The Fiery Era of Siheyuan

Chapter 119, New Year's Eve Dinner
After teasing, all the dishes were served on the table, and the uncle came back after mediating the affairs of the Liu family, and everyone was ready to serve dinner.

Li Weiguo helped the old lady and Wang Zhenhai to sit down first. According to the procedure, as the juniors, Li Weiguo and Shazhu brothers and sisters had to pay New Year's greetings to the elders before everyone could have dinner.

The three of them did not show any pretense and respectfully paid New Year's greetings to the old lady.

Li Weiguo: "Old lady, I wish you blessings like the East China Sea, and a longer life than Nanshan."

Silly Zhu: "Old lady, I also wish you a happy new year, good luck and good health."

Yushui: "Old lady, then I wish you a lot of smiles and delicious food."

This year is so lively, the old lady is also very happy, and waved to the three of them: "Hehe, okay, come on, come to my wife, and my wife will give you red envelopes."

As she said that, the old lady took out three prepared red envelopes from her pocket, and gave one to Li Weiguo and the others.

At the end of each year, the old lady would exchange some of the tickets she had saved into money, and keep some of it as pension money, and some would be used to distribute red envelopes to the children in the yard.

Of course, the main purpose is to send red envelopes to Shazhu, and others are incidental, one cent and two cents, ten cents and two cents, the money is not much, just to make it auspicious and festive.

"Thank you ma'am." ×3
Li Weiguo and the others don't care about the size of the red envelope, they just put it in their arms with a smile, and don't refuse anything given by the elders, no matter how good or bad it is, it's a sincere heart after all.

After the old lady gave out the red envelopes, the uncle and the mother were not stingy, and each of them gave them a red envelope.

Regarding the red envelopes, Li Weiguo and Shazhu were not too excited. They were already working, and their wages were not low. However, they were very happy to receive three red envelopes before the meal started, and their smiles never stopped.

After paying New Year's greetings to the old lady, Li Weiguo took a mat and knelt on it alone for his master Wang Zhenhai.

"Master, my disciple wishes you good health and all the best in the new year."

"Good good."

Wang Zhenhai wiped the corners of his red eyes, feeling very pleased.

And the old man and his wife on the side were also envious when they saw this scene, wishing that Li Weiguo was filial to themselves.

It's a pity that it was too late to start, and there was no share.

After Wang Zhenhai helped Li Weiguo up, he also took out several red envelopes from his pocket. He first took out a red envelope and handed it to the old lady: "Old lady, I wish you a long life."

"Oh, Master Wang, what are you?"

Generally, the elders give red envelopes to the dinner, but I have never heard of the younger generation giving red envelopes to the elders.

"Old lady, this red envelope is a gift from the younger generation, so you must accept it."

"This"

Just when the old lady was about to say something, Li Weiguo stepped forward to take the red envelope and put it directly in the old lady's hands: "Madam, you just take it from my master. Anyway, my master is not short of money, let's talk about it." , it’s not wrong for this junior to respect his elders.”

"Yes, old lady, it's right for the younger generation to respect the elders. This is the wish of Brother Wang, so you can accept it." Seeing this, the old man on the side also helped to persuade him. Li Weiguo's words can be regarded as saying It's in his heart.

"Okay, I'll take it."

After the old lady accepted the red envelope, Wang Zhenhai took out another red envelope, handed it to the aunt, and said, "Brother Yi and I are of the same generation, so I won't give him a red envelope. You are younger siblings, and this is yours. It's for celebration. You can't refuse."

"I'll accept it then, thank you, Brother Wang." The aunt hesitated for a while, then accepted it.

"now it's right."

After Da Ma accepted the red envelopes, Wang Zhenhai took out three more red envelopes and handed them to Li Weiguo, Shazhu and Yushui respectively: "Come on, these are from you three."

"Thank you Master."

"Thank you, Master Wang." ×2
After giving out the red envelopes, the meal could officially begin. Everyone didn't waste any time and quickly sat down. Today's dishes were so sumptuous that their gluttons had already been aroused.

Seeing that everyone was seated, Li Weiguo first opened a bottle of Shanhaiguan soda for everyone.

It’s Chinese New Year, how can we miss out on drinks?

Although there is a shortage of supplies in the country, there are still some drinks.

For example, the Shanhaiguan orange juice soda that Li Weiguo and the others drink now was the number one soda brand in the country in the 50s. When Emperor Puyi got married in 1922, it was used at the banquet.

The yellow orange soda in a glass bottle is somewhat similar to Fanta, but it is more sparkling and not as sweet. It was once a special drink for state banquets and is widely known across the country.

"Wow, it's orange soda." Yushui exclaimed after taking the soda.

I couldn't wait to pick up the bottle and took a small sip.

The next moment, his eyes narrowed with joy.

"Oh, it's delicious!"

The little girl was captured by the soda in an instant.

Soda is the most popular at their age. No candy or biscuit can match the charm of soda.

Students only need to buy a bottle with their pocket money that they have saved for a long time, and they can enjoy it all day long when they get to school.

"Okay, let's start. I wish you all the best in the new year." Li Weiguo raised the bottle and congratulated first.

"it is good!!"

Wang Zhenhai, Da Ye and others echoed and applauded.

"Hehe, come on, let's eat vegetables, eat vegetables."

As he said that, Li Weiguo first clamped a big goose leg to his master Wang Zhenhai, and the other goose leg caught rainwater.

Silly Zhu was not in a daze, picked up an empty bowl and scooped a bowl of steamed eggs for the old lady.

The old lady took the steamed eggs with a smile, her eyes turned red, it hadn't been this lively for a long time.

Wang Zhenhai is similar, he has no heirs and family members, and lived alone in the past years, looking at the big goose legs in the bowl, he was deeply moved for a while.

"Master, First Master, Brother Zhu, can we get something white?" Li Weiguo asked as he took out four bottles of Xifeng wine from under the table.

Rain and the others drink soda. They can't just eat food with soda. How can they do it without wine?

"Yo, Xifeng, good stuff, haha, come, come, come, it's almost full."

"That's right, if I hadn't taken it out earlier, I thought it was just soda, haha."

Wang Zhenhai, Da Ye and Sha Zhu were all good wine drinkers, and when they saw good wine, they immediately stretched out their cups, as if they were getting drunk.

A sumptuous New Year’s Eve dinner lasted for about two hours, and it didn’t end until after six o’clock in the evening.

The main reason is that Li Weiguo and the other four elders have been drinking and eating for a long time, and the aunt and the others have finished eating long ago.

Four bottles of Xifeng wine per catty, almost one bottle for each person. They all drink well, but they are only half drunk, not too much. If they really want to drink, it is estimated that the four of them can drink another bottle each.

Of course, Li Weiguo's hanging on the wall does not count, he is not afraid of five or six catties.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, Li Weiguo rode a bicycle to send Wang Zhenhai back to Heizhima Hutong.

When they arrived at the place, they parked the car and Li Weiguo helped Old Wang into the house and sat down.

Seeing that old man Wang's cheeks were flushed from drinking, Li Weiguo hurriedly poured him a cup of tea to soothe the hangover.

Wang Zhenhai didn't let him continue to work, but waved to him and let him go.

"Master, are you okay?"

"It's okay, you come with me."

With that said, old man Wang led Li Weiguo to the bedroom.

(End of this chapter)