Time Travel Article: Tool Man Rejects Plot

Chapter 289: Welcome the New Year with great enthusiasm

Killing the New Year pig, eating New Year dinner, and distributing bonuses, before the New Year, Gujia Village ushered in the most exciting moments.

After the workshop makes a profit, the village will convert the completion points every year and give additional individual rewards to the advanced workers selected that year.

In fact, everyone gets a prize, but in order to motivate everyone, the amount will vary depending on performance.

Every evaluation is open to the public, and everyone can see who has done how much work, and no one feels it is unfair.

Because Gu Mingyue said at the meeting at that time that if anyone had any objections, they could go to the blackboard at the entrance of the village office to check. If they found that the village office was committing fraud, she would pay ten times the amount.

Up to now, all the accounts of Gujia Village have always focused on transparency, in order to avoid the situation where more money leads to more things to do.

Fortunately, the foundation is good and the villagers trust each other. But it is inevitable to see others get paid more and feel jealous.

As soon as they saw Gu Laoliu holding a wad of money in his hand, people around him started clamoring to treat him to a meal.

As for the educated youth, Gu Mingyue gave each of them a consolation prize, not much, just five yuan.

Then he said to them, "You just arrived and have not been included in the assessment yet, but don't worry, you will be eligible to participate in the selection next year. According to the current trend, I believe your performance will be impressive. This money is our village's early New Year's red envelope for you. I would like to take this opportunity to formally welcome you into our big family with all the men, women and children in the village."

Everyone shouted with a smile on their faces, "Welcome to Gujia Village!"

It was their luck to meet such a group of people in a foreign land. The educated youth rarely showed their shyness, but at the same time they were moved to tears and kept bowing to thank the people around them.

After all these years, whenever they think of this moment, they will unconsciously raise their lips...

After the Little New Year, the pace of the New Year will be faster.

Today, the life in Gujia Village can be described as earth-shaking.

Not to mention that every family can wear new clothes at the end of the year, the simple meals on the tables have gradually disappeared from the "stage of history".

Maybe some families would be a little frugal at ordinary times, but during the Chinese New Year, when they have the conditions, no one will compromise.

Normally, people start to fry oil on the 27th or 28th day before the New Year. Now, on the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, every family starts preparing to fry food.

Recently, no one cares if the children in the village don't go home on time. Everyone knows that these kids won't come back unless they have a full stomach outside.

The little ones strolled around the village, grabbed some fried food from one house, had a couple of steamed sugar buns from another, and if they caught the steamed buns just out of the pot, they could have a bite of them while they were still hot.

Just wait and see, you will definitely burp after eating for half a day!

After Laba Festival, Gu Mingyue's family would not close the door until dark.

The main thing is that this family will deliver some things over soon, and soon another group will come, so fortunately the door is open.

Zhang Chao has been staying here for the past two days. His job is to stand at the door and return gifts to people one by one with Guanglei.

Gu Mingyue started preparing New Year's goods several days in advance, just waiting for this moment.

She didn't want to be treated specially, so she told Guanglei and the others that no matter how much the visitors brought, they should all be given a small plate of fried food to take back when they left.

She prepared six items to bring good luck, including fried red dates, peanuts, sweet potato balls, shredded radish balls, molasses fruit, and noodles.

The dough is made of pastry, eggs and flour, rolled out flat and cut into diamond-shaped slices. When fried, it will puff up and become golden, fragrant and crispy. It is usually eaten as a snack, and the more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes.

Many families in the village can fry the things she does. Although they live a good life, they are used to being frugal and are not willing to spend as much on ingredients as Gu Mingyue. For example, fried dates and peanuts have to be coated with white flour and added with eggs.

There are also sugar molasses fruits, which are made with brown sugar and sesame seeds. They are so delicious. So these are enough as return gifts.

These two days, while her elder and younger sisters-in-law were not busy, she scraped some meat and fried meatballs together. She also fried some knife fish and yellow croaker, oh, and chicken fillets and chicken wings.

Of course, she was not so generous as to give all of this away. It was not enough for herself, so she gave some to her uncle's family, Master Lu's family, and Bai Fenglai.

The last step is to make the amber walnut. This method is the most troublesome but also the most popular.

As he ate, Brother Gu muttered, "If it weren't so hard to peel the walnuts, I would really like to ask Mingyue to help make more."

When Guangxin heard this, he quickly grabbed a handful and put it in his pocket and ran out. "Dad, don't try to fool me. I will never steal again even if I die!"

Brother Gu sighed, "Alas, the child has grown up and it is not easy to fool him."

Li Xiuhe rolled her eyes at him and said unhappily, "I finally managed to coax this child back home, and now she's out on the wild side again. Just spoil her."

Brother Gu chuckled and said, "She is still young. She will be sensible when she grows up. Besides, if she gets married in a few years, it will be difficult for her to have such a free time. Let her be."

In addition to the children in the village who were the happiest, another person was Zhang Chao, who had just lost weight before coming.

After staying there for a few days, each household came to deliver food, which he probably didn't like to eat at home.

When he got here, he enjoyed the lively atmosphere and chatted with everyone who came. He grabbed a handful of this and a handful of that and ate them with great relish.

Gu Mingyue looked at the boy's fatter face and couldn't help laughing. It was estimated that after the New Year, President Zhang would have a headache again...

The bonfire party is scheduled for New Year’s Eve.

Let the villagers sit around a circle so that they can all warm themselves by the fire and won’t get cold.

She also had someone cook a pot of hot mutton soup and keep it simmering, so that anyone who felt cold could get a bowl of it.

As for the performances, they are all organized by the villagers themselves.

Gu Mingyue didn't organize any rehearsals, and it wasn't a formal event, so everyone just wanted to have fun.

She only listed the program and arranged the order of the performances. She knew who would sing and who would perform the skits. As for the specific content, she had never seen it. But to be honest, she was quite looking forward to it.

The first to take the stage were the educated youth. They sang a song together called "Ode to the Red Plum". It can be seen that the lead singers were two girls, and the male educated youth were just filling in the numbers, especially He Linfeng and Wu Shengli, whose lip movements did not match.

Fortunately, Zeng Min and Wu Meiqi were very good and sang very well, winning applause from the audience.

After they left the stage, the skit was performed by Gu Laoliu, Li Qianjin, Li Dayong and Gu Guangtao. It was a funny way to interpret the scene of them going out to meet people.

For example, when Gu Guangtao, who plays the director of the supply and marketing cooperative, instructs Gu Laoliu to pour tea for him, the latter deliberately spills the water on him, causing him to jump up and down due to the burn. Li Dayong and Li Qianjin pretend to help wipe the water, but they are actually deliberately making trouble, punching him and kicking him...

Several people rolled together, and their funny performance caused continuous laughter from the audience.

They are all fathers, but they can still be so carefree. At this moment, Gu Mingyue could only think of one sentence: "It turns out that a man is a boy until he dies!"

Then he glanced at their families. The children were cheering and jumping for joy, but the wives, if looks could kill, I guess these four would be half-dead if not dead...

Gu Mingyue suddenly remembered that day when her Sixth Sister-in-law asked her with an embarrassed look on her face what would happen if she didn't go on stage. She didn't think much about it at the time and just thought something happened, so she simply told the other party that it was okay, but she had to inform her in advance. After all, the leaders of the commune were all coming that day and it would not be good to have a gap.

At that time, the expression on Sister Six's face was indescribable. Now, haha, she finally understood. Sister Six, I'm really sorry...