New Year's Eve 1960
This year's New Year's Eve was not lively at all. There were basically no firecrackers, and only revolutionary songs were played from the loudspeakers at the entrance of the alley.
The Gege Mansion is also filled with ice and fire.
Families with family members working in traditional Chinese medicine hospitals are happily cutting meat and making noodles, preparing to make dumplings for the New Year's Eve dinner. Melon seeds, peanuts and red dates are also placed on the table at home, as if they are celebrating the New Year.
Although other residents are making dumplings at home, most of them are made with vegetable fillings and no meat. The adults are very preoccupied, and the children have no money to buy firecrackers.
Even the usually noisy Ji Bird Monkey didn’t have much energy at this time. He looked hungry and had no energy to curse:
"I went to the market today, but I still didn't get any meat. Let's make do with dumplings stuffed with pickled cabbage."
Fatty Li smiled bitterly and said, "If you want to say that this welfare is really good at a traditional Chinese medicine hospital, damn it, it gives out meat and food, everything. It doesn't care about the life or death of others."
Ji Niaohou suddenly thought of something and stretched his neck to look at the main room:
"Hey, that's strange. Why didn't Lin Laoguang's family fire up the fire today? There are 7 people in his family. How can they eat so much meat? I don't know how to distribute it to the neighbors."
Fatty Li also looked out the window: "Oh, there's really no one there. I guess he went to my son's place in the back garden?"
The back garden of Gege Mansion.
Lin Sanqi stood on the ladder, holding on to the courtyard wall, monitoring the neighbors in the garden like a spy, ensuring that no one approached his waterside pavilion.
There is a table in the center of the yard, with offerings such as chickens, ducks, fish, meat, fruits, pastries, etc. placed on the table.
Here comes the key point. There are several tablets placed in the middle of the table. The names written on them are all the ancestors of the Lin family.
After Lin Sophora placed the ancestral tablet, she lit the candles herself, then stood in front of the offering table and took the incense from her eldest son's hand.
Jin Caifeng shouted softly: "Qizai, come down quickly and let your second sister-in-law watch on the ladder. Come and pay homage to your ancestors."
Lin Sanqi nodded. After getting off the escalator, he took the incense from his elder brother and stood in the second row.
The first row is Lim Sophora, and on the left and right are the eldest son Lim Gan Cao and the eldest grandson Lim Kah Kee.
In the second row are Lin Sanqi and second brother Lin Duzhong.
The old rule of Huadu people is that women do not participate in ancestor worship, so at this time Jin Caifeng, his eldest daughter-in-law, and eldest granddaughter retreated to the entrance of the courtyard, while Pei Xuehua stood on the ladder and continued to monitor the enemy's situation.
Lin Kushen stood there with a particularly sacred expression, and softly reported to his ancestors the situation of the year.
"Blessed by our ancestors, Qizai was found this year, and he came back in good health. Now he has become an official employee of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. Our family is finally reunited, and no one is missing..."
Lin Sanqi stood behind, still a little cautious about this ancestor worship.
After all, he is not the "real descendant" of the Lin family, he is an impostor. It is not known whether the ancestors of the Lin family have spirits in the sky and will send down a divine thunder to kill him, the impostor.
Although the younger son was fake, the offerings and incense candles were all real, all brought by Lin Sanqi himself.
The Lin family is quite cautious. There are always people monitoring the courtyard wall to see if any outsiders are passing by, for fear of being accidentally exposed.
If in previous years, there were so many families crowded together in a large courtyard, the Lin family would not even think about worshiping their ancestors even if they were killed.
Dongguang people’s New Year’s Eve celebrations in 2023 are very exaggerated and very lively.
For example, Shilou Village will hold hundreds of banquets in the village to treat the whole village to a New Year's Eve dinner, and will also invite celebrities to sing and dance.
When the dividends were distributed, the excitement reached a climax.
At that time, all the cash will be piled up on the stage like a mountain, and each household will distribute cash according to their population. It is very exciting and lively.
But in 1960, everything was kept simple. After Lin Sophora reported household chores to his ancestors, he quickly started burning paper money.
Originally, Lin Sanqi was planning to have a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner, and went directly to book a table at a hotel in 2023. He paid for abalone, lobster, bird's nest, shark's fin, grouper, and then moved to 1960.
But when she thought that her second brother and sister-in-law would have to eat together, Lin Sanqi decided to keep a low profile and made a mutton hot pot.
Now that the whole hospital knows everything that should be known, Lin Sanqi went to the northern grasslands for shopping and brought back a large amount of meat and grain.
So as a buyer, it's normal for Lin Sanqi to get some beef and mutton, right?
Lin Duzhong and Pei Xuehua didn't suspect anything. On the contrary, they were the two who ate meat most enthusiastically, as if they had never seen the world.
After the meal, Lin Jiageng and Lin Zhenzhen both knelt down and paid New Year greetings to their elders.
Lin Sophora and Jin Caifeng also smiled and gave a red envelope to each other.
It was Lin Sanqi's turn. Lin Sanqi also took out two red envelopes from his pocket, each containing only 1 yuan in cash.
Lin Sanqi also figured out that when his nieces and nephews grow up and get close to him, he will definitely be willing to give them a hand. If my niece or nephew doesn't have a close relationship with him as my brother-in-law when they grow up, then I'm sorry, but they will become strangers in the future.
So there is no need to cultivate any deep feelings now. If you really want to have something to look forward to, you still have to give birth to your child.
In the blink of an eye, the year has passed.
In 1960, there were only three days off during the Chinese New Year, the first, second and third day of the lunar month, and the formal work started on the fourth day of the lunar month.
In a few years, we won’t even have three days off. What kind of vacation will working people have? Only people who are useless to society want to have a whole day off.
Early on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Lin Sanqi walked into the hospital yawning.
Although the Purchasing Department does not have anything to deal with, as a hospital employee, he must clock in to work every day, or sit at his desk and read newspapers, chat, and drink tea as he pleases.
If it weren't for this layer of skin, Lin Sanqi would have quit her job a long time ago and wouldn't be able to sleep at all.
When I was studying, I often skipped classes, but after traveling through time, I dressed as a working dog. The kind who had to go to work even on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, where could I go to reason with him?
Lin Sanqi walked into the hospital and immediately attracted everyone's attention. Every employee took the initiative to say hello, and they were very affectionate.
"Chief Lin, it's time to go to work..."
"Good morning, Comrade Lin Sanqi, haha..."
"Hey, Chief Lin, I wish you a happy New Year..."
Lin Sanqi also cupped his fists and returned the greeting, while still wondering why the person greeting him today was so enthusiastic.
Only when he walked around the hospital gate and came to the front of the outpatient building did he know the answer.
A notice was posted on the wall, officially announcing the list of employees of the Changping Branch (Farm), including the management list, a total of 132 people.
The employees who were going to Changping were all crying, but no one was cursing or instigating trouble with the leaders, because they knew that if they did not go to Changping, they would have to return to their place of origin and no longer be counted as urban residents.
The sky is falling.
Now if I go to the Changping branch, I can still keep my capital registered residence and my job, and I can also get my salary every month. Of course, the food supply has stopped.
The state is removing urban workers because there is not enough food to eat. If they continue to supply food to these people, Dean Shen's branch + farm plan will definitely fail.
The purpose of building the farm is to make these 132 employees self-sufficient, which is equivalent to a delaying measure. If the difficult period passes, the food supply for these employees can be restored.
On the management list, Ji Qingju, vice president of the Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, also serves as president of the Changping branch.
At the end of the list, Lin Sanqi's name was clearly listed, and his position was the chief of the purchasing department of Changping Branch.
This is a formal position, there is no word (agent), it is a one-stop job. The level of the Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine is the main hall. The level of the branch hospital has been downgraded by one level but it has still reached the main level.
Lin Sanqi, the head of the purchasing department, is a serious professional.
In just one year, Lin Sanqi went from a street child to an employee of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, jumped from deputy director level to a full-level department, and became the youngest middle-level cadre of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
In an era when official-oriented thinking was serious, he suddenly became a rising star in the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
The crowd of onlookers saw Lin Sanqi and started cheering:
"Hey, Chief Lin is here, everyone, get out of the way and let Chief Lin take a look first..."
"Tch, aren't they just flatterers, people who follow people's influence..."
"I heard that Lin Sanqi carried a bag to some leaders in the middle of the night. When he went, the bag was bulging, but when he left, the bag was empty..."
"A person without a diploma or education can still be a section chief. I think being a cannon is about the same..."
Lin Sanqi expected to receive a lot of congratulations. Although she did receive them, she received more envy, jealousy and hatred from others. For a while, she didn't know how to react.
I can only pretend not to hear it.
As a result, the more he pretended not to hear, the louder the negative comments became. Someone should have told him on purpose.
Oh, are you messing with my Taoist mind?
Lin Sanqi coughed slightly and pretended not to say:
"Oh, I really don't want to be the section chief. Union Hospital also asks me to give lectures and be a research group. So much work is annoying."
When Lin Sanqi talked about Versailles, the onlookers understood instantly.
Everyone saw Lin Sanqi's surgery a few days ago. The president of Union Hospital personally invited Lin Sanqi, and everyone also saw it. The presidents of two top hospitals were rushing to get Lin Sanqi, and everyone also knew about it.
Thinking about it again, how could such a talented person be flattered?
(It was obviously rice and pork...) (End of chapter)