After another two months, it entered the wax moon, and I began to prepare the items for the Spring Festival. Zhu Laosi and lame Lao Li took a detailed inventory of the inventory in the warehouse. Make a list of items that need to be added. Lead the brothers on the village to buy. Many of the brothers on the street withdrew and helped clean up in the village. The new clothes are almost ready.

Xiao Qi led the little daughters-in-law and big girls in the village, and after making cotton clothes, they began to make new clothes for the New Year. The owner said that the women's army has worked hard this year. However, the cotton clothes are only redone once in three years, and the women's army will be a little easier next year.

After eating Laba porridge and entering the new year, the big kitchen was busy. Prepare peanuts and melon seeds first, fry the peanuts and melon seeds until fragrant, and put them in the jar. When the flour has risen, knead in the sesame raisins, cut them into small triangles and fry them until they are fragrant and crispy, and put them in the jar and cover them....... The kitchen people were busy. The brothers who withdrew helped to help.

At this time, Zhuang Xiaochu can't help but think of the Spring Festival at home when he was a child, and his parents also prepared a lot of small snacks, home-made shaqima, home-made rice candy, and home-made steamed dumplings....... The brothers and sisters happily ran around the house, all eating with their mouths full of oil. I miss my relatives every festive season, I wonder if my parents are still in good health? My sister should graduate from college, right? Is my brother's work still going well?

Early in the morning of the first day of the new year, as before, the people in Zhuangli were still in a sweet sleep, Xiao Qi and Zhuang Xiaochu got up, Xiao Qi was wearing a pink and purple Luo Lisa skirt, which was a pink and purple cotton coat, which made her bright and moving, (it seems that Xiao Qi likes pink and purple very much) Zhuang Xiaochu was wearing a dark gray and blue robe, embroidered with embroidery of the same color on the oblique collar, which looked handsome and compelling. They were going to burn incense and divination with the old gentleman. It was rare for the old gentleman not to wear a white robe in a year, and he wore a crimson brocade robe and a long horse jacket of the same color, and he looked full of energy.

The old gentleman first bowed to the land lord in the Huazi Temple, and begged him to bless Huazizhuang with a smooth and safe year. Knocked three more times towards the east, took out the bamboo stick tube, Zhuang Xiaochu shook it, and after a while, a bamboo stick jumped out of the tube. When the old gentleman saw it, his face was gloomy, and he was dull for a while, and said, "Owner, I'm afraid this year's luck is not very good." ”

Xiao Qi and Zhuang Xiaochu took it and took a look. A withered tree is drawn on the front of the stick, and the back of the stick reads:

The decayed wood is less in spring, and the lonely boat encounters strong winds.

The tender grass is harmful in the end, and the wild geese are sad.

This is a sign. The decayed wood is still young in spring, and the lonely boat is still in the wind. It means that this year's Hanakozhuang is not good luck this year. In fact, Zhuang Xiaochu doesn't particularly believe in these divinations, he is a person in today's society, and he has accepted atheistic ideas since childhood. It's just that in ancient times, sometimes he had to take care of the feelings of the other brothers in the village, so many times, he just regarded this as a ritual sense of the Spring Festival.

Zhuang Xiaochu comforted the old gentleman and said, "It's okay." Divination may not work at times. Aren't you going to change your luck, old man? The old gentleman looked a little depressed: "I may not be able to change this, this is not a matter of our village, look at this hexagram, Hongyan is sad." This means that our country is not doing well this year. I have lived for more than 60 years, and this kind of hexagram has only appeared twice, once when our country fought with the country of Sally, and the country of Sally almost swallowed our country. ”

"Another time?"

"Another time was more than ten years ago, when there was a severe drought in our country, there was no grain harvest, and many people ate tree bark and soil, and countless people starved to death. ”

Xiao Qi thought of her grandmother and father, who also left her in that drought, because of the drought, she had to drift to another country alone, and her expression couldn't help but be a little depressed. Zhuang Xiaochu saw it and hurriedly said: "It's okay, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, we have so many brothers together now, and we can overcome any difficulties." Today is the first day of the new year, the first day of the year, so let's not talk about these unhappy things. Let's go, let's have breakfast. He took Xiao Qi and the old gentleman and went to the village.

People were dressed in new clothes and were beaming. Breakfast is four meats, four vegetables, four steamed and four cool, accompanied by a four-color rice mixed with red beans, peanuts and kidney beans, as well as a soup ball that symbolizes reunion. After eating, everyone flocked to the conference room to participate in the party. On the long table are all kinds of snacks, snacks, dried fruits, fruits....... Everyone eats and watches the show, which is a rare time of the year when the whole people gather.

The children are definitely going to come and recite a few small articles, and their little heads are lined up and shaken and shaken; the people of the martial arts team will also come out to play a few sets of boxing to see if this year's martial arts have improved; and the rest is a talent show, playing erhu, telling jokes, singing, and commenting on books........ Sometimes people laugh when they watch, and sometimes they see tears in their eyes.

Someone called: "The owner of the village will come to one." ”

There was a cry at the bottom: "The owner has one." ”

Zhuang Xiaochu will also perform a small show every year to cheer everyone up. Sometimes it's reciting a poem, sometimes it's performing a little magic trick, sometimes it's telling a little joke, but I'm not a talented person myself. Sometimes it's too modern, and people don't understand it. For example, once I told you a parrot joke, this joke is actually one of his favorite jokes, put aside the modern times, I will laugh if I have not heard it, and those who have heard it will laugh and shout: "I am a courier, I am a courier." But in Zhuangli, they will be very surprised and ask: "What is a courier?" So Zhuang Xiaochu explained what a courier is, from courier to a certain treasure to a certain father, they may not be able to understand after talking about it.

Zhuang Xiaochu told them what the future world will be like, electric lights, computers, mobile phones, mechanization and intelligence. It was all so new to them, but so unbelievable. Zhuang Xiaochu only hated that he was not Edison, nor Watt. Looking at the hot eyes of the brothers below, he suddenly remembered Zhou Huajian's "Friends"

"Over the years, a person, the wind has passed, and the rain has gone

There were tears, there were mistakes, and I remember what to insist on.

If you really love, you will understand, you will be lonely, and you will look back

There will be dreams, and there will be you, in my heart.

Friends go together for a lifetime, and those days are no more,

In a word, a lifetime, a lifetime of love, a glass of wine

Friends have never been alone, and you will understand when you are friends

There are still injuries, and there are pains, and there are you, and there are me

................................ "Some brothers slowly followed the rhythm and hummed" Friends go together for a lifetime, those days are no more, a word, a lifetime, a lifetime of love, a glass of wine ......." Slowly, many voices sang together, and the song echoed in the conference room for a long time.