Chapter 1566: Making Money is Still Very Easy

Qian Zhen and the others knew that the Chairman's relatives were all in Beijing for the New Year, so there must be many children, but they didn't know how many, so they prepared a few more red envelopes when preparing them.

After giving them out, everyone had a few left, and then they stuffed them all into Old Four's arms. This made the girl happy, her eyes, which were not small, were smiling until they disappeared.

Zhou Andong shook his head helplessly and came to Old Four. "Ningning, brother will help you save the money, and give it to you when you grow up."

"No!"

Old Four shook her head vigorously, glanced at her old mother who was looking at her fiercely not far away, and ran away quickly.

Coming to the back courtyard, looking around and seeing no one, she took out a few red envelopes, didn't even count them, and quickly hid them in the snow pile under the tree.

Then she took

"Mom, you'd better keep the red envelopes for me; give them to me when I grow up."

Yuan Liying took the stack of red envelopes with satisfaction: "Alright, I'll keep them here with Mom, and I'll give them to you when you're grown up."

The little fat boy Yuan Haoyu was thinking triumphantly about what to buy with this money, when suddenly his little aunt handed over her money.

This stunned him, then he looked at his mother, pursed his lips, and slowly handed over his red envelope.

The other children were still young, so naturally, they followed suit, each of them excitedly handing their money to their mothers.

Su Su also ran over on her little legs, holding a thick stack of red envelopes up with both hands.

"Mom, here you go!"

Jian Qiu happily bent down and kissed the little girl on the cheek.

"Mom will help you keep them too; I'll give them to you when you grow up, okay?"

"Okay!" The little girl nodded very seriously, then clapped her little hands happily and turned to go find her playmates again.

Zhou Andong watched the fourth sister run off with a bunch of little ones and said to Jian Qiu beside him.

"Why do I feel like this girl, the fourth sister, is acting very strange?"

Jian Qiu also nodded: "On the first day of the Lunar New Year, when Mom collected her red envelope, she resisted very fiercely. Today, she really is a bit abnormal. She had already run off, but suddenly came back and eagerly handed over her red envelope."

Zhou Andong rubbed his chin: "Do you think she might have played a 'sacrifice the knight to save the king' move?"

"'Sacrifice the knight to save the king'?" Jian Qiu didn't quite react: "What do you mean?"

Zhou Andong glanced at the courtyard gate behind him: "She just entered the backyard, then ran back, and even took the initiative to hand over the money. I suspect that what she gave to Mom isn't everything."

Jian Qiu suddenly realized: "You mean, she hid some of it?"

"Right!" Zhou Andong laughed: "I reckon she didn't hide much; she was probably afraid of being discovered."

Jian Qiu also laughed: "The child is growing up and has become crafty."

"Big Brother, Big Sister!" The Zhou family's chief steward Wang Cuiping came over: "The dishes are all prepared, and the charcoal is lit. Shall we eat now, or wait a while?"

Zhou Andong checked the time; it was just eleven o'clock. It was a bit early to eat, but with so many people here, they definitely couldn't fit if they all ate together.

"Get it ready!" Zhou Andong called out to Qian Zhen and the others who were touring the courtyard: "Let's eat first; we can look around after we're done."

Jian Qiu said: "I'll arrange for them to go to the dining room; you go to the back and call Wu Hongkang and the boatman."

"Alright!"

Zhou Andong nodded, turned, and walked toward the back. When he arrived at the third courtyard, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Then he stood there looking around, and finally, his gaze landed on the snow pile under the tree.

He circled the snow pile several times, then squatted down.

It had snowed yesterday; although it wasn't much, the original snow pile had been covered by a layer of fresh snow.

The surface looked very smooth and complete, except for a pit that had appeared here, showing clear signs of having been disturbed.

Zhou Andong reached out and brushed the snow away a little, revealing the corner of a red paper envelope, and couldn't help but let out a chuckle.

"What are you doing?" Jian Qiu's voice sounded from behind him.

Zhou Andong was startled and said irritably: "Do you know that scaring people can scare them to death?"

Jian Qiu couldn't help but laugh out loud: "You have a guilty conscience, otherwise what are you afraid of?"

Zhou Andong rolled his eyes at her and pointed to the exposed corner of the red envelope: "Take a look."

Jian Qiu had already seen it: "This crafty girl, she really did hide it."

Zhou Andong said with a smile: "Tell me, what would the fourth sister do if I stole this money?"

"She would cry until you couldn't sleep at night." Jian Qiu pushed Zhou Andong: "Hurry up, bury it back for her."

Zhou Andong's heart was itching: "I want to take it."

"Slap!" Jian Qiu hit Zhou Andong on the shoulder: "Less nonsense, everyone is waiting for you to eat."

Zhou Andong reluctantly patted the snow pile and buried the money again.

"Let's go!"

Zhou Andong stood up, and the two of them went to the living room of the rear building.

"Wu Hongkang, boatman, time to eat."

"Eating so early?" Wu Hongkang checked the time.

Zhou Andong said: "There are too many people; we can't fit if we all eat together, so we'll eat first."

Wu Hongkang and the boatman stood up, said a word to Old Zhou, and then followed Zhou Andong and Jian Qiu out.

Arriving at the dining room, Zhou Andong said: "I've already introduced everyone, so I won't do it again."

"Factory Director Wu, brother boatman!" Qian Zhen shouted: "Sit here."

Wu Hongkang greeted the boatman and walked over with a smile.

After sitting down, he looked curiously at the grill and the plates of meat on the table.

"Is this barbecue?"

Qian Zhen said with a smile: "It's a way of eating invented by the Chairman; I haven't had it either."

"I'll demonstrate for you."

Zhou Andong walked over with a bowl, picked up a slice of meat with his chopsticks, and placed it on the grill.

Immediately, a sizzling sound rang out, and as a faint blue smoke rose, the aroma of barbecue instantly filled the dining room.

Seeing that it was grilled enough, Zhou Andong picked it up, put it in his bowl, dipped it in sesame sauce, and put it in his mouth.

"Just eat it like this."

"Then what are we waiting for?" The factory director of the Third Factory shouted: "Let's dig in!"

Everyone had been waiting impatiently; they all picked up meat slices and put them on the grill. For a time, the dining room was filled with the aroma of barbecue.

"Delicious!"

"It really is delicious."

"Chairman, do you have any more of these grills? Bring me one when you leave."

"I want one too."

"And me."

"..."

One by one, they all started asking for grills.

Zhou Andong said with a smile: "I plan to open a barbecue restaurant like this in Jiangzhou; you can go eat there when the time comes."

"That's no problem; we'll definitely patronize it then."

"The main thing is that it's really delicious."

"The marinated meat is the most delicious."

"Chairman, what ingredients are used to marinate this?"

"That's a trade secret." Zhou Andong sat down beside Wu Hongkang: "Don't ask."

"Chairman Zhou." Wu Hongkang swallowed the meat in his mouth and said with great emotion: "You've come up with so many variations for food, and you can even apply them to business; I'm truly impressed."

Zhou Andong said with a smile: "With the Reform and Opening-up, this is the time when the wind is rising; as long as you are willing to use your brain, making money is still very easy."

As soon as his voice fell, the dining room, which had been somewhat noisy, suddenly went quiet.

Especially the boatman, who was complaining in his heart, 'Why don't I feel like making money is easy?'

This year had almost exhausted him; the company and the factory had only just gotten on the right track.

Next, whether the batteries could be sold would depend on whether he could tear a hole in the big net monopolized by Japan.

This would be an extremely difficult war; to be honest, he was confident.

But the enemy was too powerful; having confidence didn't mean he could really win.