Wang Sanpao also lived at the base when he came for training. He is also a cheerful person. After listening to Sun Dahai, he thought about it for a while and agreed.
It was still a while before dinner, so Sun Dahai suggested that they go to the cafeteria to sing karaoke together.
Company Commander Zha was very interested and cheered repeatedly. Although Wang Sanpao didn't like singing, he still wanted to see something new. So everyone went to the canteen together.
In the cafeteria, Gao Yi and the others were here, listening to Master Li singing. Seeing them enter the cafeteria, Sun Yuanyuan ran over, and after greeting everyone, she started bragging about how much she sang just now.
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After Master Li finished singing, he put down the microphone when he saw guests coming. Sun Dahai told Company Commander Zha how to use the microphone and handed the microphone to him.
At this time, most of the employees at the base had not yet gotten off work, and there were several people who had taken the day off today, as well as Sun Dahai and others in the cafeteria.
Wang Sanpao himself didn't like singing. After listening to Company Commander Zha sing two songs, he lost any interest. Instead, he chatted happily with Sun Yuanyuan and Sun Dahe.
His daughter is as old as Sun Yuanyuan, no wonder Wang Sanpao can talk to them together.
Wang Sanpao was telling them some interesting things about life in the mountains. These things may be commonplace and accustomed to the children in Shantun, but for the second primary school students who have been living in the capital, they are extremely interesting.
Later, even Sun Dahai and Gao Yi were attracted and became Wang Sanpao's loyal listeners.
Today is the second day of the Lunar New Year, and the staple food for dinner is noodles. The condolence gifts brought by Sun Dahai came in handy. The pig's trotters and ribs were heated and served to the dinner table.
Company Commander Zha and Wang Sanpao were both masters who could drink. As the master, Gao Hongjun could only bite the bullet and keep company. At the end of the day, he drank and lay down again.
On the morning of the third day of the third year of junior high school, Sun Dahai and his entourage and Wang Sanpao rode Coaster and came to Kaoshantun again.
Kaoshan Village was originally not big, with only a few dozen households. In recent years, the government has done some work and eliminated several small villages in the mountains where life was extremely inconvenient, and resettled people in Kaoshan Village. So now there are more than 200 households in Kaoshan Village, with a population of
With over 800 people, it is considered a relatively large village nearby.
Every year on the third day of the Lunar New Year, Kaoshantun will set up a greenhouse in the courtyard of the village committee and hold a flowing feast.
Because there are so many people, the meal has to be divided into two groups. The first group is the old people, women and children in the village. The dinner starts at eleven o'clock and ends before twelve o'clock.
Twelve o'clock is the time for the flowing water banquet. At this time, the guests invited by the village and the men of the same age in the village come to the table to eat.
Sun Dahai and the others arrived early. Under the leadership of Wang Sanpao, they first went to the village committee to find the village chief and presented their gifts.
It is a statutory holiday from the first to the third day of the lunar month, so the supply and marketing cooperative in Qingshan Town will naturally be on holiday and will not open its doors. Fortunately, Sun Dahai bought 12 boxes of liquor on New Year's Eve, and the people at the base drank less than half of it in the past few days.
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Sun Dahai gave Kuoshantun four boxes of liquor today, which he took out from the base. After the Spring Festival holiday on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year tomorrow, he will buy four more boxes and return them to the base.
After the gifts were delivered, Sun Dahai saw the village chief preparing the running water mat, so he left first and was led by Wang Sanpao to visit Kaoshan Village.
According to Wang Sanpao, Kaoshantun is located in a mountainous area with very little cultivated land and is not contiguous, so it has never grown food, but some vegetables and fruit trees.
In addition, people from Kaoshantun will go into the mountains to pick some mountain products such as pine nuts, hazelnuts, wild fruits, mushrooms and wild medicinal materials and deliver them to the purchasing station in exchange for work points.
There is also hunting. Wang Sanpao's family has been hunters for several generations. Every year during the hunting season, they will take the strong young men from the village into the mountains. After hunting down the prey, the skins are processed and the meat is taken back to the village in exchange for work points.
After the reform and opening up, some good changes have taken place in Kaoshantun. Two years ago, a small village chicken farm was built.
Sun Yuanyuan interrupted: "Uncle Sanpao, what kind of chickens and ducks are raised in the chicken farm here? My two aunts also have a small chicken farm, and they raise black-bone chickens.
The bones and meat of black-bone chicken are black and it looks scary, but it tastes good and adults say it is nutritious."
Wang Sanpao said with a smile: "We raise ordinary chickens here, and we mainly make money by selling eggs. However, there are a few pheasants mixed in among the chickens. Do you want to see them? They are quite beautiful."
"Okay, okay!" Sun Yuanyuan clapped her hands.
"The chicken farm is not far ahead, passing by my house. You guys go to my house and sit for a while and recognize the door."
Wang Sanpao's home is at the entrance of the village. The yard is not small, and there are several animal skins hanging in it, being dried.
The house on the front is a large room, and there are small rooms on both sides, which are probably firewood sheds and the like. All the houses are adobe houses and look to be old.
Sun Dahai and the others entered the main room and entered the kitchen. The little girl Wang Xiaowa who I saw yesterday seemed to be doing homework in the west room. When she saw us coming in, she hurriedly greeted us.
"Dad, you are back. Yuanyuan, Dahe, why are you and my dad walking together?"
The three children held hands and walked away muttering. Wang Sanpao let everyone into the east room, asked everyone to slip on the kang, and was busy pouring water to greet everyone.
"Uncle Sanpao, don't be busy. Let's recognize the door and leave." Sun Dahai quickly stopped Wang Sanpao. Everyone just came out of the base not long ago, so there is no need to drink water.
The house is not very big, with a large Kang taking up more than half of the area. This room should be the house of Wang Sanpao and his wife, and it also serves as a place for receiving guests.
Winter in the Northeast is too cold, so people are used to slipping on the kang when they get home. Eating, drinking, or eating melon seeds and chatting are all done on the kang table.
Every winter, the kang in every household is kept warm. After entering the house from the ice and snow, I take off my shoes and sit cross-legged on the kang, and the coldness all over my body is quickly dissipated.
The only drawback is that for people who have never slept on a heated kang before, if they sleep on it for the first time, they will probably be woken up by the heat in the middle of the night.
The furniture in Wang Sanpao's house is all made of pine wood, and there are several shotguns and crossbows of different styles hanging on the walls, which are probably passed down from several generations of Wang Sanpao's family.
"Xiaowa, where is your mother?" Wang Sanpao asked his daughter.
Wang Xiaowa stuck her head out and replied: "My mother went to help in the kitchen early in the morning."
Three or four ladle chefs alone cannot handle the flow of a few hundred people at a flowing banquet. At least ten or twenty people with quick hands and feet are needed to help.
"Hey, hey, did you hear that? Everyone is paying attention."
At this time, the big speaker hanging on the tree outside the yard sounded, and the voice of the village chief Li Honggen came out.
"It's almost eleven o'clock now, and the first meal time is coming soon. Old people, children and lesbians in the village should seize the time to have dinner in the village committee compound.
Everyone should be quick and don’t delay the dinner time of the distinguished guests and the masters in the village. Remember to bring your own bowls, chopsticks and benches."
