions, writing down the name, weight, unit price and selling price on them, and then sending them over to sell.

Gradually, the elderly people in the neighborhood also wanted to put their vegetables there for consignment.

Jiang Xingye agreed to everything, but firstly, the quality had to be good, and secondly, he had to collect a management fee.

No one had any objections to that.

His next step is to open a fresh food supermarket, but at present, the policy has not been relaxed on a large scale, but he can start the preparations here first.

Sure enough, not long after, someone came to Jiang Xingye's door and contacted him. The nearby production brigade wanted to deliver goods to his supermarket.

At this time, the commodity market began to become active, and the management of ration coupons became increasingly relaxed. Jiang Xingye also had more ways to get information, and some people above had already proposed abolishing ration coupons and that internal reforms should move towards free trade.

After weighing the options and discussing it with Xu Qinghuan, he agreed to her request.

　Four updates, the first one!
　　(End of this chapter)