Rebirth 1975: Tore up the call-back order at the beginning

The New Year is getting closer and closer, and the days seem to be speeding up all of a sudden. There seems to be endless things to do every day!

Since their parents arrived, the entire Zhou family has become busy with New Year celebrations.

After killing the pigs on 25 and dividing the meat, the Zhou family started making bacon and marinated pork on 26. This is also a must-have item for the Zhou family every year. After all, this is what Zhou Yang likes to eat.

27 The whole family went out together, and called in mother-in-law Zhang Guiying and sister-in-law Lin Aizhi to help, frying dry goods together, including twists, candied hemp leaves, and the children's favorite candied eggs.

28. It was supposed to be the time to clean the yard, unpack and wash the sheets and old clothes, but a large group of uninvited guests came to the Zhou family.

First, brothers Feng Liujin and Feng Qijin came to Zhou's house with red paper and pen and ink, and asked Zhou Yawen to write some couplets for his family.

Naturally, Zhou Yawen would not refuse this kind of thing, it was just a matter of effort.

However, what he didn't expect was that as soon as this started, all the members of Babaoliang Village knew about it, and then they all came to Zhou's house with things to write couplets on.

It’s not that no one in the village can write couplets. On the contrary, there are quite a few people who can write calligraphy. After all, there are many scholars in Babaoliang Village now, and there are many teachers here. For these people, writing couplets is really good. Not much difficulty.

However, the village members all felt that the Zhou family were all capable people, and they would be lucky if they could help write the couplets.

Unexpectedly, Party Secretary Lao Li's family used to be a bunch of rough guys. Ever since their youngest daughter married into the Zhou family, Lao Li's family has turned into a duck in the blink of an eye. Not only did a provincial number one scholar emerge, but Li Laosi also became a A serious college student.

Even the younger generation of the Li family is doing great. Each one's grades in school are better than the other. Huzi, who only knew how to fish in rivers and dig out bird eggs in trees before, is now ranked first in the class.

People in the village are saying privately that Lao Li's family is taking advantage of his son-in-law Zhou's family.

Now they also had the opportunity to benefit from the blessings of the Zhou family, and no one wanted to miss it, so the whole village came.

Soon, Zhou Yawen was too busy alone, and Ye Lifang and Lao Zhang all started to follow suit.

In the end, even Zhou Yang, who came back from get off work, was captured and the whole family went into battle together to write couplets for the village members and common people.

Of course, the members did not let the Zhou family help in vain. After the items they delivered were rejected, everyone simply helped the Zhou family with the physical work.

While Zhou Yawen, Ye Lifang, Lao Zhang and others were helping write couplets, the young people in the village either came to the Zhou family's woodshed and chopped firewood with axes, while others picked up big brooms and started cleaning. Dust and trash in the yard.

The women were not idle either. They simply found rags and helped the Zhou family clean the glass. They had to find something to do anyway.

Therefore, after the couplets in the village were written, the physical work that the Zhou family had to do was basically completed.

Although the whole family was arrested for a day and a half, everyone's hands were sore, but the simple people's hearts and sincere feelings of the villagers made Zhou Yawen and his wife feel very comfortable!

They have been in jail for the past few years and have become accustomed to the warmth and coldness of people in the world. Even when they return to the city, they have to deliberately keep a distance from their colleagues in the unit.

Whether it is because they are afraid of well ropes after being bitten by a snake for ten years, or they are always on guard against others, in short, they are always wary when dealing with people.

But when they arrived in the village, they saw that the neighbors knew each other and were closer than relatives. The laughter and laughter among each other were like spring breeze and rain. This made Zhou Yawen and his wife feel extremely relaxed!

In the blink of an eye, time has come to the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month.

After getting up early in the morning and washing themselves briefly, the Zhou family, like other families in the village, started busy posting couplets.

There is also something special about posting couplets, not too early or too late.

If it's too early, the couplets will easily be blown by animals.

In previous years, some people had posted the couplets at 28. As a result, when the cattle and sheep came back from the village, the red couplets would be illuminated.

Especially donkeys, mules and horses, like to tear off couplets the most. If the guy opens his mouth, he can tear off the couplets from top to bottom on the doorpost.

Therefore, in the past two years, the village has developed the habit of posting couplets on New Year's Eve, because from today to the sixth day of the lunar month, all members of the village have a holiday, and the animals will not go out to graze, and they will not be afraid of them. Got it!

These days, the one who uses couplets is not glue, let alone tape, but paste made by myself.

Just stir the flour into a paste, then put it on the stove to cook, stir it a little, and it will become very sticky.

Nowadays, all things in the village are glued with this kind of paste, including the mille-feuille soles used to make shoes. This glue is used to glue layers of cloth together, and then cut out the shape of the sole.

After the paste was made, Zhou Yang and Chen Beixuan went to the door outside with spatulas to clean up the old couplets from last year, while Zhou Yawen sorted out the newly written couplets.

He took a brush dipped in paste and applied a few brushes to the back of the couplet, and then handed the couplet to Bao'er, who had been waiting for a long time.

The little girl happily took the couplet and sent it outside the house, then handed it to Zhou Yang who was standing on the stool...

While the men were pasting couplets, Li Youwei and her mother were not idle either. They took out the window grilles they bought at the market and put them up with paste.

The window grilles are beautifully cut, with flowers, birds, characters, and zodiac signs, all with very good meanings.

After doing this, Zhou Yang hung up the red lantern again.

Then, with the help of Chen Beixuan, he moved the pig heads, pig trotters and various wastes soaked yesterday outside the house, poured out the bloody water soaked in them, replaced them with clean water and washed them again.

Then put all the ingredients into the big iron pot and start blanching them!

New Year's Eve is a special day. According to the custom in the village, pig heads and trotters will be boiled and steamed buns will be steamed in the morning, and dumplings will be made for New Year's Eve dinner in the afternoon.

In short, today I need to prepare all the food for the next five or six days. If there are no particularly important guests at home in the remaining few days, I generally will not cook complicated dishes at home.

After blanching the pig heads and trotters and putting various seasonings into the pot, Zhou Yang handed over the task of boiling water to Li Youwei, while he took Chen Beixuan to the research institute.

There is no holiday arranged for the institute this year. It's not that Zhou Yang wants to be a scapegoat for this week, but that the war is imminent and the entire military has entered a state of emergency.

As one of the most important supply units for front-line troops, Factory 888 naturally cannot have a holiday for the New Year at this time.

What's more, there is no such thing as a New Year's holiday. Even Zhou Yang, the director, does not dare to give employees and cadres a holiday in private.

However, not being able to take a holiday does not mean that there will be no fun during the New Year. Under Zhou Yang's instructions, the institute will organize all cadres and workers to hold a New Year's party this afternoon using the village member activity center!

That's right, it's a fraternity, a fraternity between units.

But in Zhou Yang's opinion, this sorority is more like a blind date!

Due to the different nature of the troops, except for a small number of elderly experts and professors in the entire Babaoliang Research Institute, the rest are all young people in their twenties.

Among them are newly graduated college students, young soldiers doing security work, doctors and nurses, etc. Most of them are still single due to work reasons.

Living in a high-walled compound, their daily lives are too closed off, and they really need such an opportunity to get to know people and things outside.

As a leading cadre, you should not only care about their work and life, but also care about the emotional life of employees, otherwise problems will arise over time.

Therefore, taking advantage of the Chinese New Year, Zhou Yang arranged for this social gathering.

Not only the friendship between the institute headquarters, but also the various secondary units.

You must know that due to the principle of confidentiality, the connection between the institute headquarters and secondary units such as the two radar manufacturing plants and the printing plant only exists at the upper level.

Let's put it this way, Zhou Yang, Gu Chenghua, Qiao Weiguo and others can enter and exit these secondary units at will, but the employees of the secondary units have no chance to go to the institute's headquarters.

Even if the leaders of the second-level units come to the headquarters to report on the situation, they have to apply in advance. As for ordinary employees, they have no chance to even get close to the institute's headquarters.

Therefore, Zhou Yang turned this event into a sorority party so that comrades from various secondary units could get to know each other.

Regarding Zhou Yang's arrangement, the entire institute was very happy and very cooperative.

When Zhou Yang, Chen Beixuan and others came to the unit, Liu Yunlong immediately came over to report the situation, saying that the sorority party was ready and would start as soon as the time came...

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