Haizi knows that his father has passed away for more than three years, and in order to keep filial piety, the family did not stick couplets in those years, and this year is just past the filial piety period. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoSo the third aunt bought these festive items, and Haizi didn't stop it. With these festive decorations, it adds to the joy and affection of reunion after a long absence. Here, Haizi led the three sheep to paste couplets, hang money, blessing characters, and New Year's paintings, and over there the mother, third aunt, and sister were busy making dumplings.

"This kid is very careful. This picture is good, your third aunt will definitely be able to give birth to a big fat boy. Go, look at the old lantern on the beam of the house, I see you have red paper, hang the lantern on the paste. Mom couldn't keep her mouth shut.

The whole family is busy in a joyful atmosphere, happily waiting for the beautiful moment to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.

The smell of the New Year in the tunzi is getting stronger and stronger, and even the air is filled with a fragrant festivity. With the sound of firecrackers, the annual turn of the old and the new is coming. Sanyang brought a large pile of artemisia stalks and sorghum stalks and put them in the middle of the yard, and his mother took out a bundle of paper and handed it to Haizi, saying that she had made a table and asked Haizi to burn paper for her father.

Haizi learned from Master Xiao, drew a circle on the ground, put the paper in the center, took out a few more sheets and put them outside the circle and lit them, and then lit them in the circle, kneeling and kowtowing with Sanyang to pray. After finishing, the pile of artemisia poles in the courtyard was lit. Suddenly, the fire was blazing, reflecting the smiles on everyone's faces, and igniting the joy in everyone's hearts.

Sanyang lit the long firecracker, ran to his brother's side, and jumped and clapped his hands. The third aunt and sister stood outside the door with each other, giggling. The mother, who was busy cooking dumplings, also poked her head out of the open door from time to time and looked at it with a smile.

After the firecrackers, then the fireworks. It wasn't until my mother cooked the dumplings and the fire went out that the family went into the house and sat around eating dumplings with great interest.

Haizi and Sanyang kowtowed to their mother and third aunt according to custom. The third aunt also took out a piece of silver yuan to press the waist of the three sheep, and made the three sheep happy: "Third aunt, our family's cannons are the most, louder than theirs, there are two kicks, and fireworks, they don't have them, this year's New Year is the best, our family is better!" ”

Looking at Sanyang's triumphant appearance, the third aunt said: "Let's put it tomorrow, let's buy more next year, let you put it enough, let you have enough fun, and let you grow up quickly in the joy of year after year." ”

"Will you come back for the Chinese New Year next year?" Sanyang asked.

Everyone choked for a moment, with tears in their eyes. It was my mother who broke the silence: "Let's eat dumplings, it's cold for a while, it's all meat filling, it's fragrant!" Eat fast and see who gets the money first. ”

Everyone was really hungry, and they picked up chopsticks and ate big. Sanyang is still the most serious, and swallows it without waiting to chew it. Suddenly, Sanyang shouted: "I have eaten the money!" In this ......" Before he finished speaking, he tilted his neck and swallowed, tears in his eyes.

Everyone laughed out loud, and the third aunt leaned back and fell back with laughter, and couldn't stop saying: "Sanyang is really blessed this year, and the money is in the stomach." In the future, if you have money, it will be a pick, and you can save money. ”

Sanyang was a little embarrassed to laugh, and looked up and asked his mother, "Can you puncture the intestines?" ”

"It's okay, eat slowly, don't be afraid." His mother patted Sanyang on the back and comforted him. So everyone stopped laughing and continued to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dumplings.

The third aunt took out a poker from her bosom and said, "Let's play poker and play while eating." ”

Sanyang came to the spirit again and took the poker in the third aunt's hand: "I'll see, this is poker, it's really good-looking, much better than cards." What's going on? ”

"There are a lot of ways to play poker, we don't know it, and it's not easy to learn. Let's play today to touch the big point, very learnable, is to bring people to the cards are counted as a point, the tip is also counted as a point, and then a few points, touch to twenty points even if it is a full point, more than twenty points even if the belly, it will lose, below twenty points who has more points who wins, two points as much as the dealer wins, take turns to sit in the bank, one person a handful, all with the dealer one accounting. Come, you all know each other, Haizi, didn't you change some change, give some to everyone, let's play together, sister, you also play. The third aunt patiently taught everyone.

Sanyang took the poker, one by one, after a while, I learned almost, my mother and sister also looked at it seriously, and from time to time I took a poker and asked again, very attentive, just because my mother was slow to calculate the account, and I had to help others, and finally everyone agreed that my mother would not sit in the village, and just play with it.

The mother was happy, eating and playing, until the east turned white, only to reluctantly put down the cards in her hand, and did not take off her clothes, so she slept with her clothes for a while.

After eating on the morning of the first day of the new year, Sanyang also set off some cannonballs, and the family sat together and chattered, and Sanyang still had to play poker. At this moment, a voice came from outside the hospital, and my mother got up and went out to greet her.

"It's really like a New Year's holiday, the couplets have been pasted, the lanterns have been hung, and the cannons have been fired. It's like this, no matter how tight the days are, whether it's the New Year, you have to be presentable, and people are not short of ambition. "The person who came was Uncle Xu, and he was carrying a small bag of sticky bean bags in his hand.

"Oh, Uncle Xu is here. You have a good New Year, my nephew and daughter-in-law have given you a New Year's greeting! Thanks to your old man, I didn't forget to take care of it during the Chinese New Year, thank you! I'm also thinking about sending my children to your old man's house to pay New Year's greetings. Mother enthusiastically let Uncle Xu into the house.

"Nothing, a few sticky bean buns, give them to the children." Uncle Xu walked into the house, looked up and saw Haizi coming up, and was surprised: "Oops! Haizi is back, I really don't know, your mother thinks you have a bad idea, and she hasn't had a letter for more than a year, so she cries when she thinks about it. It's good now, I said why is your mother so happy today, it's good to come back, it's good to come back, come back for the New Year, save your mother from worrying! You see that he has grown taller and stronger, like a young man. ”

"Happy New Year Uncle Xu, please be happy to your old man!" Haizi said that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Uncle Xu, and Sanyang also knelt down sensibly and kowtowed with his brother, which is the custom of the peasant family, and men should kowtow to their close elders.

"Get up, these two kids, they don't like this now." Uncle Xu patted Sanyang's head, sat on the kang head, looked back at the third aunt and asked, "This girl is quite familiar?" ”

"That's my cousin, more than twenty miles away. Isn't it, it's about to give birth, their little tunzi didn't even have a midwife, and she couldn't toss on the twenty-ninth day, no way, my brother-in-law sent her here to me. Looking for the old cow woman, she said that she was tired from working for the New Year, and she had to wait a few days to give birth, so I left her behind. She didn't do it, I forced me to stay, and sent her son-in-law back overnight, just a little bit, and there were a lot of chickens, ducks, geese and so on, I couldn't throw them away. This is Uncle Xu, the head of our Tunzi, and he is a good person. Mom answered first, and enthusiastically introduced, pouring a glass of water for Uncle Xu.

"Uncle Xu has a good New Year, I wish you good health and long life, Wishing you prosperity!" The third aunt greeted warmly.

Uncle Xu smiled and nodded, and didn't ask any more. picked up the water bowl, took a sip, looked up at Haizi, looked at Haizi's mother again, and asked with concern: "When are you going to let Haizi go?" ”

"I haven't thought about it yet, I don't know what Haizi means." Haizi's mother looked at her son, hoping that he would stay for a few more days, but she was afraid that something would happen to him.

"I have to leave immediately, there is still a lot of work in the mountains, I have to go back immediately, and I will be relieved to see that there is nothing going on at home." Haizi hurriedly replied.

"yes, just come back and have a look. I'm still looking for you over there, I have a lot of dreams at night, it's better to go early, don't let people see it, it's not good to know over there. Uncle Xu instructed, while standing up and preparing to say goodbye: "I'm also leaving, just to come and see, don't worry, this look is pretty good." It's that Haizi has to hurry up, the sooner the better, the big husband is home all over the world, and he can't lose big because of small things. After a few years, when it stops, and you mix it up there, you can take your mother and them over and live a happy life. I'm leaving, you don't have to send it, a few mothers should be affectionate. ”

"Uncle, these are two packets of fruits, which Haizi bought for you. It's not very convenient for him to send it, just when you come, just take it back, it's a piece of the child's heart. Quick, kowtow to Uncle Xu, thank you Uncle Xu for your great kindness. Mother didn't allow Uncle Xu to be polite, stuffed two bags of fruits into Uncle Xu's hands, and asked Haizi and Sanyang to kowtow to Uncle Xu to see him off.

After sending Uncle Xu away, the family sat around again and discussed when Haizi would leave. The third aunt said, "Uncle Xu is right, let Haizi leave tonight, if the Yun family compound knows about it, it will be troublesome." ”

"Big brother hasn't put me to sleep yet, I won't let him go!" Sanyang preemptively said.

"Then stay for a few more days, don't leave the house, no one knows that my brother is back." My sister didn't agree with my brother leaving.

"Let's go, I'll be relieved to see each other. No matter what, it's still alive and well, and it's the same thing how long you stay, so let's go. With tears in her eyes, Mom made the final decision.

During the day, the gate of Haizi's house was closed, and no one in the family went out of the yard. After dinner in the evening, it was dark, Haizi took out the gun, put it in the bag that had already been tied, hid another gun, told the third aunt where the gun was hidden, and prepared to say goodbye to the whole family.

"Mom, I'm leaving. The third aunt has to stay in our house for a few more days, and I may not come back when I come to pick her up, so let my third aunt pick her up. Don't send a letter to my grandfather Xiao's house yet, I'll know the letter when my uncle comes to see you. Don't carry the work for the Yun family's compound this year, he can't do anything to our family. Let Sanyang go to school after the year, our gentleman in Tunzi is very knowledgeable, let Sanyang learn from him, and he will be able to make a difference in the future. The money is not enough, and when my third aunt-in-law comes to pick up my third aunt, I will bring some back, just hold my hands tightly enough for our family to eat, and I can't delay the three sheep. After Haizi finished speaking to her mother, she instructed her sister and younger brother: "You two must listen to your mother, don't cause trouble at home, endure everything, and don't make your mother too tired." Mom, third aunt, you all have to take care of your health, I'll go first. ”

The family had tears in their eyes. Mom brushed Haizi's hair and pulled her clothes. Erya moistened the hand towel and wiped the dust off her brother's body. Sanyang took his brother's hand, holding the lighter that Haizi bought when he went to Harbin in one hand, and a silver dollar that the third aunt gave him for the New Year, and said with tears in his eyes: "Brother, you take it, it's easy to use." ”

Haizi took his younger brother in his arms and helped him wipe away the tears on his face: "You keep these, you have to study hard after school, my brother hopes that you will have a good life when you grow up." ”

"Let your brother go, it's too late to hurry. Be careful on the road, you can't walk in the woods in the dark, find a place to stay, and walk again during the day. When you go out, you can't pay more attention to it than at home, think more about it, and discuss it with your third aunt, don't be capricious. Your third aunt is in our house, you can rest assured, I can serve her well. If it weren't for you, your third aunt wouldn't be like this today. Mom understands in her heart, you just take care of yourself, don't always worry about the family, I will arrange it and let Sanyang go to school. Rest assured, it's not too late! "Mom picked up the baggage for Haizi and let him go.

"I'll send it too." The third aunt said and got off the ground, pulled Haizi over and instructed: "When you go back, don't stay in the hotel where we came, and live in another place." Don't pick me up when I want to go back, let your third aunt pick me up, and you take care of the house at home. If I can't go back with your third aunt for a while, don't worry, just go to the Deyang Hotel and ask me when the time comes, I'll leave a message, remember, don't tell outsiders. Don't worry about things at home, my sister and brother are sensible, isn't that good? Don't cry, a manly husband must be able to bear things, and it will be fine in two years. ”

Haizi walked into the yard and led the horse. The family stopped at the gate and gave some parting words. Haizi knelt on the ground, kowtowed to his mother three times, stood up and flew on the horse, said 'Go back, I'm leaving', and left with tears in his eyes. After walking far away, I looked back at the family standing vaguely at the door. He stopped and looked, as if his brother was in front of him, and the family came to him again, and he was ruthless, and he turned around and disappeared into the thick night on the first day of the new year.

Haizi knows that he doesn't know when he will be able to return home this time, the warmth of his childhood home no longer belongs to him, from this moment on, he will be a grown up man, towards an uncertain future, thinking of this, even more sad.

Haizi walked around the village and looked at the lanterns hanging high in every house in the village, he knew at a glance whose family it was, the village that had raised him for sixteen years, he was too familiar, and what left him was too many indelible memories. He stared blankly at his home for a moment, blurry, but the clear faces of his family were vividly displayed in front of him, until tears wet his chest. As if someone had come by, he hurried to the southeast of Dianzi, walked to the little hut that was still there, dismounted and walked in. He wanted to look at it, the place that had made him happy and miserable, not knowing whether to miss it or to erase it from his memory. After reading it, he flew on his horse again, left Duanlonggang as if relieved, and rode his horse to Dulong Mountain......