Han Xiaojuan had a holiday with Li Xian's family.

Previously, the two bear children in the family and Li Lingling played slippery on the dirt slope at the corner of the street with the elderly, and bullied the little girl. At that time, Shen Jingbing, who felt sorry for Xiao Lingling, was angry, but this crazy girl didn't have any shame in her heart, so she went to clean up the two children.

For this, Han Xiaojuan also came to Li Xian's house to make trouble.

When she entered the door, although Zou Ni, who was the mother of the family, was polite to her, Han Xiaojuan herself was uncomfortable. However, the two children are really unproductive, and the first time they have seen a large color TV of more than 40 inches, they can't move when they enter the house.

In desperation, he could only frown and follow a group of women at home to wrap dumplings.

What Zou Ni said before was half true and half false, there are many people eating at home during the Chinese New Year this year. Lao Li's family has a family of nine, Lao Zhu's family has a family of five, Wu Shengli and Su Ma's family of four, plus Xu Mao and a few miscellaneous people, there are more than 20 people.

But there are many people who work, and Su Ma, Su Ya, Yang Shuzhen and others are all very neat with their hands and feet, and a few tables of dumplings and dishes are not a problem for everyone.

Zou Ni was kind-hearted, and saw that Han Xiaojuan was embarrassed, and she started her daily routine while working neatly.

has stayed in the countryside all her life, has been poor for half her life, and now that she is rich, Zou Ni still has the smell of a rural housewife.

After handing over three or two sentences, Han Xiaojuan opened the conversation.

According to her, the factory she used to work for had been out of production for two years. In the past two years, it has been a month's off from the previous month's class. Catching up with the reform in the factory last year, the entire factory, including Han Xiaojuan and his wife, more than 70 employees were laid off. Among these more than 70 people, there is a relationship with the door, and when they go to work in the subordinate unit of the factory, that is, the unit under the jurisdiction of the Harbin Railway Section, she and her husband have no way out, and they are completely unemployed.

When the two were laid off, the unit originally promised to give them 3,000 yuan in resettlement money, and the two planned to use the money to do some small business. The worst is that you can also buy some frozen goods and make a fortune during the period of the previous year. But the money couldn't wait for the second to come, and after three months of delay, the two of them had no choice, so they could only get the job of writing cigarette boxes in the cigarette factory.

The days are tight.

According to official records, the official year of layoffs was 1997, and the wave of layoffs reached its peak in 1998.

According to official data later released, in 97,98, the number of laid-off industrial workers in the country reached more than 13 million.

But in fact, in 96 years, the number of laid-off industrial workers in the country has exceeded 3 million. The reason why '97 is designated as the year of layoffs is that in this year, the nationwide liquidation and resale of loss-making state-owned enterprises was officially launched, and the number of laid-off workers changed from controllable to out of control.

It has changed from a planned "progressive resettlement of laid-off workers" to a "sacrificing a generation, grasping the big and letting go of the small, and revitalizing the economy."

Li Xian clearly remembers that in the Spring Festival Gala in 1998, Liu Huan sang a song "Start Again".

One of the lyrics reads, "If the heart is in a dream, it's just a matter of starting all over again."

That year, I don't know how many people spit on Liu Huan's poster.

Then in 1999, Huang Hong acted in a sketch called "Cheer Up", in which there was a sentence "The factory director attaches great importance to me, saying that the unit should be reduced and the factory should be merged, and I expressed my attitude at that time, who will be laid off if I am not laid off!".

That year, I don't know how many people saw Huang Hong on TV again and changed the channel directly.

Obviously, Liu Huan and Huang Hong are singers and sketch actors. They really can't understand from the bottom of their hearts that they have suddenly flowed into society from the posts they have worked for half their lives, from eating, drinking, and Lazar to getting married and having children, to state-owned enterprises that are all responsible for education and medical care, and suddenly become industrial workers who don't care about everything.

In the midst of the great tide of layoffs that swept through the mid-to-late 90s, if a large census was conducted among the tens of millions of laid-off workers, the leading cadres would not say anything, but would take the initiative to ask for the layoffs, those who thought that the layoffs were glorious, and those who felt that it was a big deal to start over again at the age of forty or fifty.

Standing at the door of the kitchen, hugging his shoulders and listening to Han Xiaojuan talk about the recent difficulties at home, Li Xian couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

In the kitchen, when Zou Ni heard that Han Xiaojuan's family bought half a catty of meat for the New Year, and was ready to wrap dumplings for the New Year with sauerkraut and dried radish, Zou Ni couldn't bear it.

It's not like she hasn't had a hard time.

Those who have really lived a hard life know how sad a hard life is.

During the Chinese New Year, the four members of the Yi family guarded two dried waxes, watching the lights of thousands of homes outside and eating dumplings with not many meat stars in the skin.

What does it taste like?

Seeing Han Xiaojuan's two children in the living room watching TV with big snot on their faces, Zou Ni simply asked Li Xian to go to Han Xiaojuan's house and called her sturdy but wooden man over.

The lineup of the Li family for the New Year is already terrifyingly large, not bad for this family of four.

When she was surrounded by the police who suddenly came from the sky, Han Xiaojuan even felt that she had a bad year. After all, I don't know Li Xian well and have a holiday.

Zou Ni let her mother and son into the house, protecting her self-esteem and satisfying the desire of the two children to watch TV, which is already grateful.

At this time, seeing Li Xian, the big boss who is a thief and a rich boss in the streets and alleys, went to invite his own man in person, Han Xiaojuan couldn't hold back.

I couldn't speak, but tears were dripping down my face.

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The Li family has an old man like Li Daoyun, and in recent years, the Chinese New Year's Eve meal has been eaten relatively early. At the beginning of the party, four tables full of dishes were already served. The big-bellied beef and mutton dumplings are also as high as a hill on a large plate brushed with oil, and are stacked in the center of the table.

Unlike last year, when he was full, he got off the table early, this year's Li Xian was not in a hurry to eat and drink.

In the decades of history of the Spring Festival Gala, the Spring Festival Gala in 96 is not the best, but it is enough to be called a classic.

Cai Ming and Guo Da's "Robot Funny Stories" is not educational, but from the current point of view, it can be regarded as a big brain and full of laughter, which is not worse than the sketches of Happy Twist. Huang Hong and Xu Fan's "Tonight's Live Broadcast" is decent, the main theme sketch "Three Whips" cooperated by Uncle Benshan and Fan Wei is full of sincerity, and Pan Changjiang Yan Shuping's "Crossing the River" Needless to say, it created a precedent for music sketches in the Spring Festival Gala.

And Zhao Lirong's "Part-time Job Adventure", from the perspective of the future, is definitely a classic among the classics.

Li Xian has seen all of Zhao Lirong's sketches, but if you pick out two of his favorites among these works, this is it.

Li Xian's mood when watching the Spring Festival Gala is different from other people in the family, others watch the Spring Festival Gala to watch the excitement and have fun, but in addition to this, he has a more strange feeling of witnessing history again.

Just when he was concentrating on watching TV with the two children of Han Xiaojuan's family, a dumpling war was being staged on the table.

This year, there are many people in the family, and according to the amount of 30 dumplings per person, the housewives have reported more than 600 dumplings. Several large pots were boiled.

Dumplings are actually not difficult to wrap, no matter how many dumplings there are, it is nothing more than mixing the filling and wrapping. But this dumpling meal in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve has a special taste, but it stumped the chef's Zou Ni.

What's important?

Wrap copper.

According to the rules of the New Year at home in the past, a family of nine will wrap a copper for dumplings.

But with so many people this year, it would be a bit unscientific to pack only one.

According to the original plan, Zou Ni said to pack three.

But this plan was strongly opposed by Li Jie, the girl. According to her, eating copper during the New Year is just a colorful picture, and it will be boring if there are more.

When the little girl was in charge of the hundreds of workers in the United States, her temper came up a little after a long time. Zou Ni has a soft personality, and she can't resist the entanglement, so she depends on her.

The gentleman is far away from cooking, and Li Xian doesn't care about this kind of old lady's business. But thinking that there is only one copper in the more than 600 dumplings, it is quite exciting for anyone to eat it.

What kind of personality does Li Xian have?

Look at the lively master who is not afraid of big things!

So, after the dumplings were wrapped, there was a coaxing. I asked everyone in the family for a hundred yuan and slapped it on the TV. More than 2,000 yuan in cash was used as the lottery for this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

Whoever eats the copper, takes it all.

As a result, a few shallow people in the family have already launched a shocking ...... in less than half an hour after the Spring Festival drought party was broadcast

Dumpling eating contest!