The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 279 The Commander-in-Chief’s wife wishes the fellow villagers New Year’s greetings!
On New Year's Eve, the entire Wazhou River is filled with smoke!

The Resettlement Agency temporarily established by the Executive Office ordered that all resettlement sites for the victims, with the resettlement brigade as a unit, must organize the victims to cook a big pot of rice on the spot, so that the victims can have a good New Year's Eve dinner on New Year's Eve.

The so-called good New Year's Eve dinner is definitely not a luxurious meal with seven plates and eight bowls.In a year of great disaster, if the New Year's Eve dinner can ensure that it has meat, vegetables, and staple food, and can satisfy people, then it is a good meal.

Having a group dinner, making stir-fries, dumplings, etc. is too labor-intensive and labor-intensive. The simplest way is to make stews and noodles, which are easy to make, can make people full, and have enough oil and water!

In the resettlement brigade where Xu Zhiyun's family is located, just after noon on New Year's Eve, the men were arranged to set up earthen stoves to light the fire, and the women were divided into two waves. One wave rolled out the noodles to make long rice, and the other prepared the ingredients for the stew.

Braised vegetables are the highlight of tonight's New Year's Eve dinner. The Resettlement Department has allocated fifty kilograms of pork, fifty kilograms of mutton, and one hundred kilograms of first-class canned food to each resettlement brigade, as well as Chinese cabbage, vermicelli, tofu, dried tofu, bean sprouts, Ingredients such as radish, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar are quite abundant.

There are about 600 people in a resettlement brigade for disaster victims. On a per capita basis, each person can eat more than two taels of meat. To be honest, this meal can be considered a luxury for the victims.

Wu and several neighbor women were responsible for chopping vegetables. They had been cutting vegetables non-stop since noon, and it took them almost two hours to stop chopping vegetables for stew.After cutting vegetables for such a long time, everyone's arms were tired from cutting. However, Wu and others did not feel tired. On the contrary, they became more and more energetic as they cut.Everyone's hearts warmed when they thought that so many ingredients could be eaten in their families' stomachs at night.

After the dishes were prepared, the team leader shouted, and everyone started cooking.Mrs. Wu's job was to cook fat meat. When her husband and children came to cook, she specially scooped out the fat meat from the big pot and put it into a bowl.

There was no wine or a meal, but the victims enjoyed the meal very much, because it was the best and most filling meal for most of them since the disaster.

"Master, are the dishes tonight delicious?" After finishing the meal, Mrs. Wu scooped a bowl of stew for herself and brought it to the man and the baby who were squatting in the food court to eat. She thought that the whole family could eat together. Had a reunion dinner.

"How can rice with meat not be delicious?" Xu Zhiyun glanced at the woman speechlessly and said a simple truth.

"How many bowls have you eaten? I saw Mrs. Wang's man next door coming back and forth three times to make a meal, and every time he made it full. You don't come here often enough to make an extra meal!"

"What do you know? There is too much oil and water in today's rice. There is too little oil and water in our stomachs. We can't save too much food. If we eat too hard, we will definitely eat and drink tonight. They will suffer the consequences."… …

The rented people from the suburbs of the main city of Wazhou and Liangzhou also organized collective dinners on New Year's Eve.Originally, they had been in Wazhou for almost a year, and their family had some savings, so there was no need to organize a group dinner.But taking into account the people's sense of belonging, Song Yingkui specially gave instructions to the organization to bring them with them when they have a group dinner, and allocate enough supplies!
Relatively speaking, the people here eat much more elegantly when having dinner. Everyone brings tables, chairs and benches from home and gathers together as a family unit. Some families even bring wine and some snacks to share with everyone. Sharing it together feels like a family gathering on New Year’s Eve.

"This is the first New Year's Eve that our family has celebrated in Wazhou. The Commander-in-Chief has treated us to meat and vegetables so generously. Such a blessing is unimaginable in the past! Come, let's pay homage to the Commander-in-Chief together. and the commander-in-chief's wife Wan Kang." Seeing that everyone in the family had prepared the stew and put it on the table, Han Shibao picked up the bowl filled with light wine and suggested that the whole family toast a glass of wine to Commander Song and his wife.

The Han family raised their wine bowls, offered some wine to the ground, and drank the remaining wine in one gulp.

"Brother, Yungu and Commander Song really treat us well! I heard people say that when our general lent us to Commander Song, he would ask Commander Song for rent every year. But look at the officials in Yungu The tax collected is not only not more, but also less than when we were in Liangzhou. Over the course of a year, we have received much more tax than we did in my hometown. After all, we are losing money. I don’t know what he is planning. !" After a bowl of light wine, Han Laoer started talking.

"Is it possible for ordinary people like us to figure out the plans of the officials? We can also be regarded as the leader's wife's natal family. Treating us well means treating the wife well. I may not be taking advantage of the wife!" Han Shibao also couldn't figure out why Commander Song did this when it was obviously a loss of money, so he simply believed that Commander Song was out of love with Gao Cunzhen, so it would be better to treat Gao Cunzhen in a different way.

"The police from the countryside said that we should be more careful and responsible tonight. Maybe some important people will come to see us for dinner. Do you think it is our Miss Gao who is coming to see our mother-in-law's family?"

"That's what you would think! The commander's wife has a body of thousands of dollars, braving the cold wind, and comes here to visit us and other common people? Who do you think you are?" Han Shibao was speechless at the whimsical thoughts of his second son. Whose wife is Nian? During dinner time, would you go to a place where a bunch of ordinary people gather to have dinner?
At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the dining place, and Han Shibao and others stood up to check the situation!
"The Commander-in-Chief's wife is here to see us, hurry up, kneel down to welcome us!" A shout came from the crowd, and then a group of soldiers escorted a woman in gorgeous clothes to the venue where everyone was gathering for dinner!
Han Shibao, who was kneeling on the ground, looked in surprise at the beauty in gorgeous clothes who was surrounded by guards and illuminated by the firelight, her face looming.Is it true that the Commander-in-Chief’s wife came to see everyone?This is too unexpected.

"Dear fellow villagers, please excuse me. Today is the New Year's Day. On behalf of my husband, I am here to visit you all. The main purpose is to see how you enjoyed your New Year's Eve dinner and how you are living in Yungu. I would like to give you my best wishes by the way. New Year! Don't be cautious, everyone!" Gao Cunzhen, surrounded by guards, asked the people kneeling on the ground to stand up while loudly explaining his purpose.

It was naturally not Gao Cunzhen's own idea to pay New Year's greetings to the rented people from Hexi on New Year's Eve, but Song Yingkui's special explanation and arrangement.

Except for Gao Cunzhen, other senior executives of Yungu were also on their way to pay New Year's greetings at this time. Song Yingkui's other two women were also not idle, and each had their own New Year's greeting missions.Ding Yumei was arranged to visit the military families in Taoyang City, while Li Guoqian went to visit the faculty representatives in Taoyang City.Song Yingkui himself was even busier. On New Year's Eve, he would set off from the official camp and ride a fast horse all the way. He not only wanted to express condolences to the military camp, but also to the factory workers in the fifth camp. After arriving in Wazhou overnight, he had to Condolences to the resettled victims.

(End of this chapter)