The winter of '79 was not as cold as last year, and there was no rainfall except for several heavy snowfalls at the beginning of the month. Therefore, the dirt roads in the countryside have been dried after half a month of wind and sun, which makes the nearby market even more lively, with women carrying bamboo baskets, husbands and children, each with a smile on their faces.

Seven or eight catties of pork, half a basket of radish, a few Chinese cabbage, and then a chicken, and eggs and duck eggs that had been marinated for several months were taken out. Even those who pick the door again are happy to purchase New Year's goods at the end of the year.

This year, Yangjia Village has had a fat year, and there is a rare winter fishing, at least two big fish in each family, plus the rapeseed oil that Yang Dad and a few people exchanged from the supply and marketing cooperatives in the city, chop the fish pieces and wrap them in flour It seems that there is no need to be as stingy as in the past, and it is not bad to fry them.

Rural people have the habit of worshipping their ancestors at the end of the year, women take girls to chop dumplings and stuff dumplings at home, Lao Tzu takes his son to take advantage of the fact that the sky is not completely dark, bring fire paper, and the old and young masters of the whole village go to the cemetery to burn paper to worship their ancestors.

Only burning paper on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and placing a few firecrackers at random can be regarded as a wake-up call to the ancestors, telling them that they are ready to get up and 'pick up money' for the New Year.

Yang Dongxu followed his father, his own old lady, and his grandmother's grave Yang Dad personally lit the fire paper, put more fire paper, and then began to throw fire paper from grave to grave, each of which had to be interesting.

The firecrackers crackled, and everyone stepped back to the front of the entire cemetery, with the oldest standing in the front row, then the second and third rows, and each row standing with the same generation. After the firecrackers, everyone knelt down and kowtowed three times, and first gave their ancestors an early greeting.

After knocking his head to the back, the little fart rushed over, shouting at the adults, and from time to time he had to get a few slaps on the buttocks, or a few kicks, picking up some firecrackers that didn't explode.

There is gunpowder in the firecrackers that have not exploded, and they are lit in a line that connects the city, and the fire that appears in an instant makes the little children scream, which is the favorite game of rural children during the Chinese New Year.

Yang Dongxu also rushed over and stopped after picking up two, it doesn't matter how much he picks up, it's important to participate.

followed my father back home, and gave the cannon he picked up to his little sister to play. Seeing his mother and sister making dumplings, Yang Dongxu rolled up his sleeves and wanted to help, but was kicked out of the kitchen by his mother, forgetting to wash his hands and his little hands were too dirty and he was almost beaten.

was pulled by her sister to peel off the cannon, and let her use gunpowder to show her 'flowers', and the two small firecrackers quickly completed their last mission.

"Go to your grandfather's house and shout to see if they come for the New Year?" Yang's mother shouted to Yang Dongxu.

Although I don't deal with my grandparents' family all year round, I have to put aside all my prejudices during the New Year, even if I don't have a good relationship with people, I have to nod and say hello to each other when I meet them during the New Year, let alone relatives.

"Oh, got it. Yang Dongxu took his sister's hand and went out of the house.

The parents have separated from the grandparents, and the little father has not yet married when he joined the army. Therefore, it has become Yang Dongxu's task to go to the back every year to call out whether the grandparents want to come to the eldest son's house for the New Year. Although every mission will fail, grandparents will not come. But the flow of the task has to go through a little.

"Go to Mr. Zhou and shout somewhere. "Just a few steps out of the door, my mother's voice came from behind.

"Got it. Yang Dongxu responded.

The grandparents refused as always, but this year they smiled a lot, and they grabbed a large handful of fried peanuts in the pockets of Yang Dongxu and his sister, and stuffed rock sugar in their mouths.

Peeling a peanut and blowing off the thin fruit coating, Yang Dongxu stuffed the peanut kernels that were slightly yellow and crispy into the mouth of his sister who was not satisfied with eating sugar.

Mr. Zhou also refused to celebrate the New Year with Yang Dongxu's family, and he had already guessed on the way here, even if this was the first time to call Mr. Zhou to go to the New Year.

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the evening was very rich, and Yang Dongxu ate a mouth full of oil, and finally had the feeling of eating a big meal for the New Year in the future. It's just that there is no electricity, and the kerosene lamp is too smokey, which makes people unhappy.

After eating, Mother Yang cleaned up her things, and a few little girls who went to school came to play with her sister Hongying.

"Take both of them with you. Seeing that Dad Yang was going out, Dad Yang shouted.

Dad Yang frowned, obviously he didn't want to take the child at this time. He is going to go to the threshing floor carpenter house to prepare to play cards, all year round is the day of the New Year, he can let go of his hand to play, and this year's waist bag is still so rich, naturally to have a good time, take the child in the past, once the child makes trouble, there is no way to play cards.

"I'm not going, I'm playing at home. Yang Dongxu shook his head, pulled the little sister with big eyes and took out the glass ball.

Dad Yang's face, who was originally frowning, instantly turned into a smile: "Xuzi is the most well-behaved, Dad wins money to buy you candy to eat tomorrow." ”

Yang Dongxu rolled his eyes, since the last life, Yang Dad will play cards at the end of the year since he remembers, as for whether he has won or not, there must be. But most of them lost and went home to quarrel with their mother, so he didn't have much hope for his father's promise.

"Don't play too big. Mother Yang said again.

"I know, I know, I just played with them for a while, and I took two dollars in my pocket. Dad Yang waved his hand.

"Two dollars is less, how much more do you want?" Yang Ma snorted and continued to clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

'Run fast' is a card game that can be played by three people and three people.

Under normal circumstances, there is only one card left for the 'alarm' not to lose, a penny and two cents, as long as it is not too lucky, two dollars is enough for Yang Dad to lose until dawn.

In fact, one and two cents is not small, you must know that Yang Dongxu's grandfather sold Chinese cabbage for one penny and two catties in the front time, and it only rose to two cents and three catties when it was the end of the year.

However, this year, Yang Dongxu's family has a bit of a family background, even if he loses all two yuan, Yang's mother will only be unhappy and say a few words to Yang's father, and there should be no quarrel. So Yang Dongxu didn't care, and accompanied his sister to play with glass balls on the bed with the yellowish kerosene light.

"Xuzi, I'll go to your aunt's house to sit, you play with my little sister at home, and I won't lock the door from the outside. After packing up her things, Mother Yang said to Yang Dongxu, who was lying on the bed.

"I'll go, I'll play. Dandan threw away the glass ball in his hand, and Gollum walked down from the edge of the bed, opening his arms for Mama Yang to hug.

"Sticky. Mother Yang glared at her daughter and stretched out her hand to hug her, looked at her son, and found that he was also very happy playing with glass balls alone, so she turned around and went out with her daughter in her arms.

Hearing the sound of the door closing, Yang Dongxu stopped playing and lay on his back on the bed, looking at the gray strips hanging down from the roof and began to be in a daze. He didn't know exactly what he was thinking, and his mind went blank.

Yang Dongxu, who had been watching for a long time and had no focus in his eyes, began to come back to his senses, got up and blew out the kerosene lamp, and the room fell into darkness. The scenes after being reborn with his eyes closed began to replay in his mind. After recalling the events after rebirth, Yang Dongxu couldn't help but think of his life before rebirth.

"It would be nice to have a computer, and it would be good to come to Taiwan Xiaobawang learning machine. Yang Dongxu muttered in his mouth.

Thinking about the mess in his mind, before he knew it, he fell asleep.

In the blur, Yang Dongxu felt that someone was shouting to him, and in a daze, he didn't know whether he responded or not. Then the clothes on his body were taken off, he turned over and arched his comfortable bar into the quilt, and he was slapped on the buttocks, and Mama Yang covered the corners of the quilt for him.

When he was sleeping comfortably, Yang Dongxu was reluctantly woken up by his father, and the time was almost up to pick up the New Year, and the sound of firecrackers outside had begun to crackle.

Brush your teeth, wash your face and burn the pot, then set off firecrackers, and picked up some unfried ones for your sister to play with. I ate two dumplings, and I really didn't want to eat the bun, so I took a bite and put it down.

Then Yang Dongxu, who had been confused, refused a few invitations to go to other doors to pick up artillery battles with a horse lantern, took off his clothes and got into the quilt.

If he was reborn, maybe he would have been more energetic when he took over the year, and he would have picked up cannons and ran faster than anyone else. But I have experienced all kinds of wiping firecrackers, dropping firecrackers, and even buying a plate of firecrackers to play with by myself. It's obviously not as important to go to sleep as it is to pick up the cannon now.,Anyway, I just picked up some tasks that were enough for my sister to play for a while.,After completing the task and continuing to sleep.。

When the sky was just dawning, Yang Dongxu was pulled up again. Mother Yang's sister Hongying and sister Dandan can continue to sleep. He's going to pay New Year's greetings with Dad Yang.

Although Yang's father's generation is not low, Yang Dongxu's grandparents are still there, plus there are grandfathers and grandmothers with other doors above, so it is not the turn to go to Yang Dongxu's house for New Year's greetings.

Yawning and being led by my father into my grandparents' house.

Grandma, who usually doesn't love him much, grabbed peanuts and stuffed some candy into his pocket. Dad Yang was next to him and instigated Yang Dongxu to kowtow to his grandparents.

"Haven't joined the army yet?" Seeing that Yang Dongxu was held in his arms by his mother after kowtowing, Yang Dongxu's uncle still didn't appear, Yang Dad looked at the back room and asked.

"I was called by Yinshan and a few of them last night, and they didn't come back for the next year, saying that they went to the town to play. Grandma Yang Dongxu said, her tone was quite proud, it seemed that it was a very honorable thing for someone to come to her door to play with her son, even if Yinshan was now a scraper.

"What kind of running to the town for the New Year. Dad Yang muttered.

After talking again, he received several waves of fellow villagers who came to Yang Dongxu's grandparents' house to pay New Year's greetings, and Yang's father took his son and followed the New Year's army around the four houses.

Then go home and pick up paper and firecrackers to continue to worship the ancestors, compared to the previous night this time is larger and more lively. Firecrackers crackle, and the yellow paper in front of the grave can burn for half a day.

"If you burn your clothes, go back and wait to be beaten, right?" Seeing his son being dragged by a few friends to the cemetery to pick up cannons, Yang's father shouted. Then he hurried a few steps to his father: "Joining the army hasn't come back yet?"

"No, who knows where the wild has gone. Compared with Yang Dongxu's grandmother's doting on her youngest son, Yang Dongxu's grandfather is a little annoyed with his youngest son here.

Especially a few thousand catties of Chinese cabbage some time ago, basically Yang's father helped sell them together, and his youngest son was always lazy, and he kept asking for money to make him even more dissatisfied.

"Is Yinshan back?" Dad Yang asked.

"It doesn't seem to be. Grandpa Yang Dongxu looked at the crowd and shook his head.

Just out of the cemetery, a person rushed out of the house, and when he got closer, he couldn't see who Yinshan was.

"Seventh Grandpa, Xuzi's father, hurry back, ...... Beat...... Hit someone. Yinshan, who rushed over, shouted.

"What's the fight, make it clear?" Dad Yang was stunned for a moment.

The same villagers who went to the grave together heard that something might be wrong in the village, so everyone hastened and ran towards the village.