Chapter 26: Chinese New Year

"Oh, oh, oh." In the morning, Xu Daozhi was woken up by the sound of a rooster crowing, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a strange and familiar room, which was when he realized that he had been at home during the winter vacation. Looking at the time, it was already half past five, and compared to the cold environment outside the quilt, the warm quilt was like heaven, which made Xu Daoyi not want to get up. After grinding for a few minutes, Xu Daozhi finally got up. Get ready to start the day's workout.

Get dressed and go downstairs. Xu Daozhi saw an orange fire dancing in the kitchen, and when he walked over, he saw his grandmother Liu Meiqin cooking porridge in front of the stove, and the sparks of the burning straw in the stove were reflected on Liu Meiqin's face, making her look particularly kind. From the first time he consciously looked at Liu Meiqin's face after being sensible, he found that the wrinkles on his grandmother's face were deeper than those teachers in the school who were older than her. Secretly said in his heart: "Grandma, you must be in good health, when I work to earn money, I don't have to work so hard, and I can enjoy Qingfu when the time comes." ”

Hearing the footsteps, Liu Meiqin found that her grandson was looking at her, and said with some distress: "What's the matter, I got up so early and didn't sleep anymore?" "Well, I'm used to it, I usually wake up like this, and grandma, don't you wake up earlier than me?" Xu Daozhi replied, "Hehe, I'm old and I don't sleep much, so I naturally can't sleep when I get to the point." It's better to get up early to prepare breakfast while lying in bed, and then go out early and do more. Liu Meiqin's answer Xu Daozhi knew that doing more things was the reason for getting up early, and he was even more firm in his heart.

After washing, Xu Daoyi said to Liu Meiqin while putting on his shoes: "I'm going out to exercise." "Okay, let's go exercise, the morning air is good on the shore of Taihu Lake." A lot of people go there in the morning to work out. Liu Meiqin still supports her grandson to exercise, after all, the body is the capital of the revolution, and only with a good body can you have better energy and physical strength to do things. After a pause, Liu Meiqin said, "I'm going to go to the morning market to buy vegetables later, do you want to eat breakfast?" I'll buy it if I have one. At this time, Xu Daozhi had already put on his shoes and was ready to go, and when he heard Liu Meiqin's question, he thought that it was not easy for his grandmother to make money, so he said: "You don't have to buy it, didn't you cook the porridge, and then you have your pickled black shoots." It's delicious. Okay, I'm going out. After speaking, he pushed the door and left the house without Liu Meiqin talking.

At this point in winter, it is still dark, and a moon hangs in the sky. However, the road is not dark, and the government's new rural construction has begun to bear fruit in recent years, and the road in the village has been widened and paved with cement. Street lights were also installed on the side of the road. Jog along the road towards Taihu Lake. It was discovered that the wasteland in memory had been planted with grass and trees. There are also several pavilions in between, with a track built specifically for exercise. It's like a scene in a painting. At a glance, there are indeed some elderly people exercising. Without thinking about it anymore, Xu Daozhi found an open place and began his workout.

It was still dark when I went out, and it was already bright when I got home. When Xu Daozhi arrived home, he found that the door had been closed, and he knew that the adults in the family had gone out to work. took out the key and opened the door and entered the house, Xu Daozhi stood in the empty hall, and actually felt a little cold. laughed at himself and shook off these senseless feelings, walked into the kitchen, opened the lid, and found that it was actually warm with his favorite begonia cake when he was a child. Needless to say, this must have been bought by Liu Meiqin, although her grandson said that she didn't need to buy anything, but she clearly remembered Xu Daozhi's preferences.

The days passed like this, and Xu Daozhi became more and more homely, and basically stopped going out except for exercise. I checked the content of the sixth and seventh chapters of the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" with my mobile phone, and after transcribing it, his life was like returning to school, and every day in addition to eating and sleeping was reading, memorizing and reviewing. Although it is monotonous, Xu Daozhi enjoys it. And his current requirements for the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon" are not to understand but to be familiar with it, as for understanding, it is only a matter of time.

As the weather gets colder and colder, the New Year is getting closer and closer, and the smell of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger. Two days before Chinese New Year's Eve, Xu Daozhi's parents stopped going out to work. Buy New Year's goods, clean up the house, kill pigs and marinate meat, and press rice cakes. These are time-consuming, and it's no easier than going to work. Xu Daozhi also wanted to help, but he was disgusted and clumsy, so he had to give up.

The sound of firecrackers bids farewell to the old year, which means that the most important festival for Chinese people around the world, the Spring Festival, has arrived. Every family starts busy in the morning, cooking a round table of dishes, and then worshipping their ancestors. Until four o'clock in the afternoon, after the end of the sacrifice, Xu Daozhi and his family plugged in an electric pot and began to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. Hearty dishes, home-cooked clear soup in the electric pot is tumbling, and the family sits together, watching TV while eating, chatting about family life from time to time. It seems to be happy. After dinner, it is a program that can not be moved, and watching the Spring Festival Gala is accompanied by the New Year's Eve, although the reputation has declined, but it is still the main item of the people's New Year's entertainment. After the bell rang at twelve o'clock, the family went to sleep, and Xu Daozhi, who was already a college student before going to bed, also received a red envelope from the second elder of the family. The elder didn't dare to resign, and just thought about giving the second elder a big red envelope when he earned money for the New Year in the future.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Xu Daoyi's family burned incense at a nearby Taoist temple to worship the gods. After that, I will go to Wang Fang's mother's house to pay New Year's greetings. Fortunately, Xu Dao's grandparents' house is not very far from Xu Dao's house, and the battery car is twenty-five minutes away. Xu Daozhi's grandfather is called Wang Liugui, and his grandmother is called Wang Jianfen, these two old people are ordinary farmers, but Xu Daozhi thinks they are very powerful, and all kinds of resources are very scarce in that era, but these two ordinary farm names support three children, including Xu Daozhi's mother.

Wang Fang has an elder brother named Wang Liangcai, and a younger brother named Wang Liangtian, Wang Liangcai is a teacher in the town's primary school, and Wang Liangtian used to be a construction worker, and in recent years, he has been engaged in decoration, and I heard that he still has a good look. The three brothers and sisters are about the same age, so naturally their children are not much older.

Wang Liangcai's son, Xu Daozhi's cousin's name is Wang Cong, who did not study in high school, but studied in a five-year junior college. , graduated this year, majoring in mechatronics. But he didn't go out to work, it's not that he couldn't find a job, he found a job when he graduated, but as a fresh graduate, he didn't have any work experience, so he had to start from the basics, and he was tired after two months, and then he used the two months' salary to buy a computer, and pestered Wang Liangcai to open the Internet and stop going to work. Every day at home, I play games at one or two o'clock in the evening, and I don't shout tired. Wang Liangtian gave birth to a daughter named Faye Wong, who is different from the big star with the same name. But it's beautiful. Big round eyes, tall nose, and a standard melon seed face. And fair-skinned, she is definitely a big beauty in a few years, and she is now in her second year of high school. The grades are average.

Xu Daozhi and his brother and sister have a good relationship, and their generation is basically the only child after responding to the call of the country, so the relationship between cousins and sisters is the same as that of their own brothers and sisters. That's what the elders of the family taught.

After Xu Daozhi's family arrived, they began to talk to each other and began to make family routines, and Xu Daozhi was fortunate to be someone else's child. was taken by Wang Liangtian to set an example. Educate Faye Wong to learn from Xu Daozhi. It made Xu Daozhi and the little girl embarrassed. However, Xu Daozhi is indeed regarded as proud by Wang Cong and Faye Wong. After all, it is really something to be proud of to be able to produce such a college student in the countryside at this time, not to mention the younger brother/elder brother who has a good relationship.

After a few days of New Year's greetings, the festive atmosphere turned from strong to light, and Xu Daozhi's life began to return to normal, waiting for the start of school while endorsing books.