The wine in the evening was very late, a Yangjiang Daqu was drunk, and then beer, and everyone made a fuss until more than ten o'clock in the evening, and the wine field dispersed; Except for Yue Haohan and Ma Minggang, who were still a little sober, everyone else was already staggering, and seeing that the time was a little late, Yue Haohan went home directly, washed up and went to sleep, and did not go to Chen Guoyun's house of the county party committee.

The next day is the Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar, which is the last day of the lunar year, which is "the day of the end of the month", so it is also called "Chinese New Year's Eve", commonly known as the Chinese New Year's Eve. On the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, there are many ancient Chinese folk activities, such as making dumplings, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, burning gold paper, setting off firecrackers, etc.

Yue Haohan woke up very early in the morning, and when he got up, his head was still a little dizzy, and when he saw that his family was still sleeping, Yue Haohan gently walked out of the room, closed the door, walked out of the yard, trotted a few laps on a kind of playground, and then played Tai Chi on the basketball court; Yue Haohan's Tai Chi has now been played as fluently as flowing water, and after a few Tai Chi fights, Yue Haohan suddenly felt refreshed, his head was no longer dizzy, and his body was full of strength.

When I returned home from the playground, my sister, younger brother, father, and mother had already gotten up, my mother Wang Sulan was busy cooking in the kitchen, the two younger sisters were standing in the yard chatting with my younger brother, and my father Yue Yulin was cutting couplets in the living room.

Seeing Yue Haohan enter the courtyard, Yue Chunxia asked with a smile, brother, why don't you bring your sister-in-law back for the New Year?

Yue Haohan said, shouting nonsense, it's not time to call your sister-in-law.

Yue Chunxia squeezed her eyes and said, yes, yes, yes, sister-in-law is not going to be called sooner or later, don't ask Sister Ziying to call her sister-in-law, then who do we ask? You won't let us ask Sister Ziyan to call her sister-in-law. During the holiday, Sister Ziyan said that she wanted to come to our house for the New Year, but she was afraid that Sister Ziying would celebrate the New Year in Jiangyang, so she was embarrassed to come.

Yue Haohan said, Chunxia, you have only been in college for a few days, and you have become flamboyant, not like a girl, look at your sister, you have to learn from Chunfang.

Yue Chunfang smiled and said, brother, Sister Chunxia is right, who told you not to bring Sister Ziying back! We all want her to come to our house for the New Year.

Yue Haohan smiled and said, Hey, hey, all rebelled? You two sisters are in Chinese New Year's Eve, and you discussed it early in the morning, ready to criticize me? Look at Haojiang, Haojiang is good, or stand on my front.

Yue Haojiang said, I think the two sisters are right, if Sister Ziying comes, how lively our family will be this year! Besides, my parents and I haven't met Sister Ziying yet.

When the four brothers and sisters were standing in the courtyard, joking and fighting, Wang Sulan came out of the kitchen and shouted that everyone was ready to eat, Yue Chunxia made a grimace at Yue Haohan, smiled and went to the kitchen with Yue Chunfang to serve food.

After breakfast, Yue Haohan took the Tieguanyin tea and said to Wang Sulan, who was busy, Mom, I will go to Secretary Chen's house for a trip and come back in a while.

Out of the school gate, in the small shop next to it, Yue Haohan bought another cigarette and brought it with him, went to the door of Chen Guoyun's house in the county party committee's family home, knocked on the door, the door opened, and there was an eighteen or nineteen-year-old young man standing in the door, very delicate, with a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose, staring at Yue Haohan, and asked, who are you looking for?

Yue Haohan replied, saying, I'm looking for Secretary Chen, is this Secretary Chen Guoyun's house?

Listening to Yue Haohan's answer, the young man smiled, let Yue Haohan into the living room, and shouted towards the study, saying, Dad, there is a guest looking for you.

Chen Guoyun answered, walked out of the study, saw that it was Yue Haohan, and said with a smile, It's Haohan coming, sit down, don't stand. Jianping, quickly pour tea for your brother Haohan.

Yue Haohan put the Tieguanyin tea and cigarettes he was carrying on the coffee table, and then sat down on the sofa next to the coffee table, and said, Secretary Chen, I went to the East China Sea for a few days, and I only came back yesterday afternoon, and I brought you a pound of Tieguanyin tea back.

The young man who opened the door to Yue Haohan just now is Chen Guoyun's son, named Chen Jianping, who is nineteen years old this year and is a junior at Beijing Normal University. Chen Jianping poured a cup of tea for Yue Haohan and put it on the coffee table, took Chen Guoyun's cup, poured a cup of tea for Chen Guoyun and put it in front of Chen Guoyun, and then, smiling at Yue Haohan, went to the study.

Yue Haohan sat down, looked around the living room of Chen Guoyun's house, and asked, Secretary Chen, is Aunt Xiang not at home?

Chen Guoyun said that she was busy in the kitchen, and we woke up late in the morning and had not yet eaten breakfast. Chen Guoyun's lover's name is Xiang Zhilan, who works in the Jiangyang County Women's Federation.

Chen Guoyun took a box of cigarettes on the coffee table, took out one and lit it, inhaled, spit out the smoke in his mouth, and asked, vast, do you know anything about Wu Youde?

Yue Haohan said, I know.

Chen Guoyun said that even if he doesn't have an accident this time, it will be a matter of time before he takes him down, you don't know yet, the 1.5 million yuan bridge repair fund has just arrived in the account for a few days, and the bridge has not been officially repaired, so he and Wu Tao have already embezzled 350,000 yuan; This matter, after Miao Xiaoqin is discharged from the hospital, the details can be clarified, and I also know a rough idea. They are too bold!

Chen Guoyun flicked the cigarette ash on the ashtray on the coffee table, and then said, the team of Wulong Township should be adjusted as soon as possible, before the holiday the day before yesterday, I had a brief exchange of views with Secretary Gu Zhengshan Gu, Secretary Gu meant that he wanted the township chief He Anqing to take over as secretary, He Anqing is okay in all aspects, but the pioneering spirit is a little worse.

Chen Guoyun's words made Yue Haohan very moved in his heart, it seems that Chen Guoyun fully trusts himself, and even tells himself unreservedly about the idea of not formally forming an opinion, thinking about it, Yue Haohan picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and asked, Secretary Chen, who will be the head of the township in the future?

Chen Guoyun said, I thought about it repeatedly, and it would be more appropriate for Lin Ping to serve as the township head; Xuanfa, take over as Lin Ping's deputy secretary, a member of the party committee and deputy head of the township, I want to propose it for you to serve, but I am afraid that your qualifications are too shallow, and you can't pass it on the Standing Committee.

Yue Haohan said, thank you Secretary Chen for your concern! As long as the team in the township is adjusted smoothly and everyone can form a joint force, I can do more meaningful things for the people of Wulong Township in my own post, and I will be satisfied.

Yue Haohan's words made Chen Guoyun very satisfied, took a puff of cigarette, looked at Yue Haohan with a smile, and said, don't worry, if you can't enter the team this time, I will leave the position of director of the Party and Government Office of Wulong Township for you first; Take a step back first, let you be appointed as the director of the Office of the Longwang River Bridge Construction Headquarters and the deputy director of the Township Party and Government Office, responsible for the overall work of the Party and Government Office.

The two of them were chatting in the living room, Xiang Zhilan brought a big bowl of dumplings, came out of the kitchen, saw Yue Haohan sitting in the living room, Xiang Zhilan smiled, and said, Haohan is here, I haven't eaten breakfast yet, come, you eat this bowl first, I just ordered the dumplings, mutton filling, very fresh.

Yue Haohan hurriedly got up from the sofa and said with a smile, Aunt Xiang, I have already eaten, I drank too much wine last night, I got up early in the morning, and came over after eating at home.

Xiang Zhilan asked, did you really eat it?

Yue Haohan said, I really ate it.

Xiang Zhilan put the dumplings in front of Chen Guoyun and said, smoke less, get up early in the morning and smoke one after another, so that our mother and daughter can also follow you passively inhaling second-hand smoke.

After speaking, Xiang Zhilan shouted towards the study and said, Jianping, come out to eat.

Chen Guoyun extinguished the cigarette in his hand in the ashtray, smiled at Yue Haohan, and said, Haohan, you drink tea, I will kill this bowl of dumplings first, and we will talk.

Yue Haohan picked up the teacup and slowly tasted the tea in the cup; Chen Guoyun is estimated to be a habit formed in the army, eating very fast, lying on the coffee table, three times five to two, a while of effort, finished eating a bowl of dumplings, put down the chopsticks, in the napkin box on the coffee table, pulled a napkin to wipe his mouth, and then, from the cigarette box took out another cigarette and lit it, Meimei took two puffs, said, vast, it seems that I can't quit this smoking, you ask your aunt every day to quit, no way.

Yue Haohan smiled and said, Secretary Chen, Aunt Xiang also cares about your body, so it's better to smoke less in the future.

Chen Guoyun said that I quit several times, but I was unsuccessful, and it seems that I still have problems with perseverance.

As he spoke, Chen Guoyun refilled Yue Haohan's cup with water, and then said, I still have a consideration, after the Spring Festival, when he officially exchanged opinions with Secretary Gu Zhengshan Gu on the personnel arrangements of Wulong Township, if he proposed that your qualifications are too shallow, I will push Huamin out, Huamin is very good, and I have served me for a few years in the county party committee office, and if I don't arrange it, I will delay people.

Yue Haohan said, Secretary Chen, if the team of Wulong Township is adjusted appropriately, the economy will develop rapidly, I am in the East China Sea this time, Ziying and his father introduced me to meet a person, this person is called Ye Yunqing, is a big boss of tea distribution, a well-known figure in the tea industry, assets of more than 200 million, he said that after the Spring Festival, it is possible to go to Jiangyang to inspect our tea industry.

Chen Guoyun said, good thing! Our Jiangyang County is full of tea, but due to poor processing and low added value, the common people do not make money from tea management, which leads to a large area of tea plantations that are barren and no one cares. If there is such a person to invest in the development of our tea and increase the added value of our tea, then the industry of our county will be alive.

Yue Haohan said, this Tieguanyin tea was given to me by him in the East China Sea, and I will bring it to you for you to taste. When I went to the East China Sea, I brought two catties of tea produced in Heiyazi in Wulong Township, and let him taste it, he said, the quality of tea is good, the taste is very good, but the processing is poor, if the frying process is improved, the added value of our tea will be greatly improved, and after the added value is increased, the tea farmers will naturally make money.

Chen Guoyun said, vast, you are a caring person! This thing must be facilitated.

Yue Haohan said, I will try my best to make it happen.

Waiting for Xiang Zhilan to finish eating with Chen Jianping, Yue Haohan sat for a while, then got up to say goodbye, Chen Guoyun gestured to Zhilan to take out two bottles of Wuliangye in the study, handed them to Yue Haohan, and said, Haohan, you can take these two bottles of wine back and let your father drink.

Yue Haohan didn't give in, took the wine, put it in his hand, and said, thank you Secretary Chen, thank you Aunt Xiang!

Leaving Chen Guoyun's house and returning home, I saw that my father Yue Yunlin and my younger brother Yue Haojiang were busy pasting Spring Festival couplets, and my mother Wang Sulan and her two younger sisters were busy with noon meals in the kitchen.

Spring couplets are commonly known as "door pairs", "spring stickers", "couplets", "pairs", and are also known as "couplets". Ancient Chinese folk culture. The festive red Spring Festival couplets are a kind of couplets, which are posted during the Spring Festival, hence the name Spring Festival couplets. One of the sources of Spring Festival couplets is the peach charm. At first, people used it to ward off evil spirits, and later painted the statue of the door god. The woodcarved figure hung on the peach wood next to the door, and later, it was simplified to inscribe the name of the door god on the peach board. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers, the ancients pasted the word "Yichun" on the beginning of spring, and then gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the Chinese working people to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters and welcome auspiciousness.

Every time before lunch on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the first thing every household does is to paste the door god and couplet. The folk custom of sticking Spring Festival couplets originated in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty. According to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, loved couplets, and not only wrote the couplets himself, but also often encouraged his subordinates to write.

One year on Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhu Yuanzhang sent an order: "Gongqingshi's house, a pair of Spring Festival couplets must be added to the door." On the first day of the new year, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang went out on patrol and was very happy to see the Spring Festival couplets that complemented each other. When he and Prime Minister Liu Bowen went to a house, they saw that there were no Spring Festival couplets on the door, so they asked why. It turned out that the owner was a butcher, a caster, and he was worried that he couldn't find anyone to write Spring Festival couplets. Zhu Yuanzhang immediately wrote down the Spring Festival couplets of "splitting the road of life and death with both hands, and cutting the root of right and wrong with one knife" and sent it to this family.

After writing the couplet, Zhu Yuanzhang continued to inspect. After a while, when he returned to the palace after his inspection, he passed by here again, and saw that the butcher's house had not yet pasted the Spring Festival couplets he wrote, so he asked what was going on? The owner of the house replied very respectfully: "This Spring Festival couplet was written by the emperor himself, and we hung it in the middle hall to burn incense and worship it every day." Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy to hear this, so he ordered Liu Bowen to let the attendants reward the family with thirty taels of silver. From this story, it can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang's vigorous advocacy of Spring Festival couplets is precisely because of his vigorous advocacy that the general popularity of Spring Festival couplets has been promoted.

Spring Festival couplets originated from peach symbols, and until the Song Dynasty, Spring Festival couplets were still called "peach symbols". In Wang Anshi's poems, there is a sentence "Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one". Since the Song Dynasty, due to the development of papermaking, the peach charm has been changed from peach wood board to paper, called "spring sticker". It was not until the Ming Dynasty that the peach charm and spring stickers were renamed "Spring Festival couplets".

After the Spring Festival couplets were pasted, Yue Haohan poured a cup of tea with his father Yue Yulin and younger brother Yue Haojiang, turned on the 21-inch color TV at home, and sat in the living room drinking tea and watching TV programs.

At that time, color TVs on the market were very tight, and it was difficult to buy them without looking for a relationship. The color TV in Yue Haohan's house was purchased with the help of Propaganda Minister Luo Yi when he entered the lunar month.

At noon, Wang Sulan and her two daughters packed up a large table of dishes, and after the dishes were ready, Yue Haohan opened a bottle of Wuliangye and poured a full cup for his father Yue Yulin and younger brother Yue Haojiang, and then poured a full cup for himself. Then, Yue Haohan opened a bottle of Dynasty Dry Red and filled a goblet for his mother Wang Sulan and two younger sisters.

Everything was ready, Yue Haojiang took a 10,000-shot firecracker, went to the gate of the courtyard, ripped the firecracker open, spread it on the ground, and left after burning it. With the sound of firecrackers, the whole family exuded a festive mood.