Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

The next day, everyone in the Lin family put on their best clothes. Lin Dashan even took out the filter cigarettes that Gu Jiu had given him and gave each of his sons a pack so that when guests came, it would be convenient for them to pass cigarettes to the smokers.

After Lin Shu got up, he saw what his family members were wearing, then looked down at his own clothes. When he looked up, he met Liu Xiao'e's disapproving eyes.

"You kid, today is your lucky day, why are you still wearing such old clothes? Didn't I make a red dress for you, why aren't you wearing it?"

Lin Shu rolled up his sleeves and prepared to help wash the vegetables: "Mom, it's still early. It won't be too late to change after breakfast. Now I still have to wash the vegetables."

"Okay, you just wash and cut the bamboo shoots that have been soaked in the wooden basin, and you don't have to do anything else."

The dried vegetables we will use today are not only bamboo shoots, but also dried mushrooms soaked in another basin.

But the bamboo shoots had not been washed yet when Lin Xue and his wife walked in with Deng Bing.

"Mom, Yinhua, little sister, we are back."

"Sister, brother-in-law, Bingbing, you come so early, please come in and sit down." Lin Shu stood up and shook the water off his hands.

"Aunt, second aunt." Deng Bing smiled shyly.

Lin Xue sat in the room and drank a cup of tea. She exchanged a few words with Liu Xiaoe and then walked out. "Little sister, you don't need to work today. Go change your clothes and dress up. Leave the work here to me."

"Sister, it's still early. It won't be too late to change after breakfast." Lin Shu felt that the women in the family were more nervous than her.

"Hey, go and get ready first. What if your partner arrives early? It would be disrespectful to see you dressed like this." Lin Xue pulled her up without saying anything and pushed her into the house.

Lin Shu had no choice but to go into the house. In the main room, several children were playing around their brother-in-law Deng Cai.

Tofu is being frying in the kitchen, and the aroma coming from it is so tempting.

Fortunately, the system mall provided food, sugar and eggs for this engagement banquet. Otherwise, with the lack of supplies, it would be impossible to hold a decent banquet.

Liu Xiao'e came out with a large bowl of noodles. Apparently she had heard what her eldest sister had said, so she called out to Lin Shu, "Youngest, eat a bowl of noodles before you change your clothes."

"Okay." Lin Shu covered her hungry stomach. The fragrance coming from the kitchen just now made her very hungry.

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On the eighth day of August, the weather was clear and cloudless.

Gu Jiu and Wang Suzhen got up early and had just finished breakfast when they heard a car horn outside the door.

Gu Jiu opened the door and let Xu Ming and others in.

"Have you had breakfast?"

Xu Ming smiled and said, "We came here early in the morning and haven't eaten yet. We plan to buy a few big meat buns when we pass by the state-owned restaurant. It's rare that you are getting engaged today, so we must share in your happiness."

Gu Jiu nodded and asked them to come in and load the sewing machine, bicycle, radio, and two loads of wedding candies, wedding cakes, and wedding cloths into the car.

Li Yuanchao and Tang Jianjun saw Wang Suzhen coming out and hurriedly called her "Auntie".

Wang Suzhen smiled and nodded at them, and gave each of them a pack of Double Happiness cash and a red envelope.

"I've heard about you guys from Brother Jiu a long time ago. This time I finally have a chance to meet you. Here, one pack each. I'm sorry to trouble you to help me today."

"It's not hard. Gu Jiu and I are brothers. It's not hard work when brothers help each other. It's what we should do, what we should do." Li Yuanchao took it with a smile, turned around and gave one to each of his brothers.

If Wang Suzhen hadn't come today, they would have planned to ride bicycles to Xiaohe Production Team, but Wang Suzhen came, and they borrowed a Dongfeng car from a state-owned unit for her sake.

Xu Ming was also very careful to stick a red wedding character on the hood of the car.

But the road is bumpy and the dirt road may be difficult to drive on.

All the engagement gifts were loaded onto the truck bed, and Xu Ming, Li Yuanchao and Tang Jianjun climbed onto the back truck bed.

Gu Jiu and Wang Suzhen got into the front cab and sat in the co-pilot seat.

Wang Suzhen took out another pack of cigarettes and a red envelope and handed them to the driver: "Comrade, you have worked hard today and you have to accompany us for a trip."

"It's not hard." The driver didn't expect to get a red envelope, and he smiled so hard that his teeth were showing.

The car drove out of several main streets, and the roadside outside the city was lined with low houses and vegetable fields.

"I haven't been back for many years. The changes in the county town seem to have been paused. There has been no change in more than ten years." Wang Suzhen sighed as she looked at the regressing scenery.

Gu Jiu: "The pace of life in the county town is slow, how much change can there be? It will slowly get better in the future."

Wang Suzhen glanced at him and said with a smile, "I didn't expect you to be able to stay in a small county town and find a girl from the countryside. Did you really not like any of the girls who surrounded you in the provincial capital before?"

Or is it that he is used to seeing fashionable girls from the city and prefers simple country girls?

"Mom, why are you asking these questions now?"

Wang Suzhen looked at her son, whose thorns were raised instantly, and was both angry and amused: "Stinky boy, I don't mean anything, I just can't figure it out and want to ask for clarification."

Gu Jiu looked at the elegant old lady who was trying hard to hold on to the handrail to stabilize her body because of the bumpy car. He wanted to say something to her but couldn't.

"You don't need a reason to like someone."

Wang Suzhen raised her eyebrows in surprise. It was rare for the brat to explain to her.

Although we set out very early and rushed all the way, it was already half past ten when we arrived at Xiaohe Production Team.

As soon as the car appeared at the entrance of the village, they saw from a distance a few children on the side of the road running happily towards them.

Gu Jiu smiled and said to Wang Suzhen: "Look, my nephews and nieces are here to pick me up."

He motioned to the driver to pay attention to the child.

Fortunately, the children knew to stand on the side of the road.

Gu Jiu rolled down the car window and waved to the children: "Zhuangzhuang, Xiaojun, Xiaoshuang, Xiaoyu, don't get close to the car, stay away."

Seeing the car enter the village, many children in the village also ran out.

The driver parked the car at the threshing ground at the entrance of the village. Gu Jiu jumped out of the car first, took out a lot of candies from his Shanghai brand leather bag, and gave a few to all the children who came to greet him.

The children in the village all smiled when they got the candies, and called them Uncle Gu, Uncle Gu, and Uncle Gu.

Wang Suzhen, who had just got off the bus, couldn't help laughing when she heard this.

Xu Ming and the others laughed without any scruples, "Gu Jiu, I didn't expect you to be a grandfather already."

Gu Jiu didn't care about his brothers' ridicule at all, and gave some candies to every child, big or small, who came.

Lin Dongfa ran over hurriedly holding a string of firecrackers, "Uncle-in-law."

"Hey, Dongfa, come and have some wedding candy."

Lin Dongfa took the candy and said thank you. Seeing Wang Suzhen, he thought she should be Gu Jiu's mother, so he gave her a kind smile and shouted, "Grandma, hello."

Wang Suzhen smiled and looked at the sturdy young man in front of her: "Okay, okay, Brother Jiu, this is also your eldest nephew?"

"Yes, he is the boss, his name is Lin Dongfa."

Xu Ming and the other two took the engagement gifts down from the truck bed, and Lin Dongfa lit firecrackers and threw them on the side of the road.

With the crackling sound of firecrackers, many villagers came out to watch the fun.

Everyone was amazed when they saw the bicycle with big red flowers on it, the sewing machine, the radio, and the two loads of wedding cakes and candies, as well as other engagement gifts.

"I heard that the man would get three turns and one ring when he got engaged, but I didn't expect he would actually get one."

"Look at the baskets they carry for the wedding. With these two baskets of gifts, you can marry a wife in the countryside."

"City people are particular. Lin Shu is a lucky girl. Look how much the man values ​​her."

"No wonder she withdrew from the marriage of the Xie family. The engagement of the Xie family and the second wife, apart from a small amount of wedding cakes and candies, was just two suits of cloth and a watch. It was nothing compared to the people in the city."

"Didn't the Lin family just buy a sewing machine some time ago? With this one, don't they have two now?"

"You are wrong. This is a betrothal gift. When you get married, it will be given to the man as a dowry. How can it be considered as belonging to the Lin family?"

Gu Jiu ignored the villagers' discussions. He and Wang Suzhen walked in front. Behind them, the Lin brothers and Xu Ming carried sewing machines, shouldered the wedding baskets, and pushed bicycles all the way to the Lin family.

Whenever a villager showed kindness to him, he would give him some candies or two filter cigarettes.

Wang Suzhen walked beside him. She was initially shocked and then became numb. She had never seen this side of her son before. He used to ignore everyone in the provincial capital.

She didn't expect that he could give such a great performance at an engagement ceremony. She would have to have a good talk with Lao Gu about this matter when she returns.