Although the custom in China is to start leaving relatives after the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, in some villages and towns they actually leave that night.

After Li Mu's family finished eating, Aunt Shi was busy cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, and Lao Li first took Li Mu to the eldest brother's house at the head of the village, that is, Li Mu's uncle Li Chuansheng's house.

Li Chuansheng has only one daughter, married two years ago, so they all go home every other year for the Chinese New Year's Eve, this year is not there, but his home is also quite lively, a few old friends holding tea cups on an automatic mahjong table chatting passionately about whose child is married, which old man has added a grandson, when Li Mu and they came in, they heard Li Chuansheng laugh.

"Okay, okay, it's all here, Chuanxing is about to be on the table, haha Xiaomu is also here, have you brought your girlfriend back this year?"

Lao Li obviously knew that there was a shortage of three here, so he took the hot tea poured by his sister-in-law, sat on the empty seat on the mahjong table, and replied by the way: "He is the same, and he is not in a hurry at all." ”

Li Mu also said: "Uncle, my sister is celebrating the Chinese New Year's Eve at my brother-in-law's house this year. ”

"yes." As soon as Lao Li fell off the table, the automatic mahjong table suddenly started running, Li Chuansheng held a cigarette, and said with a smile while touching the cards back, "I can't come back until the third year of junior high school." ”

Li Mu stood at the table and watched a few elders 'bang', 'eat' and 'bar' on the small table, and the atmosphere was like a battlefield.

"Uncle, my dad said that my sister is pregnant, is it true?" Li Mu remembered his father's words at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner just now, and couldn't help but look forward to it.

Although it was not the first time Li Chuansheng had heard this kind of question, he still smiled from ear to ear: "As far as the early winter will be found, it has been six or seven months old now." Haha, self-drawing. ”

The other three paid cheerfully. While coaxing: "Brother, don't give birth to a girl again." ”

Li Chuansheng collected the money quickly. He didn't raise his head: "Giving birth to a son and giving birth to a daughter is my grandfather anyway, so let my in-laws worry about this matter." ”

Li Chuanxing knew how much his brother liked his son, and he was unwilling to have another one after giving birth to a daughter, but unfortunately he encountered family planning, and the family conditions were not good, so it would be very difficult to have another child, so he had to give up.

"Now that the conditions are good, if it's really a daughter, I'll have another one."

The widespread phenomenon of preference for sons over women in the countryside occurs from time to time, and some township cadres are not exempt from vulgarity. Although Li Mu was a little disagreeing, he didn't dare to talk back.

There is a mahjong game with the gate open here, and some friends who pass by outside will inevitably come in to ask for a cup of tea, and by the way, look at the battle situation, point and point, there are more adults, and those energetic boundless children are like little sharks that smell fishy, running around inside and outside the house. Pestering this uncle to buy firecrackers with pocket money, the uncle who shouted twice to Wishing you prosperity wants to press the New Year's money, the children are more lively in the house, plus the handsome and dashing steamed bun with golden hair is majestic. It also attracts many lonely, lonely and cold single female dogs in the village.

Li Mu was sitting in the living room of his uncle's house watching TV, and the group of little devils before had been reloaded and assembled again, and they came over to say hello with a smile.

Li Mu watched the group of bear children leaning on the table. The eyes thief looked at the fruit plate and melon seeds and peanut plate on the table, which was simply Sima Zhao's heart, and passers-by must not know it. Li Mu suddenly remembered that he had celebrated the New Year when he was a child. Although most of them can't remember clearly, this scene suddenly recalled for some reason. At the beginning, the family was poor, and the fruit bowl and peanut and melon seed plate at home during the Chinese New Year were put out when the guests came.

Of course, the current children's style is definitely going to change compared to before, no, after saying hello to Li Mu, these bear children will each have a handful of melon seeds and peanuts in one hand, and two oranges in the other, and they will go out into the wild with a handful of melons and peanuts in one hand.

The steamed bun lay at Li Mu's feet, listless, and let a few beautiful female dogs around him walk around, and rubbed it from time to time, all of them looked indifferent.

Soon there were children's frolicking and crackling firecrackers outside the door, as well as the barking of dogs frightened by the explosion, and the battle situation on the mahjong table seemed to be over from a tense state, and a group of old men were talking about the aftermath of the war, saying that he couldn't make a note, he couldn't leave a tube, and the quarrel was much louder than the frolicking of children outside.

Soon, Aunt Shi also cleaned up the trivial things at home, and rushed to come with a smile, although she didn't play mahjong, but every time Li Chuanxing went to the mahjong table, she had to stand behind him to inflate his courage, and naturally she was indispensable to give advice, but most of them were nonsense, and Lao Li didn't fall for her after suffering a few losses.

Their table of mahjong is dark, the Spring Festival party on the TV here has begun, and the bear children who had been playing wild outside before were also tired and squeezed together with Li Mu on a not wide sofa to watch the New Year party, and from time to time they were amused by the above sketches and laughed, and tears flowed.

When the Spring Festival Gala came to an end, the time was close to twelve o'clock, and the new year was coming.

The adults on the mahjong table have also ceased fighting, Li Chuansheng's wife, Li Mu's aunt has burned a large pot full of smooth pork dumplings, plus some mustard, seaweed, coriander or green onions, a few drops of sesame oil, a little soy sauce, and a bowl of New Year's dumplings with full color and fragrance will be served to the tired old men.

The bear child on the sofa was anxious, and watched TV all night, although the peanuts, melon seeds, oranges, and winter dates did not stop, but these were not hungry, so they cheered a group of people around Aunt Li Mu, one aunt, aunt, grandma, shouted in a mess, teasing her, and finally naturally gave them a small bowl of dumplings.

Li Mu also got a big bowl, but he was very unconvinced by a few people around him, why are you a big bowl, we are a small bowl, and most of the bear children snatched it.

The steamed bun is naturally not shared, and he watched Li Mu eat a mouthful of dumplings and drink a sip of fresh and hot dumpling soup, and he was so hungry that he drooled.

At twelve o'clock in the morning, countless brilliant fireworks appeared in the air outside the village, illuminating the whole village into daylight, and then a deafening sound of firecrackers came, a sound of urgency, and then a strong smell of gunpowder smoke also choked in.

The bear children had already gone outside to watch the fireworks in the sky, shouting, and a few of them took out firecrackers in their pockets and put them up, of course, both the sound and the momentum were far inferior to the sky, so they had to look up at the sky with envy.

Li Mu also walked outside at this time, standing behind the bear children, looking up at the sky, the colorful fireworks in the air illuminated Li Mu's face to the fullest, and he looked up at the sky and seemed to be able to see the dark and oppressive night sky after the fireworks, but at this time Li Mu's heart was full of light. (To be continued......)