"Grandpa, let me give you a toast." Cao Shubin held the wine glass and asked for a toast to grandpa.

He said: "I drank it all, you can do whatever you want."

He didn't dare let his grandpa drink more.

In the past year, Cao Zhenghu has grown one year older and is only one year away from the 90-year-old mark. At this time, everyone is thinking about letting him live for a few more years. No one in their family dares to let him have an accident.

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Cao Zhenghu waved his hand and told his eldest grandson to sit down: "Shubin, sit down and drink."

He took a sip, and after Cao Shubin sat down, he was completely stuffed.

Cao Shujie handed him some tea to drink.

Everyone understands that only when grandpa is here can they get together to have a reunion dinner. If grandpa is gone one day, it will be difficult to get together for a reunion dinner like today.

This was a very heavy topic, and it flashed through Cao Shujie's mind, making him feel a little depressed, but he didn't say it out loud.

Several men were drinking, and the second sister-in-law Ren Jingjing suddenly asked: "Shujie, when will you perform on the show?"

Cao Shujie didn't respond and asked his second sister-in-law what the show was.

"Did Mengmeng just tell me that you went to Beijing to record a show?" Second sister-in-law Ren Jingjing reminded him.

Only then did Cao Shujie understand what was going on. He glared at Mengmeng and then said to everyone: "This is a coincidence. I just received a notice yesterday that my episode is scheduled for February 10th.

It will be broadcast on the second program of CCTV on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month."

"It's so fast, it's only a few days ago." The second sister-in-law was quite surprised.

My sister-in-law also asked when it would be aired, and she would also watch it then.

The uncle and two cousins ​​were confused and quickly asked what was going on.

"I went to Beijing to record a CCTV interview program called "Meet the Big Shots" a few years ago. It will be broadcast next month," Cao Shujie told them.

"I forgot the specific broadcast time, it should be 8pm, right?" Cao Shujie was also very uncertain.

Hearing what he said, several people wanted to roll their eyes. How could anyone be so careless as him?

The second brother responded quickly and asked Cao Shujie who else was going to record the show.

"When I went to record the show, Liu Qiangdong was in front of me. In fact, the Da Qiangzi guy was quite easy to talk to, but he was too strong." Cao Shujie said casually.

"Behind me is Zhang Chaoyang, but it's a pity that I didn't see him when I left. I guess he was delayed by other things."

After all, it is normal for people like them to have temporary troubles.

Cao Shuxin wanted to roll his eyes when he heard his cousin's tone of voice when he met his neighbor.

The more they learn about each other, the more they can truly feel the gap between them and their cousins. It is an insurmountable gap that may not be crossed in this lifetime.

When other people heard the name Liu Qiangdong, they were also very curious and asked for news about Liu Qiangdong.

The second sister-in-law also asked Liu Qiangdong if his wife, Milk Tea Girl, was going?

When they got married two years ago, the discussion online was particularly heated.

Cao Shujie shook his head: "His wife didn't come. The night of our party happened to be the New Year's Eve. Lei Jun and Liu Qiangdong and I had dinner together, but Lei Jun's wife and children were there."

As soon as he finished speaking, Mengmeng shouted loudly from the side: "Auntie went, sister Xinyi went too, and I went too."

Hearing what Mengmeng said, the family praised her for seeing all kinds of big events with her father since she was a child, and for being a person who has seen the world.

"Mengmeng, your father has paved the way for you, you must do better than him in the future." Cao Jianlin said.

After hearing this, Mengmeng grinned very proudly. She smiled and said, "Grandpa, my father said that I will keep all the money he earns."

"Then you have to let your father earn more and leave more for you." Cao Shubin encouraged her.

Mengmeng took it seriously. She turned to look at her father and said, "Dad, did you hear that? You have to work harder!"

Mengmeng's words made everyone laugh.

The New Year's Eve dinner continued amidst laughter and laughter. Everyone was almost done eating, and then Wang Yuelan went to order the dumplings.

There are beef ones, venison ones, and pork and leek ones.

Cheng Xiaolin wanted to go to help her mother-in-law, but Wang Yuelan drove her back and asked her to accompany her two sisters-in-law and children to dinner.

He also said that the dumplings are all wrapped, so it doesn’t take that many people to make the dumplings.

When the plates of round, white and plump dumplings were brought to the dining table, looking at the steaming dumplings, I thought I had almost eaten them, but now my appetite came back.

There weren't many dumplings, but we couldn't handle the crowd, so each person ate three or five, which was quite a lot.

Wang Yuelan drank three pots in a row, and everyone stopped eating.

Seeing that it was already past seven-thirty, the children were still thinking about setting off fireworks, and seeing that the adults were not eating, Mengmeng asked her father if he was going to set off fireworks now?

"Go, hurry up and put on thick clothes, we will leave soon." Cao Shujie said to her.

Cao Yirui was the first to shout: "I'll go too, I'll go too."

The sound was so loud that it made people feel noisy, for fear of leaving him behind.

Cao Shujie also comforted him not to be in a hurry, saying that he would leave together after he had packed up.

Cao Zhenghu saw that these children couldn't stay at home and were about to run out at any time. He called them to stop, stood up and went to the bedroom with a cane to take out a pile of wrapped red envelopes and gave them to the four children one by one.

Cao Shujie did not expect that his three brothers also had 200 yuan in each red envelope. The red envelope was not that much, but it was mainly a festive feeling.

However, when Cao Shujie heard his daughter shouting loudly from the side that there was 1,000 yuan in the red envelope, his heart suddenly became unbalanced.

"Why can Mengmeng and the others get 1,000 yuan, but he can only get 200?" Cao Shujie felt grievances for himself in his heart, but he didn't dare to say this, as he would probably get beaten if he did.

Not only the three brothers, but also his wife and two sisters-in-law received red envelopes.

But what makes Cao Shujie even more unwilling is that his sister Cao Huifang took 500.

Cao Shujie felt distressed. Isn't a married grandson worth anything?

No one cared what Cao Shujie was feeling at this time. People were pouring out of the streets and alleys of Caojiazhuang and walking towards the Caojiazhuang Village Committee.

After they came over, they discovered that the Caojiazhuang Village Committee compound was blocked with red warning tape. Fortunately, because the village committee office building was to be built, the walls here were removed, and everyone could see it from the outside.

The scene inside.

Some people also went to the homes of nearby villagers and stood on their roofs to watch.

More than 1,000 people gathered together, so densely packed that it was quite spectacular.

When Cao Shujie brought his family over, because of his privilege, the family followed him in even though they arrived late.

When they arrived at the large conference room, they looked at the door of the conference room.

Everyone turned a blind eye to this scene.

They felt that Secretary Cao had already done a good job and they could not ask him to become a moral model. That would be kidnapping!

Cao Jianlong and the others had already come here. When they saw Cao Shujie coming with his entire family, he came up to greet them and said Happy New Year greetings.

"Uncle Long, how are you preparing?" Cao Shujie asked him.

Cao Jianlong told him that everything was ready, and the people setting off the fireworks would also be in place later.

More than 800,000 fireworks were piled up like a hill and set off in the large conference room. Caojiazhuang can be lively tonight.

"Shujie, do you want to say a few words?" Cao Jianlong asked him habitually.

Cao Shujie waved his hand directly and asked what time the speech was. Today is New Year's Eve. Everyone has just finished their New Year's Eve dinner and they are all waiting outside to watch the fireworks. Who is willing to listen to his speech?

Isn’t that a joke?

"Uncle Long, forget about talking and just light the fireworks later."

"Then let's wait until 8 o'clock to start." Cao Jianlong said.

When he saw Cao Shujie nodding, Cao Jianlong asked Cao Shuchao to arrange for people from the security brigade to set off the fireworks first.

Brothers Cao Shubin and Cao Shuxin saw this scene from the side, especially when they saw Cao Jianlong asking their cousin for instructions from time to time, they truly realized that the village secretary actually had great authority.

The fact that their cousin became the village party secretary in just a few years is quite novel.

The villagers outside are also talking about it. Everyone already knows that the village committee has done a lot of bloodletting this year and bought more than 300,000 fireworks.

But what surprised everyone even more was that their village secretary Cao Shujie bought more than 500,000 yuan from his own pocket, which was more than the money paid by the village committee.

No one thought about it wrongly. They all knew that Secretary Cao was not ordinary rich.

Moreover, I earned all this money before I became the village director or village secretary.

Everyone really wants to see the difference between these fireworks.

Watching the time move towards 8 o'clock little by little, many people suddenly feel that time passes so slowly.

A day usually flies by in a blink of an eye, but now it feels like seconds are like years.

Everyone was chatting and talking to the folks around them, but they didn't notice that everyone usually couldn't get together, but today they took this opportunity to get together, which was actually quite good.

During the noisy chat, I heard Cao Jianlong's shout from the loudspeaker in the Caojiazhuang Village Committee compound: "All the young and old men in Caojiazhuang, please pay attention. Let me reiterate, we will officially light the fireworks at 8 o'clock tonight.

There are a lot of fireworks, and I’m going to say something ugly up front. For everyone’s safety, no one is allowed to lean forward when the fireworks are being lit, and no one is allowed to come over and grab the boxes of finished fireworks. If you don’t listen, you will get burned.
To be continued...