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Chapter 155 Fair? Lazy government?

Siheyuan, Zhongyuan, Yijia.

Yi Zhonghai and his wife, the deaf old lady, and the He family brothers and sisters gathered together to celebrate the Spring Festival of 1953.

In previous years, Yi Zhonghai and his wife lived with an old deaf woman, one old man and two half-old men, and their life was very miserable.

But this year is different! !

At the beginning of the year, He Daqing followed the White Widow to Baocheng, leaving only the teenage Sha Zhu and He Yuyu, who was less than ten years old, living alone in this courtyard.

Although Yi Zhonghai had already chosen Jia Dongxu as his retirement option, he still listened to the deaf old lady and was usually kind to Silly Zhu.

Smart people don't put their eggs in one basket. Yi Zhonghai thinks he is quite smart.

Although Sha Zhu has a close relationship with Zhang Chenfei, when encountering things that have nothing to do with Zhang Chenfei, Sha Zhu still sticks with him.

This year, when he proposed that the three families come together to celebrate the New Year, Shazhu agreed without much thought.

After work in the afternoon, he ran to Yi's house carrying the things distributed by the factory, and worked on the New Year's Eve dinner with Aunt Yi.

It was getting dark now, and the Yi family's dining table was already filled with all kinds of food.

Silly Zhu put the last dish of sweet fruit soup on the table, wiped his hands with his apron and said with a smile: "The dishes are all ready, ready to serve."

After the words fell, everyone in the room did not move.

Aunt Yi glanced at her wife and curled her lips inwardly, but didn't say anything, just stood aside.

The deaf old lady smiled at Silly Zhu: "Silly Zhu, don't be impatient. Wait, wait."

After saying that, he pulled Shazhu to sit on the stool next to him. The two were talking and laughing, looking happy.

Yi Zhonghai was cleanly dressed and looked very energetic with his shaved crew head that he had just shaved in the afternoon.

At this time, he was sitting on an armchair in the center of his main room, staring at the door, as if waiting for something.

Silly Zhu was confused about this, and seemed to be wondering what kind of medicine Yi Zhonghai was selling in his gourd.

He Yuyu on the side looked like he had seen through everything, with a sarcastic smile on his lips.

In a moment,

The door of the Yi family was opened, and Jia Dongxu walked in with Qin Huairu holding a stick.

When Yi Zhonghai saw this, satisfaction immediately appeared in his eyes.

Although Jia Dongxu left the steel rolling mill this year, being able to pay him New Year's greetings on New Year's Eve proves that his apprentice still has him as a master in his heart! ! !

Just based on this,

This proves that the spare tire for retirement is the right one for you! ! !

He glanced at his wife and the deaf old lady proudly, and they looked at each other, right? I, Lao Yi, still seem to have a pretty good eye.

Aunt Yi curled her lips and said nothing, while the deaf old lady patted the back of Silly Zhu's hand next to her.

As soon as Jia Dongxu walked into the door of Lao Yi's house, he immediately burst into laughter:

"Master, Mistress, Old Madam, I, my wife, and my children are here to wish you a happy New Year!!!"

"Old lady, Uncle Yi, Aunt Yi, happy New Year!!! I wish you a prosperous year! We are still young this year, so we will kowtow to the old lady in person next year!!!" Qin Huairu also joined in to say good luck. talk.

"Okay, okay, okay, everyone is fine." The deaf old lady smiled with her face wrinkled into a chrysanthemum. Her hands, as thin as dry branches, reached into her pocket, took out a red envelope, and handed it to Qin Huairu.

"Ah, old lady, this is so embarrassing." Qin Huairu swallowed her saliva and said politely.

"Take it, it's not for you, it's for the child." The deaf old lady said.

After a few tugs and pulls, Qin Huairu put the red envelope into her pocket.

After the deaf old lady, it was Yi Zhonghai, or after the truthful pull, Qin Huairu gave him a red envelope.

Seeing that the procedure was finished, Silly Zhu on the side immediately bared his big teeth and said stupidly: "Sister Qin, it's better to come by chance than by chance. Let's have something together?"

Ah, there was a sudden awkwardness in this room.

"Oh, this, isn't this appropriate??" Qin Huairu glanced at Aunt Yi who was standing aside: "It's the Chinese New Year. You guys have been busy for so long to finish it. It's not good for us to come here to eat. Besides, we There is food at home.”

In fact, their family didn't cook New Year's Eve dinner at all today, because her mother-in-law said that there were three families in Lao Yi's family celebrating the New Year together, and there were not many more like theirs.

But what you plan in your heart is one thing. When in front of outsiders, you still have to pretend.

Qin Huairu pretended for a long time, but seeing that Aunt Yi never asked to leave herself and Jia Dongxu to eat, she could only say:

"Well, you should just eat it yourself. Our dumplings are all ready-made. I can just cook them when I go back."

The two families live next door. Yi Zhonghai obviously knows whether Lao Jia's family cooks, but he still has to give his apprentice the face he deserves.

So he put on a kind smile and said: "It's the Chinese New Year and it's crowded, so let's eat here. My wife, go get two more bowls and two pairs of chopsticks."

Aunt Yi responded, but her feet didn't move. She just said: "It's okay to let Dongxu and Qin Huairu eat here, but it doesn't seem to be good to leave the Zhang family's sister-in-law at home alone.

Otherwise, let them go back first today."

She originally wanted to let them go back to eat today.

Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, he heard Jia Zhang’s voice suddenly coming from the door;

"It's okay, I'm here too!!!"

hiss! ! ! Aunt Yi's pupils suddenly shrank when she heard this.

Turning his head, he saw Mrs. Jia Zhang walking in with majestic and high-spirited steps, wearing a brand new cotton-padded jacket.

After entering the door, he first walked around the dining table, then touched his chin and commented: "It's Chinese New Year, this dish is a bit vegetarian today!!!"

After saying that, he smacked his lips, looking down on the food on the table.

What the hell? ? Didn't it mean that Lao Yi became a seventh-level fitter? ? There isn’t much meat on the table! !

Tsk tsk tsk, the richer you are, the stingier you become.

Aunt Yi was so angry that she almost couldn't recover after being squeezed like this.

I thought Qin Huairu and Jia Dongxu were shameless enough to eat ready-made food, but unexpectedly, a beggar came and disliked the sour food! ! !

When she thought about the fact that she and her husband contributed money and effort, but ended up cooking a family dinner for old Jia's family, she became so angry that she secretly gouged out Jia and Zhang's eyes when Yi Zhonghai wasn't paying attention.

Unexpectedly, just at this glance, Jia Zhang was caught red-handed.

The old Qian Po is not someone to be bullied easily, she is always an unreasonable mistress who wants to cause trouble for three parties.

At this moment, Aunt Yi rolled her eyes and immediately returned it, staring at Aunt Yi fiercely and sneering.

Small sample? ? Why don’t you just have a meal at your house? ?

have opinions? ? Do you want me to call our old man up so that you two can catch up on old times during the Chinese New Year? ? ?

hiss! ! Lao Jia? ? ? ? Aunt Yi suddenly wilted.

Whose good person spends the Chinese New Year getting together with a dead ghost? ! !

That’s all, just eat what you want! !

So a group of people sat down, and Mrs. Jia Zhang did her best to sit next to the only braised fish.

Yi Zhonghai raised his glass and was about to say a few words to respond to the scene when he saw Mrs. Jia Zhang picking up a pair of chopsticks in each hand, and the left chopstick picked up half the plate of meat. The chopsticks on the right pierced the belly of the fish directly, and then he suddenly lifted the whole fish and placed it in the bowl in front of him.

"Hey, hey, Aunt Zhang, what are you doing??" Silly Zhu was unhappy when he saw this, "It's just that one fish, you took it away yourself, what will others do???"

Mrs. Jia Zhang glanced sideways at him: "There are so many dishes on the table, can't you eat anything else? Do you have to fight with me?"

"Robbing you??" Silly Zhu laughed angrily.

Who is robbing this Nima? ? ?

There are six dishes on a table, and there are three meat dishes in total. You have one and a half of them by yourself, and now you are saying that others are trying to steal it from you? Do you want to be ashamed? ? ?

Silly Zhu has a bad temper. He rolls up his sleeves and wants to teach Jia and Zhang how to behave.

But Yi Zhonghai is a shameless person who celebrates the New Year. He doesn't want the whole courtyard to see his family's joke because of a fish, so he calms down Silly Zhu with good talk.

At last,

For a New Year's Eve dinner, Jia Zhang ate one fish, half a plate of pork belly, and sixty pork and cabbage dumplings.

When Aunt Yi on the side saw this, she gritted her teeth in distress, secretly thinking that she would not let Lao Jia's family come over to pay New Year's greetings next year.

After eating and drinking, Jia and Zhang licked the melon seeds from Yi Zhonghai's family and began to brag about their wonderful life after becoming a working class person.

In his words, he suppressed the housewife Aunt Yi and looked down upon her.

"Next year, if I work hard and become a first-class worker, my monthly salary will be over thirty. Then my life will be even better." Jia Zhang said, tapping her tail.

Aunt Yi was in a bad mood, the deaf old lady was in a bad mood, and Jia Dongxu was also unhappy, so he didn't say anything and pretended not to hear her words.

Silly Zhu on the side seemed to be very dissatisfied with Jia Zhang's unique beauty, and quickly said: "Aunt Zhang, you can't be beautiful!! I will sue you, I will be in trouble next year too!!!"

"Are you in trouble? What's going on?" Jia Zhang frowned.

Silly Zhu gritted his teeth and said cheerfully: "I have fallen in love with a girl!! I will try my best to catch up with her tomorrow. Once we get married, we will have another big fat boy."

This way, during the Chinese New Year next year, I won’t be keeping warm with you lonely ghosts! ! ! "

A lonely ghost? ?

Are you talking about us? ? ?

Aunt Yi, Uncle Yi, and the deaf old lady, you look at me and I look at you.

"Pfft!!!" Mrs. Jia Zhang couldn't help but laugh, and the peanut crumbs in her mouth sprayed all over the face of the stick in her arms.

How about saying that I was called by the wrong name and not called by the wrong nickname? ?

With Silly Zhu's behavior, really, she could rest assured that her daughter-in-law Qin Huairu would be friends with him! ! !

"Silly Zhu, if you talk about having a fat boy in front of Aunt Yi, isn't that the same as talking about baldness in front of a monk?" Jia Zhang said with a wink.

Damn it!

Aunt Yi couldn't help it this time: "It's getting late, everyone, please go back and have a rest."

After saying that, he ignored his wife's expression and turned directly into the back room.

When the deaf old lady saw this, her face turned as dark as ink.

Siheyuan, front yard.

In the Yan family, there is a large pot of dumplings on the table.

Yan Jiecheng, Yan Jiefang, Yan Jiekuang, and Aunt Yan were sitting at the dining table, while Yan Bugui stood in front of the radio and fiddled with the buttons.

"Dad, I'm going to starve to death. Stop playing with the radio and share the dumplings with everyone." Yan Jiecheng urged.

"What's the rush?? Your dumplings are indispensable!!" Yan Bugui snorted, but stopped what he was doing.

He walked to the dining table, picked up a spoon and started serving dumplings to the whole family.

While dividing the dumplings, she muttered: "Today, your mother made a total of one hundred and five dumplings, for the whole family of five, twenty-one for each person."

After dividing them up, I had to touch my moustache and make my own comments.

"Your father and I always pay attention to fairness, fairness, and fairness whenever we do things!!!!"

"Fair?? Not necessarily???" Yan Jiefang objected, "One hundred and five dumplings, twenty-one for each of five people. It sounds fair, but you have to think about it carefully?? ?”

"Think carefully??" Yan Bugui raised his eyebrows and looked at his second son, as if he was all ears.

Yan Jiefang nodded: "Yes, dad, look. You are in your thirties, and you have twenty-one dumplings per meal, which is enough to fill you up. Of course, you may owe a little, but not much."

I was fourteen years old, which was when I was growing tall, and I couldn’t eat enough twenty-one dumplings.

But what about the third child? He is only three years old. Whose three-year-old child eats twenty-one dumplings? ? ? So you have to eat to death? ? "

"So, regardless of age, you all share the same amount of dumplings. This is not called fairness at all, but lazy politics!!!"

Lazy government? ? ? ?

Yan Bugui's eyes suddenly changed. It seemed that Yan Jiefang raised a question that he had never considered.

Before he could figure it out, Yan Jiekuang raised his hand tremblingly: "Dad, second brother, I can finish all twenty-one dumplings!! I think it's fair to divide the dumplings like this."

finished,

As if to prove his words, he lowered his head and started to cook vigorously.

When Yan Bugui saw this, he said nothing and urged his other two sons to eat quickly.

Yan Jiefang angrily gritted his back molars and stared at Yan Jiekuang, secretly thinking, "Eat, eat, eat, I'm not afraid of killing you!" ! ! !

Opposite the Yan family, the old Zhang family.

Grandma Zhang was sitting on the kang, holding a brass dry pipe in her hand. There was a thick stack of red envelopes on the kang table beside her.

Zhang Chenliang, Tang Danniu and his wife stood on both sides of her under the kang like two generals.

On the ground opposite Grandma Zhang, Zhang Ping'an, Zhang Shunsui, Zhang Fendou, Zhang Fenjin, Zhang Zhaomei and Zhang Xiangmei were standing in line.

Zhang Panmei and Zhang Yinmei, who were less than one year old, were lying on the old lady's kang, eating their fingers.

Zhang Chenfei stood in front of his six nephews and looked at the getting late. He pretended to look at the non-existent watch on his arm and said:

"The golden dragon soars into the sky, and the spiritual snake comes riding on the clouds. Light up the lamp to bid farewell to the old year, and the auspicious snow heralds a good year!!!

Peace, please kowtow to your wife and say New Year greetings! ! ! "

As soon as he finished speaking, the boss Zhang Ping'an knelt down on the ground with a bang, bang, bang, bang three times, and then shouted loudly: "Happy New Year, Madam!!!"

"Okay, okay, okay." Grandma Zhang took a red envelope from the kang table and handed it over.

Zhang Ping'an trotted over and took the red envelope, his eyes narrowed with laughter.

Zhang Chenfei shouted again: "New Year, new atmosphere, go well, it's your turn."

The second oldest child, Zhang Shunsui, also kowtowed and said, "Madam, I wish you a long life!!!"

Grandma Zhang is another red envelope.

Then came Zhang Shunsui, Zhang Fendou, and Zhang Fenjin

After the first six were given out, there were also seven and eight children on the kang.

After all the red envelopes were distributed to the younger generation, and after making sure that everyone had one and it would never fail, Zhang Chenfei was about to call out the ceremony and prepare to eat.

Grandma Zhang waved her hand, took out a red envelope from her pocket, and handed it to Tang Danniu.

The latter was immediately flattered: "What do you mean? Grandma? Is this for me???"

(End of this chapter)