The Li family's New Year's Eve dinner is quite simple, not that the dishes are not rich, but that it is easy to prepare.
Although her daughter and son-in-law were not allowed to go over to eat, Fang’s mother still helped prepare what needed to be prepared in advance.
After Li Heng and the others came back, they only had to reheat the dishes they had prepared in advance.
Whole chicken, whole fish, these are essential dishes for New Year's Eve dinner, plus the steam bowls made for every employee in the cafeteria, and the meat braised by Fang's mother, it only took more than half an hour to get home, and it was a sumptuous meal
The New Year’s Eve dinner has already been set up in the living room of the main house.
Looking at everything in front of her, Zhao Mingxia, who had spent the Spring Festival alone for several years, shed tears unconsciously.
Seeing this, Fang Xiaoya hugged her shoulders and comforted her softly.
Li Heng and Mazi ran to the gate with the prepared firecrackers and set off two whips.
As the crackling firecrackers sounded here, other families, as if they had received orders, all walked out of their homes and set off the firecrackers they had prepared.
Those with better conditions, such as Li Heng's family, can keep it a little longer, and those with poor conditions can keep it less. In any case, at the end of the year, more or less people will buy back some. The sound of firecrackers symbolizes giving away the old ones for the new year.
Let's go and welcome the new year.
Perhaps the happiest ones are the children in the alley. As soon as the sound of cannons stops, they will swarm over to look for the unlit ones. If anyone is lucky enough to pick one up, that guy will be so proud of it.
strength.
The parents had no one to care about them, so they allowed these children to play like that. The gunpowder in the firecrackers these days was not as strong as in later generations. Even if you hold it in your hand, you will only feel a little numbness in your fingers after exploding.
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One year old is eliminated amidst the sound of firecrackers
The sound of firecrackers went off sparsely for most of the night, reaching its peak at six o'clock in the morning on the first day of the new year.
Li Heng, who finally wanted to sleep in with his wife in his arms, was woken up as expected.
The little girl was also woken up. Because she went to bed too late last night, she was still a little irritated at the moment, and she pushed herself up and down in the bed in dissatisfaction.
"Ahhh... Li Erheng, it's all your fault. I didn't let you go to bed early last night. I was so sleepy!"
"Okay! Blame me, but no matter how much you blame me, you have to get up, otherwise our mother will definitely have to deal with you when she comes over!"
After saying that, he held the little girl's head and kissed her lips gently.
"Hey, you haven't even brushed your teeth, they stink!"
"Hey! You still dare to despise me? Believe it or not, I will drag you to do morning exercises again!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Fang Xiaoya felt like a spring was pressed under her body. She didn't even care that she was not wearing any clothes. She sat up from the bed in a sudden motion, then grabbed the clothes lying next to her and put them on.
She was well aware of this guy's fighting prowess early in the morning. It would be very embarrassing if he really showed his bestiality and dragged her to do morning exercises.
Not to mention that her mother would definitely come over later, even Zhao Mingxia would laugh her to death.
"Hey, what's your reaction? I don't eat people."
"Hmph... You are as thick-skinned as a city wall. I won't mess around with you! Get up quickly, brother. The other guests are all up, and the host is still asleep."
"I know, get up now."
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The Chinese New Year is actually just that, if you have relatives, you can visit them, but if you don't have relatives, it's basically fine.
After eating dumplings in the morning, Li Heng and Fang Xiaoya went next door to pay New Year greetings. Mazi and Zhao Mingxia also went there with them. Each of them even gave Fang's mother a red envelope. Although it was only a dime, it also represented a blessing.
Xiaobai has also been very happy these two days. He has no idea about the Chinese New Year, but he definitely knows the delicious food. Good guy, there have been a lot of bones since yesterday. He is so happy that his eyes are narrowed to a slit.
Ever since she saw Xiaobai yesterday, Zhao Mingxia had been beating her chest with regret. She had given away many of the dogs she had raised for many years, but she didn't expect that this time she would give away the best one to others with her own hands.
What makes her most sad is that the dog now doesn't recognize her as its former owner at all, and doesn't pay attention to anything he feeds or eats.
Looking at Xiaobai who was lying next to the stove, banging and banging bones, she felt itching with hatred.
"Xiaoya, how did you two teach it? Why doesn't it eat what others feed it?"
"I haven't taught him anything. He won't eat what others feed him since he was little. He's doing better now. When we're not here, he still eats what my parents feed him. Before, he would rather be hungry."
"Hey, this guy, his mother is not like this either. He will eat anything thrown at him, and he can coax him away with even a chicken bone."
Zhao Mingxia became more and more angry as she talked, so she simply got up and came to Xiaobai who was gnawing on a bone. It turned out that Xiaobai didn't tolerate her at all. As soon as she squatted down, she started whining and her nose twitched.
"noob……"
Fang Xiaoya screamed when she saw this. It would be great fun if she bit someone.
Hearing the owner's call, Xiaobai stopped whining, picked up the bone and walked to the little girl's leg.
"This...this guy is so protective of food?"
"It doesn't protect its food from us, but others can't come near it while it's eating."
In order to prove her words, Fang Xiaoya stretched out her hand in front of Xiaobai. Without saying anything, Xiaobai directly put the bone he was chewing into her hand, and touched her arm with his head.
"Good dog, eat it quickly." The little girl smiled and brought the bone to Xiaobai's mouth again, and after it took it away, she touched its head.
This scene made Zhao Mingxia almost stupid. She felt that she had been raising dogs for nothing all these years.
"Xiaoya, I don't care, I have to let your little white give me a litter this year."
"No problem, what's the point? But when you give birth to puppies, if there are more puppies, you have to give me one."
"Okay, there are too many and I can't feed them anyway."
The more Zhao Mingxia looked at Xiaobai, the more she liked him. If she wasn't afraid of being bitten, she would have wanted to take him away right now.
"Oh, by the way, Xiaoya, I wanted to ask you that day, but I forgot in a hurry. Is your brother dating Lou Zhenye's daughter?"
On the day of the party, she felt that the girl who was with Fang Xiaoqing looked familiar. It took her a long time to remember who it was. She kept wanting to ask Fang Xiaoya, but she forgot about it. When she was eating dumplings just now, she listened to Fang's mother's arrangement.
Xiaoqing went to pay New Year's greetings to someone today, and then she remembered it again.
"Yes, they are classmates in college. They somehow got together during the military training last semester."
"I asked why Lou Zhenye went to see the director so well that day. It was probably about the child, right?"
"Yes, that Mr. Lou is very fond of this daughter. He passed the day after he found out about this." Fang Xiaoya nodded and said.
"After all, they are still young now, and they are in school, so my parents and Mr. Lou Dong will not see each other for the time being, and let them get along on their own until the time is right."