More than a month has passed quickly. Wang Lei's mother also finished her work. Her mother was not working for her. On the same day, Wang Lei's mother came back to my mother and said, "My colleagues said that you did a good job. "Hey, if you don't make a fuss, you won't do it. Mother said. "Okay, that's good. Wang Lei's mother said. "Okay, just do something, and don't do anything else. Mother said. Wang Lei's mother said again: "Why don't you find some work to do, they all say that you work very well." It's better to do some work. "Hey!" the mother sighed, "what are you doing, it's not easy to find a job, I'm not educated, I'm illiterate, it's hard to find a job." If there is, I also want to do it, and I can earn some money. After the mother finished speaking, her face was very lonely. Seeing this, Wang Lei's mother didn't say anything.

I don't know how much money I made doing those hours, but I only knew that my mother rarely bought a chicken. Mother's stewed chicken is really delicious, the soup is thick, and the meat is crispy. After eating the chicken, my mother used the leftover chicken soup to cook a pot of noodles for the family, the noodles exuded the aroma of chicken soup and was very appetizing, I ate more than half a bowl than usual, and even my sister rarely ate a bowl of noodles.

Autumn turned to winter, and my mother laid out the electric blanket early. Turn on the electric blanket early before going to bed, and when you sleep, the bed is warm. In winter, I like to nest in the quilt and tuck the quilt very comfortably. In winter, my father secretly made a heating wire, and my mother used an aluminum pot to boil water on the heating wire at night, so that the temperature in the house could be higher. The heating wire is not allowed to be used when it is checked, so my mother hides it tightly at home during the day, and only uses it at night.

Life at two o'clock every day, and I don't want to go out when it's cold. Even Saturdays and Sundays prefer to stay at home. As the days passed, the midterm exams came as scheduled. My sister has always been bad at studying, and her handwriting is very bad, but she hasn't been scolded as much as I have for studying, and she has never been beaten.

In the mid-term exam, I still struggled to write Chinese. I thought to myself, this time the language score is not expected to be ideal. However, after the exam, it will be winter vacation, and even if the results come out, it will be at the beginning of school next year, so I will not be so scared. It's still early in the day.

After the exam, walk out of the classroom and out of the school gate. The worry in my heart was left behind. By the time of the holidays, it was already close to the New Year. Mother began to prepare New Year's goods. And I, during the holidays, wanted to sleep until what time in the morning, and at night there was no adult urging me to do my homework and go to bed early.

My mother bought several bundles of kelp and opened a basin full of them in a large iron basin. Put it under the water hose and rinse it vigorously and repeatedly, and then dry it on the clothesline after washing. In winter, the temperature is low, and it doesn't take long for the kelp to freeze, and it won't bend when you play it back and forth with your hands. I didn't pay much attention to what New Year's goods my mother bought. I bought my sister and me some small cannonballs and cannons.

Mother said, "Put it there first, and then put it in the New Year." "Well, got it. I said. But I still couldn't help it, and occasionally opened one by one, so that by the time of the New Year, I had already let go of half of those artillery battles. My sister dared to throw the cannon, and she didn't dare to put it in a small artillery battle, but she liked to stand aside and watch me put it.

Eat dumplings in the same way during the New Year, and paste Spring Festival couplets in every household. When they are young, they are far less fond of eating than playing, but there are still some things that are hard to forget. At that time, my mother fried some hairtail fish for the family, cut the hairtail into sections, and fried it in an oil pan, which was crispy on the outside and delicious on the inside. I am very good at eating hairtail, biting off both sides, only the main spine in the middle, except for the middle spine, the rest is all meat. A piece of hairtail can often be eaten in just a few bites.

That year, my father was quieter than ever, and he was often seen sitting alone in the house for a long time. Even my sister, who is very favored by her father, doesn't pester her father much.

It's too cold outside, and most of my classmates follow their parents back to their hometowns for the New Year during the winter vacation. My father's fellow villagers also left early by train, and that year, I didn't go to my hometown's house with my parents, and I didn't receive New Year's money. On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, my parents gave my sister and me 10 yuan and told us: "After a year of age, the money should be put under the pillow to press the year." "That money, my sister and I didn't take long, was put under the pillow by my mother.

I didn't go out much that holiday. During the Chinese New Year, my parents did not take my sister and me back to our hometown.

In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, after eating dumplings, the family sat together to watch the Spring Festival Gala. There were some melon seeds and oranges on the table. By 10 o'clock, my sister and I were a little sleepy. I said to my mother, "Mom, I'm sleepy. At this time, my father said to me: "I am sleepy so soon, and there is no sleep for Chinese New Year's Eve." "Ah, what's the year?" I asked my father. My father said, "Keeping the New Year is not sleeping all night, or going to bed after 12 o'clock." This is the last day of the year for the class. ”

And this rule, I knew it for the first time. I thought, then I'm going to watch this year pass. So I said to my father, "Oh, then I'll watch the Spring Festival Gala and wait until after 12 o'clock before going to bed." "My sister couldn't hold on, so she fell asleep while watching TV. My mother carried my sister to the bed, covered her with a quilt, and let her sleep in the room by herself, and then came out to watch TV with my father and me.

During this period, my father and mother talked about some of the characters in the Spring Festival Gala from time to time, and I listened to it very trivially. With the song "Unforgettable Tonight", the New Year's bell on TV rang. A year has passed, and a new year has begun. I don't know what that means, and I don't feel that way. I just feel that my parents' emotions are a little different.

After the Spring Festival Gala, it was already the second half of the night. I couldn't hold it anymore, so I said to my mother, "Mom, I'm going to sleep." The mother said, "Well, go to sleep when you are sleepy." "Won't you sleep, then?" I asked my mother. My mother said to me, "Your father and I will sleep, so you can sleep first." "Oh. I said. Then go straight to sleep. Before falling asleep, I saw in a drowsy mood that my parents were still talking outside, and the lamp was glowing yellow.

When I woke up the next day, I remembered that my parents gave me 10 yuan for the New Year's money, which was put under the pillow by my mother. So, go under the pillow and turn it over. But there was nothing under the pillow, so when I got up, I said to my mother, "Mom, where is my New Year's money?" "Tell me about the woodwork. I opened my eyes in a daze, and then said to my mother, "That sister, you also put it away for her?" Mother replied. At this time, my sister has not woken up yet. I went under her pillow and looked at it, and sure enough, it didn't. Say to yourself, 'Hey, okay. Actually, I really want to use the money to buy some delicious and fun food myself. But it's also clear that it's unlikely.