sbdcsierra Chapter 153: Young people have great ambitions and do not worry about
Chapter 153: Young people have great ambitions and do not worry about
Next to the processing workshop, the civil construction of the Ye family's courtyard was officially completed on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month. Wang Shun took the craftsmen who came from the provincial capital back to the provincial capital. Before leaving, Wang Shun told Ye Changyan that the interior decoration work of the courtyard would start after the Lantern Festival, and guaranteed that Ye Changyan would be able to move into the new home when the spring comes next year.
At the same time, Wang Shun also asked Ye Changyan to contact the carpentry workshop after the new year so that he could start making furniture such as cabinets, beds, tables and chairs.
The small courtyard built for Veterinarian Sun on the cattle farm had already been completed. Veterinarian Sun bought some simple furniture in the county town and brought his wife and children over. The 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month was a good day, and the family moved into their new home happily.
Veterinarian Sun's wife is a capable and clever person. She prepared two tables that day and invited Zhong Yunfeng, Ye Changyan's family, the headman's family, and several helpers from the cattle farm to witness their joy of moving to a new house.
The processing workshop has been very busy recently. Although a fleet of cars comes to deliver freshly produced candies every other day, it is still far from meeting the market demand.
Zhong Yunfeng had also been running between the provincial capital and Wanshou County. Ye Changyan and Zhong Yunfeng discussed that the processing workshop would take a holiday on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. The two also discussed matters such as distributing New Year gifts to employees.
On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, a convoy arrived at the processing workshop with New Year gifts prepared for the employees, and then packed up all the candies in the warehouse and took them away.
Zhong Yunfeng then gathered all the employees together and began to distribute New Year gifts to everyone.
Each employee received two boxes of cakes, two jars of nuts, a box of candied fruit, a jar of sugar, a bag of red dates and a jar of wine, in addition to a red envelope of two hundred yuan.
After receiving the New Year gifts, all the employees were beaming with smiles. They had only worked for less than a month and received such generous gifts, which made everyone very satisfied.
Everyone in the old house also swept away the previous gloom, and each of them held large and small boxes of New Year gifts. Even Ye Xiaowu and Erlang had rare smiles on their faces.
After all the employees left, Zhong Yunfeng handed Zhang a generous red envelope, and Zhang took it happily, with a look of satisfaction on his face.
Zhang asked Zhong Yunfeng and Ye Changyan to leave first. She stayed to check the processing workshop inside and out before locking the door and leaving.
Ye Changyan and Zhong Yunfeng went to the cattle farm again and gave Veterinarian Sun the New Year gifts they had prepared in advance and the dividends they had promised him.
After finishing the work at hand, Zhong Yunfeng said goodbye to Ye Changyan and hurried back to Yuzhou Prefecture.
Since there is no New Year's Eve this year, the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month is New Year's Eve. Ye Changyan discussed with Mr. Cai in advance and asked Mr. Cai, Liang Jingcheng and others to come to Ye's farm to stay up together until the New Year.
The old lady learned in advance that the third family would come to visit her at noon on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, so she instructed Liu to arrange the reunion dinner at noon on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month. Xu and the eldest girl took a day off from the processing workshop and helped Liu prepare.
At noon on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, Ye Changyan and his family went to the old house with the New Year gifts they had prepared in advance. Everyone in the old house was more polite to Ye Changyan's family than before.
Seeing that everyone was present, everyone, led by Ye Xiaowen and Dalang, stood together in front of the shrine in the main hall, and burned incense to the old man respectfully.
Then, Liu, Xu and others were seen carrying two large tables filled with bowls and plates. Although they were all vegetarian dishes, they were still quite sumptuous.
This was the first time that all the family members had gathered together to eat a meal since the third branch of the family separated. This meal was also the first family reunion dinner after the master passed away. When the old lady saw everyone so happy, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.
After the meal, Lian and Erniu helped to clean up, and then Ye Changyan said goodbye.
When the old lady learned that Ye Changyan's teacher and senior brother were coming to the farm for a reunion, she did not keep them any longer and smiled as she escorted the third family to the gate of the courtyard.
When we returned to the Ye family's farm, we saw Fang Xiaotong and Fang Xiaomei, brother and sister, busy making preparations in the kitchen.
Soon, Mr. Cai's carriage stopped in front of the gate of Ye's manor.
Ye Xiaozheng was in high spirits today. He sat in the main room with a hot water bottle and chatted with Mr. Cai for half the afternoon.
Ye Changyan was the chef for tonight's New Year's Eve dinner. Although Erniu and Fang Xiaotong were already surrounding the kitchen, Ye Changyan still called Liang Jingcheng over and asked him to help.
It was the first time for Fang Xiaotong and Fang Xiaomei to see Ye Changyan cooking. They saw Ye Changyan wearing an apron and busy at the stove, occasionally asking Liang Jingcheng to help pass different things. Ye Changyan's skillful movements surprised the siblings.
When the time came to Youshi, the sky began to gradually darken, and the Ye family's table was filled with delicious dishes.
There were more than ten dishes including lotus root with glutinous rice in sugar sauce, fried bean curd with dried mushrooms, fried yam with black fungus, home-cooked tofu, dry-pot potato chips, etc. Although they were all vegetarian dishes, Mr. Cai and Liang Jingcheng ate them with gusto.
After the meal, Fang Xiaotong and his sister cleaned up quickly, then brought up two buckets of hot water with ginger for everyone to soak their feet in.
Seeing that the brother and sister were efficient, Mr. Cai nodded with satisfaction. After spending some time together, the Ye family members also got along better with the brother and sister.
After dinner, everyone sat around in the main room, chatting about some light topics, waiting for the arrival of the New Year.
Mr. Cai was telling about the interesting things that happened when he was young and studied under the great scholar Wu Daoyuan of the previous dynasty, and everyone was laughing.
Ye Changyan was lost in his own thoughts. It had been several months since he came to this world. He wondered how his family and friends in another time and space were doing. Ye Changyan also recalled some unforgettable things in his previous life, and he couldn't help but humming Teacher Liu Huan's "Young Man with Ambition Does Not Worry".
"Several storms, many springs and autumns, wind, frost, snow, rain and rapids, going through hardships but still being infatuated, young people have great ambitions but do not worry..."
Ye Changyan was immersed in his own thoughts, humming in ecstasy, and his voice became brighter and brighter.
Everyone in the room heard Ye Changyan humming the song in ecstasy. They all remained quiet, listening quietly to such a gentle and profound, yet soul-stirring song on this cold winter night.
After a long time, Ye Changyan came back to his senses and saw that everyone was looking at him with an intoxicated look on their faces.
"Chang Yan, don't you think this was also taught to you by Master Gongshu?"
Liang Jingcheng, who was sitting next to him, asked Ye Changyan, who had a confused look on his face.
Unexpectedly, he was so immersed in his own thoughts that he was inspired and started humming a song. Seeing Liang Jingcheng asking curiously, Ye Changyan nodded.
"Do you want to learn?"
Liang Jingcheng nodded, and Wulang and Erniu also quickly followed suit.
"I want to learn too!"
So on this New Year's Eve with howling cold wind, songs of various accents could be heard from Ye's village.
But with repeated practice, everyone gradually got the tune right, and accompanied by this heroic, rough, yet simple and elegant singing, everyone stepped into the new year together.