"I'm not telling the truth?"

Not only did Hu Qiaomei not lower her voice, she even raised it a few notches.

"It's New Year's Day, and you let everyone wait here hungry. Is this something a human being can do?"

Hu Qiaozhen's face turned pale, and she felt ashamed to have such a sister. "Sister, if you do this again, I will complain to my brother-in-law and ask him to send you back home."

She is married now and is a military wife, so she is not afraid that her sister will send her back to her hometown.

"You little bitch, you've only been married for a few days? You've grown cocky already, haven't you?"

Hu Qiaomei was so angry that she gnashed her teeth and twisted Hu Qiaozhen's arm before she calmed down.

She couldn't keep quiet. After being quiet for a while, she turned around and tugged at Yang Niannian's clothes, "Niannian, are you hungry?"

Before Yang Niannian could answer, the old leader appeared at the entrance of the cafeteria.

He walked to the front, looked at the military wives and children, and said some polite words, which roughly meant to celebrate the New Year and asked everyone not to be polite and to eat their fill.

Accompanied by a round of applause, the cooks brought out the dumplings from the canteen and put a bowl of dumplings on each table. If there were not enough, people could get more from the canteen window.

The wives and children of the soldiers were so happy that they could eat as much as they wanted. It was food from their own homes, so this was a rare good thing.

Although there were a lot of dumplings in the pot, Wang Fengjiao's sons all had good appetites. Lu Ruoling and Wang Fengjiao also had good appetites, so not a single dumpling was left in the pot.

Yang Niannian and Jiang Yueyue ate the least, and even An An ate almost twenty dumplings.

There were still people queuing up behind them to eat dumplings. After they finished eating, they didn't want to take up any seats. They returned the dumpling bowls to the canteen and took their lunch boxes back to the military dependents' quarters.

As soon as they entered the yard, the children happily ran to An An's house to watch TV.

Jiang Yueyue was used to hanging out with the boys. She wasn't shy at all and could run faster than An An.

Wang Fengjiao stopped at the gate of her own yard and said.

"Nian Nian, I'm going home to chop the dumpling stuffing first."

Having made some extra money this year, Wang Fengjiao didn't want to make her child suffer, so she planned to kill two rabbits, keeping one for herself and giving one to Yang Niannian.

She knew that if she told him now, Yang Niannian would definitely not want it, so she thought about killing it first and then sending it to him.

"Okay, let's go back and prepare the dumpling filling." Yang Niannian said.

Lu Ruoling felt so happy during the New Year for the first time. She burped and asked as she walked home.

"Sister-in-law, what are we going to eat tonight?"

Yang Niannian replied with a smile, "Make dumplings and cook a large table of food to have a prosperous New Year."

Lu Ruoling was overjoyed, "Second sister-in-law, this is the first time in my life that I feel the Chinese New Year is good."

Yang Niannian looked at Lu Ruoling's honest appearance and felt a little distressed. This girl was also pitiful. She left her biological parents when she was young and met an adoptive mother like Ma Xiuzhu.

Fortunately, I met her, otherwise Lu Ruoling would be in trouble.

Thinking about how she helped Lu Ruoling break off the engagement, Yang Niannian felt a sense of accomplishment, "Life will get better and better in the future."

"Second sister-in-law, I believe what you say." Lu Ruoling felt that what Yang Niannian said was more trustworthy than that of Bodhisattva.

After returning home, Yang Niannian tied on an apron and began to prepare dishes for dinner.

Lu Ruoling is strong and is responsible for chopping the dumpling fillings.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Jiang Yang drove his tractor to the gate of the military family compound, carrying two large roosters in his left hand and malted milk and more than ten pounds of pork and beef in his right hand, and entered the compound.

Such a grand scene stunned the military wives.

Mrs. Xu stared at Jiang Yang's back and muttered to herself, "Whose relative is this? The scene is even bigger than the New Year's greetings of the village chief's son-in-law in my village."

Sister Yang speculated, "Is this going to Political Commissar Zhang's house? Could it be that Yuting has found a partner?"

Yu Hongli interrupted, "I was chatting with Director Ding yesterday. Yuting dated several men but she didn't like any of them."

The three were chatting when they saw Jiang Yang carrying something into Yang Niannian's yard, so they all kept silent tacitly.

Yu Hongli caught Bingbing and asked him, only to find out that this was Jiang Yueyue's brother.

The news that the Jiang family was wealthy had spread throughout the military compound within an hour.

When Hu Qiaomei learned the news, she was visiting her sister's house.

When he heard that Jiang Yang was carrying pork, beef and two big live roosters, he looked very distressed.

It was as if Jiang Yang had brought her things to Yang Niannian's house.

"Captain Lu's wife is really tight-lipped. Brother Yueyue is so rich, but she didn't say a word. If you and Brother Yueyue were together, wouldn't all the meat and chicken be brought here today?"

Hu Qiaozhen couldn't bear to hear her say this, "I think my man is very good, I'm married now, don't talk nonsense, or someone will hear and gossip about me."

The young couple just got married and their relationship is very passionate.

Hu Qiaomei glared at her and said, "You are useless. You are just a worthless person. You can't live a good life."

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Jiang Yang brought two big roosters. Yang Niannian asked him to kill the roosters directly and asked Lu Ruoling to give one to Wang Fengjiao.

Unexpectedly, when Lu Ruoling came back, she had a killed rabbit in her hands, with all its fur removed.

"Second sister-in-law, Sister Wang killed two rabbits. This is just for us to eat."

The rabbit had been killed, so Yang Niannian didn't bother to be polite. "Put the rabbit on the cutting board first, and knead some flour to prepare for making dumplings! I've already mixed the dumpling stuffing."

Then he said to Jiang Yang, who was sitting on a small stool plucking chicken feathers, "Quickly pluck all the feathers and chop up the chicken and rabbit."

"Okay!"

Jiang Yang hasn't enjoyed the warmth of family since his father died and his mother passed away. Now he was smiling with all his big teeth, looking so happy.

This is the first time that Yang Niannian has prepared a New Year celebration in her two lifetimes. In the past, her parents and elders were busy with the chores, and she ate ready-made food. Now, although she is tired, she is happy and directly cooks a table of dishes.

Braised rabbit, spicy chicken, stir-fried beef, steamed bream, scallion fried egg and spinach egg soup, and a big pot of dumplings.

When it was time for dinner, Lu Nianfei carried the table and came back with An An and Yue Yue.

Yang Niannian and Lu Nianfei were busy putting two tables together, but unexpectedly Lu Shishen brought the old leader with him.

The old leader smiled kindly, "Comrade Xiao Yang, I'm here to eat again, do you mind?"

In previous years, Lu Shishen always accompanied him to celebrate the New Year. This year, Lu Shishen got married, so why didn’t he come with him?

Yang Niannian quickly said, "Old Chief, it is our blessing that you can come and celebrate the New Year with us. How could I mind?"

Fortunately, she made dumplings with two fillings, one with celery and one with chives.

Jiang Yueyue patted the stool with a discreet look, "Grandpa, please sit down."

The old leader smiled with wrinkles all over his face. He looked down at Jiang Yueyue and asked, "Whose child is this?"

Yang Niannian quickly introduced, "Old Chief, her name is Yueyue and she is my adopted sister."

Then he pointed at Jiang Yang and said, "This is Yueyue's brother, his name is Jiang Yang."