Chapter 12: Chinese New Year

The sound of firecrackers is one year old, and the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info thousands of doors and thousands of pupils, always replace the new peach with the old charm.

The New Year, for Qian Fang, who will be 18 years old after the New Year, actually has more meaning.

Teenage children are always in the two contradictory moods of "I want time to pass faster, I want to grow up quickly to support this family" and "Why is time so fast, I don't want to grow up", hesitating, suffering from gains and losses.

Sometimes just because of an autumn rain, I began to feel sad about autumn, and I was sad to watch the withered yellow leaves fall.

Sometimes it will just face the magnificent sea, and suddenly my generation will rise with the wind and soar up to 90,000 miles.

The delicate and sensitive complex emotions, mixed with the vision of the future, are intertwined into a beautiful youth.

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And Qian Fang, who was also at this stage, was immersed in the boundless worry of whether Zhang Wenxin would accept him for a while; After a while, I thought that I had superpowers, and I felt that I couldn't catch Zhang Wenxin with my hand?

But many people can't figure out emotional matters in their lives, let alone the current money side.

Qian Fang, who was a little crazy by himself and couldn't extricate himself, was a little out of shape at the moment, and even took the wrong couplet a few times.

Qian Jing, who is helping her father seal the door and paste Xiaocai with Qian Fang, is such a character, she has long cultivated into a demon, and she can see at a glance that her brother is a little tender seedling that grew after the beginning of love, and it has encountered autumn frost!

After finishing the work, he pulled the money party into the house and prepared to get to the bottom of it.

This money party is the opponent of the old lady, and he explained everything in a few words. If it weren't for the fact that there was still a trace of clarity in my heart, I was worried that the old lady would send herself into the toad pond, and even the fact that she could control electricity would be tricked out.

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Dinner is prepared quite sumptuously, and Dangang, which has the advantage of the seaside, is not short of all kinds of seafood even in winter.

A handful of long prawns, with flying crabs the size of an adult's palm, raw oysters, fragrant mud snails, chewy snails and conchs, and Qian Fang's favorite frozen clams, fill the entire table.

At this time, facing a plate of frozen yellow clams scalded with boiling water, and the juicy Qian Fang eating, while watching the Spring Festival Gala, he chatted with his family with a match.

"Xiao Fang, Wen Xin's kid is good." Dad Qian's sudden words scared Qian Fang, who was eating happily, and almost knocked over the plate. At this moment, Qian Jiyu, the father of Qian, was holding a prawn in his hand, and he didn't even look at Qian Fang, as if what he said just now was not what he said.

"Xiaofang, Mom also supports you, Wen Xin and you have grown up together in open crotch pants since childhood, and the family also knows the roots, if you can come together, then Mom will definitely welcome with both hands and feet! But only if you two can't delay your academic performance! Qian's mother, Li Rongshu, helped Qian Fang take another bag of scalded frozen yellow clams, opened it and poured it into the plate in front of Qian Fang and said.

Qian Fang, who had just been shocked by his father's words, was about to explode, and when he heard his mother's words, he felt a little warm in his heart, and said with a twist: "The eight characters haven't been skimmed yet!" ”

Looking at his brother's unpromising appearance, Qian Jing slapped Qian Fang's head, and said angrily: "What are you afraid of, whose girl is not worthy of our old Qian family!" Why don't you go out? ”

You have a fart for this kind of thing!! Your marriage hasn't been settled yet!!

Qian Fang secretly complained in his heart and touched his nose.

"No, I mean, I haven't told Wen Xin about it yet. I'll figure it out on my own, though! Rest assured! ”

Originally, I was just a little confused, so I told my almighty sister, but I never expected that the unrighteous sister would tell my parents about it! Dad's words scared Qian Fang a lot, just worried that his family would think that he was not good at studying and playing early love in the third year of high school, and he didn't even hear his father's words. But my mother's words made Qian Fang feel a little relieved.

With the support of your family, who is afraid?

Qian Fang, who already has a strong sense of self-esteem, will not accept such level of assistance from his sister.

He wants to defeat Li Jiahao with dignity and win Zhang Wenxin's heart with a victorious attitude.

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After a small episode, the family stopped talking about it. When the child is older, some things are better to let go and let them handle them on their own.

No matter whether the result is good or bad, after all, let the child try and experience it by himself, so that he can grow.

Children, after all, are not their own marionettes, and choosing to let go of some things is not a kind of love. This truth, Qian's father and Qian's mother both understand.

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Chinese New Year's Eve.

Although the Qian family is not a wealthy family or a scholarly family, in some respects, it is also quite traditional, or the rules are extremely strict.

For the Qian family, the Chinese New Year is an extremely serious event. The Qian family does not believe in Buddhism or Taoism, but only believes in their ancestors.

After the children split up, during the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone made dumplings in each house and prepared dinner for the thirty. But at night, no matter who it is, all the men in the family and the girls who have not yet married must all gather at the house of Qian Fang's grandfather, Mr. Qian, to "receive the New Year", "send paper", and worship the ancestors.

In the evening, after making dumplings with his family, Qian Fang came to his grandfather's house with his parents and sisters, carrying big flowers, small firecrackers and high-fragrance red wax bought.

In Qianjiabao, Anping Village, almost half of the villagers are surnamed Qian, and everyone is related to each other.

And Qian Fang's grandfather, Qian Chengde, is almost the oldest and oldest in Qian Jiabao.

Mr. Qian, who is over 90 years old, is in good spirits and in good health. often pedaled the little three-wheeled grandmother Miao with Qian Fang's grandmother Miao, and couldn't tell that these two were already a hundred years old.

When I came to my grandfather's house, I saw that my grandparents were dressed neatly, and they looked very energetic. The Qian family also hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

"Mom, Dad"

"Grandpa, Grandma"

Old man Qian was sitting on the side of the kang, looking like a leader. "The second family is here! Put down your things and put incense on your ancestors! ”

One after another, all the uncles of the Qian side also came over with their families.

Seeing that everyone had arrived and the sun had set, Grandpa told Grandma to cook dumplings, and led everyone to the open space in front of the door with offering tables, paper money, firecrackers, and incense.

Set up the offering table, light the incense and insert it on the steamed bun. Immediately, the old man Qian lit the paper money, and there were words in his mouth: "It's the New Year, the ancestor has gone home!" ”

Immediately, Qian Fang's uncle and Qian Fang's generation also began to throw paper money into the fire, shouting, "The ancestor is coming home for the New Year!" ”

After burning the paper money, he stood in three rows according to his seniority, with the old man in front and the junior behind, knelt down and kowtowed three times in the direction of the fire.

"Shoot!"

After kowtowing, the old man waved his hand, and the juniors stepped forward one after another, and lit the big fireworks and small firecrackers placed on the ground, the crackling firecrackers and the fireworks scattered all over the sky, as if pulling up the prelude to the New Year's celebration, and the neighbors' ceremonial flowers also went to the sky.

Back at home, the old man brought the whole family to the ancestral hall. In the center of the ancestral hall is a hanging genealogy, on which are written the names and generations of the ancestors of the Qian family, and below is a set incense table. On the incense table, there are melons, fruits, and dishes dedicated to ancestors, and between the burning red candles on both sides are a row of filled wine glasses.

On the front incense altar, three new high incense sticks were replaced, and after the copper basin continued to burn a pile of paper money, Mr. Qian took the whole family to kowtow to the ancestors again in order of generation.

"The ancestors are back! Bless the children and grandchildren of our old Qian family with full blessings and prosperity! ”

This is the most important step of the "New Year", ---- invite the ancestors to return to their thrones and enjoy the incense of their descendants.

After kowtowing, each person ate a bowl of radish and shrimp dumplings cooked by Grandma Qian Fang, and then returned to their respective homes one after another, continued to light a plate of firecrackers, and completed the last step of the "New Year".

At the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, a large family divided into several tables and gathered together, watching the Spring Festival Gala and chatting, which was very lively.

The men were chatting about their careers, the women were chatting about their children, and the Qian Fang's brothers and sisters were desperately stuffing the dumplings into their stomachs in order to eat the coins wrapped in the dumplings, and the happy Qian Fang's grandmother's face was wrinkled.

In the middle of the night, when the clock was about to reach 0 o'clock, Mr. Qian took the whole family back to the open space where firecrackers were set off before, and returned to the ancestral hall after another round of salutes.

Incense, paper burning, kowtowing, and completing the last step of worshipping the ancestors---- sending paper.

The busy Chinese New Year's Eve, three kneeling, nine kowtows, until this time can be regarded as completely sending away the old year and ushering in the new year.

After everyone got up, under the leadership of Mr. Qian, everyone gave hands to each other.

"Happy New Year!"