Chapter 488 The food has improved! Red envelopes!
Cao Dongfang is happy that everyone's life has improved, but he doesn't want the credit, even if his contribution is great.
As for the New Year's Eve dinners in the compound and the old city, the food they ate during the New Year was relatively the same, with only one or two meat dishes. The food in the compound was better, except for the Su family, Jia Zhang's, and Yang Ruihua's family!
Every restaurant has at least three real meat dishes, not just a few slices of meat, but a braised pork, a canned meat stewed with cabbage and vermicelli! And chicken or lamb.
All very solid.
Jia Zhang's steamed buns, pickles and... pork head, life is pretty good.
The Su family had stir-fried potatoes with meat, stir-fried cabbage with meat, and stir-fried radish with meat, three meat dishes. The meat was just so-so, as you can buy meat now.
Yang Ruihua was a little better off than Yan Bugui after the divorce, but not much. A serving of braised pork was probably less than a small bowl, and one stir-fried shredded potatoes was a vegetarian dish!
A can of meat stewed with cabbage and vermicelli, with 1/3 of the can filled with meat. There were only three people at home, Yang Ruihua, Yan Jiefang, and Yan Jiedi.
The food is pretty good, not as good as the best but better than the worst.
This is pretty good for Yang Ruihua, as she still has five dollars of living expenses from Yan Jiedi.
Yan Jiefang did odd jobs and paid for them! Three people made 15 yuan a month, not less than when there were five people, and their lives had improved greatly.
Yang Ruihua never shared food at home again.
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At six o'clock, the two children got up and I took them to clean up. At six twelve, all the ingredients were steamed.
Cao's mother began to lead everyone to worship Cao Dashan, and the offerings included meat, fruits and snacks.
During the Chinese New Year, I went to Cao Dashan to eat some and heard the two children call him "Grandpa".
The main thing is that the two children can call him grandpa. My mother wants the two children to call him "grandpa" in front of Cao Dashan's portrait so that Cao Dashan will believe it.
They all kowtowed in front of Cao Dashan's portrait and called him "Grandpa" three times! Only then did the two children get up.
My mother was very happy and kept saying "good children" and "all good children". It didn't take long for the worship to end.
Cao Dongfang and Song Xianxian prepared to serve the dishes, while Cao's mother and Cao Jiajia looked after the two children.
Cao's mother sat on the sofa, but the two children did not sit down. Instead, they hugged one of Cao's mother's thighs and talked to her.
As for who Cao Jiajia is, the two little guys don’t care, as if this person doesn’t exist.
Even her mother despised Cao Jiajia when she saw her. Even her children didn't like her. She was a complete loser.
After a while, Cao Dongfang and Song Xianxian started to serve the meal to the table. They didn't let the two children sit at the table, for fear that they would drop the food on the table onto the floor.
It will burn them.
The dishes were served and everyone sat at the table to eat. The two children were also carried to the children's dining chairs and sat down.
With Cao's mother wishing everyone "Happy New Year and all the best!", 1966, a special year in the history of our country, has passed, and 1967 is about to come.
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“Dad, shrimp, shrimp.”
When Cao Dongfang heard this, the two children each had a few small pieces of shrimp.
"Dad, the dumplings... are delicious, what about the filling?" Tingting asked.
“Dumplings, dumplings, remember, Tingting, they are stuffed with shrimp and lamb!”
“Dumplings...delicious!” Tingting can’t say the word dumplings.
“Sweet ones, I eat them.”
If you want to eat honey-glazed red taro, no problem, it was originally prepared for their two children and Cao Jiajia.
Take one piece per person, divide it into small pieces and eat it.
There was a lot of food on the table that the two children could eat. After a few bites, the two children had almost finished eating. Children do not have big appetites.
After Cao Jiajia stopped eating sweet and sour food, she ate a lot of other things and ate faster.
The meal took more than an hour to finish in a joyful atmosphere where everyone was talking and eating.
Start wishing new year's greetings, starting with Cao's mother, and get red envelopes.
Cao Dongfang, Song Xianxian, and Cao Jiajia all have them, one hundred yuan each.
The amount of red envelopes has also increased, from ten yuan to one hundred yuan, which is faster than the price increase.
The two children didn’t know what red envelopes were. They held the red envelopes in their little hands and looked confused like adults.
I don’t know what this is, and I don’t understand why it is given to us.
"Tingting, Yangyang, take it and thank the elders who gave you the red envelopes. This is the elders' good wishes for you. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it. Just say thank you! And Happy New Year!" Cao Dongfang saw the looks on the two children's faces.
"Thank you, Grandma! Happy New Year."
“Thanks, Grandma! Happy New Year…”
The two children spoke in baby voices.
“Hahaha, Tingting, Yangyang, take it.” Cao’s mother said with a smile.
"You two wished me a Happy New Year and gave me red envelopes!" Cao Jiajia said with a smile.
"Happy New Year, Dad."
"Happy New Year, Dad."
The two children ignored Cao Jiajia and called him dad together.
"Jia Jia, why don't you learn your lesson? The two children don't want to pay attention to you."
"Tingting, Yangyang is so good! Daddy also gave a red envelope. And mom, don't forget."
"Happy New Year, Mom."
"Happy New Year, Mom."
"Tingting, Yangyang, be good. This is the red envelope that mom gave you, one for each of you.
The red envelopes given by my mother, Cao Dongfang, and Song Xianxian were five yuan each. Children don't know how to spend money, so it's useless to give them too much money.
Giving red envelopes during the Chinese New Year is a gesture of kindness from elders. It doesn’t matter how much the money is.
As for Cao Jiajia, you can pay New Year’s greetings but don’t need to give red envelopes. She doesn’t have a job, so there’s no need to give any, and her two children don’t care either.
They don’t understand what they can do with the money in the red envelopes. When they are five or six years old and can spend money, they realize the importance of red envelopes.
Like to receive red envelopes and see how much money is in the red envelopes, such as Cao Jiajia.
Now because there are firecrackers outside, the two children want to go out to see what is happening?
In the past few afternoons, I have seen others setting off firecrackers in the yard and on the streets, but they don’t understand and still want to go out and see.
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"Tingting, Yangyang should not go out tonight. His brothers and sisters set off a lot of firecrackers at night. Gunpowder is not good for the throat and respiratory tract, and it is easy to get sick.
Let’s go out and play during the day tomorrow! We will watch our aunt play from the window! "
"Go out, I'm sick, don't go out, tomorrow!"
"Okay, Dad will accompany you to the window to watch your brothers and sisters play!"
"Auntie, go play, why?"
"Auntie is an adult, and Tingting and Yangyang are still children, so you can't go out. You can go out when you are four or five years old."
“We are small! Are we?”
"You are much smaller than your aunt, only half her height. Of course you are just a child! If Tingting doesn't believe me, you can compare your height with your aunt and mother!"
“Not as high as, mom, aunt.”
"It doesn't matter. Tingting and Yangyang will grow taller too, and they will be taller than Auntie!"
“Taller than my aunt.”
"Okay, we are all taller than Auntie, and it's boring outside, so let's play with toys, okay!"
“Building blocks!” the son spoke first.
"Little train!" said Tingting.
My daughter and son want to play differently!
"Brother, little train, Daddy is here!" Tingting began to educate Yangyang.
"Dad, little train!" Yangyang changed his words again.
The elder sister is really powerful. As soon as she speaks, the younger brother changes his mind.
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The small train was a battery-powered water wheel from later generations. It could turn and climb hills. Cao Dongfang bought a few of them and gave them to his friends and clients' children.
The toys for the two children were bought by Cao Dongfang from the system, including the plastic mats on the ground, on which the children can sit directly to play.
The place is large and flat.
Usually the two children play here, not on the bed.
There are also a few small balls and some colorful cards on the mat, which children often play with.
"Tingting, is the train ready? Dad has laid the track!" Cao Dongfang laid two train tracks.
The daughter and son each had one, and the two children competed to see whose train could run farther.
With Cao Dongfang around, of course his daughter's train would run farther. His daughter is the older sister and she cannot lose to her younger brother.
So my daughter won three times in a row.
The son lost. The mother is stupid.