Chapter 110: Reminiscing about childhood
"Do you think of me as vacuum-packed shredded potatoes, inside and outside the ocean."
Xue Lian fed the toffee she had been sucking in her mouth for a long time mouth-to-mouth into his mouth, and said with a smile: "Isn't it sweet?" I'll tell my aunt later, don't come back on the fifteenth day of the first month of this year. At that time, Xiaomei will lead you to the city to watch a large-scale fireworks show, as well as a large-scale lantern show, which is spectacular. The fireworks were all high-altitude fireworks bombs, as tall as a dozen floors. Hey, I don't know why I can't see the strength of the good flowers now. I think it's not funny yet, who has ever seen such a flower before! At most, it is a 'soil flower' (a firework produced by an individual) that sprays sparks outward. When I was a child, I began to look forward to the fifteenth day of the first month as soon as the Spring Festival passed, and from the tenth day of the first month, I ran around with my friends to catch up with the market, and used the money saved to buy fireworks with the money I had saved from the frugality. When I arrived at the place, I first ran around the market to see the market, for fear that it would be expensive, and then I picked up the cheap flowers to buy, and the body was only a few cents, so I bought the small butterfly flowers or small bee flowers for a few cents. It's just that the finger belly is so big, and then I don't buy seven or eight small drops of tendons for a dime. In short, what is cheaper, what is bought. You don't know that I will bargain when I buy things when I am young, so I first walked to the stall with my little feet, and then rummaged a few times and asked people: How much is this Xiaoni (honey) bee flower? The stall owner said, "Two for a dime." I curled up my calves and squatted in front of the stall, and first used my little hands* to tap the little bee flower a few times to see if there were any anthers in it. Then while squirming his little mouth, he clumsily curled up his little finger and thumb and gestured at others: "You can give me a yarn (ไปจ)!" As soon as the stall owner saw me, he knew that he didn't buy much, so he ignored it and said: Don't give it. I stared at the stall owner's begging persuasion and said: Give me all blind (ไปจ)! Hmph, why are you selling old and expensive! People are blind when they sell miles over there. Giggles, I'm the best at cheating when I'm young, just like a villain bluffing the stall owner. But after squatting for a long time, when I saw that the man was very stubborn and unmoved, I changed my strategy, first pitifully scratched the little sheep's horn pigtails at the back of my head a few times, and then said to others with a smile: Then your mother (two) cents give me five! Medium no? After speaking, he was half-coquettish and half-begging. Generally speaking, most stall owners can't stand my soft grinding and hard bubbles. Eventually, they will nod their heads in agreement. So I threw the sweaty two cents in my palm to others, and then, as if I had made a big deal, I was satisfied with the five little bee flowers carefully put them in my pocket, and covered them with my little hands when I walked, as if I was afraid of being stolen by others, and sucked my nose as I walked, and raised my sleeves from time to time to rub it. I went home with five little bee flowers in my hand......"
Zhicheng was swirled in his eyes by the tears of her real language.
Xue Lian smiled and said: "If it is after my soft grinding and hard bubbles, the stall owner still does not sell, I will pout, and muttered angrily: Hmph, really picky, phew!" Don't sell loose dicks, keep it home and boil it as millet porridge to drink! After speaking, he stood up and lifted the waistband of his pants, rubbed his calves to another stall, squatted on the ground and poked the fireworks he had never seen with his little hands, and asked curiously: Yay! What kind of dick are you selling? Cluck...... The next day, I ran around with my friends and didn't know which market to go to to buy a few cents. On the night of the Lantern Festival, our friends brought all kinds of small fireworks that they usually bought, and ran together to the streets and alleys or roadside ditches to take turns. Then gather around to watch, in fact, those cheap fireworks can't even last five seconds, at most three or four seconds, or even a second or two. Some only have a few small colored flowers, and some are fluttering on the ground twice, which is very simple and simple, and it is only a matter of an instant. But we watched with relish, and our eyes blinked reluctantly. I feel how happy and wonderful Sensei is. There are even some flowers that have no medicine in them at all, and they disappear after only a few broken sparks. At this time, we will clap our little hands and jump high to laugh at the little friend who bought flowers for being deceived, and the joy of schadenfreude alone is enough to make people endlessly evocative. Today's Lantern Festival, what kind of fireworks in the sky are not there, it can be described as strange and colorful. The whole sky is decorated with extraordinarily enchanting. However, I still yearn for and miss the small flowers of a few pennies in my childhood. Because the rich and simple charm that overflows with it has poured deeply into my bone marrow, and the rich local flavor it contains has been firmly integrated into my blood. No matter how society develops, no matter how the times change, the past of my childhood will be my greatest attachment in life......"
Xue Lian exhaled a long breath and said: "The innocent and carefree childhood is gone forever, and it can never be found again, just like the song that sings, where has the time gone!" After so many years, it's really unbearable! In the blink of an eye, we will usher in a bright spring, and another spring is coming. Nowadays, as we grow older, we will face all aspects of sorrow, and now the social competition is so fierce, not only to go to university, but also to face huge employment pressure, but also to socialize complex interpersonal relationships. In the future, it is incumbent on me to honor my parents and have children, which is not a tiring word. Fortunately, we still have a perfect childhood, and today's children have even broken their good childhood. Since childhood, under the compulsion of his parents, he has been forced to enter various learning and training classes, such as vocal music, instrumental music, dance, painting, and the arrangement is full. How can we be as free and unfettered as we were back then. I feel that the wealth of the hour is to play to the fullest, and if you don't play when you are young, you will never be able to make it up when you grow up. Really, no matter how rich and accomplished you are when you grow up, you can no longer find the innocent liveliness of your childhood, this is an irreparable loss, and now many parents will say to their children, you study hard now, and then have a good time when you do good things in the future. In fact, even if he has time and money in the future, he will not be in that mood. Even if you become Li Jiacheng, you can't make up for the loss of your childhood, you can spend all day drinking, you can gather beautiful women, but are you really happy? Excitement and happiness are definitely two different concepts. You see a few big bosses rolling in the snow, and you see a few bosses playing in the mud in their pants. Because he doesn't have the same mood as his childhood...... I really don't know how high the material pleasures that human beings have to pursue in order to be satisfied, I think that people nowadays lose themselves in the pursuit of material things. The ultimate goal pursued by all of us as human beings should never be great material abundance, but should be a pleasant mood and a feeling of happiness. Nowadays, people have electric lights and TVs, and TV and computers, but the mood is not very good...... I remember that when I was a child, there was no electricity in the village, the black lights were blind all year round, usually every household lit a small kerosene lamp, only when the New Year's festival was lit a red candle, our friends slipped out after dinner, and jumped crazy on the street, playing Tibetan cats for a while, playing eagles and catching chickens for a while, and the chirping was lively. If you want to say that the most lively night, it should be the Chinese New Year's Eve, when small red candles are lit at the gates of every house, and the streets and alleys of the whole village are flickering small flames. When our little friends went out, each person also put a few small candles in their pockets, and after setting off firecrackers, they found a secluded place and lit one by one and put it together and inserted it on the ground, we roared and screamed excitedly around the candlelight, jumped and jumped, and the small flames that swayed in the dark alone made us particularly happy and excited. Nowadays, the urban area holds luxurious lantern exhibitions with different shapes every year during the Lantern Festival, but it makes people a little insensitive, and it is not as good as a small flame that year makes people nostalgic......
In the process of Xuelian's discussion, Zhicheng's interjection of only a few words was omitted, so Xuelian's words were a little long.
Every time she talks about her childhood experience, Xuelian always gushes endlessly and sighs with emotion.
Zhicheng willingly became her loyal listener, and at the same time evoked infinite memories of his childhood life.
Xue Lian stopped and glanced at the watch on her wrist, and said, "Am I a little noisy today, just caring about myself." She laughed and got up and ran to the kitchen.
Zhu Xiuchun put the scrambled eggs in the pot on the plate, and cut the four salted duck eggs on the table into a plate with a knife......
Snow Lotus happily went back and forth between the kitchen and the hall, serving dishes and washing dishes. She tore open the Wuliangye she brought, and said with a smile: "It's rare for our family to get together, and let's drink a few cups happily on this New Year's Day today." โ
Zhu Xiuchun and Wang Dejian, the two old men, were both moved and guilty when they heard Xuelian's words. I was moved by the kind and warm words that made people find the breath of the year again, and the guilt was that I couldn't even get a bottle of wine out of my home, and I had to drink the wine brought by the girl.
Xue Lian took out the chic wine bottle from the wine box, skillfully poured the wine into the wine jug that Zhicheng had brushed, then poured a bowl of boiling water, and put the wine jug in to warm it.
"Uncles and aunts, come, sit down! Let's eat! She placed the chopsticks on the table one by one in front of the whole family. It was as if she were a master.
Xue Lian suddenly felt that she was a little flamboyant, which was too much to treat herself as an outsider. After dividing the chopsticks, she covered her cheeks with a red mouth and smiled: "Uncle and aunt, let's do it!" I've been like a bear since I was a child, and I don't know where I go, so if I do something wrong, or something that doesn't conform to etiquette, I ask you to include a lot of ......."
"Yay! Look at what I'm talking about! The old man Zhu Xiuchun stepped forward and hugged Xuelian affectionately and said, "Don't say anything outside of sight, when you come to your aunt!" It's like going to your own home, there is no etiquette, you should eat, drink, and take. You cut the meat from your aunt and ate it, and your aunt was happy. The old man smiled heartily.
Xue Lian sneered and hugged the old man and made an intimate gesture, and then sat down with the old man in her arms.
After sitting down, the old man Zhu Xiuchun pulled Xuelian's slender hand and praised: "Aunt! I just want to see you, this girl, who is pretty, sweet-mouthed, handsome and spiritual...... Hehe......"
Xue Lian's cheeks were crimson with praise, she pursed her lips and glanced at Zhicheng with a sneer, then took out the wine jug that was almost warm in the bowl, wiped the water droplets at the bottom of the pot on the edge of the bowl, stood up with a smile and said respectfully to Wang Dejian...... My uncle has worked hard all his life, it's not easy! โ
Zhu Xiuchun was dissatisfied and said to his son opposite: "Xiao Zhicheng, you don't know how to pour wine if you are stupid." How can you let other people's snow lotus fall, don't take it quickly, and sit strangely and steadily like a young master. โ
Xue Lian hurriedly took over the conversation and pouted at the old man Zhu Xiuchun and said, "Hmph, you are not allowed to quarrel with my brother, I am the smallest in this table full of people, who will I fall if I don't fall?" After she poured it for Wang Dejian, she turned her head and smiled: "Come, aunt, I will also fill it for you...... Don't you drink less...... Brother Zhicheng, come, little sister, I will also fill you with ...... And my own. She filled her cup and smiled as she carefully put the flask back into the bowl.
Zhu Xiuchun looked at Xuelian's delicate and elegant demeanor and amiable face, and couldn't help but reach out and pinch Xuelian's flexible cheeks, and with infinite affection, she brushed her hair backwards, and said with a sigh: "How good it would be for my aunt to have a daughter-in-law like you in the future!" โ
Xue Lian couldn't help but blush, covered her pink face with shame, smiled and glanced at Zhicheng, who was embarrassed and twisting his fingers.
The old man Wang Dejian on the side was afraid that his daughter would be displeased, so he hurriedly blamed his wife and said, "Look at you, what is this nonsense, it's really good." โ
When Zhu Xiuchun saw her husband talking about herself, she hurriedly smiled and blamed herself to Xuelian: "Girl, you go to your heart, Hani, what does your aunt say about this mouth, and there is no doorkeeper, don't be angry." โ
"Auntie, look at what you said, you don't know, at home, my mother scolds me all day long, this crazy girl will not be able to find her in-laws in the future. Now someone has taken the initiative to let me be her daughter-in-law, and I am quite beautiful in my heart. I'm afraid that Brother Zhicheng won't want me to be this girl. Giggle......" she smiled mischievously, raised her eyelashes and glanced at Zhicheng.
Snow Lotus's kind and easy-going words not only resolved the embarrassment, enlivened the atmosphere of the wine table, but also made the feelings between each other more warm and close. Zhu Xiuchun couldn't help but hug the amiable snow lotus tightly in her arms, and wiped the corners of her eyes with joy.
Xue Lian looked at the not sumptuous but warm meal in front of her with mixed feelings and sighed: "Uncle and aunt, it's the New Year, we are all happy, you have all been busy for a year, take this opportunity to have a reunion dinner with our family today...... Zhicheng and I are your sons and daughters. It's rare for us to get together once, and let's have a few drinks today. What we are looking forward to in China is a family reunion. Whenever the Chinese New Year is approaching, no matter how far away from home you are, you have to rush home to reunite with your loved ones. This is the plot in the bones of our Chinese. Whether it is a train or a car on land, or an airplane in the air, the ship in the sea is overcrowded, think about how much affection this is. Due to various reasons, I don't know how many families in the country cannot be reunited at this moment. Uncle and aunt, come, let our whole family have a drink, I wish our life is getting better and better, and the sesame seeds are blooming and ......"