For more than half a month before the Dragon Boat Festival, the entire Nanqiao Village was busy cutting bamboo, splitting bamboo strips, and weaving bamboo baskets.

After finally finishing the last order before the Dragon Boat Festival and settling the last piece-rate wage from Zhao Dongliang, every household in the village bought a large piece of fat pork extravagantly for this year's Dragon Boat Festival.

The fat on the pork was three fingers thick!

When they brought it back tied with straw, the children at home were as happy as if it were New Year's Day.

There were also some older kids who secretly learned the craft of basket weaving. After finishing their homework in the evening, they would weave bamboo baskets with their family members. After they were done, they would secretly give them to "Director Zhao".

Zhao Dongliang also came here when he was a child, and he knew that these children also wanted to earn some pocket money, so he would carefully check the bamboo baskets every time and then pay them piece-rate wages.

As a result, in the half month before the Dragon Boat Festival, many children in the village made a fortune with Xiao Xiao.

The adults earned money and bought a few pounds of pork, a big fish, and the "Grandma Hu's Big Meat Zongzi" that the children had been craving for a long time for their family.

When children earn money, they can buy so many things.

Things like fruit jelly, bubble gum, sour plum powder, Tang Seng meat, figs, Huahuadan... everyone buys one and shares it among themselves. The remaining money can be saved to buy snacks later, so you don't have to rack your brains to ask parents for money.

Before the Dragon Boat Festival, Grandma Hu also settled the payment for the goods with Zhao Dongliang.

In total, Zhao Dongliang sent a total of 13,000 bamboo baskets to the rice dumpling factory. Excluding the defective products that failed the quality inspection, the amount of money Zhao Dongliang received in the end was more than 10,000 yuan!

After deducting the cost of processing the bamboo strips and the piece-rate wages paid to the villagers, his final net profit, conservatively estimated, is nearly four thousand yuan!

Earned four thousand yuan in just one month?

In the past, Zhao Dongliang would never have dared to dream of such an outrageous dream, okay?

He really wanted to kneel down and pray to God to bless Grandma Hu's rice dumpling factory and hope that the business would continue to be so good.

The best customers who come to buy rice dumplings would like to get those that come in gift boxes.

In this way, Grandma Hu will always come to him to purchase bamboo baskets, even if the order volume is not as large as that during the Dragon Boat Festival. If he can earn a thousand yuan a month, after a year, Zhao Dongliang will become the first millionaire in Nanqiao Village!

Zhao Dongliang, a basket weaving supplier, earned so much money. One can imagine how much money Grandma Hu and Jiang Tian earned during this Dragon Boat Festival.

Otherwise, how can we say that relationships should be maintained regularly so that they can be used at critical moments?

Before the Dragon Boat Festival, considering that Director Lin and his family might have to go to his parents' or father-in-law's house in advance to give holiday gifts, Jiang Tian sent six boxes of the factory's "Full of Blessings Reunion Zongzi" gift boxes to each family half a month in advance.

Director Lin and Instructor Zhou were both shocked. After all, when Jiang Tian called them and said, "The Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon, send some rice dumplings for the uncles to try," they thought it was really a basket of homemade rice dumplings.

I ran to the message room and saw something strange!

There were six beautifully packaged rice dumpling gift boxes on the ground, all of them were theirs.

Moreover, the gift boxes were very heavy, with each basket containing at least twenty rice dumplings of different flavors.

It is impossible for one person to move so many gift boxes. So the leaders had to ask their family members to help move them.

They were very annoyed when receiving the gifts. When they met other colleagues on the way and saw them carrying so many gift boxes, Director Lin and others immediately straightened their backs.

One by one, their tone was filled with a hint of Versailles——

"Oh~ Isn't it the little girl from the Xiangjun family, the niece I mentioned last time. She is usually filial. This time she said she made some rice dumplings in her family workshop and wanted to send them to us to try. Who knew that this girl was so honest and actually gave us so many."

Someone came over and counted them, and was immediately delighted.

"Leader, your niece is more than just filial. Look, there are six large gift boxes in total. It is obvious that they were calculated in advance. You keep two boxes for your family to eat, and the rest will be sent to your parents' home, and two boxes to your mother-in-law's home."

Hey! Such a filial and sensible niece is even more caring than a real niece. Why don’t they have such a good thing?

In less than half a day, most people in the family compound knew about it.

Some people even went to these stores specifically to see the rare rice dumpling gift boxes and asked them where they could buy them.

It looks festive, and it is placed in a bamboo basket with a Dragon Boat Festival sachet hanging on it. It is exquisite and practical. If the price is not expensive, they would like to buy a few boxes and give them as gifts.

After asking around, I found out about the direct-operated store opened by Jiang Tian in the waiting hall of the bus station.

At that time, ticket inspection and security checks at the bus station were not as strict as in later times. Therefore, half a month before the Dragon Boat Festival, the waiting hall of the new bus station in the county town was even more crowded than in previous years.

When I asked, wow! There were only a few people riding the bus, all of them were there to buy zongzi!

Soon after, another leader from the agency’s logistics department called and said that they wanted to purchase a batch of “Full of Blessings Reunion Zongzi” gift boxes to bring warmth to agency cadres and staff, as well as some retired cadres.

Even government agencies have started to provide welfare benefits, and the large state-owned factories in the county that are richer than government agencies, such as the fertilizer plant, textile factory, and meat processing plant, are not willing to be outdone.

The government agencies have issued it, why don’t they?

After working overtime all year and earning so much money for the company, don’t you deserve to eat a few rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival?

What? Are we still distributing loose rice dumplings like in previous years?

You might as well not send them out, otherwise we would be embarrassed to walk out of the factory gate carrying these bulk dumplings.

On the festival day, all the cadres and staff of the agency were holding beautiful and exquisite "reunion rice dumplings" gift boxes in their hands. How could they be the only ones carrying a few loose rice dumplings?

They can't afford to lose this person!

There was no other way. With everyone so excited, the factory could only find Grandma Hu and try to purchase a batch of rice dumpling gift boxes.

Who knew that Grandma Hu flipped through the order form in the drawer and told them with embarrassment:

Many customers from other places placed orders with her more than a month in advance. Now the factory has been working in three shifts, running 24 hours a day, and there are still a large number of orders that have not been shipped out.

"Can't you give us an expedited delivery? Or deliver the goods a few days later? As long as you can deliver this batch of goods to us two days before the Dragon Boat Festival, don't worry, Grandma Hu. The efficiency of our factory is well-known throughout the county, and we will definitely not delay your payment!"

"This is not about payment... Oh! Okay, I'll think of a way."