Chapter 109 Kowtow to Yun Qiao
As New Year’s Eve approaches, heavy snow begins to fall again.
Blocked by the snowstorm, the couple spent this year in isolation from the world.
The New Year's Eve dinner was still a collective meal from a big pot, but the canteen had already prepared pork and chicken for the educated youth, as well as more than ten pounds of noodles, tofu, vermicelli, and some other side dishes.
In addition to the cooks in the kitchen team, even the educated youth who could cook were arranged to come in. The strong male educated youth were assigned to chop meat, while the female educated youth were assigned to knead dough and make dumplings.
The rest of the canteen did not need cleaning, so everyone was assigned to clean it. All the snow in the educated youth compound had to be swept out, cobwebs had to be removed, windows had to be wiped, and the whole house had to be cleaned. Finally, before dark, the couplets were pasted with glue.
The cafeteria was also cleaned up, with two long tables put together to form a large table, making a total of three large tables.
Although it was freezing cold and snowy outside, the cafeteria was bustling with activity and not cold at all.
The same dish was served on every table, including the fragrant chicken, mushroom and vermicelli stew. The chicken was the chicken raised by Yunqiao on the chicken farm, the mushrooms were wild mushrooms from the mountains, and the vermicelli was made from the sweet potatoes grown by the company itself.
There are also braised fish, pork with pickled cabbage, fried bean curd with shredded pork, chicken with potatoes, scrambled eggs with tomato sauce, and two cold dishes, spicy and sour pork skin jelly and preserved egg tofu.
In addition, the educated youth contributed canned braised hairtail fish, canned fruits, peanuts, cakes, and candies, making a total of ten dishes, including chicken and fish, which meant that the people would have surplus and perfection every year.
How can you have a New Year's Eve dinner without drinking? I don't know who secretly brought two bottles of wine to the male educated youth and poured half a glass for each of them. They could drink if they wanted to, and they wouldn't be forced to drink if they didn't want to.
Of course, in this atmosphere, no one was disappointed. Even if they couldn't drink, they still picked up their glasses and clinked glasses with everyone!
At worst, you can just touch it with your lips and not actually drink it.
Yun Qiao never drinks, so she just touched the wine with her lips, and Zheng Wenjing drank the rest of the half cup.
After three rounds of drinks, the whole scene became lively. An extroverted male educated youth played the harmonica and sang a festive song.
Zheng Wenjing couldn't hold back any longer, so she took off her coat and stepped forward to dance a waltz, which immediately pushed the atmosphere of the entire New Year's Eve dinner party to a climax.
At twelve o'clock in the night, accompanied by bursts of firecrackers, the dumplings were put into the pot.
The new year is here.
Zheng Wenjing was a little drunk and was eventually carried in by Qi Bin. After their last fight in the commune, the cousins had reconciled.
Qi Bin still didn't speak to Yun Qiao, and looked at her with unfriendly eyes.
Instead, Qi Chunyu smiled and said to her, "Ye Yunqiao, happy new year. I was wrong for what I did to you before."
Yun Qiao said "hmm" and nothing else happened.
During the New Year, she would not say bad things to Qi Chunyu, but she was not a saint and was not magnanimous enough to talk to Qi Chunyu as if what happened in the past had never happened.
It’s better not to talk to each other.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the educated youth went to the homes of several leaders in the company to pay New Year's greetings.
After paying New Year's greetings, Qin Guifen took Yun Qiao home, and also brought Zheng Wenjing and Wang Ru, who lived with her.
She prepared roasted melon seeds, fried popcorn, and some sweet fruits for them to eat.
Yun Qiao, Zheng Wenjing and Wang Ru prepared change in advance and each gave Yang Xiaohong and Qin Zhenzhen one cent as New Year's money.
During the New Year holidays, Yun Qiao and the others didn't have to go to work, so they almost had a lot of fun.
After the snow stopped, Yun Qiao went back to Sanhe Camp, borrowed the company's carriage, and asked Lin Tao to take him there.
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