Chapter 43: Preparing for Chinese New Year's Eve
It's Chinese New Year's Eve today! God also appreciates his face, and the father-in-law of the sun, who has not been seen for a long time, also came out to join in the fun, and is looking down with a smile at the people at the feet of his old man.
Every natural village on the island is a new atmosphere.
Red lanterns are hung at the entrance of each natural village, colorful flags flutter in the wind, and even each station is pasted with the word "red blessing" full of joy.
Every household is busy removing the old and welcoming the new, tearing off the old couplets and pasting the red couplets full of New Year's flavor. Upstairs and downstairs, front door, back door, large door and small door are all pasted with couplets. No matter how hard the people usually are, at this time, in order to add more joy to the family, there is a good omen for the coming year. I didn't even let go of the firewood room, so I almost put up the pigsty.
The hall of the family is pasted with a very meaningful: some people want to ask for a child, so they post a picture of Guanyin for a child; Some people want to get rich, so they post the God of Wealth; Some people want to be happy in the coming year, so they put up a smiling Maitreya Buddha; Some people want their children to succeed in their studies, so they post carp to cross the dragon gate; Some simply posted a big red blessing character upside down.
Whether it is an old house or a new house, a pair of jubilant red lanterns are hung at the gate.
The children are so happy, they don't have to do anything, and even the adults don't care about their homework today, they either watch TV or they are a group here, and a bunch of people gather together there. I was all looking forward to a sumptuous dinner in the evening, as well as the New Year's money wrapped in layers of red paper. After dinner, you can also carry their little lanterns out into the streets. Tomorrow will be the first day of the new year and I will be able to wear new clothes......
Grandma doesn't have to worry about anything during the Chinese New Year this year, she just needs to clean up the house inside and out with Fan Ya. Qiao Jun bought double copies of all the New Year's goods, kept one for his own family, and gave one to his grandmother's family. Yang Ping, the new clothes of the ancestors and grandchildren, was also purchased early.
In the morning, the Fan family also began to prepare to paste couplets, and Fan Ya was busy removing the old couplets. After a year of wind, sun and rain, the couplet on the outer door was gently pulled off, and the old couplet was torn off in its entirety. The couplets on the inner door were only slightly faded in color, and they were too firmly glued.
It doesn't matter if Fan Ya picks with her fingernails, or scrapes hard with her pencil sharpening knife, or rubs vigorously with the steel wool ball that brushes the bowl. The couplet was still stubbornly glued to the door frame.
Fan Ya tossed enough to choke and only remove a little bit on the corners of the couplet. Angry, she called out anxiously: "Grandma! Grandmother! I'm! I can't get rid of the old couplet, what should I do? ”
"Ya! Lesser! Don't be angry! If you can't get rid of the old one, you can just stick the new one directly to the outside. When you're busy, come over and help grandma post new couplets together. Grandma had already cooked the batter with sweet potato flour, and as she spoke, she was using a rag as a brush to brush the homemade paste on the couplet on the dinner table.
When Fan Ya came over, Grandma had already brushed the paste and was standing on the square stool in front of the door frame with a couplet. Seeing Fan Ya coming, grandma said, "Ya! Look at it! The couplet should be the same height on both sides, and when it is not the same height, you can say which side should be high, remember what grandma said. "Explain it to her clearly.
"Got it! Oh my grandma! You're so troublesome! Fan Ya was dismissive of such trivial matters. As soon as she finished speaking, she shouted, "Grandma! The left is too low! It's too low!"
"Stinky girl! Didn't I just tell you about it? If you want to say high! Tall!" If Grandma hadn't been standing tall, she would have really wanted to give Fan Ya a slap in the face.
Fan Ya is still a little blindsided, and she doesn't know why her grandmother will be angry: What did I do wrong just now? Is it wrong? Not really! The left is too low. Thinking of this, he shouted again: "Grandma! The left side is too low! If you don't believe me, come down and see for yourself. ”
Grandma shook her head helplessly: "Got it!" Got it!" I couldn't stop muttering in my heart: I really can't tell you this little brat.
In this way, the grandparents and grandchildren pasted couplets on all the doors of the house, red lanterns were hung on the doors, and the hall was pasted with the smiling Maitreya Buddha. Fan Ya looked at her old house, and suddenly it was a lively scene. Happily shouted loudly: "Grandma! It's so festive for us to dress up like this at home! It's so beautiful! Grandmother! The door of the pigsty has not been posted? "I suddenly remembered that the door of the pigsty was not attached.
"Little fool! So whose pigsty still sticks couplets? "Grandma is angry and funny about this granddaughter.
"I see there's a door in our pigsty too?" Fan Ya felt that the other doors were pasted with couplets, and seeing that this pigsty was still the same, she thought that it would look much better to paste the couplets.
"Don't stick! Don't stick! I'll go to your aunt's house to pick up Xiao Yaozu now, just wait for me at home, don't run around. Grandma didn't want to ignore Fan Ya's unreasonable request, so she went to pick up her little grandson and go home for the New Year.
A few days ago, grandma discussed with Yang Ping, wanting to take Xiao Yaozu home for the New Year on Chinese New Year's Eve. The habit of the older generation on the island is that even if a flat pole is borrowed by others, it must be taken home for the New Year, not to mention grandma's baby bumps.
Yang Ping hadn't gone out to get together with her classmates for a long time, and there was a class reunion on the first day of the first lunar month, and she had long wanted to attend the party.
So, she happily accepted to let little Pete go home for the New Year, and planned to pick up the child in the second year of junior high school.
Fan Ya felt too boring when she saw her grandmother leaving by herself, and she didn't bother to write her homework during the winter vacation. I suddenly remembered that when I went to Yaolai's house to play yesterday, he gave him a stack of villain books, and asked my grandmother to throw them in a small cardboard box under the bed, and she hadn't looked at it until now.
Thinking of doing it right away, she ran upstairs and took out the little cardboard box from under the bed. Thinking that it is rare for the sun to be so good today, don't waste it. Holding this small cardboard box, I casually brought the small bamboo chair of my grandmother's net to the courtyard.
Fan Ya flipped through the pile of villain books in the small box: "Wow! It's all a villain book based on a cartoon that I like. I couldn't help but admire in my heart: Yao Lai's buddy is really interesting.
Sitting on a small chair, basking in the warm sun and reading the villain's book, the more the sun is getting more and more comfortable, the whole person is lazy, and falls asleep unconsciously.
Grandma carried little Pete on her back and two bags of things in both hands. Hurriedly went home, and saw Fan Ya sitting in the courtyard asleep, with a pile of villain books scattered on the ground, a little thicker at Fan Ya's feet, and a little thinner one was blown everywhere by the wind.
I was not at home for a while, and the yard that had just been cleaned made Fan Ya toss like this, and grandma yelled angrily: "Xiaoya! Lesser! Wake up! Get your villain book away! I'm! Such a big man! Not sensible yet! If you don't help, you'll make trouble. ”
Grandma waited for a while, but Fan Ya still didn't react at all, she didn't know that Fan Ya was dreaming?
She was strolling through the busiest street in the county, and in the window of a toy store, she saw a big pink rag doll, her eyes lit up and she wanted to have it, and she kept standing there watching.
Fan Ya has not had a rag doll since she was a child, and she envies Liao Xixi every day that there are many rag dolls. But Liao Xixi is very stingy, although they are good friends, so many rag dolls are only allowed to play in her house, and they can't take out her house for a minute. Not to mention so many rag dolls to give one to a good friend.
"Ya! Lesser! Mommy's little darling! Let's see what Mom bought you? ”
Fan Ya turned around and saw her mother holding the pink rag doll in the window, shouting happily, "Mom! Mom! Awesome, fantastic! I also have my own rag doll, which is bigger and more beautiful than Liao Xixi's rag doll. "I reached out to pick up the rag doll.
Grandma saw that Fan Ya was sleeping like a pig, and she couldn't wake up when she screamed. He bent down and touched Fan Ya's head with his elbow, and gently kicked Fan Ya's foot with his foot. Then he shouted: "Xiaoya! Wake up! Lesser! Your villain books are flying, hurry up and collect the books! Wake up!"
Fan Ya was woken up by her grandmother now, and she was a little angry and wanted to cry: "Grandma! Can't you wake me up later? People just dreamed that my mother bought me a rag doll, and I was just about to reach out to hold the doll, but when my grandmother woke me up, there was nothing. ”
"Who knew you slept in broad daylight and dreamed! Dreaming of your mother again. Grandma looked innocent and sighed in her heart: Alas! Like Xiaoya, I look forward to the stars and the moon every day, and when my son and daughter-in-law will come back together, and the whole family will have a reunited New Year......