Rebirth in 1970: I work as an educated youth in a forest farm

The two little ones slept soundly, and they didn't wake up until the older ones finished their meal and went to clean up.

Just as it happened, the steamed chicken cakes and millet porridge for them were both hot in the pot. They changed their clothes and hurriedly fed them some.

After the two little ones finished their meal and played for a while, Zhang Shuzhen and Aunt Li boiled a pot of water in a large pot, poured it into a big basin, and gave the two little ones a bath.

It’s the Chinese New Year, so it’s important to get rid of the old and bring out the new.

The adults all went to the bathhouse to wash themselves. The two babies were too young to take them to the bathhouse, so they could just wash themselves at home.

The radiator is burning very hot, the earthworm is also burning very vigorously, and the room is warm and not cold at all.

The two little ones took off their clothes and put them into the large aluminum basin. Now they were really good at it. Their fleshy little arms were scratching and pulling in the water, and their calves were kicking in various ways, which made the two little ones giggle with joy.

Who doesn’t care about such a fun little guy?

Zhang Shuzhen, Zhou Qinglan, and sister Sheng Yunfang worked together to clean the two babies, dry them with towels, wrap them in blankets, and put them on the kang.

Then powdering, dressing, and matting were all done in one go. Wu Yuhua and Feng Shuyan barely had to do anything, and the two babies were clean and fragrant.

"Grandma, I want to take a bath too." When the two girls, Xin Yue and Xin Qi, saw each other, they were so greedy that they had to argue and insist on taking a bath.

"You two just went to the bathhouse the day before yesterday, why are you joining in the fun now?

Let's play for a while. It's time to chop stuffing and make dumplings later. Don't make any trouble. "Zhou Qinglan glared at her daughter.

These two little girls come up with whatever they want.

On the morning of the 27th, Zhou Qinglan took the two girls to the bathhouse to take a bath. It had only been a few days, why were they washing so frequently?

In winter, the temperature is low and people don't sweat much. Most Northeastern people don't bathe every day.

For those who love cleanliness and have conditions, washing once a week is normal. For those who don’t like cleanliness or have no conditions, washing once a month is normal.

The Forestry Bureau has a bathhouse for employees, and each unit provides bathing tickets, so be sure to wash regularly.

In rural areas, there are no bathhouses, and it's extremely cold in the house. It's likely that winter will mark the Chinese New Year, so just take a shower, that's what it sounds like.

"Okay." The two little girls also remembered, so they stopped making trouble and went to the kang to coax their younger brothers and sisters.

On New Year's Eve, there was another meal of dumplings. Seeing that it was getting late, Zhang Shuzhen went to make noodles with Aunt Li.

Zhang Shuzhen also instructed Sheng Xitai to chop the stuffing. The young man had strong hands and could chop the stuffing quickly.

Sheng Xitai really had a second thought. He held the knife in both hands, clanged it for a while, and then chopped the minced meat.

After mixing the noodles, I woke up for a while, and the dumpling fillings were adjusted. At about six o'clock, the board was placed on the Kang in the east room.

Zhang Shuzhen led her three daughters-in-law, two daughters, and Aunt Li to make dumplings together.

The men were all pushed to the sofa. Sheng Xian and Sheng Xikang were holding their babies in their arms, chatting and coaxing them.

The two girls, Sheng Xinyue and Sheng Xinqi, also wanted to make dumplings. They eagerly approached the panel, but were pushed aside by Zhou Qinglan.

"Go and ask your dad for something delicious. Don't look around here. It's Chinese New Year today, and you can't let your thirty-year-old dumplings get in trouble."

Normally, making dumplings doesn’t require so much attention. Children are happy to do it. It doesn’t matter if you give them dough and make two dumplings at will.

But the dumplings on New Year's Eve must be wrapped decently and neatly, just like ingots. How can we let children reach out and cause trouble?

Sheng Xiping, who was sitting on the sofa chatting with his father and brothers, heard this and hurriedly called his daughter over.

Then he took out candies, chocolates, melon seeds, pine nuts, shelled peanuts and other delicious foods from the cabinet, and coaxed the girls to eat them without letting them cause trouble.

"Xinhua, go to the cardboard box in the outer room, look through a few apples and wash them.

Aren’t there still frozen pears and persimmons in the warehouse? Go pick up some and come back slowly to eat later. "Sheng Xiping then instructed his son to get the fruit.

Next to the door of the outer room, there were several cardboard boxes, and there were fruits delivered by Sheng Xiyun.

Years ago, when the processing factory distributed benefits, Sheng Xiping asked Sheng Xiyun to send him a cart of apples, and he happened to keep some at home for his children.

When there is delicious food, the two girls don't want to work anymore. Each of them grabs two pieces of candy, nestles next to their father, and eats contentedly.

This year, the family is full and there are more than ten people eating, so we must not make too few dumplings.

Fortunately, there were many people working, so it didn't take long to make five or six curtain-covered dumplings.

At eight o'clock sharp, CCTV's Spring Festival Gala started. The whole family was staring at the TV intently, and even the dumpling maker was distracted.

This year is the fourth Spring Festival Gala, and watching the Spring Festival Gala on New Year’s Eve has become a habit for most viewers.

In 1986, Bingyin was the Year of the Tiger in the lunar calendar, so after the opening song chorus, the cross talk "Speaking of Tiger in the Year of the Tiger" was immediately followed.

The actor who later said "I miss you so much, my audience friends," as soon as he took the stage, began to enter the attention of the national audience from this year on, and has appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage for more than 30 consecutive years.

The whole family was amused by the cross talk, and the dumpling makers also stopped what they were doing and concentrated on watching TV.

Until the show was over, while the Peking opera and songs were being performed on the stage, Zhang Shuzhen hurriedly urged everyone to wrap up the last piece of bread.

The dumplings were wrapped and brought to the kitchen, the kang was cleaned up, and then everyone ate melon seeds and watched the Spring Festival Gala.

We had children at home and couldn't stay up too late, so around 10:30, everyone reluctantly went to the kitchen to cook dumplings.

Sheng Liancheng took his sons to the yard to distribute paper and set off firecrackers.

"Well, Fourth and Fifth, please move the big oil jar aside for me. I think it's a bit in the way."

Zhang Shuzhen was directing her daughters-in-law to boil water and cook dumplings when she suddenly saw the big oil jar on the pot table.

So he called his two daughters over and asked them to move the oil jar.

Big oil is animal fat, also called meat oil.

Moving a big oil jar on New Year's Eve is called "moving meat", which is homophonic to "moving marriage".

In the early years, if there were children in the family who had not yet announced their marriage when they were older, the elders would ask the children to move the oil jars on New Year's Eve.

It means that in the new year, the child's marriage will be settled.

Sisters Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei were born in 1963, and they will be twenty-four after the new year.

If this had happened in the past, the neighbors would have laughed at any girl who had not gotten married until she was twenty-four.

Nowadays, people are a lot more tolerant of this, especially sisters Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei who have just graduated and started working, so it is understandable that they got married late.

What do Zhang Shuzhen think? The twenty-fifth is the birth year, so it is not easy to get married. If you are not married on the twenty-fourth, you will get the twenty-sixth.

If by that time it would be too late to be true.

Therefore, Zhang Shuzhen specially ordered her two daughters to move the big oil jar.

I hope that the two girls can get married in their 24th year, so that the couple will have one less thing to worry about.

After all, Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei were still young and didn't understand this. Their mother asked her to move the oil jar, and they actually moved forward.