I don’t know if it’s because the time spent lying down at home passed especially quickly, but when we held the owners’ meeting, there were still more than 20 days before the Chinese New Year, and in the blink of an eye, it was New Year’s Eve.

Due to heavy snowfall for more than ten days in a row, residents of the Arashiyama villa area were almost all trapped in their homes and unable to leave.

Except for the Du family who have their own diesel supply channels, other residents have been using diesel generators to generate electricity in the past six months since the power outage, and now most of the diesel in their homes has been exhausted.

These rich people cannot live without electricity for a moment in their exquisite life. Not to mention other things, just take the air conditioner, which has to be turned on regardless of whether it is hot or cold, and the water heater is used for taking a shower every day.

Now we are trapped in the villa due to such heavy snow. There is no electricity at home and we have no wood stored, so we can’t even light the fireplace.

Some households that lived nearby had to walk for an hour or two in the severe cold to get a barrel of diesel from Du Huairen for emergency use.

Some were simply too far away to leave, so they had no choice but to chop up the fine furniture at home bit by bit with a kitchen knife and use the space to burn in the fireplace for heating.

The only things we could eat were bread, biscuits and mineral water; we couldn’t make any other food that needed to be cooked.

The power to the cold storage in the basement has also been cut off. Fortunately, it is extremely cold now, so the food in the cold storage can be preserved for a long time even if the power is cut off.

This year is probably the most miserable New Year's Eve for these rich people.

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"Is this kind of horrible weather going to freeze people to death?"

"Mr. Du is too stingy. The diesel he gave me is only enough to generate electricity for cooking and lighting every day. It's not even enough for a hot shower."

Su Lingyue was sitting by the fireplace wrapped in a duvet, warming herself by the fire, and said this angrily.

"Lingyue, we are actually quite lucky. Others have no electricity and don't even have firewood, but at least we can still eat well and sleep warmly!"

Chen Lian put the two large sofas in the living room together. They planned to sleep by the fireplace at night because the room was too cold.

The Du family usually distributes wood to the security team, so they are much better off than other people in the villa.

Others? Su Lingyue automatically attributed the others Chen Lian mentioned to Su Keke.

She was particularly happy when she thought of Su Keke shivering in the dark villa without electricity.

Now, Su Lingyue suddenly didn’t feel cold anymore.

She placed the duvet wrapped around her body on the sofa that Chen Lian had just put together.

The two of them carried the coffee table to the side of the fireplace and placed bread, ham, peanuts, melon seeds and two buckets of instant noodles that had just been soaked in hot water on it.

Chen Lian went to get another bottle of red wine given by Mr. Du. He had to drink something red during the New Year.

The two of them once secretly ran out of the orphanage and bought a bottle of red wine for more than 20 yuan. They saw on TV that rich people liked to drink red wine.

They hid in the dean's office late at night to drink. At first, Su Lingyue thought the red wine was hard to drink, but later they drank more and more.

It was not until the next morning that the two drunken men were found by the dean lying on the sofa in the office, one of them shouting, "Cheers! Cheers! Hehe!"

He was sleeping soundly with an empty bottle of red wine in his arms!

That was the time when Su Lingyue and Chen Lian were severely punished by the director. The director made them wash dishes for a week with the kitchen lady, and also confiscated the New Year's money given by caring people.

Su Lingyue took out a glass and Chen Lian poured a full glass of red wine for both of them.

"Happy New Year! Lingyue!"

"Happy New Year! Brother Chen Lian!"

After they clinked their glasses, they both took two sips and then started to eat their instant noodles in big mouthfuls.

Su Lingyue had a very bad attitude towards Su Keke and even towards her biological parents who came back to look for her. She would speak harshly to them whenever she was unhappy. But she was usually smiling towards Chen Lian.

Su Keke is busy pasting blessing characters on the windows. These are all cut out by Grandma Qiao herself with red paper. She said that the New Year is all about prosperity and joy!

Grandma Qiao was going to cook New Year's Eve dinner in the kitchen of the villa at night, so Su Keke started the generator early. Now there was a private house with no one within a kilometer around, so even if she turned on the lights in every room, no one would notice.

Grandma Qiao started studying the menu for the New Year's Eve dinner at noon today. She said that in the past ten years or so since her parents passed away, she has almost always spent the New Year alone.

Although I don’t feel lonely, I still feel a little lonely without anyone around me during such a festive and reunion time as the New Year.

So she was not in the mood to prepare any New Year's Eve dinner, so she simply cooked a bowl of dumplings for herself.

Although there was a natural disaster this year, Grandma Qiao was as happy as a child because she had Su Keke and Tangyuan to accompany her during the New Year.

The menu for the New Year's Eve dinner includes poached chicken, steamed sea bass, fried rice cake with bacon, steamed swimming crab, braised prawns, steamed chicken wings with vermicelli, shredded beef, and garlic okra, a total of eight dishes.

The staple food also includes dumplings. Grandma Qiao had been chopping the pork filling herself early in the morning, and Su Keke was diced mushrooms and green onions. The dumpling filling was pork and mushroom. Su Keke had eaten the dumplings made by Grandma Qiao last time and had been praising them.

For the New Year’s Eve dinner, Grandma Qiao was responsible for cooking the main dishes, while Su Keke was responsible for cooking dumplings and making pot stickers with the dumplings.

At this time, Grandma Qiao was already preparing to make poached chicken. The homely method is relatively quick.

Put a clean three-yellow chicken into the pot, add salt, onion, ginger, cooking wine and water to boil in the pot first, and remove the foam.

Then continue to cook for about 25 minutes. At this time, the soup in the pot has slowly seeped out the fat of the three-yellow chicken. Then take it out and rinse it with cold water for 10 minutes.

Finally, cut and place on a plate. Prepare a dipping sauce and place a small dish on the large plate containing the poached chicken.

"Mm~ Grandma Qiao, this poached chicken you made is so delicious!"

When Grandma Qiao was serving the food, she left a piece of chopped chicken for each of Su Keke and Tangyuan, the cat. Now Tangyuan and Su Keke are both enjoying the delicious poached chicken.

"The chicken is not dry at all!" Su Keke gave Grandma Qiao a thumbs up while eating.

Dip it in some soy sauce and vinegar, it tastes so delicious! Su Keke ate one piece and wanted another.

While Grandma Qiao was cooking the poached chicken, she had already steamed the sea bass and swimming crab in a steamer.

The other dishes took relatively quick time to prepare, taking only about 40 minutes, and Grandma Qiao finished preparing the remaining five dishes.

Su Keke made pot stickers, which, under the guidance of Grandma Qiao, were crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. They were crunchy when you took a bite, and Su Keke couldn't help but eat two of them.

Together, the two of them moved all the dishes to the long table in the restaurant.

Coke, Wanglaoji, and various colorful fruit wines were placed on the table.

Su Ke used the cherries, strawberries, blueberries, pineapples, kiwis, watermelons and other fruits in the available space to make a luxurious fruit platter.

"I always feel like something is missing?" Grandma Qiao said suddenly.

"Firecrackers! Firecrackers!"

"What a pity I didn't stock up!" Su Keke said disappointedly.

"Spring Festival Gala! The Spring Festival Gala is missing!"

"Coco, have you downloaded the Spring Festival Gala?" Grandma Qiao asked excitedly.