Chapter 190 The end of the year

The days before the New Year passed very quickly. Due to various reasons, no one from the Educated Youth Institute went home to celebrate the New Year. They all stayed.

Before, Wang Aiguo originally planned to take leave and go home, but since receiving the letter, he has become much depressed to the naked eye, and he has never mentioned going home for the New Year.

The person involved didn't say anything about this, and it was hard for them to ask. Fortunately, they recovered after two days.

People in the Educated Youth Academy stopped studying on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month and planned to start again after the new year.

In the past few days, they have been busy cleaning and decorating the house.

I bought a few sugar melons and a lot of melon seeds before, so I could eat them when I was bored.

Sun Qing, Sun Rui and Chen Feng all saw sugar melons for the first time. They were so novel that they each bought two.

After eating, they all thought it was delicious. If it wasn't too late and the post office couldn't send things, they would have sent a few home.

On the day of Laba, Wen Xin got up early in the morning and started busy cooking Laba porridge after dinner.

After preparing all the ingredients, Wen Xin sat next to the stove holding a small snack plate, looking at the fire and paying careful attention to the porridge.

I saw this small snack plate from the hands of the children when I went to chat with Aunt Guihua next door. I thought it was very good, so I asked Uncle Lin to make one for me.

This small snack plate is round, has eight small compartments, and comes with a lid to prevent dust.

After I got it back, other people saw it and liked it very much, so they all went to Uncle Lin's place to order it.

Because of this, Aunt Guihua was very grateful to Wen Xin, thinking that she had brought business to her family.

Wen Xin's snack tray contains all kinds of snacks in her space, either made by herself or given by others.

There are dried meat, pork breasts, snowflake cakes, melon seeds, walnut kernels, chestnuts, peanuts, and candies.

After eating, the garbage is thrown directly into the stove and burned.

After the Laba porridge was cooked, it was already noon.

As soon as the lid was lifted, there was a knock on the door.

After opening it, Zhao Wanqing came over with Laba porridge, "Xinxin, I made Laba porridge for you to try."

Wen Xin hurriedly asked people to come in, "Come in quickly, you came just in time, mine has just been cooked."

After the two exchanged Laba porridge, other people came one after another.

Looking at the small pot of Laba porridge that was delivered to her, Wen Xin felt a little dumbfounded.

After finishing my work, I sat down and drank the Laba porridge I made. It was very fragrant and satisfying.

Because there is heavy snow almost every day now, they clear the snow on the roof every day. But the door was not completely cleared. The meat and tofu that could not be stored in the house were buried in the snow, acting as a natural refrigerator.

When Chen Feng first found out about Sun Qing and Sun Rui, he was still worried about losing them, but later he was convinced. In such a cold weather, if no animals came, of course there would be even fewer people.

Wen Xin was sitting on the kang, thinking about what to eat during the Chinese New Year. Now she had a lot of meat, including pork, chicken, beef and mutton. There are some that she bought from the meat factory through Hou Chao, some that she hunted on her own in the mountains, some that were distributed by the village hunting team, and some that are the village’s New Year pigs.

Wen Xin still likes the taste of butchered vegetables.

That night, Wang Aiguo and Li Qian went to everyone's place and asked if they wanted to have New Year's Eve dinner together on the 30th.

Everyone agreed and each person made a dish.

On the night of the 29th, Wen Xin cooked a sumptuous meal for herself, including hot pot chicken and other side dishes.

On the 30th, it was already ten o'clock when Wen Xin woke up. She slept too late last night.

Get up, wash up, eat some porridge, and then go put up the Spring Festival couplets on the door.

It happened that Zhao Wanqing was also applying it, so he borrowed her paste and applied his own.

Wen Xin could vaguely see that Aunt Guihua's house next door was busy posting Spring Festival couplets.

After finishing this, Zhao Wanqing invited her to chat and make dumplings together.

Everyone chose a filling, Wen Xin's was pork vermicelli, Zhao Wanqing was pork and cabbage, and Zhang Yingying and Wang Yumei chose pork and radish.

After getting ready, the four of them chatted and made dumplings.

It's very warm in the house, and it's still snowing outside. I'm so happy to have enough food and warm clothes.

This is Wang Yumei’s summary of her days in the countryside. She originally thought that she would not be able to bear it when she came to the Northeast. Unexpectedly, she made so many good friends and her life was better than before.

After making dumplings, they ate directly at Zhao Wanqing's place for lunch.

Wen Xin went back and got a bottle of sauce and mixed several bowls of sauce.

They all enjoyed eating the white flour dumplings with pork filling.

After eating, I helped clean up, then took my own dumplings and went back to the house.

I still have to prepare dinner for dinner.

Wen Xin plans to make a deluxe version of chicken pot.

The side dishes inside include cabbage, onions, enoki mushrooms, rapeseed, celery, tofu, ham, etc.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Li Qian came to call them.

"Wen Xin, Wan Qing, how are the preparations going? We can go there."

"Yingying, Yumei, is it okay? Let's go."

Hearing her voice, the four of them picked up their dishes and walked over cautiously.

Li Qian helped them lock the door behind her.

When I arrived, I found that the tables in the room were already prepared, one for male educated youth and one for female educated youth.

After putting down their dishes, they went back to get their own benches, bowls and chopsticks.

Because there are two tables, everyone’s dish is basically divided into two portions.

When it is put on the table, it is still very exaggerated and full of food.

Before the meal started, Wang Aiguo picked up his wine glass and said emotionally, "It's fate that we all get together. Some of us are celebrating the New Year together for the second time, and some are celebrating the New Year together for the first time, but they are all the same. I hope we can all live a good life and eat meat every day." .”

Li Qian also said very simply, "I hope everyone will have a smooth new year and wish everyone a fortune."

Then came the cheerful clinking of glasses and endless blessings.

After that, they all started to eat.

We kept chatting while we were eating, and the topics we talked about were all over the world, wherever we thought of them.

Sun Rui also asked Zhao Wanqing if she really has a partner, "Wanqing, you and the young son of the captain in the village, I forgot his name, are you talking about a partner?"

Zhao Wanqing nodded generously and said, "Yes."

Sun Rui wanted to ask what she would do if she failed in the exam, but her sister Sun Qing nudged her and told her not to talk nonsense, so she said nothing.

However, Zhao Wanqing noticed it and said with a smile, "Don't worry, he will also participate if there is a chance."

Sun Rui felt relieved now, and the food tasted even better.

Sun Qing said on the side, "I'm sorry, she didn't mean it, she was just worried that you would suffer a loss. She had no other intention."