Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 172, Chinese New Year

Author: Flying Wooden Fish

Chapter 172, Chinese New Year

The Spring Festival of the 1950s and 1960s is still quite nostalgic for the older generation.

This may also be people enjoying themselves in hardship!

In this era, there was no seven-day Spring Festival holiday like later generations. The holiday at this time was only three days, which started from New Year's Eve to the second day of the Lunar New Year.

A few days ago, Secretary Wang and Factory Director Zhang came back with glowing faces, and they saw that they had gotten a lot of good things.

Not only at noon on New Year's Eve, the machines in the factory stopped. Ever since lunch, a long line of people had already formed in front of the financial office of the factory.

The cafeteria, including the entire logistics staff, was busy. Next to the financial room table, fans of pork were piled on the table, and palm-wide hairtails were also placed there. Behind the table, there were bags and bags piled up.

food.

I heard from Li Huaide that the benefits this year are much richer than in previous years. These are things that Secretary Wang and Director Zhang exchanged for the machines invented by Jiang Yan.

Originally, this year the factory wanted to give out only two kilograms of Fuqiang noodles. After the two leaders came back from the department, they waved their hands. Today, each worker will be given half a kilogram of pork, three kilograms of Fuqiang noodles, a hairtail fish and five kilograms of stick noodles.

The benefits are the most abundant in the past years, which makes the workers smile.

Jiang Yan and the others have a special place to receive their wages and benefits, so there is no need to queue here.

"Mr. Jiang, this is your salary. The total salary is 124 yuan. There is also a job subsidy of 45 yuan, so the total is 169 yuan."

The accountant responsible for paying wages to Jiang Yan and the others handed Jiang Yan a roll of tickets and some industrial tickets. He also gave Jiang Yan some notes distributed to him this month.

There were a lot of bills. Holding a thick stack in his hand, Jiang Yan glanced inside and saw that there were a lot of bills, most of which were commonly used bills.

Director Zhang had previously sent his secretary to deliver a thick envelope to Jiang Yan, which contained fifty kilograms of fine grain stamps as a reward for himself, as well as some meat stamps, oil stamps, tobacco and alcohol stamps, and bicycle tickets, which were rare items.

Most of the bills are redeemable on sight, so there is no need to add money at all.

After collecting his salary, Jiang Yan went to the place where he received his benefits and received his benefits. Jiang Yan put these things in the prepared bag and carried them to his jeep. Only when he got to the jeep did he find that

Zhu Zhu, Xu Damao and Shi Tou also received their salaries and benefits.

Seeing that everyone was here, Jiang Yan started the car and drove towards his home.

The old rules of the Forty-nine Cities. Twenty-five, frozen tofu, twenty-six, go buy meat, twenty-seven, slaughter the rooster, twenty-eight, make the dough, twenty-nine, steam the buns. New Year’s Eve rice is not made in a day.

The biggest benefit of the Spring Festival is "quenching cravings".

Chinese cabbage is a popular dish for the common people, and the tricks housewives use it in the Spring Festival recipes can almost set up a cabbage banquet.

This Spring Festival, the street provides each person with half a catty of oil and half a catty of meat. Each household can also add two catties of Fuqiang powder, one catty of soybeans, two catties of mung beans, several catties of Xiaozhan rice and five catties of fish to the shopping book.

Housewives rely on clever ideas to arrange three meals a day for the whole family during the New Year.

On the 27th and 8th day of the twelfth lunar month, people selling New Year's goods crowded the streets. State-owned non-staple food stores all put up wooden boards in front of their stores to sell goods on the street.

There are two festive red lanterns printed on the New Year's Eve ticket. A large piece of meat weighs two to three kilograms, which is much more comfortable and satisfying than buying it at two and a half kilograms.

Fish is the protagonist of the New Year, and every household needs to buy some main dishes for the New Year dinner.

Tang Guaer offered sacrifices to the stove, the girl wanted flowers, the boy wanted cannons, and the old man wanted a new felt hat.

Just two words, happy!

The head flowers and boutonnieres that girls like include chrysanthemums, peonies, roses, peonies, gladioli and other designs.

Adding a new toy during the New Year is a little secret among parents who are doing New Year shopping.

On weekdays, there is no meaty taste when the coarse grains are cooked carefully, but the Fuqiang pink meat dumplings on New Year's Eve will be particularly fragrant. I don't have pocket money on weekdays. During the Spring Festival, I put up a paper lantern and buy a windmill. Even if I go to the Changdian Temple Fair, I won't buy anything.

, both can make adults and children happy for a long time.

Parents work hard on weekdays, and some women are not around. Being able to have a reunion dinner, even if it is just radish and cabbage, is a blessing in life.

Collectivity is a characteristic of the Spring Festival in this era. The unit invoices watch movies, organizes entertainment parties, group worship, unifies the street invoices, purchase books, organizes cleaning, etc.

Everyone in the courtyard is beaming with joy, adults and children all smile when they see each other. Even two families who usually have conflicts will say hello to each other during the Chinese New Year.

As soon as Jiang Yanche arrived at the door of his small courtyard, he saw the third uncle, Yan Bugui, waiting there.

"Teacher Yan, what are you doing?" Jiang Yan got out of the car and asked after seeing Yan Bugui.

"Xiaoyan, it's almost the Chinese New Year. I left your couplets for you. I happened to be free today, so I sent them to you."

Jiang Yan burst out laughing when he saw the couplet in Yan Bugui's hand. He had forgotten about it after not seeing him in the past few years.

"Then thank you Teacher Yan. It's Chinese New Year and I don't have anything to give you. I just got a few bottles of wine today. I'll get one for Teacher Yan."

Jiang Yan opened the trunk as he spoke, took out a bottle of Erguotou and handed it to Yan Bugui.

Just after returning from the factory, Jiang Yan took a few of them to the supply and marketing cooperative and the department store to prepare the New Year's items. Many of them were things Jiang Yan secretly took out from the space.

"The benefits of your factory are better, they are so rich." Yan Bugui looked at the contents of the trunk of the car with envious eyes.

Seeing him like this, Jiang Yan was a little speechless. After thinking about it, he took out a piece of bacon from the trunk.

"Actually, there aren't that many things. We bought a lot of these things ourselves to use during the New Year. We took this bacon back to add to the New Year dishes."

The third uncle, Yan Bugui, just put off the offer and took what Jiang Yan handed over.

Yan Bugui is very excited today! He is here today.

Usually when Yan Bugui writes couplets for people in the courtyard, the people in the courtyard will also express their feelings.

Some get three cents and five cents, ten cents and two cents, some grab handfuls of fried peanuts, some grab handfuls of melon seeds, and some even just put down a sweet potato and leave.

I have never heard of Jiang Yan giving himself a bottle of wine and a piece of bacon. The bacon weighed a full kilogram. If you save a little, you can eat it for a long time.

The third uncle wrote Spring Festival couplets, which was a legal "business". He bought the big red paper for a few cents and cut it, and the pen, ink and inkstone were all ready-made. As soon as he wrote them, all the expenses for the New Year were covered.

The special stove should be written "be careful with the lights", the bedside kang should be written "good health" or "the body is in a blessed place", the front and back yards should be written "spring is full of the courtyard" or "the courtyard is full of spring light", and the noodle vat should be written "rice and noodles are like mountains".

", the water urn should be written "save water", the large and small cupboards should be written "golden ten thousand taels" and "good things will come every year", the livestock sheds and poultry houses should be written "cows and horses in groups" or "six livestock are prosperous", and on the big tree

To write "trees towering into the sky", for ladders write "rising higher and higher step by step".

Of course, Jiang Yan has many rooms in his courtyard, so there are many couplets. Unlike people in courtyards, where a family only has one or two rooms, and one or two pairs of couplets posted on the door frame are enough.

Jiang Yan told He Yuzhu and the others that they had to cover up a few things during normal meals, but today they finally stopped covering up.

Jiang Yan took out three pig heads and more than twenty kilograms of beef from his own space. Jiang Yan also ordered Xu Damao to buy a few pairs of pigs.

Not long after he came back, Liu Zi also came back. He also took back Jiang Yan's benefits from the automobile factory. The things were almost the same as those in the steel rolling mill.

Not long after Liu Zi came back, the department and the General Logistics Department sent gifts to Jiang Yan. A total of thirty kilograms of Xiaozhan rice, fifty kilograms of Fuqiang noodles, thirty kilograms of beef, mutton, and pork, as well as some candies and snacks.

Every household of Zhutou gave one as a gift.

At this time, the whole city is filled with the aroma of all kinds of food, not least Jiang Yan and the others. There are so many good things, and He Yuzhu and Liuzi are showing off their skills, braised and stir-fried.

Jiang Yan believes that tonight's New Year's Eve dinner will be extremely sumptuous.

(End of chapter)