Chapter 53: New Year's Money

 Wang Licheng kept his word, and he really brought his daughter to sleep the next day. Xiao Wangxi was very happy to know that she was going to sleep with his father.

Every time he takes his daughter to bed, Wang Licheng will play with her daughter before going to bed, teach her to speak and practice pronunciation.

My daughter has grown up and can't sleep on the shaker, and now she always sleeps on the bed with the adults.

In November, the weather starts to get cold. Xiao Wangxi slept with Wang Licheng, and Wang Licheng slept like a dead man, not paying attention to covering his daughter with a quilt in the middle of the night. It used to be hot, she kicked the quilt and didn't cover her, but now it's cold, and it only lasted one night. The next morning, she woke up and found that her daughter had a little fever. She went to the hospital to check that her daughter had a cold and a fever, and she was given a five-day injection.

He knew something about his daughter kicking the quilt. Every time the quilt was covered well at night, when she woke up in the morning, it was either uncovered or it was all wrapped around her body.

He blamed himself for Xiao Wangxi's cold this time. His daughter is in good health and rarely gets sick.

The habit of kicking the quilt is always bad, and his mother has to cover her with a quilt every night and take her to do housework during the day, and his mother Liu Fengzhen is the hardest one.

Because of the cold, the daughter slept with her mother during that time, and he was usually busy during the day, only when his daughter caught a cold did he spare time during the day to take her to the hospital for injections.

The problem of the daughter kicking the quilt in sleep is not resolved, and the mother dare not let Xiao Wangxi sleep with Wang Licheng. Later, he figured out a way to prevent his daughter from kicking the quilt. He asked his mother to sew a small sleeping bag for her daughter.

On the first night, Wang Licheng took his daughter to sleep in a sleeping bag, and the daughter woke up crying in the middle of the night. She woke up by herself, and played with Wang Licheng's hair while crying.

After being woken up by his daughter pulling her hair, Wang Licheng asked her what was wrong. He just touched it, and he didn't wet his urine, he shouldn't be hungry, and he didn't have a fever or a cold.

Xiao Wangxi kicked the quilt vigorously, pointed to the feet under the quilt, and said "no way" vaguely in his mouth, kicked several times in a row, and was about to cry again.

Wang Licheng understood what she meant. It should be that her feet were restricted in the sleeping bag. She couldn't kick, so she lost her temper and cried.

"Xixi can only sleep here, because you are not good, kicking the quilt will make you sick, you need to get an injection!" Wang Licheng spoke slowly, fearing that his daughter would not understand, he specially emphasized the word "injection". .

My daughter is very afraid of injections, and she cries heart-piercingly every time she gets an injection. The first two times when the nurse gave her the injection, it was probably painful and she cried. Later, she just saw that the nurse started crying before the injection. The last time was the most exaggerated. She refused to go in when she saw the hospital gate, and dragged Wang Licheng to walk outside, pulling and crying.

"Don't fight, don't fight." Xiao Wangxi held her mouth, tears still hanging from the corners of her eyes.

"Xixi sleeps in it obediently, we won't get an injection, just close your eyes and let's go to sleep." It's easy to coax her to sleep in the sleeping bag, but she refuses to put her arms in the sleeping bag. Every time he waited for his daughter to fall asleep, he helped her put her arms in, and when he woke up in the morning, her arms were still outside.

Xiao Hongyan was given the task of playing with his daughter tonight. Wang Licheng first demonstrated how to play with his daughter, and after handing her over to Xiao Hongyan, he went downstairs.

He was in the room, and the daughter habitually looked for him for everything, which was not conducive to the relationship between their mother and daughter.

Downstairs, my mother had just finished her work and was about to go upstairs to sleep.

"Licheng, is Hongyan taking Xixi?" This time when the daughter-in-law came back, the granddaughter didn't kiss her, and the daughter-in-law's expression was a little bad.

Which family is not the child and mother, their family is just the opposite. I still get along less, children can't remember things, and it's normal not to recognize them after not seeing each other for a few months.

"Well, she's playing with XiXi, Mom, go to bed early! I'll have some tea before I go up." His mother is a hard worker, so she asked her to rest more, but she didn't listen, and rushed to do things every time. She said that she has been doing it all her life, and she is used to it, and she feels uncomfortable when she has nothing to do.

Everyone is happy this year. After Wang Licheng came back from Jiangcheng, he went to the factory once and gave the workers a salary increase, and also paid an extra month's salary as a year-end bonus. The factory is very profitable and he doesn't mind giving more to the workers.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Xiao Hongyan dressed her daughter in a set of bright red padded jackets, which she and Wang Licheng picked out together in Jiangcheng, and it looked extraordinarily festive wearing them today.

Wang Licheng started teaching his daughter to say "Gong Xi Fa Cai*" last night. His original intention was to have a good time, but he didn't expect that even passers-by would give her lucky money when they saw Xiao Wangxi and heard her say "Gong Xi Fa Cai". After receiving the lucky money, his daughter refused to let it go so he taught his daughter to say "thank you" to others.

After the passer-by left, he wanted to take the money from his daughter, but she refused to give it to him. By the time they arrived at the door of the relative's house, the money in the daughter's hands had already disappeared.

This year my daughter got a lot of lucky money again, Wang Licheng asked Xiao Hongyan to save the lucky money for her, and let her handle it when her daughter is older.

What he longed for most when he was a child was the New Year, and there would be lucky money during the New Year. Grandma will give him New Year's money every year, and only grandma can keep it for him, and all other relatives must hand in.

His parents said that they gave all the lucky money. They didn't give them the lucky money, and they wouldn't give him the lucky money.

At that time, his greatest wish was to be able to control his own New Year's money.

This year's Spring Festival is the same as in previous years, with New Year's greetings, drinking and eating.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Luo Zhongyong came to Pucheng, saying it was for him to pay New Year's greetings.

"Brother Wang, you won't blame me for not guarding the Jiangcheng shop years ago!"

"Why? I basically let go of the factory, and it will be a matter of time before the Jiangcheng shop is let go. This year, I plan to let Xiao Li take charge."

Luo Zhongyong After paying New Year's greetings to him and saying that he had something to discuss with him, Wang Licheng led him to the study on the third floor, and there was the conversation just now.

"It's good that you don't blame me. I have been dealing with the clothing factory in the city years ago. They may sell the factory this year. The factory will sell the machine plus all the workers for 10 million. I went to the field to investigate. The factory building is old and the machine is half new. There are more than 1,500 workers, but the salary they need to pay every month is quite a lot, but the garment factory in Jiangcheng City is very large, if it runs well..."

He explained the pros and cons clearly.

The news that Dad got before was that the factory would be sold after all the workers were laid off. At that time, the factory would be sold for 15 million. Now suddenly there are 1,500 workers who need to be admitted. If no orders are received, the wages that need to be paid to workers every day will be quite a lot.

The city garment factory will sell it because it cannot receive orders. Do they think that they will receive orders immediately after selling to private individuals?

Because of this condition of accepting all workers, many people are blocked. He had prepared to buy shares before, but because no one dared to take over, he had to give up.

On the morning of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Wang Licheng called him and told him that he had received the dividend and asked him to go to the bank to check the accounts. He checked at the bank in the afternoon and found that there was a transfer of 800,000 in the morning.

He was horrified when he saw the number. He only has 20% of the shares to get such a large dividend. The food factory earned at least 5 million last year.

Before each dividend, Wang Licheng will first deduct the funds that will probably need to be invested in the coming year, and then distribute the dividends in proportion.

After knowing how profitable the food factory is, he talked with his father, and they agreed with each other, thinking that they could try to recruit Wang Licheng into the business.

The family prepared 1 million for him, plus 800,000 in dividends, so he has 1.8 million.

Wang Licheng's own profit is at least 3.2 million. I don't know how much money he has reserved for this year's investment. On the surface, they already have 5 million in accounts.

The food factory has been making a profit, and my father at the clothing factory said that we can talk again.

La Wang Licheng's occupation of the garment factory was the main purpose of his visit today.

Whatever he wants, what he is waiting for is the opportunity to invest in a garment factory.

"What do you think, and what do you mean by telling me?" It's better to ask clearly, and don't seem too eager.

"What I mean is to ask Brother Wang if you are interested in running a garment factory. Let's do it together." In the early stage, the order dad will help him figure out a way, and then he will be on his own. He also needs Wang Licheng's help.

"The investment of 10 million Yuan is not low, and you just said that the wages of workers are quite a lot every month." Luo Zhongyong should know how much money he has in his hand, he can only take out 5 million Yuan at most, and the remaining 5 million Yuan Can Luo Zhongyong take it out? Thinking about it again, his father was still a high-ranking official.

"If you are worried about insufficient funds, you don't need to trade right now. You can talk to them again, depending on whether you are interested." He has known Wang Licheng for so long, and the two of them know each other very well. He feels that Wang Licheng would be interested.

It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when the two finished talking, Wang Licheng wanted to stay with Luo Zhongyong for dinner, Luo Zhongyong said that Liang Lixue was waiting for him to go back. He almost forgot that they had already obtained the certificate.

"Why are you planning to have a child now? She hasn't graduated yet!" Wang Licheng likes to find various opportunities to tease Luo Zhongyong.

"Your wife and children are still waiting for you, so don't go down." He also laughed at him. Just now when they were talking about something, his daughter called her daddy downstairs, and he ran down without saying a word to him.

It was only when I came up that I apologized to him, saying that something happened to my daughter.

Both Xiao Hongyan and Liu Fengzhen were taking little Wang Xi in the living room, so how could they cause her troubles, Wang Licheng would be chaotic if he cared.

Luo Zhongyong greeted Xiao Hongyan and Liu Fengzhen in the living room and left. Before leaving, he specially gave Xiao Wang Xi a red envelope.

Seeing the red envelope, Xiao Wangxi threw the biscuit in her right hand on the ground and tightly squeezed the red envelope Luo Zhongyong gave her.

"Xixi, what's in your hand?" Wang Licheng looked at the red envelope bulging, and wanted to take it from his daughter so that she wouldn't lose it again.

"Cookies, eat." Xiao Wangxi fed the half-eaten biscuit with slobber in his left hand to Wang Licheng.

"Xixi is so good. Xixi eats by herself, but dad doesn't eat it."

"Dad, eat cakes."

"Dad doesn't eat biscuits; dad wants the red envelope in Xixi's hand." Wang Licheng tried to take her hand as he said red envelopes.

Xiao Wangxi saw Wang Licheng's hand stretched out, walked away and hid beside Xiao Hongyan.

Xiao Hongyan's hand was already on the red envelope, and before she could take it away, Xiao Wangxi immediately threw away the biscuit in her left hand, held the red envelope tightly with both hands and hugged her chest, and looked at Xiao Hongyan vigilantly.

"Mom won't take it, mom won't take it anymore."

I don't know who I learned from, but every time she gets money, she holds it very tightly, and she won't give it to anyone who asks her. She can only let go when she gets tired of playing. If she was outside, she would lose the red envelope if she let go of it, but at home she would have to look for it every time she let go.

 

* The loose translation in Mandarin is “wishing you prosperity in the coming year,” while the Cantonese translation is “wishing you happiness and prosperity.” Some people substitute prosperity for wealth.

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