Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 172, Chinese New Year

The Spring Festival of the 60s is still quite nostalgic in the eyes of the older generation.

This may also be people having fun while suffering!

In this era, there is no seven-day holiday for Spring Festival like later generations. At this time, the holiday is only three days, that is, from New Year's Eve to the second day of junior high school.

A few days ago, when Secretary Wang and Factory Manager Zhang came back, their faces were full of red, and they found a lot of good things.

It wasn't just at noon on New Year's Eve, the machines in the factory stopped, and after lunch, there was already a long line in the building in front of the financial office of the factory this year.

The cafeteria, including the entire logistics staff, was busy. Beside the financial room table, sheets of pork were piled up on the table, and strips of octopus were also put down there. Behind the table, there were bags piled up like mountains. food.

According to Li Huaide, this year's benefits are much richer than in previous years. These are the things that Secretary Wang and Director Zhang exchanged for the machines invented by Jiang Yan.

Originally this year, the factory wanted to give out two catties of Fuqiang noodles, and the two leaders waved their hands after returning from the department. Today, each worker distributed half a catty of pork, three catties of Fuqiang noodles, one hairtail fish, and five catties of stick noodles.

The wealth of benefits is the highest in history, which makes the workers smile.

Jiang Yan had a special place to collect their wages and benefits, so naturally they didn't have to queue here.

"Mr. Jiang, this is your salary. The total salary is 124 yuan, and there is also a job subsidy of 45 yuan. The total is 169 yuan."

The accountant who was in charge of paying Jiang Yan and the others handed Jiang Yan a roll of bills and some industrial bills, and Jiang Yan also had some bills distributed to him this month.

There are quite a lot of bills, a thick stack in his hand, Jiang Yan glanced inside, there are quite a lot of bills, most of them are commonly used bills.

Factory Manager Zhang had already sent his secretary to deliver a thick envelope to Jiang Yan, which contained [-] catties of fine food coupons for himself, as well as some meat tickets, oil tickets, alcohol and tobacco tickets, and bicycle tickets. Bills, most of the bills are cashed at sight, no need to add money at all.

After receiving his salary, Jiang Yan went to the place where he received his benefits and received his own benefits. Jiang Yan put these things in the prepared bag, carried them to his jeep, and found it next to the jeep. Zhuzi, Xu Damao and Shitou also received their wages and benefits.

Seeing that everyone was here, Jiang Yan started the car directly and drove towards his home.

The old rules of Forty-Nine City. 25, frozen tofu, 26, go to buy meat, 27, slaughter a rooster, 28, make noodles, 29, steam steamed buns, New Year’s rice is not made in a day.The biggest advantage of the Spring Festival is to "satisfy gluttony".

Chinese cabbage is the main dish of the common people. In the Spring Festival recipes, housewives use it to conjure tricks that can almost set up a cabbage banquet.

This year's Spring Festival, the street will give each person half a catty of oil and half a catty of meat, and each household will have two catties of Fuqiang powder, one catty of soybeans, two catties of mung beans, a few catties of Xiaozhan rice and five catties of fish in the shopping book. Housewives rely on ingenuity to arrange three meals a day for the whole family during the Chinese New Year.

On the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, people who sell new year's goods crowded the streets, and state-owned non-staple food stores all set up wooden boards at the store entrances to sell them on the street.

There are also two festive red lanterns printed on the ticket for the Chinese New Year, a large piece of meat for two or three catties, which is much more comfortable and enjoyable than buying it for two and a half catties.

Fish is the protagonist of the Chinese New Year, and every household has to buy some main dishes for the New Year's dinner.

Tangguaer sacrifices to the stove, the girl wants flowers, the boy wants guns, and the old man wants a new felt hat.

Just two words, happy!
The head flowers and boutonnieres that girls like include chrysanthemums, peonies, roses, peonies, and gladioli.

Adding a new toy for the New Year is a little secret for parents who do New Year's shopping.

On weekdays, coarse grains are finely cooked and meat is hard to see. On New Year’s Eve, the Fuqiang Fenrou dumplings will look extraordinarily delicious. On weekdays, there is no pocket money. During the Spring Festival, paper lanterns are pasted, windmills are bought, and nothing is bought even if you go to the Changdian Temple Fair. , can make adults and children happy for a long time.

On weekdays, parents work hard, and some women are not around. It is a blessing in life to have a reunion dinner, even if it is just radish and cabbage.

Collectivity is the characteristic of the Spring Festival in this era.Unit invoices for watching movies, organizing entertainment fairs, group worship, unified street invoices, purchase books, organizing cleaning, etc.

Everyone in the compound was beaming, adults and children laughed when they saw each other, and even two families who usually had conflicts would greet each other during the Chinese New Year.

As soon as Jiang Yanche arrived at the door of his small courtyard, he saw the third master Yan Bugui waiting there.

"Teacher Yan, who is this?" Jiang Yan asked after seeing Yan Bugui, getting out of the car.

"Xiaoyan, it's almost New Year's Eve. I've saved your family's couplet for you. I just happen to be free today, so I'll send it to you."

Seeing the couplet in Yan Bugui's hand, Jiang Yan couldn't help but laugh. He hadn't seen it in the past few years and he had forgotten it.

"Then thank you, Teacher Yan. It's Chinese New Year, and I don't have anything to give you. I just bought a few bottles of wine today. I'll get a bottle for Teacher Yan."

As Jiang Yan spoke, he opened the trunk, took out a bottle of Erguotou and handed it to Yan Bugui.

After returning from the factory just now, Jiang Yan took a few of them to the supply and marketing agency and department store to prepare the New Year's items, and many of them were secretly taken out of the space by Jiang Yan.

"The welfare of your factory is better, so rich." Yan Bugui looked at the things in the trunk of the car with envious eyes.

Seeing him like this, Jiang Yan was also a little speechless. After thinking about it, he took out a piece of bacon from the trunk.

"Actually, there are not so many things. We bought many of these things ourselves for the Chinese New Year. Take this bacon back and add another dish for the Chinese New Year."

The third master, Yan Bugui, just shied away and took what Jiang Yan handed over.

This Yan Bugui was quite excited today!I am here today.

Usually, Yan Bugui helps the people in the courtyard to write couplets, and the people in the courtyard will also be interested.

Some take three cents, one cent and two cents, some grab fried peanuts, some grab melon seeds, and some even put down a sweet potato and leave.

I have never heard of Jiang Yan giving himself a bottle of wine and a piece of bacon. The bacon weighs a catty, and if you save a little, you can eat it for a long time.

The third master writes Spring Festival couplets, which is a legal "business". The big red paper bought for a few cents is cut, and the pen, ink and inkstone are also ready-made. Once you write, you will have all the expenses for the New Year.

The exquisite stove room should write "be careful of the lights", the bedside kang head should write "healthy" or "body lying in a blessed place", the front yard and back yard should write "spring is full of yards" or "full yard of spring light", and the noodle tanks should write "rice noodles are like mountains". ", the water urn should write "conserve water", the large and small cabinets should write "Golden Ten Thousand Taels" and "Wu Fu Nian Feng", the livestock shed and poultry house should write "cattle and horses in groups" or "six livestock are prosperous", and the big tree If you want to write "trees are towering", write "step by step" for ladders.

Of course, Jiang Yan has many rooms in his yard, so there are also many couplets, unlike the people in the courtyard, where a family only has one or two rooms, and one or two couplets pasted on the door frame is enough.

Jiang Yan told He Yuzhu and the others to cover up one or two things during the usual meal, but today they finally stopped covering up.

Jiang Yan took out three pig heads and more than 20 catties of beef from his own space, and Jiang Yan also ordered Xu Damao to buy a few pairs of pigs.

Not long after he came back, Liu Zi also came back, and he also took back Jiang Yan's benefits from the automobile factory, which were almost the same as those in the rolling mill.

Not long after the six sons came back, the Ministry and the General Manager also sent benefits to Jiang Yan. There were a total of [-] catties of Xiaozhan rice, [-] catties of Fuqiang powder, [-] catties of beef, mutton and pork, and some sweets and snacks. Things, Zhutou sent one to each family.

At this time, the whole city is filled with the smell of all kinds of food, not bad for Jiang Yan and the others, there are so many good things, He Yuzhu and Liu Zi can show their skills, stew what should be stewed, and stir-fry what should be fried.

Jiang Yan believes that the New Year's Eve dinner tonight will be extremely rich.

(End of this chapter)