To worship ancestors here, chicken is a must, as well as pork. Of course, the best is the pig's head. In addition, a fish, cakes and fruits are also required.
The pastries that Shi Zhen's family used to worship their ancestors this time were the snacks that Shi Zhen bought.
As for the New Year's Eve dinner, in fact, it is to pack up the dishes used to worship ancestors and serve them on the table, and then stir-fry a few dishes.
After Zhao Qiujuan grew up, most of these were made by Zhao Qiujuan. She quickly cleaned up the long-dead fish and put them in the pot.
More than a dozen years later, people in rural areas will begin to worship with live fish. After that, many people will release the fish, but now... it is impossible to release the fish, and it will definitely be eaten.
The chicken was already cooked, Zhao Qiujuan chopped it open on the table, and poured another bowl of soy sauce on the side.
Seeing it, Shi Zhen peeled off two garlics, chopped them into foam, and put them in soy sauce.
In fact, if you have the conditions, you can also put some sesame oil in it, and the dipping sauce will taste better.
The pork is bacon, just cut it open. Then, Zhao Qiujuan fried a few more vegetables and made an egg drop soup with chicken soup.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the sky was still bright, and many people in the village started to eat New Year's Eve dinner.
People in the village do not go to work, do farming at home, and do not have much entertainment, so they generally get up early. Breakfast at five or six in the morning can be found everywhere. Many people have lunch at ten or eleven, and dinner is naturally early.
Zhao Qiujuan packed up, and also called Shi Zhen and the others to have a New Year's Eve dinner. After eating, Shi Dalin gave Shi Ting and Guan Baiyu a red envelope each.
In the past, all the children in the family had red envelopes, but now that Shi Zhen and Zhao Qiujuan can earn money by themselves, Shi Dalin will not give them red envelopes.
Besides... In the past, he gave each of the four children one dollar, but now... Guan Baiyu and Shi Ting's red envelopes all contained ten dollars.
After Shi Dalin gave the red envelope, Zhao Meiyun followed with the red envelope.
Zhao Meiyun also gave Shi Ting and Guan Baiyu ten yuan each. She used to not give red envelopes to children, but recently, she made some money for embroidering sweaters and gave them away.
Logically, Guan Baiyu, she could not give it... She gave Guan Baiyu money for Shi Zhen's sake.
Immediately following, Zhao Qiujuan also gave it, and also gave ten yuan.
Shi Ting accepted the red envelope, opened it on the spot, and looked at Shi Zhen eagerly after reading it: "Brother..."
Shi Zhen smiled and gave her a red envelope and another to Guan Baiyu.
Guan Baiyu didn't open a single red envelope, but Shi Ting opened it on the spot again. After opening it, she was excited: "Brother! You are so good!"
Shi Zhen's two red envelopes contained a hundred.
Seeing her so happy, Shi Zhen was in a good mood.
He didn't know how to educate children, and he didn't teach Shi Ting much in the past six months.
But now Shi Ting is not as excessive as in her previous life.
Thinking about it carefully, Shi Ting would have been like that in her previous life, I'm afraid it has something to do with him.
At that time, he liked Shi Ting's sister more than now, and he always felt sorry for her sister since she was a child without a mother, so he would always take care of her a little more.
Taking care of him, he is used to spending money on his sister.
Every time Shi Ting spends the money, she can take it from him, knowing that he has money... It's no wonder that Shi Ting can control her own hands.
Now that he and Shi Ting are clearly separated, Shi Ting spends less money.
Shi Ting happily walked around the room, and after a while, she even gritted her teeth and gave Shi Zhen the 120 yuan: "Brother, keep this money for me, I will spend it slowly... I I'm afraid that if I take it myself, it will run out all at once."
When Shi Zhen received the money, he was a little moved for a while.
"Brother, take my money too!" Guan Baiyu immediately gave the red envelope in his hand to Shi Zhen.
"You're going to start a company, and you still use me to manage your money?" Shi Zhen said.
Shi Dalin and the others were a little surprised: "Start a company?" Did they hear it right
Shi Zhen's face was full of pride: "Xiaoyu plans to start a company that produces pencil cases and school bags with his classmates. After the year, their company will be opened."
Shi Zhen praised Guan Baiyu.
Shi Dalin and the others were shocked. After they set up a stall to make money, their horizons widened a lot, but starting a company was too far for them.
They plan to set up a stall for the rest of their lives!
Guan Baiyu is really amazing.
Shi Dalin said, "Ah Zhen, learn more from Xiao Yu."
Shi Zhen laughed: "I will."
Guan Baiyu: "..." He wanted to start a company and all he learned from his brother!
After the New Year's Eve dinner, the Shi family had nothing to do, so Shi Dalin kept pity: "It would be great if the color TV was brought back, so that we can watch the Spring Festival Gala."
"Dad, our signal is not good here." Shi Zhen said.
"Alas!" Shi Dalin was still very sorry.
Shi Zhen said again: "Dad, don't worry, after you go back, you might be able to see the replay."
There are few programs these days, and many programs will be repeated repeatedly.
Shi Dalin was happy.
After he was overjoyed, Shi Dalin couldn't help but said: "This person, if you live a good life, you really can't live a bad life..." He now misses Anshan Town very much.
They are in Anshan Town. They have gas stoves and rice cookers for cooking, and tap water for washing dishes. But what about here? Nothing at all.
It is not convenient to buy something here. There is a small shop in the village, but there is only the most basic oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.
Shi Dalin and Zhao Meiyun talked about the good news of Anshan Town.
Shi Zhen also recognized this. Isn't Zhao Dongjuan unwilling to come back because the place is too poor
However, Anshan Town is actually not prosperous.
At this time, the big cities already have KFC coffee shops, etc., that is called prosperity.
Even Changxi City is much better than Anshan Town.
However, they were not too bad in the mountains. He remembered a friend he met later. The man was a post-80s and lived in a minority area. He said that in the 1990s, there were still things like "pick-ups" everywhere. It's illegal to break someone's hand tendons."
It's the 1990s over there, and the law and order is still very poor.
On New Year's Eve, everyone does not go to each other's door unless they go to someone else's house to ask for debt.
Their family didn't borrow money, and no one came to ask for debts. After playing poker for a while, they went to bed early after eight o'clock.
In this mountain, there is no custom of keeping the year old.
On the first day of the new year, Shi Zhen was awakened by the sound of gun battles.
This is called the opening cannon, and it will be released on the first day of the first lunar month, indicating that the next year will be prosperous.
After waking up, Shi Zhen found Guan Baiyu's feet in his bed.
Shi Dalin and Zhao Meiyun's beds were not big, they slept next to each other, Guan Baiyu's feet would not freeze even though they had slid off the bed.
Shi Zhen turned his head to look at Guan Baiyu, wondering if there was a way to cover Guan Baiyu's ears and let him sleep for a while, when Guan Baiyu opened his eyes.
"Brother, morning." Guan Baiyu smiled at Shi Zhen.
"Morning." Shi Zhen took a deep breath, feeling a little dazed.
Being too close to Guan Baiyu always reminds him of the past...
"Xiaoyu, get up, I'll show you around." Shi Zhen said.
When Guan Baiyu heard the words, he immediately got up from the bed: "Brother, where are we going?"
"Just walk around." Shi Zhen said.
The vicinity of their village is relatively safe. Now in winter, there are fewer snakes, worms, rats and ants, so they can walk everywhere.
On the first day of the first lunar month, Shi Zhen did nothing and accompanies Guan Baiyu all the time.
Guan Baiyu was a little worried that Shi Ting would be unhappy at first, but... Shi Ting also had a group of friends in the village. She was crazy and didn't care about Shi Zhen at all.
In the past three days, many people came to talk to Shi Zhen and asked about the situation outside, and Shi Zhen spoke well.
Waiting for the fourth day of junior high... Shi Zhen took Guan Baiyu to find those people he wanted to take out and let them follow him.
There are six people in total. Of these six people, four are married, and two are not yet married. They are all young and strong people between the ages of 20 and 30.
There are actually a few of these people. They had approached Shi Zhen before and asked about working outside. Now that Shi Zhen found them, they agreed to go out with Shi Zhen without saying a word.
Shi Zhen was not surprised by this.
In the last life, Shi Xinghuo followed him and died unexpectedly outside. They were all willing to go out with him, not to mention that both Shi Xinghuo and Shi Xingchao had earned money outside in this life, and the days of their family were even more prosperous.
After discussing this matter, Shi Zhen's mission of returning this time will be completed.
As a result... He went for a walk outside and came home, and he saw a young man at home - Zhao Qiujuan, who was looking at someone.
The man Shi Zhen knew, was somewhat related to their family, and was his cousin.
There is no culture, and most people who go out to work in the mountains choose to go to acquaintances.
In his last life, he was in Changxi City, and he was a bit skilled. When people from their side went out to work, Changxi City was the first choice.
The man also worked on his construction site for a while.
Later, after he quit working as a foreman, this man went to decorate, laying tiles for others.
He didn't do well, but Shi Zhen didn't like him very much. There was no other reason. Like Zhao Dongjuan, he liked to take advantage of others, which was a bit too much.
Shi Zhen's cousin is also surnamed Shi, and his name is Shi Zhiqiang.
Shi Zhen's grandmother and Shi Zhiqiang's grandmother married here together. Although the sisters have a normal relationship, the two families are relatives and have been in contact with each other all the time.
But when Shi Zhen's mother died, Shi Zhiqiang's family did something disgusting.
At that time, Shi Dalin was really poor. Shi Zhiqiang's family was probably afraid that Shi Dalin would borrow money from them. At that time, Shi Dalin notified them and asked them to attend the funeral, but they said that they had too many relatives and would not follow Shi Dalin in the future. Dalin went to and fro, and did not participate in funerals.
What's more, they still have relatives with the Shi Dashan family, whose family conditions are not bad.
However, later Shi Dashan knew that they had broken off with Shi Dalin, so he stopped dealing with them.
Shi Dalin never told his family about this in his last life, and Shi Zhen didn't know about it at first. Later, when his father got older, he started to talk more. He chatted with his father about the past, and only then did he know the contradiction between the two families. Nagging, saying that people must have money, otherwise people will look down on them wherever they go.
Because Shi Zhen didn't know about this at first, Shi Zhiqiang came to his engineering team, and he took care of him. As a result, Shi Zhiqiang began to show relatives, always wanting to take advantage, and he would get kickbacks or something.
Shi Zhen didn't like this person. This time he was going to take someone out to work, and he didn't even plan to call him. So this person came to see Zhao Qiujuan
Shi Zhen looked at his father, and found that his father was a little unhappy.
But his father... Like many men of this era, he doesn't like to talk to people about something.
In addition to work, he usually works. Even if he loves Shi Ting, at most he will pick one of the fruits for Shi Ting, but he will never hug Shi Ting or praise Shi Ting.
Shi Zhen was never praised by him when he was a child, but he was beaten by him because he broke his clothes and got hurt accidentally, and he didn't take good care of his sister.
When Shi Dalin beat people, he didn't say much, and he was done after the beating. Sometimes Shi Zhen didn't know why he was beaten.
His mother couldn't see him being beaten. Occasionally, when he was beaten, his mother would murder his father.
At that time, his father would stand with his head bowed, and he would give him a chopstick dish while eating, and the matter would be over.
But after his mother died, he was no longer naughty, and Shi Dalin never beat him again.
Based on Shi Zhen's understanding of his father, his father and Zhao Meiyun were together, and most of them wouldn't talk about the past. Zhao Meiyun was afraid that he didn't know the reason for the separation of the two families, so he let Zhao Qiujuan look at this person.
"Azhen, you're back." Zhao Meiyun was very happy to see Shi Zhen back, "You accompany Zhiqiang to talk."
Shi Zhen didn't want to make things too ugly. He sat down and chatted with Shi Zhiqiang, and found that Shi Zhiqiang was obviously more interested in him than Zhao Qiujuan.
Of course, Shi Zhiqiang's interest in him has nothing to do with feelings.
Most of Shi Zhiqiang didn't like Zhao Qiujuan. If he really liked it, he had come to propose marriage for so many years in a village.
Shi Zhiqiang came to see Zhao Qiujuan, probably because their family was rich and wanted to go out to work and earn money.
Especially... Zhao Meiyun said that Zhao Qiujuan can make money, so Zhao Qiujuan must be different in Shi Zhiqiang's eyes.
Shi Zhiqiang caught Shi Zhen and asked about working outside.
Shi Zhen said something to the people in the village, so he didn't say more, but Zhao Meiyun urged Shi Zhiqiang and Zhao Qiujuan to go out for a walk.
Shi Zhiqiang let go of Shi Zhen and went out with Zhao Qiujuan.
When Shi Zhiqiang and Zhao Qiujuan left, Shi Dalin immediately said, "This person, can't do it."
"Why? His family's conditions are pretty good." Zhao Meiyun was a little puzzled. Shi Zhiqiang was a sought-after young man in the village.
If it weren't for this, she wouldn't have discussed it with Shi Dalin after others mentioned it, so she would have someone come to see Zhao Qiujuan.
Of course, there is another reason for not discussing, that is, Shi Dalin slept alone in the main room recently, they didn't sleep together, and they didn't have time to discuss.
Shi Dalin frowned, obviously not knowing what to say.
Shi Zhiqiang really wanted to say that there was no problem in all aspects, he was not happy, mainly because when he came to the door to call someone to attend the funeral, people looked like they were afraid of him borrowing money, afraid of being entangled by him, and they would cut off their relationship with him when they opened their mouths.
"Anyway, this person can't do it." Shi Dalin said.
Zhao Meiyun was a little puzzled, but Shi Dalin said no... Then... no way...
Seeing that Zhao Meiyun was a little unhappy, Shi Zhen said: "Aunt Zhao, that family dislikes the poor and loves the rich. Before our family had no money, they were relatives with us, and they were not willing to come to the door. Now they only come to the door because we are rich. Come. And that Shi Zhiqiang, he likes to take advantage of small things, and his mother is not easy to get along with. If my sister marries him, she will suffer."
Zhao Meiyun believed in Shi Zhen very much. Hearing what Shi Zhen said, he immediately felt that there was something wrong with Shi Zhiqiang: "That's it! That's not good! I'll see someone else."
"Aunt Zhao, don't worry, my sister is only twenty-one." Shi Zhen said.
Zhao Meiyun was anxious: "It's all twenty-one! How can you not be in a hurry! No, your sister is twenty-two, what is twenty-one!"
Zhao Meiyun is accustomed to talking about her age, but she has to tell the truth... Zhao Qiujuan is more than a month away from her 21st birthday!
Zhao Qiujuan was born in the second month of the lunar calendar.
Zhao Meiyun thought of something, and then named a few more names, and asked Shi Zhen how those people were.
After going out for half a year and coming back, Zhao Qiujuan has become a Xiang Momo. In just a few days, many people want to meet Zhao Qiujuan.
Shi Zhen felt that... these people are not very good.
In fact, if Zhao Qiujuan had been living in the mountains, Zhao Qiujuan would have married one of them, just like the ancestors of the past, and lived like that for a lifetime.
But times have changed.
Many people go out to work and see the world, and all the messy things come out.
There is also patriarchal preference.
The people here are mostly patriarchal.
Zhao Dongjuan is not afraid to suffer losses when she marries anyone, but with Zhao Qiujuan's character, she will definitely suffer losses.