frightfiction Chapter 238 Another New Year’s Eve
Chapter 238 Another New Year’s Eve
Time passed slowly, and more than two months of this cramped living situation went by without us even realizing it.
It's almost New Year's Eve again after the apocalypse.
The base posted a notification on the app a day in advance about how to claim New Year's benefits.
Each person can take their points card to the shelter's management office to receive a free pack of instant noodles or bread, plus two pieces of dried meat and a bottle of room temperature water.
Although this benefit wasn't much better than last year's, it was already quite good to have a free benefit, so no one caused any trouble, and long queues formed as soon as the news came out.
On New Year's Eve, the base also cooked several large pots of frozen dumplings and distributed two to everyone at the base.
Although two frozen dumplings would have been gone in two bites before the apocalypse, not even enough to fill one's stomach, now everyone is reluctant to eat them, and each dumpling is eaten in several bites.
If it weren't for the low temperature, eating too slowly would cause the food to get cold or even freeze; otherwise, eating it in a few bites would probably be too fast for everyone.
As usual, Zhou Yang and his group didn't take the benefits and dumplings.
Early in the morning, the entire Qianlong team got busy together, and even the four people from upstairs, including Chi Feng, were dragged down by Zhou Yang early in the morning.
"Can't we even sleep in on New Year's Eve?"
Chi Feng, who was woken up by knocking on the door before he even opened his eyes in the morning, scratched his messy hair as he opened the door for Zhou Yang, his tone irritated.
Zhou Yang rolled her eyes at him, not one to tolerate him: "If you want to eat New Year's Eve dinner, you have to go down and work with us! Hurry up and come down!"
After saying that, she didn't care about Chi Feng's expression and turned to leave.
"..."
Cannibals are soft and short.
Chi Feng sighed, turned around and quickly changed his clothes, then led Ni Fan and the others down to help with the work.
Last year there were fewer people, so Zhou Yang and the others just prepared a few simple New Year's dishes and made dumplings.
But with more people this year, we'll definitely need to add more dishes.
Zhou Yang gave everyone a long list of dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner, letting them choose the dishes they wanted before making preparations.
Finally, the group selected more than a dozen dishes for the New Year.
Then Zhou Yang took out a large amount of ingredients from his space according to the menu and asked them to distribute and process them.
Of course, dumplings, the most important dish at the New Year's Eve dinner, should not be forgotten.
However, this year there are more people and more time, so after discussing it, Zhou Yang and Yu Jing decided to make dumplings of several different flavors.
A large group of people worked from morning till afternoon and finally finished processing all the ingredients for the New Year's Eve dinner. They even managed to wrap most of the dumplings.
Of course, the main force among them is Zhou Yang and Yu Jing, who are good at making dumplings.
As for Shen Zechuan and the others, although they also helped to make some dumplings, they looked so ugly that they were even worse than the dumplings made by Gu Yaoyao. In the end, Yu Jing and Chai Jin's mother chased them away with disdain.
In the evening, Gu Tianqi celebrated New Year's Eve with the soldiers in advance and instructed the cooks to prepare extra meals for everyone before coming over to Zhou Yang and the others.
As soon as I entered, my eyes were drawn to the table full of food.
There were chickens, ducks, geese, and big fish on the table, and even several seafood dishes. Various stir-fries and rare vegetables and fruits were also laid out on several plates. In the middle, there was a large electric hot pot with several kinds of hot pot meat and vegetables on the side.
This scale is comparable to a New Year's Eve dinner before the apocalypse, and even more luxurious than many ordinary families.
Looking at the New Year's Eve dinner, which was even more lavish than last year's, Gu Tianqi suddenly felt that the New Year's gifts he had brought were somewhat inadequate.
The bag of vacuum-packed rice and dried shrimp he brought didn't seem enough to buy even a single dish on the table...
Just as he was sighing, Lu Xingye was the first to come up to him: "Uncle Gu, you're here! Come on, let's eat our New Year's Eve dinner while it's hot!"
"Oh, you're here! Your New Year's Eve dinner is so lavish!"
Hearing Lu Xingye's voice, Gu Tianqi came back to his senses, put the things in the corner, and sighed.
"Hehe, I ordered a lot of these dishes, they're so delicious, please have plenty!" Lu Xingye rubbed his hands together. "We've been waiting for you to come and start the meal!"
Having understood the meaning behind Lu Xingye's words, Gu Tianqi raised his hand and tapped the boy's head.
Tsk, they're complaining that he arrived late and was interfering with their meal.
Lu Xingye chuckled, dodged to the side, and ran straight to the dining table, where he continued to drool over the large table of delicious food.
Seeing that Lu Xingye was already craving it, and Gu Tianqi had also arrived, Zhou Yang suggested that everyone sit down and start eating the New Year's Eve dinner.
Everyone readily agreed and took their seats.
After everyone had eaten something to fill their stomachs, Zhou Yang took out two bottles of Maotai wine, some imported wine, and a few wine glasses from his spatial storage.
"Today is Chinese New Year, it only happens once a year, would you like to have some more drinks?"
As soon as Zhou Yang took out the wine, the alcohol cravings of the middle-aged men at the table kicked in, and they all nodded repeatedly.
Uncle Li: "Sure, but I can't drink too much."
"Hehe, I haven't had a drink in ages, I'm going to drink to my heart's content today!" Chai Jin's father chuckled and took a wine glass in front of him, pointing directly at Maotai and saying, "I want the white stuff!"
“Okay, let’s drink up!” Gu Tianqi nodded. “We can’t just be the few of us drinking; you younger ones have to drink too. Otherwise, it’s no fun with just the few of us.”
After speaking, Gu Tianqi pointed at Yan Fei and the other younger generation.
Upon hearing this, the group could only each take a wine glass and drink with the elders.
Zhou Yang also poured himself a glass.
However, he was aware of his own alcohol tolerance, so he poured red wine directly.
How can a southerner like him compete with a group of northerners in terms of drinking capacity? Let alone baijiu, he probably wouldn't be able to handle even red wine, at most half a bottle.
Fortunately, the pressure to drink was mainly directed at Yan Fei and Shen Zechuan. As long as no one paid attention to him, he quietly ate his vegetables and meat on the side.
When you call his name, he takes a small sip of red wine.
So while everyone else had downed two or three glasses of baijiu, he had only drunk half a glass of red wine.
After a few rounds of drinks, Yu Jing left the table to cook dumplings for everyone, dividing them into four portions and serving them: two portions of soup dumplings and two portions of dumplings with dipping sauce.
"The dumplings are here! Eat them while they're hot! I've hidden five coins inside, let's see who can find them!" Yu Jing urged everyone to eat as soon as she put down the dumplings.
"There are still coins? We'll have to try our luck!"
Upon hearing this, everyone immediately became interested. Those who were drinking quickly put down their glasses, picked up their chopsticks, and scooped several dumplings into their own small bowls.
Zhou Yang also scooped several dumplings from the large soup bowl, but he didn't think about eating any coins, nor did he think he had that kind of luck, so he took a big bite without thinking.
Then, "crack!"—
My teeth almost broke.
"..."
Zhou Yang covered his teeth, completely stunned, and after a long while, he spat out a coin.