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Chapter 257: The New Year Begins

"Come on, during the Spring Festival, one person will get a red envelope for good luck. Don't think it's too little." Chen Ming sealed a red envelope for Ma Yubing and others. A while ago, the family collected a lot of cash and put it directly in the box. He never took it to the bank to deposit it. Anyway, the family will not lose money now, and they don't expect the bank's interest. So they just kept it at home.

"Doctor Chen, the tea and wine we drink here every day should be paid by others for several months. We are a little sorry for you to pay us your salary, and we can't get this red envelope." Ma Yubing did not dare to accept it.

Wang Gui also said: "Yes, we are all from the same generation, how can we let you send red envelopes?"

Ma Dangrong originally wanted to put his hand in the middle, and when Wang Gui said that Ma Yubing said, he quickly shrank his hand back: "Doctor Chen, this is not suitable."

"If you hold it, just hold it. Stop talking nonsense. You do your best this year. I will not treat you three badly here. I will not make any less money than others working in the city. Face is given by others, and face is earned by yourself. If it weren't for your failure to do anything bad before, I would have taken you three. But in the future, you will not be able to commit any bad things again." Chen Ming looked at Ma Yubing and the other three seriously.

Ma Yubing stood up suddenly: "Doctor Chen, I swear to you that if the three of us brothers are not good at the future, they will be beaten to death by thunder. They will be beaten to death by bachelors!"

"I'm going to be a bachelor until I die. This oath is more poisonous. I believe you." Chen Ming smiled.

Ma Yubing and Wang Gui also used bachelors to kill him.

"Okay, okay, sit down and drink. Wang Gui, you turned off the TV, it's noisy, there's nothing to watch." Chen Ming said.

Wang Gui quickly found the remote control and turned off the TV. From time to time, the roar of fireworks came from outside.

"Don't think that working with me is easy. I have plowed more than ten acres of land, and I have to plant it this year, two seasons a year. The fish ponds I dug have to be put on the fish and the grass for the fish must also be on the three of you. Not to mention the vegetable garden and medicine garden. However, there is no problem with any machine you want to buy. You can buy the ploughing machine, rice transplanter, harvester, and whatever you need to buy." Chen Ming said.

"Doctor Chen, there are only about ten acres of land in total, and it is not cost-effective to buy a rice transplanter and harvester. Now we have built a road here, and the tillers, rice transplanters, and harvesters outside can all come in. At that time, just spend money to hire someone else's machine. If you want to buy it, it's okay. At that time, the three of us have learned how to operate the fields in the village. Even if we can't make money, the machine's loss and expenses should be kept. It's not difficult to pull fish grass in the fish pond, and there is an open space beside the fish pond, so we can plant some fish grass." Wang Gui is the most smart among the three. He has long calculated everything about Chen Ming's family clearly.

"It seems that you have already calculated it clearly. Let the three of you brothers leave all this to you, and you will take them with them to do these things well. If you are too busy, you can ask someone to help you. As long as you pay for the change of the salary. You don't have to worry about this." Chen Ming said.

"Enough is enough, so the three of us brothers are enough. If we buy a few more careful machines, it will be very relaxed." Wang Gui said.

"Just buy what you should buy. You can do it after the first month of the year." Chen Ming said.

"Doctor Chen, only a few acres of land you plowed are from your own. The rest are from other people's homes. Now that you are back, do you think they will go back to this land?" Ma Yubing asked worriedly.

"No way. Those fields have been abandoned for several years. Dr. Chen has put the boss's efforts into plowing the fields. At this time, who would have the nerve to come and ask Dr. Chen for land?" Ma Dangrong said.

"You know what's the matter!" Wang Gui scolded Ma Dangrong, and then said to Chen Ming, "This is a problem. If they want to go back to this field, this agricultural machine will be in vain."

"Don't worry about these for now. If they ask me, just give it to them. If they don't ask, we will plant them all. It won't cost much to buy a few machines, and I can afford to lose the money." Chen Ming was not worried at all. Whether to plant rice fields or not was not very concerned about Chen Ming. After all, when he was cultivating these rice fields, he never thought that he could make so much money later. Now these fields are no longer so important to Chen Ming.

"If they dare to come back with shamelessness, I will not scold them! How can this be done in life? Dr. Chen has worked hard to reclaim the wasteland. Now that the fields are ready, they run back to pick up the ready-made ones!" Ma Dangrong said angrily.

"You idiot, everyone is discussing together. Why are you so popular? Today is the first day of the New Year, don't be fooled." Ma Yubing said.

In the past, I usually didn’t sleep on the night of thirty, and the whole family stayed together to welcome the arrival of the New Year, which was called staying up to the New Year. However, few people still did this. After watching the party, they went to bed. It was not necessarily early in the morning.

"Doctor Chen, if you are tired, go to bed first. Let's have a few more fun and we will make breakfast. Then we will ask you to get up." Wang Gui said.

"If you want to sleep, go to bed. I've had a sleep tonight. I'm not sleepy now." Chen Ming said. In another two or three hours, Chen Ming will start practicing stance, transforming water, and practicing. When he reaches his level, there will be no problem if he doesn't sleep for a few days.

"Then let's clean up this first." Ma Yubing stood up and began to pack up the leftovers just now.

Wang Gui and Ma Dangrong were not vague. The three of them cooperated very well and quickly cleaned up.

After Ma Yubing went down a few times, he prepared morning dishes in the kitchen. Although strictly speaking, this meal is the first meal of the New Year, in Tea Tree Village, this meal should be counted as the first meal of the New Year. This meal is of great significance and cannot be careless.

The ingredients for the first day of the New Year have been prepared long ago. Especially meat dishes, they are all prepared in advance. The temperature in the mountains is relatively low, and fresh meat is not easy to deteriorate when placed in the cupboard.

Although Chen Ming has not purchased a refrigerator at home, his cabinets are even more useful than refrigerators. No matter how long the fresh meat is left in the cabinet, it will still be very fresh.

These situations are no longer surprising to Ma Yubing and others.

There are many strange things in the vegetable garden behind the house. In this season, the vegetable fields in the village are filled with several kinds of vegetables such as cabbage, and there are very few types. Unless you have a greenhouse to grow off-seasonal vegetables.

However, Chen Ming's vegetable garden does not have greenhouses, and there are all kinds of vegetables in it. The vines of the four-season beans have not died, and they have been hung withered with green beans and beans. The tomato seedlings have not died, and tomatoes have not died after frost. Even snow and freezing has not had any effect on the chili peppers. Now, green chili peppers and red peppers are full of fruits on the chili peppers in the vegetable field.

"We really live a fairy life at Dr. Chen's house. We can still eat such tender cucumbers this season. If I hadn't picked it from the vegetable field myself, I would have thought it was sold from other places." Ma Dangrong sighed.

"Is it so fresh from other places? It's so delicious? The cucumber is just like eating fruit, sweet." Ma Yubing said.

Wang Gui nodded: "Anyway, I will work hard with Dr. Chen in the future. Even if Dr. Chen doesn't pay me a penny salary, I will continue to work here."

"So too. I'll drive me away, but I won't leave either." Ma Dangrong said.

"You are not smarter, and sooner or later you will be driven away by Dr. Chen. Don't talk nonsense. You deserve to be driven away, but don't implicate us both." Ma Yubing did not hide his dislike for Ma Dangrong at all.

Wang Gui was the same: "Dangrong, you really have to have a long brain!"

Ma Dangrong grabbed his head: "I'll talk less and do more in the future!"

Chen Ming completed this day's practice in advance, and Ma Dangrong ran upstairs and called Chen Ming to go to the main hall to worship the gods.

Chen Ming had to do the respect for God himself, and the three of them could not replace it. The Eight Immortals table was full of dishes, including meat and vegetable. Eight cups of wine were also placed, eight rice bowls were filled with rice, and chopsticks were placed on it.

"Dad, I don't know if you are back. Today I have prepared good wine and good food for you and your ancestors. The wine I brew now is good, and you will have good wine for the rest of your life. Unfortunately, I have made good wine and good food for you now, and I don't know if you can taste it..."

Chen Ming whispered, and every time he respected the gods, Chen Ming always felt a little sad.

Ma Yubing and others stood respectfully on one side. When Chen Ming finished his life, they ran out to set off firecrackers and lit fireworks.

After worshiping God, the first meal of the New Year is the beginning.

"Doctor Chen, you have a room now, and you're just a mistress. The three of us wish you a beautiful woman this year." Ma Yubing stood up and said.

Wang Gui and Ma Dangrong quickly stood up with wine and said in unison: "I wish Dr. Chen a woman this year."

"Doctor Chen, if you want to ask for a city woman like Secretary Su. The city woman is handsome and educated. A person like Dr. Chen is not a college student and is not worthy of it at all." Ma Dangrong said.

"This time Dang Rong's words are reasonable. Dr. Chen, otherwise you would like to ask Secretary Su to be a wife. If Secretary Su is not as capable as Dr. Chen, he is not worthy of Dr. Chen." Ma Yubing smiled.

"Actually, I will also say good things. Yubing, you can't blame me if you can't get a wife in the future." Ma Dangrong said casually.

Ma Yubing wanted to twist Ma Dangrong's head off as a chamber pot: "You bastard, you told you to stop talking nonsense in the first day of junior high school. If it weren't for the first day of junior high school today, I would have to beat you up this year. Please wait, I will definitely beg you for my wife before you."

"That's not necessarily. Yubing, you are not as tall as me and not as handsome as me. If you want to get a wife first, unless the woman is blind." Ma Dangrong said.

Chen Ming and Wang Gui were watching the fun happily.

"Wang Gui, don't laugh at you. You are worse than Jade Soldiers. The three of us will guarantee that you will be the last one to ask for a wife." Ma Dangrong said.

Wang Gui couldn't laugh at all at once. He really wanted to go up and press the ball to the ground to rub it hard.

"It's dawn outside. We'll finish our meal and we'll pack up. You'll go back to pay New Year's greetings to your family later. Today we'll visit our village." Chen Ming said.

"Doctor Chen, let's forget about the three of us. If we really go to the village to visit, who would dare to go out? The family hopes that we won't make trouble. We won't make trouble." Ma Yubing shook his head.

Wang Gui and Ma Dangrong are in the same situation as Ma Yubing.

Only then did Chen Ming remember that the three of them had a bad reputation in the village.

"Okay. Just show me your home. I'll visit my village. Ma Yan and the others might come for lunch. You can prepare for a little bit." Chen Ming said.

"No problem. The ingredients are ready-made. No matter how much they come, we can handle it." Wang Gui said.

Chen Ming had already planned these things with them before the New Year. The chickens and ducks had been slaughtered long ago. Now they are not as particular as before. Generally, they can just not kill animals in the first few days of the first and second days of the lunar calendar. They are not so particular afterwards.

Chen Ming hung several strings of chickens and ducks in the kitchen, and it would be no problem to eat for a few days. Moreover, Chen Ming had no customers at home. He might just stay at most once or twice throughout the first month.

It doesn't matter if you go to New Year's Day to pay New Year's Day, but it's okay to go early, but it depends on whether other people's houses are open or not. Those who don't have the door open, either get up late, eat, or it's inconvenient to open the door to welcome guests. For example, some people in their families passed away just before the New Year's Day, and it's inconvenient to have funerals, but they can't let others come to pay New Year's Day to get bad luck. They won't open the door. When others see the door closed in the yard, they will naturally not come over to get bad luck.

Chen Ming was about to go out. Who knew that Ma Yan, Chen Yonggang, Chen Min'an, Li Conggang and others had made an appointment to run to Chen Ming's house. What surprised Chen Ming the most was that Ma Guangyong was also with them. He even talked and laughed with Ma Yan along the way.

"Doctor Chen, I wish you a happy new year!" Ma Yan walked in the front and spread a bundle of firecrackers in his hand flat in the yard and then set them off.

The other few quickly set up the firecrackers in their hands side by side and asked Ma Yan to go there alone. Then they all quickly walked into Chen Ming's home.

"Happy New Year everyone. Come into the house for tea." Chen Ming quickly welcomed several people into the house.

As soon as firecrackers rang outside, Ma Yubing, who was watching TV, hurried out. As soon as he saw that he was greeting the New Year, he hurried into the house to pour tea.

"You guys came very early. Dr. Chen said just now that he would go to your place to pay New Year's greetings first, and then let you come here for lunch. We have already started preparing this meal." Ma Yubing said.

"We have agreed to go to my house for lunch today. You three will come together," said Ma Yan.

"We can't go there. Stay here. If a guest comes, there is a way to take care of him." Ma Yubing quickly declined.

"It's strange. Ma Yan, aren't you and Ma Guangyong dead enemies? Why are you together? The hatred of taking over your wife is similar to killing your father's enemy. Can you swallow this tone?" Ma Dangrong was indeed a well-deserved straight person.

Except for Ma Yan and Ma Guangyong, the rest of the people looked weird.

Ma Yubing knocked Ma Dangrong's head, and no one thought you were mute if you didn't speak.
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