Rebirth of Siheyuan: Starting from escaping famine in 42

Zhang Lan smiled and said, "Qingshan, come and sit down."

Li Qingshan smiled and said, "No, auntie, it's too late. We should go back and rest. Come to my house another day."

Zhang Lan thought so too, so she stopped trying to persuade Li Qingshan and could only smile and say, "Okay, come to my house for a long time in the future."

"I understand, auntie."

"Let's go, Uncle He."

Li Qingshan and Qin Huairu said hello to He Daqing's family, then took Wei Dong and Wei Qiang home to sleep.

Time passed quickly and before we knew it it was New Year's Eve.

Li Qingshan's family of four arrived at his eldest brother Li Qingfeng's house early.

Li Qingfeng led his brother into the kitchen and started to get busy.

Since Qin Huairu was pregnant and it was inconvenient for her to work, Wu Lirong took her back to the house.

The six brothers and sisters of Weiguo followed their grandfather Li Chengman and helped to paste New Year pictures and couplets at home.

After Li Qingfeng finished processing the fish and rooster, he sat aside and lit a cigarette. He asked Li Qingshan who was chopping the meat, "Qingshan, how is your work lately? Got a promotion?"

After hearing this, Li Qingshan didn't even raise his head. He lowered his head and chopped the meat stuffing seriously, and replied with a smile: "Not bad, I got promoted after the steel mill was expanded, and now I'm the deputy chief of the security department."

"Brother, how are you?"

Li Qingfeng took a puff of his cigarette and said in a deep voice, "The police station is always busy."

Li Qingshan raised his head and looked at his eldest brother Li Qingfeng, and asked with a smile: "Brother, I heard that Uncle Wu will go to work at the General Administration after the New Year?"

Li Qingfeng flicked the ash off his cigarette and said with a smile: "You are talking about my father-in-law!"

Li Qingshan nodded and said, "Yes!"

Li Qingfeng smiled and replied, "That's true. My father-in-law has been promoted."

Li Qingshan asked: "Brother, what about you?"

After hearing this, Li Qingfeng didn't even think about it and replied directly: "Who knows! Wait for the notice from the superiors."

After finishing a cigarette, Li Qingfeng drank a sip of tea and then started frying New Year's goods.

The fragrant aroma wafted into the yard. When Li Weiguo and his six siblings smelled it, they couldn't wait to run into the kitchen. They gathered around the stove, looking at the golden fried New Year's goods, drooling.

Seeing them like this, Li Qingfeng found a plate, filled the six of them with food, and said to them, "Weiguo, take your brothers and sisters to the side to eat."

"Don't gather here. It would be bad if the oil in the pot splashes on you."

"Got it, Dad."

Li Weiguo brought a plate of fried food and called his younger brothers and sisters to the dining table. He first shared the food with them and then started to eat it himself.

While eating, he muttered, "Dad, the fried meatballs are so delicious."

“The eggplant box is delicious too.”

"Yeah! Yeah! They're all good times."

"Uncle's is the best. It tastes better than what my mom cooks."

“It would be nice if I could eat delicious food every day.”

"What are you thinking about! Today is Chinese New Year, so we can eat so many delicious foods. We don't get to eat them normally."

Li Weiguo and his six brothers and sisters expressed their ideas one after another.

At noon, the Li family fried New Year's goods and exchanged lunch for the other party.

After eating and cleaning up, the whole family went back to the house to rest for a while. Only Weiguo and his six siblings played in the yard without feeling tired or cold.

It was mainly the firecrackers that went off intermittently, preventing the Li family from getting a quiet rest. They all got up after taking a short nap.

Li Qingfeng had no choice but to get up and go to the kitchen to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner. He did not let Lirong and his brother help, but asked them to play cards in the house and called them when it was time to make dumplings.

Li Qingfeng mainly prepares time-consuming ingredients such as rooster and pork belly in advance and then keeps them warm over low heat so that he doesn't have to rush when making the New Year's Eve dinner.

I also prepared the dumpling filling and asked the four people who were playing cards in the room to make dumplings when it was almost evening.

Time passed quickly and it was evening before they knew it. Li Qingfeng asked his younger brothers to make dumplings.

He spent the entire afternoon using all his skills to prepare a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner.

Every year’s New Year’s Eve dinner is the most lively moment in the family, and this year is no exception.

Li Qingfeng's family, his younger brother's family, and old man Li Chengman were sitting around a huge round table, which was filled with sumptuous dishes.

First it was their father Li Chengman, then Li Qingfeng, and finally Li Qingshan. The three of them took turns to give New Year's speeches. Everyone's words were filled with love for family and beautiful visions for the future.

The children were playing and fighting nearby, laughing cheerfully from time to time, but they were still focused on the sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner in front of them, eating with their mouths full of oil.

Suddenly, bursts of firecrackers were heard outside the yard, adding a lot of joy to the New Year's Eve dinner.

When the children heard the sound of firecrackers, they all stood up and shouted, "Dad, uncle, our family hasn't set off firecrackers yet! Go set them off, go set them off."

"I know, I know."

Li Qingfeng and Li Qingshan led the six Weiguo brothers and sisters to the yard and took out two strings of firecrackers from the storage room. Li Qingfeng and Li Qingshan each lit a cigarette and started lighting the firecrackers.

"His! His! His!"

"Crack! Crack!"

As the fuse was lit, bursts of firecrackers suddenly rang out in the yard.

The six Weiguo brothers and sisters covered their ears with their hands and jumped and made a lot of noise in the yard.

Li Chengman, Qin Huairu, and Wu Lirong were standing at the kitchen door, watching everything in front of them with a smile.

After the firecrackers in the yard stopped going off, Li Qingfeng called the children and said with a smile, "Children, go back to the house and eat, otherwise the food will get cold and won't taste good."

"Uh-huh!"

The six Weiguo brothers and sisters hurried into the kitchen to eat the New Year's Eve dinner.

Li Qingfeng and Li Qingshan finished their cigarettes before going into the kitchen to eat.

As Qin Huairu was pregnant and was in advanced stages of pregnancy, after eating, Wu Lirong accompanied her and they went back to the room to rest.

When Li Qingfeng saw that the children had almost finished eating, he called Weiguo's six brothers and sisters to kowtow to their grandfather and wish them a happy new year.

Li Chengman watched his grandchildren kowtow to him with a smile, and then handed the red envelopes he had prepared in advance to each of them one by one.

The six Weiguo brothers and sisters took the red envelopes and sensibly shouted, "Thank you, Grandpa."

Li Chengman smiled and replied, "You're welcome."

Then, the six Weiguo brothers and sisters kowtowed to Li Qingfeng and Li Qingshan without saying anything.

Li Qingfeng and Li Qingshan also smiled and gave the children the red envelopes they had prepared in advance, and also urged them to be united and friendly and study hard.

The six Weiguo brothers and sisters happily accepted the red envelopes, expressed their gratitude, and turned around to show off to their mother.

In the end, it became obvious that the red envelopes the children had just received were taken away by Qin Huairu and Wu Lirong, indicating that they were to be saved for their schooling.

The moods of the six Weiguo brothers and sisters really fluctuated, but they went away quickly as they came, and soon they went to the main room to listen to the radio.