At nine o'clock in the morning, Xu Wangqiu took a bus to Xiuying Studio and knocked on the door of Su Zhensheng's house. Su Zhensheng was not at home, and went to the factory to be busy with the later stage of "Mom Loves Me Again". Xu Wangqiu, under the leadership of Su Bai, came to the recording workshop of Xiuying Studio to find Su Zhensheng.

"Mom Loves Me Again" started shooting in early December, just finished a few days ago, and is busy making a dialogue double. The so-called dialogue double film is that the movie has lines, but the music and sound effects have not been mixed. Since the beginning of sound films, China has used simultaneous recording, but it was changed to dubbing during the movement for various reasons. Now that the movement has just ended, many filmmakers have not turned the corner, and the current movies are basically dubbed, and the same is true of "Mom Is Loving Me Once".

When Xu Wangqiu and Su Bai walked into the recording studio, the heroine Pan Hong and the child who played Wei Guo were dubbing in the recording studio. Just looking at the dedication of Pan Hong and the young actors, Xu Wangqiu knew that "Mom Loves Me Again" would definitely be a hit.

Su Zhensheng immediately smiled when he saw Xu Wangqiu, pulled a chair, beckoned Xu Wangqiu to sit down, and then kept saying that "Mom Loves Me Again" encountered various problems from preparation to filming. The script of "Mom Loves Me Again" is excellent, and the actors are also excellent, Su Zhensheng is very confident in this drama and believes that it can be made into a masterpiece that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

The two chatted all over the world, and soon talked about dubbing, Xu Wangqiu said: "Master, you should use simultaneous recording, and simultaneous recording is definitely better than dubbing." I'm going to make a movie after the new year, and we're recording at the same time. ”

Su Zhensheng knew Xu Wangqiu's level, but after all, he was only 16 years old, and he had just studied for a semester, and he actually started directing movies, he felt a little incredible: "Your school is quite bold, and you will be a director after only one semester." ”

Xu Wangqiu said modestly: "I didn't shoot this movie alone, I made it with Teacher Xie Fei, and it was co-directed by the two of us. With Mr. Xie Fei filming with me, the school was naturally relieved. ”

Su Zhen declared what was going on, but Xu Wangqiu was so young, and the school still valued him quite a lot if he could let him direct with others, and reminded: "You have to cooperate with Xie Fei and learn from Xie Fei well." ”

Su Bai felt that his father was too underestimating Xu Wangqiu, and couldn't help but say: "Dad, Wangqiu is the real director of this movie, and Teacher Xie Fei is just a name." It's just that Wangqiu is too young and has never made a movie, if he directs alone, the school will definitely not be at ease, so he found Teacher Xie Fei and co-directed with Teacher Xie Fei. ”

Su Zhensheng was taken aback: "You stinky boy!"

Xu Wangqiu slapped his master's ass: "The main thing is that you teach well, Master, and you also have a high prestige, and when others hear that I am your apprentice and I want to make a movie, they immediately agree." Xu Wangqiu saw that Su Zhensheng was about to curse, and explained with a smile: "After I wrote the script, I drew all the movie shots, and used the school camera to shoot a movie clip. When the leaders of the school and the Magic Shadow Studio saw the footage I drew and the footage I filmed, they knew what the movie would look like, so they naturally agreed. ”

Su Zhensheng heard that Xu Wangqiu had all the shots out, and nodded secretly, thinking that although this kid was giggling all day long, he was extremely down-to-earth, and it took hundreds of scenes in a movie to draw them all, and ordinary people would never be able to do it. However, Su Zhensheng still said seriously: "Since you are a real director, you must be even more attentive, how many people have been assistant directors all their lives, and they have never had the opportunity to direct, you must cherish this opportunity!"

Xu Wangqiu said confidently: "Don't worry, Master, I will make you proud to have such an excellent apprentice!"

The New Year is getting closer and closer, and every household in Rongcheng is purchasing New Year's goods. Since the parents did not have a holiday, the task of taking New Year's goods fell to Xu Wangqiu and Xu Wangbei. There is also Su Bai who purchases with the brothers and sisters of the Xu family, and the reason for her help is very simple, Wangqiu will not buy things, I, who is the senior sister, will not help him!

The three of them went to Dongdajie to buy couplets, to Yanshikou to buy preserved pig's heads, and to the grain store to buy wine and rice...... Although many things were still supplied by ticket during the Spring Festival in 1979, they were much better than previous years in terms of variety and quantity. The faces of the residents of Rongcheng are full of joy, and everyone is full of confidence in the future and believes that life will get better and better.

In the north, people are accustomed to eating dumplings on the Chinese New Year's Eve, and Rongcheng is accustomed to eating dumplings on the first day of the New Year. It is particularly easy to eat glutinous rice balls in later generations, you can buy glutinous rice balls and glutinous rice balls to wrap yourself, or you can buy wrapped frozen glutinous rice balls. However, in this era, there are none, and if you want to eat glutinous rice balls, you have to rely on your own labor, and you have to buy your own rice to grind. Xichuan people are accustomed to calling the rice used for cooking rice, and the rice used to make glutinous rice during the Spring Festival is called wine rice.

After the rice is bought, it is washed and soaked in water for a few days, and when the rice grains become round like a catalyst, you can put on the grinding plate and start pushing the rice balls with joy. Many families in Rongcheng have that kind of small hand-pushed stone mill, which is hewn from green bluestone. However, not every household has a stone mill, and there are often only a few in a building.

In this era, the neighborhood relationship was relatively good, and everyone could use each other's things, and the same was true for stone mills. Two or three days before the Chinese New Year, the family that owns the stone mill will move the stone mill out to wash off the dust and dust for the neighbors to use first. The stone mill would go around like a relay race from house to house, and the last one would often use the master of the stone mill.

The same is true for Xu Wangqiu's family, who waited until other people's families ran out before they started to push the rice balls. Xu Wangqiu's three brothers and sisters carried a stool, carried the soaked wine and rice, and came to the courtyard with a stone mill.

Xu Wangchuan set up the stool, put the stone mill in the center of the stool, and prepared to push the rice balls. Xu Wangqiu was about to scoop the wine rice with a spoon, but Xu Wangbei shouted in a daze: "Second brother, let me come! I'll add wine and rice!"

Xu Wangqiu smiled and handed the spoon to Xu Wangbei, and advised: "Add rice slowly, add too much rice too quickly, the powder particles are large, and you have to grind it again, otherwise it won't be delicious." ”

Xu Wangbei felt that Xu Wangqiu was underestimating himself, and protested: "Second brother, I know!

Xu Wangqiu reached out and touched Xu Wangbei's head, and chuckled: "Okay, good, our little beauty in Wangbei is the smartest!"

Xu Wangbei scooped up a spoonful of snow-white wine rice, poured it into the grinding heart, and shouted happily: "Big brother, you can push it!"

Xu Wangchuan smiled at Xu Wangbei, held the grinding handle, and slowly pushed the grinding disc. In the sound of Huo Huo's rotating grinding disc, snow-white rice milk gurgled out along the edge of the mill. Xu Wangbei sat in the helper's position, pouring the rice into the grinding heart with a spoon, Xu Wangchuan pushed it round and round, and Xu Wangqiu talked to them beside him. In this way, the stone mill made a hoho sound in the uniform rotation, and the snow-white and delicate rice milk continued to flow out, flowing all over the grinding groove and into the barrel.

Pushing rice balls seems simple, but because of the stickiness of sake rice, it is very difficult to push, and it requires skillful rather than brute force, and it is undoubtedly a long project to grind ten catties of sake rice into a pulp. Xu Wangchuan pushed for a while, and Xu Wangqiu let him rest and change himself to battle. Xu Wangchuan's hand was indeed a little sour, so he gave up his position to Xu Wangqiu. The brothers took two turns and pushed for nearly three hours, and finally pushed a barrel of sake rice into rice milk.

The three brothers and sisters carried the bucket, the stool carried the stool, and the stone grinder walked home laughing. Xu Wangqiu felt that it was a special pleasure to push the rice ball noodles with his brothers and sisters, and make the rice balls together as a family.

Back at home, Xu Wangchuan packed the ground rice milk in a cloth bag, hung it up and hung it in the air, and put a basin below to receive water. After straining out the water, he poured the rice ball flour on a dustpan and dried it slowly.

By the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the rice ball powder was completely sunburned, and the snow white was as delicate as the girl's snow-white skin. Because of this, the people of Rongcheng use powder to refer to beautiful girls, saying that "looking at fans on the street" is to go to the street to see beautiful girls.

For the Chinese, the Chinese New Year is a symbol of family reunion, which has been passed down from generation to generation and has been integrated into the blood of the entire nation. After the Xinhai Revolution, the Republic of China government tried to cancel the Lunar New Year, proposing December 31 as Chinese New Year's Eve, January 1 as the New Year, and January 15 as the Lantern Festival, requiring that "no holidays are allowed for the abolition of the New Year, nor under other pretenses." As a result, it was strongly opposed and accused of abandoning traditional Chinese culture. At the beginning of 1934, the authorities had to admit: "With regard to the old calendar year, except for the official organs, it is not appropriate to interfere too much with folk customs." "In September 1949, at the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, it was decided that the first month of the lunar calendar should be designated as the "Spring Festival" and that there would be a three-day holiday for the people to celebrate the New Year happily.

In 1967, the country began to "break the four olds", many customs were canceled, a revolutionary Spring Festival was required, people were mobilized not to go home, and "grasp the revolution and promote production" on the spot, and many factories had to continue to work. However, with the end of the movement, the New Year's tradition returned to the lives of the masses. On January 17 this year, the People's Daily published targeted letters from the masses: "Why Don't We Have a Spring Festival Holiday" and "Let Farmers Have a "Stable Year"", indicating the government's attitude towards resuming the Spring Festival vacation system.

Xie Chunhong was busy in the kitchen early in the morning, and the pots and pans were ping-ponging. Originally, the factory still had to go to work today, but Xie Chunhong directly asked for leave, and it was important to cook Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for the children at work. Xu Wangqiu's three brothers and sisters were not idle, they helped their mother, Xu Wangchuan killed chickens and fish, Xu Wangqiu cut meat and vegetables, and wiping the table and arranging the vegetables was Xu Wangbei's task. In the afternoon, Xu Zhuwen got off work early, Xie Chunhong took a back seat, and the job of being in charge of the spoon, which requires both physical strength and skill, fell to him.

At about five o'clock in the afternoon, under the command of Xie Chunhong, Xu Wangqiu and the others put the dishes and chopsticks, put the cold dishes, and then served the hot dishes one by one. The family sat around the round table, and the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner officially began. The family ate a sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, talked about all kinds of interesting things, and laughed constantly, and even the cold winter became warm.

More than an hour later, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner came to an end. Once the tables are cleared, it's time to hand out the money, which is the most longed-for time of the year for the little ones. Xu Zhuwen gave Xu Wangqiu and Xu Wangbei 10 brand-new dime bills each; Xu Wangchuan Xu Wangbei gave Xu Wangbei a brand-new 1 yuan, but did not give Xu Wangqiu because Xu Wangqiu now earns more money than him; Xu Wangqiu took out a brand-new 10 yuan and gave it to Xu Wangbei, so that she could buy what she liked when she saw it.

Xu Wangqiu looked at the time, it was almost half past seven, so he put on his coat and went out with his family. Xu Zhuwen took Xie Chunhong, Xu Wangchuan took Xu Wangbei, Xu Wangqiu rode a car by himself, and the family went towards Xiuying Studio.