Chapter 31: The New Year's Turmoil
The three of them discussed the division of labor, before 10 o'clock in the evening, Mu Daodao was on duty, after 10 o'clock, Zhong Guodong was on duty, and at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, Mu Donglai was on duty. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
In this way, all three of them can have some time to spend with their families for the New Year.
After discussing, Mu Dong drove Zhong Guodong away and went directly to his sister's house. gave each of the two children a red envelope of 500 yuan and left quickly.
When I got home, Mu Ma was still busy chopping the minced meat.
According to the local custom in Lunan, the first meal on the first day of the Lunar New Year must be vegetarian dumplings. It means that the new year's life is plain, and the plain gas is clean and refreshing, and it also has the meaning of peace.
Therefore, in Lunan locality, two pots of dumpling filling are prepared for the New Year, a pot of vegetarian filling, which is eaten on the morning of the first day of the new year, and a pot of meat filling, which is eaten at other times.
Wang Anshi has a famous poem, "Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one", which is written about the scene of the Spring Festival. Some people don't know much about the new peach and the old one. In fact, this is in Lunan, and there is a vivid answer.
The so-called new peach refers to the branches of the peach tree, which is called peach in Lunan locally. Legend has it that peach trees ward off evil spirits, so on the afternoon of Chinese New Year's Eve, freshly cut peach strips were wrapped in a piece of yellow table paper and inserted on the door frame and under the window eaves in order to ward off evil spirits. This is the "new peach".
This peach strip can't be moved when it's plugged in, and it can't be moved for a year. Until Chinese New Year's Eve again, pull it off and replace it with a "new peach". And the one that was plucked and thrown away is the "old talisman".
Not only did the peach strips be inserted on the doors and windows, but the local people in Lunan also boiled water with peach strips on the morning of the first day of the new year, which was called peach strip water. People wash their faces with peach strip water on the morning of the first day of the new year, which means that the year is safe and not touched by evil spirits.
Mu Dad was holding a handful of peach sticks and planting them around the yard. Mu Dong went over and helped wrap the peach strips in yellow table paper. These things are done by men, and women do not touch their hands.
After inserting the peach strips, the two began to paste couplets again. The couplet was bought by Mu Papa from the bazaar. Mu Dad also bought a pair for Mu Dong's car. Mu Dong carefully taped it to the front windshield of the car.
After pasting the couplet, Mu Dad called Mu Dong and went to the yard with some couplets, and some were posted on the door and machine. Mu Daodao listened to the radio in the house, and when he heard the movement, he also came out to help.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Mu Dad, Mu Second Uncle Mu Third Uncle, plus Mu Dong and Mu Dalong of the Third Uncle's family, the five of them went to the ancestral grave to go to the New Year's grave and brought a bowl of vegetarian dumplings.
The five people lit the yellow paper, broke the vegetarian dumplings, and then kowtowed together and got up to leave.
Take the sacrifice to the grave and call it an offering. Pinch off a small part of the edible offering with your hands and put it on the yellow table paper, and it is called a broken offering. Breaking the offering means that the ancestors have already eaten what was offered and enjoyed the sacrifice.
After going to the New Year's grave, several people went home to enjoy the Chinese New Year's Eve of their small family.
Mu Dong's Chinese New Year's Eve, although there are only three people, is equally warm and comfortable.
This year, my son is angry and has started a business, and now he will definitely make a lot of money. I heard from my son that the house in Quancheng has also been bought, and it is quite big. The car is now also on the road, and the people in the village are not envious.
Dad Mu took out a bottle of cellar wine and prepared to drink it as a family. Mu Dong remembered the two bottles of Moutai brought back by BJ, and slapped his thigh.
"Dad, there are two bottles of Moutai, I forgot to bring them to you. I'll bring it back to you next time I go to Quancheng. ”
Mu Dad said: "Just started making money, don't spend it randomly, why buy me such expensive wine?"
In fact, Mu Dad didn't know how expensive it was, but he just heard that it was very expensive.
Mu Dong said: "I didn't buy it, I went to BJ last time...... Uh, a leader sent it. ”
Mu Dad pouted and didn't speak. I said in my heart, if the leader gave it to him, which leader gave Moutai wine to his subordinates? If you say that you spend money indiscriminately, you will make up the reason.
Mu Dong also stopped explaining, this matter is too complicated to explain.
The two of them began to drink, and even Mama Mu poured a small glass shallowly. The three of them drank slowly and ate the reunion dinner.
I didn't drink much, mainly drinking and talking. During the banquet, Mu Dong mentioned Mu Dong's marriage and asked Mu Dong what he was going to do, and Mu Dong said, May 1 or 11, specifically, discuss it with Xiao Xiao and then determine.
After eating, the three of them watched TV together.
In the 2009 Spring Festival Gala, Mu Dong felt lackluster. It's really lively, it's really festive, but I just feel that there are no bright spots. It's too full of flowers, but it makes people feel aesthetically tired.
But the Spring Festival Gala is a thing that the people of the whole country really need, this is already Chinese New Year's Eve, a dish that cannot be missing, good or bad, good or bad, must be put there.
Mu's father and mother are old, and after watching TV for a while, they start to fall asleep. Mu Dong asked the two of them to go to bed first. I insisted on watching it for a while.
After a while, tiredness gradually hit, Mu Dong leaned on the sofa and slowly fell asleep.
The TV is still on, the picture is constantly flashing, and the festive programs are still being staged one after another.
Mu Dong experienced a familiar feeling of floating in the air, just like that time back, just like that time of dreaming of Xin'er, he slowly floated up again. This feeling, uncontrollable, but warm, makes people lazy and just want to float around.
This time, where is it? Mu Dong felt that he was very conscious. Will there be palaces and fairies, and will you still see Xin'er?
The scene changes, and it is no longer the feeling of floating, as if it is running non-stop.
But I can't see anything, and the neighborhood will be white for a while, and black for a while, and it will be staggered. It's like a train passing through a foggy field and a long tunnel. It's like constantly shuttling between day and night, and so on.
Suddenly, Mu Dong heard a violent explosion, and suddenly shook himself into the clouds, feeling a heavy fall, and a hot pain all over his body.
He screamed, ahhhhhhh
It was the sound of firecrackers at the next-door neighbor's house. Mu Dong looked at the watch on the wall, it was already zero. He turned his head, and then saw his stunned mother.
When Mu Ma heard firecrackers next door, she got up and prepared to make dumplings. As soon as he came out of the back room, he saw Mu Dong lying on the sofa screaming and waking up, which made Mu Ma tremble.
Mu's mother felt tight, what happened to her son......? Mu Ma didn't dare to think about it.
Mu's mother walked up in three or two steps and said, "What's wrong, son, what's wrong? Why is there so much sweat on your face?"
Mu Dong felt that not only his face, but also his whole body was covered in sweat, his underwear was soaked, and his head was a little dizzy.
Mu Dong said: "It's okay, Mom, it's okay, maybe I was scared by firecrackers, don't worry, I'll go sleep for a while." ”
Saying that, he went back to his room dizzily, changed out of his underwear, got into the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.
I didn't get up for most of the day.
Zhong Guodong's Chinese New Year's Eve is also warm and beautiful. This year is good, I followed Xiaodong to do something, and my wife also lost a salary, and the income of the two of them in recent months can catch up with the income of the previous two years.
With a considerate wife and children, Zhong Guodong feels that this year is really warm.
Zhong Guodong's parents are still alive, and the family ate Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together at their parents' place, and then returned to their small home after sitting for a while. It was already past nine o'clock in the evening, and Zhong Guodong packed up and wanted to go to the yard. My family has already been reunited, so let the big country go home and reunite as soon as possible.
Mu Xiaoxia felt that her husband went to the yard to spend Chinese New Year's Eve by himself. But the two children are inseparable from people......
That's right, Mu Xiaoxia had an idea, she can go as a family of four!
After discussing with Zhong Guodong, Zhong Guodong was also a little tempted. So Zhong Guodong asked a pair of children: "Shuna Shujie, shall we go to my uncle's yard to set off fireworks?"
"Yes, yes," the two children cheered.
So the family took action, changed the children into thick clothes, brought a few large boxes of fireworks and some firecrackers, and the family of four, riding an electric tricycle, went straight to the yard. Mu Xiaoxia even put on a bottle of wine, a few dishes, and some snacks.
When I arrived at the yard, I first asked Mu Daodao to go home for the New Year. Then I went to the dormitory, turned on the air conditioner, cleaned up the bed, fortunately, the bed has been used, and it is clean.
The family first set off a string of firecrackers outside. Then Zhong Guodong began to set off those huge fireworks.
The beautiful fireworks bloomed gorgeously in the high night sky, and the family was very happy, and the two children were screaming and jumping, running around.
Then the family started snacking and playing games. At about 10 o'clock, the two children were crazy tired and dozed off. Mu Xiaoxia spread out a few bunks, and the family of four slept one after another.
The next morning, Mu Xiaoxia went home first, brought vegetarian stuffing and flour, and wrapped dumplings in the yard. The cooking utensils in the yard are all there, and it is very convenient to use.
After eating the dumplings, the children ran around in the yard and played. Mu Xiaoxia and Zhong Guodong inspected everywhere and waited for Mu Dong to change shifts in the house.
At 10 o'clock, Mu Dong did not come. It didn't come at half past ten, and at 11 o'clock, no one came, and the two became nervous.
No, something happened, right?
The two hurriedly started talking on the phone, it was an accident, not big or small. Mu Dong seems to have caught a cold.
Say yes, that is, it may or may not be a cold.
said that it might be, because I took my body temperature and had a little fever, and Mu Ma also said that it was estimated that I got cold on the sofa last night, and I looked groggy, which was very similar to a cold. The rest of the heartbeat, the blood pressure, the breathing, everything was normal.
Saying that it may not be, it is that Mu Dong is a little strange. You called him, and he agreed, and he opened his eyes, but he felt as if he didn't know anyone, and when he looked at people, his eyes were straight.
To put it mildly, it seems to have fallen into evil.
Zhong Guodong quickly made arrangements, first informed the second uncle and the big country, and then asked the big country to come to the yard on duty. He sent his two children to his parents' house, and then rushed to Mu's house with Mu Xiaoxia immediately.
It happened to be the first day of the Lunar New Year, and at this time, there were too many taboos.
If you don't say anything else, just say that you go to the hospital, you can't go easily. Lunan customs, on the first day of the new year, as long as it is not a matter of life and death, you can't go to the hospital, otherwise it will be unlucky all year round.
Dad Mu had no choice but to find a familiar village doctor and come to the house to take a look, and the final result was that he couldn't say clearly, it seemed to be a cold, and it didn't seem to be.
Mu Dad called Second Uncle Mu and Third Uncle Mu again, and several people discussed, first take some cold medicine, stick to it for a day, and if it is still like this tomorrow, go to the hospital in the county seat.
Mu's mother's tears kept rolling in her eyes, but she didn't dare to cry. I'm afraid of bringing bad luck to my son for a year. In the morning, I went to call my son to get up, but there was no movement, I pushed the door in, and saw that my son was still sleeping, and when I woke up, it became like this.
Mu's mother kept blaming herself in her heart, why didn't she accompany her son to watch more TV last night. When the two of them talk, their son will not fall asleep on the sofa, and he will not catch a cold.
It's just a cold, God.
Mudong is caught in a strange world.
He felt like he was floating on the roof of his room, overlooking himself on the bed. He could see and hear the people who were coming in and out of the house, and he could mechanically say yes or two. But I couldn't do anything else.
Mu Dong is very anxious, is this considered the sequelae of the crossing?
I tried my best to throw myself into the body on the bed, and I was able to pounce on it every time, but after a while, I rose lightly to the roof again. When I got to the roof, I stopped, as if I was blocked by something.
Hearing his family say that he would be sent to the hospital tomorrow, Mu Dong jumped.
You've got your body to the hospital, and I can't get out of the house now, isn't that a bad thing?
So Mu Dong pounced harder again and again, and then floated up again and again. It's just that Mu Dong feels that every time he is in the body, it seems to be slowly getting longer.
How can it be longer?, Mudon began to think.
His own crossing began in a car accident and crossed to another where he was stabbed and injured. Are there any similarities between these two scenes?
It's all hurt, hurt......
If you are injured, your body will hurt and your body will bleed......
That's right, isn't it pain and blood that will stabilize your condition.
Then give it a try.
As he pounced into his body again, Mu Dong bit the tip of his tongue fiercely.
"Oops", Mu Dong sat up from the bed in pain, and the blood in his mouth stayed along the corners of his mouth.
It's finally back, it's stabilized, Mu Dong thought to himself. I looked at the watch on the wall, and it was four o'clock in the afternoon.
"Oops," another scream.
Mu Xiaoxia stood up and almost fell.
Unable to take care of herself, Mu Xiaoxia suddenly helped Mu Dong and said urgently: "Xiaodong, Xiaodong, what's wrong? What's wrong? Why is it bleeding?"
The shouts attracted several people at once.
Originally, everyone was crowded into Mu Dong's room, the room was small and there were many people.
Mu Xiaoxia persuaded everyone to go out and sit, they were all crowded here, the air was not circulating, and it was not good for Mu Dong. So everyone went out, leaving Mu Xiaoxia to sit in front of the bed and take care of Mu Dong by herself. Actually, I can't take care of anything, just watch. As a result, Mu Dong's sudden action frightened her.
Mu Ma rushed to the front, she was closest to the room. Mu Dad, Zhong Guodong, and the second uncle and third uncle came in one after another.
Mu Dong smiled, blood flowed from the corners of his mouth, and his expression was very weird.
said: "I'm sorry, it's the New Year, it's scared everyone." ”
Everyone exhaled a long breath, and being able to say this long sentence means that there is no problem with their sanity.
Mu Ma still said anxiously: "What's wrong with the mouth, why is it still bleeding." ”
Mu Dong said: "Mom, I'm dying of hunger, dreaming of eating and biting my tongue." ”
"Bah, bah!" Mu Ma snorted three times in a row, and rubbed her feet vigorously on the ground.
"What, what nonsense! I'll make you dumplings right away. ”
As he spoke, he immediately went out.
Came back right after going out.
Holding a large basin of water, he said, "First wash your face with peach strip water to get rid of bad luck." ”
Mu Dong was sore and couldn't get up. Let Mu's mother and sister wash their faces. Sit on the bed and talk to the people. I looked at my phone during the chat, and it was turned off, probably out of battery.
I asked my sister to find a charger, opened it and took a look, and a large amount of information came in. Most of them are New Year's greeting text messages. It is interspersed with dozens of messages from Xiao Xiao's warm to anxious inquiries.
Xiao Xiao watched TV last night until the end of the Spring Festival Gala. At midnight, he sent a message to Mu Dong: Happy New Year, dear!
Under normal circumstances, Mu Dong would reply to the message soon and say something sweet. As a result, the first class did not come, and the second class did not come. Xiao Xiao was so sleepy that he muttered: I went out to set off fireworks again, and I went to sleep.
As a result, it was dawn, and I looked at my phone and didn't reply to the message. Xiao Xiao called, and as a result, the opposite side prompted to shut down. Xiao Xiao slowly became nervous......
Mu Dong called Xiao Xiao back, telling the truth, saying that he had a cold and his phone was turned off when the battery was out.
Listening to Mu Dong's hoarse voice on the other end of the phone, Xiao Xiao felt that the problem should not be so simple. Xiao Xiao jumped to his feet anxiously, but it was the first day of the Lunar New Year, and he couldn't go out randomly, he was really anxious.
Mu Dong ate vegetarian dumplings and took a little cold medicine. The medicine came up and slowly fell asleep.
Mu's mother watched her son fall asleep, and became nervous again, there will be no change when she wakes up again. Mu's mother didn't leave, moved a small stool to sit, and kept staring at her son. Even for dinner, Mu Xiaoxia cooked dumplings, brought them over, and ate a few.
Mu Dong slept until midnight this time and woke up with urine. When I opened my eyes, my mother was lying on the bed and asleep.
"Hey, that's a mess. Mu Dong sighed and woke up his mother.
"Mom, I'm fine, you go to sleep in the back room, I just have a good cold, don't catch a cold again." ”
When Mu's mother saw that her son was fine, the stone in her heart fell to the ground, got up and went out.
Mu Dong also got up to go to the toilet, his body was still a little sore, but he was much better. Rest for another day or two and you'll be fine.
When I walked to the hall, my father was also lying on the sofa with his clothes. Hurry over and wake up and send you into the back room.
When he came back, Mu Dong couldn't sleep. I slept for more than a day and was in good spirits. Mu Dong felt that this "cold" was directly related to the nervousness that was too tight some time ago, and he relaxed all of a sudden during the Chinese New Year.
This time the matter of hoarding sand, Mu Dong did everything in detail, and he did his best to handle it, just to be able to firmly grasp this opportunity and realize the dream of wealth.
The effect is very satisfactory, and Mu Dong is also very satisfied. So this Spring Festival, the body and mind suddenly relaxed, and I really got cold on the sofa, which led to this disaster.
Hey, I'm ashamed of my family, Mu Dong thought to himself.
This incident made the family too nervous, it shouldn't be.
I also blame myself for being busy and not paying attention to exercise, and my physique is a little lost, so I will be recruited, and I will strengthen my exercise in the future.
Mu Dong thought about it for a while, tiredness hit, and he slowly fell asleep again, sleeping peacefully.