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Chapter 1502 Spring Festival Gala (New Year extra update, wishing brothers a happy new year)

Chapter 1502 Spring Festival Gala (New Year extra update, wishing brothers a happy new year)

The Zhao family’s dog food bowls are all enamel bowls, big enough for washing faces and feet.

The Zhao family had a lot of these basins, all discarded from the canteen for storing food. Many of them were broken in the canteen, but Zhao Youcai took them home and repaired them so that they no longer leaked, making them perfect for holding food and feeding the dog.

Black Tiger's food bowl is old, it was a Dazhai red flower from the 1970s. Since Black Tiger got it, the bowl has been very clean, because every time the Zhao family feeds it, Black Tiger licks the bowl clean.

Today, this basin went up to heaven.

The people outside the yard and the dogs in the two yards all looked up at the fallen enamel basin.

"Bang!" With a dull sound, the basin fell to the ground, and the black tiger closest to the basin pounced directly on it.

With just one look, the black tiger let out a roar and pounced towards Li Ruhai.

The enamel basin is very sturdy and will not break even if you drop it hard. But as the firecrackers flew into the sky, a large bulge appeared on the bottom of the enamel basin, and it was cracked in the middle!

"Ahhh..." Heihu pulled the iron chain straight and roared at Li Ruhai. His anger was no less than that of the thief who came to the house that day.

Everyone rushed into the yard. Zhao Jun stopped the angry Heihu, Zhao Youcai picked up the broken dog food bowl, and Li Dayong kicked Li Ruhai.

Logically speaking, children should not be beaten during the Chinese New Year.

"What a wicked thing!" Li Dayong laughed and scolded, "Why are you breaking the pot?"

From Li Dayong's attitude, it can be seen that the kick he gave Li Ruhai was not very heavy. There are two more broken basins like this in the Zhao family's warehouse.

Li Ruhai smiled and said, "I just thought it was fun."

"Aoaoao..." It was not known whether the black tiger, which had just been pacified, understood the conversation between the Li father and son, but it roared at them again.

"Hurry up, Shunzi!" Zhao Youcai turned around and saw that Lin Xiangshun was closest to the warehouse, so he immediately said to him, "Hurry up to the warehouse and get another one for that basin."

Lin Xiangshun went to the warehouse and took out two enamel basins with patched bottoms, one white with a blue rim, and the other with a bright red peony.

"Which one do you want, Uncle?" Lin Xiangshun asked. Zhao Youcai said, "Any one will do. Let it choose."

Two basins were placed in front of the black tiger, but the angry black tiger kicked each basin one by one, and then turned his head and went back into the den.

No one paid any attention to the angry black tiger. They packed up their things and left the house, saying they were going to play by the river.

The river bank is on the other side of Dongdagou. The children took ice scooters and sleds, and the adults took the double-barreled scooters bought by Zhao Jun. Then a group of people rushed out of the village, leaving the women at home to chat and prepare meals.

Zhao Jun called Ma Yang on his way out of the house. The group played in Dongdagou for two hours and it was twelve o'clock when they came back.

When they started playing, they were no longer cold. Their faces were red, their clothes were unbuttoned, and they walked home talking and laughing.

When Zhao Jun and his companions arrived home, the dogs of the Zhao and Li families barked twice as usual to alert the people inside the house.

But when Li Ruhai walked into the yard, the black tiger jumped up and roared at Li Ruhai: "Aoao..."

"It's over!" Lin Xiangshun laughed and said, "Ruhai, you have been offended by Huzi."

"Oh my God!" Li Dayong exclaimed, walked quickly to the black tiger's den, and looked at the big red peony enamel basin on the ground.

Lin Xiangshun had given Hei Hu an enamel basin like this before, but that one had been repaired. This one, on the other hand, was brand new.

No matter how Li Dayong looked at it, he felt that this was the reward given to him as an outstanding worker by the forest farm a few days ago.

"Isn't this harmful to people?" This was said by Xing San. The old man believed that no matter how precious a dog was, he would not give it a new basin.

Hearing what Xing San said, Hei Hu, who was calmed down by Zhao Jun, glanced at Xing San. But this dog always bullies the weak and fears the strong, and he knew that this old man was not a good person, so he kept silent.

Everyone walked inside. Li Dayong picked up his prize and asked Jin Xiaomei as soon as he entered the house: "Xiaomei, why did I leave this basin outside?"

Jin Xiaomei, who was cutting vegetables in the outer room, suddenly changed her expression, raised her hand and pointed outside, saying, "Hurry and take it outside!"

"Aoaoao..." At this time, the howling of a black tiger was heard outside the house.

"Did you hear that?" Jin Xiaomei heard the dog barking and said to Li Dayong, "After you left, the dog kept barking."

Jin Xiaomei is also a person who needs to make a living. If she had no other choice, who would give a good basin to a dog?

But I have to give it to him. That dog is hard to coax. After Zhao Jun and his men left, Hei Hu started to make a fuss. Wang Meilan went out and gave him some trough cakes, but Hei Hu, who was always greedy, refused to eat them. He just kept barking, saying, "If you mess with me, I won't let you have an easy time."

Jin Xiaomei had no choice but to go home and get out her foot basin to give to Heihu.

Jin Xiaomei thought that she would give this foot-washing basin to Heihu, and then change her original wash basin to wash feet. As for the new basin given by Li Dayong, she would use it to wash her face.

As a result, she brought the foot basin to Heihu, who lowered his head to smell it, and then kicked her basin next to the earthen stove.

This made Jin Xiaomei so angry that she picked up the foot basin and went home.

But there was no way, Hei Hu continued to bark. He barked every two minutes, which made the people who barked very upset. Wang Meilan slapped Hei Hu twice but it was useless.

After her old son did something bad and ran away, Jin Xiaomei had to find a way to make peace. So she went home and brought her wash basin to Heihu. She thought that he should wash his feet and use a new basin to wash his face.

As a result, Hei Hu kicked her wash basin onto the earthen stove. The basin didn't leak, but a large piece of paint was knocked off.

Jin Xiaomei was both angry and distressed. Finally, she had no choice but to give the new basin to Heihu.

When the basin was placed in front of him, the black tiger dog put its mouth into the basin, snorted twice, and then raised its injured front leg.

But this time, the black tiger did not kick the basin away, but instead gently scratched the edge of the basin with its claws.

This is the trough cake that I haven’t eaten before.

I've already given you the new basin, is that the only thing missing?

After eating the trough cake, Hei Hu became quiet. But this afternoon, whenever he looked at Li Ruhai, Hei Hu would bark.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, as a string of firecrackers burned out in front of the Zhao family's door, dinner officially began in the east and west rooms.

Braised spare ribs, chicken stewed with mushrooms, stewed pork elbow with mashed garlic, pork neck bone stewed with sauerkraut, braised forest frog with sauce, stir-fried meat with garlic sprouts, stir-fried celery with vermicelli, Feilong morel soup, fried shrimp chips, fried peanuts, home-cooked cold dishes, and pork skin jelly.

The twelve dishes, four cold and eight hot, correspond to the twelve months of the year.

Pork skin jelly rarely appears on the Zhao family's table. This dish is very time-consuming to make. After removing the fat from the pork skin, you have to wash it repeatedly with warm water to wash away the grease on the skin.

When washing, warm water must be used, and cold water is absolutely not acceptable. Then put the pork skin that has been washed to remove the fat into a pot and add water to boil. Boil it over high heat and skim off the foam.

When the soup is ready, serve it out and put it in a cool place to let it solidify. Then slice it, put it on a plate, and dip it in mashed garlic.

When you eat it, it is icy cool and chewy.

This dish is troublesome to make, but trouble never stops the Zhao family headed by Wang Meilan. The reason why the Zhao family does not make pork skin jelly is because pork skin is hard to get.

In the past, the Zhao family mostly ate wild boars. The wild boars they brought back were usually skinned, and the skin of the wild boar was very hard and had a strong odor.

This time, the four families slaughtered pigs and cut off a lot of meat skin. The skin was divided into several portions and kept to make meat skin jelly.

There was another dish on the table at this time, which was not usually seen, that is, pork neck stewed with sauerkraut.

It is not common because the pig neck bones are usually mixed with the bones, stewed together with the spine, habala, etc. Today, I took it out to stew sauerkraut, because it is the Chinese New Year, and it has a good meaning.

Here, the pig neck bone is also called the head-raising bone, which means holding the head high and chest out, and being proud.

During the Chinese New Year, all we care about is good luck.

For example, this meal has pig neck bones, and the dinner tonight has braised pig trotters. Four families slaughtered pigs, and the four pigs produced a total of 16 pig trotters.

But for this evening meal, we must eat only the front trotters, because according to local etiquette, the front trotters mean scratching money inside, while the hind trotters mean scratching money outside.

In addition, the wood used by several families for cooking and burning today is all wild apricot wood.

This is a homonym of "xing" in "xing", which means "xing" (xing means apricot wood), implying happiness and prosperity once the apricot wood is burned.

For this meal, Zhao Youcai took out the Maotai wine that Zhao Weipeng had sent. He had wanted to use this wine to entertain Chu Anmin before, but there were too many people that day, and these bottles of wine were not enough for everyone. It would be bad to change the wine in the middle of the meal, and it was even more difficult to treat the guests differently, so everyone drank Shanhebai that day, and then kept this wine.

The men ate and drank until nearly seven o'clock, and then they left the table and ran to the east room to watch the "News Broadcast". At eight o'clock tonight, the Sixth Spring Festival Gala will be held.

In the past, everyone had only heard of this, and Zhao Youcai and his colleagues had also heard about it on the radio at work. As for watching it, today was the first time, and everyone was excited and looking forward to it.

The women cleaned up the mess in the west room. Strength lies in numbers, so they finished the job quickly.

Then everyone gathered in the east room, chatting and waiting to watch the Spring Festival Gala.

"Well..." Suddenly, Wang Meilan spoke, attracting everyone's attention, and said, "Let's have a meeting after dinner tomorrow night."

Wang Meilan said that the meeting must be about the Chamber of Commerce’s business, that is, about making money.

Hearing her say this, everyone responded one after another. But when Wang Meilan said that she had something to discuss, Zhao Ling said, "Sister, Xiaochen's family isn't here, what should we do with his family?"

"That's fine." Just as Zhao Ling finished speaking, the old lady said, "Before your sister Sun left, she said that Zhao Jun's family would support whatever his mother said. If there's a need to vote, I'll take her place."

"That's fine." Everyone was very happy to hear the old lady's words.

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Xie family from Xiangyangtun.

Xie Zhong, Xie Chen and Xie Yingming, who had just finished their meal, were sitting on the kang, also waiting to watch the Spring Festival Gala.

Last time I pulled the TV back, I didn’t pull it away.

At this time, Xie Sun came in with a small basin filled with frozen pears and persimmons, which she was going to eat while watching the Spring Festival Gala.

Putting the small basin on the table, Xie Sun sat down and muttered to Xie Chen beside her: "I wonder how many dishes your aunt's family prepared."

After Xie Sun finished speaking, she saw Jie Chen winking at her. Xie Sun looked over there and saw his eldest grandson glaring at her with the sidelong eyes.

"Grandson." Xie Sun smiled at Xie Yingming and said, "What are you doing? Grandma, come back, and you'll see I look like a black eyed wind."

Heiyanfeng is a Northeastern dialect, meaning enemy.

Xie Ying understood Sun's situation and said, "Grandma, don't always talk about their family in front of me."

"Grandson, look at you." Mrs. Xie Sun reached out and patted Xie Yingming on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "The pork and roe deer meat we eat are all brought back by grandma from there, right?"

Xie Yingming was stunned when he heard this, but he couldn't refute it because he had never skipped any meal.

"Okay, son." At this time, Xie Zhong said, "Your grandma is doing well now. She can work and doesn't want to die."

When Xie Zhong said this, Li Sun rolled her eyes and said, "Stop talking nonsense."

Nianyang is also a Northeastern dialect, which means to make an indirect suggestion.

Xie Zhong smiled, Xie Chen was also happy, and Xie Yingming frowned and looked at Xie Sun and asked, "Grandma, they are over there, have they introduced you to a future partner?"

"Fuck you!" Xie Sun raised her hand and slapped Xie Yingming on the shoulder, saying, "What do you mean by second wife? I'm looking for that thing."

As she spoke, Xie Sun raised her hand and said, "Your grandmother was able to work when she was young. But when she gave birth to your eldest aunt, she lived in the small room in our house. That room was too damp, and she didn't take good care of herself and got sick."

Xie Sun always said that she wanted to blame it on Xie Zhong and Xie Chen's eldest sister. Xie Zhong was not even here at that time, so no one could refute him.

Hearing her words, Xie Zhong, Xie Chen, and Xie Yingming all curled their lips.

At this time, Liu Lanying came in with peanuts and melon seeds and said, "Mom, you said you are so capable now, how nice it would be if you could help me at home?"

As she spoke, Liu Lanying put her things down, then sat down next to Xie Sunshi, took her arm, and said, "I have been busy all these years alone. Now you can work, and let others enjoy the benefits."

"Yingzi, don't worry." When Xie Sun said this, Xie Yingming's eyes lit up, but then he heard his grandmother say to his mother: "After the New Year, I will go and take him to you!"

"I won't go!" Liu Lanying quickly refused when she heard it.

"Silly, you're not going?" Xie Sun gently pushed Liu Lanying and said, "The eldest son, the second son and I are all going. What are you doing at home? Besides, the food at your aunt Wang's is so good."

"That's true." Liu Lanying acknowledged the Zhao family's food standards, but said, "But I feel embarrassed to eat at their house every day."

"Why don't we pay them together?" Mrs. Xie Sun pointed at the melon seeds and peanuts on the table and said, "This time, their family bought apples, melon seeds, candy, etc. We have to pay together. We haven't eaten for several days. We will go there after the New Year. We still have a house over there. We can live in our own house. What's there to be afraid of?"

"Then what will I do there?" Liu Lanying asked. Xie Sun said, "There is a lot of work there. We can all earn money and share it among ourselves. How great is that? Mom creates a lot of value in her work every day."

"That's fine too." Liu Lanying said, glancing at her son and said, "I'll go make some money and find a wife for my son, right?"

"Pa!" As soon as Liu Lanying finished speaking, she saw Jie Yingming slap the table hard on the kang.

But before he could say anything, he saw the child covering his right hand with his left hand with a look of pain on his face.

You used too much force and it hurt!

The quarrel in the Xie family ended with the start of the Spring Festival Gala.

At this time, people in different places are watching the same program.

There are really not many entertainment activities these days. When the Spring Festival Gala started, the men, women, young and old in the Zhao family all stared at the TV.

The second official program was Liu Lanfang's "Pingshu Guankou". When this program came on, Li Ruhai's eyes lit up!

Wish my brothers a happy new year again,

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(End of this chapter)