After the snowstorm passed, the footsteps of the Spring Festival were approaching, and in the two days before the holiday, the front-line workshop in the factory was shut down for maintenance, the logistics department led the distribution of year-end benefits for employees, and the financial department raided the payment of wages and year-end subsidies......

Finally, on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, the institute officially took its annual vacation.

Families are busy buying! No matter how tight the normal day is, you have to buy something for the New Year.

Jiang Yan still had about 5,000 yuan in his hand to share foreign exchange coupons, and he took Jiang Sirui and them to the foreign exchange store early in the morning to buy some things for the New Year.

Yan Jiefang stayed at home without anything, and the errand of buying things at home during the Chinese New Year became his. When he came out of the house, he went to the grain store to buy grain listlessly.

A while ago, the street has notified that the food has returned to normal, and after gnawing on the nest and sweet potatoes for almost a year, there is a real shortage of oil and water in the stomach!

If you eat a little in the canteen of the research institute, the people in your family will be a little miserable. I haven't seen meat for more than a year, and when I saw the two catties of meat he brought back, my eyes lit up.

Originally, Yan Jiefang thought that he had already brought back the meat, bought a little white flour to make dumplings, and ate better during the New Year, but now there are three people in the family who earn money, and their monthly income is less than 100!

However, his suggestion was quickly dispelled by his father Yan Bugui, according to his words, this is not poor to eat and wear, and if you can't calculate, you will be poor, and these two catties of meat can be eaten for two months!

Two catties of meat for two months, isn't this a trouble? How much is this person, it is better to eat in the cafeteria!

And what's even more amazing is that the flour is only allowed to buy two catties, and this New Year is really lonely.

As soon as he walked out of the alley and onto the street, he heard someone calling him from behind.

"Liberation, wait!" Yan Jiefang looked back and saw that it was Lu Xiaoxia, a junior high school classmate.

"It's been a long time since I've seen you, what have you been up to lately?"

"I, hi! I'm working at the research institute now! Don't mention me! How are you? Where did you go to work? ”

When she was in school, Lu Xiaoxia had a little bit of interest in Yan Jiefang, but she looked average, with a round face and a short stature, Yan Jiefang didn't like anyone, otherwise they might have had a while.

"I went to work in the woollen mill, at the radio station! Hey, I told you, except for those who are in high school, our classmates are basically going to work, and we plan to party together during the Chinese New Year this year, so can you come too? Lu Xiaoxia opened her mouth with a big grin.

"Really? You said that it has been many years since you graduated, and it is time to get together. Yan Jiefang answered casually.

He regretted it after saying this, he knew that he needed to bring his own food stamps and money, although he went to work, he had to teach his family food expenses, accommodation fees and other expenses every month, and he only had ten yuan in his hand every month, and now it was the end of the month, and this month's salary had not been paid, and he was clean.

"That, I won't go, you know the situation of our family." Yan Jiefang smiled self-deprecatingly after saying this.

"It's okay, come on! I'll give you your share. ”

After sitting at the same table for three years, Lu Xiaoxia is quite clear about the situation in their family, and she is quite speechless about their family affairs when she has time.

Hearing Lu Xiaoxia's words, she almost embarrassed Yan Jiefang to find a crack in the ground and get in, when did the gentlemen of Sijiu City eat soft rice.

It was precisely because of this sentence that Yan Jiecheng was a little unhappy about the situation at home.

"Forget it, forget it, no, there are still things in this family! Well, I still have something to do, let's talk about it another day......"

Leaving the next sentence, Yan Jiefang ran away, he really had no face to see people. The eighteen- or nineteen-year-old man was just trying to save face, but now he really felt too ashamed.

"Oops! Yan Jiefang ......" Lu Xiaoxia stood in place and was directly stunned, only to see that he was like a rabbit, and he ran away, "This person, why is this like this?" I'm not done yet......"

After running around in a daze, Yan Jiefang looked up, hey! How did you run home? Running around in the winter made Yan Jiefang so tired that he didn't think much about it, so he raised his leg and went home.

"Hey! How did you get back? And what about the grain you bought? "The three mothers saw that he came back empty-handed, so can you not ask?

"Grain? Yes, I'm going to buy food? Yan Jiefang suddenly realized that he didn't buy food, what the hell is going on?

So he lifted his leg directly out of the house and ran to the grain store again.

When the pigs of the Red Star Farm of the Research Institute were slaughtered, because they were afraid that other units would have thoughts, the pork was distributed in advance, but during the Chinese New Year, one person in the research institute also gave three catties of flour and some candy and other things, and these benefits were enough to make people blush.

From the first day of the holiday, Jiang Yan's small yard began to be busy, mainly to fry all kinds of things, for which Jiang Yan also deliberately took out ten catties of oil.

At the end of the year, we fried things to prepare for the coming year, Chinese New Year's Eve, the first day of the new year, each family strings relatives, go friends! As soon as I fried things, I came to prepare enough relatives to come during the Chinese New Year, so that I could eat a full meal at home and then leave!

It's not like you can buy dishes in the supermarket on the first and second days of the next year, so prepare more fried goods to deal with the customers in the new year! The main thing is that the fried goods can be stored for a long time and are of high grade! Second, come on! All kinds of fried goods represent different semantics in the Chinese New Year!

The first is the indispensable fried fish in every family during the New Year, fried hairtail fish is the most popular, followed by mackerel, toon fish (toon teeth are taken off and marinated and stored when they are born, and can be fried in winter) No matter what fish is fried, it represents that every year we have a good life, and we can have a head, which means "more than every year".

Fried lotus root, cut the lotus root into slices, divide it into two in the middle, add your favorite filling, hang the batter and fry it to become, its semantics represent "harmony and beauty" family!

However, in these years, fresh lotus root is not easy to buy, but who calls Jiang Yan has space! This fried coupling is also Jiang Yan's favorite food, so Jiang Yan stored a lot in his space during the lotus harvest season, and yesterday he took out some of it and secretly put it in the cellar, just to prepare for today.

Each family has limited financial resources, and the fried things are also different, but there is only one thing, and each family needs to prepare a little.

That's croquettes. Some people say that the guests are coming, and the last dish is served, that is the meatball, the meaning of this meatball is that it has been a year, and the family is blessed with a happy life!

However, Jiang Yan prefers iron lion heads, so at the croquette stall, Jiang Yan let He Yuzhu get a lot of lion heads, and when the time comes, you can eat it at the time of Chinese New Year's Eve.

He Yuzhu was busy with this fried thing, so Jiang Yan took his wife and He Yushui to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy some melon seeds, candy or something, and prepared to eat them themselves or entertain guests.

When they arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, they found that they were good guys, almost all of them were deep in the mountains and crowded here, and the scene was quite grand, and it was estimated that you wouldn't even think about buying things here every few hours.

But these small snacks can't be bought, Jiang Yan noticed it as soon as he turned his eyes, he still has so many foreign exchange coupons, so he just took them to the friendship store to buy them, where there must be fewer people.

After telling the two women what they thought, the three of them went to the Friendship Store together.

(End of chapter)