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Chapter 126 The Deaf Old Man Passes Away

This year, the Yan family didn't spend any time apart. Everyone celebrated the New Year together. During the Little New Year, Yu Li and Shi Xiaoya followed Yang Ruiping around.

The pork distributed by Yan Jiecheng this year was large pork belly, and Yan Bugui said it was delicious after seeing it.

Yi Jun and his wife went back to live with his father-in-law, who was also his master. The only people left in the front yard were the Wu family, the widow Wang's family, and the Yan family.

Yan Jiekuang brought another cart of things, all of which were discarded streamers, lanterns, and plastic flowers from the Forbidden City welcoming ceremony. When several families saw them, they decorated their homes to make them festive.

Comrade Yan Bugui's literary level was improved, and he began to send the word "Fu" to each family.

Yan Jiekuang was chatting with Wu Jiao. Wu Jiao had grown up now. It was the second year of the New Year after the Chinese New Year. Wu Jiao said that she still remembered the taste of the barbecue in the west wing.

Yan Jiekuang encouraged her to study. Wu Jiao was a little confused and asked, "Don't you say that after high school, you can't go to school anymore? Then you might as well take the technical secondary school entrance exam."

Yan Jiekuang looked into her eyes and said, "Just because you don't have it now doesn't mean you won't have it in the future. You have to be patient. Learning is very important."

Yan Jiekuang went to make latte art after he finished speaking. In fact, he had no idea that among this group of kids, he was the role model and the only college graduate. Wu Jiao took it to heart.

Lanterns were also hung in the middle and back yards. After the Little New Year, Liu Guangqi returned with his family. He is now the head of the Logistics Equipment Department of Tianjin Machinery Factory.

Liu Guangfu went out on a ship and would not be back for half a year, so his family went straight back to his mother's home. Yan Jiekuang was very curious about what Liu Guangtian was doing, as the two brothers never mentioned anything.

The old Liu family was also in high spirits. Zhao Yue'e, wearing an imported red woolen coat, walked around in the central courtyard, but she was disappointed as she never saw any trace of Jia Zhang.

In fact, there was another person who discovered that there was something abnormal about the Liu family, and that was Xu Damao. Xu Damao found that most of the food, clothing and daily necessities of the Liu family were obviously imported, which was absolutely inconsistent with their actual income.

Yan Jiekuang also noticed it, but he pretended not to see it. He greeted people when he should, and drank when he should.

When I got home and saw Yan Bugui's endless praises with envy, I felt very uncomfortable. Yan Bugui was always looking for higher ground. If you take out the things you have hidden and transport them to the place where he just arrived, you will definitely be the richest man in China.

Jia Dongxu wanted to organize young people to have a drink and get together, which received widespread response from the younger generation in the compound.

On the 28th day of the lunar year, two tables were set up, and almost everyone in the compound came, even Xu Delin and his wife, who were elusive.

Chang Li and Chang Chuang helped He Yuzhu, and Zhang Erzhu actively worked as the second chef. He was trying to make up for his sins with his merits.

The men sat at one table and the women sat at another. They started drinking and talked about everything under the sun. They drank a lot. At the end of the meal, they saw three old men, Chang Lin, and Wu Gang were also there.

He Yuzhu was drunk and asked with half-closed eyes: "When did you change the table? Sorry, I went to the wrong place." Then he tried to lift his legs and found that he was lying on a stool with Xu Damao lying underneath.

Yan Jiekuang burst into laughter, and everyone else also laughed.

During the Chinese New Year, the courtyard was a little quieter. Yi Zhonghai and his wife, as well as He Yuzhu and his wife, were all in the backyard. The deaf old lady was dying, and the two families had no mood to celebrate the New Year.

Yan Jiekuang thought about it and made a bowl of silver sprouts and sent it over on New Year's Eve. When He Yuzhu saw this dish, his eyes widened. Yi Zhonghai and his wife had never seen it before, but they felt that Zhu's reaction was not right.

Li Cuilan placed the dish next to the deaf old lady. The deaf old lady took a look at it and wanted to sit up. Yi Zhonghai and Li Cuilan helped her sit up. The old lady smiled and indicated that she wanted to eat. Li Cuilan fed her little by little.

He Yuzhu was still hoping that the old lady hadn't eaten it all, but the old lady smiled and said, "Inlaid with silver sprouts." "Thank you, third brother!"

The old lady became much more energetic and made arrangements for her funeral. The house was given to He Yuzhu and her money was given to Yi Zhonghai. However, the old lady took off the bracelet on her wrist and said, "It's for the third brother. Thank him." The deaf old lady passed away on the first day of the new year at the age of 84.

He Yuzhu cried her heart out, she was really sad. In the end, Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui took care of her funeral arrangements, and Yi Zhonghai seemed a little too sad to see this.

Just like that, the oldest person passed away. However, not long after, He Yuzhu came to pester Yan Jiekuang. Yan Jiekuang had no choice but to write down the recipe of the dish and gave it to He Yuzhu.

Yan Bugui stared at He Yuzhu. He Yuzhu also knew that he had passed the test. This was a skill in eating, so he copied a copy of his family's recipe and sent it to Yan Jiekuang.

It was a long time before Yi Zhonghai learned from He Yuzhu the origin of this dish, which was Cixi's favorite in her later years, the famous lost dish "Inlaid with Silver Buds".

The spring breeze in March is as sharp as a pair of scissors. Uncle Liu Haizhong pursues Yan Jiekuang even more fiercely than the spring breeze. He asks three times a day, "When will the renovation be completed?"

Yan Jiekuang had no choice but to go find Wang Xuan and decide to start the construction this month. He could go to Liu Haizhong's house first as he was not in a hurry.

Within a few days, Wang Xuan got in touch with Liu Haizhong. Wang Xuan told Liu Haizhong about Yan Jiekuang's tricks. Liu Haizhong was rich and said that he would use the best. Wang Xuan was very happy.

At the end of March, my mother took a few people to the hospital to see Sun Xiaolong's son, a little boy. The couple was living a stable and loving life, and now they have a baby, which made people very enviable. Grandpa Sun couldn't stop crying. Yan Jiekuang thought that it was really not easy for the grandfather and son to escape here.

Grandpa Sun asked Yan Bugui to name the child, but Yan Bugui declined, saying that it was better for the child's father to name the child. Sun Xiaolong thought for three days and named him Sun Chengen. His nickname was Shitou.

Yan Bugui said that Sun Xiaolong was a grateful person. Widow Wang became more aggressive and insisted on taking care of the children herself. Uncle Sun did not say anything, so it was a bit difficult for him to take care of the children.

Widow Wang was holding a stone and shaking it in front of Zhou Zhijun. Zhou Zhijun was scared and said, "Mom, isn't it enough that I've tried my best?" Everyone laughed.

Yan Jiekuang’s unit notified them to be prepared to work overtime as they had a mission.

Yan Jiekuang quickly took Yan Jiedi to Yuer Hutong, agreed to many unreasonable requests, and then returned to his unit. This time, for six months, his task was to repair the houses and furniture on both sides of the main line of the Forbidden City.

In the past few months, he worked with his eyes open and slept with his eyes closed, but Yan Jiekuang also made a gain. There was a box five or six meters underground in a room. Yan Jiekuang thought about it and estimated that it would be impossible to dig three feet underground to rebuild this room. So Yan Jiekuang used his ability to take out the box and put it away.

In November, he was finally released, returned to his unit, and handed in all his tools.

Remembering that he had a bicycle that had been parked at the office, he went to the carport to get it, and rode all the way to Yuer Hutong. As soon as he opened the door, the big cat rushed out. Yan Jiekuang picked up the big cat, and the five little ones climbed on him. The big cat kept crying all the way, as if it was complaining.

There was no other choice. Yan Jiekuang saw that there were still some ingredients in the kitchen, so he picked out a Anhui fish. Since the Anhui fish was big enough, he made a big meal for the big cat and the three little ones.

Then he went to the backyard to take a shower, changed his clothes, and came out to make himself a bowl of noodles, which he ate with pickles with relish.

Looking at the time, I estimated that Yan Jie Di would not come today, so I made myself a cup of tea and went to the study. I took out the box. It should have been wrapped in silk fabric on the outside. When I opened the box, I found it was a little corroded. There was oil paper inside. When I opened the oil paper again, there was a square box inside, the size of a palm, made of rosewood. When I opened the box again, there was a piece of jade inside, in the shape of a lotus.

Yan Jiekuang took it in his hand and looked at it carefully. On the front was the word "Lian" and on the back were two words "Jun Jian". It looked like a relic from the Ming Dynasty. As far as Yan Jiekuang could remember, there was no concubine named Lian in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Jun Jian, what does it mean, a man gave it to her? Yan Jiekuang thought about it and realized that he couldn't figure it out in a short time, so he put it aside for now.

Yan Jiekuang was also very tired as he had to visit his parents tomorrow, so he went back to his bedroom and fell asleep.

(End of this chapter)