After Guan Xiaojun and Guan Yang returned home, they said to Guan Hongda, who was sitting in a daze on the Taishi chair, that after behaving at Guan Fuliang's house, he handed the blue cloth burden to Guan Hongda, "Grandpa, this is the silver dollar given by the third grandfather." ”

Guan Hongda took the burden, nodded, and handed it to Wang Xinfeng next to him, "Put it away." ”

His face was expressionless, as if these actions of his third uncle were within his expectations, and they did not surprise him.

On the contrary, Wang Xinfeng had a surprised expression on his face, "Ah, why do he still have so many old things in his house?"

As she spoke, she untied her burden, looked at the sealed cylindrical money pillars inside, took out one casually, tore open the kraft paper at the top, pulled out a silver-gray silver coin from it, blew on the silver coin, put it to her ear and listened, and said happily: "It's really Yuan Datou!"

Huang Hongda glanced at his wife, "Okay, put it away!

Guan Xiaojun saw that Guan Hongda was not in high spirits, so he immediately pulled Guan Yang's sleeve and said to Guan Hongda: "Grandpa, let's go out to play!"

Guan Hongda reluctantly smiled, "Go ahead, be careful when lighting the gun!"

When Guan Xiaojun was about to walk out of the house, he turned his head to look and saw Guan Hongda still sitting in the lobby, stunned, as if some old things from the past were coming to his heart at this moment.

Guan Xiaojun had heard his mother say some things about his grandfather Guan Hongda, and knew that Guan Hongda had suffered a lot since he was a child, so he barely survived.

When he couldn't go on when he was a child, he saw the people around him starve to death one by one, so in desperation, he went to work for the Japanese people outside the border with the displaced people.

At that time, the Japanese invaded the northeast, and a large number of people were needed to dig coal mines, so the hungry and unbearable victims in the customs poured into the customs in large numbers to contribute to the Japanese people, just to make ends meet.

Some nonsense scholars and literati in later generations said that the Chinese people at that time had no ambition and no self-esteem, and were willing to be slaves of the country and voluntarily do hard labor for the Japanese people, which was the sorrow of the Chinese nation.

These people do not have a backache when they stand and talk, and when they say this, they must have said it after they have eaten enough, and they must have a good shelter from the wind and rain, and if these people were thrown into the era of the time, they would probably not be much better than a dog.

Guan Hongda was young at the time, and when he was selecting laborers in the Japanese country, his size could not meet the selection criteria, so he deliberately tied two bricks under the straw sandals, and in this way, he barely passed the selection and was pulled to the Northeast Coal Mine to dig coal.

It is impossible to work for the Japanese people, and they are fed, but at least they have a stutter, but the conditions in the coal mine are also extremely difficult, and people die every day.

At that time, when they were working, they were all digging coal naked, but they also had to tie their belts naked, because if they didn't tie their belts, they wouldn't be able to exert their strength at all.

When eating, there are no spoons and chopsticks, they all use their hands directly to fish out of the rice pot, because the weather is cold, take the rice out of the pot, and when it is sent to the mouth, the rice is already cold.

At that time, Guan Hongda's group of hometown people who went to the northeast to dig coal were selected, and only seven of them were able to come back alive, and one of them had a broken leg.

People who have not gone through that era will not be able to appreciate the cruelty of that era at all.

At that time, the only impressions left on the witnesses were hunger, famine, war, and pestilence.

People who have come from these years have seen many things, and their understanding of human nature is much deeper than that of ordinary people, and they are more thoughtful than ordinary people.

Every year during the Spring Festival, Guan Hongda will get up early to burn incense to pay tribute to the ancestors of the deceased, and then he will sit in the lobby in a daze, until the sky is bright, and the whole person will wake up like a dream and recover.

The Spring Festival may have caused extremely serious psychological trauma to Guan Hongda, but what kind of thing it is, except for Guan Hongda, I am afraid no one knows.

Perhaps there are some things that are not suitable for being declared, and there is no need for everyone to know, so they can only be buried in the heart or taken to the grave.

Fortunately, in the two generations of Guan Yunshan and Guan Xiaojun, they will no longer worry about the big problem of survival, and everyone now cares about how to live well, not how to survive.

Just like Guan Xiaojun and Guan Yang, the two of them have long lost the concept of "New Year's Pass", and they only have the joy of the New Year in their memory.

Every year during the Spring Festival, Guan Yunshan will buy two plates of black powder firecrackers for Guan Xiaojun and let him light them to play.

Firecrackers in this era are generally divided into two types, one is black powder, and the other is rolled with gray gunpowder surface. In terms of power, gray powder is much larger than black powder.

Two sets of firecrackers, Guan Xiaojun is basically reluctant to light them all at once, often they are disassembled, put in his pocket, and when the interest comes, he lights one and throws it out, so that the firecrackers explode in mid-air and explode into a small cloud of debris.

The firecrackers of this era have no tricks, just ordinary firecrackers rolled up in newspapers, and the power is not very great, and the sound is average.

You can't buy good things in the countryside, and when you have firecrackers to play with, the children are already satisfied.

Guan Xiaojun can have two sets of firecrackers, it is already a very luxurious thing, many children can't afford it at home, or are reluctant to buy these things for them, if these children want to play, then they can only go to each household to light the firecrackers and pick up the unlit firecrackers in the remaining crumbs.

So every Chinese New Year, when a group of wild children hear someone's firecrackers, they will rush over, waiting for the firecrackers to be lit, so that they can rummage below to find those firecrackers that have been shaken down or the fuse has not been lit.

In fact, this is a very dangerous thing, some firecrackers may not explode quickly after landing, and many times, when the child reaches out to pick it up, it will suddenly explode. There are even firecrackers that will not explode until they are in their hands, and the season will be miserable, and some can break their hands.

However, the power of firecrackers at this time is generally not very large, and there are not many times to break children's hands, but it is easy to cry.

Guan Xiaojun once held three firecrackers in his hand to draw matches, and accidentally lit the fuses of the three firecrackers in his hand, and then three rings in succession, the palm of his hand was numb, and it took a long time to come back to his senses.

But this is a very small number of lucky people, most of them will be injured, and some even have half of their palms broken, which is terrifying.

Therefore, every time the firecrackers are lit, the people who set off the firecrackers will scold the children, and after half a minute and a minute, the children will be asked to rummage.

After leaving the house, Guan Yang and Guan Xiaojun automatically gathered a group of children, and after Guan Xiaojun disassembled a plate of firecrackers in his hand and distributed them to these children, these bear children began to toss all kinds of tosses.

At this time, when firecrackers are lit, boys rarely put them on the ground in a proper manner, either holding them in their hands and lighting them and throwing them out, or putting them in strange places to light them.

For example, if you put it in a waste tin can, after it is lit, the tin can will jump off the ground with a muffled sound, and if you throw it into a puddle, it will burst out of a splash.

Some children died, threw themselves into the dung pit, and then splashed their excrement.

Of course, there are even more deadly, directly insert firecrackers into the pig dung and cow dung on the side of the road, "bang" sound, the adults and children on the road to greet the New Year, the clothes are all splashed spots, so the scolding is everywhere, the first day of the new year, there are people in the crying to spend.

Guan Xiaojun was leading a few children to play in the streets and alleys, when he heard the voice of an adult teaching the children on the other side, "If you dare to throw it on my firewood stack again, I will beat you to death!"

When I stepped forward, I saw Zhu Fugui in the village loudly reprimanding a few children, "Light firecrackers, order a good point, even if you want to throw them, you can't throw them on the firewood stack, what if there is a fire?

Zhu Fugui is one of the few people with foreign surnames in the village, this person is very interesting, timid, and likes to brag, and likes to brag the most, and likes to put the horse in hindsight the most, and the mantra is: "Look, I have long said that this is the case!"

This guy was nicknamed "Hindsight" by the people in the village, and later it was simplified and directly called Zhuge Liang.

At this time, this Zhuge Liang was pinching his waist to teach a few children in front of him, and the cigarette in his mouth couldn't shake as his mouth opened and closed, and the smoke mixed with the cold air in his mouth, making his face slightly hazy.

After reprimanding the children in front of him, he felt quite satisfied, reached out and took a firecracker from one of the children's hands, and said, "Look, look at how I lit it!

He took the cigarette from his mouth, lit the fuse of the firecracker, and then threw it out, holding the cigarette between his fingers and squinting at the sky.

Guan Xiaojun's eyes were sharp, and he found that something was not right, what Zhu Fugui threw out just now seemed to be a cigarette roll, and the sneering sparkling stick that he put to his mouth at this time seemed to be a firecracker.

Guan Xiaojun was shocked, "Oops, it's not good!"