After the wedding of Li Meng and Zhang Meng, Li Liang's family began to be busy preparing for the New Year again! This year may be the loneliest year for Li Shuangzhu and his family in so many years! When their daughter got married, the two of them seemed to be missing something.

Wang Xiulan sometimes makes breakfast, and will habitually put four bowls on the table, and will habitually want to knock on the door of her daughter's room and tell her daughter to get up and eat! When she walks to the door of her daughter's room, she will suddenly wake up, it turns out that the daughter she has been thinking about has been married and will never be by her side.

Li Liang is also a little unaccustomed, his sister is married, it is said to be a good thing, and when he is reborn, he has changed the fate of his sister and Zhang Meng. In the track of the previous life, Zhang Meng would have been imprisoned for the New Year because of that righteous and courageous act, and his sister would also encounter that misfortune in 84. Now, my sister has left the hospital environment, and Zhang Meng has also found the spring of his career in Jian'an Company, and I believe that the shadows and misfortunes in the previous life will gradually move away from his own life!

The Spring Festival of 1983 was not much different from previous years. But when the news broadcast at seven o'clock in the evening on Chinese New Year's Eve, the host announced at the end that at eight o'clock tonight, CCTV would broadcast the Spring Festival Gala, Li Liang suddenly remembered this past!

In the memory of Li Liang's previous life, Li Liang's family's economic situation was not very good at that time, and the family did not buy a TV! In my impression, on the Spring Festival Gala that year, he seemed to be on a night shift with his sister Li Meng in the hospital.

But on the first day of the Lunar New Year, when he and his sister went to someone else's house to pay New Year's greetings, they suddenly found that everyone's topic had become the Spring Festival Gala broadcast by CCTV last night!

Suo Baoli and Mu Xuanfu's Huangmei Opera "Husband and Wife Return Home", Jiang Kun and Li Wenhua's sketch "Wrong Step", Zheng Xulan's song "Shepherd's Song", and Li Guyi's song "Hometown Love" have all become hot topics on the first day of the Lunar New Year and even during the entire Spring Festival. People who did not see the program on Chinese New Year's Eve went to the homes of relatives, friends, and neighbors who bought TV sets in the following time to watch the rebroadcast of the TV station in various ways. At that time, the scene was really a bit empty!

Now that he has a TV at home, Li Liang naturally doesn't want to miss this scene of witnessing history!

"Mom and Dad, just now the news broadcast said that there was a Spring Festival Gala at eight o'clock in the evening, so I went to take a shower first!" Li Liang said.

The tradition of the Li family, on Chinese New Year's Eve, must be to take a hot bath, change into new clothes in advance, and welcome the arrival of the new year with a new look!

Li Liang quickly came out of the bathroom after taking a shower, and kept urging his parents to take a bath quickly!

"This kid, what's wrong today?" Wang Xiulan was a little strange!

Li Shuangzhu drank a little wine at the reunion dinner in the evening, and he said with a red face: "Today is the New Year, happy." My son must want to watch the party with us, so go take a shower!"

When Li Liang's family cleaned up, they sat on the sofa in the living room together.

For the sofa in the living room, Wang Xiulan had already sewn a set of cotton sofa cushions with a sewing machine, and she didn't feel cold at all when she sat on it in winter.

In the living room, there is also a brazier, and the charcoal in it is all solid wood and good charcoal that Zhang Qingxiang asked his friends to buy from the charcoal burner in the mountains, and he didn't bring any smoke!

At eight o'clock, as the four big characters of congratulations to the New Year flashed on the screen of the TV, the first CCTV Spring Festival Gala kicked off! First of all, Zhao Zhongxiang wore a Mao suit, on behalf of all the CCTV staff, to congratulate the audience and friends in front of the TV on a happy New Year!

Having said that, this year's Spring Festival Gala also provided four telephones to the TV viewers in the capital for them to dial the program, and Li Liang couldn't help but feel that the audience in the capital was really happy! In addition, there were five quiz activities in the program for everyone to write letters and guess the riddles! If all five riddles were guessed correctly, CCTV would also send out prizes!

Judging from Li Liang's perspective from later generations, there is no doubt that there are no bright spots in the stage effect of this Spring Festival Gala! But emotionally, the heartfelt performances of the old artists back then deeply moved Li Liang and evoked his youthful memories.

Compared with the news broadcast that people in later generations jokingly called the longest news broadcast in history, the Spring Festival Gala in the early 80s undoubtedly had a much more conscience! As Li Guyi's "New Year's Song" sounded happily, Li Liang observed that his parents, Wang Xiulan and Li Shuangzhu, had been completely immersed in the party!

The whole party lasted for a total of four and a half hours, and when the last program magic "More than Auspicious" ended, the names of the behind-the-scenes staff appeared on the TV screen, and Li Liang's family woke up like in a dream!

Wang Xiulan looked at the wall clock on the wall and exclaimed: "Ah, it's already more than 12 o'clock? Dad, our family hasn't closed the door yet, go move the firecrackers downstairs and put them!"

"Good!"

According to the customs of Hekang County, on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve at the end of the lunar calendar, a large firecracker should be set off to seal the door of wealth, indicating that the old year is over, and the gate of wealth will be sealed! Correspondingly, on the morning of the first day of the new year, the male owner of the family must get up early to set off a firecracker to open the door of wealth! The firecrackers hanging at the door of wealth are longer than those set off by the firecrackers that seal the door of wealth, representing the new year, and the fortune of the family will last for a long time! Such a custom may have no practical use, but it reflects people's infinite expectations for a better life from the bottom of their hearts!

Li Shuangzhu went upstairs after sealing the door of wealth, today is a good day, the sunspot who originally lived in the stairwell on the second floor, Li Shuangzhu also brought it to the house, for fear that the sunspot would be frightened by the sound of firecrackers one after another!

After Li Shuangzhu went upstairs, his son Li Liang had already gone back to his room to sleep! He tiptoed into the bedroom of his husband and wife, saw his wife fiddling with a red envelope, and asked with a smile: "Xiulan, what's the matter, are you preparing a red envelope for your son?"

Wang Xiulan responded: "Yes, his father, how many red envelopes do you say is more appropriate for your son this year?"

If it was in previous years, Wang Xiulan might not ask her husband such a question, according to the family conditions of previous years, Wang Xiulan would have sealed her son with a New Year's red envelope of one or two yuan at most!

But the situation in the family has been very different in the past two years, one is that her son has become more sensible, and the other is that the family has such conditions, usually she often stuffs her son with a red envelope of five or ten yuan, and the New Year's money is less, which is a bit unsightly!

Li Shuangzhu's thoughts were similar to his wife's, he thought for a while and said: "Our son can make money, and he is not a character who spends money indiscriminately, I think, just wrap it up for fifty yuan!"

Fifty yuan is already more than Li Shuangzhu's salary for a month!

Wang Xiulan didn't hesitate, nodded and agreed: "Okay, then you go and stuff it under your son's pillow!"

Every year, on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Shuangzhu and his family will secretly go to their daughter's and son's rooms and stuff them under their pillows after quietly wrapping the red envelopes for the New Year.

Then wait until the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the couple can always hear the surprise of their daughter Li Meng and son Li Liang!

Li Liang hadn't slept tonight, and when his father came in and stuffed red envelopes under his pillow, he was still awake. But he pretended to be asleep and didn't say anything!

It wasn't until his father left his bedroom that he opened his eyes!

In a blink of an eye, it has been more than two years since he was reborn and returned to this era! Although he has long been accustomed to life without mobile phones and computers, in the dead of night, Li Liang always thinks of the sensible and well-behaved son born to himself and Chen Chen in his previous life.

In this life, Li Liang has no other regrets, but he misses his son too much! This is why Li Liang has always been ambiguous about not having a clear relationship with Chenchen. He hoped to wait until that right point in time, find a suitable time, and hope to be able to have a son in his previous life in the right way, hoping to have a son in his previous life again! Even though he knew that the flapping of the butterfly's wings might have a series of unpredictable effects, Li Liang still held on to this hope!

On the first day of the Lunar New Year in 1983, Li Liang began his journey to pay New Year's greetings alone. When he was a child, his father Li Shuangzhu took him and his sister to visit the New Year. Later, when he grew up, he and his sister went to the neighbor's house to pay New Year's greetings, but this year, he was alone.

Li Liang was the first to go to Chenchen's house, that is, his sister's in-law's house!

"Uncle Qingxiang, Aunt Chunhua, Happy New Year, I give you New Year's greetings! I wish you good health and all the best!"

"Brother-in-law, sister, I wish you all to grow old together and give birth to a noble son early!"

"Chenchen, Junjie, I wish you all success in your studies!"

"Sister Zhang Xin, Sister Zhang Jia, I wish you to find Ruyi Langjun as soon as possible and enter the palace of marriage!"

Li Liang's mouth was very sweet, and his sister Li Meng held Zhang Meng's hand, watched his younger brother enter the door, took out a red envelope from his pocket and stuffed it into his younger brother's hand: "Liangzi, then! Sister and brother-in-law also wish you success in your studies, perform well in this year's college entrance examination, and be admitted to a good university with our family's Chenchen!"

"Thank you, sister!"

Li Meng not only gave his younger brother Li Liang a red envelope, but also gave Chenchen and Junjie a red envelope each. After she and Zhang Meng got married, they lived in the new house in Beimen Village for two days, and because of the Chinese New Year, she and Zhang Meng had already moved back.

After Zhang Meng's original old house was demolished and rebuilt, the newly repaired house became a three-story building, with several rooms on each floor, so there was no need to worry about the problem that the family could not live in!

Zhang Qingxiang prepared a suite for the two of them on the second floor, which was specially prepared for their new couple when it was originally designed!

As for the dowry house prepared by Li Shuangzhu and his wife for their daughter, the house rebuilt by the Li family's old courtyard is still empty!

"Liangzi, you are the only one this year, why don't you go out with us to pay New Year's greetings later!"

"Okay!"

"Did you watch CCTV's Spring Festival Gala yesterday?" asked Li Liang.

Speaking of this, Zhang Junjie became energetic: "I watched it, it was so good-looking! Originally, I was playing firecrackers with a few friends outside last night, but then my sister-in-law called me back to watch TV, I was a little reluctant, I didn't expect it to be so good-looking!"

Zhang Junjie is like a child who hasn't grown up, chattering!

"Also, the color TV in my sister-in-law's room is good-looking, and the screen is big and good-looking. Zhang Junjie seems to have long been dissatisfied with the black-and-white TV he bought last year, especially after watching the color TV set that Li Meng married, he then said to his father, "Dad, our family will also replace this TV this year!"

"Changed?" Zhang Qingxiang said with a smile, "You kid, you are really born in the blessing and don't know the blessing, when you start school, you go and ask your classmates' homes, do everyone have a black and white TV at home?"

"Oh, that's not true, I've already asked, there are more than 50 students in our class, and only a few of them have TVs at home!" Zhang Junjie replied.

"That's it, you kid is really born in happiness and doesn't know how to be blessed!" Chen Chunhua also said on the side.

"Okay!" Zhang Junjie, who was hit by the double blow of his parents, stopped talking!

turned to pull Li Liang and prepared to take Li Liang out to pick up firecrackers!

Children from that era should have a similar impression, especially boys!

At that time, children generally did not have any toys, and most of them did not even have a TV at home. These children, the entertainment of the New Year, is basically to rush into the ashes of the firecrackers when people set off firecrackers, and pick up the firecrackers that have not been ignited!

They often hold a lit incense stick in one hand and a picked up firecracker in the other. Some children like to play pranks, when they see someone coming over, they quickly light a firecracker and throw it at the passerby, and the passers-by are frightened and scream, that is when this group of children is the happiest.

Of course, this way of igniting firecrackers for fun also contains certain risks.

When Li Liang's sister Li Meng was still working in the hospital, almost every Spring Festival, one or two children whose fingers and faces were injured by the explosion would be admitted to the wards of the department for this reason!

Li Liang persuaded: "Junjie, it's too dangerous to play like this, you still don't want to play this game in the future!"

"Ah!" Zhang Junjie said in surprise, "Brother Liang, have you forgotten? This is still the way you taught me when I was a child!"

I'll go, it's actually Zhang Junjie who taught myself?

Li Liang had no impression in his mind at all!

"Impossible, right?" Li Liang said.

"Really, I remember that I hadn't studied at that time, and you took me to play!" Zhang Junjie looked innocent!

"Okay, that's my mistake, you remember not to play like this in the future!" Li Liang admonished.

"Okay, I got it!"

can't play with firecrackers during the Chinese New Year, Zhang Junjie suddenly felt very bored, and even went out with his brother and sister-in-law, sister Chenchen and Li Liang to pay New Year's greetings!

However, Li Liang was full of interest, because he saw the long-lost stilt walking on the street! In later generations, this kind of folk activity in Hekang County was almost extinct, and now, on the streets, there are spontaneous performers performing for free!

I've been working overtime a little late these days, sorry!