Chapter 33: Chinese New Year's Eve
On the thirtieth day of the lunar month, today is the last day before the Lunar New Year, early in the morning, Ning Chen was woken up by Ning Haibo, there is no way, because there are too many things to do on this day, so only Ning Haibo alone is too busy, who called Ning Chen He is like a "little adult" at a young age, and he has to pay the price for being precocious.
After washing up, when Ning Chen passed by the kitchen, he saw Xie Yueqing being breading dumplings inside, and eating this for breakfast in Chinese New Year's Eve was already a habitual thing, so the former was not too curious, and when he was about to meet his father at the door, a loud reprimand suddenly sounded outside.
"Stinky boy, come out and help, didn't you see Dad sticking Spring Festival couplets?"
Hearing this, Ning Chen rolled his eyes with a wry smile, and then walked quickly to the outside of the gate, only to see Ning Haibo standing on a wooden stool at this time, holding a long red lianzi in both hands, swinging left and right to correct his position.
"What? Is this correct? ”
Ning Chen stood below and carefully observed a Spring Festival couplet that his father planned to paste on the left side of the gate, and after he gave some advice, Ning Haibo finally pasted a left couplet with the words "Good luck all year round" on the wall.
"Well, that's right, there are still Zhang Youlian and the horizontal batch that are not posted, boy, quickly put the paste on the Spring Festival couplets for Dad."
Ning Haibo looked at Zuo Lian on the wall and nodded with satisfaction, then turned his head to stare at Ning Chen and ordered, the latter did not refute, after answering, he honestly moved his hand, the former also caught these festivals to be able to call his son so effectively, otherwise he would have to put in a lot of effort on ordinary days.
With the cooperation of father and son, the Spring Festival couplets at the door were immediately pasted, only to see that there was a big blessing on both sides of the door, and the walls on both sides of the door were in addition to the Spring Festival couplets on the left just now, and there was also a Spring Festival couplet on the right that read "Bafang Treasure enters the house", and the horizontal batch on the wall above the door is "Home and everything is prosperous".
After the Spring Festival couplets were pasted, the two hung two red lanterns on both sides of the door, and after doing these must-do things, they went into the house to enjoy a delicious dumpling breakfast.
After filling their stomachs, the matter is not over, because they have not bought potted oranges at home. Carefully pulling out the newly bought "Honda" motorcycle, Ning Haibo rode his wife and son to the garden where the mandarins were sold, spent more than a dozen yuan to buy a pot of mandarins as tall as Ning Chen, and then spent a few yuan to hire a nearby peasant worker to use a "tricycle" to send it home.
Now that the matter is done, Ning Haibo went to take his mother Wu Xuemei home to have a reunion dinner together, and the family of three accompanied the old man to watch TV and chat, which made Wu Xuemei unspeakably happy.
In the evening, after having a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with his parents and grandmother, Ning Chen quickly finished taking a shower, wearing a new dress that he bought with the 100 yuan that Zhou Jingsheng had rewarded him earlier, and went out in a comfortable mood, because there was still a battle for the third place in the community basketball game in Xiaolian Village tonight.
Because in the preliminary round, Xiaolian Village's points were higher than those of Xintang Village, so the venue of this game was set on the basketball court of Xiaolian Village. When he came to his destination, Ning Chen immediately saw a few familiar figures.
"Teacher Ye, Teacher He, you're all here!"
That's right, those figures are Ye Zhijie and He Qizheng, as well as the rest of the Lianfeng team except for Xu Jianhua and Wang Yang, who are about to compete.
"Xiao Chen!"
"Well, Xiao Chen, you're the latest to come."
"It's Xiao Chen!"
Hearing Ning Chen's voice, Ye Zhijie and the others all said at the same time.
"The game is about to start, right?"
Ning Chen looked at the electronic watch he was wearing in his hand, and the time was displayed at 8:30, which was the time of the game.
"Nonsense! Didn't you see them all done with the warm-up? Still asked? ”
Ye Zhijie replied angrily, and as soon as his voice fell, the referee's whistle sounded, and the players on both sides of the field stood up, and the game officially began as the referee threw the ball in his hand upward.
Because it was Chinese New Year's Eve, most of the families were still enjoying the warmth of the members, so the audience for this game was slightly smaller, but this did not affect the popularity of the game. When the "dashing nobleman" Wang Yang completed a difficult mid-turn layup in the air, the enthusiasm of the audience was immediately ignited, especially the young female audience.
But the Xintang Village side also showed no weakness in their colors, only to see Xu Jianhua shuttle near two or three tall defenders with his agile movements and short body, and then passed the ball to Zhou Qiang, who followed up, who also played a difficult back layup when no one was defending.
The cheers sounded again, although the strength gap between the two teams is a lot, but the excitement of the next game has not diminished at all, after the players on both sides dedicated a wonderful game, Xintang Village actually lost to Xiaolian Village by only 6 points, this result was beyond everyone's expectations, so that many people are speculating whether this result is Xiaolian Village's intentional concession.
However, Ning Chen, Ye Zhijie and others, who can watch the game, don't think so, they are all sure that this is a game without "moisture", and this result is all thanks to the super efficient play of a group of children led by Xu Jianhua.
The game is over, but Ning Chen and the others did not disband and leave, because they will have a show later, that is, go to the famous Guanyin Mountain in W City to worship the gods and blessings, and then go to karaoke to go crazy.
But don't think that this time it is Ye Zhijie and He Qizheng who are the east, if so, then you are wrong, because this time it is Ning Chen and other members of the Lianfeng team who are the east, just like Ning Chen received the bonus from the village chief Zhou early, and the other teammates have also received the bonus from their respective village representatives, although some of them have more and some less, but each person only needs to take out 10 yuan, which is no problem at all, so the total amount is 150 yuan, It's like the monthly salary of some people with higher salaries at that time.
After gathering with Xu Jianhua, Wang Yang and others, Ning Chen and his group came to the main road and boldly intercepted a rare taxi, and then went straight to Guanyin Mountain to pray for the blessing of the gods for the new year.
A few hours later, in a room of karaoke in City D, the members of the Lianfeng team, Ye Zhijie and He Qizheng stared closely at the TV screen in front of them, at this time they were not singing, but shouting with the host of the Spring Festival Gala on TV: "10, 9, 8, 7...... 1. Happy New Year! ”