Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 189
There are also some handy women who actually wove some useful things out of hay. They covered the benches in the entire hall with straw mats and thick straw mats. Don’t underestimate these straw mats. Although they look ugly, they are It is very warm, and when you go to bed at night, men with good physical strength can sleep well without even burning the ondol.

I was so busy that I forgot the date, and when Qiao Miwei and Qiao's mother counted the days, they realized that they were already 27, and the Spring Festival would be three days away!

In the past, I couldn’t fill my stomach, so I was naturally not in the mood to celebrate the Spring Festival. But this year is different. Although the number of people in the base has increased suddenly, the granaries are also full. If you have food in your hands, you don’t feel panic. Qiao Miwei hurried to find Qin Zhiyuan to follow He discussed the New Year's event.

"This year must be a good one. The current life is so difficult. Who knows if there is a tomorrow. Every day is to be happy. This Spring Festival is a must, and you have to live it well." Qin Zhiyuan heard that the Spring Festival is coming soon, and immediately Pat on the thigh to set the rules.

Qiao Miwei was lying on his desk, with a pen and paper in his hand, and kept scribbling, "There must be a New Year's Eve dinner, and a Spring Festival Gala, right? What else?"

Qin Zhiyuan thought for a while and said, "There must be firecrackers, new clothes, couplets, lanterns..."

"Stop!" Qiao Miwei raised his hand to stop him from speaking, "Zhiyuan, we can't do what you said."

Qin Zhiyuan cut out, "What can't be done, firecrackers are not difficult to make, how many people in our army know how to make earthen explosives."

"Forget it, it's dynamite. What we want are firecrackers. You got dynamite and you want to blow up the base." Qiao Miwei didn't believe him anymore.

Qin Zhiyuan quickly explained, "Why not, just listen to the sound, it's the same, the big deal is to change the ratio, so that these soil explosives only make noise and have no destructive power."

Qiao Mi nodded slightly, "If you can do this, what about the new clothes?"

Qin Zhiyuan frowned, "This is difficult, forget it, we will talk about new clothes next year."

Qiao Miwei pondered for a long time and had to give up, "Couples can be written, but we don't have ink or red paper. The paper made by Dad's paper factory is crumpled and can't be dyed. I Look at being a toilet paper business, writing couplets..."

Qin Zhiyuan quickly raised his hand to cover Qiao Miwei's mouth, "My little ancestor, our dad is so tired, he finally made the paper, even if the quality is not good now, you can't say it's toilet paper, if you let dad How sad it is to know."

Qiao Mi rolled her eyes slightly, "Come on, sycophant, do you dare to say that you didn't take that paper to the toilet?"

Qin Zhiyuan shook his head firmly, "Absolutely not."

Qiao Miwei didn't believe it, "How is it possible, the paper from the first cut was put in the toilet by Mom, why don't you use it?"

"..."

Qiao Mi looked at Qin Zhiyuan's various dodges but didn't speak. She raised her hand and grabbed Qin Zhiyuan's sleeve, "No, you have to say, is it useful or not?"

Qin Zhiyuan shook his head, "It's really useless, in fact, I really want to use it, you don't know, I picked it up and tested it, but the paper is too brittle, it will poke a hole if I force it..."

"Pfft..." Qiao Mi smiled and sprayed. It turned out that he didn't have to because of this, "Haha, it's too funny, no, I'll tell my dad later, it's not even used as toilet paper."

Qin Zhiyuan put his arms around Qiao Miwei and kissed her on the cheek, "Daughter-in-law, you can't tell our father, or he can beat me with a pole."

Qiao Mi snorted slightly, and looked down at the paper in his hand, "If you can't write couplets, you can't make lanterns, so there's no sense of the New Year."

Qin Zhiyuan shook his head, "Wrong, you can write couplets. If you want red dye, ask Yan Ming. As far as I know, they already have khaki, turquoise, red, and black dyes."

"Really?" Qiao Miwei didn't know how the dyes of these colors were made, but as long as they could be dyed, it was enough.

"It is blended with the juice of various plants, and the dyeing effect is good." Qin Zhiyuan explained.

Qiao Miwei remembered that the white sneakers had been stained with grass green before, and once it was stained, it could hardly be washed off, so she nodded in agreement, "It's really good, and the couplets can be written, what about the lanterns? I'll ask someone Just ask, there must be veteran craftsmen who can make this, even if you don’t want to make that kind of big lantern, you can make a small one.”

Qin Zhiyuan said, "Let my brother cook the New Year's Eve dinner, and I'll leave the logistics to you. The party..."

Qiao Miwei thought for a while and said, "Let Xia Yao and Yixue do it. My sister-in-law has to look at Tianyou. Parents are old after all. If they are interested, just keep busy."

Qin Zhiyuan nodded, "I'll give you Zhang Shuilai, and let him do any work you need. I'll ask Li Xin later to see if he has any ideas. Lao Hu and I will fix the base as soon as possible."

Qiao Mi clapped her hands slightly and said, "That's good, let's split up."

Qin Zhiyuan took Qiao Miwei's hand and said, "Then I won't stare at it for a few days, you can help me take a look, I will try my best to catch up with work so that everyone can be assigned to their own room before the New Year."

"Yes." Qiao Miwei agreed.

After the discussion, Qin Zhiyuan asked Zhang Shuilai to call the village representatives to hold a democratic meeting. Qin Zhiyuan had already discussed with Qiao Miwei, and he explained in detail at the meeting that the villagers paid more attention to the Spring Festival than their young people. Hearing that they are preparing for the holidays this year, they are naturally one hundred percent willing, and they also put forward many valuable suggestions. Qin Zhiyuan carefully recorded everything that can be realized.

Qiao Miwei has been busy since this day, and there are only three days left before the Chinese New Year. It is really urgent to prepare things for the Chinese New Year in such a short time. Fortunately, they are not prepared enough, and now they can only do their best. , 27 hair noodles, steamed buns must be steamed during the Chinese New Year, she went to the kitchen first, and knew that the chefs had already started kneading the noodles, and heard that the cooperative also had a bloodletting this time, and prepared a lot of poultry for the Chinese New Year. supper.

She found Yan Ming and asked him to prepare a lot of red dye, and then went to the paper factory to take out all the stocks in the factory, cut them into suitable sizes, and dye them red. There was red paper, but they searched the base but did not find a writing brush. Reluctantly, she had to find someone who could write artistic calligraphy to draw the outline on red paper with a pencil and then trace it with black dye. The edges were also painted with various festive patterns with colored paint. Although it is not easy to make a pair of couplets, the finished product After it came out, the effect was very good. After becoming a pair, Qiao Miwei became confident. There are many light doors in the four corridors. Qiao Miwei was at a loss for words. In the past, during the Chinese New Year, she didn’t have to memorize the pairs. At this time, she was poor with natural words, but she thought of a good way. She sent the pairs to each room and asked them to decide what to write. What, and then spend two work points to her to ask the master to write it out. Of course, people who are confident in themselves can write it themselves, which saves money and makes sense. As a result, the red paper is distributed within a day and the base is full of popularity. , and the pairs are even more diverse, which makes people very happy to watch. Many people don’t sleep when they are resting, but drag their families around in the corridors just to see how other people’s pairs are written. It’s fun to see Some of them will play music at the door for a while.

If the owner of the house heard the laughter, he would come out to entertain the guests with melon seeds and other things bought with work points, and suddenly there would be a strong New Year flavor in the base. Later, Qiao Mi looked at the enthusiasm of the big guys for the right After a long time, I found Xia Yao and Qiao Yixue to give them advice to get these pairs into the party, which can also be regarded as a show, and they can also interact with everyone.

The pair was solved, but the lantern was difficult for Qiao Miwei. She asked all the people in the base, but found that no one could make lanterns. This kind of craft is usually passed down from ancestors, and ordinary people simply don't know how to make lanterns. Just having a pair without a lantern is a lack of a sense of the year. Later, Qiao Miwei arranged all the work and asked Zhang Shui to watch over it. She dragged Qiao's mother to start thinking about how to make a lantern. It was too difficult to sit up on a big lantern. And it was too difficult to make a retractable one. Later, the two gave up the retractable function, as long as they can be shaped, it is much easier. After several experiments, they found that the maximum diameter of the lantern is the size of a washbasin. If you think about it too big, there is a danger of losing its shape. After the lantern is tied up, it will be round and rumbling, covered with red cloth, lit with candles inside, and pasted with yellow blessing characters on the outside. You don’t need to buy it at all. The kind of lantern is poor.

In this way, Qiao Miwei called a group of people to start making lanterns. She planned to hang this kind of lanterns on the roof of the hall, one every two meters, plus the couple and blessing characters, it would definitely have a Chinese New Year atmosphere. .

It's a pity that the lantern frame is easy to make, and the cloth outside is hard to find, so the material capital of the base is small, and some of the cloth is basically made into clothes. After hearing this, Qiao Miwei asked the paper mill to rush to make large sheets of paper. Unexpectedly, Father Qiao didn't Supported, it turns out that they use the oldest method to make paper. After the pulp is crushed, it must be pressed on a gauze net to form it. It is said that it needs to be dried, which is time-consuming. Reality.

Qiao Miwei became anxious when he heard it. What kind of year can be passed without lanterns? After using the blower, the dried paper was very brittle and could not be used at all. Unexpectedly, the air-dried paper was successful, and the paper produced was very flat and tough. The paste lantern was enough. The material for making lanterns It was resolved again, and Qiao Miwei could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

It was only after she relaxed that she remembered that she hadn't visited other places, especially the party prepared by Xia Yao and Qiao Yixue, and she didn't know how it turned out.

Time is too tight, Xia Yao and Qiao Yixue have not slept all night, they are discussing the program list there, I heard that the base will hold a party, the villagers are very supportive, many people have already found them Expressing their willingness to make a show, they also made a simple talent show.

(End of this chapter)