Rebirth in the 60s: A Path to Counterattack-Chapter 119. Revolutionary Spring Festival

The meticulous care they showed made Liu Shouren and Liu Shouyi in the crowd nod repeatedly. Always putting the little sister first, taking care of her tenderly and attentively, this brother-in-law truly had no faults.

Of course, amid all this approval, Su Hongying also harbored some expectations that her own husband would strive to be more like her brother-in-law and learn to be a good, caring husband.

After being force-fed this public display of affection, which girl or young wife present wouldn’t wish for a husband who loved her like Lianshan, or hope that her own husband would learn from Lianshan to care for his wife a bit?

After sending Shuzhen home, Lianshan busied himself with washing the ribs and that piece of meat, letting them freeze under a layer of ice formed by pouring water over them. Once completely frozen, they were placed in the empty vat at the base of the wall and would be thawed just before eating, preserving their fresh taste.

After sorting out the meat, he fed the chickens, collected the eggs, and even tended to the worms and the greens in the shed.

Seeing that it was almost time, Lianshan found two lacquer basins with white backgrounds and red characters advocating revolution and production, and put them in the basket before heading over to the former site of the canteen.

Several large pots were burning together, and from afar, the sour and fragrant aroma of sauerkraut stewed with meat could be smelled.

The entrance was, as usual, packed with layers of people, more lively than even the New Year celebrations with laughter and chatter.

The meat distribution table had been long removed, leaving Lianshan quite disappointed as he hoped to buy a few more pounds to properly nourish his wife.

It wasn’t until his brother-in-law, the accountant, mentioned that there was quite a bit of meat left over and, although there wasn’t enough for another round of free distribution, he and the team leader Lin Yuanzhi figured they could sell it at a fair price to the members.

This year, there was plenty of meat, enough for every family to have dumplings and celebrate a good New Year without issue.

Selling the meat was a bit of a challenge anyway, so to support the brigade’s work, his brother-in-law decided that each of the three siblings’ families would buy ten pounds to help solve the sales problem for the team.

After all, in this biting cold weather, it’s just not worth the hassle to make a trip to the purchasing station for small amounts, is it?

Upon hearing this, Lianshan was instantly amused and praised his brother-in-law for doing a great job. As someone so eager to contribute to the public good, he was most willing to help the brigade resolve its difficulties!

For instance, with the pork sales issue, he genuinely found it quite amusing.

The members around pouted: "This is clearly just a craving, but you’re inventing a reason to give yourself credit for being ’enthusiastically public-focused.’ The thickness of his skin and his shamelessness are unmatched!"

Having received the actual benefits, Lianshan couldn’t care less about what those craving meat but unwilling to spend money members thought. Once it was his turn in line, he smoothly received his portion of the celebration stew. He flipped the two lacquer bowls together and placed them in the basket, carried meat with one hand and the basket with the other, humming the tune of "The East Is Red" as he happily dashed home.

When he arrived home, the bowl filled with celebration stew was still steaming hot.

Together with the two wheat buns that Shuzhen had already prepared and mashed garlic, the two of them happily savored the celebration stew.

The fatty yet not greasy meat slices, the richly flavored blood sausage, the uniquely flavored noodle sausage, and the appetizingly greasy pig’s head meat — even the oil-slicked sauerkraut soup was full of an enticing sour aroma, leaving one endlessly savoring the taste.

The meal opened up Shuzhen’s appetite, doubling her usual intake.

Seeing her eating so happily, Lianshan intended to keep some of the celebration stew meant for Uncle Wu halfway up the mountain to save it for his wife’s appetite.

"Don’t. We promised to invite everyone to eat meat after the pig slaughter, so we have to keep our word." Shuzhen quickly stopped him, as it was obvious which was more significant between half a pot of celebration stew and gaining favor with a few prominent future figures, wasn’t it?

Besides, there are two jars of sauerkraut at home, and plenty of meat. If we crave it, we can have sauerkraut stew with meat anytime we want!

After slaughtering the pig and distributing the meat, the new year was drawing closer and closer.

In order to make their first New Year after marriage joyful and abundant, and to set a good precedent for the decades to come, Lianshan was sincerely putting all his heart into it!

After steaming yellow millet sticky rice dumplings and rendering pork fat into oil, he mixed the remaining oil residue with sauerkraut and made many frozen dumplings.

On the 23rd, the couple happily celebrated the Little New Year, and on the 24th, they started cleaning the house. Shuzhen acted as the chief commander, directing Lianshan, who was the only and most efficient laborer, to clean their little home inside and out, top to bottom, spotlessly.

After the lesson they learned on July 15 when they leveled the grave, nobody dared to mention burning paper to honor the dead.

But in the end, since it was the first year she was married here, the couple quietly set up a small incense table at night to respectfully bow and offer a few cups of wine to Lianshan’s deceased parents. freewebnøvel_com

He sought help from his well-educated brother-in-law, with his excellent calligraphy skills, to write some characteristic couplets like "Revolutionary Undertakings for Eternity" and "The Land Will Remain Red for Generations" to paste on the main door, the warehouse door, and other places. Even on their room doors, they pasted couplets full of revolutionary fervor, like "Revolutionary Companions, Two Blossoms Reflecting Beauty, Class Warriors, Swallows Soaring High."

No "Fu" characters or hanging money decorations, all the New Year paintings had to be portraits of the great leader, abiding by every aspect of the elder’s thoughts, truly executing the slogan of revolutionizing the Spring Festival in every possible way.

Even so, Lianshan and Shuzhen, this young couple, had prepared for the New Year in style.

The lunch reunion meal on the New Year’s Eve not only included four meat and main dishes like chicken stewed with mushrooms, braised spare ribs, steamed pork with powdered rice, and crispy fried fish nuggets, but also added meat jelly, fried radish balls, spinach stewed with tofu, and scrambled eggs with chives.

Eight dishes with both meat and vegetables, each one suitable to delight his beloved wife, whom he cherished deeply, and his not-biologically-but-equally-loved son, who had accompanied them through pregnancy and had been lovingly awaited as if he were their own. In the evening, there were pure meat dumplings with a slight touch of scallions, chives, and cabbage, symbolizing a prosperous (白) life, full (葱), and long-lasting (韭) fortune (菜).

Just thinking about it made Lianshan, who had been busy repaying debts in the first half of the year, now having a house, a car, and a wife. With a stash of big money bills, raising plenty of chickens, mushrooms, and greens leading to continuous small earnings, he found himself slightly incredulous. In just half a year, he transformed from a well-known poor house in the brigade to one of the wealthier families in the village, everything seemed as wonderful as if in a dream.

After clinking glasses filled with sugar water instead of wine, his beautiful wife gazed at him affectionately, telling him that this was just the beginning. As long as the two of them wholeheartedly lived in harmony, better days were ahead!

The sweet words seemed to fill Lianshan’s heart, much like the warm and sweet sugar water they shared, providing indescribable comfort. He felt invigorated from head to toe, ready to strive for a happy future at any moment.

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