latelenovela Chapter 24 Buying Fireworks
Chapter 24 Buying Fireworks
In addition, Granny Chun also provided several new crops, including tea tree seeds that produce tea tree oil, peanut seeds, and tangerine seeds.
So, besides distributing year-end bonuses, today's meeting is also about planning how this will operate next year.
After heated discussions, they finalized a plan that involved several neighboring villages, and entrusted it to Yufei's grandfather, a well-connected person, to make the necessary contacts and implement it.
They just didn't expect that they would accidentally have the same idea as the cadres from the neighboring village.
Despite her young age, Yufei is actually the financial director of Junlin Company. This is all thanks to the meticulous accounting she did while they were selling vegetables at the market.
She gained the trust of the other family members, partly because they, besides Junlin, had their own work to do and didn't have time to manage her. The only time she went to deposit money was when Grandma Yufei accompanied her.
Yufei took out the ledger and reported every income and expenditure to them clearly and meticulously.
Since they established their company, their total income has been 15.
The 5 yuan should be deposited in the company's bank account as a reserve fund for purchasing fertilizer, seeds, and fish fry next year.
The remaining 100,000 yuan is their share of the profits. Grandparents, with 55% of the shares, receive 55,000 yuan; Yufei, with 30% of the shares, receives 30,000 yuan; and Mom and Dad, with 10% of the shares, receive 10,000 yuan.
The remaining 5 shares haven't been distributed to outstanding employees yet, so they were given to Yufei's father as a bonus for his hard work.
However, they can't receive the money in cash right now, as the amount in cash is huge and would cause unnecessary trouble.
Since Yufei's mom and grandma are going to buy New Year's goods tomorrow, the whole family might as well go. We'll bring our bankbooks and make the transfer directly, which will give us peace of mind.
The morning after the year-end party ended, the whole world was covered in white, and heavy snow was falling from the sky.
Yufei was very excited. In her previous life, after growing up in the south, she rarely saw thick snow.
So, people of her generation from the South especially love snow, but Yufei's parents and grandparents aren't very happy about it, since the ground is slippery when it snows in the South.
Today, Yufei's dad drove the three-wheeled vehicle. He was extremely cautious the whole way, especially afraid of slipping and overturning into the ditch.
It was precisely because of Yufei's father's caution that their family arrived in the county safely.
Upon arriving in the county, they went straight to the county bank. They processed the transfer as soon as the bank opened at 8:00 AM.
Because the transfer amount was so large, it even alerted the bank's management. After confirming everything was correct and going through multiple procedures, it finally got done after all that time and effort.
Yufei also remarked that banks these days are still very honest and straightforward. There's no pushy sales pitch for financial products; they just ask if you want a current account or a fixed deposit, and what the interest rate is. That's great!
After completing the transfer, Yufei's mother and grandmother went to prepare for the New Year's shopping; they definitely wanted to take Yufei with them.
But Yufei cruelly refused them because she wanted to buy fireworks. In her previous life, her family wasn't very wealthy; teachers' salaries were very low in the 1990s, and fireworks were quite expensive.
Back then, I felt a pang of envy watching those kids playing with fireworks.
Back then, I dreamed that when I grew up, I would buy lots and lots of fireworks to set off.
But when I grew up and could afford fireworks, I felt it wasn't necessary to spend the money on them; I was past the age where I was happy playing with fireworks.
But now she's back, and she's a little kid again. She has the right to exercise her identity, and she wants to be a truly happy child and buy a whole bunch of fireworks!
When my two cousins come over on the second day of the Lunar New Year, they'll be so envious! Hmph!
Xiao Yufei seemed ready to roll up her sleeves and get to work, but since her dad needed to buy appliances, Yufei had to go with her grandpa to the place that sold couplets, "Fu" characters, and fireworks.
Today, Yufei wore a red cotton-padded jacket made by her grandmother and a red tiger-head hat, looking like a little doll. Arriving at the place to buy couplets, she looked even more festive.
Some enthusiastic grandmothers and aunties stopped to play with Yufei, praising her as a little New Year's baby.
Yufei wasn't shy at all; she sweetly let everyone who came to tease her, including her grandma and aunties, give her New Year's greetings. Along the way, she ended up with a bag full of candy.
Of course, he didn't forget to buy fireworks either. He got several dozen of each kind: Sky Rockets, Didi Gold, Little Bees, Spiral Cannons, Magic Bullets, etc. After buying them, Grandpa had two bags full of fireworks in his hands.
Yufei bought all of these herself. Her grandfather originally wanted to pay for them, but Yufei stopped him, declaring with an air of nonchalance that she had the money and would pay for them herself.
He spoke with such confidence, as if he wanted to have the whole street to himself, that Grandpa Yufei was overjoyed.
Then she bought some toys to wait for her cousins to come over for the New Year, and she played with them.
After buying these items, Yufei and her grandfather prepared to go to the appliance store to find her father.
Now that the family has more money, Yufei's dad is planning to buy a new color TV.
After receiving their last month's salary and rent, many families bought color televisions.
At that time, Yufei's father had an idea. Before the second half of this year, there were very few families in their village that even owned a black and white television.
Now everyone is planning to buy a color TV, so that the New Year will be more lively.
This also indirectly proves that their village did indeed earn a lot this year.
On her way to find her father, she encountered a sugar painting stall.
An old man stood in front of the stall and asked, "Little friend, want to play? It's two cents to spin once."
The taste and the gameplay are so familiar. To the right of the sugar painting panel is a pot for boiling sugar water.
On the left is a spinning wheel with the 12 zodiac animals and a candy cake symbol engraved on it. Whatever it spins on, it will draw that for you.
If you don't want to spin it, you can just specify which zodiac animal you want for your sugar painting~ But the prices vary depending on the animal, the most expensive being the dragon and phoenix, which costs one yuan~
So in her childhood in her past life, she, her cousin, and a group of friends would gather around a sugar painting stall with their saved allowance, drooling as they paid one by one to draw a zodiac animal.
They usually draw the rat and rabbit, but if one of them draws the dragon and phoenix, all the other kids will surround them, all incredibly envious.
In her previous life, Yufei's luck was probably all preparing her for rebirth; she never won anything, always ending up with nothing but candy cakes.
Although her favorite treat back then was the freshly made, soft gummy candy, not yet hardened, she still harbored a dream: to spin a dragon or a phoenix.
So she pulled out 2 cents from her little pocket and said in a domineering tone (in her opinion, her sweet little voice wasn't domineering at all).
"change!"
The old man who made the sugar painting happily took the money from Yufei's hand, then told her how to play and let her try. He said she could try it the first time, and if she wasn't satisfied, she could start again.
"Grandpa~ No need, I can do it myself," Yufei said to the sugar painting stall owner, her little hands starting to spin the wheel, her eyes glued to it.
A sense of tension crept in, and as the hands of the clock gradually slowed down, Yufei held her breath.