But... Jiang Zhiyong showed that everyone seemed to be a little afraid of him. After saying hello to Yu Xiaotao, he almost didn't look at him.

"I look so fierce?" Jiang Zhiyong asked.

"You don't have a smile on your face. How can you not be afraid when you see him?" Yu Xiaotao didn't want to complain about him. He rarely laughed, and with the experience over the years, he felt that he was still a bit "harsh".

The two of them rarely have so much time together in the day. In the afternoon, Yu Xiaotao got off for lunch, burned a basin of charcoal, and took two sweet potatoes next to the charcoal fire, buried them in the ash, and waited to be cooked and eaten.

Yu Xiaotao was idle and took out the book to read it. Jiang Zhiyong sat next to her, talking to her in a mess.

"Oh, by the way, can you make one more meal for the New Year's Eve?"

"Ah? Who is coming to have a meal?" Yu Xiaotao looked up and asked him.

"Who else, Liu Tao. I said that the food you cook is delicious and I want to get the New Year's Eve dinner during the Chinese New Year." Jiang Zhiyong said embarrassedly. He asked Liu Tao to borrow a bicycle and asked someone to cheat a meal.

"Oh, come on. Have more pairs of chopsticks. But what should we eat at thirty? I didn't even think about it."

"It's okay to make two dishes." Jiang Zhiyong had no objection to what he had. The key was that the things Xiaotao cooked were delicious, so what would he have to say.

"What do Liu Tao like to eat?" Yu Xiaotao asked again if the visitors were all guests.

"Don't worry about him, eat whatever he cooks. He eats free food and is picky about food. Some of them are good to eat," said Jiang Zhiyong.

"Then Liu Tao's level seems to be the same as you, and the family members didn't come to accompany the army?"

"The family members are with the army? Who is here? He is also a bachelor. In fact, he is the one here. He has a break during this period and has a leave. There is still time to go back for the New Year. However, the family is urging the marriage to him tightly. He is afraid that he will go back, so he stays in the army for the New Year."

"Ah? How old?"

"It's twenty-seven this year."

"Oh." No wonder, the 27th man's 27th man was just in the 21st century, and his career was just in its infancy. The 27th man was not married, and he caught a lot of people on the streets. But it was different in the 1980s. Twenty-seven years old is a typical old left-handed man. Yu Xiaotao couldn't help but smile.

Jiang Zhiyong said: "You can't just hide this matter? That guy has a lot of ideas every day, saying that he wants to fall in love freely and get married freely. He doesn't think about it. He is in the army this day, let alone women, even mother mosquitoes are pitiful. Who will he go to fall in love freely?" While saying that, he shook his head, obviously damn big to this friend.

Yu Xiaotao made this laugh, "I think my idea is pretty good."

"Ahem! Not bad?" This is the first time Jiang Zhiyong has heard someone agree with Liu Tao's idea. Who else said that Liu Tao is old and advised him to get married as soon as possible?

The two of them chatted together, and waited for the sweet potatoes to be roasted, one for each of them.

After Yu Xiaotao finished eating the sweet potato, "Oh no, I haven't eaten enough, what should I do if I want to eat?"

"Uh, why didn't you roast two more just now?" Jiang Zhiyong had only one bite of the sweet potatoes left.

Yu Xiaotao went to the kitchen to wash his hands. When she remembered the lean meat she bought, she suddenly wanted to eat barbecue. She came up with her greedy worms and ate it as soon as she said she could eat it. She immediately took out the lean meat and cut it into slices. Jiang Zhiyong found iron wire to put it on the barbecue rack. Without a barbecue rack, she directly placed the tongs on the brazier as a rack. The lean meat was marinated with no salt. When the barbecue, she put some more and applied oil.

The meat roasted from the fire has a different flavor. I feel a little swallowed when roasting.

"How is it, is it delicious?" The meat was grilled. Because the wire was worn, I was afraid that the wire would burn, so I tore it off. Before I could do it, Jiang Zhiyong opened his mouth and tasted it first.

"Savory. Tasty."

Yu Xiaotao tasted it and thought it was good. He didn't cut much meat and then roasted it in a while. "Or what if we make some barbecue on the night of thirty, it's just that there's no barbecue rack." He was ready to order it in a hurry, but the seasonings were not complete. If you prepare in advance and prepare the seasonings, the baked things will definitely be better.

"Barbecue rack? What kind of barbecue rack?" Jiang Zhiyong asked.

"The thing is very simple. Just find some small iron sticks to fix it. Then put it on the brazier and don't forget to fall down."

"This thing is simple. It's wrapped around me."

I haven't had barbecue for a long time, and Yu Xiaotao was quite excited and started preparing things early.

Yu Xiaotao was thinking about what to eat. It was nothing but himself and Jiang Zhiyong. Liu Tao was going to come that night. Yu Xiaotao asked Jiang Zhiyong again, "It's really OK to eat anything? Liu Tao has to come..."

"Don't worry, I've told him what to eat. He was quite excited when he heard about barbecue, and his eyes were full. Besides, wouldn't he still have meat dumplings if he wasn't full?"

Yu Xiaotao felt relieved when he heard Jiang Zhiyong say this.

It’s New Year’s Eve in a blink of an eye.

Early on, you can hear the sound of firecrackers outside.

Because of the Chinese New Year, the entire family compound was very lively, and no matter adults or children, they would not have to raise their happy smiles on their faces. In the 1980s, it was a good thing to celebrate the New Year. You can eat meat and wear new clothes. It’s not like the Chinese New Year later. People’s living conditions improved, and they had meat for meals. If you want to buy new clothes, you don’t have to wait for the New Year. In addition, you are tired of working, and gradually, you feel that the New Year is boring.

Yu Xiaotao simply prepared two or three dishes, which Jiang Zhiyong used to sacrifice to his ancestors, and then began to prepare what to eat for the evening. So, the things were prepared quite well.

The meat dishes are prepared with pork belly, sausage, meat skewers, crispy bones, and pork. These days, I want to buy some beef, but it is not expensive, but it is still difficult to buy. In addition, vegetarian dishes are prepared with leeks, potatoes, lotus root slices, small steamed buns, dried tofu, etc.

Of course, I was afraid that I wouldn’t have enough food, so Yu Xiaotao even made dozens of dumplings and put them aside.

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