Fang Yun's custom of vigil on the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve is different from other places, there is no need to stay up all night, keep watch until twelve o'clock, set off a long firecracker to welcome the arrival of the New Year, and then go to sleep.

"Big brother early." Looking at the time, it was already past six o'clock, Fang Yun got up and came to the kitchen, Fang Ping was already living in the kitchen to boil water.

"Morning, you go brush your teeth and wash your face first, I'll heat up the chicken and tell everyone to get up and eat chicken legs." Fang Ping smiled and took a scoop of hot water and handed it to Fang Yun.

Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, the first day of the new year, according to the customs of the village, everyone gets up in the morning to eat a chicken leg, in the past, the men in the family eat chicken legs, women eat chicken wings, with the improvement of everyone's living conditions, now both men and women are eating chicken legs.

After washing, Fang Yun opened the gate, put the cigarette candles prepared last night on both sides of the gate to light, a long firecracker hung on the jujube tree in the yard and lit it, with the deafening sound of firecrackers, the whole village woke up from sleep, and the crackling firecrackers were connected, signaling the official start of the new year.

In previous years, the first firecrackers in the village were the village chief Fang Zhongjia, and this year, after the unified decision of the villagers, the first task of opening the door and setting off firecrackers fell to Fang Yun, which is everyone's respect for the villagers who have made the greatest contribution to the village.

When Fang Yun went to wake everyone up, everyone had already woken up, chatting happily on the bed, and when they heard Fang Yun knocking on the door and telling everyone to get up, a few little girls who had been lying on the bed with itching and unbearable hearts got up in one fell swoop.

It is also said that on the first day of the new year, the juniors in the family have to get up first to boil hot water. Then I asked my family to get up and wash up to thank my family for their hard work in the past year, now Ye Ye and Niuniu are still young, and this task will be handed over to them in two years.

"Happy New Year, wife." As soon as a group of little ones finished washing, they couldn't wait to kowtow to the biggest grandmother in the house.

"Okay, okay, get up." Grandma smiled happily, and the red envelopes that had been prepared long ago were stuffed into the hands of a few little guys. This year, so many little girls kowtow to themselves for the New Year. But the grandmother was so happy, the old man hoped that there would be more children in the family, and the more lively the better, and the people would be prosperous.

Take the red envelope. A few of the little ones were smiling without an eyebrow. Little children love the New Year. Part of the reason is that they went to the red envelopes, happily packed the red envelopes, and a few little guys excitedly kowtowed to the elders in order to pay New Year's greetings.

The old beggar wiped tears from the corners of her eyes. took out the red envelope and sent it to everyone, even Fang Yun received a red envelope, last year was a person with a few adopted granddaughters for the New Year, not to mention the red envelope, if everyone hadn't sent some food, a few people couldn't even afford to eat meat, compared to the current life, the old beggar has a feeling of being a human being in two lives.

Now the old beggar has long become a family with Fang Yun's family, the generations are a bit chaotic, the big girls are called the old beggar grandmother, called Fang Yun's grandmother, the two old women are commensurate, and in the end they have to call each other.

After breakfast, a few little guys couldn't wait to go out to pay New Year's greetings, the children in the village came to pay New Year's greetings to give red envelopes, and a few little guys discussed what to buy after receiving the red envelopes last night.

Looking at the little ones who were excited to go out, Fang Yun shook his head with a smile, or the life of the children now, thinking that when Fang Yun was young, the red envelopes wrapped by the family were just loaded on the children's bodies for a while and then taken back, just have a meaning, the red envelopes that go out to pay New Year's greetings are also handed over, and the family is already very satisfied with leaving a dime or two for them to spend.

For a whole morning, Fang Yun didn't have time to go out at all, and there was an endless stream of people who came to pay New Year's greetings, in the past six months, Fang Yun brought development to the village, so that everyone was grateful to Fang Yun, and they all chose the first upper Yun family to pay New Year's greetings, knowing the hearts of the villagers, Fang Changsheng deliberately left Fang Yun at home to greet guests.

Guests who come to visit the New Year, the host must accompany him to drink a glass of wine, although everyone understands that there are too many people who come, each just drank a glass with Fang Yun, but there are too many people, Fang Yun drank hundreds of cups in one morning, and ran to the toilet several times, fortunately Fang Yun can cheat, otherwise he would have been poured down.

What Fang Yun didn't expect was that the tourists who stayed in the village for the New Year also followed the villagers to visit the New Year. And one by one, they were more excited than the villagers.

At this time, Fang Yun was accompanying a few guests who came to visit the New Year, these were all tourists who stayed in the village for the New Year, and after drinking two glasses of wine with him, Fang Yun couldn't help but ask: "Why did you choose to stay in the village for the New Year, don't you need to visit relatives in the city?" ”

This question Fang Yun has wanted to ask in his heart for a long time, it is almost the New Year, I thought that there were no tourists to come to the village to play, after all, everyone has to prepare for the New Year, but I didn't expect that after the snow melted, there were more guests who came to the village to play, and saw the villagers happily killing chickens and ducks to prepare for the New Year, many tourists actually chose to take the whole family to celebrate the New Year in the village.

This makes the villagers curious, the Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people, especially in the countryside, no matter how people who go out to work, they have to go home for the New Year, and reunite with their families.

Now some people choose to take their families to celebrate the New Year in the village, and the villagers are muttering behind their backs, and they don't understand the tourists' practices.

"What's so fun about the New Year in the city, it's not lively at all, a firecracker is put in a designated place, and everyone visits each other to pay New Year's greetings, and there is no New Year's flavor at all, so it's better to follow everyone in the village to celebrate the Spring Festival." A tourist explained with a smile.

Don't be a tourist nodded and took over the topic: "That is, now life in the city is rich, but the human touch is light, there are many people who live in the same building for several years and have not said a word, let alone visit each other to pay New Year's greetings, or here, whether you know each other or not, you are a guest at the door, and the host will warmly entertain you." ”

"Come on, come on, drink, get together is fate." Fang Yun didn't know what to say, these years, the material is getting richer and richer, and life is getting better and better, but people's hearts are getting farther and farther away, and the friendship between people is getting weaker and weaker. It's no wonder that tourists choose to stay in the village for the Chinese New Year, at least they can feel the strong family affection here.

"Uncle Yun, we're here to greet you for the New Year." Just sent away a few tourists who came to pay New Year's greetings, and before they had time to clean up, a few bear children in the village ran into Fang Yun's house in a hurry, shouting loudly when they entered the door, followed by a few tourists' children.

"How many red envelopes have you received?" With a smile, he took out the red envelopes that had been prepared a long time ago and handed them out, and the children of the tourists also had them.

Now I asked about the itchy places of the bear children, and they excitedly opened their trouser pockets: "Uncle Yun, look, we have received a lot of red envelopes." ”

Fang Yun took a look, there were really a lot, at least more than twenty stacks of red envelopes, it seemed that these bear children had run a lot of homes. "Eat sugar, eat sugar, take what you like."

Children don't sit down to drink and chat like adults, their favorite is melon and fruit snacks, each family grabs a handful, and they don't have to eat anything at the end of the day, and the villagers' melon and fruit snacks are prepared for these bear children.

The children will not be polite to you at all, and rush up to grab the candy in the fruit bowl, especially the ones that Fang Yun prepared are some of the children's favorite gummies, one by one filled a full bag, grabbed a large handful in his hand, and went to another house to pay New Year's greetings with a smile.

This kind of thing is the same for everyone when they were children, Fang Yun is even more outrageous, Fang Yun deliberately brought a small cloth bag when he went out to pay New Year's greetings when he was a child, and the bag was full when he came back from the door, and he could pack several bags home at the end of the day, and he couldn't finish eating until the New Year's Month passed, and the three brothers didn't touch Fang Yun's light, and a New Year's melon and fruit snack was never broken.

At that time, although I was poor and couldn't afford to buy candy or anything, there were enough dried peanuts, melon seeds, and sweet potatoes, all of which were grown by the villagers themselves, so you could pack as much as you could, as long as you could fit it.

When it was almost time to have lunch, a few little guys who went out to pay New Year's greetings came back, and they were so excited that their little faces were flushed and they were chattering there to show off the red envelopes they received, and the number was really a lot, and each little guy received dozens of red envelopes, and it is estimated that they worshiped the village in the morning.

When the little guys opened all the red envelopes, even Fang Yun was taken aback, good guys, all of them are hundred, a little guy received thousands of red envelopes in the morning, it seems that the villagers do have a little money now, in the past, everyone was reluctant to pack such a big red envelope, and it was almost the same if there was a five or ten yuan.

Soon a few little guys were very happy and sad, and when they were excitedly talking about what toys to buy, Wang Jiu waved his hand and confiscated them all.

In the eyes of the elderly, it seems that children can't take too much money, and it's not good to develop the bad habit of spending money lavishly, so it's better to let the adults in the family help them keep it, and give them books and clothes after saving.

A few little guys quit, and the red envelopes they worked hard to kowtow to the New Year were confiscated before they could be warmed, but Wang Jiu was very resolute in this regard, no matter how much he spoiled the children, in the hearts of the elderly, giving too much money to the children would hurt them.

In the end, Fang Yun couldn't bear to look at the frustrated little guys, everyone secretly gave them a red ticket, which made the little guys who felt very aggrieved happy again, in order not to be confiscated again, a few little guys ran to the village commissary on the spot to buy a bunch of toys, for this Fang Yun did not suffer Wang Jiu's eyes.

There were not so many people who came to visit the New Year in the afternoon, so Fang Yun was able to go out to pay New Year's greetings door to door, and the villagers knew who brought the good days now, and each family had to pull Fang Yun to drink a few glasses of wine before they were willing to let go.

Fang Yun is better, relying on Yuan Li can dissolve alcohol, no matter how much you drink, Fang Changsheng and Fang Ping will be miserable, the countryside is not good, the guests must be pulled to drink, the more enjoyable the better, it is best to get the guests drunk, otherwise they will be said to be unenthusiastic about the guests, the two of them are like soaking in a wine vat these days, as long as they go out, they must be sent home by others. (To be continued......)