Chapter 1523: Niu Hongxi's Lifelong Event

Jiangzhou!

Niu Hongxi was holding several two-kick firecrackers, setting them off with bangs in the courtyard. His mother was cooking in the outer room, and the steaming heat was puffing out along the gaps in the pot lid.

A six or seven-year-old boy ran out from the east room, rushed out the door, shouting "Uncle Niu Hongxi," wanting to set off a two-kick firecracker too.

Niu Hongxi's younger sister, Niu Hongli, was holding a rolling pin, mashing garlic in a bowl. Hearing her son wanted to set off a two-kick firecracker, she turned her head and shouted at the door.

"Don't let him set off two-kick firecrackers, it's too dangerous."

Just then, Niu Hongli's husband also came out of the room, holding a string of firecrackers in his hand: "Son, you set off the firecrackers, you aren't allowed to set off two-kick firecrackers."

Niu Hongxi grinned at his nephew: "I can't afford to offend your mother."

Zhang Ming shook his head and sighed: "I'm already seven years old, and they won't even let me set off one two-kick firecracker."

"Smack!"

Zhang Damin kicked his son on the butt: "Seven years old, wait until you're seventeen."

Zhang Ming looked at the firecrackers Zhang Damin handed him, his face full of disdain: "This crappy thing isn't even as loud as my farts, you set it off yourself."

"You little brat."

Zhang Damin raised his foot to kick again, but Zhang Ming was prepared and ran into the room as fast as he could.

"Grandma, I'm hungry, is the food ready?"

"It'll be ready right away." The old lady said with a smile: "Ask your grandpa to warm up the wine."

"Okay!" Zhang Ming ran into the east room: "Grandpa, Grandma told you to warm up the wine."

The old man picked up a bottle of Yugong wine from the low cabinet, opened it, and smelled it under his nose.

This wine cost over sixty yuan a bottle. If it weren't for his son committing a crime and getting arrested.

And getting a blessing in disguise by being locked in the same cell as that big boss Zhou Andong, he would never have been able to afford such good wine in his life.

"Time to eat!"

The old lady shouted in the outer room and reached out to pick up the pot lid.

The thick steam instantly drowned the old lady's figure, and soon it drifted out along the gaps in the cotton door curtain.

In the big pot was a steaming rack, with leftover dumplings from the morning, and two big bowls of steamed meat.

Niu Hongli took a rag, wrapped it around the bowl of steamed meat, and brought it out.

Then she dipped her hand in cold water in the water ladle, and then used her hand to pick up the dumplings in the pot one by one, throwing them into the basin next to her.

"Mom!"

Niu Hongli shouted after picking up the dumplings, picked up the steaming rack, and underneath was stewed sauerkraut with pork belly.

Big slices of pork belly, plus the frozen tofu unique to the Northeast, plus vermicelli and sauerkraut, looked quite appetizing.

Niu Hongxi and his brother-in-law came in one after another, sniffing at the same time.

"So fragrant!"

The two of them entered the room without even washing their hands. The kang table was already set, and the old man had also warmed up the wine.

"Let's eat." Niu Hongli brought the sauerkraut up, took off her shoes, and got on the kang.

The family sat around the kang table. Zhang Damin picked up the warmed wine, first poured it for his father-in-law, then poured it for his brother-in-law, and finally it was his turn.

"Come, let's have one first."

Niu Hongxi picked up the wine cup, took a sip, then picked up his chopsticks, picked up a slice of pork belly, dipped it fiercely in the garlic sauce bowl, and put it in his mouth.

Zhang Damin picked up a dumpling and took a bite: "Big brother, how have you considered the matter of me introducing a partner to you?"

"What's there to consider?" The old lady spoke: "You notify the woman's side, and meet up later."

After Niu Hongxi and Zhao Huilin came out, they ran to the winery to find Zhou Andong.

At that time, Zhou Andong arranged for them to work in logistics and gave them the house he had in the family quarters to live in.

The two of them didn't let Zhou Andong down either, working quite impressively in the factory.

Because the two of them didn't slack off or play tricks, and worked honestly, they were not only popular, but their monthly bonuses were also twenty or thirty yuan more than others.

Look, after earning money, the two of them each rented a house in the family quarters and brought their parents over.

If this were in the past, it would have been extremely difficult for someone like Niu Hongxi to find a partner, let alone having been inside.

But ever since he came out and became a worker in the winery, it was different. The aunts and uncles who heard the news all ran over to introduce him to partners.

But at this time, Niu Hongxi's standards were quite high. In the past, he thought as long as it was a woman who could have children, it would be fine. But now, he had met over ten, and he hadn't liked a single one.

Either he disliked them for being fat, or he disliked them for being dark, or he disliked them for being old.

"Damin, what does the other party look like?"

Zhang Damin said with a smile: "Didn't I tell you? She's good-looking, but she's been married before. However, on the third day after the wedding, her husband had an accident and died. For so many years, the woman hasn't remarried."

The old lady said: "As long as she doesn't bring a 'drag-along' (child), it's fine."

Her own son was already over thirty. If he hadn't become a winery employee, let alone a twice-married woman, he might not even have been able to find a third or fourth-married one.

Therefore, to the old lady, whether she was married twice or not didn't matter, as long as she was willing to marry her son and could give her a grandson, it would be fine.

"No children!" Zhang Damin said: "Big brother will definitely like her."

Niu Hongli looked at her big brother: "I'm just afraid she won't like him."

Niu Hongxi chuckled. He was big and burly, especially with his heavy beard, so he really wasn't very attractive to women.

"Someone like me has so much sense of security."

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Tanghezi!

Last night was New Year's Eve, firecrackers rang all night, and on the first day, they rang sporadically all day, never stopping.

Zhou Xiaode sat cross-legged on the edge of the kang, holding paper and rolling dry tobacco.

Zhao Guifen tilted her head, lying on the rolled-up quilt, staring blankly at the ceiling.

"Crackle!"

Zhou Xiaode picked up a match and lit the cigarette: "Look at what time it is, why aren't you going to cook?"

"Eat, eat, eat, all you know is how to eat." Zhao Guifen turned over and sat up: "Your son is missing, and you're still in the mood to eat?"

Zhou Xiaode was very dissatisfied: "He's such a big person, he won't get lost."

Zhao Guifen snorted, got off the kang, put on her shoes, and started cooking. Actually, she was hungry too.

After more than an hour, a basin of stewed Chinese cabbage with frozen tofu was brought up.

Zhou Xiaode took one look, and his brows furrowed: "It's the first day of the New Year, and you're making me eat this? You didn't even put a piece of meat in it?"

Zhao Guifen served herself a bowl of sorghum rice: "Others eat meat because it's issued by the farm and furniture factory. What did your good big nephew and second nephew issue to you, their big uncle?"

Just then, a loud bang came from the courtyard.

Don't know whose family's two-kick firecracker it was, it landed in the courtyard and went off.

Zhao Guifen, whose mood wasn't that beautiful to begin with, put down her bowl with a bang, walked out of the room in a rage, and stood in the courtyard cursing loudly.

"Which damn thing set off a two-kick firecracker at my house on purpose? May your whole family die a horrible death. May you get the plague tomorrow and all die..." ===== CHAPTER 1524 =====