"Xiao Chen, if you say congratulations, Old Uncle should thank you."
"If it weren't for your dream radio shop opening, this promotion wouldn't have been mine."
Zou Chenguang's family happiness and career progress were all inseparable from Chen Yang.
It was precisely because the child was found that he had more motivation to work, so he appeared much younger, with a good mindset and naturally bursting with stronger vitality.
"Old Uncle, you say such things and you make us strangers."
"How much risk did you take for me? This is the first business license for an individual industrial and commercial household in the country. Who has this kind of courage? Without Old Uncle, I wouldn't be able to make money."
Chen Yang wasn't truly puffed up by Zou Chenguang's praise. The man's gratitude was sincere, but he couldn't just accept it with peace of mind. Su Dan Novel Network.
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"You two uncles and nephews should stop praising each other. Hurry up and eat. I've been busy all morning. Don't let me not have a single hot dish to eat."
"From now on, we are family. We'll help each other, okay?"
Zou Chenguang's wife brought the wine over. Listening to her words, Chen Yang also smiled faintly.
This aunt is interesting. Indeed, how many wives of leaders are simple?
She seemed to be urging everyone to eat quickly, but inadvertently, she had brought Chen Yang and Zou Chenguang's relationship one step closer. It was obvious that she felt Chen Yang was a young man worth befriending.
"Xiao Chen, your aunt is right. Let's stop thanking each other. We are all family, so why be polite? Come, this is the good wine I've been saving."
Zou Chenguang uncorked the wine jar, and the three of them filled their cups.
Hu Dong was also happy. Although Zou Chenguang being the director of the Municipal Management Committee was a leadership position, he didn't directly oversee Hu Dong. It was difficult to get help with some matters.
But if Zou Chenguang was promoted, it would be different. As a municipal leader, he could communicate with leaders in the Public Security Bureau. In the future, if Hu Dong wanted to get promoted, he would have a channel.
Since Zou Chenguang had meetings at the Municipal Management Committee and the Industry and Commerce Bureau in the afternoon, they didn't drink much. Coincidentally, Chen Yang also had to accompany his father-in-law to visit the old Shen family's winery that afternoon, and he couldn't go if he drank too much.
Chen Yang didn't know what Shen Xue and Yu Lili had experienced that morning, but when they left, the two of them were almost like sisters.
Hu Dong's two little girls shyly said goodbye to Nai Wa Zi and Chen Hao. It had to be said, those two little girls were indeed very cute.
Mainly because they were younger and their speech wasn't very fluent, which made them appear even more adorably clumsy.
"Dad, which street is our old Shen family's winery on? This is the third time you've said 'almost there,' why haven't we arrived yet?"
Shen Xue had been holding the two little ones with Chen Yang at first, but then she stopped holding them. After walking over twenty miles, holding the babies was unbearable.
Fortunately, Nai Wa Zi and Chen Hao were sensible. They trotted along, holding their parents' hands, and didn't complain of tiredness.
"We're really almost there this time. See that street? It's our old Shen family's former shop after passing through the alley."
"In the past, the houses in this area all belonged to our old Shen family. We had over twenty family members, three master brewers, and an unknown number of workers who stoked the fires to distill the wine."
Shen Futang recounted everything like a treasure. This area was in the opposite direction of the Hongxing Machinery Factory and not close to the state-run department store, but as they got closer, they did see quite a few people coming and going.
After passing through this street, the alley Shen Futang mentioned was gone. It had been widened into a main road, and at the end of the road was a large iron gate.
There was a large five-pointed star on the iron gate. If it weren't for the iron plaque of the state-run Xuan Liquor Factory of Qinghe City, Anhui Province, hanging next to it, Chen Yang would have thought he had come to a branch of the Hongxing Machinery Factory.
"Dad, the shop is gone."
"It's a factory now."
Shen Xue looked at the locked iron gate and the security guards standing guard nearby, hesitant to approach.
Nowadays, any factory of a certain size generally has a security department. There's no other way, as the means of production were state-owned back then.
Not only did they have to guard against external thieves, but also against workers smuggling things out. Not to mention this era, many companies and factories still have to implement both preventive measures even in later generations.
Some precision parts can cost hundreds or even thousands each. If no one managed them and they were stolen for a long time, the factory couldn't withstand it.
"In the past, this whole area was our family's wine shop. Entering the front gate of this alley, the courtyard inside was where traveling merchants from outside would select their goods."
"Further inside was the accounting office, and at the very back was where the donkey carts and horse-drawn carts loaded goods, connecting to our wine storage. The wine cellar was to the east, and the place for stoking fires and distilling wine was to the west..."
Shen Futang gazed at the main hall door, recounting everything like a treasure.
In the past, it was a family workshop-style winery, so everything was done with old-fashioned business practices.
Looking at the demolished shop and the front gate, only a large iron gate and a large square remained. Behind it were two-story factory buildings. Whether the wine cellar inside was still there was unknown.
"The wine cellar pools that our old Shen family used date back to the Chongzhen era of the Ming Dynasty. If we go further back, they might even go back to the founding of the country by Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang."
"This wine cellar pool was once the lifeblood of our old Shen family. I hope they haven't destroyed all our hard work."
Shen Futang looked at the demolished and unrecognizable winery and the newly built Xuan Liquor Factory building above, feeling an unspeakable bitterness in his heart.
In fact, the winemaking industry emphasizes inheritance. The age of the wine cellar pool is essentially the foundation of aged cellar wine.
Without this wine cellar pool, the wine produced would never have the same taste as before.
"Dad, they built the factory in the original location, which means they are here to protect the wine cellar pool. If it weren't for this wine cellar pool, where couldn't they build a factory? They had to come all this way."
"The shops outside were demolished to build the road, and now there's no need to sell them outside. Look at the winery's office building."
"There must be a sales department, a finance department, a logistics department, and a transportation team inside. This is equivalent to our shops, accounting office, and donkey cart team."
If one were to say it, the location of the Xuan Liquor Factory was not close to the urban area of Qinghe City. The reason for choosing this place must be that there was a reason why they had to build the factory here.
Apart from the wine cellar pool from the Ming Dynasty left by the old Shen family, Chen Yang really couldn't think of any other reason.
"That's true. If it weren't for this aged cellar pool, there would be no need to build a factory here."
"Forget it, forget it. As long as the aged cellar pool is still there, it means the root of our old Shen family is still here, and the inheritance is still here. As long as the cellar pool is not destroyed for a day, the wine it produces will still be Xuan Liquor."
Shen Futang comforted himself. He wanted to go into the factory to see the cellar pool, but he also knew that state-run factories wouldn't casually allow a闲人 like him to enter, so he didn't say anything.