Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 331 Asking Luo Bing about his situation

In this day and age, when you go to a restaurant to eat, you can bring your own drinks. And the hotel doesn’t actually sell alcohol, because alcohol requires an additional bill.

Later, when private restaurants became available, food stamps and alcohol stamps were no longer required, and restaurants began to sell alcohol. Of course, when food stamps are needed for meals, in the next few years, some people will want to do business, and some will use some food stamps to buy rice first, but if they want to buy wine, they will not have so many stamps.

Luo Cheng naturally had wine in his car, and the wine was brewed by a master from a processing factory in South Africa. Xiangjiang and Singapore are both islands. They are not large in area. They rely on imported food. In Xiangjiang and Singapore, it is very troublesome to open a winery. Unless you have your own channels to obtain food and then report it, you can buy it directly locally. Grain brewing is not possible.

In Hong Kong and Singapore, there are breweries in Luocheng, because the beer brewing cycle is short and the sales volume is large. It would be too troublesome to brew good beer from South Africa and then transport it to sell here. Moreover, Luo Cheng can also get food from overseas. As long as he does not use locally imported food, he can open a winery.

So Luo Cheng opened a liquor factory in South Africa, and breweries in Singapore and Xiangjiang. Even Taiwan has a beer branch.

Perhaps because of the proximity to the seaside and the climate, the beer in these places is really good. Especially in Xiangjiang, there are many hooligans and gangs, and people like to hang out at night, eat and drink, and the beer sales can be said to be booming. As for those who can get grain to make wine, small capital is simply not enough.

Therefore, some money is destined to be earned by a small number of people in certain eras. Ordinary people have no resources or capital. Even though they know that this business is profitable, they don’t even have the capital to get started.

People in this era, especially men, love to drink. Even women drink more than later generations, which makes Luo Cheng a little puzzled. Some people say that people of this generation don’t want to drink, especially women. But when the weather is cold, drinking some can ward off the cold, and when a man drinks, when the weather is cold, whether you are a woman or a child, you will be given some. Gradually, people in this era drink more than later generations.

Liu Weiguo, you are not going to work today. You have to go to work. If you have wine, you must have some. These days, no one says you can’t work and enforce the law while drinking. The driver didn’t take a nap or two, and he didn’t even have the energy to doze off while driving.

There is wine and food, and unhappy things will not be discussed at the dinner table. For example, whether Xiaoyu was bullied in her husband’s family, Shishi’s family gave her a color TV, so it was impossible not to give it to Xiaoyu’s family. But Xiaoyu had to ask for this color TV. If her husband’s family really wanted to treat her badly, she would just leave it alone for a while.

The chef in the hotel is very good at cooking. Before preparing the dishes, he went to the lobby to take a look. He saw some elderly people and asked if they wanted to stew the meat or something. The lion’s head and braised pork are both convenient for Xiaoyu and Shishi’s parents-in-law.

Eight dishes on a table was nothing in later generations, but restaurants in this era actually provided plenty of food, and it was definitely enough for this standard.

As for the children, the children of the Luo Cheng family also had great appetites today and ate very happily. In fact, the taste of the food is nothing to them. The main reason is that we are all of the same age together. I see my cousins ​​eating happily and enjoying the food, and I feel that the food is delicious. Especially the eldest son of the Shi family, Liu Feng, is so damn tall that he eats like a starving ghost. Others are less exaggerated, but also lacking in oil and water.

Siyun Tianjun and the others enjoyed the scene of devouring food more deliciously than they ate it themselves. Siyan, who is more than six years old, also joined in the fight for food, and she was also anxiously shouting for food. But they were all the same stuff, and I had fun grabbing them, but I didn’t even eat much before I could hold on.

After the meal, there was no food left on the children’s side, but there was quite a bit on the adults’ side. It’s not that you can’t eat it, but everyone has a sense of propriety. Those who drink, but those who don’t drink can’t eat the food in advance.

Luo Cheng drinks a lot now, but there is really nothing he can do about it. When he was the factory director, he would drink occasionally. Later, when he became the district director, he drank more than when he was the factory director. Then he went to Xiangjiang. In the first few years there, he was not the director of the factory or the district director of the industrial zone. He had to take the initiative to find people to do things.

When they were almost done drinking, Luo Cheng called Xiao Yu out of the hotel alone, saying that she had drunk too much and asked her to accompany her elder brother outside to get some fresh air and sober up.

This shouting out was obviously to ask something. Who here doesn’t understand? Everyone is in their thirties or forties, and there are also parents-in-law from two families. Who doesn’t understand the ways of the world?

When Luo Cheng and Xiao Yu went out, Liu Weiguo knew that Chen Lin might have something to do, so he called him by name over wine. Although Luo Cheng was no longer at the dinner table, he still took the wine to Sissi and said thank you to the eldest brother and sister-in-law for giving them a color TV. Thank you very much.

As soon as he said this, Chen Lin understood something. Looking at his parents again, he could tell from their expressions. Unfortunately, my wife’s brother sent a TV to Shishi’s house, but not to hers. This is not a question of how much he wants this TV, but that there must be a reason for the different treatment.

Although he has always been kind to Xiaoyu, he has never stood up to contradict his mother because of Xiaoyu. He knows his mother well, he is a bit snobbish, and his words are a bit mean, but you can’t say bad things. Let’s just say that when Xiaoyu gave birth to her daughter at the beginning, her mother took care of her during the confinement period and took care of the necessary nutrition.

But just like that, she often talks about why she doesn’t have a son, this or that. He is a typical person who doesn’t want to please others when he gets things done, but he has never deliberately made things difficult for Xiao Yu. She does have the airs to put on her mother-in-law.

A dignified section chief of the dispatching department was sitting at the dinner table, losing all his momentum. Just like waiting for trial, when we were eating at the dinner table just now, everyone talked about their current living conditions.

Luo Cheng and Qian Qian didn’t reveal much information, but every piece of information they revealed casually could stir up huge waves in the hearts of Liu Weiguo, Chen Lin and others.

Almost when it comes to something, it’s not a problem that Luo Cheng and the others can’t solve, it’s that they all have factories producing it. Even when Xiaoyu and Shishi work in a movie theater, Sissi, the elder sister-in-law, talks about more high-end things. They were watching a movie, but what Sissi was talking about was remembering the years when she first went to Xiangjiang. She also participated in several movies, and she would bring them back to the cinema here to show them.

But then I had a baby, so I moved behind the scenes. Until now, I only work as a behind-the-scenes person at a TV station in Hong Kong to pass the time.

Xiaoyu and Shishi have worked in movie theaters for more than ten years and thought they knew a lot about movies. But when I talk to my sister-in-law, Sissi, I feel like a frog in the well.

Luo Cheng called Xiao Yu outside the hotel. He asked very directly without any prelude. I just asked Shishi if her mother-in-law was not good to her. And what about her brother-in-law Chen Lin? If they really bully her, the eldest brother will tell them.

Luo Cheng’s words were domineering, but Xiao Yu’s heart warmed when she heard them. But think about it, I really hate my mother-in-law’s mouth, but she has been living like this for many years. There are three children, all over ten years old. Chen Lin was okay with her, and the two of them lived in harmony with each other. Based on Xiaoyu’s understanding of her mother-in-law, Luo Cheng appeared in this form without saying a word, guaranteeing that her mother-in-law would take the initiative to change her face in the future.

“Why don’t you go to the color TV today? Shishi will take leave in the afternoon and go with me to the industrial area to look for soldiers. Do you want to go?”

“Then I’ll also ask for leave. I haven’t been to my second brother’s house for several days. Of course I want a color TV. If you don’t give me poems today, I’m sure my mother-in-law won’t be able to sleep at night. What’s wrong with her? Come on, it’s not me who’s suffering.”

“Okay, let’s take the kids for a walk there. The car can fit in the car. When we get in, you can ask Chen Lin to move the TV and antenna back to the car. Let Shishi’s parents-in-law and your parents-in-law go back by themselves. Anyway, It’s not far away, and there are also bicycles. Let’s go directly to the industrial area. By the way, let me tell you, we will come here to eat in the evening. The restaurant is not big and the taste is passable.”

“Um.”

Luo Xiaoyu responded, but turned around and looked at the restaurant behind him. This restaurant is not small, but it is not big. It is much bigger than a small restaurant.

Luo Cheng and Luo Xiaoyu returned to the hotel, and Chen Lin and his parents did not dare to say a word. Moreover, Luo Xiaoyu also looked like he was being treated badly.

“Shishi and I will go to work to ask for leave later. My eldest brother has a color TV in his car, and Wei Guo’s has been installed. You can ask Wei Guo to help install ours later. The child will also go to the industrial area with my eldest brother to look for it. Second brother, you know. Also, continue to come here to eat in the evening, go back immediately after work to pick up your parents, and meet directly here in the evening.”

“Hey, I got it, wife.”

Hearing Luo Xiaoyu’s words, Chen Lin felt as if he had heard about amnesty. It’s not like he’s almost forty in a few years, but he’s still a section chief, and he smiles like a fool. Knowing that Xiaoyu didn’t say too many bad things about them in front of her elder brother. And his parents heard that they also had a color TV at home, which was amazing.

Some leading cadres can have a black and white TV at home, which is considered very good. There are only a few color TVs in the entire city, which are more than 20 inches tall. Moreover, I originally wanted to buy a TV ticket and a TV somewhere, but I saved money on the TV.

After the meal, parents-in-law Xiaoyu and Shishi packed away some of the remaining dishes. Liu Weiguo’s ability to become a captain was actually quite good, but from the perspective of Chen Lin’s parents, he was not as successful as his son, the section chief. So this snobbish person feels a bit superior to Shishi’s family.

But now that it’s gone, who better than his own son now? But since both my daughter-in-law and someone else’s daughter-in-law are Luo Cheng’s sisters, they are equal, so the leftovers in this restaurant are also shared in a friendly manner.

On the children’s side, Xiaoyu and Shishi’s children are already very familiar with each other and often play together. As for Luo Cheng, he was already familiar with it in just one meal. Liu Feng and Chen Lan are considered older, and they are particularly sensible in taking care of Luo Cheng’s children.

To go to the industrial area, first go to the cinema to ask for leave from Xiaoyu and Shishi. Chen Siyan, who was young, sat in one car with Luo Cheng, and the other eight children sat in another car.

Asking for leave at the cinema went smoothly, and two extended sedans were parked in front of the cinema. The leaders of Xiaoyu and Shishi didn’t dare to inquire too much about their identities, so they gave them a break.

After Xiaoyu and Shishi asked for leave, the director of the cinema asked the others in confusion who the eldest brother of these two sisters was. He had a good background. How come they hadn’t heard of him for so many years.

There are also old employees in the cinema. I thought about it carefully at first and it seemed that these two people had no big brother. But the old employee was not the veteran of the movies here, so he suddenly remembered the earliest rumors about this cinema. If we want to talk about this, we should not only talk about this cinema, but also the history of the predecessor of the nearby transfer station.

I remember that was all seventeen or eight years ago. If you want to say that the transfer station appeared after the movie theater, you would be wrong. The transfer station did appear after the movie theater, but its predecessor was not. It was a famous automobile factory back then. This is a long story~~~. But you just need to remember one thing, the first director of the automobile factory was Luo Cheng, and this Luo Cheng was the eldest brother of Luo Xiaoyu and Luo Shishi.

Do you know why the movie theater here is affiliated with the industrial area? It is because the car factory here moved there. The cinema did not follow, but new cinemas were built in the industrial area.

So you savor and think carefully about Luo Xiaoyu and Luo Shishi, two seemingly harmless women. It’s really scary to think about it. Damn it, if the man is a big Buddha, these are the two Bodhisattvas here. I don’t care if I don’t worship them at ordinary times. I don’t pay attention to them. I haven’t changed positions in more than ten years. It is said that their cultural background is not high.

On their way to the industrial zone, Luo Cheng and others asked his two sisters about Luo Bing’s current situation. Over the years, Sissi has been able to communicate with her family through letters because her parents and grandfather are capable people. Don’t be afraid of finding letters or anything.

But Luo Cheng couldn’t send someone to contact his family, because if he did, he might harm them. A few years ago, the non-governmental contact between Xiangjiang and China was almost completely severed. Xiangjiang is designated as a capital area. Ordinary people send a message saying that people over there in Xiangjiang are fine, but people here will be investigated.

If something really goes wrong, whoever Luo Cheng contacts may have problems. Luo Chengcheng wanted to play the trick of losing contact back then. Even if he didn’t lose contact and obviously wouldn’t go back, who in Xiangjiang could do anything to him. Isn’t it just to avoid making things difficult for my family members?

But Sissi’s family is different. Could it be that something happened to a son-in-law? Should they forcefully implicate a high-status person like that? What’s more, some capitalists can avoid being implicated by their parents by marrying their daughters off to ordinary people with good family backgrounds. Once their daughters are married, it’s not time to hold a woman accountable.

In the car, Shishi and Xiaoyu told Luo Cheng about Luo Bing’s situation. What can I say about his life? Logically speaking, he should have a good life. Luo Cheng was away, and his parents didn’t let him provide for retirement or anything like that. After all, his father, Luo Wen, had a pension and lived in the countryside, so he couldn’t spend much money. Especially when Luo Cheng left, he left a large amount of money behind. For Luo Bing, there was no pension burden from his parents.

Shishi and Xiaoyu, on the other hand, are both eldest sons and have to face their parents-in-law. But Luo Bing’s life was not easy. The reason was simple: Qin Ru’s younger brother, his brother-in-law.

His job had never been regularized. When Luo Cheng left, Qin Ru’s brother had not worked for three years. Qin Ru didn’t know that Luo Cheng would suddenly disappear and never return to the country, otherwise he would have come to plead for mercy in advance. The year Luo Cheng left, he transferred his two cousins ​​from his hometown to the city to become full-time employees, and then transferred their jobs back to the town, so he took Sissi away to Xiangjiang.

Luo Cheng didn’t go to the Personnel Bureau and the Street Office to say hello, and Luo Bing didn’t have that much ability. After all, arranging people to enter the industrial area is enough to say hello to colleagues in the same unit. But converting rural people to eating commercial grain is not something that can be done directly in the factory.

Well, for sixteen years, ever since Luo Bing’s first child was born, he had arranged for his brother-in-law to work and live together. But now Luo Bing’s eldest son is sixteen and still living together. What’s even more exaggerated is that Qin Ru’s younger brothers are married and live with them with their wives.

Anyway, Luo Bing’s life is really hard to describe now. Xiaoyu and Shishijia only live in the living room separated from each other. In Luo Bing’s house, a section of the corridor was privately built with bricks to connect it to the kitchen. Most people slept in the kitchen. But usually cooking is very troublesome.