From December 18 to 22, 1978, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, sounding the clarion call for China's reform and opening up.

This important meeting also brought a new trend to society, and this year's holiday has changed differently from usual.

One month before the Spring Festival, Lin Johnson's family began to buy New Year's goods. As the next ten days before the Spring Festival, the automobile factory also distributed benefits such as hairtail, rice and soybean oil to the workers. The workers felt the treatment of state-owned enterprise employees for the first time, and everyone had a sincere joy on their faces.

Before 1978, there was no morning market in Bincheng. People had to go to major farmers' markets to buy New Year's goods, and they had to buy them with tickets there. After the morning market, people could buy whatever they wanted. Although there were no vegetables on the morning market, people often went back and forth for a few hours when they came here.

January 28, 1979, Spring Festival.

This morning, the whole family started cleaning. Lin Johnson swept the inside and outside the house, and the snow outside the yard was also cleaned up.

The father was washing vegetables in the kitchen, and the mother and sister were cleaning up the business in the house and wiping the windows. The window glasses of the things and the houses were wiped clean.

After Lin Qiang-Chengsheng finished cleaning the floor, he also went to the kitchen to wash vegetables. This year, there were many preparations for New Year’s goods, and it was really a bit difficult for his father to be alone.

Although there are not many dishes available now, Lin Johnson has a way to make this Spring Festival more comfortable. He got a lot of mutton and seafood, and he specially found a restaurant to cut the mutton into slices. At that time, there are vegetables, meat, and hot pot mutton seafood. The Lin family can have a good time this Spring Festival!

After packing up, I started to make dumplings with my mother and sister. They both included them all together, and no one needed to interfere. The dough, the fillings and the dough were very fast.

This year, the Lin family ate two kinds of stuffings. In addition to the cabbage-filled dumplings that were mainly used in previous years, there were also celery-filled dumplings this year. In order to buy such a bundle of celery, Lin Johnson went to the morning market several times.

"Xiang Rong, Qiang Dong didn't send a letter this Spring Festival? What's going on?" Xu Hongmei asked Lin Xiangrong, who was trying to get started.

Usually during the holidays, the eldest son Lin Qiangdong would write letters to his home, but he did not receive his letter this year during the Spring Festival. His mother Xu Hongmei muttered.

Lin Xiangrong shook his head and said, "Stop thinking about it! Qiangdong will not have anything to do. It must be because the troops have tasks, so it is not convenient to communicate with their homes!"

This situation is also possible. It has happened before. The troops have a mission, and it has been unreachable for a while to go to a remote place. Now the family can only guess what mission Lin Qiangdong's troops have encountered.

Lin Johnson glanced at his parents, saw his sister glaring at him, opened his mouth and said, "Don't worry, my parents. My brother will be fine."

Lin Xiang thought that Johnson Lin would sarcastically mock the elder brother as before, because the relationship between the two brothers was not good before.

Xu Hongmei, Lin Xiangrong, and Lin Xiang, all looked at Lin Johnson in surprise. Lin Johnson smiled and said, "Maybe my brother will be promoted again in a few months!"

Lin Qiang-dong, Lin Qiang-dong, has been very obedient and smart since childhood, and is a child from other people's homes.

Lin Qiang-Cheng-Cheng was always compared with his brother before, so he naturally felt very disgusted, so he hated this elder brother very much.

However, in his previous life, after joining the army, he received a lot of care from his elder brother, so the two brothers gradually got closer. In this life, Lin Johnson in this life was naturally different from before, so he took the initiative to start talking about his elder brother's good words.

Xu Hongmei reacted and said with a smile: "Well! If you borrow Johnson and Johnson's auspicious words, it's fine!"

Lin Xiangrong nodded and said, "It may be that he has really performed some tasks and got to the place, so he can't contact him for the time being."

Lin Qiang-sheng naturally knew that his elder brother Lin Qiang-dong was quickly promoted like many Rocket cadres, and then participated in the counterattack against Vietnam. However, fortunately, his elder brother was not injured in this war. Later, he was promoted to the company commander for business. After he was discharged from the army, he became the police station director at the local level.

Lin Xiang asked at this time: "Dad, after the Spring Festival, you, mom and brother, are you really going abroad for inspection?"

When she first learned the news, she was shocked. Lin Xiang had no idea about going abroad. Unexpectedly, her parents and younger brother would suddenly go abroad, which shocked her.

Lin Xiangrong nodded, patted the flour on his hands, and smiled and said, "Well! I got a notice a few days ago that after the Spring Festival, people abroad will take a class to teach you about foreign customs and safety knowledge. Your mother and your brother must participate. Then we will study hard, and don't embarrass the motherland when we go abroad!"

Xu Hongmei smiled and was quite happy about taking such a class.

Lin Qiang-Chengsheng rolled his eyes and said, "Actually, it's just that they just want to scare everyone when they hear the people from other provinces' economic and trade hypes!"

Lin Xiang asked in surprise: "Is that so?!"

Lin Johnson nodded and said, "They like to praise foreign countries, such as how prosperous the economy is and how developed the material. They also scare people, saying that they should not be blinded when they leave the country, and don't lose themselves in the material pursuits of developed countries. They will also say that foreign countries are unsafe, and foreigners have guns, and blacks are all robbers. What's the point of scaring themselves? Do they feel accomplished like this? What's the mentality!"

Lin Xiangrong stared at his son and said, "How do you know? I'm just talking nonsense, can they still lie to us?"

Lin Johnson smiled, his mother Xu Hongmei and sister Lin Xiang were also happy, and he really thought that Lin Johnson was talking nonsense.

After making dumplings, put all the dumplings in the warehouse to freeze them, so that when you eat them at night, you can directly cook frozen dumplings.

At noon, the whole family had a simple lunch and had a rest. At around 2 o'clock in the afternoon, they started making the New Year's Eve dinner.

This year's New Year's Eve dish is extremely rich. Compared with previous years, it is one in the sky and one in the ground, and it is not comparable at all!

The ones served in the table include fried meat with fungus, fried meat with cauliflower, fried meat with celery, fried meat with mushrooms, braised carp, stewed mushrooms with chicken, and rice.

My father fried a large pot of shrimp slices and small fish. Lin Qiangsheng cooked a salted shrimp. He put the seafood and mutton into the hot pot. Finally, he brought a large pot of pork, beef, and loaves and other things on the edge of the kang. The dining table was too small and there was no place.

"This big table of dishes!" Mother Xu Hongmei looked at the dishes on the table, and was stunned for no reason.

Lin Xiang looked at the bright red dishes on the table and shouted, "Ah! When did our life become so good?! My brother, take a snapshot!"

"Crack" Lin Johnson took a family photo of the New Year's Eve dinner in 1979.

Lin Qiangsheng looked at the dishes with satisfaction, nodded, and said, "It's almost done! This is the future well-off life! People can often eat like this in the future!"

Father Lin Xiangrong shook his head and said, "It's so wasteful! This table of dishes is enough for our family's annual food money! How much does it cost to get seafood you made by Johnson & Johnson? How much does it cost and how many tickets do you have to buy?"

Lin Xiang smiled, patted Lin Johnson on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Dad, don't worry! Our Johnsonson is very rich now, he is a big capitalist! Do you know? Ah, mom!"

Xu Hongmei hit Lin Xiang and blamed her for being speechless. Usually, the couple looked at Lin Qiangsheng busy and was very strange. What did her son do to do this, but gradually she felt that her son seemed to be happy and didn't want to say anything.

In the evening, the whole family changed into new clothes, which was bought by Lin Johnson from a state-owned store.

My father Lin Xiangrong is a dark gray suit, my mother Xu Hongmei is a red tweed coat, my sister Lin Xiang is wearing a cashmere sweater and jumpsuit, and Lin Johnson is wearing a leather jacket and jeans himself. Each person also has a pair of black leather shoes, which are polished brightly.

The whole family changed into new clothes and shoes, and it felt very strange at home! It seemed like the family was going to attend a formal occasion. The serious and funny look made the whole family laugh and looked at each other.

Xu Hongmei smiled and said, "Put it on and take it off. You have to take it off when you eat. The clothes bought by Johnson & Johnson are not suitable for wearing at home!"

Lin Xiangrong looked at his wife, looked at his suit again, nodded, and said to Lin Johnson in admiration: "The clothes my son bought are good! They look good!"

Xu Hongmei looked at Lin Xiangrong with a smile and praised: "You are wearing this suit, I feel like you are ten years younger!"

Lin Xiangrong looked at his wife and said with a smile: "Is that so? I see that you are ten years younger when you wear this red tweed coat. You are so beautiful!"

Lin Johnson and his sister Lin Xiang looked at each other, and they smiled.

The family was happy and had a New Year’s Eve dinner. The fish was delicious at this time, the chicken was delicious at this time, and the seafood was delicious at this time.

Lin Xiang held a big prawn in one hand, and couldn't even eat it even with her mouth. Lin Johnson chewed the chicken legs and chewed it hard. It smelled so good! It was touched! It was pure, the taste of chicken!

On the night of 1979, Lin Johnson's TV made contributions again. Even if it was cold outside, it could not stop the neighbors from being warm!

Lin Xiangrong had to move the TV to the yard, cover it with a coat, and put two braziers next to it!

There are very few programs on TV, with only one station in total, performing traditional programs such as "Taking Tiger Mountain with Strategy", "Shajiabang", and "Red Lantern". The TV station played it casually, and the audience also enjoyed it.

On the cold outdoors, even if the neighbors and young people were cold, they were staring at the TV and kept cheering and applauding the wonderful performances on the TV. The applause spread from the yard to the house and outside the yard, attracting more people.

It was past nine o'clock, and the TV program ended, and the neighbors ended with a smile and went home to eat dumplings.

Visiting relatives and friends and setting off firecrackers is also indispensable. Lin Johnson's neighbors also came to the factory manager's house to sit for a while, putting an egg and a handful of melon seeds and peanuts, all of which were New Year's gifts.
Chapter completed!