Today is the twenty-eighth month of the lunar calendar, two days before the Chinese New Year's Eve, after eating in the morning, Chen Shu drove the family to Dingzhou City, but after sending it to the Great World Shopping Center, his parents and brother got off, and Chen Shu took Luo Chenyu to the Kaiyuan Temple Tower.

Before leaving, he gave his brother 500 yuan and asked his brother to accompany his parents to buy something, but his brother said that he didn't ask Chen Shu for money. The car stopped at the gate of Kaiyuan Temple, a huge temple has been changed several times, and now only a few broken tile houses and a tower remain.

This tower has been repaired several times, although it has not collapsed after a thousand years of history, but there have been several serious damages, remember that Chen Shu's last repair was completed in 2002, but unfortunately it was not allowed at that time. Now it is fully open, and the entrance fee is 30 yuan to climb the tower and look out, but all the windows are buckled with iron shuts, which looks a pity.

Occasionally, you can see some mutilated murals of Bodhisattvas or Buddhas in the tower, but more often than not, a layer of walls has been removed by the thieves along with the walls. After coming out of here, the next place is the Dingzhou Confucian Temple, next to it is Dingzhou No. 1 Middle School, but unfortunately it has been a holiday, and the guards do not let anyone enter.

Although it is a little regrettable that this Hebei key middle school cannot enter, but the place where the ancient Xiucai rushed to take the exam can be entered, that is, the Dingzhou examination shed, which is a national key cultural relics protection unit and the starting point of the ancient literati's career.

When the two of them walked through almost all the places that could be visited in Dingzhou, it would only take half a day, and if the parents really shopped, they should have bought almost it now. Chen Shu found a place to put the car in order, and then entered the supermarket on the first floor, naturally aiming for snacks.

During the Chinese New Year, it is inevitable that there are children who go to the door, and they are usually not at home, and there are children who go and there is nothing that children like to entertain, so it is inevitable that they will not be able to save face. After coming out of the supermarket, I bought a family bucket at KFC, and my parents definitely never ate it, of course, they were reluctant to eat it, so I bought it back for my parents to taste.

The twenty-ninth day of the lunar calendar is the last rural market in the neighboring village, and it is also the market that the surrounding villages must go to. Fireworks and firecrackers will be set off in the countryside every year during the Spring Festival, and the ban on fireworks will certainly not restrict the countryside, so major fireworks manufacturers are also targeting the rural market.

Of course, in addition to the big manufacturers, small workshops are also staring at the big cake in the countryside, so before the Spring Festival, there will be all kinds of firecrackers or fireworks on the market, and even many of them are produced by small factories that have not heard of it.

Chen Shu drove Luo Chenyu through the market, if it was absolutely impossible before, now it is the year-end market, basically some people buy vegetables or buy fireworks, not as lively as the usual market. Chen Shu bought some bananas and oranges, and then drove the car to Pao City.

In previous years, my father came to buy it, and it cost twenty yuan every time, and the brothers who were still happy when they went home didn't know how to do it, and later when they were older, they learned that the cannon that my father bought back was even the least bought.

Every time Chen Shu and his brothers could not hang firecrackers and let them go, but dismantled them one by one, and every time the Chinese New Year's Eve, Chen Shu would run to the roof after setting off the cannons and watch the flowers in the villages in the distance.

Now Chen Shu is no longer worried about the problem of money, so he plans to buy a little more, but his father was reluctant to buy it before, and the most fundamental reason is that the money is not easy to earn. After the two of them parked the car, they began to walk around the gun market, and there was not much to do anyway.

By the time Chen Shu was satisfied, he had spent more than 700 yuan, while the migrant workers had only 1,500 yuan a month. After arriving home, Chen Shu unloaded a lot of firecrackers in the south courtyard, and pulled the fireworks bombs and some firecrackers to the north courtyard, after all, his parents were in this courtyard.

After coming back, Chen Shu had to do a lot of things, the first was to paste the bought couplet, and then the god of the door. It's also interesting to say that the door god is sticked, because their neighbor made a joke and put the door god in the opposite direction, but the two door gods didn't hold the door, but looked at the corner.

After posting these, I started to clean the yard and the street at the door, but on the fifth day of the lunar calendar, the village is allowed to sweep the yard and take out the garbage, so now they are all cleaned, and then the streets are sprinkled with water to prevent firecrackers from causing fires!

In addition, there is a habit in the village that the elders will be toasted until the 30th night, and on the first day of the Lunar New Year, they are exempted from kowtowing to the elders to pay New Year's greetings.

Chinese New Year's Eve, it is not yet dark, and there is no waiting to eat thirty dumplings, the children can't wait to start firing, stating that the brothers are no longer children, they are helping their mother cook dumplings with peace of mind, and the brother is busy cooking in the kitchen.

The elder brother's cooking skills are much stronger than Chen Shu's, mainly because the elder brother is responsible for making breakfast since he was a child, and his brother cooks when his mother is busy at noon. Later, as long as it was a festival or New Year, basically stir-fried vegetables or stews, as well as cold dishes or something, were made by my brother.

When the dumplings were served, my mother brought a bowl and put it on the altar of the king of the stove, then lit incense and red candles to worship, and then went to the south courtyard with a bowl to continue. After the old brother brought the food to the table, he also went to the south courtyard and hung the firecrackers bought by Chen Shu on the persimmon trees and grape trellises in the courtyard.

According to Chen Shu's idea, since the firecrackers are called earth red, let the shredded paper of the firecrackers be covered with red, and when the sound of firecrackers stops, the yard is full of firecracker skin, like the yard is sprinkled with red petals. When the eldest brother was firing guns in the south courtyard, Chen Shu also began to fire in the north courtyard.

With a "boom", the fireworks bomb flew into the sky and exploded, and the brilliant fireworks crossed the night sky, illuminating the entire night sky and the rural world in a colorful light. After putting five or six in a row, Chen Shu went back to wash his hands and eat, and the family sat down around the table, and his parents couldn't stop laughing.

"Next year, our house will be more lively, and it will be more interesting when there are more people. The implication is that my brother will get married next year, and my parents will forget it. Luo Chenyu smiled slightly, and then didn't say anything more, and the family also began to eat.

During the meal, I called my grandfather several times, saying that he didn't want to eat at the same table with the family. Grandpa felt that he was getting older, his hands and feet were a little unsharp, and he often had a runny nose, which was not clean and annoying to the children.

Chen Shu and Chen Qiang have been with their grandfather since they were children, and they have never said grandpa, and when they came back this time, they deliberately drove their grandfather to the city for a turn, so that grandpa could see the changes in the city. And took my grandfather to the hospital for a full body examination, except for the old problems of the lungs and bronchi, the body is quite tough.

Before Chen Shu and the others cleaned up the table, they heard the sound of someone entering the courtyard, and it seemed that there was a New Year's greeting.

"Let's go to that house, or let's go to someone else's house, so that the younger ones don't have to make a fuss!" Chen Shu whispered to Luo Chenyu, and then brushed the bowl away.