Chapter 251 New Year's Eve
Last year, because Zhang Yuanyuan was pregnant, Wang Yuanchao did not stay up all night on New Year's Eve. Instead, he had the New Year's Eve dinner early and the family went to bed early.
This year, the family is doing well and naturally follows the local customs.
The New Year's Eve dinner will no longer be eaten in advance. Instead, the family will first worship their ancestors and offer sacrifices to the gods.
The young daughter-in-law and the mother-in-law each held a little girl and sat on the sofa, drinking sweet wine with eggs, eating melon seeds, peanuts, walnuts, pine nuts, snacks and candies to fill their stomachs, while turning on the radio and listening to the classic Peking Opera "Silang Visits His Mother". The beautiful Peking Opera singing on the radio attracted the attention of the mother and daughter.
However, a show like Peking Opera has no appeal to a time traveler who has experienced all kinds of entertainment programs.
In the future, Peking Opera will only be popular in a very small circle, and most other people will not listen to it.
Wang Yuanchao naturally had little interest in Peking Opera.
In Wang Yuanchao's mind, listening to this stuff is not as good as listening to red songs and Northeastern Errenzhuan.
But Wang Yuanchao naturally would not spoil the fun of his wife and mother-in-law. Instead, he carefully provided logistical services to his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law while they were listening to Peking Opera . He added sweet wine to their eggs and picked up the melon seeds, peanuts, walnuts and pine nut shells they cracked and burned them in the stove.
Another thing he did was to help the mother and daughter make Kung Fu tea. When they got tired of eating sweet wine and eggs, they could drink a cup of Kung Fu tea and rinse their mouths. In short, he had something to do and Wang Yuanchao enjoyed it.
After eight o'clock in the evening, the mother-in-law and the young daughter-in-law quickly put the little girl in the cradle and went to the kitchen to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner.
Wang Yuanchao's family had a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner, including pork stewed with vermicelli, chicken stewed with mushrooms, steamed meatballs, fish head with chopped pepper, Mao's braised pork, spicy steamed pork, braised pork elbow, stewed radish with bones, braised venison, and stir-fried roe deer meat with peppers. The table was filled with meat dishes.
At ten o'clock in the evening, Wang Yuanchao brought out six kilograms of wine. The family did not eat any staple food. They just drank, ate meat, chatted and listened to the Northeastern Errenzhuan on the radio.
The whole family celebrated the New Year with great joy.
People of this generation really have good appetites and big stomachs, especially Wang Yuanchao, who practiced martial arts every day. The coffee table was filled with all kinds of fish and meat. The family of three almost finished all the meat.
After the New Year's Eve dinner lasted until twelve o'clock, Wang Yuanchao came to the gate of the yard with four firecrackers. Listening to the "crackling" sound of firecrackers from the entire Red Flag Brigade, he began to light his own firecrackers one by one. On the New Year's Eve in the Northeast, at twelve o'clock in the evening, no matter whether the family was rich or poor, every household began to set off firecrackers. For a while, the sound of firecrackers exploding was deafening and resounded through the sky and the earth in the dark earth.
The sound of "crackling, crackling" continued, and everyone was busy and happily welcoming the New Year.
After setting off the firecrackers, the young wife and mother-in-law did not continue to eat the New Year's Eve dinner. After everyone cleaned up the dishes and garbage at home, Wang Yuanchao boiled two pots of water, brought them to the bathroom, and filled half a tub of hot spring water.
I called my young wife and mother-in-law to come in and take a bath together, and then went to bed cleanly.
During the New Year holidays in Northeast China, people are so busy with various activities that they can't keep up with the schedule. What Wang Yuanchao hates most is visiting relatives and friends during the New Year. Anyway, Wang Yuanchao is a general in a military field and is not subject to military orders.
Wang Yuanchao was willing to stay outside for half a day in the cold weather, but he was too lazy to go door to door to wish the elderly a happy new year and he would not do it.
After the New Year's greetings, the next activities are the yangge dance and stilt walking, which are popular among the young daughter-in-law and the mother-in-law.
Wang Yuanchao could only watch the fun throughout the whole process and chat with several village cadres to learn about the latest struggle at the village leadership level.
Look, Wang Yuanchao is squatting in a corner next to the brigade headquarters, watching his young wife and mother-in-law join the yangko dance, twisting and jumping, looking very happy.
Wang Yuanchao could only squat on the side with the captain, smoking and chatting.
"Wang Zhiqing, whether we can make a comeback this year depends on you."
"Captain, it's not that serious, right?"
"Hey, now we have almost communicated with Secretary Kong. He and Director Niu of Hongqi support our Hongqi Brigade in setting up schools, clinics, collective enterprises, and repairing bridges and roads.
Now, as long as the money in our brigade’s public account is used for the development of the Red Flag Brigade, they will support our construction.
But they want to take away the management rights of the poultry breeding base,
Hey, we at Hongqi used to make money from our sideline business of poultry breeding, so that everyone could live a good life, but when these bastards came, they took it away.”
Wang Yuanchao was not clear about the process of the team leader's communication, so he asked: "Didn't everyone agree before that we would not give in easily, and even if we did give in, we would make Secretary Kong and his men suffer? How come we have almost reached an agreement so quickly?"
"Hey, we are definitely not afraid of being dragged on. The longer we drag on, the more deeply the rumors we spread will spread among the people. But Kong Youde and his gang are not pushovers either.
They told us directly that we should either cooperate or they would tear each other apart.
They want the management rights of the poultry breeding base. We have previously set the development strategy and the brigade’s funds, and we are free to use them according to the development strategy. They don’t set any obstacles.”
Wang Yuanchao thought about it carefully and said:
"We can't help it. Before, we set up the poultry breeding base simply based on the point-to-point assistance policy and carried out this project, which made it very easy for others to interfere in this project. With such a fat fruit, even if it wasn't Director Niu and his group, there would be others who would want to grab the fruit.
But at least this time we took the initiative and got the result we wanted.
So now our situation is not so passive, but when we set up our village collective enterprise, we must have a more rigorous design. We can't just build and develop roughly like the poultry breeding base, and then wait until the poultry breeding base is well developed and then let others easily snatch away the fruits. "
The captain exhaled a puff of smoke, nodded heavily, and said:
"Yes, Wang Zhiqing, you are right. But how can we design it to prevent the superiors from reaching out and taking advantage of it?"
Wang Yuanchao did not answer the captain immediately, but thought for a moment and said:
"Captain, please allow me to go back and think about it carefully. Tomorrow, we will call Secretary Zeng, Captain Liu, Director Yang, Accountant Yu and others.
Let's sit down together and study it carefully, shall we?"
"Okay, then tomorrow morning at nine o'clock."
"Okay, that's settled then."
(End of this chapter)
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