Chapter 2490 New Year
Although this woman is knowledgeable in all aspects, Ye Feng found that she really knows nothing about cooking.
Because it was night, there was no place to buy vegetables, Ye Feng looked through the refrigerator, and there were steaks and onions in it.
Ye Feng smiled. This is already one of the best dumpling fillings. Although he likes leek fillings the most, there is really no stuffing here.
Teach the woman to chop the beef into pieces and put it into the meat grinder. To save trouble, just put the onions in it.
Ye Feng mixed the dough to make the skin. The children of the Ye family have learned to cook since childhood. This is a habit. Since the beginning of the plum blossom, this tradition has never been abandoned.
Especially when eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year, the whole family has to go to the battle. The main purpose is to reunite the family.
The dough was mixed and the filling was minced. In order to make it more tender, Ye Feng beat two eggs in it.
In fact, the most important thing about dumplings is to mix the filling. Whether it tastes good or not depends on this process.
However, Ye Feng has been tested for a long time. He has mixed the filling countless times in more than 20 years. This is not a problem at all.
Northerners pay attention to the soup inside a cooked dumpling when they mix stuffing. In fact, this soup is the water stuffing, which is one of the differences between the north and the south.
The soup in the southerners' soup dumplings is mostly frozen pork skin, but northerners use water to beat the meat stuffing, and when eating, it is completely the taste of the stuffing itself.
The woman may be making dumplings for the first time. Although she is much older than Ye Feng, she is as excited as a child. And she is very well-behaved. She does whatever Ye Feng asks her to do.
Dumplings for two people are easy to make, and fifty or sixty are enough to eat. But the woman greedily asked him to make more and freeze them in the refrigerator so that they can eat them later.
Ye Feng did not refuse. After all, there were more dumplings and stuffing. The two of them made more than a hundred dumplings in one go, and they didn't hurry to cook the dumplings until almost 12 o'clock.
When the clock struck twelve on TV, the hot dumplings were just served on the table.
The two of them ate dumplings and watched the Spring Festival Gala. The atmosphere was right instantly, just like a young couple, who were spending their first year together.
That night, they ate all the dumplings they cooked, drank a lot of red wine, and then went to bed in a daze.
There is no need to go into detail about what happened in bed. Anyway, it was earth-shattering, and foreigners are more tolerant of these things. If this happened in China, someone would have knocked on the floor long ago.
The next morning, looking at the woman with a coquettish face, Ye Feng said goodbye. The woman asked him what he was going to do? He said he was going to talk business with Mo Keduo.
The woman's eyes flashed and she didn't ask anything else. The two said goodbye like this, without even asking each other's names.
The first day of the Chinese New Year is very lively. No one in the Ye family went out. With their status, they no longer need to pay New Year's greetings to anyone.
The sanatorium also rarely took a few days off. The elderly were taken home by the children. Reunion is the most basic thing for the Spring Festival.
Although Ye Wancheng and Meihua are gradually getting old, they are still in good spirits. From early in the morning, people have come to pay New Year's greetings one after another.
Although Ye Yuze has a high status in Junken City, at this time, he can only follow Yu'e at home and pour tea and water for the guests.
New Year greetings start with neighbors, then leaders, and finally friends. This order is particular.
If leaders come early, it is not convenient for them to stay for dinner, but old friends must eat.
The Ye family does not have a nanny, because two women are looking after one child. Although they are busy with work, they can take care of it.
The Ye family has strong genes. Ye Guigen is only a few months old, but he looks exactly like Ye Yuze and Ye Feng when they were young.
For this child, Meihua made a fuss several times to go home and live, and was finally persuaded by Yu'e, because if she ran away, those old comrades would not stay.
The old comrades did not pay New Year's greetings anymore, at least those of Ye Wancheng's generation stayed at home waiting for others to pay New Year's greetings. Then they gave out red envelopes.
Giving out red envelopes is a Chinese custom, the elderly give to children, and adults give to children.
Therefore, the New Year is the happiest time for children. Not only do they have new clothes and delicious food, but they also have a lot of money to spend.
Although most of them were taken away by their parents in the name of safekeeping, some can always be left. How big can children's ideals be? If they can buy some firecrackers and toys, they can be happy for several days.
However, with the improvement of income level, children nowadays are different from before. There are big differences between generations.
For example, when Ye Wancheng and his generation were young, most of them did not see New Year's money, because the adults had no money, how to give?
When it comes to Ye Yuze and his generation, one or two yuan is not a big problem, and the well-off families can get five yuan.
Ye Feng and his family are amazing. If they don't have a hundred yuan, they really can't show it, especially the people in Junkencheng.
When it comes to Ye Guigen and his family, it seems that it is no longer in the category of New Year's money. For example, Meihua and his wife gave 10,000 yuan, and Ye Yuze and his wife also gave 10,000 yuan.
In addition to the money given by people who visit the New Year, no one gives less than 500 yuan. For a child of a few months old, the New Year's money is more than 100,000 yuan in a year.
In fact, Yifei is unwilling to accept money from outsiders, after all, her identity is sensitive. But since they are giving it to children, she has no good way.
I can only try my best to give more New Year's money to other people's children. This kind of interpersonal relationship should not cause people to say anything, right?
The Ye family invited two guests in total. Even though his living room was big enough, he borrowed a table from the next door.
The first table was invited by Ye Wancheng. They were all old comrades. Of course, not all old comrades, but those who had a good relationship with him.
Having been a commoner for a long time, Ye Wancheng did not care about the various speculations that might arise from inviting someone or not.
He had to invite Lao Wei, of course. This old man still patrols the border every day. Among the current border patrol team, he is the only remaining first-generation military settler.
His original severe rheumatism has improved a lot under Ye Wancheng's conditioning. At least he will not suffer from various pains due to walking.
Ye Wancheng has always admired him. In fact, everyone admires him because he is not from the old infrastructure company and is not qualified to enter the rehabilitation center.
But with Ye Wancheng's insistence, he finally became a member of the rehabilitation center. However, since the day his name was written into the rehabilitation center, this old comrade has only been there once for a physical examination.
For the rest of the days, he has been fighting at his post. In fact, he has no need to do this now.
Because the border situation is stable, and there are border guards and a new generation of border guards, he still insists on it. This is actually a kind of New Year for him.
For decades, Wei Quanyou has insisted on raising the national flag every day. It's just him and his wife. The only tool for playing the national anthem has changed many times.
From the radio at the beginning to the tape recorder, and now the mobile phone. The only thing that hasn't changed is the time. He can always raise the national flag in front of his house at 8 o'clock in the morning.
Today, Wei Quanyou has become a celebrity, not because he has made any outstanding contributions. But just because he has been quietly doing only one thing.
This thing is very ordinary, ordinary anyone can do it, and even many people look ridiculous, but no one can do it like him.
A retired veteran, a corps soldier. He can be respected by the officers and soldiers of the border defense army. Even every new recruit will be brought to see Uncle Wei by the veterans.
According to the soldiers, "Uncle Wei will always be our old squad leader."
In fact, he has never served in this unit. And this respect comes from the bones.
For decades, he gave up his job and salary, and relied on a little livestock to stick to this barren land.
It's not that he can't raise more livestock, but there is too little grass, and he must first ensure that the soldiers have meat to eat.
Herding sheep for the army was completely voluntary, and the reward was only one or two sheep. But what he paid was sweat day after day, year after year.
Even when he was in the most difficult time, he did not forget to pay the party dues. He had no horse and walked dozens of kilometers. You should know that he had quit his job at that time and had almost no income!
You can say that this kind of person is stupid or that he is seeking fame. If there are more such "fools" in our country, it will definitely be more prosperous.
So, although the former regiment political commissar Liu Qinghua is here today, the former company commander Ma Quanyi is here. The former secretary Ye Wancheng is here, but the main seat is still taken by this old Wei. No one dares to sit in that position except him.
Wei Quanyou does not know how to socialize, and has never experienced any big occasions. He is not even clear about the meaning of the position he is asked to sit in.
The so-called main seat is completely a popular thing in the officialdom. He does not understand it, so he sits on it.
Because in his cognition, it is just a stool, who sits on it is not sitting?
Everyone toasted him, and he drank it, except Ye Wancheng, because in his heart, Ye Wancheng was his best comrade and brother, and he didn't have to be stubborn if he couldn't drink.
When these people were together, they talked the most about various things when they first came to Xinjiang, and even exposed each other's shortcomings.
For example, peeping at someone's wife taking a bath, eavesdropping on other couples' conversations. And someone was so hungry that he slaughtered other herdsmen's sheep, etc.
These things were very serious at the time, and if they were discovered, they would definitely be dealt with seriously, or even sentenced.
However, because of the comradeship, they were all covered up. Now even if the parties involved know about it, they will only laugh and scold and let it go.
Think about the past and look at the present. The old comrades are really full of emotion, and the biggest contributor Ye Yuze is busying around for them at this moment.
Pour wine for this one, light a cigarette for that one. Or check if the tea is cold.
At this time, the old comrades are the proudest. What's wrong with you having money? What's wrong with your company becoming the world hegemon?
Don't you have to stand there obediently and serve tea and water to me?
After entertaining the old ones, Ye Yuze became the protagonist. As a businessman, he naturally would not entertain those people in the system.
He entertained those technicians and the bosses of various units. These people were his pillars.
Unfortunately, most of the Soviet experts who came first had left. Mainly because of their age and physical condition, they could no longer bear the research and development work.
Some of these people returned to their country, and some settled here with their families. But many things require talent.
Most of the outstanding talents, their children cannot inherit their talents and become ordinary people. They do an ordinary job in the factory. They have no worries about food and clothing.
Now in the field of engines, Ivan and the third child have become experts that no one can shake. It can be said that they are the two top authorities in the world.
Yelena has become a master of aircraft engines, but she is not at the wine table at the moment, but cooking with her mother-in-law. Who makes her the third child's daughter-in-law?
Naturally, Ni Lao sat at the head of this table, and even the third child and Ivan had to give way to him. There was no way, who made the chip field indispensable to everyone now?
Not to mention machine tools and airplanes, even cars have begun to become intelligent. More and more technologies are being applied.
Today's Warrior Auto, because of Ni Lao's existence, is far ahead of the world's car companies in terms of intelligence.
Coupled with powerful engines and transmissions, if they want to fully develop, they can put half of the world's car companies out of business.
But the world is too big, and Ye Yuze doesn't have such ambitions for the time being. The so-called "leave a thin line" in life. It’s not easy for anyone, right?
But Ye Yuze has been holding on to the engine very tightly. I can dominate the market without a car, but I have no worries about the engine.
What's the big deal, are you here to buy it? After all, the car is still your brand. When you open the hood, the Made in China and soldier logos will suffice.
Today, the company's strategy for external expansion is not to reject joint ventures, but to control core technologies. Since we don’t have the ability to dominate the world, we should export technology. This is the method that several core countries have been taking.
No one can compare to Mr. Ni's quality. When the entire R&D personnel in Junken City are a little bit distracted, he is the only one who remains humble as always.
No matter who asked him questions, he always answered them patiently. Nowadays, some particularly outstanding children give up the opportunity to go to Huaqing Peking University and come to Military Reclamation University. Among them, Mr. Ni is a big factor.
Junken University has several disciplines that are among the best in the world, bar none. This is really not bragging, but the facts are there.
This is because experts from some companies also teach part-time at Junken University.
However, JNU has been unwilling to recruit international students, which has attracted protests from many countries, and even American politicians have criticized it.
But this kind of thing itself is decided by someone. How dissatisfied are you that it is just a waste of time?
Junken University nominally belongs to the Ministry of Education, but it does not require funding from above. All the money comes from Junken City itself. Who are you to order such a school?
Any prestigious university has some students who are connected to them, but it’s hard to say what the connections are. In fact, there are also related students at Junken University.
That is, they must be students of the Military Reclamation School and have excellent academic performance. Even if their scores are slightly worse, they will be specially recruited. There is no way, because it is called the Military Reclamation University.
Someone once made a fuss about this, but Zheng Lanzhi responded with one sentence:
"You have worked in the Corps for decades, and I will take care of your children in the same way!" ()