Chapter 73
Su Tao cooked braised fish that night, symbolizing abundance and prosperity, a tradition popular in every generation. He also made four-happiness dumplings, symbolizing reunion. He also made braised pork with fermented bean curd, braised chicken with mushrooms, and finally a seasonal vegetable soup. Fish, meat, and vegetables—it was perfect!
Su Tao even suggested cooking the leftover dumplings from lunch and serving them up. Since they hadn't cooked dinner, the dumplings, combined with all the other dishes, would be more than enough.
"Eat more vegetables. It's not good to leave too much for the next day." Su Tao advised the He brothers and sisters.
Su Tao picked up a few dumplings and some chicken balls and vegetables, and was basically full. She usually didn't eat much.
The entire fish basically went into the stomachs of He Yanzhi and He Chuan.
"Hmm, this fermented bean curd pork is so delicious, mellow and soft, soft in the mouth, not greasy at all. Is this fried with that hairy tofu?" He Yanzhi asked incoherently with her mouth full.
"Yes, this stir-fried vegetable is actually very delicious. Next time I'll make you some stir-fried water spinach with fermented bean curd." Su Tao said with a smile.
After dinner, in the countryside at that time, there was no entertainment, no computers, no televisions. In the past, Su Tao would always watch the Spring Festival Gala at home. Su Tao went to He Chuan's utility room and took out a newly assembled radio. He put it on and played some of Mao Zedong's speeches.
Su Tao found another channel playing music, and melodious singing drifted out from the radio.
"The sun is about to set in the west,
Weishan Lake is quiet.
Playing my beloved pipa,
Sing that touching ballad.
Climbing onto the fast train,
Like riding a Mercedes-Benz horse."
Su Tao listened to songs and chatted with He Chuan while planning to stay up late into the night to celebrate the New Year.
It was completely dark when bursts of firecrackers suddenly came from outside. He Yanzhi rushed to the door excitedly, and Su Tao and He Chuan followed to watch. Su Tao hadn't seen firecrackers for a long time. Fireworks and firecrackers were now banned in the city.
Under the pitch-black night, every household lit firecrackers, sending strings of golden sparks blooming in the night sky. Some of the more affluent children even took out their rockets to set them off. With a whoosh, the firecrackers shot a long streak of fire into the sky, then exploded with a bang, sending sparks scattering down in a shower of indescribable beauty.
The little girl looked at the firecrackers with desire in her eyes. Su Tao secretly blamed herself for being negligent. She had never thought of buying firecrackers at all, because her impression of firecrackers was still that fireworks and firecrackers were not allowed to be set off now.
Su Tao quickly checked the system and searched for fireworks. A large number of them came up. He didn't want firecrackers anymore; they were too dangerous. Su Tao exchanged for a lot of fireworks.
"Yanzhi, wait for me." Su Tao walked into the house, went to a place where Hechuan and his sister could not see him, and took out the fireworks.
Then he went back and handed it to the little girl, "What do you see here?"
The little girl looked at these strange things. Some of them looked like firecrackers, but they were different from anything she had seen before. She asked uncertainly, "Is this a firecracker?"
"Well, this is called fireworks. It's a bit like sky rockets. It looks really nice when it's set off in the sky." Su Tao introduced it to the little girl.
"Let me try a few for you, please step back." Su Tao waved his arms and signaled them to step back.
Su Tao arranged the cardboard-like boxes on the ground, then took out a lit incense stick and lit the fuse one by one. "Bang~Bang~Bang" as a sound like thunder rang out, the fireworks shot up into the sky with long flames like the tail of a meteor. After a few crisp sounds, the fireballs exploded, and beautiful flowers bloomed like flowers scattered by fairies. It was so bright and dazzling that it dyed the clouds above the night sky as bright as fire.
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