He ignored the things happening in the store and sat alone in the back kitchen, smoking his pipe and playing with the flames under the stove.

In fact, I was recalling my experiences in the past six months since I came here 55 years ago. Most of them were about the steel mill and here. However, I don’t have many memories of the No. 95 compound where I stayed every night. At most, it was a place where I slept at night. I can only say that my home is where I feel at ease.

If I want to leave, I can leave at any time. But there are really too few entertainment programs these days. I really don't want to miss this live broadcast of the Siheyuan. It's not easy to get in after leaving the No. 95 compound. The housing is really tight. There is no such exciting live broadcast in the whole Sijiu City.

At this time, the Jia family had not been troubled by the issue of food and household registration, and the courtyard was calm. It can only be said that whether the No. 95 courtyard was chaotic or not was really decided by the Jia family. However, during this period, Yi Zhonghai's PUA to Sha Zhu was inevitable, but He Yuzhu, who had the memory of the later life, didn't pay much attention to him. The relationship between the two families was not to say that they would never have any contact with each other. They lived in the same courtyard, but they didn't even say hello when they met. It was extremely bad.

The other families in the courtyard lived the same old life, ordinary and bland. There were not so many unexpected things. Those who had jobs went to work every day, leaving their children to be taken care of by their elders or wives. They went out happily and came back happily. This might be the life they dreamed of.

It was already dark outside, and I didn't know which family was the first to set off the first firecracker on New Year's Eve. Then the crackling sound of firecrackers and deafening firecrackers continued under the cover of the night, breaking the night that should have been peaceful.

The firecrackers set off on New Year's Eve will continue until the first day of the next year. People will stay up on New Year's Eve, and when the clock strikes 12 in the morning, they will set off the firecrackers set off on New Year's Day.

During this time, the whole family would sit around the fire, chatting and talking. If there were many people in the family, they would set up a card table and sit around in groups of three or four to play a few hands.

Those with better conditions would also add a little bit of money to the game, and gamble for fun. If you dare to go out to play cards or gamble with money, you will definitely be pulled back by your wife or elders. Forget it today, they are all family, and we don’t visit relatives on the 30th and the first day of the lunar year. It doesn’t matter who wins or loses, just have fun tonight.

Of course, the most exciting thing is the food. In the north, every family will make dumplings on New Year's Eve. The family will save up their food coupons and meat coupons for the whole month just to eat dumplings tonight and tomorrow. On the first day of the New Year, the family will not cook and eat cold rice. The dumplings made tonight will be cooked all at once, and the leftovers will be eaten tomorrow.

Chen Xueru didn't know when she had finished her work in the store. The employees and Manager Gong Fang all left work on time in the afternoon. They left at the appointed time, anxious to go home for the New Year, and ignored her, the boss.

No, I should call him the private manager. It's my own business, I feel sorry for it, I can only keep the store, I can't bear to close it, I want to make a little more, a little. It's not until now when it's dark and no one is around that I can bear to close the store and go back to the backyard.

Seeing that the light in the kitchen was on, he came straight over. He didn't have time to eat the food Liu Ping'an had sent over at noon, so he brought it back now.

At this moment, he was also very hungry and exhausted. As soon as he came in, he asked Liu Ping'an if he had anything delicious.

Liu Pingan said unhappily, "You still feel hungry. Isn't there food in your lunch box? Are you hungry again now?"

Chen Xueru lowered her head shyly and replied in a low voice: "It's cold."

He took the lunch box from her hand unhappily, took out the dishes and a portion of rice and put them on the chopping board. He would put them in the steamer to heat up while cooking the dumplings and then eat them himself.

In this kitchen, whoever knows how to cook is the boss.

Chen Xueru looked at the dumplings in the steamer, then looked at the lunch box on the chopping board, and thought about her three meals a day in the past six months.

He thought about his cooking skills again and wanted to say something to contradict Liu Ping'an but in the end he didn't say it. He was still in the kitchen at the moment. This was his territory. The world was big and he could talk about anything after he was full. He still had the energy.

Chen Xueru did not make any trouble, but Liu Ping'an had something to say.

"You've been busy all day, and today is the last day of the year. I wonder how much money you've made, Boss Chen?"

Speaking of Chen Xueru, this strong woman is no longer sleepy. She raised her little head proudly, wanting to share her joy with her little man.

But after hearing the tone of Liu Ping'an's words, he immediately changed the subject and said, "Anyway, it's much more than what someone earns working in a steel mill this year."

"Oh, my current monthly salary is less than 50 yuan, so I can earn more than 500 yuan a year. I just don't know how much less than Boss Chen is."

"Huh, the money you have is not even as much as my change."

After saying that, he looked at Liu Ping'an, who was making dumplings in front of the stove with a proud look on his face. There were four kinds of fillings in total, and Liu Ping'an made 80 dumplings in total. He took 20 dumplings from each of the four plates. After thinking about it, he took two more dumplings each, making a total of 88 dumplings, not for anything else, but just for good luck.

"Well, it's quite a lot, about ten thousand yuan?"

After making the dumplings, he replied to Chen Xueru, which almost made Chen Xueru angry. Her arrogant expression disappeared immediately.

He said unhappily, "Do you think we are still using the first set of RMB? Do you know what 10,000 yuan means?"

"Ten thousand dollars would be enough to empty out my fully stocked store."

Indeed, these days, the purchasing power of 24 yuan may not be comparable to that of 100 million yuan years ago. The first person to earn yuan after the reform and opening up was reported in the newspapers, which was a real traffic driver at the time.

After poking the dumplings in the pot to separate them, find a steamer, put the lunch box on the chopping board on it, cover the pot and you're done. Just wait a while and eat.

Tonight we will eat dry dumplings, and the fried garlic paste has been seasoned with chili oil. This is Liu Ping'an's favorite.

If you don't eat garlic, the taste of noodles will be half of what it is. If there is no oil or chili, you can't eat it. It tastes like white wax when you chew it in your mouth. There is no taste at all. Don't say that this is wheat produced in the space. It won't work for anyone.

"How much money do you have in your pocket after one year? Tell me about it, and let me learn something new."

Seeing that the topic was brought back by herself, Chen Xueru's eyes flashed with excitement. She turned her head away and pretended not to care and said, "Except for the public side, the shares of the private side manager plus my monthly salary only amounted to more than 1800 yuan."

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