In the countryside, winter may be the most free time of the year, people do not have to be busy working in the fields, and do not have to worry about the growth and harvest of crops, during the day, men gather about three or five to play poker, women chat about homely gossip on the warm kang, the sun shines through the glass on the body makes people feel warm all over the body, more and more lazy people can not raise the interest of work.

Seeing that it is almost the end of the year, the older generation of people pay great attention to tradition, and every household has to clean the house inside and out, sweep out all the bad things of the year, and hope that everything will go smoothly in the coming year. In order to prepare for the New Year, Xiao Qianjing's parents planned to take him to a town dozens of miles away to buy some New Year's goods, and by the way, they also bought him a new dress for the New Year.

Because the location of the village is relatively remote, it is rare to go to the town once a year, so Xiao Qianjing was very excited, and his parents wrapped him in a thick sheepskin coat and took him to the village entrance to wait for the car. The people in the village are very poor, only the old village chief's family has an old tractor, and when someone in the village wants to go to the town during the New Year's festival or the town to catch the market, the old village chief will drive his tractor to pull the villagers to the town and back again. When they arrived at the entrance of the village, the village chief's tractor was already waiting, and there were a few people from the same village sitting on the back of the car, and there was no cover on the body, everyone was wrapped in a thick coat and only showed a pair of eyes, and when they saw them coming, the village chief smiled and said: "I'm waiting for you, go up quickly, yo!" Are the dolls going too? ”

"Well, the baby hasn't been to the town for a year, and I'm not shouting to follow, the clothes worn by the doll in the past few years are all made from the old clothes of adults, and the baby hasn't worn a new dress for many years, and the child is getting older and thinking about buying him a new dress." His father said to the village chief as he carried him into the car.

"Hmmm! The doll is growing now, one day at a time, the clothes that were just changed last year are a little small this year, it's not that our village is too poor! It's bitter doll. The village chief sighed, feeling uncomfortable. I heard your father say that you are going to work in the city in the spring? ”

"Well, I'm thinking about going into the city to make more money, to see if I can take the baby to the city to go to school, a few days ago the school house collapsed half of the house can frighten us, the doll is also bigger, the school in the city is better, we have been poor for a lifetime, we can't let the babies follow us to be poor for a lifetime." Hearing Xiao Qianjing's father talk about the school, the village chief's heart became even more uncomfortable.

"Go, if you can work outside, don't go back to the poor ravine, what can you do in the village." Maybe in a few years, all the young and strong people in the village will go out to work, and they will be left here.

"It's not early, everyone is here, then let's go!" The village chief jumped down and took the crank to start the tractor, maybe it was too cold, the village chief shook the machine for a while and did not move, but he was tired and sweaty, his father saw this and quickly jumped out of the car to help, and the two of them were busy for a while before starting the machine.

The tractor carried a group of people along the rugged mountain road in front of the village slowly in the direction of the town, people wrapped in leather jackets and nestled in the car body, and soon a thick layer of snowflakes accumulated on their bodies, from a distance to see the white expanse, only the tires left a mark on the snow, a gust of wind and snow drifted by, and the mark was also covered by new snow, as if they had never appeared.

By the middle of the morning, the village chief slowly parked the tractor in an open field at the entrance of the town, and people jumped out of the car and shook off the snow. Xiao Qianjing's parents took him to the market, because it was close to the end of the year, and people from nearby villages also came to buy things. The sound of shouting, selling, and bargaining was everywhere, red lanterns and couplets hung on the shelves, and there were all kinds of vegetable sellers, meat sellers, and artillery sellers.

"Let's go, let's buy clothes for the baby first and then go buy other things." As she spoke, her mother took his little hand and walked to the place where she bought clothes. I chose to go to several houses, and finally spent 5 yuan to buy a set of blue clothes for Xiao Qianjing, which happened to be worn over the padded jacket. Then I went to the market to cut a pound of meat and bought a cabbage, maybe I had been in the cellar for a long time, and it was a little wilted, but it was better than nothing! Then he went to buy a couplet, and what was rare was that his father also bought him a string of cannonballs, and their family of three walked around from beginning to end, and Xiao Qianjing had to look at whatever he saw. The sun set early in winter, seeing the sun falling in the west, a family of three hurriedly walked to the direction of the town, and after a while, they saw everyone happily taking a bunch of things back, the old village chief hurriedly drove out of the town, and the tractor drove out of the town slowly, and rushed back along the way when he came, all the way without words, and when he got home, the sun had completely set.

When Grandpa saw them coming back, he hurriedly took the things and put them in the big vat in the yard to prevent them from being eaten by the cats and rats at home. Grandma brought a broom to sweep the snow off their bodies, and the kerosene lamp had been lit in the house, and the dim wick could only illuminate a small part of the house, which looked dim and dark, but this could not affect the mood of everyone. The family sat on the hot kang and gathered in front of the kerosene lamp to talk about what they had seen and heard in the town, Xiao Qianjing couldn't wait to show his grandparents his new clothes and told them about all kinds of things he saw in the town today. When it was almost eight o'clock, my mother began to spread the kang, and my grandfather took a cotton curtain to cover the window from the outside, or with the temperature of more than minus 30 degrees Celsius and the strong wind in their night, the paper on the window would have been frozen and shattered tomorrow morning. At that time, there was no electricity and no entertainment in the village, so they all slept very early, Xiao Qianjing lay in the quilt and couldn't sleep excitedly, turned over and over, tossed very late before falling asleep tired.

The next day, the day was bright, Xiao Qianjing was still sleeping in the bed, but the adults got up early, today is the twenty-ninth of the New Year, there is a lot of work to be done at home, in the morning mother and grandmother have to remove the mattress and quilt cover and change clothes, father and grandfather have to sweep out the snow on the roof and yard. Xiao Qianjing got up at noon, folded his quilt after getting dressed, and ran to the yard to build a snowman, and in the afternoon his mother and grandmother had to prepare the materials for tomorrow's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and the twenty-ninth year passed in a hurry, although it was very tiring but everyone was happy.

The thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, also known as Chinese New Year's Eve, is the most traditional and solemn festival in China, and it is also the most festive day.

My father and grandfather got up early to put a red couplet on the door, and then went to the forest behind to cut down a tree, and together they dragged it back and sawed it into small sections and piled them up in the yard, which was used to gather the fire at night. In the afternoon, my mother and grandmother began to make dumplings, although most of the bread was cabbage and mushrooms, and only a small part of the meat, but this was not something they usually ate. Xiao Qianjing also changed into the new clothes he had been looking forward to for a long time, excitedly touched this pocket, turned over the collar, and sat on the kang carefully, not daring to go anywhere for fear of staining the new clothes.

When night fell, my grandmother brought steaming dumplings to the kang, as well as a pot of pork stewed vermicelli, which was made from flour ground from yams, and a fried cabbage and fried yam tablets with lard. Grandma saw his gluttony, so she used chopsticks to hold one and put it in his bowl, Xiao Qianjing didn't care about the hot mouth and stuffed it into his mouth, the soup flowed out and he inhaled but was reluctant to spit out the dumplings, and only after the whole dumpling was in his stomach did he breathe. Grandma looked at her little grandson distressedly, "Eat slowly, eat slowly, there is still something in the pot." When all the things were served, the family sat around the kang, eating delicious dumplings and tasting the delicious food obtained by the hard work of the past year. Everyone was very happy, even the grandfather, who usually doesn't smile much, had a smile on his face! Outside, the north wind blows geese and snow, but the house is warm, and the hearts of the people are also warm.

When it was almost 12 o'clock, grandpa poured some kerosene on the trees and lit the fire, and the flame of "whew" rushed up to Lao Gao, and his father also put the cannon fire, and the sound of the cannon fire echoed in the small yard, Xiao Qianjing was so frightened that he hurriedly covered his ears, and after the cannon was over, the family made their own wishes around the fire. The fiery flame reflects half of the sky, indicating that next year will be prosperous.

A new year is also a new beginning.