The dumplings on the table were steaming, and Jiang Hao stood there, eagerly waiting for people to taste his masterpieces.

Tranquility looked at the table of rice balls, her heart was particularly moved, she didn't expect that as soon as she said it casually, he actually remembered it, and it was made into a finished product today, dazzling in front of her eyes.

It's a taste she's always missed, and she hasn't eaten it since she left home two years ago.

Everyone was standing, waiting for grandma to move the chopsticks, she was smiling with a red envelope in her hand, walking and laughing, and walked in from the outhouse.

"Come, come, come, come to receive red envelopes, grandma will give you New Year's red envelopes, I hope you all have a smooth 2008 year. With that, she stuffed the red envelope into Tranquility's hand.

Tranquility took the red envelope, looked at Jiang Hao on the side, a little overwhelmed, looking at the red envelope held by her grandmother in her hand, she didn't know whether to take it or not.

Jiang Hao saw the hesitation in her heart at a glance, and said to her with a smile: "Take it, borrow grandma's golden mouth, we will be safe in the new year!"

Liu Diandian was very happy with the red envelope, and kept jumping, dangling in front of Jiang Kai, as if he said that I have a red envelope, but you don't.

"Cut, don't shake it, grandma will give it to me later. Jiang Kai said to her unconvinced.

After each grandmother finished giving out a red envelope, she sat down at the table, she looked at the big and round rice balls on the table, stared at the rice balls with very strange eyes and said, "Who is sitting? What kind of rice balls are these?" Such a big one. ”

Because grandma doesn't like to eat glutinous food very much, she just tastes it superficially, but she didn't expect Jiang Hao's dumplings to be so large.

Tranquility took the chopsticks and divided the rice balls into two halves, half of which was sandwiched in her bowl and left for her grandmother.

Grandma looked at the flowers smiling on her face, which was even more pleasant than the arrival of this new year.

The fire in the stove was burning brightly, and there was the occasional sound of laughter, and I still remember every time I laughed when I was a child, my parents would sleep and say, "The laughter is because there are guests coming." ”

The pigeons are constantly frolicking, flying from branch to branch, leaping from the subject to the other, as if they are constantly shuttling and dancing.

Brother Jiang Kai Liu nodded the rice balls in his hand, sat outside and ate quietly.

"Do you all eat glutinous rice balls on the first morning of the first day of junior high school?" Jiang Kai looked at Liu Diandian and asked.

Liu nodded and smiled: "You have to eat tangyuan if you don't have a fix, but eating tangyuan was my favorite when I was a child." Liu nodded and replied with a smile.

Looking at the dumplings in the bowl, she suddenly recalled that when she was a child, what she looked forward to every year was the New Year, not only because there were new clothes to wear, but also because there were a lot of delicious foods to eat, so almost all the children in the village were looking forward to the New Year.

When I was a child in the countryside, the Chinese New Year was a day that everyone longed for

In her memory, when she was young, her family was very poor, and her mother was careful and economical, and she accumulated delicious food throughout the year, which she could only enjoy during the New Year.

At that time, the rural New Year, unlike the current city New Year's New Year, restaurants, hotels, and rural reunions, all chose to start Chinese New Year's Eve at two o'clock at noon.

Some delicacies have to be boiled the night before, such as pig's feet and kelp, which are stewed the night before, and they must be stewed in a pot full of pots.

Burn wood piece by piece in the stove, go against the fire before going to bed, put the unburned wood in the center of the stove, and then cover it with ash, so that the fire will not be extinguished, and the stove will be bright all night.

It is a custom in my hometown, which not only has the effect of stewing pig's feet over a slight fire, but also makes the soup more delicious, and also indicates that the coming year will be prosperous.

Every morning of the first day of the new year, her mother always gets up early in the morning, she first scoops the pig's feet and kelp in the pot into the pot again, and then boils all the pig's head bacon sausage and radish in a pot, after cooking, she has to take out the meat and put it in the basket to cool to be finely chopped, and then scoop the radish and soup into the pot, the purpose is to make the pot for her to make other delicacies.

Since childhood, there are many people in the family, there are six or seven brothers and sisters, everyone likes to eat crispy meat during the New Year, and every New Year, crispy meat is also a kind of food that every family must fry.

Every Chinese New Year, often to leave the tip of the base full of a basket of baskets, there are three or four pounds of weight, the dishes served on the table, are basically meat dishes, mainly fat pork, pig's head meat, dry crispy meat, sugar boiled meat, salt-fried meat, sausages, pig's feet kelp soup, many years to kill a chicken stew that they feed, the only thing missing is that there is more than this dish every year, that is because the family is poor, can not afford to buy fish.

Liu Diandian's mind was full of all kinds of delicacies from her childhood home, and the aftertaste soaked her whole body.

Jiang Kai doesn't like to eat glutinous food either, he only eats one glutinous rice ball, and he is in the kitchen hot the leftovers from yesterday, making egg fried rice for his grandmother.

The pigeon eggs, which are not big or small, are neatly and orderly put in the basin by the grandmother, and she usually can't eat them alone, because too many pigeons are laying eggs.

Jiang Hao was like a child, holding the firecrackers that had been prepared for a long time, gently wiping them on the ground, and they would explode with a "bang" after a few smokes.

With a loud sound, the pigeons that had been strolling on the ground were frightened and scattered in all directions, making a cry of "Gu Gu".

They waved their white wings and flew in the air to their heart's content, adding a different beauty to this cold winter.

On the pine and cypress opposite, there are still hanging popsicles, each with its own shape.

Tranquility stood in front of the door, quietly looking at the dense pine and cypress trees opposite, which had lost its original green color, and all that was left was a silvery white patch.

She silently thought in her heart that if there was an afterlife, she would also be willing to be such a pine and cypress tree, and there would be no posture of joy and sorrow.

Half of it is peaceful in the dust, and half of it can also fly freely in the wind and rain, in the snow and ice.

It is said that every festive season, as long as you can still be quiet, as long as you can be quiet, do what you like, for your family, for the people around you who have been worried about yourself, quietly protect yourself, is the only best explanation.

It's over, 2007 has finally passed, in the past year, she has experienced too much, and she has grown a lot, maybe there will be more people in the future, she doesn't want to part, more things, she doesn't want to happen, but for this unknown future, she has to work hard to move forward.

This winter is very cold, but the people of this winter make her very warm, when she can't move forward with hardship, when she is confused and incomprehensible, when she is anxious because of her father's medical expenses...... There was always someone who came out and blocked all the wind and frost for her.