Chapter Twenty-Six: New Year, Grenades
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As soon as the school has winter vacation, it is not far from the Chinese New Year.
The factory began to divide the New Year's welfare, frozen pears, fish, meat and eggs, shrimp, oil, rice and white noodles, couplet blessing window flowers, and in the early 80s, there were also lanterns and firecrackers. In the Northeast, there is a custom of hanging lanterns in every family during the New Year. I don't know what kind of pear is frozen pear, and only in the northeast, it is a pear that is frozen into a solid ball, black, put it in cold water when eating, and the water that comes into contact with it begins to freeze, and when the ice freezes half a centimeter thick, wrap it whole, take it out and smash the ice, the pear becomes soft, take a bite, the skin is a little japonica, ice and sweet, revealing the white and delicate pear flesh inside, there is a lot of juice, and it is very delicious.
Every household began to wrap red bean buns, fried sticky cakes, steamed sticky bean buns, fried fritters twist, steamed steamed buns, fried noodles, fried rice sticks, scrubbed the No. 1 vat inside and out, poured all the fried pasta into the jar, filled a large vat, covered the lid and put it in the warehouse, eat and take it, and it will not be bad if it is frozen. Children don't need to heat it, they just take it out of the jar and eat it, it's icy, crispy and sweet.
Wait for the same to be prepared, and the year will come.
The atmosphere of the Chinese New Year in the cities is stronger than that in the rural areas, with a dense number of people, more living money, a greater variety of commodities, and better welfare conditions than in the rural areas.
Thirty to. Get up early in the morning, paste the Spring Festival couplets, the word Fu, the window flower door couplet, the adults begin to prepare for the evening reunion dinner, chicken, fish, meat, eggs and shrimp, pig claws are a must, called Chop Cai, pig's head meat is a must, called Nafu, fish is more than enough, chicken is a high crown of wings, and there are many unique foods in the Northeast, blood sausage, egg sausage, meat sausage, mandarin duck sausage, powder sausage. Simmer a sauerkraut. At that time, there were no vegetables, and every household was full of meat.
After eating the reunion dinner, it will be dark, and the adults will hang the red lantern high with a wooden pole, and begin to make dumplings, which will be eaten in the middle of the night, and it will be put into the pot after twelve o'clock. At first, the lantern was still lit with wax, but then I don't know who started with it, so I pulled the wire, lit a 25-watt light bulb in the lantern, turned it off in the morning, lit it up at night, and lit it until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
The adults make dumplings, and the children are fine, so they run outside in groups to play. They all carried whips in their pockets, and some of them held the flowers and the drill monkeys, and they were running and releasing them, shouting loudly.
In those years, there was no TV and no entertainment, and after making dumplings, the neighbors played poker together, and they didn't win money, they just played, and they were very happy to play. Around eleven o'clock, the children started to go home and set off firecrackers. This is another amazing thing, there is no mobile phone and no watch, how can you judge the time?
During this time period, it is also the time for the factory duty leaders to come to the family area to pay New Year's greetings, and go to the homes of those workers who still have to work at 30 nights to have a look and condolences. It is impossible to go to all of them, tens of thousands of employees in a factory, and thousands of people who go to work in 30. I don't know how the representatives were elected, the leaders walked around, said a few words, and then went back, it was already twelve o'clock here.
The winter night is silent, and the snow illuminates the dark world at night, and everything can be seen. From time to time, a few children's laughter came from somewhere, dissipating into the night sky. There are red lanterns hanging high in front of the house, dyeing the air red, making it look so joyful.
At twelve o'clock, suddenly the silence was broken. In an instant, fires flickered in all directions, deafening explosions filled the sky, and the air was filled with the smell of gunsmoke. The newly dressed children wore cotton hats and jumped and cheered in the flickering light of the firecrackers, and their joyful smiles looked so bright in the halo of firecrackers and lanterns.
In the sound of firecrackers that resounded through the heavens and the earth, colorful balls of light flew into the night sky from all corners, and as far as the eye could see, it was full of eyes. A variety of large-scale flowers are also on the scene, and in the front yard of each house, a tree two or three meters high bright multicolored honeysuckle blooms. At this moment, both men and women, poor and rich, all smiled, with hope for a better life in the coming year.
When entering the house, the child kowtows to the adult and takes a New Year's red envelope for a few cents.
Then it is to cook dumplings, the two families sit together and eat dumplings lively, I don't know who will bite a steel crash, I screamed, covered my cheeks and inhaled the cool air, but my face was smiling. Zhang Xingming didn't want to knock out his teeth, so he poked each dumpling with chopsticks before eating, and his mother said, "Why is this broken child so thoughtful? You don't want to make a fortune? ”
Zhang Xingming pulled a dumpling that had been stabbed into the steel collapse into the second brother's bowl and said, "I'm so young, what kind of fortune do I have, just wait to eat." The second brother looked at the dumpling and said, "Then do I eat this dumpling or not?" Everyone laughed, Zhang Xingming reached out and patted the second brother's shoulder, and said, "I must eat it, this is the fortune I gave you, that is, I will not be embarrassed, and I can make a fortune." The second sister said: "This little word is beautiful, others have to be sloppy if they want to get rich, you can make it comfortable, how good." Zhang Xingming nodded and said, "Yes, that's it, when the time comes, buy beautiful clothes for the second sister to wear." ”
The elder brother shouted on the side: "I want it too, I want it too." Zhang Xingming sandwiched a dumpling and said, "If you don't run, everyone has a share, eat quickly, and go to bed after eating." ”
The eldest sister said: "Your family, Erming is like the boss, and he is a lot older." The mother said, "This child has been different from human children since he was a child, and he can be prosperous." Zhang Xingming said to his mother: "Don't worry, Mom, as soon as you get out, you just wait to enjoy the happiness, it's all right." ”
After eating dumplings, the adults had to keep vigil, and the children fell asleep, Zhang Xingming went to the ground to put on his shoes, took a cotton hat and put it on and prepared to go out.
A few people were setting up the table to play poker, and my mother shuffled the cards and asked, "You don't sleep? ”
Zhang Xingming said: "Dachang and Xiaoming have all made an appointment, and they want to go out for a run." Coax the child. I guess they're going to spray people's lanterns with spit balls, and I'm going to see the excitement. The old mother said: "My mother, it is reasonable to say that you go out to cause trouble, just let people cut it back and don't cry." ”
Dad said, "Whose lantern is sprayed? Don't go. Zhang Xingming put on cotton gloves and said, "Who knows who's home, who will spray whoever is caught." If I don't go, they have to spray, and I don't do it, what are you afraid of?"
Dad said, "Let's not go, we won't do it, we won't go, we're more sensible than them, oh." I'll lead you to throw a grenade. Throw it back and go to sleep. ”
Dad stood up, felt under the kang cabinet, took out a cardboard box, opened it, and there were grenades neatly stacked inside, and at first glance they were rolled in kraft paper, and there were more than a dozen of them.
My mother said, "Oh mom, when will this whole thing come back, what is it?"
My father said: "I brought a box of training ammunition for militia training back, and I forgot about it when I put the whip. ”
Mom said, "You can talk nonsense, this thing can't hurt anyone?" Dad was checking the fire caps one by one, and said, "It's okay, the paper shell is louder, it's not lethal." The eldest brother and the second brother both came over to look at it, looking very interested.
The eldest brother asked, "How do you put this play?" Dad picked one up and said, "It's the same as a real grenade, unscrew the fire cap on the back buttocks, look, this pull ring, put on your fingers, pull it hard, wait three seconds, just throw it out, throw it hard, the farther the better." ”
Dad carried a grenade, Zhang Xingming and the eldest brother and second brother followed, came to the dormitory downstairs in front of the yard, the I-building, downstairs there is a hundred square recessed open space, the four of them ran to the end of the clearing, Dad put down the cardboard box, took out a grenade, explained while moving, and threw one out. A few seconds later, a huge fire flashed on the other side of the clearing, and several people buzzed in their ears, feeling that something had collapsed from the other end of the clearing, hitting their bodies and faces, but it didn't hurt. The glass window on the first floor of the dormitory shattered a few pieces, and the glass fell with a bang and hit the ground.
The eldest brother and the second brother were rubbing their ears, and the father was a little surprised, looking incredulous, and said: "If this is loaded with iron sheets, it will be a real grenade, this power is not small, come on, you can't throw it here." I thought it was gunpowder, but it was explosives. Come back quickly, I'll see that the dormitory has come over in a while. ”
A few people trotted all the way home, and when they entered the house, my mother asked, "Why did you come back so quickly?" The game was so loud that the windows were buzzing. Dad was a little embarrassed, scratched his head and said, "I didn't expect it to be explosives, and I smashed the dormitory glass into several pieces, so I hurried back." The old mother laughed and said, "What is the name of this whole thing, you say, it's quite an adult, you don't know what this thing is?"
Dad said, "The first time, it used to be live ammunition, but this time I gave some of this play back, and I haven't used it yet." "At that time, the militia was quite awesome, with long guns, short guns, submachine guns, mortars, grenades, and the militia battalions of some enterprises even had heavy machine guns, all with live ammunition. A few years ago, the Red Guards attacked the factory headquarters, that is, the militia rushed back to the ground, and no one dared to squeak when the bullets rebounded and injured several people. At that time, the national militia organization, Beijing Iron and Steel was the most awesome, it was received by Chairman Mao after walking through Tiananmen Square, and even had tanks.
Throwing a grenade and dying halfway, but the eldest brother and the second brother still took two of them by themselves, as long as this thing doesn't blow up directly on people, it's not a big deal, Dad didn't care, and put the rest away. Zhang Xingming knew that something would happen, but after thinking about it, he still didn't say anything. It didn't hurt anyone, at most it was a bit of a joke, and it wasn't a big deal.
So, at six o'clock in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year, there was a sudden loud noise in the house of Lao Wang's house for the third time behind Zhang Xingming's house. The back window glass of the outhouse (kitchen) was all broken, the pots and pans were scattered, and the old Wang's daughter-in-law ran to the courtyard wearing only pants and vests. This feud is a bit big.
This explosion woke up all the pieces, some came out to understand the situation, some started cooking without their own business, and my mother scolded my father and eldest brother, and confiscated the remaining three grenades directly.