60s Splendid Life

"Hurry up, let's go, there is mutton in the dining hall today!"

"Yes, let's go quickly, don't go too late."

As soon as the bell for getting off work at noon rang, a group of workers hurried to the cafeteria with their lunch boxes to eat.

This day is the winter solstice, and there is a saying in their countryside that the winter solstice is a big Chinese New Year, which means that the winter solstice is a very important festival.However, the factory has too many orders recently, and did not give the workers a holiday. In order to reward the employees, their factory manager notified everyone two days ago that the cafeteria would kill a few sheep for everyone on the day of the winter solstice.

Their cafeteria usually eats more pork, chicken and duck, but this is the first time they eat mutton.

By the time the workers came to the canteen, hot meals had already been served in the windows of the canteen. Aunts were standing inside wearing aprons, hats and masks, waiting for someone to cook.

There is also soup at the dining place at the entrance, and there is a sign hanging on it, which reads: Today, there is mutton soup in the cafeteria, one bowl for each person.

The vat contained milky white mutton bone soup, and the workers could smell the aroma of mutton soup as soon as they entered the cafeteria.

Everyone took the lunch boxes and went to make rice first, and then came to make soup.

"Line in line, everyone, don't worry, there are all of them." The uncle in charge of making soup shouted.

"Wow, there is mutton soup today. The soup smells really good today."

"No."

The workers in the factory are very used to it, and they lined up in an orderly manner. When they enter the door, they get rice first, and those who don't eat rice can get steamed buns, and then come over to make soup with a bowl.The dining hall also provides tableware, but generally everyone brings their own tableware. Some gay men are too lazy to bring their own lunch boxes, so they often eat with the tableware in the dining hall.

Everyone lined up to make soup, and then went to the window to get vegetables.

There is also braised mutton in today's window. People who like to eat mutton usually order this dish, but some people don't like to eat mutton, so they still eat the usual dish.

The workers went to the back to find a seat to sit down to eat. Everyone was discussing that today's mutton soup and stewed mutton are delicious. There is not much mutton in the soup, but there are radishes, which are stewed with mutton bones. The radish is fragrant and soft, and the soup is also very delicious.

"The food in our canteen is really good. I came to work in the factory for a year and gained ten catties!"

"I also gained more than ten catties..."

"Stop talking, I've gained a full thirty pounds..."

When the girls in the factory talked about the food in the cafeteria of their factory, they simply loved and hated it. They all blamed the food in their factory for being too good, and it took them from a slender girl to their current weight.The thin girls in the canteen must be new female employees. Those who have been here for three months have basically gained weight, and those who are rounder must have been more than a year old.

So the girls were crying in their hearts, while they ate the rice and meat in the bowl, hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Today, the small dining hall also delivered mutton, but it is different from the big dining hall. There are not many people in the small dining hall. After asking if there is no one who does not eat mutton, the chef in the small canteen made mutton for everyone. Pancakes and lamb dumplings, and lamb soup.

It happened that Lu Jin came to the small building in the morning, and stayed in the small cafeteria with these professors for lunch at noon.

But let alone, probably because there are fewer people in the small cafeteria, the dishes are fried in small pots, which tastes a little better than the big pot dishes in the big cafeteria.The mutton dumplings were big and delicious, and the mutton pancakes were fried until they were charred on the outside and tender on the inside. He ate more than a dozen dumplings in one go, and he also ate two pancakes and drank a large bowl of mutton radish soup.

After eating mutton dumplings and mutton pancakes in the cafeteria, Lu Jin subconsciously thought of the children and grandpas at home, and wanted to go back to make them for them at night, only to realize that the children and grandpas had already gone to town.

After the start of school in September this year, several boys and sisters of their family went to the town to go to junior high school. Grandpa was worried about the little ones, so he also went to the town to take care of some grandchildren, so now he is alone at home.So now he is alone at home, he basically eats in the cafeteria, and rarely fires at home.

When he came out of the laboratory building, he met the employees in the factory. When the employees greeted him, they told him to go to eat quickly, saying that there was mutton in the cafeteria today.

"I've eaten." Lu Jin replied with a smile.

The off-duty time is the most relaxing time for the workers in the whole factory. After eating in the cafeteria, everyone walks together in twos and threes. Generally, the employees who live in Lujia Village will go home to take a lunch break, and then come to work in the factory in the afternoon; Those whose families are not in the village have a bed in the dormitory of the factory. They will go to the dormitory for a short break at noon and return to work in the afternoon.

Lu Jin, the factory manager, walked all the way, and employees greeted him along the way.

His big cousin took over the feeding of the cats in the warehouse, so he didn't have to go to feed the cats at noon, but he had to go back to feed the cats at home.

I went back to the office and went out, locked the door, and went home to feed the cat.

"Meow~"

As soon as the cat at home heard the sound of the door opening, it crawled out of nowhere from a sleep, the fur on its body was still in a mess, and ran to his heels to rub against his trouser legs. hair.

"..."

Lu Jin pushed the cat away with his feet in disgust, "Go away, I'm irresponsible for stepping on any of your feet later!" The group of cats rubbed against his heels, and they were not afraid of being stepped on by him. It's too hard for him to step on the feet of these cats every time he goes home.

I don’t know if the children at home are not at home. This group of cats who are used to being petted have no little masters to pet them. Every time I see him coming home, I will beg for pets and hugs. It's too offline for cat owners.

Fortunately, he roasted cat food for the group of cat owners at home, which saved him from having to cook for them every day. Pour cat food and mutton soup into the row of cat bowls by the door, and the group of cats would eat their own food. One ran to eat, leaving his master aside.

As for the chickens and geese at home, there are leftovers in the cafeteria every day. When he comes back in the afternoon, he will bring some leftovers from the cafeteria to feed them, and he will not feed them at noon.

When the weather gets cold, the chickens also like to sleep in their nests, and they don't come out and run outside.

On the contrary, a group of geese ran out to play outside early in the morning, and they probably won't come back until later.The geese in their family have now become a bully in the village. The children in the village generally dare not provoke them easily. The village is quite safe.

I took a nap at home at noon and woke up to find a few cats around me.

When he woke up, there was a cat growing on his bed...

"I just said why there are so many cat hairs on my quilt, you must have rubbed them on it!" Lu Jin sat up from the bed, picked up the oldest cat in their family, one cat and one person looked at each other, the cat owner lifted He opened his eyes and glanced at him, a cat's paw was on his face.

Seeing that look seems to tell him to shut up and stop arguing with it to sleep.

"..." Lu Jin almost laughed angrily, grabbed the sleeping cat with its eyes closed, and carried the rest of the sleeping cats back to their litter box.

"You said you have your own nest and don't sleep, why do you keep sleeping on my bed? It's not that your nest is not beautiful and warm!" The cat litter was the one he asked the third master of the village to help him make. A layer of straw was spread, and an old cotton-padded jacket was laid on top. It should be said that it was also a warm dish. Why did some cats not like to sleep in their own nests, and went to sleep in other people's nests?

The cats that had gone back to their kennels and slept together didn't even give him a look at their master.

I glanced at my watch, it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon.

Hurrying to go out, Lu Jin didn't continue to teach the cats at home. He closed the door of the house and opened the door of the yard to go out. He saw a flock of geese at the door. It was their family who didn't know where to go wild. The returning geese.

As soon as he saw him open the door, the leading one stood up, stretched its neck and let out a goose cry, and went in with its head upright, followed by a group of big geese, and at the end there were a few geese that had just molted. Gosling.

The little goose that entered the door at last pecked at the top of his shoe, probably thinking that his shoe was not tasty, so it went in.

Lu Jin shook his head, closed the yard door, locked it, and went to work.

In the afternoon, when he received a call from Shen Yu, saying that they would be back in the evening, Lu Jin remembered that today is Friday, and the group of junior high school kids would go home for the holiday, "I'm so busy that I forgot, I still want to say today I went to your place tonight."

Originally, Lu Jin was thinking about celebrating the holiday today, and he planned to go to the town after get off work to see Shen Yu and the children at home.

The few children in their family didn't live in school after entering junior high school, and all of them lived in Shen's house, which was the old house where Shen Yu lived now.Most of the time, their grandfather also lived there to take care of their grandchildren, and occasionally took a few grandchildren to live in his son's unit for two days, but most of them lived in Shen's house.

"I was afraid that you would come over, so I quickly called to tell you, don't come, I'll take them back." Shen Yu also came to work in the afternoon and listened to the people in the unit say that today is the winter solstice festival, and he remembered that today is the winter solstice.Because usually during the holidays, when the children couldn't go back, Lu Jin would come to the town to see them after work, and bring them food by the way. He was afraid that Lu Jin would go to the town and they would go back to the village, so Lu Jinbai would run away. , he hurriedly called Lu Jin to tell her.

"Can you bring so many of them by yourself?"

"There is an uncle."

"Okay, then I'll wait for you to come over. Do you want to eat anything tonight? I'll prepare it for you."

"It will be all right."

At this time, Shen Yu was still working at the unit, and the two of them only exchanged a few words before hanging up the phone.