The Chamber of Commerce meeting ended in less than an hour.

To put it bluntly, Hu Qiongfang did not come to seek the members' consent.

She is only here to provide benefits to members. If someone doesn't want it, she won't beg them to give it to her.

There are only a few carts of frozen hairtail fish, share them among everyone, if no one wants them, then she can get them all for free~

Hu Qiongfang acted as if she didn't care whether she wanted it or not, but the others started to grumble in their hearts.

No matter how much they grumbled, when the first batch of frozen hairtail arrived, every single person went to the Chamber of Commerce to register, pay the money, and get the hairtail.

What’s even funnier is that the merchant whose family member worked in the supply and marketing cooperative actually placed another order a second time after he went to the Chamber of Commerce to get the goods for the first time.

The reason was that he brought back the frozen hairtail that the Chamber of Commerce had purchased in bulk to the store, and when his wife saw it, she was shocked!

The frozen hairtail purchased by the Chamber of Commerce is bigger, has more meat, and is cheaper than those purchased by their supply and marketing cooperatives.

Originally, his wife planned to buy a batch of frozen hairtail from her workplace during the New Year and share it with relatives.

As soon as she saw the frozen hairtail fish her husband purchased from the Chamber of Commerce, she immediately changed her mind and stopped buying hairtail fish from her own company.

A few years ago, when commodities were purchased and sold under unified management, she worked in a supply and marketing cooperative, and her family and friends almost praised her to the sky.

I was counting on getting her help during the holidays to buy some good things from inside that are not available even if you queue up.

I didn't expect that things would change. In just a few years, after the market was liberalized, self-employed individuals with connections and courage were able to get goods that were better quality and cheaper than those from the supply and marketing cooperatives.

What’s funny is that their supply and marketing cooperative is still immersed in the beautiful dream of unified purchase and sale and no worries about selling products.

Little did they know that they were still selling frozen hairtail at 90 cents a pound, while the self-employed outside had bypassed the supply and marketing cooperatives and directly purchased from the place of origin, bringing the wholesale price down to 50 cents a pound...

During the Spring Festival of 1986, none of the Hu family members returned to the village to celebrate the New Year.

Money is falling from the sky!

Everyone is busy picking up money. Who has the time to go back to their hometown, crack melon seeds, and listen to trivial family gossip?

As the Chinese New Year approaches, the more than one-month-long Spring Festival travel rush begins.

Provincial Highway 336 is bustling with traffic.

This year, Hu Qiongfang and his colleagues no longer have to brave the wind and snow to push their tricycles to sell boxed lunches on the provincial road.

The two fast food restaurants operating 24 hours a day have made Hu Qiongfang and Jiang Tian, ​​mother and daughter, almost become Black Cat Sheriff.

Now no one cares about interns or apprentices anymore. All the “apprentices” that Jiang Tian recruited from school before were recruited as regular employees!

The two restaurants under Hu Qiongfang's name officially announced that they would be open 24 hours a day during the Spring Festival travel rush, with all employees working in three shifts. They served fast food, dumplings, noodles, buns, rice dumplings, tea eggs... Except for the lack of a sign, Sister Fang's fast food had a function similar to that of a service area in later generations.

The only embarrassing thing was probably that Boss Tong had gone crazy for some reason.

He actually opened a gas station next to the new store.

In this way, fast food restaurants are more like highway service areas - eating and resting on one side, refueling on the other, with complete functions.

Jiang Tian herself was also very busy.

I wish I could split myself into three pieces.

It's the peak season of the Spring Festival travel rush, and the storefront she bought at the county bus station is now seeing alarmingly high daily sales.

It's also her own fault. She designed the store differently from other stores. At first glance, it stands out from the crowd and is unique.

Especially in a crowded and noisy bus station, a large bamboo forest suddenly appears in front of you. Even if it is a fake bamboo forest painted green, people can't help but want to get closer to take a look.

Once you see this, you can’t get out of it at all.

Chinese people are like this. They are frugal in their daily lives, but during the New Year and other festivals, they spend money as if it weren't money without blinking an eye.

Jiang Tian is such a bad little profiteer. Before the Chinese New Year, she drew some eye-catching "designs" and asked Zhao Dongliang to help her make a batch of bright red bamboo gift baskets.

The woven bamboo baskets were soaked in bright red dye and dyed a festive red. After drying, they were filled with Grandma Hu’s special large rice dumplings, various rare dried fruits that Han Jisong brought back from the new province, and various candies and cakes.

Such a heavy gift basket, it would be so decent to give it to someone~

The New Year gift baskets at this store at the bus station are not cheap. Depending on the value of the items inside, the price of a gift basket ranges from eight to twenty-eight yuan. The highest-priced "Supreme Reunion Gift Box" is even priced at sixty-six yuan, which is higher than the monthly salary of an ordinary person.

But, who can blame Jiang Tian for choosing the place?

People who can often pay to take the bus in places like bus stations are not truly poor.

What's more, during the Chinese New Year, some self-employed individuals who are not short of money want to give gifts to others, but they would not want to give gifts that are too cheap. So, when such a huge New Year gift box is delivered to the door, the weight alone and the dazzling array of New Year goods inside are enough to impress the recipient.

When giving gifts, the most important thing, of course, is to make the recipient remember you.

When Jiang Tian first came up with this reunion gift box priced at 66 yuan, Zhao Dongliang thought she was crazy.

But what was unexpected was that the first batch of gift boxes taken to the bus station for trial were sold out in less than a week.

This time, the pressure was once again on Zhao Dongliang.

Director Zhao is truly in both pain and happiness.

He originally thought that the rice dumpling season was over and his bamboo weaving factory would be entering the off-season for several months.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Tian had no intention of letting him go. She ordered 10,000 bright red New Year gift baskets from him in one go, and also specifically requested a batch of extra-large boat-shaped gift baskets.

Not only was the shape weird, but he was also asked to find someone who was good at calligraphy to write the eight words "smooth sailing and good luck in the new year" on the finished basket.

It’s so fancy, no wonder it sells so well!

In this way, while being busy supplying goods to the bus station, Jiang Tian also had to help Grandma Hu prepare goods for the rice dumpling factory.

Who would have thought that the reason Jiang Tian used to deceive people at that time has actually become true now - Grandma Hu's Big Meat Zongzi, with their persistent promotion, has actually become a "local famous specialty."

Now, the rice dumplings, which were originally the most popular products sold around the Dragon Boat Festival, have once again ushered in a peak purchasing period before the New Year.

Countless locals rushed to Grandma Hu’s meat rice dumpling sales point and bought vacuum-packed rice dumplings, either to send to relatives and friends in other places, or to give them to children who had not been home for a year to try.

This time, Grandma Hu was really "counting money until her hands cramped", so she had to ask her granddaughter to come and help.

She wanted to ask her grandchildren to help, but her family's business was also booming this year and was no easier than the rice dumpling factory.

The ready-made clothes and leather shoes that Uncle Hu bought wholesale from the south were sold out immediately.

Uncle Hu simply renovated the interior of his own restaurant, and turned it into the largest clothing store in the entire Shuangfeng Town. People came and went every day, and the three adults in the family were so busy that they didn't even have time to drink a sip of water.

Even a few children were drafted into service and were responsible for stocking the clothing store with goods and putting price tags on them.

Uncle Hu only rested at home for a few days before he squeezed onto a train heading south again.

This time he also borrowed tens of thousands of yuan from Grandma Hu. He planned to take a train to the local area to select the goods, and then hire a truck to bring them back.

We were so busy that before we knew it, it was New Year's Eve.

The whole family lost weight successfully.

This year, the two families were so busy that they didn't even have time to prepare their own New Year's Eve dinner. Hu Qiongfang simply asked the chef in the restaurant to prepare two tables of New Year's Eve dinner in advance. The two families had their New Year's Eve dinner directly in the restaurant.

During the Spring Festival in 1986, there was still no ban on the burning and setting off of firecrackers in towns and villages. On the evening of New Year’s Eve, before it got dark, some people were already outside, impatient to start setting off firecrackers.

This year, both families made a lot of money. When doing business, it is inevitable to have a good start. Uncle Hu specially asked someone to buy a string of firecrackers with 10,000 bangs. When the firecrackers go off, it means a fortune!

Accompanied by the crackling sound of firecrackers outside the door, the two families raised their glasses and celebrated the Spring Festival together.

After finishing the New Year’s Eve dinner, Jiang Tian quickly took out two large iron basins from the back, turned them upside down on the ground, and helped Grandpa Hu and Grandma Hu sit down on them.

Several younger generations laughed and took turns to kowtow to the two elders and wish them a happy new year.

As the richest old lady in the Hu family, Grandma Hu was very generous this year. She gave red envelopes to her grandchildren equally, giving each of them one thousand yuan!

Grandma and grandpa gave out red envelopes, and then it was the turn of Hu Qiongfang and her two uncles and aunts.

Jiang Tian also made a lot of money this year, but that did not stop her from enjoying receiving red envelopes.

Grandma and grandpa got one thousand yuan, my eldest uncle and my second uncle each got five hundred yuan, and my mother also got five hundred yuan. After the New Year's Eve dinner, Jiang Tian got two thousand yuan.

"We're getting rich~" The little ones counted the brand new dollars in the red envelopes and were so happy that they wanted to jump up.

"That's nothing. Our family will definitely be richer next year." Jiang Tian said happily.