Chapter 434 This New Year's Eve Dinner Is Desolate and Miserable
Huang Qingning swallowed the meat in his mouth in a few mouthfuls, and then explained it in a straight and straight manner.
"The meaning of this sentence is that giving someone a fish can only relieve his temporary hunger, but it cannot solve the root cause of the problem. It is better to teach him how to fish, so that this person can always have fish to eat."
After saying that, Huang Qingning said with a smile: "Grandma, cousin, she doesn't want your bacon, but she wants the method of curing bacon, so that no matter where she goes in the future, she can marinate bacon and eat it anytime and anywhere without having to ask anyone."
Yang Xinghua laughed heartily, "Okay, I'll teach you, I'll teach you tomorrow!"
"Grandma, then this chicken leg will be my tuition fee."
Yun Mo put a stewed chicken leg into Yang Xinghua's bowl, making everyone laugh.
Unlike the joy and laughter of the Huang family, the Yun family's New Year's Eve dinner this year was particularly deserted.
Yun Shixian sat down and ate with no more than two chopsticks, then answered the phone and went out.
As soon as Yun Shixian left, Yun Yao also found an excuse to get up and leave. Only Jiang Yu and Yun Cong, mother and son, were left at the dinner table.
Yun Cong didn't know whether he noticed something or had grown up. His whole person had lost the childishness of his youth and became a little more calm and restrained.
"Mom, let's eat."
Looking at the shrimp balls her son gave her, Jiang Yu couldn't help but smile happily, "Okay, Xiao Cong, you can eat too."
"Um."
After eating the shrimp balls, Jiang Yu suddenly asked: "Xiao Cong, do you want to study abroad?"
Yun Cong was stunned for a while before answering, "I haven't thought about it yet."
"You will take the high school entrance examination next year. If you stay in China to study in high school, you will either go to No. 3 Middle School, go to a provincial capital, or go abroad to study in a foreign school.
Nowadays, many people are trying their best to send their children to study abroad. I am thinking, instead of waiting for you to go to college or finish college before going out, why not go out early and come back early? Think about what your mother said, okay?
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Yun Cong nodded.
"Be good, let's eat. It's New Year's Eve today, so don't study. Watch the Spring Festival Gala, or go out to play with friends for a while. Just go home before 11 o'clock."
"I see."
After dinner, Yun Cong took the red envelope of new year's money given by Jiang Yu and went out.
Jiang Yu stood at the door, watching his son's back as he went out, his eyes as deep as water.
Sending her son to study abroad was her thoughtful idea.
The husband had a fierce fight with the little goblin named Bai, and he regarded the child in each other's belly as a treasure. Rather than leaving his son at home and neglecting him, it would be better to send him abroad to learn more skills while he was young.
When my son grows up, graduates and returns to China, he can directly take over the management of the company.
At that time, the child named Bai was only 7 or 8 years old. Whether he was a son or a daughter, he would not be his son's opponent.
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Lijia Village.
Li Li's New Year's Eve dinner this year can be described as desolate and miserable.
Because I couldn't bear to pay the electricity bill, my home had been without power for half a month. There was a candle as thick as a finger lit on the table, and the weak light seemed to be extinguished at any moment.
There were three bowls of vegetables on the old dining table, one bowl of stir-fried shredded pork with sour beans, one bowl of stewed meatballs with radish, and one bowl of stir-fried cabbage with tofu.
The two meat dishes and one vegetable dish were actually not that bad, but compared to previous years, they were far from impressive.
When they were in the Ling family, no matter how miserable and poor the two Ling brothers were, they would always try their best to prepare all the New Year's goods.
Apart from anything else, there must be chicken and fish, and the soup is also made with big stick bones or pig's trotters. The stewed soup is thick and white, instead of the clear soup on the table where the radish is boiled with a few meats.
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After staying in the countryside for several months, Ling Jiale has obviously adapted to this hard life. He wolfs down his food with chopsticks, but he is not as pampered as Li Li was before, chasing after the food with a bowl in hand.
"Li, you should eat too. Why are you dazed? The food will get cold after a while."
Seeing Li Li not moving her chopsticks for a long time, Li Dajun couldn't help but remind her.
Li Li looked at her father's pale temples and said in confusion, "Dad, do you think the New Year's Eve dinner between Lao Ling and Chun Hua is as shabby as ours?"
"What's so shabby about this place? There's meat, vegetables, and tofu. Isn't it much better than what you usually eat?"
Li Li's eyes suddenly became sore, "This is not shabby, there is not even a fish or chicken!"
Li Dajun opened his mouth and was speechless for a long time.
In previous years, the Li family's New Year's Eve dinner would naturally have chicken on the table, but the chicken was stolen by the son Li Zhijie from other people's homes, or the wife went to her son-in-law's house to get it.
The Li family actually also raised two old egg-laying hens, which Zhu Hongping raised before his death.
Half a month ago, Ling Jiale got into a fight with children in the village and accidentally broke a child's head. The child's parents came to the door with the village cadres and asked Li Li to pay for the medical expenses. Li Li refused because he had no money.
, the other party was not a vegetarian either, so he caught an old hen on the spot and left.
Li Li planned to keep the remaining old hen for the New Year.
I killed the chicken yesterday afternoon and hung it on the stove, but it was stolen in the middle of the night.
Not to mention the chicken was gone, all the bacon, oil, rice, noodles, etc. were plundered.
The things on the dinner table were all bought by Li Li in the city today.
She used to ride a motorcycle into the city, but now she can only walk.
After walking back and forth for more than four hours, the soles of my feet developed blisters.
Thinking of the sin and suffering she had suffered, Li Li was so angry that she burst into tears.
"It's all my fault for that damn thief, the wicked guy who gave birth to a child without a butthole. I know who did it, but I can't kill him..."
Listening to his daughter's curses, Li Dajun could only sigh silently.
My son has done a lot of sneaky things in the past, and he was probably scolded even more harshly than this behind his back.
Now that the son is in jail, the wife is dead on the street, and the daughter's family is broken up, how could she know that she has not suffered the retribution of a curse?
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Contrary to the desolation and embarrassment of the Li family, the father and daughter Ling Jiang and Ling Chunhua had a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner.
Although Yun Mo was not at home, the Xie family and the Zeng family both sent a lot of things, including chicken, duck, fish, beef, sheep, and pork.
Worried that the father and daughter would be deserted, the Deng family originally invited the father and daughter to have New Year's Eve dinner at Deng's house, but Ling Jiang refused.
This is the first Spring Festival for his younger brother An's family. Since his younger brother and sister are not at home, he has to look after his younger brother and his wife.
The other one has geese and dogs at home, valuable gifts from others, and several thousand dollars worth of goods in the warehouse, which must be guarded by someone.
Although there are only two people in the huge yard, the flavor of the New Year is very strong.
There are several pots of wintersweet and red plum in the yard. The winter plum was a gift from Xie Xia, and the red plum was a gift from Zeng Fang. They were covered with various paper ingots and Chinese knots.
In addition, the eaves and doorways of the courtyard are covered with red lanterns.
Ling Jiang bought the lanterns himself. He didn't understand this at first. He saw how Uncle Luo's house next door was decorated like this, so he followed suit and took his daughter to the street to buy a lot of red paper lanterns and hang them up at home.
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In addition to lanterns, Ling Jiang also asked Uncle Luo to help write a few couplets and put them on the front door, the main house, the kitchen, and the doorways of their respective rooms.
The father and daughter, together with a yard of geese and two huskies, lived a prosperous and lively year.