Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 432, Preparations before the New Year
After the snowstorm passed, the footsteps of the Spring Festival were approaching. In the two days before the holiday, the front-line workshops of the factory were shut down for maintenance. The logistics department took the lead in distributing year-end benefits to employees, and the finance department made a surprise payment of wages and year-end subsidies...

Finally, on the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month, the institute officially went on annual vacation.

Every household is busy shopping!No matter how tight your daily life is, you still have to buy something during the Chinese New Year.

Jiang Yan still had about 5000 yuan in foreign exchange coupons in his hand. He took Jiang Sirui and the others to the foreign exchange store early in the morning to buy some things for the New Year.

Yan Jiefang had nothing to do at home, so the errand of shopping for things during the New Year became his responsibility.After coming out of home, he listlessly went to the grain store to buy grain with his grain book in his hand.

Not long ago, the street announced that the food supply had returned to normal. After eating steamed buns and sweet potatoes for almost a year, my stomach was really short of oil and water!

At least I ate a little in the cafeteria of the institute, and the people at home were a little miserable.I haven’t seen meat for more than a year, but when I saw the two kilograms of meat he brought back, my eyes lit up.

Originally, Yan Jiefang thought that he had brought back the meat and bought some white flour to make dumplings so that he could eat better during the New Year. Now there are three people in the family making money, and their monthly income is less than [-]!

However, his suggestion was quickly dismissed by his father Yan Bugui. According to his words, if you don't have enough food and clothing, you will suffer poverty if you don't calculate. If you put away these two kilograms of meat, you can eat it for two months. Woolen cloth!
Two pounds of meat for two months, isn’t this a joke?No matter how much this talent is divided into, it is better to eat in the cafeteria!
What's even more amazing is that they only allow you to buy two kilograms of flour. This Chinese New Year is really a lonely one.

As soon as he walked out of the alley onto the street, he heard someone calling him from behind.

"Jiefang, wait!" Yan Jiefang looked back and saw that it was Lu Xiaoxia, a junior high school classmate.

"I haven't seen you for a long time. What have you been busy with lately?"

"I, hi! I'm working in a research institute now! Don't mention me! How are you? Where do you go to work?"

When she was in school, Lu Xiaoxia had some interest in Yan Jiefang, but she was average-looking, with a round face and a short stature. Yan Jiefang didn't like her, otherwise they might have had a relationship.

"I went to work in the woolen mill, at the radio station! Hey, I told you that except for those in high school, most of our classmates are working. We plan to have a party together during the Chinese New Year this year. Will you come too?" Lu Xiaoxia opened her mouth carelessly.

"Really? You said it's been so many years since graduation, it's time to get together." Yan Jiefang added casually.

He regretted it after saying this. He knew that when his classmates were having dinner together, he needed to bring food stamps and money. Although he went to work, he still had to pay for food, accommodation and other expenses for his family every month. The money I get every month is only ten yuan, and now it’s the end of the month. I haven’t received my salary for this month yet, but my pocket is cleaner than my face.

"Well, I won't go. You also know the situation of our family." After Yan Jiefang said this, he smiled mockingly.

"It's okay, come on! I'll give you your share."

Lu Xiaoxia, who has been sitting at the same table for three years, is very clear about the situation in their family, and sometimes she is quite speechless about their family's affairs.

Hearing Lu Xiaoxia's words, Yan Jiefang almost found a hole in the ground and crawled into it in embarrassment. The men in Sijiucheng had never had a soft meal.

It is precisely because of this sentence that Yan Jiecheng feels a little unhappy about the situation at home. "Forget it, forget it, no need, we still have things to do at home! Well, I still have things to do, let's talk about it another day..."

After saying the next word, Yan Jiefang ran away. He was really too embarrassed to see anyone.It's the time for a young man of eighteen or nineteen to save face, but now he really feels so embarrassed.

"Hey! Yan Jiefang..." Lu Xiaoxia stood there and was stunned. She saw him running away like a rabbit, "Why is this man like this? I haven't finished speaking yet..."

After running around in confusion for a while, Yan Jiefang looked up and said, Hey!Why did you run home?Yan Jiefang was exhausted from all the running around in the winter, so he didn't think much about it, so he just picked up his legs and went home.

"Hey! Why are you back? Where is the grain you bought?" The third aunt came back as soon as she saw that he was empty-handed. Can she not ask?
"Grain? Yes, I went to buy food? Yan Jiefang suddenly realized that he didn't buy food. What the hell is going on?

So he directly lifted his legs out of the house and ran to the grain store again.

When the pigs at the institute's Hongxing Farm were released, the pork was distributed in advance out of fear that other units would be interested. However, during the Chinese New Year, one person in the institute also gave three kilograms of flour and some candies. These benefits were enough to make people happy. Jealous.

From the first day of the holiday, Jiang Yan's small yard began to be busy, mainly for frying various things. For this purpose, Jiang Yan even took out ten kilograms of oil.

Exploding things at the end of the year is to prepare us for the coming year. After the New Year's Eve and the first day of the Lunar New Year, every household visits relatives and friends!The purpose of frying food is to prepare enough for the many relatives who will come during the Chinese New Year, so that I can have a full meal at home before leaving!

This year is not like in later generations where you can buy dishes to serve customers in the supermarket on the first and second day of the Lunar New Year, so prepare more fried food to deal with the guests coming down in the new year!The main reason is that the fried goods can be stored for a long time and improve their quality!Here comes the second one!All kinds of fried goods represent different meanings of the Chinese New Year!

The first thing that bears the brunt is the fried fish that is indispensable for every household during the Chinese New Year. Fried hairtail is the most popular, followed by Spanish mackerel and toon fish (the toon teeth are picked when they are born, pickled and stored, and can be fried in winter). No matter what kind of fish is fried They all mean that every year we live a good life and can have a head start, which means "having more than enough every year".

Fried lotus root is made by cutting the lotus root into slices, splitting it in half in the middle, adding your favorite fillings, and frying it with batter. Its meaning represents "harmony and beauty" as a family!

But these days, fresh lotus roots are hard to buy, but who knows that Jiang Yan has room for it?This fried coupling is also Jiang Yan's favorite thing to eat, so Jiang Yan kept a lot of it in his own space during the lotus root harvesting season. Yesterday, he took out part of it and secretly put it in the cellar just to make it today. Prepare.

Each family has limited financial resources and fried things are different. There is only one thing that each family needs to prepare a little bit.

That's croquettes.Some people say that when guests come, the last dish to be served is meatballs. The meaning of these meatballs is to wish the family a "reunion" and a happy life!
However, Jiang Yan preferred iron lion heads, so at the croquette stall, Jiang Yan asked He Yuzhu to get a lot of lion heads so that he could eat them during the New Year's Eve dinner.

While He Yuzhu and the others were busy frying things, Jiang Yan took his wife and He Yuzhu to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some melon seeds, candies, and the like, either to eat by themselves or to entertain guests.

When they arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, they discovered that the place was almost full of people, and the scene was quite grand. You probably don’t even think about buying things here every few hours.

However, they had to buy these snacks. Jiang Yan noticed it as soon as his eyes turned around. He still had so many foreign exchange coupons, so he might as well take them to the Friendship Store to buy them. There would be few people there.

After telling the two women what they thought, the three of them went to the Friendship Store together.

(End of this chapter)