"Sister, you just said that Bi Jianjun and Zhang Guifen were sentenced. What were they sentenced for?" Li Xia asked.

The older sister glanced at her and said, "You don't even know this. You're not from our sugar factory, are you? Bi Jianjun has been embezzling a lot of money during his years at the sugar factory, and it's all been discovered this time. As for his mistress Zhang Guifen, she's spent a lot of the embezzled money over the years, so she's definitely going to jail too!"

So that's what happened. It can be said that evil will be punished.

A young comrade nearby said with emotion: "Everyone used to say that the factory director's eldest son-in-law was many times better than the second son-in-law. Now it seems that although Section Chief Zhao looks unreliable, he is much better than Bi Jianjun!"

The elder sister disagreed and said, "You think so because you are too young and have only been in our sugar factory for a short time. You don't know what kind of person Section Chief Zhao is. You saw Section Chief Zhao asking around when he saw female comrades wearing nice clothes. Do you think Section Chief Zhao is interested in them? Section Chief Zhao was asking around for his wife!"

"You came late and didn't meet Section Chief Zhao's wife. She used to be very pretty, and they had a very good relationship. But she developed vitiligo a few years ago, and many white spots appeared on her face and body. Later, she quit her job at the factory and rarely went out. Even when she went out, she always wore a hat."

"When Section Chief Zhao asked where those nice clothes were bought, he was not trying to flirt with female comrades. He wanted to buy them for his daughter-in-law. I even saw him knitting a sweater for his wife."

Li Xia never thought that such a thing could happen.

Thinking back to when she saw Gu Baozhu getting nervous when she saw Section Chief Zhao, she thought Section Chief Zhao was not a good person, so she taught An An to scold him.

Now that I think about it, he specifically asked about Gu Baozhu’s birthmark. He probably thought that she had found a way to remove the birthmark, so he wanted to ask her about it. What if she could also cure his wife’s vitiligo?

Thinking about it now, she felt a little guilty. After thinking about it, she decided to write an apology letter with An An and give it to Section Chief Zhao after returning.

"It seems that Section Chief Zhao is really a good man." Li Xia said.

The eldest sister said, "That's right! If you ask me, when looking for a man, you have to look for someone like Section Chief Zhao. Although he is not very capable at work, he knows how to pamper his wife. He is nothing like Bi Jianjun, who has no good intentions and wants to eat up the whole family!"

…

On New Year’s Eve, window decorations and spring couplets are posted throughout the house.

The words on the Spring Festival couplets were written by Gu Weicheng. The strokes are vigorous and powerful, and the momentum is magnificent.

The brigade slaughtered the New Year pig that had been raised for a whole year and distributed pork to each household according to the number of work points each person earned in the year.

Gu Hongjun was a cadre in the brigade, and Gu Yongnian could drive a tractor. Their family had high work points and received more pork than ordinary families.

The pork was chopped up and mixed with several kinds of dumpling fillings, and everyone gathered together to make dumplings.

Gu Xiaofu and Gu Xiaoman also know how to make dumplings, and they are pretty good at it. After seeing this, An An wanted to make some too, but the dumplings he made were of weird shapes.

An An was a little embarrassed, Gu Weicheng smiled and said, "It's okay, An An will pack it for Dad to eat."

While I was making dumplings, the team leader came over and said, "I'm making dumplings."

Gu Hongjun and Chen Dongju quickly invited the team leader to come in and sit down, but the team leader waved his hand and said, "I won't sit down. I came here this time to invite Weicheng to speak a few words at our team's New Year's Eve meeting this year.

Now Weicheng is the most promising person in our brigade. Let’s speak a few words for the people in our brigade, and let the young people in our brigade be as motivated as Weicheng and join the army in the future.”

It is an extremely honorable thing to be able to speak in front of everyone in the team at this time.

Every year, the team fights for the opportunity to go on stage and speak, and everyone competes to be the speaker.

But Gu Weicheng didn't care about this. He wanted to refuse, but after hearing the second half of what the captain said, he felt that if he went on stage and said a few words, it would really inspire the young people in the team to join the army, which would be a good thing.

So he nodded and said, "Okay, uncle, I'll go on stage and say a few words then."

"Okay!" The captain said with a smile, "Then you guys make dumplings. I have to go back and make dumplings too."

On the night of New Year's Eve, the elders give the younger generations lucky money. At this time, the red envelopes are not so formal, just wrap them in red paper. Li Xia asked Gu Weicheng to find some red paper for her, and she wrapped several red envelopes.

An An saw his parents starting to make red envelopes, so he walked over and asked, "Dad, can I have a piece of red paper? I want to make a red envelope, too."

"Here." Gu Weicheng still remembered that An An had said that she would prepare a New Year's gift for Ji Feng, so he naturally prepared one for him.

Li Xia also prepared money for An An, intending for An An to use it to give Ji Feng New Year's money.

Unexpectedly, An An shook her head and said, "Mom, I have to use my own money to give Ji Feng the New Year's gift money. I have already prepared it!"

As he spoke, An An took out the new cotton-padded jacket that Li Xia had made for him and pulled out a stack of Mao Zedong's banknotes from the pocket of the jacket.

These were the pocket money that Li Xia gave him when he went to school. Every Friday, he could spend whatever he wanted. Li Xia never asked him what he bought, so Li Xia didn't know that An An didn't spend any of the money, but saved it all.

Looking at the stack of banknotes in An An's hand, Li Xia smiled and joked, "An An has saved so much money. He must be very rich."

An An smiled a little embarrassedly: "Mom, I saved all the pocket money you gave me. I didn't spend it. I saved more than six yuan in total."

He folded the money neatly, wrapped it in red paper, and said to Ji Feng, "Ji Feng, this red envelope is from me. I wish you a happy new year, more and more youthful, and that you can stay with me, my parents, and me for a long, long time!"

Jifeng wagged his tail, took the red envelope given to him by An An with his mouth, and circled around An An.

If it could speak, it would definitely say: "Long live the master!"

"The dumplings are out of the pot, you can eat them now!" Chen Dongju called out.

The whole family gathered together to eat dumplings. Of course, we also cooked a lot of other dishes, but the staple food was dumplings. The leftover dumplings were placed in the yard. There was a natural refrigerator to freeze them, so they would not go bad. We could bring them in and cook them tomorrow and continue eating.

Gu Hongjun heated up a pot of wine and asked everyone to drink some, but when it came to Li Xia, Gu Weicheng coughed lightly and said, "Uncle, Li Xia can't drink much, so she won't drink."

"Yes, yes, I can't drink much, so I drink tea instead of wine." Li Xia said quickly. She didn't want to get drunk and make a fool of herself in front of everyone.

Gu Hongjun: "Okay, then let's use tea instead of wine."

"I wish our family a prosperous new year!"

After the New Year’s Eve dinner, Li Xia took out the red envelopes that she had prepared earlier and gave one each to Gu Xiaofu, Gu Xiaoman, and Ji Feng.

An An even remembered to give Ji Feng New Year’s money, so how could she forget?

Ji Feng opened his mouth and bit the red envelope given by Li Xia. At this moment, Gu Xiaofu and Gu Xiaoman also handed over a red envelope. The two siblings said in unison:

"This is the red envelope we gave to Ji Feng. Ji Feng is a hero dog. An An said that giving Ji Feng a red envelope can reduce his age, so we all have to give Ji Feng a red envelope. We also hope that Ji Feng can stay young and live forever!"

Ding Hehua looked at the brother and sister and finally understood why they asked her for money in the morning.

It turns out that it was to give Ji Feng a New Year’s gift!

Instead of being angry, Ding Hehua felt very relieved, as this showed that her two children were kind and good children.

After hearing this, Gu Baozhu immediately wrapped another red envelope for Ji Feng and said, "Then I will also wrap one for Ji Feng, to give him an extra year of happiness."

"Then I'll take care of it too, I'll take care of it too!" Gu Yongnian also said.

Gu Baozhu took the lead, and the adults present also began to make New Year's gifts for Jifeng. There were ones for Gu Yongnian and Ding Hehua, Chen Dongju and Gu Hongjun, and even Grandpa Gu made a New Year's gift for Jifeng, as if they treated Jifeng as their own child.

An An was counting the lucky money bags that Ji Feng received: "One, two, three... seven, eight! Ji Feng received eight lucky money bags in total. If one lucky money bag can make Ji Feng one year older, then Ji Feng is only two years old now, still a little baby!"

'Little baby' Jifeng received a lot of lucky money today and ate delicious dumplings, so his tail wagged even more happily.