Tian Huiying and Xu Qiuping entered the kitchen to busy with Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, while Wu Aiguo and Wu Shengrong chatted in the living room, and Wu Hua sat on the side, listening to the two brothers talking about the current reform and opening up from childhood.

Wu Hua also sighed with emotion when he heard it, time flies, and the years are urging.

Wu Xuan saw that the third uncle was chatting with his father, and he was also full of emotion in his heart, thinking that the meal was not ready, so he picked up the teapot and made a pot of tea for them, and he went into the kitchen to help his mother and the third aunt.

Wu Aiguo saw that Wu Xuan was so well-behaved and sensible, and he felt a little relieved in his heart, and he was also happy for the fourth child.

The two brothers continued their conversation, Wu Hua didn't bother, and was about to go back to the room to get something when he heard his mother shouting in the kitchen that there was no salt at home, Wu Hua didn't say a word, so he went to the commissary of Aunt Chen's house next door to buy salt.

At about half past six, the mother and the third aunt made a table of dishes, according to the custom, before eating, the ancestors should be invited to eat first, so Wu Hua relied on his memory, put all the dishes and chopsticks on the table, poured his mother's rice wine, and called his mother to come and invite the ancestors to eat.

Tian Huiying saw that Wu Hua had already set up the wine and dishes and chopsticks, so she recited silently at the dinner table, and the fourth aunt Xu Qiuping also stood aside and followed her mother to meditate.

Wu Hua took the firecrackers and incense sticks prepared in advance and walked towards the gate, while Wu Xuan followed behind Wu Hua like a lively one, and asked Wu Hua with a smile if he was afraid of lighting firecrackers.

Wu Hua sneered, teased Wu Xuan, and said, "I'm afraid, why don't you come?"

Wu Xuan shook her head and said with a little worry: "Don't do it, I'm afraid."

Wu Hua laughed, then unpacked the firecracker, shook the * on his head, and then hung it on a bamboo pole prepared in advance.

Seeing that the inner room was almost ready, Wu Hua shouted Okay, and when he heard Tian Huiying's response in the house, Wu Hua picked up the incense stick and lit it towards the bottom end of the firecracker.

Wu Xuan looked at the firecrackers and was about to light them, so she hurriedly covered her ears and retreated a few meters, turning her back to Wu Hua with a frightened face, but turned her head curiously to look at Wu Hua and light firecrackers.

The firecrackers crackled non-stop, Wu Hua hurriedly withdrew to his home, and only stopped to watch the firecrackers take off until he retreated to safety.

The sound of firecrackers stopped, the family sat around the table, the table was full of dishes, the room was full of warmth, and the auspicious light of happiness was overflowing on the faces of the family.

After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the mother and the fourth aunt cleaned up the table, the two concubines were very harmonious together to wash the dishes and chopsticks, and the father and the fourth uncle also took advantage of the New Year and went out early to hang out.

Wu Shengrong didn't boil bath water at home, so Xu Qiuping asked Wu Xuan to go back and get clothes and come to Wu Hua's house to take a shower, because Wu Xuan was not familiar with the family and had no friends or anything, Tian Huiying told her son to take her cousin when she went out for a while, and don't let her cousin be stunned at home alone.

Wu Hua readily agreed, even if his mother didn't say it, he thought of it so. Wu Xuan has not lived here since she was a child, and her home is a strange place for her, but she is from here after all, and this is her home anyway, so it is necessary to be familiar with this place.

Wu Xuan took a shower, dried her hair with a towel, changed into new clothes and shoes, and went out for a walk with Wu Hua.

By the time the brother and sister had everything done and were walking on the road, it was nearly eight o'clock.

On the night of the New Year, every house is lit up with lights, and it is very lively.

There are a lot of people who come out to shop, and occasionally they will meet some acquaintances, everyone thinks that Wu Hua took his girlfriend out to hang out, Wu Hua laughed one by one, and introduced Wu Xuan to everyone very politely.

Wu Xuan also smiled and followed Wu Hua very politely. Wu Xuan thought that she and her cousin were cousins, and whatever her cousin shouted, she also shouted, and her seniority should not be bad.

Some elders who had never seen Wu Xuan heard that it was the daughter of Wu Hua's fourth uncle, and they were a little surprised when they looked at Wu Xuan, and they were busy praising Wu Xuan for being polite, and said with emotion, I didn't expect Wu Laosi to be such a simple boy and raise such a smart daughter.

Wu Hua grinned, knowing the polite words that everyone said, and then exchanged a few words of greeting, and then walked forward with Wu Xuan.

The dim street lamp pulled the shadows of the two brothers and sisters, looking at the lights of thousands of homes not far away and the sound of fireworks in the sky from time to time, Wu Hua sighed again.

Rebirth has always been a hurdle in his heart, he doesn't know what his tomorrow will be, and he doesn't know what his future self will be, maybe he wakes up and returns to his previous teaching career, or maybe everything is just a dream now, when he wakes up, everything will return to the original point.

He didn't want to think too much, and he didn't want to relive the old dreams, the only thing he wanted to do now, the only thing he could do, was to cherish the present and cherish all the regrets left in his previous life.

When I looked up, the sky suddenly lit up, and the scattered fireworks shone brightly in the sky, and then vanished.

They all sigh that fireworks are easy to cold, but no one understands the charm of fireworks that bloom throughout their lives.

"The fireworks are so beautiful." Wu Xuan looked up at the fireworks blooming in the sky, very surprised and excited.

Fireworks are not allowed in Shanxi coal mining areas, so Wu Xuan has never seen such brilliant and colorful fireworks.

Wu Hua retracted his thoughts, looked at Wu Xuan, who was full of novelties to the fireworks, and asked softly, "How do you feel about the New Year?"

Wu Xuan did not reply immediately, but looked at the night sky and raised the corners of her mouth, and said after a moment: "This is the happiest Chinese New Year's Eve I have ever had."

In the past, in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, my father had to go to the mining area to guard, and every year for the New Year, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and keeping Chinese New Year's Eve, she was the only one with her mother.

She knew that her father was very busy with work, so she was always very sensible, and never asked her mother why her father didn't come back for the New Year, but she was very much looking forward to her father coming back for the New Year, but she never looked forward to it.

She didn't expect to be expected by her this year, to be honest, she thanked the third uncle family from the bottom of her heart, especially her cousin Wu Hua. If it weren't for the path that my cousin showed my father during the summer vacation, maybe my father would still be lonely in the mining area, and he and his mother would still be crowded in a basement of more than ten square meters for the New Year.

"Brother, thank you for letting me and my parents have a happy New Year." Wu Xuan suppressed her emotions and looked at Wu Hua with a little gratitude.

Wu Hua felt the change in Wu Xuan's mood, and he also knew the hardships of the fourth uncle's family in Shanxi, he was glad that he had left the fourth uncle, and he was also glad that he had the ability to take his family out of the predicament. Now Wu Hua is even more determined to work hard and strive to make the people he cares about and those who care about him live a good life.

Wu Hua stepped forward, rubbed the top of Wu Xuan's head, and said with a soft smile: "Silly girl, everyone is a family, we are also very happy when you come back for the New Year."

Wu Hua comforted Wu Xuan with concern, but Wu Xuan was made by Wu Hua's action, her voice was choked, and tears flowed out.

Wu Hua looked at Wu Xuan's crying, and was suddenly at a loss, not knowing what to do, so he could only say anxiously: "Xuanxuan, don't be like this, they will think that your brother is bullying you again."

Wu Xuan smiled, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said with a smile: "I'm blinded by fireworks."

"Scared me, I thought you were a crybaby like Liu Dongmei?" Wu Hua finally relaxed and inadvertently mentioned Liu Dongmei again.

"No, how can Sister Dongmei be such a powerful person, how can she like to cry?" Wu Xuan has a good impression of Liu Dongmei, and she especially likes to play with her, but she has the impression that Liu Dongmei is a strong woman, where is the crybaby.

Wu Xuan looked at Wu Hua very suspiciously, she thought that Wu Hua was teasing her.

Wu Hua is also helpless, no one will believe it, Liu Dongmei, who looks like she has no image of a woman, becomes a sentimental person as soon as she arrives at him, and he doesn't understand it.

"Alas, I can't tell you clearly, let's go, I'll take you to the front." Wu Hua sighed lowly, jumped away from the topic, and walked ahead of Wu Xuan.

Wu Xuan was very curious about Liu Dongmei, and when she saw Wu Hua change the topic, she would not let it go easily, so she rushed to Wu Hua and asked questions all the way.

Wu Hua first took Wu Xuan to visit a few classmates, and then took her to walk around several streets, Wu Xuan was excited all the way, and her curiosity was overflowing, seeing anything she hadn't seen before, or something strange, she had to pester Wu Hua to explain it to her, and spent the night visiting and wandering around.

Seeing that it was almost half past eleven, Wu Hua felt that the time was almost up, so he proposed to go home and prepare to pick up the God of Wealth.

When he returned to the door, Wu Xuan went back to his house first, and Wu Hua walked into the courtyard, only to see that his father had taken out the prepared firecrackers to receive the God of Wealth, and stood in the corner of the courtyard waiting for the best time to welcome the God of Wealth. Mother has already come back from shopping, and is standing aside at the moment, watching Wu Hua come back, beckoning Wu Hua to come over, and waiting for the auspicious moment to come.

When the sound of firecrackers from other people's houses came not far away, Wu Aiguo felt that it should be almost an hour, so he shouted Wu Hua to step forward to carry the firecrackers together, dismantle the whole basket of firecrackers, fiddle with the shape, and put them at the gate.

The sound of firecrackers kept coming, crackling and crackling, and his father shouted that Wu Hua would go away first, and then picked up the incense stick and lit it at the firecracker fire line.

As soon as the firecrackers sounded, my father hurriedly withdrew, stood beside Wu Hua, and watched the firecrackers all over the yard.

The firecrackers that received the God of Wealth were placed very long, and they rang for more than a minute, Wu Aiguo saw that the firecrackers stopped, and shouted towards the gate: "Welcome to the God of Wealth!" Then he smiled and walked into the room.

Tian Huiying let go of the hand covering her ears, and also saluted towards the gate, then folded her hands and read it in pieces. Wu Hua listened to the general meaning of blessings such as blessing their family to be rich this year, good luck, and surplus every year.

Wu Hua is not superstitious, but he is not unbelieving, after all, there is rebirth, he believes that there must be nerves in the underworld, and he also believes that there is a fixed number, so he also pious put his hands together and bowed to the gate, but he did not make a wish.

He believed in the gods and in fate, but he believed in his own hands and wisdom even more.

After picking up the God of Wealth, it was already more than twelve o'clock, Wu Hua and his parents sat in the living room and chatted for a while, then went to fetch water to wash their faces, then burned their feet and went to bed to rest.

Lying on the bed, listening to the sound of firecrackers outside, Wu Hua knew that this was the comparison psychology of some rich people, as if the more firecrackers burned and the louder they rang, the richer their family was.

Wu Hua turned off the light and plunged into the bed.

Whether there is money or not, it's not the same, year after year.

The next morning, it was the first day of the Lunar New Year, and it officially entered 1994.

Tian Huiying got up very early to warm up the meal, because there were still a lot of leftovers for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner last night, so she didn't cook any fresh dishes today.

Xu thought that Wu Shengrong's family didn't cook last night, and he was afraid that he didn't prepare any fresh dishes today, so Tian Huiying called Wu Hua to send some dishes to Wu Shengrong's family.