Chapter 12: The New Year
After eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the two brothers and sisters cleaned up the food on the table, today's meal opened He Yushui's eyes, yellow braised shark fin, clear soup bird's nest, garlic scallops These things have never heard of themselves, He Yushui has been chattering after eating what his brother is really fragrant
2 people gathered around the table, drinking tea and eating melon seeds chatting about the New Year, Silly Zhu recalled that his bizarre experience during this time felt a little unreal, his father ran away, he got the memory of the afterlife, worked in the rolling mill, and his sister laughed The time came to midnight at 11 o'clock, called the sister and the two began to make dumplings, and so on 12 o'clock, the sound of firecrackers came one after another outside, one after another, resounding in the sky
After eating the dumplings, the brother and sister also came to the door with the fireworks they bought, looked at the people who were already setting off guns outside the door, and said "Happy New Year" in the congratulations of everyone, and took their sister to start fireworks, and the fireworks in the sky bloomed in the night sky, in a thousand forms, some like silver snakes dancing wildly, some like peacocks opening the screen, and some like blooming flowers
By the time the two siblings got home, it was already 2 o'clock in the morning, so I asked my sister to go to bed quickly and get up early tomorrow
Early in the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the sound of firecrackers outside rang out again, and the people in the courtyard got up, and the children who were too late to fire the guns last night were also forcibly pulled out of the bed by their parents, and they began to come to the door one after another to pay New Year's greetings
After the two brothers and sisters finished breakfast, they put a pillar of incense on their mother and prepared to pay New Year's greetings to some elders, first of all, to the deaf old lady in the backyard, and Yi Zhonghai, who was the same generation as his father, to pay New Year's greetings, and it was easy for others to say it
After the end of the courtyard, Silly Zhu took his sister to the master's house, and after greeting the master and his wife, he took the red envelope given by the two people, and the two brothers and sisters did not sit long before they said goodbye, and the silly pillar decided to go to Uncle Wang's house and the uncle and uncle who led him to the house before his father paid New Year's greetings, and in his memory, he ran away because he was angry that his father left him, and he broke off the relationship with these uncles and uncles
It was already more than 10 o'clock after paying New Year's greetings to Uncle Wang and his father's brothers, and Silly Zhu took his sister back to the courtyard to heat up the rest of yesterday's meal as lunch, and prepared to take his sister to the temple fair in the afternoon
The most lively time for the New Year in Sijiu City is, of course, to visit the temple fair, and there is a poem that describes the excitement of the temple fair
Since the beginning of the year, the market has been bustling, and the temple fairs in the capital are crowded.
A street of strange goods compete for selection, and the trees are full of red lights.
Watching the dancing children play on their shoulders, and the incense and candles of the gods are sold.
Suddenly, the masked fair girl is suspected to be a fairy under the magpie bridge.
It can be seen how lively the temple fair is, the brother and sister 2 people walk in the temple fair full of things, it is really lively, just enter the door is to sell dustpans, baskets, bamboo willow things, cooking utensils
Most of the items sold in the front hall are antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and ordinary people basically don't take a look at this kind of thing, and they can't eat enough to eat, who is still in the mood to play with cultural relics. The middle courtyard sells a wealth of things, cloth and clothing, children's toys, daily necessities, a bird market in the middle of the road, all kinds of poultry, and songworms. The tower courtyard is a variety of special snacks, as well as a theater, which is mixed with a variety of fortune-telling, looking, selling ancestral secret recipes, many of these food stalls are the cultural inheritance of the old BJ, the real flavor snacks are among them, cold powder, croquettes, donkey rolling, belly bursting, almond tea, wontons.
He Yushui was like a mouse in a rice tank, shouting to his brother to buy this and buy that, good guy, one windmill, one sugar gourd, two sugar people, different colors, and 3 small paper fish, and he couldn't walk in front of the snack stall, "Brother I want this, that too, this one also comes, and that one looks good."
After a while, the rain was full and couldn't walk, carrying the sister who had fallen asleep, the two brothers and sisters walked on the way home, walking and walking in the sky There were snowflakes, and soon it was big, holding my sister in my arms, trotting home, and when I returned home, the snow in the yard had no feet and necks
Put my sister on the bed and cover the quilt, burn the stove, the silly pillar sat by the stove and looked at the snow outside the window and fell into contemplation, and soon the people who went out in the courtyard came back one after another, and the silent courtyard was lively again, and the happiest in the snow was the children, only to see the Yan family in the front yard and the Liu family in the backyard A few and a half children began to have a snowball fight, and after a while, they were dragged back by their respective parents
When the rain woke up, it was already more than 5 o'clock, and Silly Zhu took his sister to put the remaining dumplings in the early morning into the pot, and after eating, the two brothers and sisters went back to the house to sleep
Soon after the third day of the new year, I started to work, and early in the morning on the fourth day of the new year, the silly pillar called my sister to get up for breakfast as usual, and walked towards the rolling mill with the rain and the people in the courtyard
It didn't take long for a while to come over with chickens, ducks and fish, the current secretary of the rolling mill, Lou Bancheng is the director of the factory, the following are the directors of the various offices and the deputy department, how there are more than a dozen, the section chief is more, and the scattered rolling mill also has nearly 100 cadres, and so on until 58 years to expand the enrollment that more, as for the canteen director of this level of cadres, sorry they are not qualified to sit down, a unit-level cadre, some canteen directors do not have a recent graduate college student administrative level high
"Director, you were joking just now, there are 100 cadres in our factory, where am I busy alone" Silly Zhu was dumbfounded when he saw these ingredients, and he couldn't finish the meal of dozens of people
"Later, the other three canteens will transfer 2 chefs from each canteen to give you a hand, and I will definitely not let you prepare alone," Director Tang looked at the silly pillar with a bitter face and explained
After Director Tang left, Silly Zhu asked people to start killing chickens, slaughtering fish, and waiting for the chefs from other canteens to come over, and the ingredients were almost finished, and Silly Zhu took 6 chefs to start cooking dishes, these ingredients are not rare, and the method is not very difficult
By the time all the dishes were over, it was already 12 o'clock, and it happened to be the time for the workers to rest and eat at noon
Silly Zhu sat on a stool and looked at the recipe, He Yushui lay on the side of the recliner to sleep, and time passed quietly in this environment
Soon after the 15th of the first month, Silly Zhu felt that there was a bottleneck in his cooking skills during this time, and found the master Wu Changan after getting off work, Wu Changan heard Silly Zhu's question and realized that this apprentice's cooking skills would be promoted during this time, so he planned to take his apprentice to visit the major chefs in Sijiu City today, and soon the master and apprentice 2 people visited all the chefs they could know, and Silly Zhu also felt that his cooking skills had improved significantly, and his knowledge of the chef industry was no longer the same as before. Obviously, I can feel the same mistakes when cooking
Unconsciously, the temperature of Sijiu City is gradually rising, and in the blink of an eye, it is the beginning of August, and the salary of the silly pillar has also been successfully increased to 400,000 in a reception in Lou Bancheng, and his sister He Yushui will start elementary school next month, He Yushui's quality of life is getting higher and higher, and the whole person is developing horizontally, and the whole person seems to be chubby
On this day, there was an unusual person in the courtyard of the rolling mill rest, the stupid pillar was resting at home this morning, Yi Zhonghai suddenly came to the door, the relationship between the two families in the past six months was not as Yi Zhonghai expected to develop in the direction of the He family brothers and sisters who could not do without the help of their own family, seeing that the He brothers and sisters were becoming more and more prosperous without their own help, Yi Zhonghai was also full of helplessness
Jia Zhang's family has been busy looking for a partner for his son Jia Dongxu for half a year, and he has met 3 before and after, but his son has been dissatisfied, at noon, with the help of a cousin who is also married in his mother's family, he found a girl of the right age in Qinjia Village, according to his relatives, this girl is called Qin Huairu and his neighbor is a relative, Jia Zhang's happily agreed, and let the two meet at noon today
Yi Zhonghai just wanted Silly Zhu to help cook a lunch, but Jia Zhang's did not object when he heard that Yi Zhonghai asked Silly Zhu to cook, but he opened his mouth and asked Silly Zhu to bring some meat, the reason was that his own family was in difficulty, and he was a junior who wanted to honor himself.
Yi Zhonghai was speechless when he heard the whole person, is it your son getting married or a stupid pillar getting married, and letting people take things for your son on a blind date, just because your Jia Zhang's face is big, or because you don't take a bath or brush your teeth, but Yi Zhonghai didn't refuse, he still wanted to take the stupid pillar in his heart, although he now has Jia Dongxu as an apprentice, and he is counting on fake actions to support himself in the future, but it is also a very good choice to have one more stupid pillar as a spare tire, and through the blind date of the Jia family, he can just take the stupid pillar, If he doesn't agree with himself, he will hold a general meeting to accuse him, and a child without a father and mother can still escape from his own Five Finger Mountain
"Silly Zhu, Brother Dongxu in your front yard went on a blind date today, and your Aunt Jia and I thought about asking you to help cook a meal at noon" Yi Zhonghai sat directly on the chair after entering the door, as if he was the speaker of the He family
Silly Zhu really doesn't want to have anything to do with Yi Zhonghai and the Jia family Now, the two families can't tear it off like a dog skin plaster, so he said helplessly:
"Uncle Yi, it's no problem to cook, but we have a charter for doing things, I have to cook a meal for someone outside for 20,000 yuan, the Jia family and our family are old neighbors, just give 10,000, but you have to let me bring some food back"
Yi Zhonghai heard that Silly Zhu asked for money, and his whole face darkened with the naked eye, in his opinion, Silly Zhu should help for free for this meal, and even the kind of food provided by Jia Zhang's should be
"Silly Zhu, they are all neighbors, how can you collect money, why are you not enthusiastic at all, they are all old neighbors who have lived together for so many years, we have to help each other" Yi Zhonghai looked at Silly Zhu with anger on his face, as if it would be ruthless and unrighteous not to promise to help for free
"Uncle Yi, forget it about helping for free, as for what you said about helping each other, then I have to say it, when my father was in Hangzhou, it was difficult for our brothers and sisters to eat, why didn't we see these neighbors give us a nest, where were you at that time, now that our brothers and sisters are living a better life, they have become in need of helping others" Silly Zhu looked at Yi Zhonghai speechlessly
In the end, Silly Zhu did not agree to help Jia's family cook, Jia Zhang's whole person was unhappy when he heard that Silly Zhu did not agree to help his family cook, and immediately wanted to go to He's house to go to the last paragraph, but was stopped by Jia Dongxu, "Mother, what are you doing, helping is love or not helping is duty" Jia Dongxu knows his old lady too well, he is still young and has a face, he must not let his mother make trouble, Yi Zhonghai sat on the chair in the house and his face was not good-looking, this Jia Zhang not only scolded Silly Zhu but also scolded himself, But this is the wife of her apprentice, and in the end, this matter can only be stopped