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Chapter 82 Happy Chinese New Year
Wang Ping thought it was the same this time, and posted the noodles along with her.

The next day she woke up late on purpose, and couldn't help laughing when she heard the sound of chopping vegetables coming from the field outside the house.As she thought, she was really planning to pull the buns.

There are only a few kinds of winter dishes, everyone is like this, cabbage, sauerkraut, radish, the dishes are almost the same, and we can only make a fuss about the meat.

Wang Ping had seen Zhao's steamed stuffed buns a long time ago. There was not much meat in a dish, and even those with bad eyesight couldn't find them.

This year she cut an extra two catties of meat. Originally, she wanted to burn the meat and eat it with rice. Two days ago, Li Cuizhen was so angry that she wanted to make up for it this time. All the meat is chopped into stuffing, and it will be louder if you prepare to slap your face harder.

After a pot of steamed stuffed buns was reconciled, Wang Ping deliberately moved the table to the upper room, the closer it was, the more harmful it would be.

In the enamel basin with the pattern of carp playing with lotus, on the chopped sauerkraut leaves, there are spots of crimson minced meat that are very obvious.

Wang Ping slowly pinched the pleats of the buns, and said to the children in the room without turning around: "Don't worry, old son, mom will make big meat buns for you to eat. I know you love meat, but mom put a few catties of it today. As for the meat, it’s different from those steamed stuffed buns filled with vegetables, after a while you’ll lose your teeth after eating the stuffed buns.”

These words were clearly aimed at the youngest son of the Jiang family, but it was self-evident who was more aimed at.Of these people in the upper and lower rooms, one counts as one, so I understand.

According to Li Cuizhen's temperament that she would not be subdued when beaten to death, even if what she said was the truth, she couldn't just let her say it dryly, she had to find something else to back it up.

This is also the daily habitual pattern of the two women. Wang Ping even thought of what she might say in retaliation, and even thought out the words to respond one by one, so she took a posture and waited.

Unexpectedly, her voice fell silent for more than ten seconds, and there was no sound from the opposite room, as if she didn't understand the secret sarcasm in the words.

Just when she felt a little strange and was hesitating whether to say another paragraph to force the other party out, she saw Li Cuizhen coming out with a pot of stuffed buns.It was very hard to pat it on the wooden table that was propped up.

At the end, he gave her a sideways look, turned around and went back to the house to move again.

Wang Ping just watched Li Cuizhen go back and forth three times, brought out all the three pots of vegetable stuffing, and lined up on the opposite table.On the back of the table is a large ball of white flour, pure white without corn yellow.

Looking down at the Sanhe noodles mixed with half millet and half a scoop of corn in front of me, I suddenly felt that it was not delicious.However, fortunately, the stuffing is the main thing, and this is the one that has the upper hand.

Still proudly straightened up, wanting to spoil the three pots of stuffing, all of which were vegetables, and there was not even a tael of meat in it, but when his eyes swept up, he was stunned.

What is this, what is it all about? Why are all the red meat and vegetables? Where did the vegetables go? Why is it so green?
The bunch of derogatory words that had been prepared were all swept away by the pot of red in front of him at this moment.I can't remember a word, my mind is blank.

He wanted to gain the upper hand with three catties of meat, but he was severely slapped in the face instead.

Fortunately, Li Cuizhen did not come out to sing like her, otherwise she would be even more ashamed.

This is also quite embarrassing. The two steamed buns were made at about the same time. The youngest son Jiang Shunzhi yelled: "The big meat buns are full of sauerkraut, which is not good. The steamed buns from Shangwu Zhao's are still delicious. It smells like meat."

Wang Ping was so embarrassed, she blushed and scolded her youngest son, "I'll give you some foreign food, and you're still arguing that it's not good to eat so much meat. You'll be hungry if you make a bun full of sauerkraut tomorrow." Eat or not."

Jiang Shun wailed and howled for a while, grabbed the door frame and asked his mother to slap him several times.

The Zhao family gathered at the table in the house to eat big buns, and they just pretended not to hear.

The family has a large population and it is easy to cook. One lunch can kill a pot of steamed stuffed buns.The remaining Sanguo Lianduo, let it cool down and take it outside to freeze.In the afternoon, when it was too hard to freeze, I packed them in cloth bags and put them in the big vat in the barn. Covered the lid and pressed it down with a stone to prevent nocturnal animals from crawling in and harming the contents.

The buns are ready, and the couplets are pasted up. Even if the preparatory work for the previous year has come to an end, it's just waiting for the Chinese New Year.

29 On this day, the whole family went out together to take a bath in the bathhouse in the town.

The bathhouse of the Zhennan Street Automobile Team is an internal employee bathhouse, and some bath tickets were distributed to family members a year ago.

It was also a coincidence that Zhao Wen gave Da Liu a festival gift many years ago, just in time for someone to pay for the meat with bath tickets, and she also exchanged a few.

At this time, there was not a single public bathhouse in the whole town. The bathhouses were all internal and only open to employees. Even family members had to wait until the New Year's Day welfare tickets were issued to enter.

Da Liu said that the man was in charge of the logistics of the automobile team and issued bath tickets, and he would exchange them for things at this time in previous years.

When the bathhouse is open to the public, it only recognizes the ticket but not the person. As long as the ticket is correct, it doesn't matter who comes to wash it, and no one checks it.

This was the first time Zhao Wenduo took a bath in the hall. A large group of people soaked in a pool, scrubbed and scrubbed. After a series of actions, the clear water in the pool changed color from shallow to deep. The picture was so beautiful that I couldn't bear to look directly at it.

After soaking for 10 minutes, I really couldn't stay any longer, so I got up quietly and slipped away.After getting dressed, she went outside to replace Li Cuizhen, and sat on the bench with Xiao Wu in her arms, waiting in a daze.

"Is the little girl holding a younger brother or a younger sister? How many months old is it?" A middle-aged woman was sitting next to her, and she also washed herself first and waited for her family.Just waiting for the boredom to break out, and then start talking.

Zhao Wenduo saw her purely out of curiosity, without the slightest malice, so he responded, "It's my younger brother, it's been more than a month."

"Oh, it's only a month old. It doesn't look like it. It's the same size as two months old. It's well-fed. It's rare to be fat and white." The woman leaned over and beat her tongue against her upper teeth. He teased him twice with a loud noise.

Zhao Wenduo was not good at words, and he was a stranger who had nothing to talk about, so he just listened to her and followed her to look at the little milk baby.

Li Cuizhen's body has been greatly improved with the improvement of the family's food, and the small amount of milk has gradually increased after a period of nourishment.In the beginning, I could only feed a few mouthfuls, but now Fang Qiang can fill the whole body to seventy to eighty percent.In the middle, I supplemented with some milk powder, and Xiao Wu ate very well.

The red face at birth has faded to white and tender. When grinning happily, the red gums are toothless, so cute.

"Babies of this size are the most fun, and they will giggle when they are teased. When they get older, they will turn over and crawl. That movement is fast, and they can fall to the ground if they are not careful. At that time The adults in the family have to take good care of it, and it’s not okay to leave people around for a while.”

The woman muttered unhurriedly, as if she didn't expect the little girl in front of her to answer, and went on to talk about raising children.

After talking for several paragraphs, I felt that there was nothing more to say, so I turned the topic to Zhao Wenduo.

"How old is the little girl, whether she is twelve or not, she doesn't look too old."

"Twelve, after the new year." Zhao Wenduo felt that if she didn't answer a word, she could keep talking.

The woman clapped her hands and said with a smile: "Hey, I really guessed right. However, I don't know whose family you are from. I have no impression. I have seen almost all the family members of the third team. Could it be I haven’t met the third girl from Lao Li’s family who gave her away as a child. I heard that she came here a while ago. But who is this little girl? Is it the younger brother of your family? I didn’t hear it. It is said that Lao Li has added a new baby, and whether his wife can still have children, they are all better than [-], and they are half a year older than me."

Zhao Wenduo really wanted to tell her that she was indeed the third girl of the Li family, but this Li was not the other Li, and they were not from the same family at all.

I've seen someone I've been familiar with, but I've never seen someone so familiar. One huatou can cause so many conversations. I don't know this old Li, but I heard a series of Li family affairs from her mouth. It's just a stranger who just met, revealing Is such information really good?
Zhao Wenduo didn't respond all the time, and the woman also felt that something was wrong, but she is not stupid when she talks too much, so she figured it out, showed a clear expression, lowered her voice, and said : "Oh, so you are not family members of the team, so you got the bath ticket from Xiao Shi, it is not easy for that boy, there is a paralyzed mother in the family, and the efficiency of the team has not been good in the past two years, and they often fail to drive. Salary, he doesn't want to get some money to live." After speaking, he sighed, as if remembering the difficulties of his own family, and his expression was a little dazed.

Until here, Zhao Wenduo heard something interesting and asked, "Why, is the team sad now, isn't it said that it is quite profitable?"

There is a popular saying: Once the engine starts, it is worth ten thousand taels of gold, but when the tires are changed, it is worth tens of thousands.Car driver is a skilled job. In this age when there are few cars, it is an industry that everyone envies.

The woman sighed, and said: "That was before. Since this was released, the orders received by the team have decreased a lot. I heard that they were all snatched away by those people in the south. They transferred from public to private earlier, and many It is easier to take orders than to start a private car."

"The team leader doesn't care?"

"No matter what, they are not employers, and they can't make a big deal for no reason, so they can only procrastinate like this. In my opinion, it won't last long if this goes on. Who doesn't have several couples, waiting for each mouthful No one can stand eating without seeing money all the time, and it will eventually disintegrate sooner or later."

Zhao Wenduo didn't answer, but he knew that her words would soon become a fact. How many national factories have been privatized. For such a branch team, the change is an inevitable trend.

But these words can be said by the other party, but she is not easy to say, just be a quiet listener in silence.

An hour later, several members of the Zhao family washed up one after another.

The middle-aged woman waited for the person who was waiting first, and left 10 minutes ago.Zhao Wenduo knew from the chat afterwards that her name was Zhou Mei, and the man's surname was He. He was the leader of the second team of the third team, and was in charge of seven cars and drivers.The family lives in the red tile house of the family members of the team, the first house in the second row.

After cleaning up, the whole family spent a extravagant time, paying three times the usual price, and ordered two tricycles to go home.

As the sun went down, the day of 29 passed.

On New Year's Eve, Li Cuizhen got up early in the morning to cook.Braised carp in brown sauce, grilled elbow, braised chicken, stewed tofu, fried cabbage, fried eggplant box, three kinds of slippery dishes, mixed radish, a total of eight dishes, a pot of white rice.

A little after six o'clock, the dinner table was set up. In addition to the steaming food on the table, everyone poured half a bowl of fruit wine.

It doesn't count if Xiao Wu's milk baby can't drink it, but Xiao Si has only one mouthful of the bottom of a shallow bowl.

The whole family sat in line, waiting for Li Cuizhen to be the last one on the table, and they raised their wine bowls to touch each other. It's Chinese New Year!
New Year's Eve is spent amidst a string of firecrackers. The New Year's Eve dinner is a one-pot dumpling filled with Chinese cabbage and meat, served with red fruit wine.

Dumplings are like wine, the more you eat, the more delicious you are.It means that the days are getting more and more prosperous.

New year, new start!
Once the dumplings on the first day of the new year are eaten, it officially enters the first month.

When I went back to my natal family in the third and fourth grades of junior high school, the Zhao family were full of unmarried girls and boys. Only Li Cuizhen, who was the mother, was a married woman, but her mother died not long after remarriage. What kind of natal family, I haven't been back in these years, so naturally there is no such thing.

I can't go back to my natal family, but there is one in my natal family. Li Cuie, who lives in the same village, is her half-sister.Both of them lost their parents, and they ran away from the stepfather's house together, settled down in Bailangli Village, got married and had children.

At this time of year, the two sisters would get together, chat for a long time, and have a meal, which is both family affection and psychological cuddling.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, relatives and friends began to visit the house. Relatives and friends brought a few rituals and visited the house to pay New Year's greetings.

There will be more people entering the village on this day, and it is not uncommon for anyone to have a strange face, almost all of them are friends and relatives who come to visit relatives during the New Year.

The Zhao family's situation is a bit special. Both Zhao Mingyu and Li Cuizhen have lost their parents. They both left home at the age of sixteen or seventeen.In recent years, there are so few relatives who are far away, and their identities are no longer in touch.

That is to say, Wu Dakui, a distant relative who lives closer, and her sister Li Cuie, who is related by blood, are the only relatives of the two who are still in contact.

Li Cuizhen had already gone to Li Cui'e's home on the day before, and today only Wu Dakui came over with drinks and fruit snacks to sit down for a while.

Wu Dakui is from this village, so he is naturally not an unfamiliar face.Aside from him, Zhao's day was the same as in previous years, and no outsiders came.

Compared with the quietness of the Zhao family, the Jiang family in the next room seemed lively.

From nine o'clock in the morning to two or three o'clock in the afternoon, four or five groups of people came in five or six hours.Relatives, co-workers, and friends of the Jiang family seemed to have made an agreement, and they all came to the door at a certain time.

Some of these people came and left after saying a few words, stayed behind after lunch, and some stayed in the room after chatting for a long time.

In short, in the past half a day, the Jiang family's house of thirty to forty square meters has never been broken.

Living in the upper and lower houses, if there is any movement over there, you can hear it clearly here.Every time Wang Ping laughed out loud in her shrill voice, Li Cuizhen would look at her with extremely disdainful eyes, and said: "It's so funny, what's so funny, laughing so loudly, I haven't seen it in my life." Laughed."

Wang Ping obviously laughed, and laughed many times. I don't know what kind of close relatives and friends are there. The relationship is so good that they laugh out loud from time to time.

As time passed, in the blink of an eye, most of the Jiang family's guests came and went, and the sound came to an end.

Not only Li Cuizhen was full of resentment, but everyone else breathed a sigh of relief as well.Listen to it again, the ears are so deafened.The laughter was shrill and thin, not to mention, it also twisted and turned, ups and downs, it dared to be a magic sound piercing through the brain, and after listening to it for a while, I felt a buzzing pain in my head.

It was during this time to rest our ears that the door of the outer room opened.The old wooden boards always make a dull 'squeak' sound, which can be easily caught by the people in the house.

Who is this again?

The Zhao family, who just felt rested for a while, came up with this question in unison.This is really scary to hear, after most of the day, I saw people coming from the house, not to mention the noise, this laughter is unbearable.

"It's not their guest, it's the second child who's back." Zhao Wenying first caught a glimpse of Zhao Wenlan's figure from the small window in the outer room, and then heard the door knocking, estimated the time to walk this distance, and said .

oh!Fortunately not, several people were relieved.

Zhao Wenlan is on a half-day shift today, from [-]:[-] a.m. to [-]:[-] p.m., during the first month of the month.After the fifteenth day, it will return to the original normal time.

This time is a temporary decision in the factory. Before the holiday, it is only said that it is in the first lunar month. In the morning, I go to work later, and put it at nine o’clock. to get off work.

When she went out in the morning, the family only thought she was the one who would come back at night.It was obviously unexpected to come home at this hour in the afternoon.

Zhao Wenlan was wearing a brand-new blue work jacket today, with corduroy jacket and trousers inside, a bright red sweetheart neck sweater inside, and the floral Dacron shirt that Zhao Wenduo bought for him.

After entering the house, he took off the padded jacket and the outer corduroy jacket, and only wore a shirt, a red sweater, and high-waisted beige-colored corduroy trousers.

Zhao Wenlan is about 1.6 meters tall, with thin shoulders and slender waist, and a slender figure. The bright red sweater and floral shirt are elegant in red, and the extremely contradictory combination shows her unique beauty.

Such a suit is also quite eye-catching.In addition, she has a first-class appearance, which is enough to show a stunning sense of time.

(End of this chapter)