In his dazed dream, Ma Xiaodong smelled a strong smell of meat drilling into his nose, and before he could understand what was going on, there was a loud "bang", which made Ma Xiaodong completely sober up. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Rubbing his blurred eyes, he muttered: "Which bear child is it, it's okay to set off firecrackers all day long, and sooner or later he will collapse himself." He seemed to have forgotten that he himself was one of these children in his previous life. The New Year is approaching, and the small village is much more lively and noisy than usual, and every day from morning to evening, there are always children playing with firecrackers.

Ma Xiaodong also liked firecrackers very much, but at that time, his family was poor and he didn't have much money to sell him, so his father would disassemble a string of firecrackers and give him a few at a time, so that he could play for several days with a string of firecrackers.

At that time, not only Ma Xiaodong's family, but basically all the children played like this, with two pockets around the waist of new clothes, one for melon seeds and candy, and one for firecrackers. With a lighter in his hand, the street is full of thumping sounds! Ma Xiaodong clearly remembers that at that time, lighters were all wheels with flint, and after the New Year, a few lighters would be broken when they were moved, and their hands would be red and swollen because of long-term friction of the rollers.

Sometimes to the elders of the New Year, not only can you get the New Year's money, if you are lucky, you will also give an extra string of firecrackers, that is too pleasant, even more surprising than the money, when you get the money home, you will generally passively let the mother save it, but the firecrackers are completely their own, how to play how you want.

There are more ways to play and tricks of firecrackers, what to blow up bottles, ice cubes, dung pits, that are all pediatrics, and later Ma Xiaodong made a kind of soil bomb, which is not only powerful, but also very loud, after success, he was happy.

This bomb is also very simple, go door to door to pick up the kind of unlit squib, come back and disassemble it, take out the explosives inside, after accumulating more, find an iron pipe of about ten to twenty centimeters, smash it to death and seal it, nail out a small hole with a nail, for placing the lead, and then put the prepared explosives into it, and the other end of the iron pipe is also sealed, so that the earth bomb is successful.

The first time he set off this homemade large firecracker, Ma Xiaodong ran into the snow in the field, got a half-meter-long lead, lit it, ran out, ran forty or fifty meters, lay on his stomach in the snow, and waited for a while, then heard a loud 'bang'. The snowdrift jumped up and down, and the scene was quite spectacular.

Later, Ma Xiaodong knew that his loud noise was basically heard by half of the village, and several families who were close to him were shocked. The first success, Ma Xiaodong began the road of upgrading, the homemade firecrackers are getting louder and louder, but often walking by the river, how can there be shoes that do not get wet, when making a production, he was discovered by his father and reprimanded, as a result, Ma Xiaodong's research and development road has been cut off.

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"Huh? So fragrant? Another burst of fragrance wafted in, which brought Ma Xiaodong back to reality from his thoughts, and quickly got dressed and went to the ground to take a look, the kitchen was full of thick water vapor, the boiling water vapor in the cauldron, a lot of pork, pig's trotters, elbows, with the boiling water, the meat fragrance was permeated.

It turns out that the family is cooking meat, these meats are the raw materials for the big meal tomorrow on Chinese New Year's Eve, Ma Xiaodong and they are here for the New Year, and the meal at noon on Chinese New Year's Eve is the most sumptuous and the last meal of the year. The next meal will have to wait until 12 o'clock in the morning to welcome the new year, which is the first meal of the new year.

Yang Guizhi, who was busy, also saw his son who was in a daze, and complained: "You are lazy, you get up so late every day, hurry up and help, there is still a lot of work today." ”

During the Chinese New Year, not only is it delicious and fun, but there is also a lot of work to be done, "What can I do for you?" ”

"Go to the yard, your dad and your eldest sister are sticking money, you go and help."

"Oh." In the yard, my father and eldest sister were holding the hanging money, smearing it with paste, and sticking it to the rope one by one.

"Come here, let's put up the lantern pole!" Ma Hongguo looked at Ma Xiaodong and greeted.

The small tree that the two of them got back from the mountain that day was already covered with hanging money, and the colorless hanging money replaced the green leaves in summer, and there was a big red lantern on it.

After Ma Xiaodong and his father erected the lantern pole, they tied up all the colored flags, and suddenly the yard looked like it had the taste of the New Year, and the flowers and greenery looked very happy.

For tomorrow's feast, there are still a lot of things to prepare today, such as Ma Xiaodong's favorite tofu seeds, which is very troublesome to make, the skin is wrapped in dried tofu, and the inside is starch and lean meat.

There are also all kinds of fried things, steamed, boiled, cold, hot, a big meal requires 24 dishes, some dishes are necessary to prepare for the New Year, such as chicken, fish, pig front hooves, braised pork, Sixi meatballs, prawns...... They are all dishes with auspiciousness and meaning.

And some dishes, are some customs, such as tofu and fried meat, are children's favorite snacks, after all, from noon to early morning on Chinese New Year's Eve, ten hours without eating, everyone will be hungry, when the time comes, use these snacks to fight tooth sacrifice.

"Mmmmmmmm Ma Xiaodong holds a pig's trotters, gnaws his mouth full of oil, eats the front hooves on Chinese New Year's Eve, and cannot eat the hind hooves, then the hind hooves of these pigs can be eaten before the New Year.

Ma Xiaodong loves to eat pig's trotters very much, and his family conditions were not good before, and he couldn't afford to buy pig's trotters to eat, even if it was the New Year, that is, to eat a meal. After all, this thing costs twenty or thirty yuan a piece, and with that money, it is enough for the whole family to eat a few meals of meat, and they are usually reluctant to buy it.

But now it's different, this year the conditions at home have changed dramatically, and it's certainly not difficult to eat pig's trotters.

Yang Guizhi looked at the two wolf-spitting children, and said helplessly: "Eat slowly, I said if you two can have a good time, as if you have seen food, then there is a big pot, no one will rob you." ”

After lunch, Ma Xiaodong didn't need the rest of the work, and he couldn't do the cooking, so he changed into new clothes and shoes for the New Year, and Ma Xiaodong drove out in the car, because he had already made an appointment with the little girl to meet in the afternoon.

Drove to Nancun, picked up the little girl, the two came to the old place, the small house of the forestry station, hugged the little girl, the two had a sweet afternoon, until the sun set, and then sent the little girl back.

On the way back, Ma Xiaodong drove the car, looking at the white land, the sound of firecrackers in the distance came from his ears, and he couldn't help but be happy, the new year, the new life, he is very happy now. (To be continued.) )