On New Year's Eve, after the handover meeting was held, Tang Zhenglin pulled Xiao Yuanhang to the transportation cafeteria to eat dumplings. Xiao Yuanhang couldn't think of it, but when he thought that he had nothing to eat when he got home so early, he went to the transportation cafeteria to deal with it. After working hours, the members of the leadership team of the station touched the head and discussed the matters during the festival. There was nothing left. He drove home.

Today, my sister and brother-in-law were resting. Yesterday I promised to go to my parents' house to make dumplings together. During the day, I could watch the Spring Festival Gala in the evening. When I got home, my sister and brother-in-law had already arrived. My sister and mother Bai Shuxian were packing fish and meat in the kitchen and preparing the lunch meal today. My brother-in-law was chopping dumpling stuffing in the kitchen, and my father Xiao Qiliang was picking soaked black fungus in the house. Xiao Qiliang was particularly fond of black fungus and couldn't eat enough. Therefore, the family kept dry black fungus all year round and could cook at any time.

Today's fungus is pure wild mountain fungus made by Zhao Bingnan for Xiao Yuanhang in the mountains. They were all bought by people from the mountain driving in Changbai Mountain. A small pinch of dry fungus can make a big bowl of water. It tastes very good. Xiao Qiliang has never been willing to eat it. He took it out after the Chinese New Year and soaked it last night. When he woke up in the morning, he saw that he had a small pot full of water and ridges, and the meat was ripped, like black flowers, which was particularly loved.

Xiao Yuanhang put down his bag and sat down to help his father pick the fungus, but Xiao Qiliang waved his hand to the side. The fungus was a pleasure for Xiao Qiliang. He never let his family reach out. Seeing Xiao Yuanhang's embarrassed expression, Xiao Qiliang said: "Xiao Hang. Go to the kitchen to help your brother-in-law chop dumpling fillings, don't care about me. I will finish this work in a short time."

Chop dumpling fillings is a skill, and it must be fine. Xiao Yuanhang's family never buys the meat stuffing grinding from the meat grinder. They buy the best meat and chop it by themselves. Because the meat grinder crushes the meat at high pressure, it also destroys the internal structure of the meat. After the dumplings are made of such meat stuffing, the taste becomes soft and not delicious.

This year, Xiao Qiliang prepared 10 kilograms of fine meat to prepare for dumpling filling. Due to the size of the cutting board, he could only chop two or three kilograms of meat at a time. My sister and brother-in-law were just here. My brother-in-law Zhang Guoxin was the first to chop.

Xiao Yuanhang went to the kitchen and took out the spare cutting board at home, cut out about 3 kilograms of meat and moved it to the restaurant together. Because the kitchen was too small, the three of them could not move in the kitchen. When he squeezed in, everyone could not do the work.

The meat filling and vegetable filling were chopped out to make it. The sister Xiao Dongmei also brought the awakened noodles to the restaurant. Her mother Bai Shuxian prepared lunch meals in the kitchen, and the other four people started making dumplings around the table in the restaurant. At noon, when Bai Shuxian prepared the meals, the dumplings here were also made. They made all the dumplings for the 30th night and the lucky dumplings for the fifth day of the lunar month today.

Since Xiao Yuanhang had to host a shift meeting in the evening. He had to comfort the staff who were on duty in the middle of the night and could not drink dinner, so the reunion bag was arranged at noon. Xiao Qiliang opened a bottle of Moutai. A family of five sat around the dining table and ate together. Since his brother-in-law Zhang Guoxin became a calculator in the mobilization workshop, he was basically at home every day. He rarely went out, which made him very happy. He raised his glass frequently to drink with Xiao Yuanhang. As a result, there was not enough bottle of Moutai and opened another bottle.

Xiao Yuanhang slept beautifully for an afternoon, and after dinner at home in the evening, he went to the unit. The daily shift meeting of the railway transportation unit was unstoppable. Whether it was a week or a New Year or a holiday, it was held every day and never stopped. After the shift meeting in the evening, Xiao Yuanhang first accompanied the stationmaster Zhou Jianguo and the Party Secretary Jin Xiangdong to the passenger workshop and the freight loading workshop to express condolences to the employees who were on duty tonight. The gift of condolences was a pack of melon seeds and candy, and a pack of Phoenix brand cigarettes for each team.

The operation workshop was arranged at the end. Because the surface of the transportation workshop was much larger, it did not take a long time to visit and condolence like the passenger workshop and freight loading workshop. First adjustment, second adjustment, fourth adjustment, fifth adjustment, operation room, signal building. In addition to the third adjustment of the second and third adjustments, Xiao Yuanhang accompanied the station manager and secretary to walk one by one. The operation room was also divided into duty room, station adjustment room, freight adjustment room, commercial inspection room, inspection infrared duty room, vehicle number room, statistics room, and the station station of the electric service section. After going there, you cannot throw away the condolences and leave. You have to talk to the staff to understand the situation. After walking down this big circle, it was 10 o'clock in the evening.

After seeing off the stationmaster Zhou Jianguo and Party Secretary Jin Xiangdong, Xiao Yuanhang took the operation workshop director Tang Zhenglin and deputy director Li Qiang and Tan Yingjun drove to the second venue together to express condolences to the members of the Sanjihe Central Group who were working in the second venue, and visited the inspectors and public security personnel stationed in the second venue. When he returned to the operation workshop, it was almost 11 o'clock, and the sound of firecrackers to welcome the New Year were heard intermittently on the streets.

At this time, the canteen of the operation workshop staff had already cooked the dumplings at the end of the year, packed them into plastic bags, then put them in insulation boxes, and started to deliver them to the teams one by one. Last year, Xiao Yuanhang ate the dumplings with everyone in the first diversion area. This year, he went to the second diversion area. Other cadres in the operation workshop went to the first diversion area, the fourth diversion area, the fifth diversion area, the operation room, the signal building and the third diversion area of ​​the second diversion area.

Xiao Yuanhang and the personnel who delivered dumplings in the operation workshop rushed to the second diversion area. At this time, the shunting machine in the second diversion area had stopped. The driver, deputy driver and the furnace were all in the second switch room and smoking cigarettes and eating melon seeds and candy. Seeing Xiao Yuanhang and the personnel who delivered dumplings in the house, they cheered with a cry.

Xiao Yuanhang asked the shunting district head and shunting commander to organize people to set off firecrackers first. The operation workshop sold firecrackers to the teams in the New Year, which were 5,000 sounds and electric light cannons and 10 "second kicks". The electric light cannons had already been hung on the edge of the shelf outside the switch room. Several young people in the shunting team took the "second kicks" out of the switch room, lit the electric light cannon first, and then several people set off the "second kicks" separately. The sound of firecrackers suddenly rang out of the station.

I symbolically ate a few dumplings with everyone. Xiao Yuanhang greeted everyone for a long time and returned to the operation room. At this time, the dumplings were already eaten in the operation room. Xiao Yuanhang greeted Tang Zhenglin, who was eating dumplings with everyone in the operation room, and drove home.

It was only 5 minutes before 12 o'clock when I got home. My sister and brother-in-law were there. The dumplings had been cooked and waited for him to come back. Xiao Yuanhang took off his coat and took the prepared firecrackers downstairs with his brother-in-law. At about 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, he set off with his brother-in-law...

Since I didn't drink at night, when I was eating New Year's dumplings, my brother-in-law Zhang Guoxin insisted on drinking with Xiao Yuanhang. My sister Xiao Dongmei went to the kitchen to warm up a few dishes for them. My father Xiao Qiliang was also excited when he saw it and served them. In less than half an hour, a bottle of 53-degree Wuliangye was wiped out by three people.

Brother-in-law Zhang Guoxin still wanted to drink, but was stopped by Xiao Dongmei. She said: "Guoxin, Xiaohang has to get up tomorrow morning to host the shift meeting early, and he has to work for one day at the unit. It's not good if something goes wrong during the Chinese New Year, so let him take a break early."

My mother Bai Shuxian didn't want her father Xiao Qiliang to drink too much wine. Although his liver disease was controlled, the alcohol caused the greatest harm to the liver. At noon today, Xiao Qiliang had already drunk more than half a pound of Baihe and drank more than three taels in the middle of the night. It was already seriously overdue, so he stepped forward to stop it.

After everyone ate a few dumplings, the New Year’s Eve dinner was over. My sister and brother-in-law went home together, and Xiao Yuanhang returned to his hut to sleep.

After presiding on the morning shift meeting on the first day of the Lunar New Year, after the teams who were on duty today took over, Xiao Yuanhang began to visit everyone in various workshops and teams. The teams on duty on the first day of the Lunar New Year also had a gift of condolences, but there were no free dumplings. As the station leader, Xiao Yuanhang not only had a workshop, but also had to visit and condolences in the passenger workshop and freight loading workshop. After walking around the various workshops of the station, it was noon.

I slept in the lounge in the afternoon, and in the evening I started visiting and condolences to the team on night shifts. I was busy until almost 12 o'clock before I came back to rest. Fortunately, the whole station was very stable on the day he was on duty, safe and without any emergencies, which was a safe year.

On the second and third day of the lunar calendar, Xiao Yuanhang was busy attending banquets from Guoren Company and stationery factory. Du Juan and Xiaodie arrived at home at noon on the second day of the lunar calendar. Xiao Yuanhang only saw them when he came back in the evening. Xiaodie went straight to greet Uncle Xiao. Xiao Yuanhang gave her a red envelope of 1,000 yuan, which made Xiaodie very happy.

Du Juan and Xiao Yuanhang told Xiao Yuanhang that their parents would like to thank him in person. She hoped that Xiao Yuanhang must take time to go there. Xiao Yuanhang thought that he would go to Beijing at noon at the fourth day of the lunar month and would not come back at the earliest. These days it would not work, so he told Du Juan that he would take a day to go around the tenth day of the lunar month and go with Chen Dong, Zhang Jian and others. Chen Dong and Zhang Jian went to conduct on-site surveys and designed a house for Du Juan and their house.

Since returning from Japan, Xiao Yuanhang has not seen Cheng Lu. During this period, he only made a few phone calls and told her that he had made a lot of money by investing in Japan. Cheng Lu learned that she had become a billionaire for tens of millions, but she still couldn't believe it because the passbook was always in Xiao Yuanhang's hands and had not had the chance to hand it over to her.
Chapter completed!