Meng Guanglei found a courtyard house in the alley according to the address given by his mother.
There are four families living in this courtyard. Among them, the one living opposite the door is the family of my uncle Gu Weimin.
As soon as the uncle and nephew met, they hugged each other happily.
"Uncle, look, I know you like to eat fish. It's just a coincidence today that the supply and marketing cooperative near your house happened to have fresh fish. I'll buy two! Look how big and delicious these fish are!" Meng Guanglei waved the two fish in front of his uncle.
Gu Weimin was happy. He took the fish and went into the kitchen. "Go inside and wait for me for a while. I'll cook the fish and stew it. We'll have fish head and pancakes for lunch today!"
"Okay."
Meng Guanglei's uncle is an old man in the machinery factory, who just retired this summer. His wife passed away early, and his children are not around, so he lives here alone.
Gu Weimin spent a long time in the kitchen and finally managed to stew the fish.
While the fish was stewing, the uncle and nephew drank and chatted with a handful of salty peanuts.
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"How are you these days?"
"Very good!" Meng Guanglei replied, "I am quite used to this city. After all, this is where I grew up!"
"Just adapt. I was just asking what your job is like. The machinery factory is a large state-owned enterprise, and your place is full of opportunities and challenges. As long as you stay there for two years and make some achievements, then with your father's connections, it won't be difficult to transfer you to where you want to go."
"That's what I thought, too." Meng Guanglei raised his head and drank a cup of wine, twisting the glass back and forth with his fingers. "Uncle, I used to think it was just a machinery factory, and it would be easy to make some achievements. But now it seems that's not the case."
"What? Your skills are not strong enough?" Gu Weimin asked.
"It's not that I'm not strong enough. It's just that I have an opponent!" Meng Guanglei frowned and said, "Have you heard of Jiang Xun?"
Although Gu Weimin is retired, he still lives in the family quarters of the machinery factory. He knows everything about the factory, big or small. "I've heard of him. He's young, but he's made a lot of achievements. What? Are you afraid of him?"
"Afraid?" Meng Guanglei sneered, "I'm not afraid of him. But he has not been in the market for long, and his achievements are there. It's not easy for me to surpass him and achieve some results."
"What? What do you want your uncle to do?" Gu Weimin glanced at him and criticized him with words, "Leizi, let me tell you, if you want something, you have to work hard for it. You have a bright mind since you were young, but you don't use it in the right way. Finally, you have a dream, and your uncle is willing to help you. The factory just needs talents, so your uncle guarantees you and recommends you to the factory. Once you enter the factory, you have to put in 100% effort. If you want to surpass Jiang Xun, you have to work ten times harder than him! You have to be good at it!"
"I know, I know." Meng Guanglei smiled bitterly, "I only answered you because you asked about my situation, uncle! I didn't even say anything, and you scolded me."
Gu Weimin smiled, raised his hand and patted his shoulder: "Uncle is afraid that you will go astray."
"Don't be afraid. Although Jiang Xun is very powerful, I won't take him seriously for now. Don't worry, your nephew is not a loser!"
"Oh, oh, oh, you are the one who flatters yourself."
As the uncle and nephew were talking, they could smell waves of fragrance coming into their noses.
Gu Weimin was drooling, he rubbed his hands and stood up: "The fish is almost done, I'll go to the kitchen and make two pancakes, and then we can have dinner!"
Meng Guanglei smiled: "Uncle, I will help you."
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Ye Li carried the meat back home and went straight to the kitchen to chop the stuffing and prepare to make dumplings.
I went to Qingshan Village a few days ago, and the village party secretary gave her half a bag of juicy Chinese cabbage. She put the cabbage on the window of her house.
It snowed so heavily today that the cabbages were buried under the snow.
Ye Li went to smell the snow.
She was peeling vegetable leaves in the kitchen when Jiang Miao came in and took out two glutinous rice sticks from his pocket and handed them to Ye Li: "Aunt, have some! These are sweet and crunchy, and very delicious."
"Who gave this to you?" Ye Li asked with a smile.
Jiang Miao said: "This is given by my mother."
When Ye Li heard that it was given by Wang Sha, she didn't say anything. She had a lot of things to do and if she was involved, it would never end. She didn't want to have anything to do with her because of a piece of glutinous rice noodles.
"Thank you Miaomiao, you can eat it yourself."
"No, you eat it, you eat it!" Jiang Miao stuffed a rice noodle into Ye Li's mouth without saying anything, "Aunt, what are you going to cook?"
"I want to make big buns stuffed with cabbage and meat. Do you want some, Miaomiao?"
Jiang Miao nodded seriously: "I want to eat it, I really want to eat it."
"If you want to eat, just wait patiently. When the big buns are out of the pot, I will call you to eat them first!"
Jiang Miao nodded: "Okay."
"Go, go play."
Jiang Miao refused to leave. She looked at Ye Li's hands, which were red from the cold. She stretched out her warm hands to help Ye Li warm them up: "Your hands are so cold. Let me warm them up for you."
Ye Li was very pleased. Jiang Miao was always so kind and considerate. "I'm not cold. Even though my hands are cold now, they will become warm once I get busy."
"Really?"
"Of course."
Jiang Miao thought for a moment and said, "Aunt, let me help you with the work! I'll help you peel the cabbage!"
Ye Li smiled gently: "Miao Miao is still young, you can't do this job. When you grow up, you can help me with the work, okay?"
Jiang Miao nodded: "Okay."
"Be good, go play."
Jiang Miao came out of the kitchen and ran around in the yard, leaving a series of small footprints on the snow in the yard.
Ye Li didn't feel tired as he worked while watching Jiang Miao play.
Zhao Xingmei came out of the house and wanted to call Jiang Miao to go back to the house to play, but when she heard the sound of chopping vegetables in the kitchen, she went straight to the kitchen to watch Ye Li working.
"Wow, so much meat filling and cabbage!" Zhao Xingmei said, "How many dumplings do we need to make?"
"There are so many people." Ye Li said with a smile, "Mom, finally you don't have to cook anymore, just eat buns with me."
"How can this be possible? There are only three of us in this room, plus Jiang Xi! You worked so hard to make the dumplings, but you couldn't even eat two bites. The whole thing went to our stomachs."
"It's not that exaggerated!" Ye Li said.
"It's definitely not enough." Zhao Xingmei thought for a while and said, "I just happen to have a few white radishes here. Let's make stuffing with them and make two kinds of buns. This will definitely be enough to eat."
"Listen to my mother."
Zhao Xingmei liked Ye Li the most, especially since Ye Li helped her drive away Old Madam You last time, she liked Ye Li even more.
Seeing Ye Li busying herself, she felt bad and rolled up her sleeves: "You can't wrap so much stuffing by yourself, mom will help you!"
"Thank you, Mom."
Wang Sha was listening to the noise in the kitchen next door. She couldn't hear what was being said, but she could hear the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law talking and laughing.
Seeing Jiang Miao playing with snowballs in the yard, she opened the door and shouted, "Miao Miao, come in quickly, or you'll be frozen!"
When Jiang Miao heard her mother calling her, she immediately put down the snowball in her hand and went into Wang Sha's room: "Mom, my hands are a little cold."
Wang Sha didn't care about Jiang Miao's cold hands, and asked her in a low voice: "What are your grandma and your aunt talking about in the kitchen? I heard them chopping stuffing over there. What are they going to eat for lunch today?"
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