The leisurely life of a reborn dad

Caojiazhuang, Cao Shujie and his family of three began to pack their New Year's things after they returned from Chengjiapo.

After killing the cow, clean up all the remaining cattle offal and take out the cow head, ready to be cooked in a big pot.

The beef is cut into pieces. Except for the meat used to make dumplings and beef meatballs, the rest is made into braised beef, which is convenient for long-term storage and easy to eat.

The purchased pork, ribs, and chicken are all stewed together, as well as fish, meatballs, and chicken that need to be fried.

There is quite a lot to be busy with.

Before they were done, Cao Tiemin and Cao Fei came over with the toys they bought for Mengmeng.

Cao Tiemin does less decoration work every year when winter comes, and he stops doing it when the new year comes.

On Cao Fei's side, the renovation plan for the five-star department store in the city has been postponed until later in the year, and the mall is not open. He was finally able to take a complete Spring Festival holiday on time this year.

I saw Cao Shujie boiling beef in the water. There was cooked beef in the big basin next to it. It had just been fished out and was steaming.

The aroma of the meat itself also came out with the heat. Cao Tiemin took a deep breath and said, "It smells so good."

"Eat it, cut it yourself with a knife." Cao Shujie pointed to a sharp meat-cutting knife in the big basin: "Brothers, why are you being polite to me?"

Without saying anything, Cao Fei took a knife and cut a piece of meat into his mouth. It was so hot that he kept inhaling, but he still forced himself to swallow it.

"Are you concerned?" Cao Shujie said to him.

Cao Fei chuckled and said, "It smells good and tastes even better when you eat it. Why does your meat still have a fruity flavor? Is there something wrong with my tongue?"

"You don't understand. If you have nothing to do, give them some fruit and stew it with fruit wood. The fruity aroma will naturally be strong." Cao Shujie said.

Cao Fei didn't know whether what he said was true or not, but he thought the beef was indeed delicious, so he asked Cao Shujie: "Shujie, are you interested in setting up a counter in our mall?"

"What do you mean?" Cao Shujie added some fruit wood to the stove and looked at the pot again.

"I just want to leave a place for you in our shopping mall, and you can sell braised beef there. What do you think of this idea?" Cao Fei asked him.

"By the way, your beef must be registered with a brand. If you don't have a brand, it will be wasted."

Cao Tiemin also cut a piece of meat with a knife, held it with chopsticks and blew it hard. When it was cool, he put it into his mouth. He chewed it carefully and tasted it slowly.

"Well, this tastes really good, Shujie, let's have some with the food and wine some other time." Cao Tiemin was greedy.

Looking at the cow head in the pot, he became even more greedy.

"Shujie, how big of an ox are you? Why do you have such a big head?" Cao Tiemin was curious.

Cao Shujie saw that the fire under the stove was just right and there was no need to add more. He said: "It's more than 1,400 kilograms. More than 700 kilograms of beef were produced. I left some for you to take back and make some dumplings later."

"That won't work. We'll come over and have a chat with you. How can we take things back?" Cao Fei shook his head and wanted to refuse.

But Cao Shujie said: "They are all there. I sent Cao Zhen's to him a long time ago. You are not at home, otherwise I would have sent it to you two days earlier."

"It's not much, just a few kilograms per person. I can make two dumplings when I go back and let the elderly at home have a try. Don't think it's too little." Cao Shujie said this.

Cao Tiemin and Cao Fei did not refuse.

Cao Shujie asked them: "Tiemin, do you know when Shuyang and Shulun will come back from vacation?"

"On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I called them. They were both on duty on New Year's Eve." Cao Tiemin said.

Cao Shujie wondered: "Didn't Shulun go to the purchasing department? What shift is he on?"

"Shulun seems to be a small leader now. I don't know the details." Cao Tiemin said.

"So fast?"

Cao Shujie didn't expect that even Cao Shulun would be regarded as a small leader, and he was still in a place like a central enterprise based on seniority.

Cao Tiemin wasn't very clear either. He shook his head and said, "We'll ask him more details after he comes back."

"Okay, in that case, let's get together on the night of the first grade of junior high school." Cao Shujie asked them.

After seeing both of them nodding, Cao Shujie said again: "I'll call the three of them later."

"Shujie, I heard from my mother that you sold apples some time ago, and sold a lot of them?" Cao Fei asked.

Cao Shujie admitted openly: "I still have some apples brought from Changji, Xinjiang. You two will take a box back later."

"It's apples and beef. When we come to you, it's like purchasing." Cao Tiemin joked to himself.

Cao Fei also waved his hand: "Let Tie Ming take it, I won't take it."

"Take it, it's not a valuable thing. Go back and let the old people at home have a taste." Cao Shujie saw his wife coming over with a basin and said to his wife: "Honey, put me in the freezer later." Take out two portions of beef, and move two boxes of apples for them both to hold."

"Okay!" Cheng Xiaolin agreed happily.

Mengmeng ran over to play and saw Cao Tiemin and Cao Fei in the kitchen. She even shouted: "Uncle, uncle."

"Hey, Mengmeng, are the toys fun?" Cao Tiemin asked her.

Mengmeng nodded: "Uncle, toys are fun."

"I want to eat meat." After saying that, Mengmeng looked at the basin of meat and couldn't move her eyes away.

Cao Fei took a knife and cut off a piece of fat meat for her. He fanned it with his hand to cool it down and handed it to Mengmeng: "Mengmeng, the meat is not hot anymore. Eat it quickly."

Mengmeng took it and stuffed it into her mouth, puffing out her cheeks and chewing hard.

The beef was so tender that I swallowed it after just a few chews: "It's delicious, uncle, I want to eat it again."

Cao Fei took a look and cut off another piece for him.

When the two of them left, each was carrying a bag of beef and a box of apples.

After coming out of Cao Shujie's house, the two of them were teasing each other, coming in with empty hands and going back with full hands.

As they walked, the two laughed together.

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Wang Yuelan had just mixed the meat filling for beef meatballs and brought it to the kitchen. When she saw Cao Tiemin and Cao Fei leaving, she asked.

"Mom, we all have something to do. Let's get together on the night of the first year of junior high school." This is what Cao Shujie said.

Wang Yuelan didn't care about him now.

The smell of meat wafted from the north of Caojiazhuang to the south. Many people living nearby or passing by could smell the strong smell of meat.

Some people murmured that they haven't smelled such fragrant meat in many years, while others were envious and thought that it was the Chinese New Year at Director Cao's house.

However, when thinking about the benefits distributed to them by the Caojiazhuang Village Committee during the Chinese New Year this year and comparing them with other villages, the people of Caojiazhuang feel full of happiness.

But what makes many people in Caojiazhuang even more envious are those who work in Cao Shujie's factory.

Salaries are settled at the end of the month, there are performance bonuses every month, holiday allowances and benefits during holidays, and year-end bonuses during the New Year.

No matter which one of these, many people working outside can be envious.

No, many people in Caojiazhuang who had just returned from working outside heard the old man discussing this matter when they returned home. They didn't believe it at first, thinking it must be another rumor, and the old man didn't understand it either.

But these people who came back from outside later told others about it as a joke, and then heard other people in the village confirm it, which immediately made many people working outside look envious on their faces.

They figured it out. Cao Shujie's salary was really not low. Adding in other miscellaneous money and benefits, the real income was no worse than working outside.

The more this happens, the more uncomfortable many people feel.

It feels like I’ve just been away for a year, why has the village become a little strange?

There are also some people who came back to vote for Cao Shujie during the election of Caojiazhuang Village Director. They heard that Cao Shujie ran a factory and worked there, and the income was no worse than outside. These people also had mixed feelings.

But Cao Shujie had no time to pay attention to them at the moment.

After stewing the meat, stewing the beef balls, and finishing frying, Cao Shujie was busy posting Spring Festival couplets again.

Mengmeng still insisted on helping her father, but Cao Shujie couldn't resist her, so he finally assigned her the simplest job, asking her to hold tape. When Cao Shujie needed tape to put up Spring Festival couplets, he asked Mengmeng to hand it to him and tear it up.

That's it. Mengmeng felt that she had helped her father. She kept asking: "Dad, am I great?"

"Awesome, Mengmeng is the most capable." Cao Shujie praised her with his thumb up without blushing.

Mengmeng really believed what her father said, and the smile on her face became even brighter.

When preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner in the evening, Cao Shujie's cell phone rang. When he saw it was his cousin Cao Shubin, Cao Shujie answered the phone smoothly?

"Shujie, log in to your QQ account and let's video chat." Cao Shubin said.

"Okay." Cao Shujie went to the second floor to find his laptop, took it downstairs, connected the power supply, turned on the computer, logged into his QQ account, found his cousin's QQ dialog box, and selected the video connection.

The uncle, two cousins, two sisters-in-law and nephews are all here. They are two families getting together again to celebrate the Spring Festival.

"Dad, are you okay?"

"Grandpa, happy New Year."

"Yichuan, Yixin, you two hurry up and call me grandpa, second grandpa, and second grandma."

The two little guys shouted loudly in the video.

Grandpa Cao Zhenghu smiled from ear to ear.

"Uncle, why do you seem to have lost a lot of weight to me?" Cao Shujie was chatting with his cousin, and took a closer look at the uncle, thinking that he had seen it wrong.

In the next lesson, I heard the uncle Cao Jianlin himself say: "I can't do it anymore. I just found out that my blood sugar is high. I don't dare to eat anything."

"Eat some vegetables and drink some water every day." He said.

When he heard what the uncle said, the person who reacted the most was grandpa Cao Zhenghu: "Jianlin, why are you so high on sugar? Are you secretly drinking alone?"

Being scolded by his grandfather, the uncle Cao Jianlin did not dare to talk back.

Cousin Cao Shubin said in the video: "Grandpa, you still have to control my dad, otherwise he will smoke and drink without restraint at all."

At the same time, he was still thinking about taking grandpa over.

Cao Shujie asked with a smile: "Brother, are you coming back after the New Year?"

"Go back. I'll take a look at the third and fourth grade of junior high school. I'll go back when I'm done." The cousin said this.

Second cousin Cao Shuxin also nodded and said.

"Okay, I'll leave you something good." Cao Shujie thought about the beef head he had cooked, and thought about eating it after the uncle and his family came back.

When the second cousin Cao Shuxin heard this, he asked curiously: "Shujie, can you tell me something good?"

"Hey, you can't say it. It won't be good if you say it. You will naturally know after you come back in a few days." Cao Shujie said.

From the bottom of his heart, Cao Shujie felt that this Spring Festival was better than last year.

The sound of firecrackers rang in my ears, there was a beautiful moment of fireworks flying in the sky, and there were the sounds of children laughing and shouting outside.

Mengmeng, who was eating, couldn't sit still: "Mom, I want to go out and play."

"No, you can go out after dinner later." Cheng Xiaolin waited for her and Mengmeng immediately became honest.

Cheng Xiaolin also said: "I will change your clothes with pockets in a moment. You go out with your father for a walk, and I will see how many candies I can collect?"

"Okay, okay!" Mengmeng just thought it was very fun. She even thought about putting it in her pocket when she followed her father to play at someone else's house, and then gave it to her mother when she came back, and then went out again.

"Mom must be very happy, right?" Mengmeng thought to herself.

That night, Cao Shujie took his daughter out to play together.

The voice of calling ‘Director Cao’ never stopped on the street.

Many people older than Cao Shujie can shout smoothly.

"Dad, why do they call you Director Cao?" Mengmeng didn't understand. She put her fingers on the corners of her mouth and asked curiously with her little face raised.

Cao Shujie held his daughter's other hand and patiently explained to her.

But Mengmeng still didn’t seem to understand.

Someone called him in front again, and it seemed that Cao Shujie was still an acquaintance.

"Shujie, it's really you. I thought I made a mistake." Cao Shuxu said.

After resigning from Tencent, he came back early this year.

Seeing Cao Shujie walking on the street with his daughter, Cao Shuxu thought he had seen the wrong person.

Cao Shujie was also very happy to see him: "Brother Xu, we haven't seen each other for a year."

"No, I left on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year last year and just came back these two days."

Cao Shuxu looked at the little brother in front of him and admired him from the bottom of his heart.

"Shujie, you have done well at home. Now you are still the director of our Caojiazhuang Village, right?"

Seeing Cao Shujie nodding, Cao Shuxu put his arm around his shoulders and said, "Shujie, you are really good."

"I don't have your ability, I can't reach your level." Cao Shuxu said.

"Brother Xu, I was just messing around by mistake."

But Cao Shuxu didn't believe what he said.

He asked Cao Shujie: "Are you two out for a stroll?"

"Well, let's go out for a walk while we have nothing to do during the Chinese New Year."

Cao Shujie said: "At the end of the year, this is the only opportunity."

This is true.

Someone called Cao Shujie again, and Cao Shujie told Cao Shuxu and asked him to get together on the first night of the new year.

He also told Cao Zhen and several others to go to his house.

"Okay, Shujie, it will be the first night of the new year. I will go there then." Cao Shuxu happily agreed.

He found that his previous understanding of this little brother from his hometown was not comprehensive enough.

Last year, he thought he knew him very well. At that time, he thought Cao Shujie could earn four to five million yuan a year at home, which was already great. Who knew he would earn more this year.

Cao Shuxu still can't guess how much money Cao Shujie earned last year, but he knows it's definitely more than the superficial millions.

I'm a bit sleepy, so the next chapter will be a little later, but it will definitely be posted before 12 o'clock.