In my hometown, every Chinese New Year, adults and children go their separate ways, and they all have the same entertainment: gambling. Yes, we look at gambling as entertainment, and small gambling is enjoyable.

There are several ways to play: playing mahjong, fighting landlords, 28, bullfighting, and fried golden flowers, which depends on the number of people and preferences.

Our stronghold is different every year, I remember that when I was in junior high school, it was Mao Qing's family, and when I went to high school, Mao Hao's family built a new house, and no one lived in it for the time being, so the stronghold was transferred to Mao Hao's house, and now Mao Shun's family has built a new house, so this year's stronghold naturally moved to Mao Shun's house. I'm talking about the main strongholds, and sometimes there are so many people that there will be several sub-strongholds, so we go back and forth.

I came to Mao Shun's house, and they were all already playing. As a means of communication for the New Year, gambling seems to have become a tradition, and at the poker table, we talk about the changes of the year while playing.

I found that not only me, their lives outside have also changed, several of us are almost at the same time in the college entrance examination, but also at the same time, the difference is that I choose to mix with the society, they choose to repeat, and then the college entrance examination is not ideal, simply applied for the college volunteer, as a result of the 08 summer vacation, Yinli went to Inner Mongolia, Dahe and Mao Qing went to Hunan, Mao Shun took the exam better, in the provincial capital Hefei, Mao Hao went to Shanghai, and I went to Suzhou. I said that they were all so ruthless, and they ran so far away the first time they left the house, and it seemed that they were suffocated in their hometown.

When I asked them how their college life was going, they all said in unison: helpless. I also have a deep understanding of this, just like a lyric that says: The outside world is wonderful, and the outside world is helpless.

When we were playing, Wen Yu called me, I suddenly thought, I haven't made a phone call to Wen Yu since I took the train, although the time is not long, but I still feel that I shouldn't forget this stubble, I answer the phone.

"Hey"

"Hey, Chen Zhuo"

"Well, Wenyu, have you arrived home?"

"And ask me, why didn't you call me, are you home?"

"It's early, and I'm playing. ”

Wen Yu was unhappy and said, "It's good for you to say nothing when you arrive, I've been waiting for your call? ”

I ran to the side and whispered, "No, I'm not calling you, don't be angry." ”

She said, "I'm not angry, I'm almost angry, if I hadn't called you, you said, would you have forgotten me?

I said, "How can I, daughter-in-law, I can't do without you, just like a fish can't do without water." ”

She snorted and laughed: "You're poor." ”

I said, "Daughter-in-law, you see that I can't get out of my side yet, I'll hang up first, and I'll call you when I'm free." ”

She said, "Well, don't forget to think about me." ”

I said, "I think you're going crazy." ”

She said, "Say another nice word, and I'll hang it." ”

I said, "You make me." ”

She said, "Get out of the way, I sound so awkward, hang up, you can play." ”

I said, "Okay." ”

A few of them were urging me, and I quickly hung up the phone.

Mao Hao said: "Who, so mysterious. ”

I said, "Who knows, it's a mistake." ”

They'll laugh and say I'm too good at pretending.

There may be too much to say, we kept talking, each wanting to express how we felt about the new life, I didn't care about my shriveled wallet, and I lost 400 yuan like that.

I said, "Aren't we playing too much? ”

Mao Qing: "You don't look at the cards and throw money into them, I'm sorry for you if you don't lose." ”

I said, "Damn, let you win, lend me some." ”

As he spoke, he took a hundred yuan from him, "I'll give it back to you later." ”

Mao Qing is a good man among us, he has no temper, his temperament has not changed since he was a child, and he was born a few months earlier than us, so everyone affectionately calls him eldest brother. Mao Qing has a younger brother, plus five cousins, because there are many brothers in his father's generation, and every year on the first day of the Lunar New Year, he will lead those younger brothers to visit the neighbors for the New Year.

Mao Qing said to me, "Then you have to wait until you win." ”

Next, I bet so casually, and I actually recovered the capital in the middle of the night, gave Mao Qing a hundred, and said, "Give you a tip." ”

We couldn't get enough of it, so we changed the venue to Mao Shun's bedroom, the living room was too cold, we got into the quilt one by one, it still continued, we were ready to keep the New Year, stay until dawn and then stop. This is not the first time, I have had this habit for as long as I can remember, and it has been in official parlance for almost ten years.

We played until more than three o'clock in the morning, and we couldn't stay up, when we heard the sound of firecrackers, so we broke up in a beat.

I remember when I was a child, the winter was very cold, the water in the pond froze into a thick layer, and we all went up to skate and couldn't step on it, but now I can't see that kind of scene, I think the winter is still a little colder for the New Year.

To tell the truth, the New Year is the atmosphere, a lively and auspicious, as I get older, I can't find the kind of euphoria of the New Year, but only add a little sadness in it, I thought I could feel better if I didn't think about it, but whenever I was alone, I could still vaguely feel a trace of inexplicable loss, although it was only a few minutes, although it was not visible on the surface, but, I could still feel it.

In the morning, everyone else went door-to-door to pay New Year's greetings, but I was sleeping until the afternoon.

On the first day of the new year, I slept like this, and when I asked how many of them, without exception, they were all the same as me, and I texted Mao Qing to ask if he would continue at night?

A little later, Yinli also called and said that he would go to his house for dinner in the evening, and everyone would go and ask me not to eat at home, and I said okay.

Yinli is two years older than me, we all call him uncle in terms of generation, and he plays together when he is young, and he has no habit of calling uncle, so he calls his name until now, it seems that I will change it in the future, otherwise there are no rules.

Uncle Yinli would bring us together for dinner every year in the name of seniority, and we were happy to do so.

In the evening, we went into Yinli's house in twos and threes, and I also brought a bottle of liquor.

The table was full of plates, and it was so hearty, and we sat down pushing and shoving each other, how many times has this been?

We are all very united and friendly, and it smells of home. Usually we have to go to other places for life to fight for each other, and the friends we have made are also interests, and one day we will naturally lose contact if we don't get in touch, unlike our group of friends, we are friends who treat each other sincerely, and we are the beauty of life, no matter how far away we are, we will be close to our hometown.

Yinli said: "In the future, we will get together once a year, and no one is allowed to be absent." ”

Everyone shouted together: "Okay, drink." ”

After a while, the table was full of cups and plates.

At this time, someone proposed to fry the golden flower, so they all rushed to Mao Shun's house, this is the battle and until midnight, and the next few days are spent in this way, which is really decadent.