Although the family has been separated, every New Year's Day, the Lin family and the whole family spend time in the old house. As the boss of a family, Lin Zhihong always has to purchase more ingredients, which is 0 in Chinese New Year's Eve

On the day of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, as the boss of the family, Lin Zhihong always had to purchase more ingredients, and then let Liu Xiaoying help organize the ingredients. The adults in the family have gone to the old house, and Lin Shuang naturally followed, on the one hand, to help the fight, and on the other hand, he naturally rubbed a few bites with the past.

"Grandpa, grandma, big uncle, big aunt, little uncle, big aunt, little aunt!" As soon as he entered the door, Lin Shuang shouted all the elders in the family in one breath. As the only third generation in the family, Lin Shuang is very favored. As soon as she entered the door, Grandma Lin filled a bowl of freshly fried shrimp chips for Lin Shuang.

"Shuangshuang, it's just fried, you eat it quickly, it's so crispy!" Grandma Lin smiled and touched Lin Shuang's head. Lin Shuang thanked him and took it. When I bought this shrimp chip, it was about the same as a plastic piece, but when I fried it in oil, it instantly swelled and became snow-white. Bite once, crispy and fragrant, such an oil-consuming delicacy, and only during the New Year's festival at home are willing to make one or two times.

"Grandma eats too!" Lin Shuang took the bowl and stuffed a piece into the old man's mouth, and then fed it to the adult's mouth one by one. coaxed the adults to praise her one by one. After selling it, Lin Shuang honestly sat in front of the stove with a bowl to keep warm. In winter, there's no place warmer than in front of the stove.

The eldest aunt Lin Meiru and the younger aunt Lin Meiyi are folding the gold and silver ingots to be burned for the ancestors for the New Year. The father of the Lin family and the uncle and uncle of the Lin family are killing chickens and fish, and they will be handed over to the women in the family after they are handled. The entire Lin family was in a state of excitement before the Chinese New Year.

When people in the world celebrate the New Year, the ancestors also have to celebrate the New Year, and they routinely put green vegetables, tofu, fish, vegetarian chicken, braised pork, and bean paste buns. After putting on the wine and lighting the incense and candles, Grandpa Lin went to open the door, and said loudly while opening the door: "Today, the family celebrates the New Year, and the ancestors are invited to come to be lively." ”

Lin Shuang looked at Grandpa Lin's actions curiously. Lin Jiamu's mother detained Lin Shuang in her arms: "Don't run around, don't touch tables and chairs." That would disturb the ancestors' eating. Lin Shuang nodded yes. Halfway through the incense candles on the table, Grandpa Lin added a few more times to the wine glass. Grandma Lin whispered softly on the side: "The ancestors eat slowly, eat well in a while, and then come and get some copper coins to use." "The Lin family, big and small, kowtowed to the ancestors in turn and prayed for blessings.

When the incense candles were about to bottom, the Lin family's grandmother began to burn paper money outside the house. Lin Shuang stepped up to help. The ingots folded with yellow table paper burned quickly as soon as they were caught in the fire, but the wind was strong and the smoke smoked the eyes. Grandma Lin was reluctant to let her little granddaughter be smoked, so she asked Lin Shuang to go back first.

After worshipping the ancestors, it was the turn of the Lin family to have a reunion dinner. This year's reunion dinner is extraordinarily rich, and in Lin Shuang's memory, it is a sumptuous one. There are chickens, ducks, fish, meat, all delicious. Grandpa Lin, as the head of the Lin family, raised his glass and said a few words.

"Today we celebrate the New Year together. I just hope that our year is getting better every year! After that, he motioned for everyone to move their chopsticks and eat! Everyone cheered and laughed.

"Daddy, I'm going to do an internship in the second half of next year, and I'll be able to make copper money by then. With copper coins, I'll buy you wine to eat! "My aunt Lin Meiyi is now studying at Nantong Normal School. Usually, in order to save money, I only go home when I am on vacation. As soon as I got home, I helped with the work.

"Good! Good! It's going to graduate in a flash. Time really flies. Grandpa Lin sighed that time passed so fast, and couldn't help but recall that year: "Thinking about back then, I still remember that your mother just gave birth to you, and I want to buy a bag of brown sugar for your mother to replenish your body." When I went to the supply and marketing cooperative, I saw that brown sugar cost five cents a pack, but to buy brown sugar, I had to take a pack of foreign fire, and a pack of foreign fire cost a penny. However, because of that extra point, I can't afford it. Because at that time, there were only five cents left in the family. In the end, your mom didn't drink brown sugar water. ”

Grandpa Lin's words made everyone's originally excited mood suddenly become silent. Seeing this, Grandma Lin patted Grandpa Lin: "You old man, what is not good to talk about during the New Year, what are you doing about this?" Come on, Shuangshuang, grandma gives you a big leg. Let's both eat more, grow faster, and become a beautiful big girl by then. ”

An oversized chicken leg just landed in Lin Shuang's bowl. Aunt Lin Meiru also laughed: "Mom, since we have Shuangshuang, we have no status, it was rare to eat chicken before, can't we get chicken legs, we can always get some chicken to eat." Now I guess I can only drink some soup. ”

Grandma Lin listened, and put a wing between her hands and put it in Lin Meiru's bowl: "Look at you, how old you are, you will get married next year, and you are still jealous of a little girl like Shuangshuang." When you get married, you can't do the same. Lin Meiru was already engaged last fall. The new official is called Sheng Aiguo.

Lin Meiru was thin-skinned, and when she heard her mother's joke, she blushed like an apple, and bit the chopsticks shyly: "Mom! "Grandma Lin knew that she was thin-skinned, so she didn't care about her anymore. However, Grandma Lin wanted to ask her second daughter-in-law Li Feng if there was any good news, but she thought that if there was no good news, wouldn't it be embarrassing? And so it was done.

The men drank wine, the women ate vegetables, and Lin Shuang's children drank soup. The Chinese New Year's Eve of 1982 passed happily.

After the New Year, Lin Zhihong began to frequent his contact with Lin Zhifeng. Sometimes they go out with Lin Zhifeng, and sometimes the two of them don't go there, and they talk about things at Lin Zhifeng's house. After coming back every night, I chatted with Liu Xiaoying until late. Although they slept late every day, the spirits of the two were getting better and better.

Lin Shuang watched Liu Xiaoying pack Lin Zhihong's luggage: "Mom, is Daddy leaving?" How long does it take? ”

Liu Xiaoying replied while cleaning up: "Daddy is going out to make copper money." I earned copper money to buy candy for Shuangshuang. I don't know how long it will take. Are you reluctant to let your dad go? ”

Lin Shuang's eyes were wide, and tears were already contained in the frame of his eyes: "Mom, don't tell Daddy to go, Shuangshuang can not eat sugar." Mother Lin sighed, now it's not a question of whether to eat sugar or not, but a question of wanting to fight for breath. Now everyone's mind is alive. The eight immortals crossed the sea to show their magical powers, and they guarded a few acres of land, when would they be able to get up a brick house?

"Shuangshuang, you see that our house is still a thatched house, and it used to rain outside the house and inside the house. Mom and Daddy think of a house, the kind with glass windows, and you can get the sun while sitting in the house. Do you want a house like this? Liu Xiaoying is already planning what the house she wants to build will look like in the future.

Liu Xiaoying also has her own plans, and she can't just ask men to endure hardships. Now the textile factory in the village is recruiting, and when Lin Zhihong is sent away, Liu Xiaoying plans to sign up for work by herself. Clean up the field during the break, so that you will not miss the work, and you will not miss the harvest in the field.

Liu Xiaoying went to work, and Lin Shuang had no one to take her. Regarding this issue, Liu Xiaoying has already discussed it with Lin Zhihong. After discussion, the decision was to let Lin Shuang go to the nursery. It's not that Grandma Lin is unwilling to take Lin Shuang, it's just that Grandma Lin's physical strength and energy are really not enough. In order not to make it difficult for the elderly, it is better for Lin Shuang to go to the nursery, besides, in terms of age, Lin Shuang will go to primary school in the second half of the year, and it is good to receive some rules in the nursery before going to primary school.

reluctantly sent Lin Zhihong away. Liu Xiaoying started to work. Lin Shuang was called up every morning, and the mother and daughter went out together, one went to work and the other went to the nursery. There is a nursery in the village, in fact, it is to use a few idle houses at the head of the village, and then find three or two village mothers, and the configuration of this nursery is complete.

Most of the boys from the village come to the nursery, and the older girls stay at home to care for the younger children. So when there are more boys, there are naturally more things.

"Sword Peak, Sword Peak! Let's hang out for a while! Lejay, who was dragging two lines of snot, whispered to his companion about his plan to skip class. It's a pity that my companion is unwilling. Because it's almost time for a rare snack.

"Wait a little longer, eat the biscuits, and then go." Although Liu Jianfeng also wanted to go out to play, he still found Xiangxiang's biscuits more attractive. And Ray Jay thinks the same way. So after eating a snack, the two of them avoided the eyes of the ladies and ran away at once.

Lin Shuang, who was sitting behind them, could hear the conversation between the two of them all the time. I want to go out with it, but I'm afraid that my mother will know that I want to eat fried shredded pork with bamboo shoots. Before Lin Shuang could make a decision, the two little boys in front of him ran away.

After about a few dozen minutes, the two little boys returned. The pockets of my pants are bulging, and I don't know what they contain. Lin Shuang tugged at the corner of Liu Jianfeng's clothes: "Hey, what did you go to get back?" ”

Liu Jianfeng turned around and smiled at Lin Shuang, and took out a green thing directly from his pants pocket and gave it to Lin Shuang. Lin Shuang stretched out his hand and took it. The first feeling was that it was a little slippery, and when I looked down, it turned out to be a willow branch: "You guys went to pick up the willow branch by the river again?" ”

"It's a lot, and if it's not enough, you can ask me again." Liu Jianfeng patted his pants pocket, saying that he still had many, many more. Lin Shuang stared at the willow branch in his hand, and after looking at it for a long time, he didn't understand how this became a willow whistle. turned his head to look at Liu Jianfeng and a few of them, only to see that they only peeled their hands a few times, and then made a willow whistle.

"You're amazing!" Lin Shuang threw away the willow leaves that had been scrapped for a long time. Lei Jie handed over a good willow whistle to Lin Shuang: "This is for you." Later, my adult will take us to catch Crab. Do you want to go? "How could a child who lives by the Yangtze River not have eaten this kind of thing? It's just a bit of a hassle to catch it!

Lin Shuang was very moved, but he had to discuss this matter with his mother: "When my mother comes to pick me up later, I'll ask." Anyway, if you are going to pass by my house at night, call me, and if my mother agrees, I will come out. This kind of thing is a miniature version of Crab, you can't eat meat, but it's really going to be cooked, and it tastes good. The crab is a small one, with only two large claws and a bit of meat. Every time my mother burned the crab, Lin Shuang could eat two bowls of rice with these two big claws! Thinking of this, Lin Shuang drooled.