024. We all have a home
Cracking sound!
It's Chinese New Year!
Red lanterns are hung high, auspicious couplets are attached to the door, and people are dressed in new clothes.
In the yard, my brother lit a 10,000 firecrackers, the cannon was sandwiched with a small cannon, and the red confetti flew around.
In the kitchen, my mother and grandmother are busy with Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, fried sweet potato balls, fried noodle fruits, fried small fish, fried pork, marinated pig's trotters, stewed lamb... The aroma of happiness filled the Gu family's courtyard.
This kind of taste was only experienced by Gu Meng when his father was alive.
After the death of his father, the Gu family's situation deteriorated, and it was a luxury to have a bowl of fried meat during the Chinese New Year.
Now there is a table full of meat, vegetarian, hot, cold, and dry soups, more than a dozen, and a big table is full.
"Grandpa, grandma, grandma, brother, happy New Year!"
Gu Meng raised his wine glass and toasted to his relatives, looking at the relatives sitting in a group, his eyes turned red for a moment.
At this time in the previous life, my brother had an accident, my mother was sick in bed, and there were red lantern couplets outside, firecrackers rang out, laughter, and there was no joyful atmosphere at home.
He spent money to buy a table of dishes, his mother just glanced at it, and then covered her mouth and cried, Gu Meng knew that she remembered her brother again, the family should have been reunited for the New Year, why was there one after another?
The dishes were cold, the night was late, and Gu Meng drank a lot of wine alone.
The night, he remembered, was particularly long and difficult.
He couldn't get drunk, he couldn't sleep, he carried a sharp knife, held back a stomach of hatred, rode a dilapidated bicycle, rode from the county to Luling Town in one breath, and came to the door of Zhao's house, he wanted to take revenge, he wanted to kill a few Zhao family members, so that they could also experience the taste of life and death.
But he didn't break in.
He forgot why he turned back.
Is he too cowardly?
Or do you think of your mother who is sick in bed?
Really forgot!
He returned to the rental house in the county overnight, and his mother fell ill again.
He spent the first day of the Lunar New Year in the hospital, and he stayed in front of his mother's bedside, and he was worried that if his mother was gone again, he would be the only one left in the world.
After a few years of hard work, the mother was gone, and in the New Year, he was always alone, even though he was accompanied by someone.
"Miwa, what's wrong with you?"
Gu's mother asked with concern when she saw her son's eyes closed tightly and her jaw kept shaking.
Gu Meng narrowed his eyes, shook the empty wine glass in his hand and smiled: "This wine is too spicy!"
"Who wants you to buy wine outside, this Moutai is not as good as our local wine!" Gu's mother smiled.
"Grandma is right!"
No matter how good the wine is, it can't compare to the hometown wine!
Last time, he promised to buy good wine for Defu Ye, and when he came back for the New Year, he picked up two boxes from the city, one box of six bottles, and two boxes only cost a hundred yuan, and the thief was cheap!
"This wine is very good, the taste is mellow and soft, and the fragrance is full!" said my grandfather after a drink.
"Haha, Grandpa, if you like it, drink a few more glasses, there are still several bottles at home!" Gu Meng began to persuade wine.
"Don't let your grandfather drink too much!" Grandma admonished.
"It's okay, it's the New Year today, there are no taboos! Brother, let's drink it too, compare whose alcohol is bigger!"
"Hey, hey, okay!"
Gu Yong drinks a lot, drinking is like drinking water, he is not drunk when he drinks it, Gu's mother is worried that drinking will hurt his brain, so he has not been allowed to drink more, but today is the New Year, it doesn't matter, just be happy.
After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, my grandfather was drunk and went to bed early.
My mother and grandmother stood by the brazier, talking about the past and looking forward to the new year, always with a peaceful smile on their faces.
Brother Gu Yong took the newly bought radio and listened to the radio Peking Opera with a smile, the sound of the electric current, accompanied by the babbling tone, Gu Meng couldn't understand it, and his brother shouldn't understand it either, because his father used to love to listen to it, maybe he understood.
Gu Meng walked out of the hall, firecrackers roared outside, and the laughter of children could be heard everywhere.
Out of the yard, looking from afar, under the bright moon, on the stone arch bridge, there is a beautiful figure wandering at the bridge.
He walked over.
"Zhao Jia, when did you come, why didn't you go home?"
Zhao Jia lowered her head and didn't speak, she was wearing a bright red down jacket, and her face was red from the cold wind.
"Let's go! Grandma will definitely be very happy to see you!"
"Really?"
Zhao Jia looked at him with a smile in his eyes.
Gu Meng scratched his head, "Grandma has always said that I hope to have a daughter like you, beautiful, diligent and sensible, it is better for you to be Grandma's goddaughter!"
Zhao Jia's eyes narrowed into two crescents, "Do you want me to be Aunt Fang's goddaughter?"
"If you want to, I'll be willing!"
"I'm a year older than you, call Sister Listen!"
"Ugh!"
Gu Meng laughed and pushed her shoulder: "Let's go, let's go, this bridge is going to collapse, don't stand on it more!"
Zhao Jia picked the corners of her lips and followed him across the bridge.
"Come and see, Brother Xiaomeng is marrying the bride!"
"Oh, the bride is in!"
"The bride is so beautiful!"
The two walked side by side, Gu Meng held his head high and was beaming, Zhao Jia was wearing red clothes, her cheeks were red, and some little birds were clinging to people, didn't she look like a bride?
The little ones in the neighborhood saw it and shouted loudly.
"Brother Xiaomeng, I want to eat candy!"
"Brother Xiaomeng, get candy quickly!"
"Haha, if you want to eat candy, come with me!"
Surrounded by a group of children, the two walked into the courtyard.
Gu's mother looked out curiously, and when she saw Zhao Jia, she immediately raised her eyebrows, and pulled Zhao Jia into the house.
Gu Meng took a plate of White Rabbit toffee, soft and hard candy, and a few small firecrackers and distributed them to the children in the yard.
The children were bought and laughed more and more cheerfully.
The sound of crackling firecrackers sounded in the courtyard again, and the 85-year-old New Year was ignited.
The radio said that the Spring Festival Gala on the 30th night did not do well.
This year is the Year of the Ox, and the opening show is "Hundred Monkeys Welcome Spring", Monkey King grabbed the C position, the Bull Demon King was unhappy, and the actor who played Monkey King hit the railing.
There is no heating in the workers' gymnasium, the actors are freezing like monkeys, and everyone says that this year is not the Year of the Monkey, why are they all monkeys.
The program arrangement was boring and procrastinating, a party lasted for six hours, and I was cold and hungry and couldn't go to the toilet, and the audience sat and scolded my mother.
There is also a preparatory committee that has no money, so it raises funds from the people, issues commemorative coins, and conducts lottery activities, but the first-prize motorcycle is missing, and the cross talk master Ma Ji is mistaken for a prison guard and steals.
The famous actor Chen Jing studied abroad for four years, and said 'back to China' instead of 'returning to the motherland' on the Spring Festival Gala, which caused the first generation of trolls to be collectively staggered, from letters and newspapers to radio and television, the momentum was overwhelming, much more terrifying than the current water army.
A Spring Festival Gala, full of chicken feathers.
Fortunately, it's all gone.
Gu Meng didn't have the heart to deal with those chicken feathers, I heard that the Zhao family had increased the investment in the purchase of gastrodia, and the price of gastrodia in the town had risen to six cents, and Gu Meng wanted to continue to take advantage of it, so he had to increase investment.
The first two are bad news and one is good news.
After the Third Plenary Session of the 11 th CPC Central Committee, the reform of the rural economic system began, which made hundreds of millions of peasants rich, and this reform achieved unprecedented success.
Now that the country is ready to start implementing the reform of the urban economic system, the future economic policy will become more and more open and inclusive, and the future motherland will be better and better, and people will sing about the new era.
Gu Meng is very happy, the policy is a little more lenient, the step can be bigger, I believe there will be a good harvest in the coming year!
Listening to the radio, he followed the announcer and read "Believe in the Future" on his index finger.
When the cobwebs mercilessly seized my hearth.
When the smoke of ashes sighs the sorrow of poverty.
I still stubbornly lay out the ashes of disappointment.
Write with beautiful snowflakes: Believe in the future.
When my purple grapes turn into late autumn dew.
When my flowers, snuggle in the feelings of others
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