The three people worked for more than two hours before finishing posting the couplets on the three houses.
I just finished my work here, and on the other side, Mrs. Zhou Yan started to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner again.
Since more acquaintances came to watch the fun this year, Mrs. Zhou Yan prepared more New Year's Eve dinner, with more than twenty dishes.
This was very difficult for Zhou Yan. Even though the whole family went to battle together, they had to wait until the sun went down in the afternoon to prepare the banquet.
After finishing his work, Zhou Yan took off his apron, washed his hands, and climbed onto the kang with Qin Ruoshu. Before he could sit down in the hot bed, he was pulled down by his father.
"Aren't you going to your eldest and second uncle's house to pay New Year greetings?"
Zhou Yan rolled his eyes, put on his shoes, picked up the snow boots from the floor, and put them on the eldest lady's feet: "Ruoshu, let's go, I'll take you to meet the elders of our old Zhou family..."
After saying that, Zhou Yan took the tactical flashlight bought by the trustee from under the pillow and pulled Qin Ruoshu out of the door.
The first family is naturally the uncle’s family.
In an era where people believed in strength, it was normal for a family to have five or six children, and it was common for the oldest child to be thirty or fifty years older than the youngest.
The age difference between Zhou Yan's uncle and Zhou Yan's father is more than thirty years, and they are about the same age as Zhou Yan's grandparents. And the eldest cousin of Zhou Yan's uncle's family grew up with Zhou Yan's father.
The uncle and his wife, who were preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner, were very happy when they saw their eldest nephew bringing his partner to pay New Year greetings. The eldest aunt, with her little feet bound, happily brought out the prepared candies and snacks and kept putting them in Qin Ruoshu's hands.
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The uncle who was not good at words smiled and poured tea for Zhou Yan and handed it over: "Little Shitou, what are your plans after graduating from college?"
"We should go back to the capital," Zhou Yan looked back at the eldest lady holding snacks in both hands, "Xiao Qin will probably go there to develop."
The two men chatted for a while, and then the uncle's two cousins brought the family to pay their elders New Year greetings.
It just so happens that it saves you a few more trips.
As soon as they sat down, another group of juniors arrived to pay New Year's greetings. Zhou Yan quickly pulled Qin Ruoshu away to "make room".
The situation of the second uncle's family is similar to that of the first uncle's family, except that the second uncle and his youngest son live together. The second aunt is equally enthusiastic, with smiles all over her face, running here and there to get snacks for the two of them...
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"Er Niang, don't bother, we came out after we were full."
"You've eaten enough. Where is this girl?"
Qin Ruoshu spread her hands helplessly, with the inventory she brought from her uncle's house still in her palm...
Zhou Yan's father was on his third trip, so the next home was naturally his uncle's house. When the two arrived, his uncle was about to take his cousin out to pay New Year's greetings. When he saw the two of them, he was so happy that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear.
"Hey, my eldest nephew is here, do I have to prepare some lucky money?"
Zhou Yan looked at his cousin who was following his uncle with a smile: "Brother, please go get two mats..."
After saying that, Zhou Yan turned to Qin Ruoshu and smiled: "Ruoshu, the opportunity to make money has come!"
"Don't bother me!" The uncle saw Zhou Yan's posture and panicked, "Niece, I can't bear your uncle..."
At this moment, the aunt poked her head out of the house and said, "Lao Zhou, we have guests here, why don't you let people blow the cool breeze in the yard?"
"Eldest nephew, did you hear that your aunt asked you to come into the house..."
After entering the house, the aunt's routine was similar to that of the other two sisters-in-law. She picked up candies and snacks and forgot to put them in Qin Ruoshu's hands.
As long as Qin Ruoshu refused, the aunt would not listen and put eye drops on Zhou Yan: "Niece, do you think our products are not as good as yours..."
Now that the conversation has come to this point, Zhou Yan can only pick up the things for the eldest lady.
It was similar to other restaurants. Not long after we sat down, my uncle's family came to pay New Year's greetings, and it was very loud.
As the youngest elder among his peers in the family, his brother-in-law Zhou Zhenghe is naturally the leader of the group that pays New Year greetings every day.
As soon as the New Year greeting party arrived, the grand gathering began...
And Qin Ruoshu has finally seen what a "family" is like: Zhou Yan's grandfather has six brothers and five sisters. By Zhou Yan's father's generation, there are thirty cousins, not counting cousins.
Compared with Zhou Yan, Qin Ruoshu felt that her family was really underpopulated: her grandfather was the only child in the family, and it was only in his father's generation that he had brothers and sisters, but he was not considered prosperous. Brothers and sisters
There are only four of us in total.
After shopping around for a long time, the young lady, who was still a bit unsatisfied, lay on Zhou Yan's back and returned home.
After entering the door, Mr. Zhou Yan was chatting with the juniors who came to pay New Year greetings; on the kang, Mr. Zhou Yan was chatting with his nephew, daughter-in-law, and cousins...
Seeing Zhou Yan dragging Qin Ruoshu in, Zhou Yan's two nieces jumped off the kang with smiles and bowed their heads.
"Uncle, happy New Year!"
Zhou Yan smiled and took out the candy and snacks for Qin Ruoshu from his pocket and handed them over.
"Xiao Qin, stop standing there and get on the kang..."
When the two little nieces saw Qin Ruoshu coming up, they took out the playing cards from their pockets with a smile: "Auntie, let's play Landlords?"
Qin Ruoshu blushed when two little girls of the same age called her "little aunt" and nodded shyly.
Zhou Yan was just about to climb up the kang to watch the battle, but was pulled down by his distant cousin: "Brother, let's have a drink with the gentlemen!"
Zhou Yan had no choice but to sit at the table.
After listening for a while, Zhou Yan discovered that the issue that a group of distant relatives were talking about was the special agricultural project that was about to be launched in the village.
On the opposite side, Zhou Zhenghai, who was familiar with the inside story, looked helpless: he and his son had requested the project, but for some reason, he could not tell these acquaintances that the success rate of the project was high.
In fact, Zhou Zhenghai is very clear about everyone's concerns: no matter what kind of agricultural products are actually not difficult to maintain, the most critical thing is the problem of sales; these young and old men in the village have been a little scared by the waves of poverty alleviation projects that have started but ended...
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After struggling for a while, Zhou Zhenghai, a chicken thief, asked Zhou Yan: "Son, have you ever heard of blueberries and purple sweet potatoes outside?"
"Blueberries and purple sweet potatoes are scarce things outside..."
To be precise, foods rich in anthocyanins are scarce in the outside world, because they are never simple things that can be related to anti-cancer and anti-aging.
As for the yield of these two crops, Zhou Yan was not worried: a few years later, when purple sweet potatoes, which were smaller than carrots, were sold for five yuan per kilogram in the city, the purple sweet potatoes grown in Zhou Yan's family's land would have the largest yield.
It grows to three or four kilograms.
However, although purple sweet potatoes are a good thing, in the countryside, they are sold cheaper than ordinary sweet potatoes, so that this thing only appeared in Zhoujialing for two or three years, and then disappeared...
Of course, the fate of blueberries, which have always been in short supply, was very different: in those years, there were blueberry planting bases all over Dongyang, and harvesting this thing was particularly troublesome, so the ending must have been written.
As for tea, the situation is similar to that of blueberry. Dongyang has no shortage of hilly tea. Without additional support, Qingya Tea will find it difficult to break out from the numerous Dongyang tea brands.
What Zhou Yan did was the same as the government's plan to support the rise of Dongyang tea: first cultivate the high-end market, and then spread the influence.
Of course, Zhou Yan couldn't explain many things clearly to his fellow villagers. He just said that the prices of purple sweet potatoes and blueberries were very expensive, and the procurement chain of Anxin Mall was very stable...
