At half past nine, the lights are bright, and children are everywhere walking the streets and alleys to pay New Year's greetings in every house.

Dressed in new clothes, they all had tiger heads, carried red lanterns, and under the leadership of a few older boys, they went to the homes of wealthy people to ask for candy and change, and went straight to Fang Ning's house.

After knocking on the door outside the fence, gongs and drums were beaten, little fire dragons were danced to greet the New Year, and children with sweet mouths shouted pleasant words such as 'Chinese New Year's Eve for the Red Year' to the villa.

The grandmother took out candy and biscuits for them, and saw the children of all sizes looking at each other, knowing that they still wanted change, so she took out the change that had been prepared for them and gave them the change, and the children left in a pleasing voice, leaving a place of liveliness.

Their villa building has no neighbors on the left and right, and it looks quiet and elegant on weekdays.

However, during the Chinese New Year, it is far less lively than the residential buildings in the community, and there are no neighbors to visit, as for other relatives and friends, either in the countryside or in other places, except for the children who beg for candy, there are few other people who come to visit the New Year.

Fortunately, Fang Ning's family is not the kind of person who loves to be lively, and it is enough for the family to reunite and chat.

When it was almost the turning point, Feng Gong's sketches and Yao Beina's songs were playing on the TV, everyone's eyes were fixed on the big clock on the wall, counting down, as soon as the hour arrived, the sound of firecrackers and firecrackers outside was tacitly unified and reached the climax at this point.

The family went out and took out a few fireworks from the garage and went to the place where the crowd was concentrated, and a large group of people congratulated each other with smiles, "Happy New Year!"

"Happy New Year!" everyone's face was filled with a festive smile, and they said hello when they met everyone.

Fang Ning and his father also went to the vacated place to set off fireworks, there was already a lot of gunpowder smoke over there that had not yet dispersed, my father lit a few cannons, all of them flew to the top of the community, turning into brilliant brilliance, Fang Ning also lit a lot of fireworks, the sky was full of brilliant fireworks colors, reflecting each other.

Fang Wei, who was usually bolder than the sky, was actually frightened by the cannon at this time, standing far away and covering his ears, but he was eager to try.

The family returned home, and the aunt's cross-Hong Kong video was also transmitted, she took a lot of scenery over there and came back, as well as a video call with her grandparents, and said a lot of words, a little sad and choked that her daughter was not filial and could not come back to accompany her parents, and the grandfather comforted and said that you can be safe and sound is the greatest comfort for us as parents.

When it was time to start the red envelope, Fang Ning and the others also gained a lot of New Year's money, and the elders were also happy, and they began to keep the New Year, and they kept it until half past three, when the whole family couldn't stand it anymore, so they went to sleep.

The next day is the first day of the first lunar month, and the family sleeps until the third pole of the day before waking up, and the first thing after waking up is to say good New Year to each other.

In the afternoon, the family went to the Jieshan Temple on Huaidufu Road to burn incense and worship the gods, and then began to visit relatives and friends, which will last for seven or eight days.

On the second day of the new year, the whole family is ready to go back to the countryside to pay New Year's greetings.

The first stop is grandma's maiden home, Zheliao Village in Meixian Town, where the Li family is famous for their surnames, basically all of them are surnamed Li, and then to Nanjiang Town, it is Jiangyuan Village, where the surname Xie is a big surname.

Because of the death of the old grandmother, the original cohesive Lao Li family was also disheartened, that morning, the direct relatives of the mother's family only came two, until noon to eat, only seven or eight relatives came one after another, adding up to hundreds of people, as for the sidelines, not to mention the relatives who are related to the deceased.

The Li family is prosperous, although there are no rich and noble people, but there are also a few people who are promising, like grandma is recognized as promising in everyone's minds, the daughter married to Hong Kong, the son earns money outside, and the family lives in a small western-style house, although there is no business, but there is the government's demolition compensation, and the compensation money is not earned by ordinary people in several lifetimes, so those relatives are also enthusiastic in the face of grandma and grandpa with a little flattery, these years, who doesn't want to find a good thigh to hold?

Fang Ning's family drove two cars over, parked the car in the yard of grandma and her younger brother Li Xibao, as soon as they came out, they were welcomed by everyone, countless eyes swept over, grandpa They looked natural, Fang Ning couldn't lose the face of the family, smiling, gentle and polite, in the eyes of outsiders, it was really good to be a tutor, he was really a personable teenager.

Li Xibao smiled and asked his two sons to hurry out to set off artillery to greet his sister's family.

There is also a custom to talk about, I don't know how the customs are in other places, but in Hunan, Hubei and other places, the more you go to Chu, the more you pay attention to, although Pinghai County is a small county, but it also boasts of being one of the birthplaces of Hunan and Chu culture.

And this custom is to say, open the door to the firecracker, the first to the eighth day of the Spring Festival, come to the distinguished guests, to set off firecrackers to welcome the guests, the more pomp and circumstance, the stronger the etiquette, the more the respect of the host family for the guests, after the sound of firecrackers, broken red all over the ground, bright like cloud brocade, called full house.

The cannon went off for several minutes, and I didn't think it was anything in normal times, but compared to the other visitors, it was particularly eye-catching.

A relative who was sitting in the hall drinking tea, took a few sips of tea, looked at the scenery of Fang Ning's house, surrounded by other relatives, and then thought about his appearance of being left out, his heart was a little unbalanced, and he said sourly, "What's so proud, it's not that life is better." ”

Another relative, hearing his sour tone, gave him a very strange look, and did not say much, but moved the stool under his butt away from him.

Fang Ning watched and listened to all directions, and the words of that relative naturally fell into his ears, so he kept it in his heart, and when he came over to say hello and wanted to be familiar, Fang Ning glanced at him, frowned slightly, didn't pay attention to it, didn't give any good face, and went straight in front of him, and the Fang family members also lowered their eyes when they saw it, and shouted lukewarmly to their brother-in-law and left.

The man was embarrassed by the Fang family, and walked away a little sneeringly, and the others all secretly laughed in their hearts when they saw it, you said that their family was in front of so many relatives, and you put on a clear and tall appearance, but turned around but stammered, didn't you suffer yourself?

In fact, there was a reason why Fang Ning's family didn't have a good face for this man.

Grandma, as the daughter of the Li family, she has already begun to take care of her younger siblings when she is still studying, carrying one on her back and pulling one on her hand, like Aunt Jin, Grandma Six, and Grandma Seven, all of whom she brought up, so she is also very close.

Aunt Jin and Aunt Six have their own lives, needless to say, it is Aunt Seven that I want to talk about.

The husband she married was the man Chen Shui just now, and within two years of marriage, the seventh aunt died of dystocia, if she had been treated in time, she would not have died in dystocia, but her husband Chen Shui was superstitious in some sects, and he didn't know how to take her to the doctor, and he kept touching her stomach and drinking Fu Shui. But what's the use of that?

Later, seeing that it couldn't be done, the neighbor hurriedly asked him to send him to the hospital, and he called a tractor again, the road was rugged and steep, and the seventh aunt was lying on the tractor screaming all the way, and her intestines were about to shake out, and when she was sent to the town health center, the seventh aunt was already out of gas.

Although Chen Shui is not the one who let Aunt Qi die, he also has the greatest responsibility, he is not sent to the hospital in time, he is superstitious to eat Fu Shui to cure the disease, and he also uses a tractor to send people, all of this has led to the dissatisfaction of the Li family, and even the grandmother has a grudge against this brother-in-law, this is more than ten years of no contact, so how can he have a good face to show him.