"Do you want to buy a house? Don't you have a house to live in, why do you want to buy a house?" Zhou's mother asked puzzled.

"This is the house of the textile mill, not mine, in case one day they take it back and I have nowhere to live. Jia Lei said with an excuse.

"It's impossible, how can the factory do such a lack of morality! Jia Aiguo is a hero in the factory!" Zhou Huiji said.

"How could it be impossible, we were still living in a building half a month ago! As a result, because someone disliked us for giving my cousin incense and burning paper money, they used methods to change us here!

Now this dilapidated house has no running water, and it is not as close to the public toilet, and there is a stinky puddle outside the window, so I don't know what will become of it in the summer! No wonder there is so much area and no one is gossiping, everyone is waiting to see the joke! Jia Lei stupidly made a note with them at the beginning. The more Sanni talked, the more angry she became, she really didn't know that this house had so many shortcomings.

Jia Lei touched his nose Sanni was a little too aggressive, but he actually didn't suffer.

"How can they do this? Isn't this bullying children, don't you worry, Auntie will definitely help you this time! Although my mother's hometown, Tang Town, is a rural place, the house you bought will always be yours. No one wants to kick you out!" Zhou's mother said angrily.

"In this way, you and I will go back to my parents' house with me on the first day of the new year to see the house before making a decision. Zhou's mother said.

"Didn't you go back to your parents' house on the second day of the Lunar New Year?" asked Sanni, who remembered that her mother used to go back to her parents' house on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

"I have to go to work in the second year of junior high school, so how can I have time to go! This is a new form of the new society. Labor is the most glorious!" said Zhou's mother.

"It's too unkind to let people go to work in the second year of junior high school, when will we be able to celebrate the New Year's "Seven Days of Happiness"!" Jia Lei spit out.

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When the Zhou family left, Sanni immediately went back to the house and took an iron box out and handed it to Jia Lei, Jia Lei opened it and frowned.

"How can I still have money? My hand was cramping when I counted the money just now, and I didn't expect that one day I would have a time when I disliked having too much money. Jia Lei said that he had counted at least 10,000 banknotes just now and was aesthetically fatigued.

"There are still some statues of the God of Wealth left at home that day, and I didn't bring them that day, and I took the time to take the car to other districts this morning and sent them out. Sanni said that she couldn't stand the things that could make money at home.

"How much money can you make with such something, it is worth asking you to run out to do business without stopping in the Chinese New Year's Eve." Jia asked indifferently.

"Four hundred and twenty-three yuan, a lot!" said Sanni with great pleasure.

"It's yours. It's also very tiring for you to help me watch those children for the past two days! Jia Lei said.

"What kind of wages do I want? Aren't I working for my own family? Sanni disagreed and said that she lived in Jia Lei's house for nothing every day.

Jia Lei doesn't agree with Sanni's statement, from the concept of the old soul since 2017, it is a matter of course to work and get a salary! Even if you work for a relative, you still have to pay for it, not to mention that Sanni has told herself more than 7,000 yuan in the past few days.

"Do you think I look like a person who is short of money, master?" Jia Lei said with a kick on a cardboard box containing half a box of money.

Sanni looked at the pile of money in the box, looked at the pile of change in her hand, and accepted it embarrassedly with a red face.

"Xiao Lei, so much money is not safe at home, it is better to put it in the Public Security Bureau, I will go to Li Chengyu and ask him to help. Sanni proposed.

Jia Lei reluctantly glanced at the money in the box, but he was not rare enough to cover the heat and take it!

"Today is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, who will come out to steal things, isn't the thief not too old?" Jia Lei asked reluctantly while touching the money.

"If you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, if something happens on Chinese New Year's Eve, it will be so obscure!" Sanni persuaded.

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Jia Lei's dinner is still very particular, there are fish and meat, boiled pig's trotters, chicken stewed mushrooms, hot and sour cabbage, beef meatballs and radish balls platter, there are six dishes.

Take the meaning of the next year's six or six major shuns!

As for the New Year's table, there are two vegetarian dishes, all because she still remembers Jia Lei's bold words about keeping filial piety and eating vegetarian, but Jia Lei's chopsticks went directly to the rotten pig's trotters that had been stewed for three hours!

The stewed pig's trotters are fragrant and tender, and the skin is about to melt, dipped in authentic local seafood soy sauce, and it tastes great, and when you bite into it, half of the tendons come down, and the chew is very fragrant!

"Xiao Lei, did you forget something?" Sanni asked cautiously, Jia Lei listened to her, put down the chopsticks, thought about it, and then stood up and ran out.

"Oops! How could I forget such an important one!" Jia Lei knocked his head with his fist in remorse.

"Don't blame yourself too much, my cousin has been gone for so many days, and he won't blame you for eating meat. Besides, today is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, how can you not eat a bite of meat!" Sanni said.

"I don't blame myself! My dad has been gone for so many days, even after Sanqi, of course I can eat meat, I didn't eat meat before, because my dad's urn is still at home, I'm embarrassed to eat, but didn't I send him to the martyr's cemetery two days ago, of course I can eat it now! Didn't you persuade me not to let the Chinese New Year's Eve firecrackers disturb his peace after death!" Jia Lei turned back and explained to Sanni. He is a person in 2017, and he can keep filial piety for the first seven years.

"Then what did you just say you forgot about something important?" asked Sanni.

"Firecrackers! We have all eaten firecrackers at home, but we haven't set them off yet!" Jia Lei said anxiously.

"Oh! How did I forget such an important thing! Hurry up, go get firecrackers and set them off! I want to set off firecrackers!" Sanni also remembered this stubble, and hurriedly urged Jia Lei to move quickly.

Sanni herself is a half-grown child, and Jia Lei, an old soul who has not touched firecrackers for 30 years under the fireworks ban, also has a strong obsession with firecrackers. So the two of them threw down a big table of food, and each of them hugged a bunch of firecrackers and ran out in a hurry!

"Whoosh!Whoosh—— Peng!"

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"You just buy such firecrackers!?" Sanni asked after setting off several fireworks when she saw the firecracker box that Jia Lei took out.

"Where is it missing, isn't it a full box?" Jia Lei was puzzled.

"I'm asking about firecrackers! These earth-red firecrackers aren't fireworks!" asked Sanni, pointing to the only two red firecrackers in the box.

"This one is 800 rings, and the other is 500 rings, which is enough for the night. If you don't have enough, there are flashing thunders, magic bullets, and two big ceremonial flowers in the house. Jia Lei said.

"This can't work! They're not firecrackers, how can they celebrate the New Year with two whips! I forgot that you are a child, I don't know anything, and I still don't know anything about letting you do New Year's goods! Why am I so stupid!" Sanni was already crazy, and Jia Lei secretly took a step back when she saw her madness.

"We have to set off one firecracker when we eat now, at least one firecracker at twelve o'clock, one firecracker on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, and also set off firecrackers at the stall at your train station when it is open for business!

Jia Lei quietly took a step back, in his previous life, during the Chinese New Year, he only needed to buy and hang electronic firecrackers on the door!

"I'll buy some later!" Jia Lei said timidly.

"The store won't open until at least the third year of junior high school, but the market will be closed for the New Year!" Sanni continued to frenzy.

Oh! Jia Lei was killed......

In the early 90s, most industries still retained the ancient tradition of closing the market for the New Year! Including state-run stores and all kinds of restaurants! You just had nowhere to buy anything if you had money......

"We are so rich, if we can't even afford to set off firecrackers for the New Year, we will be laughed at by our neighbors and colleagues for a whole year!" Sanni squatted on the ground with her knees hugged.

"We live in such a remote place, few people will see it!" Jia Lei also asked with palpitations.

"Firecrackers are used to hear, and other things can be mixed in with firecrackers if they can't see them...... You're not smoking, you're not sparking, you're not moving...... How are you going to get there!" Sanni asked.

Jia Lei instantly felt that his brain was not killed by money, and he had not forgotten the basic common sense when he was busy earning money day and night in the past few days.

In the end, it was the older Sanni who thought of a way, she broke the 800 firecrackers into four and divided them into four with scissors to barely solve the crisis, it is said that in her hometown a few years ago, the very poor people would do this! As for the other 500 firecrackers-

"The firecrackers at twelve o'clock in the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve are unlucky and must not be cut, and the longer the firecrackers are fired at night, the better! Sanni said that this is one of the longest specifications right now.

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The two of them ran out in a hurry and rolled back in disgrace, and they could only turn their grief and anger into appetite!

Jia Lei can always eat meat after being vegetarian for so many days, he couldn't let go at first, just used chopsticks to hold the pig's trotters and gnawed, and then simply grabbed the pig's trotters with his hands like Sanni and gnawed them, not to mention that grabbing and gnawing with his hands was much more fragrant than the original.

"Xiao Lei, you are from our Northeast, and you have only been in Mingzhu City for a few years before you have learned the exquisiteness of the people in the city. Not at all! You weren't like that when you were a kid. Sanni said.

"Did I ever nibble on pig's trotters in my hometown when I was a child?" Jia Lei asked curiously.

"Why haven't you bitten it, I remember you were just over four years old at the time, and we had just been given birth. When you hold a piece of pig's trotters during the Chinese New Year, you don't want to let go of it! You use those little teeth to gnaw a good piece of pig's trotters into tatters, and your cousin eats the tendons you can't eat, and you cry angrily!" Sanni recalled.

Jia Lei can't gnaw on the pig's trotters, and the black history of his childhood is a shame!!

"You are talking nonsense, how can I be so greedy?" Jia Lei decided to defend his right to reputation.

"How could you not be greedy! At that time, everyone was greedy, and when the production team was in the production team, no one could eat a pound of meat, let alone pig's trotters, all year round! In the past, peasants were not allowed to raise pigs and chickens individually, and your food in the army was better than that in the countryside, but you had never eaten pig's trotters before. Sanni said.

"Hey, I don't know if there are pig's trotters at today's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at home?" I can't eat with them this year!" Sanni burst into tears as she ate.

Women are so troublesome! What are you crying on a good day? It hurts his eyes.

Jia Lei handed Sanni a piece of paper, and Sanni took it and began to cry. She was homesick......

Jia Lei's eyes looked at the portrait of Jia Aiguo in the living room even redder, and he swore that he must live a good life in order to be worthy of his father's spirit in the sky......

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"Jia Lei, you don't come out soon, I've been waiting for you for a long time. Zhou Wen ran to Jia Lei's window and shouted.

Jia Lei stared at the program on the TV, he was watching happily, but he didn't want to go out, and before Sanni came over and stuffed something into his pocket, he pushed him out of the door.

"Let's go play with friends, I'll just make dumplings or something at home. Other people's classmates are in a hurry!" Sanni said.

As soon as Jia Lei came out of the door, he was pulled by his childhood friend and ran away, and Jia Lei didn't even have time to say anything against it. The two of them didn't stop until they ran downstairs to the family building of the unit. The smell of gunsmoke in the air has not yet cleared up after the firecrackers have just been released, and a child is crouching in the confetti of firecrackers all over the ground looking for something.

"Hurry up, pick it up, someone else should pick it up in a moment." After Zhou Wen finished speaking, he pushed Jia Lei into the firecracker crumbs, and then he himself squatted down to find something.

These children are looking for small firecrackers that have not been lit just now.

Jia Lei saw the scene in front of him and remembered that if he used a few words to describe his childhood memories before the age of ten, probably the word poor would be indispensable.

In 1990, the country and the people lived a tight life, and it was impossible to waste it if they were so "poor"!

I think I had done this kind of thing in my previous life, and the children at that time didn't feel ashamed to do this kind of thing! Almost all children did this! After all, firecrackers were only sold in stores during the Chinese New Year, and they were not usually seen.

Jia Lei thought about it and picked up a few small whips with the lead next to his feet, but he didn't go anywhere, and he wasn't a real kid who couldn't afford to lose that person!

Zhou Wen was right, and soon a few children came over. There are men and women among them!

The boy is mainly looking for a small whip with a lead that can be put without moisture, but the girl is not picky at all. The girls would break the whip in the middle, pour out the blue-black gunpowder inside, collect it, put it on a small stone and stretch it into a long one. Then light it with a match!

"Sting!" A thin sparkle of light came out! This spark was particularly beautiful and mysterious in the eyes of the children of those days.

"Smack!" A small whip exploded at Jia Lei's feet, startling Jia Lei, who was immersed in memories.

A child over there bent down laughing when he saw that his prank had succeeded.