Once the twelfth lunar month arrives, the Chinese New Year is almost on the agenda.

Su Keke and Grandma Qiao have prepared a lot of New Year's goods in Villa No. 5, such as soy sauce meat, rice cakes, pistachios, candied fruit, chocolate, pickled duck, and drunken crabs.

Especially chocolate and drunken crab, these two are not common in the end times, even if you have points, you may not be able to exchange them at the official redemption points.

Grandma Qiao pickled the drunken crabs several days ago. People living in coastal cities like the taste of these drunken crabs the most.

It’s just that after the natural disaster, everyone is short of supplies, and everything is based on survival first. In the current environment, being able to eat and dress warmly is the most important thing.

Even though the weather has returned to normal in the past two months and people's lives have become a little better, the first thing they think of is definitely meat such as pork, chicken, lamb and beef. As for seafood, it is considered good if they can buy a fish.

All projects at the official base have also been successfully completed.

At the foot of the mountain, in the staff dormitory, everyone was happily packing up their things and preparing to go home with the points they had just received. Only Lin Xiao and the other three had no joy on their faces.

Before the natural disaster, they were just small gangsters without any family. At that time, they only knew how to follow Brother Tian around, having no fixed place to live, living here for a day and there for a day, and never had a decent home.

Working on the construction site for several months actually helped them settle down, and they gradually became friends with Chen Da and Lao Li.

After Xiaojun and Lin Xiao gradually got to know each other, they actually put their arms around each other's shoulders and talked to each other for a long time.

The mystery that had been lingering in their minds at first became clear only after they heard the answer from both of them.

It turns out that they all thought of each other as Brother Tian’s subordinates!

Hahahaha! In the end, this groundless misunderstanding ended with a hearty laugh.

Knowing that Lin Xiao and the other three had no other place to go, Chen Da asked them to talk to Manager Zhou to see if they could live in the container for the New Year.

Because he had heard Manager Zhou say before that the construction site dormitories would not be evacuated after all the workers here were evacuated, and the superiors meant that there would be people living there in the future.

This is indeed what Chen Guodong meant. The workers' dormitories here can also accommodate some people.

Lin Xiao was overjoyed when he heard this, and quickly asked Mengzi to ask Manager Zhou.

It would be best if they could live there. Not only does it cost points to find a house on short notice, but it is not certain that they can find a suitable one.

Lin Xiao and his colleagues, who had worked on the construction site for several months, knew that points were hard-earned, and thought that they could save as much as possible.

This dormitory is also very good. The government installed electricity and a small stove some time ago.

When the weather is cold, I can light a stove in the house, have hot water to drink and soak my feet, and when I’m hungry I can cook a pack of instant noodles. Life is much better than when I was a gangster.

Although when Lin Xiao was a gangster, if he collected a lot of protection fees, he could go out and do evil for several days.

However, the four of them had very bad luck when they were gangsters. It was easy for other brothers to collect protection fees, but they were the only ones who were particularly miserable.

Sometimes, let alone receiving a lot of protection money, it is considered good enough if you are not chased and beaten by the other party with a broom.

With such performance, they are actually at the bottom of Tian Ge's society.

Manager Zhou even made a special phone call to the construction site manager Li Zheng about this matter.

Li Zheng thought about it seriously. Anyway, the construction site dormitory would be used for homeless citizens in the future. Since the workers at his site had no place to live, it would be no harm to give them a room. So he agreed readily.

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This year, everyone's life is pretty good, much better than last year, so everyone planned to have a big dinner together on New Year's Eve.

There are four people including Su Keke and Grandma Qiao, Qin Xiu's family next door, Lu Mei and Shihuan's family on the 20th floor, and Lin Xiao's younger brothers.

It was the first time in Su Keke’s life that she had dinner with so many people on New Year’s Eve.

After some discussion, everyone decided to have the dinner at Villa No. 5, which belongs to Su Keke and Grandma Qiao.

We had lunch together and then everyone went home to celebrate the New Year in the evening.

When I first said this, there was still a week left until the Chinese New Year, but now it’s already here without me noticing.

Since it was lunch, Qin Yufei, who lived nearby and could cook, brought Yingying over to help Grandma Qiao at 9 o'clock in the morning.

This time, every family that we made an appointment with brought their own food and cooked it themselves, with the main idea being to do it themselves and have enough food and clothing, so other people would arrive earlier one after another.

Qin Xiu was assigned by his elder sister to clean Villa No. 6 early in the morning.

Only after the house is clean can he come here to eat.

Su Keke was silently worried for Qin Xiu in her heart. It was not easy to have a big meal during the New Year!

As soon as Yingying arrived, she went to play with Tangyuan. Su Keke also quickly ran to the kitchen to help Grandma Qiao and Qin Yufei.

The dishes Grandma Qiao is going to make today are fried rice cake with bacon, vermicelli and garlic shrimp, braised lion head, and secret roasted lamb chops. Su Kecao saw that she got up early in the morning to prepare the lamb chops.

Qin Yufei made a tomato and beef brisket stew. The tomatoes were grown by themselves in a greenhouse in the yard of Villa No. 6. When it was time to pick the fruits, Qin Yufei also sent a basket of tomatoes to Su Keke and the others.

In addition to tomato beef brisket, Qin Yufei also plans to make braised spare ribs and minced meat eggplant today.

There was still some meat that Qin Xiu had stockpiled, and the vegetables they had grown in the yard were also harvested, so life was getting better. During the New Year, she planned to cook some delicious dishes to reward everyone.

Lu Mei and Shi Huan had already called to confirm that their two families would cook six dishes together, symbolizing good luck.

After working at the breeding base for half a year, they were each given a chicken and 10 kilograms of rice as a New Year's welfare.

Then they bought a duck and two rabbits at an internal discount price.

Chen Da and Meng Yi prepared the two rabbits last night. Lu Mei marinated them with sauce all night, so they will be well seasoned this morning and can be grilled directly when they are brought over.

They also prepare the chickens and ducks at home and can bring them to Su Keke to cook directly, which is very convenient.

Lu Mei is responsible for making three meat dishes: secret old duck pot, home-made big plate chicken, and roasted rabbit.

Shi Huan’s cooking skills were average, so she was responsible for making three simple vegetarian dishes.

One is a dish of stir-fried mushrooms with green and red peppers for a festive New Year meal.

There is also Mapo Tofu. Shi Huan spent several days learning how to make this dish from Lu Mei, just for today's dinner.

Finally, there is a dry-pot cauliflower dish. This is a simple dish that Shi Huan learned to make very early on and it is considered her specialty.

At around ten o'clock, Lu Mei and her group came over in a mighty procession on electric tricycles.

The sun had already come out at this time. The electric tricycle had a rainproof awning to block the wind. The people on the car were all fully armed, wearing masks, hats, scarves, cotton coats and gloves, wrapped tightly so they didn't feel cold at all when they came out.

Ever since he was stopped at the door last time, Shi Huan was a little afraid that he would not be allowed in again this time, so he made a special call to Su Keke before leaving.

Su Keke smiled and told them not to worry and just come in with confidence!