Wan Yu wants to join the army, but there is no hope in 2015. He can only hope for the conscription in July or August 2016.

Starting from 2013, the country changed its previous practice of recruiting soldiers in autumn and winter to recruiting soldiers in summer.

Recruitment begins in July and August every year, and service begins in September.

Wan Yu would have graduated from high school in July or August, and if he was drafted, he would have joined the army in September.

Wan Feng frowned when he thought of the conscription time. July and August this year were a special period, when the situation at China's doorstep was tense.

The year 2016 was a very special year. Due to a major incident in the southern waters, China's international image changed dramatically, shifting from its previous defensive stance to counterattack.

Since the reform and opening up, China has always been submissive.

Since the 1990s, the West has had several opportunities to contain China, but they were all missed due to illusions or coincidences.

The two most recent ones were in 2008 and 2013, but both were resolved by China through compromises in certain areas or through using a small but effective approach.

In 2016, due to the wonders of nature in the southern waters, the West felt it necessary to teach disobedient China a lesson.

Certain Western forces believe that they can once again use the excuse of overturning the table to force China to make concessions in certain areas.

But what they didn't expect was that China actually raised the table ahead of time this time.

This incident was almost beyond the expectations of everyone in the world.

Thus, the most dramatic scene of 2016 unfolded. Two aircraft carrier fleets, seemingly on a collision course, turned tail and vanished without a trace, leaving the world in dismay.

The fleet commander who threatened to start a war tonight was dismissed a few months later and sent to Australia to serve as a diplomat.

For a certain superpower, this is an extremely embarrassing thing.

The following year, a small Southeast Asian country that took the lead in creating the South China Sea dispute immediately changed its stance after its next president took office.

It was from this day that the Western world, which was never a united front, began to engage in intrigue.

But it is only the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and it will take another half a year for these things to happen.

This is the time when farmers in the north slaughter pigs for the New Year.

Historically, there has been a tradition in the north of killing pigs to entertain guests.

On the day of slaughtering the pig, the host family will invite several of their relatives and friends to gather together to eat meat and drink wine. This has been a custom for many years.

In the past, when living standards were low, people really lived for food and drink, and it was rare for them to have a feast during the Chinese New Year.

But now with the improvement of life, it has developed into a way of communication.

Some business people and close friends get together to eat meat and discuss business for the coming year while chatting and laughing.

Although it is not something worth writing about, slaughtering a pig and inviting guests is still a big deal in rural areas, because it is related to the issue of face. Being invited by many people means that you are capable and popular. If no one invites you, it means that your popularity is very bad.

Nowadays, having bad relationships almost means you are a loser. Only a very few people can succeed in today's world without connections.

People who dig a well behind their stove and open a door on the roof are destined to have a bad life.

However, being invited to eat meat by too many people is also a troublesome thing. If someone invites you back, you have to invite them back as well. Isn't it a matter of reciprocity?

But if you are invited too many times, more people will come when you return the invitation. If you have small pigs at home, there will be basically not much food left after entertaining all the guests.

At an exaggerated point, even killing a piglet at home was not enough to eat.

This is still better. No matter how big or small the family is, they still raise pigs. How do you explain those families that don’t raise pigs?

Wan Feng's family is one of those families that doesn't raise pigs.

After his parents moved back to Jiangwei from Longjiang, the Wan family never raised pigs again.

In the past few years, during the Chinese New Year, I would buy one or two pigs from people I knew well and slaughter them.

In the past two years, I have stopped buying pork. I usually buy meat at the market, but of course I have to know the source of the meat.

Luan Feng has a talent for buying pork. She can tell the quality of any meat at a glance. It is impossible to fool her with pork from old sows, old boars, or even sick or dead pigs.

Someone said that she must have been a Roaring Sky Dog in her previous life, otherwise why would she be so sensitive to meat?

At this time of year, invitations to eat meat come to someone like snowflakes on a snowy day.

When there are fewer, there are ten or eight; when there are more, there are thirty or fifty.

He is Sun Wukong who can pull out monkey hair to create clones. By now, all the hair has probably been pulled out.

In the past, he would treat people back when they bought pigs for the New Year. Now that people don’t even buy pigs for the New Year, he doesn’t treat people back either.

I can't afford it.

It’s not that I can’t afford the money, but that I can’t afford the entertainment.

There were dozens of people involved, and it was like they were doing something, which made the family very anxious.

Now that his parents are old and can't stand such trouble, he no longer buys pigs for the New Year.

If I don’t buy pigs, I won’t have to entertain them. Look how smart I am!

During the Chinese New Year, Luan Feng drove Zhang Xuan out to buy some pork elbows, pork ribs, pig offal and other things to celebrate the New Year.

There are now more types of meat to choose from, and pork is no longer a necessity during the Chinese New Year.

But you can't eat for free if you don't return the invitation.

Even if he didn't return the invitation, the people who invited him to eat meat every year would still line up all the way to Black Lagoon Town.

So, starting from a few years ago when he stopped buying pigs for the New Year, whenever he went to someone's house to eat meat, he would bring gifts, and the gifts would be worth no less than two or three hundred yuan.

This way the meal isn't wasted.

But today he went to this restaurant to eat meat with bare hands, carrying his mouth on his shoulders.

Liang Hongying looked at him unhappily: "Hey, Mr. Wan! You always bring gifts when you go to other people's houses to eat meat, but why do you always come to my house empty-handed every year to eat meat? Are you jealous of us?"

Wan Feng laughed and did not argue. Liang Hongying would greet him with this trick every year, but he was too lazy to pay attention to her.

If Mr. Wan goes to someone's house to eat meat empty-handed, there won't be more than five houses with all his strength, so you can just be happy.

Han Tiezhu is already a young man of twenty-two or twenty-three. He did not inherit the taciturn character of the Han Guang family. His several years of college life have made his tongue as smooth as oil.

He had no interest in inheriting his father's security company and was determined to start his own business.

After graduating from university, he wandered around for almost two years. When he had enough time, he returned to Jiangwei to start his own business.

"Uncle Wan! You're here! Come here! Call me Uncle Wan." Han Tiezhu waved and called over a girl with lowered eyebrows and a pleasant appearance.

The girl is not short and has pretty eyes and delicate features.

"Uncle Wan!" The girl's voice was very sweet, and the sugar content was probably more than four plus signs.

"Has our Tiezhu brought his wife back? I was wondering why your mom is so happy like Tuxingsun."

The girl covered her mouth with her hands and smiled, then turned around and secretly asked who Tiezhu was?