Chapter 186 However, at this time, several special service departments in China have received a task, which is to find the whereabouts of Old A and all information. Identity, age, gender, occupation, place of origin, family, background! Chief No. 1 said something: If we find this person and use him, we will be invincible. This person can be as powerful as an army of millions. The West calls him a strategic weapon of mass destruction. We can be invincible with just one person. The place of defeat is an exaggeration, but it also expresses the importance of this person. But a week has passed and they still have no clue. Zhou Yang didn't know all this, because today is New Year's Eve When they got up in the morning on New Year's Eve, the family began to busy posting couplets. It was a joyous scene. Zhou Yang and Zhou Aimin posted large objects on the At the main entrance, Zhou Yang was in charge of posting, while Zhou Aimin was directing from the side. Zhou Aimin bought the couplets a few days ago. The first couplet means everything will be safe and happy in the new year, the second couplet means good luck and good luck in the New Year, and the horizontal line means family happiness. The New Year is also the busiest time for Zhou Yang's parents. Zhou Aimin invited the ancestor's tablets to his home and placed them on the table. Zhang Lianzhi hung up the portraits of several gods, such as the Jade Emperor, Kitchen Lord, God of Wealth, etc. Emperor Guan, the door god, and the warehouse official were all invited to the house. The old couple had nothing else to do but wash their hands and burn incense first. According to the rules, rice must be cooked on the morning of the 30th. The specific method is to first put the rice into a pot of boiling water. When the rice is six to seven years old, use a strainer to pick it up, put it in a basin, and use a spoon to crush the loose rice grains. Firm and then simmer. Then put some spinach leaves, cabbage leaves, broth, and cooked kelp in the rice soup. When the vegetable leaves are cooked and the rice grains form lumps, use a shovel to shovel a piece of rice and dry rice into the bowl, and then pour it Put some soup on it and you can eat it. When he was a child, Zhou Yang's favorite meal was this kind of meal. Of course, you cannot eat the rice that is served first. You must first offer it to the gods and ancestors, light incense, flower foils, and set off firecrackers before you can eat it yourself. The rules this year are naturally the same. Zhou Yang helps his parents with various tasks, such as boiling water, cooking rice, and cooking soup. He then fills bowls of them and places them in front of the spiritual tablets of his ancestors and gods. Seeing his father lighting incense, melting the foil, kneeling on the ground and kowtow, he set off a few two-kicks in the yard. With a few explosions, the smell of gunpowder smoke filled the yard, and Zhou Yangcai I feel like the New Year is really coming. This is just setting off firecrackers in an old house, otherwise the police uncle would have to take Zhou Yang to the police station to celebrate the New Year. After breakfast, we started to work on lunch. Every family eats dumplings at noon, and it takes a long time to prepare. First, prepare the ingredients. Peel off the skin of the green onions one by one, leaving only the white ones inside. Then place them on the chopping board and cut them into minced pieces. The next step is to mince the meat. First cut the large pieces of meat into shredded meat, then add shredded ginger and salt, and then chop until the shredded meat is minced into minced meat. Then, put the oil in the pot and heat it. When the oil is steaming, put the bean paste into the hot oil. With a violent hissing sound, a pungent fantasy rises and fills the air. Come on, this is called soy sauce. This level is the most important. This level is the key to the taste of the dumpling filling. After mixing the soy sauce, put it aside. When the temperature drops, put the already good minced meat into the soy sauce, then put the minced green onions on top, sprinkle with thirteen spices and MSG, pour in sesame oil, Stir evenly with chopsticks and toss a few times with a spoon. The dumpling filling is ready. Such dumpling fillings are called "clean onions and clean meat". It's okay in cities. In the past, in rural areas, only the village chief's home could eat dumplings like this. But that's no longer the case. Dumplings made with "clean onions and clean meat" are already very popular. Popularized. This year¡¯s dumpling fillings were still prepared by Zhang Lianzhi, with Zhou Aimin helping her on the side. After the dumpling fillings were prepared, Zhang Lianzhi started kneading the noodles. For a woman from a rural background, such a thing is not a big deal. The next step was to roll out the dough and make dumplings. The family of three sat around the low table. Zhou Yang rolled out the dough, and Zhou Aimin and Zhang Lianzhi wrapped it. The wrapped dumplings were neatly arranged on the chopping board. While Zhou Yang was rolling out the dough, he recalled the scene of celebrating the New Year when he was a child. At that time, because his family was poor, he couldn't cut much meat during the New Year, so the dumplings he ate were filled with cabbage and radish, and there was very little meat. Even so, they tasted delicious. It feels very fragrant. When the friends gathered in the community with dumplings, they would compete with each other to see whose dumplings had the best stuffing. At that time, the only ones who ate "clean onions and clean meat" were only the children of a few cadres in the factory. When it¡¯s almost noon, the dumplings are ready, and then the fire is cooked. Naturally, the dumplings that were fished out were still placed in front of the spiritual tablets of ancestors and gods. Zhou Aimin still burned incense, Zhang Lianzhi turned into foil, and then knelt on the ground and kowtowed. Zhou Yang still went downstairs and set off a few firecrackers. This was to let the ancestors and gods eat first, praying that the adults and children in the family would be safe and sound throughout the year. Then, the family sat at the table and ate dumplings. Zhou Yang liked to dip dumplings in vinegar, so he poured vinegar and sesame oil into the vinegar. After mixing evenly, he put Laba garlic in. Zhou Yang Yang poured three glasses of wine. So they ate dumplings with jealousy and drank a little wine from time to time. Zhou Aimin felt that their life was really in heaven. While the family was eating, Zhou Yang asked: "Did my second uncle and the others come to our house in the afternoon or what?" Zhang Lianzhi said: "We agreed before that we would spend time together. It is so lively and saves the whole family. Three people can't even get together for a game of cards." Zhou Yang nodded. The biggest advantage of two families celebrating the New Year together is the excitement, but isn¡¯t the purpose of celebrating the New Year just for the excitement, so the two families will celebrate the New Year together this year. At one o¡¯clock in the afternoon, Zhou Aijun¡¯s family came. The factory where Zhou Aijun works is a little more profitable than the factory where Zhou Aimin worked before. It has a holiday on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month. Zhou Aijun is free these days. He just goes out to buy New Year's goods every day. He is the only big man in the family. Being at home is also boring. After arriving at Zhou Yang¡¯s house, he took Zhou Yang to play chess. Zhou Yang responded and sat opposite Zhou Aijun. The two men set up their positions and started fighting. Zhou Aijun has been playing chess since he was in junior high school. He has been immersed in this skill for more than 20 years. Unfortunately, he is not very good at chess, and he also likes to regret chess. His chess quality is quite poor. However, although Zhou Yang is also an amateur, Zhou Yang¡¯s He has high intelligence. Although his chess level is not as good as that of a professional, he can still be considered a master among amateurs. Therefore, even though Zhou Aijun always regretted playing, Yang was not annoyed after that, and eroded Zhou Aijun's chess pieces step by step, in an understatement. , and took care of Zhou Aijun. "Sorry, shit." Zhou Yang smiled slightly, a shit horse, not only a general, but also a general under the horse's hooves. Zhou Aijun only had one choice, which was to send a general. In this way, he would lose one and be away from death. It wasn't far away, but Zhou Aijun made a choice himself when he had no choice. "No, I didn't see it, regret your step." Zhou Aijun pulled Zhou Yang's damn horse back to the position of the previous step, then pulled back the run that he had beaten before, and repositioned Zhou Yang's run that had been eaten by him. on the chessboard. "Dad, why do you always regret playing chess? I'm ashamed of you." Zhou Jiaqi, who was watching TV on the side, joked. Zhou Aijun's old face turned red, and then he vomited bitterness: "Jia Qi! This is not my fault! Who made your brother so good? At such a young age, he is probably close to catching up with master-level chess players. Dad, I am suffering!" " Second uncle, you can¡¯t beat me in chess, do you still want to play?¡± Zhou Yang asked with a smile. "No more, no more, you kid, you don't even know how to let your second uncle, you are so unfilial." Zhou Aijun glared at Zhou Yang and said. Zhou Yang couldn¡¯t laugh or cry. "Forget it, let's play mahjong, plus your dad and your mom, the four of us will play mahjong." Zhou Aijun moved the chessboard and said. Zhou Yang nodded. After a while, Zhou Yang's second aunt came out of the kitchen. Zhou Aimin moved a table. Zhou Yang moved the stools. The four of them sat together. Zhou Aimin said: " "Let's set the rules first, how to do it?" Zhou Aijun said: "It's still the old rule, one piece for a small beard, two pieces for a side card, five yuan for a card, ten yuan for a dragon, five yuan for a dragon, fifteen yuan, just check it out. There are two in the village, and there is no running around. "Zhou Yang said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, but it's three o'clock, how long should we play?" "Let's start the Spring Festival Gala!" Zhou Aijun said, everyone said. No objection, let¡¯s start counting cards. After looking for the banker, Zhou Aijun was the first to take the banker. Zhou Aijun picked up the dice and hit six o'clock. Zhou Yang followed him, grabbed the dice and hit eleven o'clock, which was just a slam. The four of them took the shots one after another, and Zhou Yang started. The cards in my hand are very good, five pairs, and the three single cards are West Wind, South Wind and Eight of a kind. Zhou Aijun hit Zhang Dongfeng, Zhou Yang touched the card and brought it up to Zhang Nanfeng. Zhou Yang smiled slightly, knocked Nanfeng away, then buckled the card and said, "Sorry, I heard the card." "Ouch! That's it. "Hurry?" Zhou Yang's father and second uncle were a little surprised, but Zhou Yang's second aunt was smiling and didn't care much about Zhou Yang's cards, because her cards were also very good, and she only needed to draw another one. , can also listen to cards, it is still unclear who will win. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????¡Auntie found the cards she needed, but she didn't deduct the cards like Zhou Yang, she just held a card in one hand and flipped it back and forth. "South Wind." Zhou Yang drew another useless card and played it casually. After Zhou Aimin drew the card, he played nine pieces. No, he drew the card himself. When this card was touched, Aunt Zhou Yang laughed. He pushed the card and said: "I drew the card five and one dragon." "Huh?" (To be continued)