"Ah? Spring Festival Gala? I forgot if I downloaded it at that time? I'll go check it out right away!"

Su Keke quickly entered the space, took out several large hard drives where she had stored the files, and plugged them into her laptop one by one to check the download list.

It was not until the third hard drive was plugged in that Su Keke finally saw a Spring Festival Gala video from 20 years ago in the list. She didn't know how she had downloaded it at the time. It was such a long-ago Spring Festival Gala, and she wasn't even born at that time.

After finding the downloaded video, Su Keke pushed the free-screen mobile TV in the villa to the dining room, plugged in the hard drive, and started playing the Spring Festival Gala from 20 years ago.

"That's great! I'll be in my prime at that time!"

Grandma Qiao was as happy as a child when she saw the Spring Festival Gala from 20 years ago.

"Keke, eat some bacon fried rice cake first!"

“I hope that every year from now on we will be better and better!”

Grandma Qiao used a spoon to put a lot of rice cakes into Su Keke's bowl, and then started to put it into her own bowl.

"Mm! Every dish tonight is delicious! I can't eat enough!"

Su Keke held the crab in one hand and used chopsticks to pick up rice cakes, poached chicken, shrimps, chicken wings, beef... and so on with the other hand, aiming to have them all equally!

"Hahaha! This skit is so funny! I remember I was laughing so hard while watching it. I didn't expect it to be so funny even after watching it again now!"

Su Keke was so attracted by the table full of delicious food that she had no time to watch TV. She was like Tangyuan. With so many delicious foods, the most important thing was to eat!

Today, Su Keke and Grandma Qiao both put on new red clothes. Grandma Qiao wore a purple wool sweater, Su Keke wore a bright red sweater, and they put a bright red scarf around Tangyuan's neck.

In the air-conditioned room, I didn't feel cold at all without wearing a coat.

…

The Du family’s New Year’s Eve dinner is probably the most sumptuous in the Lanshan Villa District.

In Villa No. 1 where Mr. Du lives, red couplets and the word "Fu" have been pasted on the door.

Both Du Yicheng and Du Yifan's families were in the living room watching a movie with the old man and his wife.

Because the natural disaster came suddenly, the only movies downloaded on everyone’s mobile phones and computers were the ones they liked to watch.

What would be the New Year's Eve without the Spring Festival Gala? The whole family gathered together just to have a couple of minutes of Spring Festival Gala clips in the film.

At the big round table in the restaurant and in the kitchen, nannies from several families came together to prepare tonight's New Year's Eve dinner.

The natural disaster had lasted for more than half a year, and Grandpa Du usually asked every family to be frugal and avoid extravagance and waste. But for the annual New Year's Eve dinner, it was as sumptuous as possible.

Two 10-pound Boston lobsters are steamed with garlic, a whole king crab is processed and marinated with seasonings and will be put directly into the hot pot later, mantis shrimp, swimming crab, abalone, scallops, and Arctic prawns are used to make an extra-large seafood steamer.

In addition to seafood, other must-try dishes include marinated pork elbow, crispy roast duck, stir-fried snowflake Wagyu beef, steamed hairy crab, braised carp, delicious roast chicken and braised pork.

The stomach-warming soups are all made in small bowls according to the number of people, with one bowl for each person. There are pork ribs and corn soup, mushroom, black chicken soup, and shrimp and mushroom soup.

The staple foods include dumplings, rice cakes and glutinous rice balls; the snacks include peanut crisps and osmanthus cakes; and the fruit platter is even more extravagant than Su Keke's.

Finally, there is a big hot pot dish, which contains precious ingredients such as abalone, sea cucumber, scallop, tendon, pepper and abalone. It is the New Year’s Eve dinner of a wealthy family, but this meal can cost an ordinary family several years’ income.

Especially after the natural disasters in the past six months, most people would consider it a good year if they could eat a plate of hot dumplings on New Year’s Eve.

The people on the 20th floor had the supplies left by Su Keke, plus the year-end benefits brought back by Meng Yi and Chen Li, a 20-kilogram bag of flour and 5 kilograms of pork.

The two families gathered together to celebrate the New Year. The foot-operated generator that Su Keke left for them brought great convenience to their lives in the apocalypse.

Everyone takes turns to step on it every day and it can generate electricity for a few hours. It is enough to turn on the lights for two families or cook instant noodles.

Lu Mei and Shi Huan made 50 large dumplings in one afternoon, all filled with pork and green onions, and everyone loved them.

The radishes and potatoes they planted in 2004 grew well, and Lu Mei used the remaining pork to make stewed radishes and fried meat with potatoes.

Chen Da stewed one of the ten chickens that he had raised and laid eggs diligently. Although Lu Mei and Shi Huan were reluctant to do so, it was the Chinese New Year and they didn't want to do without chickens.

There are still ten crabs left by Su Keke for them. During this period, they have been freezing them in foam boxes covered with snow, and not a single one has gone bad.

During the Chinese New Year, they also indulged themselves and steamed everything.

…

This year has been a particularly difficult year for everyone, and many people’s New Year’s wish is to just survive.

Mayor Chen Guodong and several leaders of the Municipal Office are still working overtime in a meeting.

The extreme heat mentioned in the anonymous email might come anytime, so they couldn't fight a battle without any confidence. Now they had to put all the extremely cold snow into containers, and then filter out the impurities when the snow melted.

In places where there may be water sources, wells should be dug as soon as possible to develop them. This way, there will be sufficient water during extremely hot weather so that more people can survive.

"Come on! Leaders! Let's have dumplings for dinner today!"

Lao Zhang from the kitchen brought several large plates of leek and pork dumplings to Chen Guodong's office. How could he go hungry during the New Year?

"Wow! Lao Zhang, you made such big dumplings today. I'm drooling just looking at them!"

"I will be satisfied if I can eat delicious dumplings during the Chinese New Year!"

"Lao Zhang, where's the vinegar? The dumplings won't taste good without vinegar!"

Several department heads in the conference room were all growling with hunger. When Lao Zhang knocked on the door and came in, the aroma of pork dumplings wafted in.

"I'll pour the vinegar right away. I've asked the guys in the kitchen to go back for the New Year. One person can't carry so many plates. Please forgive me, leaders!"

Lao Zhang placed several plates of large dumplings in front of everyone and said with a smile.

"Then let's eat dumplings first. Thank you for staying here to study with me today!"

Chen Guodong took the chopsticks handed over by Lao Zhang and said to Xiao Liu who was taking notes, "You and Lao Zhang go to the kitchen to help everyone pour soy sauce and vinegar."

"Okay!" Xiao Liu closed his notebook and was about to follow Lao Zhang out.

"No, no! I'll just go get some more soy sauce and vinegar, it's very convenient!"

Lao Zhang quickly waved to Xiao Liu and told him to just sit and wait for his food.

"Mr. Zhang, your wife is waiting for you to come back for the New Year, right? Let Xiao Liu do the small task of pouring the soy sauce and vinegar."

"We have enough dumplings here, so you can pack up all the dumplings in the pot and take them home. You can also take back any ingredients left in the kitchen. We have three days off for the New Year, so you can go home and have a good rest for a few days!"

Chen Guodong put down his chopsticks, stood up, walked to the door and said to Lao Zhang.

"I don't have anything to do at home, so I'll wait here for you to finish eating and clean up the dishes before leaving!"

Old Zhang said to everyone with a grin.

"Just go back if I tell you to. Don't worry about these dishes. We will make sure to wash them and put them in the kitchen!"

"Lao Zhang, just listen to our mayor! Come on, take me to find soy sauce and vinegar!"

"Then...then I'll go back first..."

Before Lao Zhang could say something else, Xiao Liu pulled him out of the mayor's office.