On Chinese New Year's Eve, every family was busy.

Killing chickens and fish, buying fireworks, writing Spring Festival couplets, busy and happy, this land full of local flavor is filled with a strong New Year's flavor everywhere.

Zhang Yunqi remembers hearing a colleague say in his previous life that the current New Year is not as good as a year, and sometimes he feels that the Spring Festival is not as lively as Christmas.

This point of view cannot be said to be completely unreasonable, after all, young people don't kill pigs, don't smoke meat, don't write Spring Festival couplets, and don't keep the New Year, and the old people can't do these things anymore.

Therefore, it is normal for the future generations to have a light taste.

But the flavor of the 90s is really strong.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, every family is busy preparing for the upcoming New Year. The same goes for the old Zhang family.

Mama Zhang prepares the ingredients for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the kitchen.

Zhang Yunfeng was washing the tractor outside the yard.

Zhang Chunlan washes clothes, cleans up the house, and tidies up the house.

Zhang Yunqi took the fifth child Zhang Xiaoxiao to Longwan Town to buy Spring Festival couplets and firecrackers.

It's Chinese New Year's Eve, and most of the service-oriented industries in the town have closed, but there are still quite a lot of small vendors selling things, especially those selling Spring Festival and firecrackers, and it is estimated that they will be busy until three or four o'clock in the afternoon before they pack up and go home for the New Year.

Zhang Yunqi bought a pair of Spring Festival couplets and then went to buy fireworks.

This is what Zhang Xiaoxiao looks forward to the most.

Early this morning, this little girl pestered him to come to town, in fact, she has always been envious of watching others play with firecrackers, no problem, the family used to be poor, every cent has to be broken in half to spend, buy fireworks for children to cultivate childhood fun? is not so idle.

Now there is no shortage of this money, and it is not a matter of what the little girl wants.

The starry sky, the cannon thrown in the hand, the cannon rubbed, the most common play cannon by children, colorful beads, butterfly flowers. Zhang Yunqi bought two big bags for the fifth Zhang Xiaoxiao, and then picked two 10,000-ringing earth red, and ran home with Zhang Xiaoxiao, who was happy to fly.

As soon as he got home, Zhang Yunqi saw Zhang Xiaonan coming.

Zhang Xiaonan stood in the yard and chatted with Zhang Yunfeng, who was washing the tractor, she took the wooden bucket from Zhang Yunfeng's hand from time to time to help fetch water, Zhang Yunqi did not feel the slightest surprise at this, and posted the couplet after saying hello.

Since Zhang Xiaonan returned to the village in the early years, she ran to Lao Zhang's house every three or five days, she told Zhang's mother that Chunlan was going to take the high school entrance examination next year, and she found some internal high school entrance examination review materials for Chunlan to tutor, but Zhang Yunqi found that every time Zhang Xiaonan finished tutoring Chunlan, he was not in a hurry to leave, but looked for his eldest brother Zhang Yunfeng to pull for a long time.

In addition, Zhang Yunqi met Zhang Xiaonan in school several times last semester, and as long as the two talked, she would definitely mention her eldest brother Zhang Yunfeng.

Although Zhang Xiaonan and his eldest brother have played together since childhood, their relationship is extraordinary, even if the eldest brother dropped out of school after graduating from primary school and returned to the village to farm, and Zhang Xiaonan became a public teacher in the junior high school of the city No. 1 Middle School with her own efforts, but she is still as good to the eldest brother as before, and all signs show that there is "that kind of relationship" between Zhang Xiaonan and the eldest brother.

From the bottom of his heart, he really hopes that his eldest brother can marry a woman like Zhang Xiaonan as a daughter-in-law, Zhang Xiaonan is good-looking, knowledgeable, and speaks and behaves decently, but he also knows that this is very difficult, and the fact that the two were not together in their previous life is iron-clad proof.

His brother is a farmer, and Zhang Xiaonan is a public teacher, which can be regarded as a golden phoenix who flew out of the nest. The most important thing is that Zhang Xiaonan and her son Zhang Guorui are the village secretary of Yunxi Village, and this is a very powerful figure in Yunxi Village, and her second uncle is a cadre in the Jiangchuan City Education Bureau, which is the pride of the people of Yunxi Village.

Thinking like this, Zhang Yunqi is a little optimistic about the feelings of the eldest brother, but it is difficult for others to grasp the matter of feelings, he is not good at saying anything now, he has to wait for the eldest brother to express his attitude first, and then see how to deal with it.

After pasting the couplet, Zhang Yunqi boiled water to take a bath.

He doesn't have a bathroom at home, so he has to boil water to wash in the bedroom. The trouble is a little troublesome, but the Chinese New Year's Eve bath is the most important thing of the year.

After taking off his clothes, Zhang Yunqi rubbed soap while looking at his figure. After a long period of exercise, his arms have become thicker, and the abdominal muscles in his abdomen have also protruded one by one, although he still looks very thin because his body is pumping, but at least it is not thin ribs.

Well... The skinny ones are very shapely, and the birds are getting bigger.

It seems that adequate nutrition during the growth period is indeed a great benefit to physical development, and we must continue to strengthen training in the next semester, and we must lay a solid foundation for the body. The body is the capital of the revolution, how to pick up girls after you don't have the capital.

In order for the bird to grow, the necessary massage is a must.

Rub it and wash it with soap.

Zhang Yunqi faintly saw the figure of the eldest brother and Zhang Xiaonan in the yard through the blurred glass window, and he hummed leisurely: "I am a little bird, I want to fly, but I can't fly high." I'm looking for a warm embrace, and that's not too much to ask. ”

It's so cool to take a shower.

After taking a bath, Zhang Yunqi handled the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

Now everyone in the family is good at his craftsmanship and likes to eat the dishes he makes, and he does not pay attention to the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, does not require luxury, but wants to be thick, fat and humane.

Zhang Yunqi specially bought a large blue fish, the body of the fish is salted, and the fish head is used to stew soup, which is called more than every year; the Chinese New Year's Eve meal must have a braised hoof, and it must be stewed until crispy, it is best to use pork bones to cut it, and the lean meat is striped; wine-stuffed round rice cake, accompanied by home-pickled dried radish, is to climb step by step, reunion.

More happiness, less right and wrong.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, when the reunion dinner was about to be ready, Zhang Yunqi went out to set off firecrackers.

Other provinces don't know, but this is the tradition of Yunxi Village for the New Year, before eating Chinese New Year's Eve, a firecracker should be released, called farewell; and a firecracker will come again if it is not lit on the first day of the new year, which is called welcoming the new year. Combining it is to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, hoping that the new year will have a good omen.

In the past, this kind of grand firecracker ceremony was carried out by his father Zhang Liushun, and later handed over to his eldest brother Zhang Yunfeng, but this year, Zhang Yunfeng handed it over to Zhang Yunqi.

Zhang Yunqi came to the gate of the courtyard with a 10,000 firecrackers, took out a lighter and lit it, the crackling firecrackers and his sister Zhang Xiaoxiao's happy screams intertwined, which was regarded as a resignation and was about to usher in the new year.

Vientiane renewed in 1993!

Unlike other people's children, what Zhang Yunqi was most afraid of in the past was the New Year, red envelopes were not to be considered, new clothes were rarely bought, and what hit his self-esteem even more was that every time on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, when it came to this time when thousands of families were reunited around the fire to watch the Spring Festival Gala, his family had to be worried about countless creditors coming to collect debts.

This year's Chinese New Year's Eve no longer has to be frightened, on the contrary, it is happy, and the whole family has changed into new clothes, happily, waiting for the Spring Festival Gala and the sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

When eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the mother of the family, Zhang's mother, stood with a wine glass and said: "In the past, the first glass of wine at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was raised by your father, he is not there, just let me come, the family has experienced a lot of things over the years, but finally the bitterness has come, and I will not ask for any wealth and nobility in the future, and the whole family will be safe and secure in the new year." ”

Everyone took their glasses and drank them all.

The wine is home-brewed plum wine, which has a rich and sweet taste and does not choke on the throat.

After the first drink, everyone ate their own wine.

Zhang Yunqi and Zhang Yunfeng brothers chatted while drinking, Zhang's mother didn't eat much, holding chopsticks to clip chicken legs and various good dishes for her children, Chunlan was eating while watching the warm-up program of the Spring Festival Gala, Zhang Xiaoxiao held chicken legs in one hand and Coke in the other, and her small mouth was bulging, and she said to Zhang Yunqi vaguely: "Hurry up! Hurry up! Second brother took me to set off fireworks." ”

Zhang Yunqi said with a smile: "I haven't received the red envelope yet, what's the hurry." ”

"There is a red envelope?" Zhang Xiaoxiao's eyes widened, and even Chunlan turned her head.

This scene made Zhang Yunqi very sad, the younger sisters in the family were so old, they had never seen red envelopes, so he said: "I don't know until twelve o'clock." ”

So there is.

Zhang Xiaoxiao is small but a ghost elf, she happily jumped to Zhang Yunqi's side to entangle, saying what to say Wishing you prosperity, bring the red envelope! The family laughed, and the festive atmosphere of the New Year filled the dilapidated house of the old Zhang family.

After drinking a few glasses of wine in front of him, Zhang Yunqi was dizzy and his heart was warm, he looked at the smiling faces of his family, and suddenly felt that this simple and harmonious family-style reunion was the root of "New Year's flavor".

The so-called New Year's flavor is actually a human flavor.