Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 299 New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve is a day for family reunion. Even in later generations, everyone scattered all over the world will rush home on this day to spend the Spring Festival with their families, not to mention the time when few people in the village go out to work.

Every household has a lot of people.

And on this happy day, He Xiuman gave birth to a child, which made Grandma's family even more happy.

When Gao Mingcheng passed by, he saw Grandma Xi killing chickens.

The whole family didn't sleep much all night, but everyone looked very energetic at the moment. Gao Mingcheng went to see the child and thought the child was quite beautiful. delicate.

Many people have a consensus that newborn babies are ugly, but what Gao Mingcheng wants to say is that some babies are indeed ugly when they are first born, especially when the vernix on the face has not disappeared, so ugly that your eyes hurt!

But some children grow well at full term and have no vernix, so her face is clean. Even if the skin is a little red due to extrusion during delivery, it will soon become white and tender.

When Gao Mingcheng went to look at it, the little girl named Yuanyuan already had rosy skin and was sleeping peacefully in her swaddling baby.

This is Gao Zhuang's first child, and also the great-grandson that Grandma Xi misses so much, so she prepared the baby's clothes, quilts and diapers early.

The baby was lying beside He Xiuman. Although He Xiuman was awake, she was still very tired looking at it, so Gao Mingcheng didn't stay long. After seeing the baby, he said goodbye and left.

Before leaving, he said: "I'm going to slaughter a sheep today, and I'll bring you some mutton later. The mutton is nourishing, and it's best used to stew radishes."

Gao Zhuang wished he could eat good food for He Xiuman every day, when he heard that Gao Mingcheng would send him mutton, he immediately thanked him first, and said he was going to slaughter the sheep for Gao Mingcheng.

But Gao Mingcheng refused, saying, "You should stay at home and take care of the children!"

Gao Zhuang's family is short of hands, Gao Mingcheng dare not ask him to help, besides, it's just slaughtering sheep, he alone is enough!

So he hurried back to his home, and when he returned, Duomi told him that the hot water was already on.

Gao Mingcheng came to the sheepfold with a dagger, because the sheep were to be slaughtered. Today's sheep are still locked in the sheepfold and have not been taken out. Now Gao Mingcheng first took out a small one and tied it to the ground outside Eat grass.

As for the fatter one, it is naturally tonight's big meal!
Raising sheep for three hundred days is for today!Gao Mingcheng raised the knife and decisively ended Yangyang's life.

The sheep here is a goat breed, and the meat quality is rather old, not as tender as the sheep in the north. It needs to be stewed for a long time before it can be chewed.

To be honest, it is not very good for the teeth of the elderly, but the young people eat more chewy.

Gao Mingcheng spent the whole morning handling the sheep at home, slaughtering it, scalding and plucking it, disemboweling it, and cleaning its internal organs.

Yesterday he happened to get back a yellow muntjac, and today he slaughtered a sheep, plus the wind-blown meat in storage, this year will be very prosperous!
After hastily eating lunch, Gao Mingcheng said: "I'll go and deliver some meat to my parents' house and Grandma's house. You can also send some meat to your second sister's house."

When it comes to giving things, Gao Mingcheng still treats everyone equally, he can give his parents and grandma, so many beautiful things can naturally be given to her second sister.

Duomei said: "The sheep and the yellow deer are not big, so I can give her two catties of mutton."

Gao Mingcheng felt that it was too little, so he said, "Let me give you another piece of wind blowing meat."

The wind blowing meat from his family weighs two or three catties.

Duomi nodded, with a happy smile on her face.

So the couple went to visit in two afternoons, carrying the meat in their hands, which was naturally very popular.

Gaoming Cheng’s sheep have been raised for nearly a year. Both ends are rams. The fatter one weighs about 120 kilograms. After slaughtering and removing the hair and viscera, it can produce about [-] kilograms of meat and [-] kilograms of bones. .

This sheep is purely grazing and has not been fed any feed. The fact that it can grow so big in a year is already the result of careful care.

Gao Mingcheng sent five catties of good mutton to Grandma Xi's family, and five catties of meat and two catties of bones to his parents.

When he passed by, Gao Mingwan had already returned home. As the New Year approached, the transportation company had a lot of business. All the drivers drove in shifts, and there was almost no rest day. But the New Year is a big event, so Gao Mingwan finished his last run yesterday. After the trip, I rushed back to celebrate the New Year today.

Naturally, he didn't come back empty-handed, but brought a lot of things.

"Second brother, the boss knows that my home is far away and it's not easy to come back, so he asked me to drive back in the company's pickup truck! I brought a lot of things, some of which the boss asked me to bring to you!" Gao Mingwan straightened his back, every move, They are full of the style of successful people.

Gao Mingwan led Gao Mingcheng to a corner of the main room, there were indeed a lot of things piled up there, and Gao Mingcheng saw a large bag of dried kelp.

He immediately guessed that these dried kelp should be sent by the shipper.

When Gao Mingcheng drives for others, he often receives some things from the owner of the goods, sometimes some goods, sometimes a few packs of cigarettes.

This is a common thing, because the status of the driver is very high at this moment, and the owner of the goods has to entertain the driver well. If the driver asks for a card, he can get more things.

But Gao Mingcheng is not that kind of person, so the owner took the initiative to give it to him, and he also accepted it, but he would not take the initiative to ask for it, because he felt that it was very tasteless, and he was not bad at all.

In addition to dried kelp, there are other things, most of which are eaten, such as candy, snacks, apples, pears, etc.

But the most eye-catching thing is the two big grass carp in the bamboo basket.

Gao Mingwan pointed to the two big grass carp, and said happily: "These grass carp are brought from Poyang Lake! The boss said, there must be fish for Chinese New Year, and there is more than enough every year! You know our reservoir here They are all dry, and there is no place to buy fish, so each employee gave a fish, and second brother, you have one too! This grass carp is huge, at least more than 20 catties!"

The reservoir on their side is small, and the fish produced in the reservoir are naturally small. There is water in previous winters, so some fish will survive the winter in the water and grow bigger in the next year, but almost all of them have dried up this year, so in recent years I'm afraid it's hard to catch big fish.

"In addition to this big grass carp, there are also ten catties of apples, two catties of toffee and a bottle of four special wine! Second brother, our boss is really generous!"

Gao Mingwan is really very happy. He has already earned a lot of money after getting such a good job, and he can still get a little gift from the owner on weekdays. He never thought that the boss would give so much at the end of the year Good things for people!
Gao Mingcheng also worked in a transportation company for a while before, plus his relationship with Xiao Jinfeng, naturally there is also an employee annual gift.

Gao Mingcheng felt happy when he looked at those things.

Gao Mingwan helped to pile up the share belonging to Gao Mingcheng, pointed to his own things, and said, "I bought most of these things for my family to use during the Chinese New Year!"

His tone was full of pride.

Gao Yuanjian and Luo Xiaohua were already laughing so hard that they couldn't see their teeth. Even Grandma Gao was very happy to see her grandson's future.

But some people were not so happy, Huang Su'e was full of envy and hatred, and Gao Mingli didn't say a word at this time.

He also works in the county, and the sugar factory also gave out some New Year's gifts, but compared with what Gao Mingwan brought back, his little things are not worth mentioning.

I touched my pocket again, but I didn't save much money.

At this time, Gao Mingli couldn't help questioning whether his decision to stay in the sugar factory was right.

No one knows about his loneliness, Gao Yuanjian's attention is all on Gao Mingcheng and Gao Mingwan, he said: "Mingcheng, you and Duomi come here for dinner at night, our family celebrates the New Year together!"

Although Gao Mingcheng separated, he is still a member of this family, so it's okay to call him back to celebrate the New Year together.

Gao Mingcheng naturally agreed and agreed to come over for dinner tonight.

(End of this chapter)