Rebirth 1983

Chapter 128 Spring Festival Gala
After offering sacrifices to the ancestors, Chen Aiguo greeted the three brothers Chen Mo and fellow villagers.

All the men in the village were giving them cigarettes. Even Chen Gen, who had just entered junior high school, had a few cigarettes in his hands. Chen Aiguo was the most important person to greet them. He had already had two cigarettes on his ears, and he was holding a handful in his hand.

Chen Song and Chen Mo looked at their father's appearance and were quite emotional. When they worshiped their ancestors last year, the sacrifices at home were nothing more than a big fish salvaged from a river.

At that time, the villagers didn't have much to say to Chen Aiguo, they just nodded and greeted casually. It was only in the second half of the year that Chen Song became famous, and Chen Aiguo was surrounded by the elders in the village.

The two of them hadn't been idle for a long time, and the younger generation also surrounded the two of them. On the contrary, the fourth brother, Chen Gen, was the most chic, stealing candies and snacks on the altar with those half-grown children.

These snacks have been sacrificed to the ancestors, so they can be distributed for everyone to eat together.

All the young people in the village knew that Daniel was celebrating the New Year in the city, and envious, they began to half-jokingly beg Chen Song to take them out, and let them have a living, not to be like Daniel.

Chen Song could only try his best to respond first, and he didn't dare to say anything to death.

Of course, there will still be those who can't figure it out, relying on how many years older than Chen Song, ask Chen Song to help take care of his back, not just take care of the widow Wang and the outsider Daniel's family.

Chen Songli didn't pay attention to this kind of self-righteous person, but just gave him a supercilious look, and pulled Chen Mo away, dragging him into the blacklist in his heart.

Chen Song held grudges very much. After Chen Song really succeeded and became a big shot, he came back to take care of the folks in Chenjia'ao. These people probably would not be the ones to support in the future.

Other people around also felt a little embarrassed, ignored these self-righteous people, and everyone began to chat about things they were interested in, new gadgets in the South, women, making money, or gossip.

While the men in the ancestral hall were chatting lively, the women in the family also prepared their dinner and came out to chat.

Huang Qin, Chen Juan, and Zheng Liangdi walked out with the child in their arms, and were immediately surrounded by a group of women from the village.

Listening to all kinds of words of envy, compliments, sourness, or begging for support from the surrounding women, I was stunned for a while, and a little at a loss.

It wasn't until after listening to their words that the three women knew that their family had made a fortune this year, and the big fish and meat offered to worship their ancestors really caught everyone's attention.

The center of women's conversation is not the topic of men in the ancestral hall. Most of the topics are about how the husband is and how the children are. Generally speaking, they just look on helplessly when they are not doing well.

But no matter how everyone shows off, they are not as dazzling as Scutellaria Qin, Chen Juan, Zheng Liangdi and the child in her arms. Now Chen Aiguo has basically become a star figure in the village, and even taking these women out has a lot of face.

There were also quite a few women who tried to introduce them to Chen Song, but Zheng Liangdi herself had the experience of proposing marriage to her third brother, so she was very repulsed by this, and subconsciously changed the subject.

Huang Qin was not happy at first, but Zheng Liangdi pulled her sleeves, and after whispering a few words in her ear, Huang Qin gave up on the promise of marriage to Chen Song.

After all, their mother-child relationship has just reconciled, and they are still in the honeymoon period. Besides, the Chinese New Year is coming soon. Knowing that Chen Song doesn't like talking about marriage, if he doesn't know what to do, it will make everyone look bad. When the time comes, the family will be unhappy, and this year will not be good, there is no need!

It was getting dark quickly in winter, and both the ancestral hall and the village were keenly aware that the sun was about to set. Finally, everyone said goodbye to each other after saying a few words, and went back to their respective homes.

When Chen Aiguo and his son returned home, seeing that Huangqin had almost prepared, he quickly helped to set up the small square table.

In rural areas, in addition to worshiping ancestors in ancestral halls, they also worship the six gods in their homes.The six gods generally refer to the kitchen god, the cornice god, the white tiger god, the well god, the land god, and the wealth god. Everyone sincerely prays for the safety of the population and the prosperity of the family business in the coming year.

The family is arranged according to seniority and prays to the shrine.

After worshiping the Six Gods, it was past six o'clock, and it was almost seven o'clock, and finally the New Year's Eve dinner could begin.

"Songwazi, go to your house and bring the TV here. Today we will watch TV and have a New Year's Eve dinner!"

Seeing the final preparations made by the women at home, Chen Aiguo hurriedly asked Chen Song to go home and move the TV.

Chen Song nodded, and ran back quickly. Within 10 minutes, he moved a TV, plugged it in, set up the antenna in the yard outside, and turned it on to a channel that he could see, but saw a notice that the Spring Festival Gala would be broadcast at 8 o'clock this year.

Scutellaria Qin and Chen Juan put the dishes on the table one by one, chicken, duck and fish were complete, which made Chen Gen, the fourth brother, salivate, and even the little doll in Zheng Liangdi's arms babbled and pointed at the big fish and meat on the table, jumping excitedly in his mother's arms, making everyone laugh for a while.

Chen Song took out the good wine he brought, it was a bottle of Moutai that had survived for several years, it was said that Zhou Jinyan secretly took it from his father's cupboard, Chen Song didn't care about it, he just opened it and poured a glass for Chen Aiguo and Chen Mo, the aroma of the wine immediately smelt.

"Wow, Moutai, the national wine! Brother, where did you get it, I want to drink it too!"

The fourth brother, Chen Gen, saw Moutai appearing at the dinner table, and immediately yelled.

No wonder he behaved like this. Moutai itself is a famous wine, which is very valuable. A few years ago, the great man gave a bottle to President Yingjiang, which made it famous. Some people have already started to make a special offer of Moutai.

Ordinary Moutai wine costs about 18 yuan a bottle now, but what Chen Song took out was stolen by Zhou Jinyan from his father's cabinet.

Chen Aiguo grabbed the wine bottle and saw the words "Special Offer" on the bottle, his eyes almost popped out. He quickly turned his head to look at Chen Song, hoping that he would give an explanation.

"Dad, don't worry, this is a gift from a friend of mine. It's just this bottle. The rest are all local wine."

Chen Song explained with a smile, took the wine carefully and put the lid on it.

"Isn't it just a bottle of wine, why did you make it so exaggerated?"

Scutellaria Qin couldn't understand how this group of men attached so much importance to this bottle of wine.

The men chatted tacitly, and Chen Aiguo couldn't help but want to pick up his wine glass and take a sip.

"Wait, why are you in such a hurry, you old man! Let's do one together first!"

Scutellaria Qin quickly stopped Chen Aiguo's impatient hand, and took down the wine glass he was about to sip, causing Chen Aiguo to roll his eyes, but he didn't dare to resist.

"Happy New Year!" Everyone toasted together, Chen Aiguo quickly poured a sip of wine into his mouth, closed his eyes and had a long aftertaste.

"Virtue!" Huang Qin rolled her eyes.

Everyone was chatting and laughing, eating and drinking at the same time. Today's dishes must not be finished, so Scutellaria baicalensis let everyone open their mouths to eat.

Before eight o'clock, there was a picture of the Spring Festival Gala on the TV.

83 was the first Spring Festival Gala in my country, and it was also a milestone for Chinese TV programs. For a long time in later generations, the ratings of the Spring Festival Gala have always remained high, and it has always been the first in the same period.

Among the hosts of the first Spring Festival Gala, Chen Song only knew Liu Xiaoqing, Ma Ji, and Jiang Kun, and the other master was not well known, but this did not prevent him from watching.It was also this time that CCTV's Spring Festival Gala became an important form for TV audiences to celebrate the Spring Festival, an audio-visual feast for the common people every New Year's Eve, and even a New Year's Eve dinner for the Chinese.The most impressive program of this year's Spring Festival Gala was the song "Hometown Love", and Li Guyi became the first singer to officially appear on stage in the Spring Festival Gala.

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