Wang Lin changed the topic and said: "I also have to go to the factory leaders in advance to pay New Year greetings. I will go for a run in the afternoon."

Li Wenxiu said: "If you ask me, you might as well wait until after the New Year. How can you go to pay New Year greetings to others in the afternoon? It seems so insincere."

Li Wenjuan and Sun Xiaodie arranged the dishes and chopsticks and called them to eat.

The verbal sparring between Wang Lin and Li Wenxiu finally stopped.

During the Spring Festival, except for the White Factory, which needs to work overtime, other factories are on holiday. Even the clothing stores are only open until 4 p.m. on New Year's Eve, and then they all close, and they will be on holiday until the third day of the Lunar New Year before opening again.

In the past two days, Wang Lin's family has been busy preparing dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner.

This year, Wang Lin and Li Wenxiu can have the most abundant New Year in history!

In the past, during the Chinese New Year, we would only try a few meat dishes, but this year’s dishes are much richer!

Braised pork, local smoked fish, white-chopped chicken, jellyfish with scallion oil, soy sauce meat, fried shrimps in oil, eight-treasure rice with lard, fried rice cake, family portrait, sweet and sour short ribs, lion head, eight-treasure duck, hairy crab with oil sauce, egg dumplings, fermented wine

Mariko...

Thirty large and small dishes are eaten in several meals, starting from the morning of New Year's Eve and continuing until the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year.

On the morning of New Year's Eve, Wang Lin took two country girls, Ma Chunhua and Liu Ying, home for dinner.

Seeing the table full of delicious dishes, the little girls shed tears.

Li Wenxiu asked: "What's wrong with you? The food doesn't taste good?"

"No," Ma Chunhua wiped her eyes and said, "I have never seen so many delicious dishes. I was so moved that I cried. Thank you, Sister Wenxiu. Thank you, Brother Wang."

"Okay, don't cry," Li Wenxiu said with a smile, "Eat more if you like. There are other dishes for lunch and dinner. It's best to finish them all."

Most of the dishes are prepared at home, but there are a few dishes, such as Babao Duck and Crystal Shrimp, that Wang Lin specially buys from the old restaurant Rongshun Restaurant.

After breakfast, Li Wenjuan, Sun Xiaodie and the others were busy putting up window grilles, couplets, hanging blessing characters, and cleaned the inside and outside again.

The phone at home rang.

Li Wenxiu answered the call and said with a smile: "My mother is calling, asking if Wenjuan will go home for the New Year!"

"I'm not going home! I'll celebrate the New Year at my brother-in-law's house!" Li Wenjuan was standing on a stool, putting window grilles on the window glass, and shouted loudly.

"I know, I've already told my mother. Mom said, how long has it been since you've been home? You won't even come home to visit during the Chinese New Year!"

"On the second day of junior high school, I will go back home with you."

"I'm married, so when I go back to my parents' home, I call Hui Men, but you're not married, so when you get home, you don't call Hui Men!"

"Just think of me as marrying my brother-in-law, as a dowry! Buy one, get one free!" Li Wenjuan said with a smile, "Brother-in-law, do you agree?"

"Okay!" Wang Lin said with a smile, "In ancient times, when wealthy families married their daughters, they would have to marry a maid!"

Li Wenxiu stretched out her hand, lightly tapped Wang Lin's forehead, pursed her lips and said with a smile: "You think so well! Can you bear it?"

Wang Lin said: "You are joking! Why are you serious?"

"I know it's a joke!" Li Wenxiu chuckled, "otherwise, do you really want to?"

"Haha! I don't want to." Wang Lin said, "I already have enough headaches with one sister. If I have another sister who is prankish and funny, will I still be able to survive?"

"Hey, are you telling me what's on your mind? Do you dislike me? Who picked me out of thousands of people to marry me home in the first place?"

Wang Lin laughed and said: "It's the Chinese New Year, just kidding!"

Li Wenjuan shouted: "Hey, brother-in-law, please help me see if the window grilles are posted correctly?"

Wang Lin walked over and took a look: "That's right! That's it. Come down quickly and don't fall!"

"Yeah! I jumped down, brother-in-law, catch me!" Li Wenjuan jumped down towards her brother-in-law, hugged him, and said with a smile, "Brother-in-law, I will be your dowry maid from now on! You

You have to be nice to me!"

"Nonsense!" Li Wenxiu knocked on her sister, "You are not big or small. How can such a big girl hug your brother-in-law? Are you afraid of being embarrassed?"

Wang Lin let go of Li Wenjuan and said, "Would you like to send some New Year's goods to your family? There is still something to buy outside in the morning."

"No, my mother's house has already prepared all the New Year's goods." Li Wenxiu said, "I gave my mother money."

"How much did you give?" Wang Lin asked.

"Checking the accounts?" Li Wenxiu said with a smile, "I didn't give you much. I give you money every year and during holidays."

Wang Lin said: "I'm afraid that you are too stingy and I'm afraid that you won't be paid enough!"

Li Wenxiu smiled and said: "Where am I being stingy? What did you say about the last time Hu Ling bought clothes? It was different that time. I am usually very generous to them. If it were my clothes and they took them casually, I wouldn't say anything.

What. But, those are the clothes in your store. That’s where business is done.”

"Okay, okay, let's not talk anymore." Wang Lin said, "I'll go to your house the day after tomorrow. I'll prepare a big red envelope! Otherwise, I won't be able to go."

"That's not up to you?" Li Wenxiu said with a smile, "For my parents, no matter how much you give me, I will be happy."

"Yeah." Wang Lin smiled, "It feels like the Chinese New Year! Wenjuan, let's go set off the fireworks?"

Li Wenxiu said: "Play it at night, it will look better! Isn't it a waste to play it during the day? You can only listen to the sound."

Just as he was talking, Xu Ying came.

"Sister Xu!" Wang Lin said with a smile, "Happy New Year!"

"Happy New Year, I wish you good fortune!" Xu Ying said with a smile, "I should have come to pay my New Year greetings a long time ago. There are too many things at home, so it was hard to finish them. Here are some glutinous rice balls and shrimp crackers I made myself. I sent some for you to try.

taste."

Li Wenxiu took it and said with a smile: "That's right, my family hasn't made glutinous rice balls yet! It saves trouble."

Xu Ying drank a cup of tea, chatted, and then stood up to leave.

Immediately afterwards, Tian Xiaoqing, Wu Dazhuang, Luo Wei, Ding Shisheng and others came over.

The day passes quickly.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, Wang Lin first set off fireworks with Li Wenjuan for a while to prevent the little girl from thinking about it until late at night.

At eight o'clock in the evening, CCTV's 1989 Year of the Snake Spring Festival Gala started live broadcast on time.

"I'm going to Xiaobailing." Wang Lin said to Li Wenxiu, "There's a performance over there!"

"How many performances?"

"It's just one show, but because it's a party, it will take longer. You guys can watch the Spring Festival Gala at home, and I'll go over there and take a look. Everyone else is busy, so I, the boss, have become the hands-off shopkeeper."

"Okay, you go ahead. Come back early."

"Okay." Wang Lin said and went out.

The CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 1989 can be said to be a splendid gathering of big names. Whether it was Xu Xiaofeng's singing, Yang Liping's solo dance, Feng Gong Niuqun's cross talk, or Chi Xiaoqiu, He Ying, and Wu Qiong's dramas, they were all remarkable.

, can be called a classic.

Wang Lin brought a plate over and said with a smile: "Wenxiu, I made two bowls of steamed eel. You can take one and have fun."

"Sister Lin, sit down." Li Wenxiu said with a smile, "This Spring Festival Gala is quite beautiful."

"Yes. Where is my brother?"

"He went to Xiaobailing. There is a performance at the theater over there."

"If you don't watch the Spring Festival Gala, why should you go to see a show?" Wang Lin laughed and said, "The same goes for Congee. She said there was nothing interesting about the Spring Festival Gala and she kept playing the piano there! She made musical instruments everywhere in my house! I was there

Think about it, when my child is born, all her instruments will be destroyed and she will cry!"

"Musical instruments are not cheap, so don't let children destroy them." Li Wenxiu said with a smile, "The ideas of educated people are different from those of us ordinary people!"

"Isn't that right? Porridge's hands can play everything, but she can't knit. You don't know. Some time ago, she learned to knit a scarf and pricked her fingers! It even started to bleed.

Oh! I have never seen such a stupid woman!" Wang Lin laughed, "The scarf we knitted is so gray and ugly!"

"Scarf? Gray? Wait," Li Wenxiu heard, got up and entered the bedroom. Looking around, she saw Wang Lin's gray scarf, which was placed beside the bedside pillow. She took it out and gave it to Wang Lin.

Look, "Is this this one?"

"Hey, it's this one!" Wang Lin said in surprise, "Why is it at your house?"

Li Wenxiu suppressed the anger in her heart and said: "I'm just telling you! No wonder he regards this scarf as a treasure. It turned out that Zhou Zhou knitted it for him!"

"Zhou Porridge was given to my brother?" Wang Lin came to her senses.

"That's right!" Li Wenxiu said, "I said this scarf was ugly, but he couldn't bear to throw it away. I even put it next to his pillow to sleep with him! He even lied to me, saying he bought it for two yuan!"

"This?" Wang Lin said quickly, "Don't get me wrong, maybe this is a normal exchange of gifts."

"I don't misunderstand, what did I misunderstand? They both dared to do such nonsense under my nose!" Li Wenxiu squeezed the scarf tightly, her heart bleeding.

Of course Wang Lin helped her brother and said: "There is absolutely nothing between Zhou Zou and Wang Lin. Stop thinking so wildly."

"I don't think randomly," Li Wenxiu said, "I'm fine."

Wang Lin saw that the atmosphere was not right, so she stood up and left.

Li Wenxiu held the scarf and was lost in thought for a while. When she watched the wonderful program of the Spring Festival Gala again, it was all in vain.

She suddenly had a strong desire to see what Wang Lin was doing at this moment.

"Wenjuan!" Li Wenxiu called to his sister, "You ride a bicycle and take me to Xiaobailing."
To be continued...