20demayo Chapter 782 Birthday
Chapter 782 Birthday
Alone Better Together.
Wang Tiedan also hopes to convey this joy to every citizen in the capital.
Starting from one week before the birthday party, all products and services of all businesses under his name, including hotels, clothing stores, fried chicken shops or grocery stores, will be discounted by 12%, and there will also be a raffle for Lao Tou Le soda.
The event will last for eighteen days.
Not only that, Wang Tiedan gave out red envelopes of 88 yuan on behalf of his grandmother to every elderly person in the entire city who was 80 years old and above.
According to official statistics, there were more than 100,000 people over 80 years old in the capital at that time.
Therefore, Wang Tiedan gave away more than 10 million at one time, which is definitely a huge number.
Of course, nominally, this money should be paid from the account of the Laotoule Soda Factory and handled uniformly by each district and street office.
The birthday day soon arrived.
Before daybreak, the entire Wang family compound was brightly lit and crowded with people.
Almost all the people from Dawang Village rushed over.
Before Grandma Wang got up, other members of the Wang family had already lined up outside the door. After the old woman got dressed and sat down, groups of people began to walk into the house in order and knelt down to kowtow.
The first group of people basically called her sister-in-law.
The second group of people called her mom, aunt, and grandma.
The third group of people became united and called grandma together.
The fourth group of people are the great-grandmothers.
Finally, it was the fifth group, which was also the smallest group. Most of them were children under ten years old, and they all shouted "ancestor".
If the old neighbors in Yard 95 were still here, they might remember the deaf old lady.
At that time, it was Yi Zhonghai who organized the people in the hospital to kowtow to the deaf old lady.
But now they are all Wang family.
After a simple birthday greeting, it was time for a simple breakfast.
Very ordinary, nothing special.
In the morning, relatives and friends related to the Wang family arrived at the yard one after another.
Wang Tiedan would not let his grandmother sit there and wait for others to wish her a happy birthday one by one. He told her to just do what she needed to do and celebrate the birthday together before the banquet to save the trouble.
This banquet was considered a private banquet, but it still couldn't stop some unfamiliar people from coming over to make friends.
Many old residents of No. 95 Courtyard also came, coming uninvited.
Although the gifts were not much, the melon seeds were really taken.
Especially the Yan family.
They just wanted to avoid getting embarrassed on such a happy occasion.
Wang Gousheng, who was in charge of guarding the gate, didn't say anything polite. He gave everyone a stool and rushed to the garden.
In fact, most people in the courtyard were here, and the walls were also full of people sitting. Everyone was eating melon seeds and watching the show, feeling very comfortable.
The stage had already been set up in the yard.
Wang Tiedan specially invited many celebrities to perform.
There are operas, storytelling, crosstalk, and sketches.
Today’s celebrities are not as arrogant as those in later generations. It is natural for them to perform for money, and they also have to consider the feelings of their hosts.
That's called harmony.
What's more, Wang Tiedan wrote a lot of scripts specifically for them, which made them feel embarrassed to accept money and even willing to pay for it.
How could Wang Tiedan possibly accept it? It was originally someone else's work, just published a few years earlier.
It’s my first time hosting a birthday party and I have no experience.
The time control is not very good.
By noon, the show hadn't even finished yet.
But there is no choice but to eat first and continue performing in the afternoon.
Everyone in the hospital, including the invited celebrities, came together to wish the birthday celebrants a happy birthday, in a very formal manner.
But after the birthday celebration, another problem arose: there were not enough seats.
Wang Tiedan knew there would be a lot of people, but he didn't expect there would be so many.
One hundred and eighty-eight tables were prepared, and the yard and outside were almost full, but it was still not enough.
I don’t know where so many people came from.
There was nothing he could do, he could only say that he was sorry for the poor hospitality, then waved his hand and took the rest of the people to the nearest restaurant.
The chefs of my own hotel, including the chef of Xu Damao Restaurant, are all in the courtyard, so I really have no way to entertain them.
The food is definitely good.
Those that fly in the sky, those that run on the ground, those that swim in the water.
As long as it's delicious, we basically have it.
Why use the word "basic"? Because the Animal Protection Law is being drafted and will be promulgated in the next one or two years. Many food ingredients have already been restricted.
So in terms of scale, the dishes at this banquet were not as good as the full moon banquet for Wang Tiedan’s twins.
But even so, today's birthday banquet is definitely top-notch in the entire capital.
Unknowingly, Wang Tiedan once again set an example for the people in Beijing who valued their reputation.
After that, many families held birthday banquets according to today's standards.
Otherwise, I would feel embarrassed.
The birthday party was over and the 19 dishes of the banquet were passed around.
At the same time, the reputation of Wangjiayuan Nursing Home also spread.
I don't know who conducted the statistics, but there are three people over 100 years old in the hospital, five people between 90 and 100 years old, and a dozen people in their 70s and 80s.
It doesn’t matter that the elderly are old, after all, it is a nursing home.
But the elderly people inside, no matter how old they are, are all in good health and full of energy.
This makes people unable to help but think about it.
There are a lot of elderly people in Beijing, and there are more than one or two official nursing homes.
But among the elderly people over 80 years old, nine out of ten take medicine every day, and the remaining one lies in bed and needs special care.
There is no other place like the Wang Family Courtyard.
Its fame even spread to Hong Kong.
The older you get, the more you fear death; and the more you fear becoming a burden to your children.
As a result, people kept asking about who could move into the courtyard.
Some try to use connections, some spend a lot of money, and some use their power to bully others.
The result I got was just one sentence: Dawang Village Private Nursing Home does not accept outsiders.
Of course, there are exceptions, such as Lou Bancheng.
Entering the 1980s, Lou Bancheng's health deteriorated year by year. He was over 80 years old and had been dead for almost ten years in the original drama.
It’s been very good to be able to persist until now.
In fact, Wang Tiedan didn't want to accept it either.
It’s not that there is no place, nor is it that I’m afraid of the food, but I’m afraid of causing a lot of trouble.
After all, everyone in the courtyard is either a relative from Dawang Village or an acquaintance.
Qin Jingru's parents considered it for a long time and did a lot of ideological work before they were allowed to move in in 1984.
And Lou Bancheng is Lou Xiao'e's father and Lou Jiye's grandfather.
But, I'm really not familiar with it.
Wang Tiedan thought about it for a day and finally decided to purchase another courtyard with three entrances, which had thirty-six rooms and would only accept people over the age of seventy-five.
Lou Bancheng and Tan Yali became the number one residents.
Tan Yali is not old enough, so she had to make do.
Lou Xiao'e and Lou Jiye already had their own rooms in the yard, so that was not considered.
The yard was renovated on December 1st, and Lou Bancheng and his wife moved in on the morning of the 2nd.
Also moving in at the same time were some inseparable acquaintances.
For example, my younger sister’s old boss, and her father-in-law and mother-in-law, what can we do? We can only love them and love their dogs.
The former director and secretary of the Dongcheng Branch also had a good relationship with Wang Tiedan.
The stupid father-in-law and mother-in-law, the skinny father-in-law and father-in-law, they can't let outsiders get away with it.
In total, ten rooms were occupied, and the remaining twenty-six rooms suddenly became popular.