Seeing the bearded man who walked into the door, Shen Chen got up and greeted him.

"Brother Xu is here, come and sit!"

After everyone sat down, they greeted each other and chatted.

Li Jun and Xu Keying were still standing at the door talking about something, and from time to time there were bursts of Xu Keying's coquettish laughter.

When everyone was chatting happily, Zhao Xiaoqian's voice came from beside them.

"The dish is ready, Brother Shen will help serve it!"

Shen Chen looked for prestige, and saw Zhao Xiaoqian standing aside with an alcohol stove, looking at everyone with a smile.

Seeing this, he hurriedly got up, took the steaming stove, and put it on the dining table.

"You talk first, I'll help!"

"Why don't we go too!" The bearded man spoke.

Shen Chen waved his hand, "What's so embarrassing, you are a guest today, let's just serve a dish." ”

After speaking, he got up and followed Zhao Xiaoqian to leave, and came to Zhao Xiaoqian's small cooking platform, but Shen Chen was taken aback, but he didn't expect Zhao Xiaoqian to make seven or eight dishes with these ingredients, plus the previous stove, it was very rich.

"Good work!" Shen Chen looked at Zhao Xiaoqian and said sincerely.

Zhao Xiaoqian stroked the hair in her ears and smiled sweetly at him, this smile made Shen Chen stunned.

"Don't be stunned, serve the food!"

Seeing Shen Chen looking at himself not moving, Zhao Xiaoqian reminded with a red face.

"Oh! Oh! Good~~"

Shen Chen, who reacted, scratched his head embarrassedly, picked up the dishes one by one and walked towards the table, and after a few back and forth, he served all the dishes on the table.

At this time, the table was full of food, in the middle was a steaming stove, on the side of the plate were fried peanuts, some pickles, and some side dishes made with the ingredients exchanged in the market today, the two taels of pork were carefully made by Zhao Xiaoqian A few fried dishes of shredded meat, and the rest was cut into slices of meat and some wild vegetables put together for shabu shabu.

"Okay, the dishes are ready, the situation is limited, let's make do with it!" Shen Chen looked at the bearded man and Sun Bairen and said.

"Hey! Brother Shen is polite, the dishes on this table are very good! ”

"That's it, Boss Shen is too polite!"

"Then let's eat! It's not too early. Shen Chen said, at this time, the sun had already set in the west.

The bearded man stood up and shook his hand, "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and before eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, you must worship the ancestors, this rule cannot be forgotten," shouted to the two people who were still chatting at the door: "Xiaojun brought Keying in and closed the door, and wanted to worship the ancestors for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner." ”

"Here we go!"

Li Jun agreed, closed the door, took Xu Keying's little hand, and walked towards the dining table, while Xu Keying, who was holding her little hand, followed behind with her head down.

The bearded man looked at the little hands held by the two, a smile appeared on his face, and he looked at Zhao Xiaoqian on the side and said apologetically: "I'm sorry!" Miss Zhao, please take my daughter and Xiaojun's sister to the tent for a while, and a few of us old men will worship our ancestors. ”

Zhao Xiaoqian knew the rules of ancestor worship, smiled and didn't say anything, just picked up the two little girls one by one and walked towards the tent, regardless of the eyes of the two looking at the table.

Seeing the women walking into the tent, the bearded man looked at the crowd: "Then let's start!" ”

Seeing that he took out some incense candles from the bag he brought and put them on the table to light them, obviously knowing that Shen Chen was not prepared.

Shen Chen took the portrait handed over by the bearded man with an embarrassed face, he really didn't expect this check, after all, it had always been his father who had done it during the Chinese New Year before.

had no choice but to pull Li Jun, who was standing stupidly on the side, and followed behind the bearded man to perform a set of ancestor worship rituals.

Standing up, the bearded man said, "Brother Shen, I see that you bought a lot of paper money today, take it out and burn it for everyone!" ”

Shen Chen nodded, took out the paper money and distributed it to everyone, and a few people in the corner of the wall lit it up, at this time it was not only them, most of the people in the base knelt in front of their tents, put the paper money into the fire, even if there was no paper money, find other things instead.

Everyone's faces showed sadness, and some even cried out while burning, after all, everyone has loved ones who died in this disaster.

The bearded man threw the last piece of paper money into the fire, looked at the raging flames as if he saw his deceased wife and relatives, waited until the flames were extinguished, wiped his tears and walked back to the table and sat down, watching the table full of food was no longer as tempting as before.

The others also returned to the table one after another, with a sad look on their faces, and reached out to wipe away the black and gray tears on Li Jun's face, looked at everyone and said, "Okay! Everyone be happy, today is Chinese New Year's Eve! ”

Turning to the tent, he shouted, "Xiao Qian take them out!" ”

"Okay!"

Zhao Xiaoqian took the two girls out, looking at the tears on their faces, it was not difficult for Shen Chen to guess that they had also cried in the tent.

The bearded man cleaned up his mood and beckoned Zhao Xiaoqian to sit down, "Brother Shen is right, today is Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone is happy, look at what I brought!" ”

The bearded man smiled mysteriously and took out a bottle of liquor from the bag and placed it on the table.

"Wine!" Sun Bairen shouted,

I opened the wine cork and took a sip, with a look of intoxication, the previous sorrow disappeared in an instant, and everyone was given double the wine one by one, and even a few girls were not left behind.

Then everyone drank a bottle of wine and ate the dishes, during which the bearded man also told a lot of interesting stories about Xu Keying's childhood, which made everyone laugh, but the little girl was bitter and resentful, looking at Li Jun, who was the happiest laughing, couldn't help but reach out and pinch the soft flesh on Li Jun's waist, and he screamed in pain.

It's just that everyone laughed more happily, and a group of people ate the first Chinese New Year's Eve meal in such a happy atmosphere.

They were laughing and laughing, and the atmosphere in the base conference room was extremely oppressive.

Not long ago, the base contacted the capital refuge camp, and at this time, there was no one else in the conference room except for Major General Lin, Mayor Chu, and Director Hefang.

On the big screen in front of everyone, an officer in a lieutenant general's uniform was communicating with them.

"It's not easy to finally get in touch with you!"

Looking at the old man on the big screen, Lin Tianxiong didn't recognize who it was, until he opened his mouth to speak, and then he recognized the old man in front of him as Lieutenant General Qin Donghai.

It's just that the last time I saw him, he was still a middle-aged man about forty years old, but at this time, the person in front of him had a sloppy beard, his face was full of wrinkles, he was haggard, and even his hair was gray, but his military uniform was quite neat and clean.

"You are Qin Donghai, Lieutenant General Qin?" Lin Tianxiong asked uncertainly.

"Yes! Major General Lin! ”

After confirming that the person in front of him was Lieutenant General Qin, although Lin Tianxiong was a little surprised, he still stood on his legs and gave a military salute.

"Lieutenant General Qin is good!"

In the big screen, Lieutenant General Qin returned the salute, and a smile appeared on his haggard face.