A few days after Lin Xi returned to Clear Water Bay during the holiday, he ushered in Chinese New Year's Eve.

Some customs in Clear Water Bay are different from other places, Chinese New Year's Eve other places refer to the 23rd or 24th day of the lunar month, and the small Chinese New Year's Eve of Clear Water Bay is the night before the Chinese New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year's Eve is the "big Chinese New Year's Eve", Chinese New Year's Eve the day before is the small Chinese New Year's Eve.

From the early morning of Chinese New Year's Eve, the people of Qingshuiwan began to prepare the ancient tree banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve, that is, the reunion dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve.

This year, the villagers prepared this Chinese New Year's Eve meal with special care and happiness, and in addition to killing chickens and ducks, every household also discharged the menu and asked Lin Desheng to check it.

Lin Xi's family has moved into a new tiled house in Xincun, and the original broken stone house is being renovated, and according to the plan, it can receive tourists together with other stone houses in the surrounding area before May Day.

Lin Desheng sat in the courtyard of the new house and looked at the menus sent by each family, and after reading the family, he felt that it was okay, so he sent Lin Dazhi back to that house; I felt that it was not good, so according to the situation of that house, I changed to a few other dishes, and then sent Lin Dazhi over to prepare.

Lin Dazhi ran back and forth all over the village, running so hard that his legs were sore, and his mouth was full of oil.

"Dazhi, can you taste this, how does it taste?"

"Dazhi, you can eat this, okay?"

"Dazhi, isn't this a bit light?"

"Dazhi, isn't this a little salty?"

“……”

Lin Dazhi is not only the delivery of the menu, but also the taster of the dishes.

"Dazhi, you can't be sloppy with our own dishes, this year is the happiest year since the old lady was a person, and we must come up with the best dishes to the ancient tree banquet."

This year is indeed the happiest year for Lin Dazhi's family, and the whole family has earned a lot of money. For the first time in more than 30 years, two silly brothers and a silly sister handed over a large stack of colorful tickets to the old lady before the Chinese New Year.

Yesterday, in addition to a few cooperatives in the village to distribute year-end bonuses, the whole village distributed dividends according to the capitation, from the eighty or ninety-year-old people to the infants, all received five-figure tickets.

Lin Dazhi's stupid brother continued to partner with Lin Xi's grandfather to set up a roasted sweet potato stall, and another stupid brother went to work in the village sweet potato processing factory, and the silly sister worked as a fruit sorter in the village fruit cooperative.

"Uncle Desheng, you have read all the menus of every household in the village, then I will go home and cook the pot."

Lin Dazhi didn't wait for Lin Desheng to respond, and ran out of the courtyard of Lin Xi's new house with a gust of wind.

"Desheng, you also have to take good care of your own dishes."

"That's it, in the past six months, you have been like a family member in the village, and this dish should also be a family."

Lin Xi's grandfather and grandmother greeted Lin Desheng in the kitchen.

"There are counts, there are counts, our family can cook a few dishes. The number of dishes is not about the many, but about the fineness. Creek, don't you say? Lin Desheng asked Lin Xi, who was squatting on the side and peeling the sweet potato, with a smile.

"Dad, you're getting better and better at speaking now." Lin Xi responded to Lin Desheng with a smile.

"Xiaoxi, your father's speech at the all-village meeting a few days ago is more level, and my palms are red." Lin Xi's mother smiled and came out of the kitchen to get the ingredients.

"Mom, isn't there anyone else applauding, so you're clapping hard?"

"How is that possible? You may not believe it, but Changsheng and Huo Liang are more enthusiastic than me. I was embarrassed to applaud your dad, so I wanted to avoid suspicion. But your father's speech was so good that I couldn't help but applaud. ”

"Mom, where did you learn this? Warm, avoid suspicion, and can't help it? ”

"Xiaoxi, my mother also went to school, and my mother also knows a lot of idioms."

"Pull it down, you still have a lot of idioms? Didn't you learn those words from Xiao Yan? After I made a speech, Xiao Yan said in his summary that everyone's warm applause was on behalf of my speech, and Xiao Yan told you to applaud me, and there is no need to avoid suspicion. Xiao Yan also said that the villagers couldn't help but applaud me. ”

"Hey, why are you so strict in front of the creek? Quite a few say it's okay not to mention it? ”

"I, I forgot about it as soon as I was happy."

Lin Xi pretended not to hear his parents' whispering, raised his voice and asked:

"Mom, Dad, what kind of speech did he make? Let you make the folks can't help but applaud him? ”

"Xiaoxi, your father said that the good days of our Qingshuiwan people have just begun, and better and better days are ahead."

"Yes, yes, your father also said that now people from the city come to our Qingshuiwan for the New Year, and we Qingshuiwan people will go to the city for the New Year in the future."

"Your father said that we should not only go to the city for the New Year, but also become city people. Hey, Desheng, what did you say there was in that tall house in the city that would go up all at once? ”

"Daddy, elevator."

"Yes, yes, in the future, when we go to the city to live in a house with an elevator, your grandma and I don't have to climb the stairs."

"Grandpa, you and grandma don't have to climb the stairs in Clear Water Bay?"

Lin Xi didn't expect her grandparents and parents to yearn for the life of city people so much, after she peeled the sweet potato, she went to the vegetable field to cut vegetables and walked out of her family's new tiled house under the pretext of going to the vegetable field.

The whole Clear Water Bay is immersed in the festive atmosphere of the New Year, and the children who can't hold back their joy have begun to set off explosions, crackling and urging adults to cut the kitchen knives in the kitchen a little faster, and the oil pan will fry a little more......

Lin Xi imagined the changes in the village in school, but he didn't expect the changes to be so fast.

In just a few months, several high-rise buildings have been erected, several factories have been built, and workers have been recruited to Shuizhou.

Lin Xi cut two sprigs of cabbage, took a handful of spinach and a few carrots from her vegetable field, and just returned to the bluestone bridge, a brand-new car stopped beside her with a "creak", and a person got out of the car and hugged her.

"Huoyan?"

"Sister Xiaoxi, you want to kill me!"

Huo Yan hugged Lin Xi and made love.

"Did you buy a car?"

"Well, the car I just mentioned is celebrating the New Year."

"Congratulations."

"Qiaoyan has also bought a car, and several families in the village have bought cars. You see, they are all cars mentioned today, and the 4S store gives us Qingshuiwan Village a group purchase activity, and the discount is great. ”

Huo Yan pointed to the dozen or so cars that were slowly driving behind him, and his excitement was overflowing.

"Okay, okay, we don't have Brother Dazhi's farm tricycle in our village anymore."

Lin Xi was happy from the bottom of his heart for Huoyan, for Qiaoyan, and for the villagers.

"The people in the 4S store said that they would come to our Qingshuiwan Village to carry out group buying activities after the Chinese New Year, and Brother Dazhi has booked a car with the best configuration."

"Okay, okay, then I can take your car when I go out in the future, and I don't have to go to the town to take the car."

"Sister Xiaoxi, Brother Dayan bought a Daben, it must be a special car to pick you up. Also, Brother Dayan said that after the Chinese New Year, our village will also be connected to buses, and he has already negotiated with the people from the county transportation department. ”

"Our village is connected to buses? Really? ”

Lin Xi pretended to be surprised, in order to prevent Huo Yan from mentioning the solemn purchase of a car again.

"Of course it's true, Brother Dayan is amazing. I heard that the county will hold the 'two sessions' after the Chinese New Year, and Brother Dayan is also a representative. Not only Brother Dayan is a representative, but even Sister Hui is also a committee member. ”

I didn't know that Huo Yan didn't finish talking about solemnity, and he also talked about Mei Hui.

"Huo Yan, drive home quickly, and make your brother and sister-in-law happy." Lin Xi didn't want to talk solemnly to Huo Yan.

"Sister Xiaoxi, then I'll go home first, and I'll see you at the ancient tree reunion banquet in the evening. Oh, by the way, did Brother Dayan invite you to be the head of the reunion banquet? Huo Yan opened the car door and turned around to ask Lin Xi.

"The head of the house?" Lin Xi frowned.