boyutpedia Chapter 169 Carpe Diem
Chapter 169 Carpe Diem
After paying the bill, the two of them carried their things out of Linglong Pavilion.
Zhang Yunyue thought that she would have to entertain guests during the New Year, so she might as well buy some good wine and tea in the county. The wine and tea sold in the town were not as much as those sold in the county.
So Zhang Yunyue took Zhang Xinghao to the winery to buy five kilograms of wine, and then went to the tea shop to buy two kilograms of tea.
After thinking about it, I realized that there was nothing else I needed to buy. The rest of the food and drinks were already available in town, and if I bought them now, I couldn't wait until the New Year to eat them.
Zhang Yunyue also asked her second brother if there was anything he wanted to buy. Zhang Xinghao shook his head. He was already very happy to be able to come to the county town this time and went to the snack street. He didn't want anything else.
It was almost noon, so the two of them carried their things back to the hot pot restaurant.
When Zhang Cheng saw the two men coming back, he put down their things and asked the kitchen to prepare lunch for the three of them so that they could eat and return to the village early.
After finishing their meal, the three of them took a short rest, then put the bags they had packed in advance on the carriage, and then drove the carriage home.
back home.
Everyone in the family was warming themselves by the fire in the main room.
Zhang Yunyue took out the gold hairpins, gold bracelets and earrings she had bought in the county town, and also moved the wine and tea she had bought to the main room.
"Grandpa, this is the fine wine and tea I bought in the county. You can keep it for yourself or use it to entertain guests."
"Grandma, look, this is the bracelet I picked for you in the county town. It has the words 'Fu Shou' (blessings and longevity) engraved on it. I wish you good health and a long life."
After saying that, Zhang Yunyue directly put the bracelet on Grandma Zhang's hand.
Seeing her granddaughter put the gold bracelet on her hand, Grandma Zhang said distressedly:
"Oh, you girl, why did you buy such an expensive bracelet? You can buy it for yourself and your mother, why did you buy it for an old woman?"
Just as she was about to take off the bracelet and return it to Zhang Yunyue, Zhang Yunyue held the hand that was pulling out the bracelet:
"Grandma, don't worry. Grandma and Second Aunt both have them. I also bought one for myself. This is my gift to you. The New Year is just a few days away. You can wear this bracelet to walk around the village and have fun."
Grandma Zhang tapped Zhang Yunyue's forehead with her hand and said angrily, "You little girl, just act weird."
Zhu echoed, "Mother, this bracelet looks great on you. Wear it. It's Yueyue's gift."
Zhang Yunyue: "Yes, yes, yes, grandma, just wear it."
Then she took out a gold hairpin in the shape of an orchid: "Second Aunt, this is for you. When I bought it, I thought this orchid hairpin would suit you very well."
After saying that, Zhang Yunyue put it directly on Zhu's head.
Zhu: "Yueyue, you..."
Zhang Yunyue took Second Aunt's arm and said, "Second Aunt, just wear it. I picked it specially for you. You can't take it off. Just now you persuaded Grandma to wear the bracelet."
Zhu looked at Yueyue in front of her and said with emotion: "Okay, Second Aunt will wear it. Mother, do you think it looks good?"
"Good-looking, good-looking."
"Xiaoxue, there are also yours. Sister picked out a pair of snowflake earrings for you. Sister will put them on for you. Sister also picked out a pair of snowflake earrings for herself. We can wear them together during the Chinese New Year."
"Really? Sis, you must wear it when the time comes."
After Zhang Yunxue put on the snowflake earrings, she asked everyone in the family if they looked good or not.
After asking her family, she ran outside again, probably to find her friends.
Zhu looked at Yueyue and saw that she had bought things for everyone. She must have spent a lot of money. She said distressedly, "Yueyue, you spent a lot of money buying these today, right?"
"Second Aunt, money is meant to be spent. Otherwise, what's the point of making money? Think about it, you can't bring it with you when you are born and you can't take it with you when you die. Now I can make money and buy things for you. You are happy, I am happy too, and everyone is happy. Isn't that great, hehe."
"You, but you are right, Second Aunt is thinking the wrong way. It is good to enjoy life while you are able to do so."
Zhang Yunyue took Second Aunt's arm and said, "That's right, we should enjoy ourselves while we can."
Grandma Zhang shook her head: "This girl is becoming more and more eloquent now, and she has a lot of reasons to make."
Grandpa Zhang: "I think Yueyue is right. In the past, our family didn't have the means to buy things easily. Now that our family is better off, you should buy some women's jewelry to wear. Buy what you need. Only by spending money can you find ways to make money."
Zhang Yunyue thought that she had already distributed New Year's gifts and red envelopes to employees in the county, as well as employees in the workshop.
"Grandpa, the workshop and the food store in town will both be open until the 27th, which is the day after tomorrow. However, since the food store sells chili oil at the window, Brother Xiao Chao will have to stay for two more days. I will give him a little more red envelope to make up for it.
Now that the New Year gifts for the employees in the county have been distributed, I am thinking that I should prepare New Year gifts and red envelopes for the employees in the workshops and food stores tomorrow.
Our workshop has made a lot of money this year, so we can't be stingy. The New Year gifts from the county town include five catties of vegetable oil, one catty of pork oil, chili peppers, and one catty of crispy whistles, as well as a month's salary. I think the same is true for the workshop, Grandpa, what do you think?"
Grandpa Zhang nodded and said, "Yueyue, Grandpa agrees with what you said. The people in the workshop are all from our village. We can't make money and then be stingy with everyone. Let's do as you say."
"Okay, Grandpa, when Uncle Chen comes to deliver the cooking oil tomorrow, ask him to deliver another 400 kilograms the day after tomorrow! There are a total of 76 employees in the workshop and the food store."
"Okay, I'll go to the workshop tomorrow and wait. I'll tell Boss Chen when he comes."
Two days later.
The people from Old Zhang's family carried the copper coins and loose change that they had counted at home yesterday to the workshop. Everyone's monthly salary plus red envelopes was more than one or two taels.
So Zhang Yunyue prepared one or two taels of silver, and the rest in copper coins, which would make it convenient for everyone to purchase things for the New Year.
Chen Youcai, the owner of the oil mill, also delivered the 400 kilograms of vegetable oil that Grandpa Zhang had told him about to the workshop.
The Zhang family members were now filling vegetable oil, pork oil, chili oil and crispy shreds in the workshop. There were seventy-six cans of each, so two people were assigned to each group to be responsible for the filling.
Also because today is the last working day before the New Year, Zhang Yunyue asked Zhang Xingzhong to calculate everyone's monthly salary yesterday and distributed the salary today so that everyone can have a good New Year.
At 5 p.m., Zhang Yunyue asked all the employees in the workshop to stop working, and then asked everyone to start cleaning the workshop inside and out.
Tianxianglou will come again tomorrow to take away all the remaining goods produced by the workshop in the past two days.
After all, the workshop will not start work until the eighth day of the first lunar month, so even if Tianxianglou has to take a few days off for the New Year, it still has to stock up some of the goods in advance.