After lunch, Yue Haohan rested until three o'clock, took two bottles of wine, went to his godfather Deng Xuanchang's house, entered the small courtyard of Deng Xuanchang's house, and saw Deng Xuanchang's son Deng Tianyu washing fish by the pool in the yard, a girl in a green down suit stood next to him and watched, Yue Haohan stepped forward and shouted, Brother Tianyu! Then asked, Brother Tianyu, when did you come back?

Deng Tianyu raised his head, looked at Yue Haohan, and replied with a smile, Brother Haohan is here, I also said to pack up the fish, and go to your house with Yuping to see Uncle Yue and Aunt Wang, you came over first. Your sister-in-law and I came back last night.

Deng Tianyu threw the washed fish into the basin next to him, introduced the girl next to Yue Haohan, and said, This is your sister-in-law, named Zhou Yuping, who teaches Chinese in Yanshan No. 1 Middle School, our college classmates, came to our house for the first time for the New Year.

When Deng Tianyu introduced, Zhou Yuping smiled at Yue Haohan with a red face. Deng Tianyu is two years older than Yue Haohan, and after graduating from the law department of Zhongzhou University the year before last, he was assigned to work in the Yanshan City Procuratorate.

Deng Tianyu washed his hands, let Yue Haohan into the living room and sat down, Zhou Yuping poured a cup of tea for Yue Haohan, put it on the coffee table, and then sat down next to Deng Tianyu.

Yue Haohan picked up the cup and blew it, took a sip, and asked, Brother Tianyu, godfather, godmother?

Deng Tianyu said that the two of them went out to buy things together, and they are estimated to be back soon. I chopped half of the dumpling filling and went out, and I didn't know what to buy, and the dumpling filling at night was not chopped yet.

When talking to Deng Tianyu, Yue Haohan found that Zhou Yuping, who was sitting next to Deng Tianyu, was always smiling and looking at himself, so he smiled, looked at Zhou Yuping, and asked, sister-in-law's house is from Yanshan City?

Zhou Yuping replied with a smile and said, Well, I often hear you Brother Tianyu and another person, always praising you in front of me, I was thinking, what is Tianyu's godbrother like?

Yue Haohan smiled and said, except for my brother praising me, who else will praise me, a small clerk in a big ravine, besides, no one in Yanshan City knows me except my brother.

Zhou Yuping said, no, my cousin knows you. After my cousin knew that you were Tianyu's godbrother, she turned around in front of me every day to inquire about you, and you still dare to say that you don't know her?

Yue Haohan said, sister-in-law, don't play dumb riddles, what's your cousin's name? Where do you work?

Zhou Yuping smiled and said, my cousin's name is Qian Lijuan, I know it, dare to say I don't know it? People are hanging on their mouths every day, saying how good Yue Haohan is and how handsome.

Yue Haohan's eyes widened, looked at Zhou Yuping, and asked, Qian Lijuan? Qian Lijuan is your cousin?

Zhou Yuping said with a smile, let's know.

Yue Haohan smiled and said, I know, she and my girlfriend are classmates, and she seems to work in the city government.

Zhou Yuping said, yes, working in the first section of the municipal government's economy. She was my uncle's daughter.

Deng Tianyu on the side interjected and said, Haohan, listen to your sister-in-law's cousin of Yuping, your girlfriend is from the East China Sea? You are so far away, what will you do in the future? Are you going to transfer to the East China Sea, or your girlfriend will be transferred to our Jiangyang in the future, I heard Qian Lijuan say that your girlfriend's father is a high-ranking cadre, and it should be a piece of cake to transfer individuals.

Yue Haohan smiled and said, Brother Tianyu, you are not married yet, what am I anxious about? When I think about it after I get married in the future, I think that there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain.

The three of them were chatting in the living room, Deng Xuanchang was carrying a bag in his hand, and Zhu Xiuzhen came back one after another, and when he entered the living room, Deng Xuanchang put down the bag in his hand, greeted Yue Haohan, and said, Haohan is here?

Yue Haohan said, I brought you two bottles of wine, and there will be nothing else to do, just chat with Tianyu buddies.

Zhu Xiuzhen also went to the living room to say hello to Yue Haohan, and then went to the kitchen to chop the dumpling filling. Deng Xuanchang sat down on the sofa, looked at Yue Haohan, and asked, why didn't you come back with Ziying for the New Year?

Yue Haohan said that Ziying's brother, sister-in-law, and nephew all returned to the East China Sea from Beijing for the New Year this year, and Ziying would not be good if she left, so she didn't come with her.

Deng Xuanchang said, you are not a long way to do this.

Yue Haohan said that we are all still young, and it is not too late to think about it in two years.

Deng Xuanchang said, it's not too young, your brother Tianyu is only two years older than you, and the two of them have decided to get married on May Day after the year. In addition, I think you can't stay in the countryside for too long, because staying in the countryside for a long time is easy to wear down people's willpower, and will make people's thoughts and visions narrow and closed, which is not conducive to your future development in the long run. Last time I was with Secretary Chen Guoyun Chen, he was still saying that he planned to transfer you to the county party committee office.

Yue Haohan said that Secretary Chen had talked to me about this before, but I refused, and I think the countryside is very good. I think that a person's thoughts and vision, and the willpower to do things, have little to do with what kind of work environment he has, but the key lies in his value orientation.

Deng Xuanchang smiled and said, we won't discuss this issue today, your godfather and I are a teacher, I just hope that you children will have a smooth and happy life in the future.

After chatting at Deng Xuanchang's house until more than five o'clock, Yue Haohan got up to say goodbye and go home, and when he returned home, he saw the family sitting around the living room, watching TV and wrapping dumplings.

Yue Haohan washed his hands, ready to help make dumplings, Yue Chunfang said, brother, it's almost ready, just a few of our bags, you go and light the charcoal fire, we have to stay up at night to watch the Spring Festival Gala.

Staying up and keeping the year is the custom of staying up late to welcome the arrival of the new year without sleeping on the last night of the lunar year, also called Chinese New Year's Eve, commonly known as "staying up the year". Exploring the origin of this custom, there is an interesting story circulating among the people:

It is said that in ancient times, there was a fierce monster scattered in the deep mountains and dense forests, and people called them "Nian". Its appearance is hideous, ferocious by nature, specializing in birds and animals, scaly insects, changing a taste every day, from kowtow insects to eating big living people, making people talk about the "year" color change. Later, people slowly grasped the activity law of "Nian", which only went to the place where the crowd lived once every 365 days to taste the freshness, and the time of haunting was after dark, and when the rooster crowed and dawned, they returned to the mountains and forests.

After calculating the date when the "year" was raging, the people regarded this terrible night as a pass, called the "New Year's Pass", and came up with a whole set of ways to pass the New Year's pass: every night, every family prepared dinner in advance, put out the fire and cleaned the stove, and then tied all the chicken pens and cattle pens, sealed the front and rear doors of the house, and hid in the house to eat the "Chinese New Year's Eve dinner". Pray for the blessing of the ancestral gods to spend the night in peace, and after dinner, no one dares to sleep, huddle together and chat to strengthen their courage. The habit of staying up on Chinese New Year's Eve has gradually formed.

The custom of keeping the New Year arose in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and many literati in the Liang Dynasty had poems and essays about keeping the New Year. "One night is two years old, and five watches are divided into two years." People light candles or oil lamps and keep vigil all night to symbolize the drive away all evil plagues and diseases, and look forward to the auspicious new year. This custom has been passed down to the present day.

There is also a custom in the Jiangyang area, Chinese New Year's Eve night to keep the New Year and bake the fire, you must use the tree lumps dug back from the mountain by your own hands to raise a big fire, the family around the brazier, roasting the fire, chatting about the day to stay up and keep the year, called \"Thirty nights of baking pimples, sons and grandsons grasp the bones, "bone grasping" is the local dialect in Jiangyang, meaning as many as small lumps on the tree, which means a large nest for sons and grandsons, indicating the meaning of prosperity.

By the middle of the 80-year belt, people's living conditions have generally improved, and most people, especially those in the city, generally stay up and keep the New Year and no longer roast "tree lumps", but every household will still raise a large pot of prosperous charcoal fire, chat around the charcoal fire, watch TV, especially from the end of the 83rd year, on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the family roasts the charcoal fire and watches the Spring Festival Gala program, which is an indispensable procedure for staying up late to watch the New Year.

Yue Haohan raised the charcoal fire and brought the brazier to the living room to put it away, at this time, everyone had already wrapped the dumplings, and her mother Wang Sulan got up and carried the wrapped dumplings with her two sisters to the kitchen to prepare the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. Yue Haohan and his father and younger brother chatted, roasted the fire, and watched TV in the living room.

Eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is the most lively and pleasant time for every family during the Spring Festival. Chinese New Year's Eve. The sumptuous New Year's dishes are placed on a table, the family is reunited, sitting around the table, eating a reunion dinner, and the sense of fulfillment in the heart is indescribable. People are not only enjoying the table full of delicacies, but also enjoy the happy atmosphere, there are big dishes, cold pots, hot stir-frying, dim sum, generally two things are indispensable, one is hot pot. The second is fish. The hot pot is boiling, steaming, warm and sultry, representing prosperity; "Fish" and "Yu" are homophonic, which is a symbol of "auspicious celebration", and also means "more than every year". There is also a radish is indispensable, radish is commonly known as cabbage, I wish you a good luck; Lobster, fried fish and other fried foods, wishing the family prosperity like "cooking oil on fire". Finally, it is more than a sweet dish, wishing the future days to be sweet and sweet, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, even if you can't drink, you have to drink a little.

There are many famous restaurants for Chinese New Year's Eve rice, which are different in the north and south, including dumplings, wontons, long noodles, rice balls, etc., and each has its own exquisiteness. Northerners are accustomed to eating dumplings during the New Year, which means "changing the age of the old and the new". And because the white-flour dumplings are shaped like silver ingots, a pot served on the table symbolizes the meaning of "making a fortune in the New Year, and the ingots rolling in". When some people make dumplings, they also wrap a few coins after disinfection with boiling water, saying that whoever eats them first will be able to make more money and make a fortune in the coming year.

The custom of eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year was handed down from the Han Dynasty. According to legend, the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing saw that the ears of the poor were frozen in the cold winter, so he made a kind of "cold and delicate ear soup" to treat frostbite for the poor. He used mutton, chili peppers and some herbs to dispel cold and warmth, and wrapped the dough into an ear-like "Jiao'er", cooked it in a pot, and distributed it to the poor. Since then, people have followed suit and it has been passed down to this day. Eating wontons in the New Year is to take the meaning of its beginning. Legend has it that before the world was generated, it was in a state of chaos, and Pangu opened the world to the four corners of the universe, eating long noodles, also called noodles and longevity noodles. Eating noodles in the New Year means wishing a long life of 100 years.

Yue Haohan's family had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, it was almost eight o'clock in the evening, after cleaning up the table, the family sat around the charcoal fire, adjusted the channel of the color TV, and happily and excitedly looked forward to the start of the Spring Festival Gala.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the Spring Festival Gala opened with "Celebration Song and Dance", which officially began, and the whole family watched the show happily, Yue Haohan watched a few programs, got up and went to the study, picked up the phone, and dialed the number of Luo Xianjie's house.

After the phone was connected, a middle-aged man's voice came from the other end of the phone, saying, Hello! Which one are you looking for?

Yue Haohan was stunned for a moment and said, Hello, is my Grandpa Luo at home? I am Yue Haohan of Jiangyang.

The middle-aged man said, Oh, vast? Then you wait a minute.

After a few seconds, Luo Xianjie's voice came from the phone, saying, is it vast?

Yue Haohan said, Grandpa, Happy New Year! Are you also watching the Spring Festival Gala?

Luo Xianjie "ha, ha" smiled and said, I'll go to bed after a while, staying up the New Year's vigil is a matter for you young people, I want to go to bed early and get up early. Haohan, did my granddaughter-in-law come to Jiangyang for the New Year this year?

Yue Haohan smiled and said, no, Brother Wei's family went back to the East China Sea for the New Year this year, and it is not good for Ziying not to spend the New Year in the East China Sea. Grandpa, when I was in the East China Sea, did you receive the Dahong Robe and Tietieguanyin tea that Ziying mailed to you? That tea was bought by us at the Yunqing Tea House.

Luo Xianjie said, Yunqing Tea House? Yunqing Tea House sells high-end tea, and several sales shops in Beijing sell Dahongpao and Tieguanyin, with a starting price of thousands of yuan, why do you spend this money.

Yue Haohan said, grandpa, Boss Ye of the Yunqing Tea House has a discount for us, it's not expensive. Grandpa, how about you stay in Jiangyang for a while after the Spring Festival? I miss you every day!

Luo Xianjie laughed twice and said, "Ha, ha" laughed twice, and said, don't you say that I also plan to live in the spring for a while. Jiangyang has good air and environment, which is good for health, and I like it there.

chatted with Luo Xianjie on the phone for dozens of minutes, put down the phone, Yue Haohan dialed Cheng Ziying's house again, and the phone rang twice, it was Cheng Ziying's mother Li Dangui who answered the phone.

Yue Haohan heard that it was Li Dangui's voice, held the microphone tightly, and said, Auntie, I am Haohan, I have a New Year's greeting for you! There are also Uncle Cheng, Brother Wei Guo, Ruotong's sister-in-law, and Xiao Shuhao, all have a happy New Year!

Li Dangui smiled on the phone and said, take me to say hello to your whole family! I asked Ziying to answer the phone.

Immediately, Cheng Ziying's voice came from the phone, saying, Haohan, you didn't watch the party, this will be the sketch "Police and Thieves" to watch.

Yue Haohan said that after the broadcast, you can watch it in the morning and evening. Ziying, a scholar? Did you sleep?

Cheng Ziying said, excited, this will be playing with the remote control car in the living room. Vast, on my behalf, I wish my uncles and aunts New Year's greetings! Hello to my sister and brothers!

Yue Haohan said, Ziying, my sister and younger brothers were still talking in the morning, if you come to Jiangyang for the New Year, how lively the family should be, Chunfang and Chunxia got up early in the morning and fought against me, saying why didn't I bring you to Jiangyang.

Cheng Ziying smiled "giggles, giggles" and said, then I will definitely go to Jiangyang for the Chinese New Year next year, I have long wanted to see if the Jiangyang I often go to in my dreams is the same as the Jiangyang in reality.

Yue Haohan and Cheng Ziying, although they only parted for two days, the two of them still held the phone, chatted about me and I talked for a long time, put down the phone, when Yue Haohan walked out of the study, on TV, the hostess was saying, Next, please enjoy a song "I want to have a home", sung by Miss Pan Meichen, a famous singer from TW.

The host stepped back, and as the music sounded, Pan Meichen, a TW singer dressed in black and like a handsome boy, appeared on the TV screen, holding the microphone, looking around the studio hall in the sound of music, and then, looking up, picked up the microphone and sang:

I want to have a home

A place that doesn't need to be flamboyant

When I'm tired

I would think of it

I want to have a home

A place that doesn't need to be big

When I was frightened

I won't be afraid

Who wouldn't want home

But there are people who don't have it

Tears streaming down his face

You can only rub it gently on your own

I envy him so much

You can go home if you are injured

And I can only look for my home in solitude......

The melody of the song is smooth, but the sadness contains pride, inspiring people to face life bravely and fight life, which makes people feel like crying, and the living room is quiet for a while, and the whole family is immersed in the melody of this song.