Chapter 38: My Sister Is Back

Things that happen to people are not always there, and the god of luck will not always accompany anyone.

There is a popular saying.

Heaven is fair to everyone, and when it closes a door, it is bound to open a window, and no matter how bad it is, the world has reserved a place for it.

Conversely, when the window is opened, the door is also closed, but the location is still there.

To exist is to be reasonable, that's what it means.

The Spring Festival is the Lunar New Year, with a long history, and is one of the treasures of China's 5,000-year-old historical and cultural heritage. For the descendants of the Chinese nation, they all have extremely special and important significance.

All things are based on the sky, people are from the ancestors, pray for the New Year, worship the heavens and the ancestors, and report the beginning.

Different forms of celebrations are carried out throughout the country according to different customs and habits during the Spring Festival.

There are also obvious differences in celebrations and forms between the north and the south due to differences in climate, region, lifestyle, etc., and even in different regions of the same region.

If you are interested, you can do more research, I won't repeat it here. I'll just talk about one of the most interesting things about my hometown.

That is, on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, you must eat dumplings wrapped in coins, and the person who eats the coins means that the coming year will be auspicious and will definitely have good luck.

Therefore, many people keep expanding their "stomach muscles" in order to eat the coins in the dumplings, so that it can accommodate more, and even overload.

Not to mention the children, who have to eat the coins until they eat them.

Many parents "rack their brains" in order to let their children eat coins during the New Year, and they also take great pains to use various means and methods to let their children eat the coins they "dream of" in their hearts.

Some parents make marks when making dumplings, and when the time comes, they have to pretend to put the dumplings with coins in the child's bowl as if nothing happened.

The happiest moment was when I saw the children's hands dancing and behaving when they ate the coins.

"Haha, I've eaten it, I've eaten it!"

The children's excited laughter and cries are the greatest comfort and happiness for parents.

Of course, whoever eats the coin will become a thing that everyone is talking about.

"The second uncle ate two coins for the New Year this year!"

"That's it, my second uncle's family has a good life, everything is smooth, and there is nothing that can stump him......"

"Where, don't look at your small person, you are quite good at boasting, how can your second uncle have such great ability. Hey hey ......"

"Second uncle, you are the pride of our whole family! I often mention you to others, saying that my second uncle is very capable, 'hands and eyes are all over the sky', and everything is a 'piece of cake' in his eyes......"

"Hahahaha...... Well said, well said, I praised your second uncle to the sky, little rabbit cub, call the second uncle at any time if there is anything in the future, and the second uncle will solve it for you!"

"Thank you, second uncle, I just quit my job a few years ago and have no source of livelihood, I want to borrow some ...... from you"

"Oops, I don't seem to chew much when I eat dumplings today, I may have swallowed the coin in my stomach, it's a little uncomfortable, go to the toilet and ...... first"

"Hahaha......"

Some people will even be disappointed for a long time because they did not eat the dumplings of coins during the Chinese New Year.

Here's the news, there are more interesting activities in my house.

My mother now wraps all the dumplings in the most "simple and crude" way in order for her grandson to eat coins.

Although my mother is in her old age, her way of dealing with problems is as vigorous and resolute as that of a "female man" when she was young, and she still "cuts through the mess quickly", straightforwardly, and without dragging her feet.

So, in my house for the Spring Festival, I won't find dumplings without coins at all!

In my mother's words: "I hope our whole family is safe, happy, and blessed with good luck in the coming year!"

The mother's behavior completely changed the family's tradition of eating coin dumplings in the past, but under the organization and planning of her son Qinqin, the family was divided into several groups to have a "unique" "coin eating competition", and whichever group ate the most coins would win the final championship.

There is no doubt that Qin Qin will choose to be on a team with me without exception, because the "seamless" cooperation of the father and son, coupled with the release of his old father's absolute "appetite", can completely crush everyone in the family.

Of course, after the old father helped Qin Qin "win the championship", he would definitely lie on the bed humming and chirping, babbling endlessly: Oops, I ate too much and ate too much, and I couldn't bend my waist anymore......

From ancient times to the present, many ancient poems have also praised the Spring Festival:

One of the most well-known poems is "Yuan Ri" by Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty:

In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu.

Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one.

Tang Chao Gao's "New Year's Eve" expresses the loneliness of "being alone in a foreign land as a stranger" on Chinese New Year's Eve, and is very eager to reunite with his family and cherish his hometown:

The hotel is sleepless on a cold night, and the guest's heart is sad.

The hometown thinks of thousands of miles tonight, and the Ming Dynasty is sad for another year.

......

There are many poems describing Chinese New Year's Eve, so I won't list them all.

But what I admire the most is Tang Taizong Li Shimin's "Keeping the Year":

Twilight view oblique palace, gorgeous Qi Palace.

The cold leaves the winter snow, and the warmth brings in the spring breeze.

Step-rich Shumeisu, coiled flower roll candle red.

Celebrate the new year and welcome and send off all night.

I once thought that this poem was one of the good poems of the Tang Dynasty that deserved to be widely praised.

Of course, it is not only limited to describing the festive atmosphere of Chinese New Year's Eve with colorful lights, joy, and welcoming the new, but also in terms of rhetoric and scene substitution, using words such as "go", "enter", "roll", "comfort", "welcome", "send" and other words to dynamically describe the beautiful picture of the alternation of seasons, spring coming and winter, spring breeze sneaking in, and plum blossoms.

The last two sentences also extend the Spring Festival of "small family" and "small self" in the palace to the Spring Festival of "everyone" and "the world" outside the palace, comprehensively extending the lively atmosphere of the whole country to celebrate, and the extremely comfortable picture sense contains the noble feelings of the family and the country.

The high position and the size of the pattern are beyond the comprehension of other poets who have never "added a dragon robe".

Believe me not to say, everyone already knows the origin and importance of the Spring Festival, and can tell it more eloquently, and its significance in everyone's hearts, not to mention me.

Straight to the point.

It was the third Spring Festival after my sister left home, and the first time I went home since my sister left home at the age of 16, at the age of 19.

When I first heard the news of my sister's home, I couldn't sleep because of my excitement. I felt that the blood in my whole body was boiling, and I was about to jump into the sky.

My sister is finally coming back!

"Hey, hey!"

Every day, every day.

In order to arrive as soon as possible on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, he also deceived himself by tearing off one or two more pages of the calendar on the wall every day, covering his ears and telling himself: "The days go by so fast!"

Finally the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, my sister is coming back today!

I excitedly took out a piece of stationery and prepared to write a few sentences on the paper to express my expectations for my sister to come home, and express my expectations and thoughts for my sister from another side.

After thinking about it for a while, I found that my knowledge level and literary literacy completely limited my thinking and ability. Really:

After three years of farewell, I have many thoughts, and I wish to bless it in a piece of paper.

However, he is young and shallow, and he is full of thoughts and thoughts.

In the end, after thinking about it a few times, I completely gave up my previous idea and decided to write only the words "welcome my sister home".

It is said that "smart for a lifetime, confused for a while." ”

When people are really confused, they will really do a lot of confused things.

Just when the second word of this sentence was written, I suddenly forgot how the word "Ying" was written, and I couldn't remember it no matter how I thought about it.

And the degree of confusion at that time actually made me forget the saying "look up the dictionary".

If you want to ask your mother, you have to wait until your father is away, in case he hears it, and if he doesn't say anything, he has to let the coercion be implicated, and suffer an unjustified disaster "for no reason".

Then my previous efforts to pretend to be sick will be in vain, so what should I do?

Let's just find another word to replace it, what words can I write to express my feelings at this time?

I held my head in my hands and thought hard for a long time.

"Welcome, welcome, welcome......"

I thought with my chin in my hand.

"Hey, that's right! I can't write the word 'welcome', so just 'don't do it and never stop', just write 'celebrate'!"

"Celebrate my sister's homecoming!"

I involuntarily read it again, and comforted myself:

"It's a bit awkward, but it's better than nothing. Just make it clear. ”

"Where should I put it?"

After wandering around the two small south rooms several times, this time my brain was quite bright, and I saw the bookcase locked by my sister at a glance, and finally decided to stuff it into my sister's bookcase from the crack.

It is said to be a bookcase, but it is actually a locked wooden box, about 40×40 centimeters in size, which is where my sister put her private belongings before leaving.

Speaking of privacy, hehe, I have to complain again, in fact, when my sister was not at home over the years, she had already been smashed by her father and checked countless times.

Inside was her sister's diary, photo albums, and what she thought was more precious.

My sister only has a key.

So I stuffed the note there, knowing that my sister would definitely open it when she came back.

When I had just prepared the props to welcome my sister home, Lei Zi and Peng Chao came to the house to play with me in new clothes, new shoes, and firecrackers.

According to the past practice, I will be desperate and can't wait to go out with them to "wind and rain, thunder and lightning", brave the rivers and lakes, and do chivalrous deeds, but this time the situation is extremely special!

Therefore, I righteously rejected them.

The reason is simple, my sister is coming back!

"If my sister happens to come back when I go to play with you, won't I be able to see my sister for the first time? ”

No matter how the other two swordsmen attacked me violently with "wind, rain, thunder and lightning" or all kinds of sugar-coated shells, I still maintained the firm belief of a "proletarian", stuck to my heart, adhered to my principles, never forgot my original intention, and always kept in mind the righteousness, integrity, and iron backbone in the spirit of Mr. Itabashi's "Bamboo and Stone", and put it into practice:

Insist that the green mountains are not relaxed, and the roots are in the broken rocks.

Thousands of blows are still strong, and the wind blows southeast and northwest.

Fearless.

Generous and dashing.

Resolutely.

It seems that I really had the excellent potential of being a Communist Party member at that time.

To be honest, in fact, I was very reluctant in my heart, and I didn't want to "abandon" them, but in order to see my sister for the first time, I still "resolutely" watched them leave me.

Waiting, waiting, my sister came home after a three-year absence.

There are also some firecrackers prepared at home for the Chinese New Year.

In order to save money, I dismantled all of them into a small cannon, put it in my coat pocket, and waited for my sister to come back while setting off firecrackers in the corridor outside the door.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly a familiar and unfamiliar figure appeared at the end of the corridor.

Although I couldn't see her face clearly, and I couldn't tell who it was from the clothes, but all the possible factors such as blood relationship, quantum attraction, telepathy, etc., had caused the blood flow rate in my body to suddenly increase by more than three times, and I knew that it must be my sister!

With all my strength, I quickly ran to my sister and hugged her for a long time.

Enjoying the unique taste of my sister, I release the intimacy that has been suppressed in my heart for three years.

Then he suddenly regained his "male" sanity, dragged his sister's suitcase and ran home in a daze, shouting loudly as he ran:

My sister is back, my sister is back......

I'm afraid that others don't know.

I have a sister who is so proud!