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Chapter 620 Zhao Hongjun Comes to Pay New Year’s Greetings

The 1993 Spring Festival Gala is considered one of the signs that the Spring Festival Gala reached its peak and produced many classic programs.

Niu Qun and Feng Gong performed the crosstalk "Auction", in which Zhao Benshan's hat, the donkey that Gong Li rode in "Red Sorghum", and Schlapner's white hair were all sold at high prices.

Mao Ning sang "The Sound of Waves Remains Still" and Aaron Kwok sang "Give You All My Love". His middle-parted hairstyle was also imitated by countless young people and became a unique pop culture. Wang Jie sang "Going Home", which became one of the classic songs on the Spring Festival Gala stage.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the family of four still put on new clothes and go shopping. On the second day, they return to their parents' home and have a reunion dinner with the family. On the third day, they return to their parents-in-law's home. This is the case every year.

On the evening of the third day of the Lunar New Year, the family of four returned home. Song Tangtang went upstairs to take a shower, while Fang Minghua and the two children were playing in the living room when they suddenly received a call from Zhao Hongjun.

"Minghua, will you be home tomorrow? Wang Xia and I will come to wish you a happy new year."

"Hey, Red Army, what drama are you singing? Are we going to do this again?" Fang Minghua was surprised.

"Hey, it's Chinese New Year."

"We're fine. You and Wang Xia bring Minmin over to play. Remember! No lifting of things!" Fang Minghua said.

"Okay, okay, we'll come over tomorrow at noon."

After Fang Minghua finished the call, Song Tangtang came down from upstairs wiping her wet hair with a towel.

"Whose phone number?"

"He's from the Red Army. He said his whole family will come over to play at noon tomorrow." Fang Minghua said.

"He's back? He's so elusive." Song Tangtang complained.

"Xijing is his real home. Is it okay for him not to come back for the New Year?" Fang Minghua asked back, and then said: "Then we have to prepare tomorrow. Do you need to buy anything? I'll go buy it tomorrow."

"We have everything at home, no need to buy anything." Song Tangtang picked up the hair dryer and started blowing her hair.

"That's fine."

The next day at noon, Wang Xia drove the Mazda with her daughter. After getting out of the car, she was holding two bottles of Moutai in her hands.

Fang Minghua and his wife greeted them at the door.

"Sister-in-law, Happy New Year. I told the Red Army not to bring anything, just come empty-handed." Fang Minghua said with a smile.

"It's New Year's Day, how can you come empty-handed? I'm giving it to you so that the Red Army can drink less." Wang Xia said with a smile.

Song Tangtang took the Maotai and asked again, "Where is Brother Hongjun?"

"He was taken away by his friends temporarily, but he said he would definitely come over for dinner in the evening."

"This guy has a lot of friends." Fang Minghua shook his head.

"They are all bad friends."

As they were talking as they entered the yard, their daughter Ruirui saw Minmin coming in and immediately ran out with a smile, holding her little friend's hand.

The three children were playing in the living room and then ran to the yard to set off firecrackers. The two women went to the kitchen to cook. Fang Minghua wanted to go over to help but was stopped by Song Tangtang.

"Watch the kids, especially Ruirui, and don't let your hands get blown off when you set off the fireworks!"

"Okay, I'll watch."

Fang Minghua was also very worried about her precious daughter. Every year, the new clothes she bought for her before the Chinese New Year could not be worn after the Chinese New Year because there were holes on the clothes from firecrackers.

He set off fireworks himself, and then ran to the community and was set off by other children. When Zhao Hongjun arrived in a taxi near dinner time in the afternoon, he could smell alcohol from a distance.

"I'm sorry, Minghua." Zhao Hongjun apologized as soon as he opened his mouth: "A few colleagues who have a good relationship with each other in the unit got together. They were all ordinary cadres before, but now they have been promoted to deputy directors or directors. Some have even become county governors and become senior officials in charge of a region!"

"What? Do you regret it?" Fang Minghua joked, "Hongjun, if you hadn't resigned and stayed in the government, you might have been the party secretary or mayor now."

"Regret? Regret shit!" Zhao Hongjun drank a sip of the strong tea brought by Wang Xia, sat on the sofa and crossed his legs: "Although they are all leaders, they are not as rich as me. The monthly salary is only 500-600 yuan, I really don't care."

"People don't necessarily rely on salaries, right?" Fang Minghua replied.

"That's because they can afford to drink Maotai and smoke Zhonghua cigarettes with their salary?" Zhao Hongjun said with a smile: "But even so, they are not as rich as us brothers. More importantly..."

"What is it?"

"I feel at ease!" As the saying goes, if you don't do anything wrong, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door in the middle of the night. We feel at ease, but what about them? Not necessarily. Maybe one day the Discipline Inspection Commission will come to our door and everything will be ruined."

"Red Army, stop talking nonsense!" Wang Xia next to him scolded.

"I know. We are at Minghua's house. We are all family. If we were in another place, I would never mention anything about officialdom."

"Okay, let's not talk about this and get ready to eat." Fang Minghua said.

"Okay, let's eat. But I won't drink today." Zhao Hongjun said hurriedly.

"How can we not drink during the New Year? So, instead of drinking white wine, how about drinking some red wine?" Fang Minghua asked.

"Okay, let's have something red."

Four adults and three children were eating around a round table in the restaurant. The adults were drinking Danfeng wine produced in Qin Province, and the children were drinking Coca-Cola.

Danfeng wine produced in Shangluo is also quite famous in Xijing at this time. It is said that it started in the 1910s when Anseman, a missionary from an Italian wine-making family, opened a wine-making workshop using high-quality longan grapes grown on the hillside near Jinshan Temple in Longjuzhai as raw materials and began to brew Danfeng wine.

The taste is cool but not cold, sweet and sour and very delicious.

Everyone toasted to celebrate the New Year. Zhao Hongjun put down his glass and suddenly said, "Minghua, you are so amazing and great. I admire you so much. You are the red sun in my heart!"

"No, no, Red Army, are you still going to wish me a long life? Don't flatter me. We were just drinking nicely, why are you suddenly saying all this?" Fang Minghua asked in confusion.

"Let me tell you, Hainan's real estate market is booming again."

"Didn't you say that Hainan's real estate market has been booming this year? Why did you suddenly say that?"

"It was a fever before, now it's a high fever! A high fever of 40 degrees!" Zhao Hongjun explained the whole story.

It turns out that Hainan's real estate started to take off last year (1992), and in April the first International Coconut Festival was held, and real estate speculation gradually reached its peak. In July and August, it became popular to speculate on land instead of real estate, because at that time, housing prices were already quite high and could not be speculated on any further.

"Haha. You have foresight. You bought land instead of houses and waited for the land to appreciate in value! After New Year's Day this year, banks held meetings, made plans, and started to issue large numbers of mortgage loans. According to reliable information, many Chinese-headed companies, including COSCO, COFCO, and China National Nuclear Corporation, and well-known companies across the country formed the Hunan Army, Sichuan Army, and Guangdong Army, and the second generation came to Hainan! The warlords fought each other, and the price of land was sky-high!"

Fang Minghua was very calm after hearing this. "What is the current land price?"

"The average price of land in Haikou is about 420 million yuan per mu, and our land near Yawei Creek on Haidian Island has risen to 510 million yuan per mu."

510 million per acre.
Song Tangtang and Wang Xia, who were standing by, gasped when they heard this.

so much? !

(End of this chapter)