Chapter 9 Chinese New Year
After that, it will be the New Year, and all kinds of preparations before the New Year's Festival.
As the folk proverb sings: Twenty-three, sacrifice the stove; twenty-four, sweep the house; Twenty-five, grinding tofu; Twenty-six, go to cut the meatγγγγγγ Wait a minute.
Our Wangcheng claims to be southerners, but a quarter of the people are northerners, and a quarter of the people are from Zhejiang Province, which is not far from Wangcheng.
Now most of the guys who claim to be from Wangcheng are from Zhejiang Province who speak Wu language.
Even the dialect of the entire royal city has been taken astray to Zhejiang Province.
There are very few people who are really native to Wangcheng now.
My mother is one, so the local dialect she speaks is different from those from Zhejiang Province who claim to be from Wangcheng.
And some of our customs before the year were more like the north, the reason is very simple, since my grandfather is gone, these things in the family are all done by my father, and my father's physique is also the physique of northerners, so my father used the customs of northerners for personal purposes.
Anyway, I'm too messy, such as the online dispute, whether to eat zongzi dipped in sugar or soy sauce.
My dad in our family is dipped in sugar, and he wraps rice dumplings with peanuts, red beans and red dates. So dip in sugar.
My mom is sticky with soy sauce, and her rice dumplings are meat and salted egg yolks.
So whether to dip sugar or soy sauce is completely based on what is in the zongzi, and a group of people are fighting for the sky on the Internet.
What about me? I've never bothered about dipping sugar or soy sauce, because I don't even eat zongzi.
Because I offend people with everything I eat, on one side is my father, on the other side is my mother, although my father is harmless to humans and animals on the surface, he never fights with his mother, even my mother's dog legs.
But as soon as I was on the wrong side, he would fix me in a way that had always worked.
That is to teach me to practice, my kung fu is all learned from him, he used the excuse of teaching me kung fu as an excuse, he beat me a lot, it really hurts.
In the past few days, we have been preparing for the New Year and preparing all kinds of New Year's goods.
The ancient city of Wangcheng, not far from our home, has a large gathering on the 29th every year.
This large set is very huge, handed down from ancient times to the present, it used to be once every five days, and then because of urban renovation and other problems, it was changed to once every half a month, and then changed to the end, once a year.
On this day, you can set up a stall casually, and on the big market, you can buy all the New Year's goods, and it is cheaper than usual.
Therefore, people in our neighborhood often buy real New Year's goods only when they start on this day.
Because it is cheap, has many varieties, and is more lively, it has become a major local feature, and it is a must-do for real Wangcheng people every year.
Many old men and women who live in high-rise buildings will also come.
On this day, they will gather in groups, dragging small carts and forming groups to sweep the goods, which is really lively.
I went out early with Alice, and the two of us didn't even eat breakfast, because there are all kinds of delicious food in the big market, and it is no exaggeration to say that after eating at each stall, you can eat the same delicious food for a day.
When I went out in the morning, my father explained, we also have a task today, we need to buy two things to go to the big set, one is a couplet, the other is fireworks, and the rest of the things, my parents will buy them themselves, we only need to buy those two.
Fireworks are not allowed in the new city of Wangcheng, and whoever releases them will die, of course, not really dead, but a fine, depending on how much they put out, they can be fined to bankruptcy.
In the past, there was a rich second generation, in order to please a little actress, there was a fireworks feast in the new city of Wangcheng.
As a result, his family's 10 billion enterprise was fined 2.3 billion, which directly led to the collapse of the enterprise
He was also sentenced to one year and six months.
After coming out, the little actress had already thrown herself into the arms of other bosses, and he jumped directly into the river.
But the ancient city is different, the old city can be put as much as you want, as much as you want.
Therefore, during the Chinese New Year in Wangcheng every year, there is often a scene where countless upper-class people living in high-rise buildings hold their mobile phones to take pictures of lower-class people happily setting off fireworks.
I took Alice with me, I ate all the way, walked all the way, looked everywhere, bought everywhere.
Alice eats fried food the most.
"Don't eat so much junk food!" I persuaded.
Alice raised her eyebrows: "You want to care?" β
I slapped her on the buttocks, and my eyes widened: "It's against you!" β
This thing was not angry at all, and shook his buttocks and threw a wink: "Husband, you are so bad!" β
I want to take her home and take care of her.
I don't even know how this belly grows, so I haven't seen her stop eating it all the time, but her stomach is still like that, and I can't see any signs of eating big.
This product not only buys food, but also all kinds of gadgets.
First of all, I bought a dozen balloons when I came up, and asked me to hold them for her.
Windmills were also bought, and a whole bunch of them were sold.
There are also small wooden birds that can run, flap their wings, and call when they push on the ground.
Anyway, as long as there is one, I will buy this product.
I found out that with the speed at which she was shopping, even if I hired a car in the back, I might not be able to fit it.
Fortunately, this product is to play a fresh, play for a while, feel bored, will give it to other children.
Along the way, I made a lot of children, children, most of them are innocent, whoever gives them fun and delicious food, they will be good to whom, and keep calling Alice beautiful sister, but she is beautiful.
This product is just about buying food and playing, and even buying clothes.
On this kind of big set, naturally there will be no too expensive clothes, the most expensive is only two or three hundred yuan, and the down jacket on her body is enough to buy this kind of 100 pieces.
But this is just to buy, no way, I really hired a car in the back to help her pull things.
Up to now, Daji has formed a special type of work to help pull carts and load things.
This kind of person is not cheap or expensive, a hundred yuan for a trip, if you just go shopping, and then go shopping for a day, it is also a hundred yuan, but it must be eaten.
This large set is ten miles long, about 30 meters wide, a total of eight rows of stalls, two by two, a total of four, that is, you want to go to the whole large set again, you need to walk forty miles.
Twenty kilometers, ordinary people can't hold on at all.
Alice only walked halfway through the road and bought a cart of things.
That's it, I gave the other party a hundred bucks, asked the other party to help send the things back, and then came back.
Don't be afraid that he will run away, this is the person in our village, let alone running, it is one less egg, this person will not be able to mix in the village in the future.
It's not that the village is so simple, but our family's prestige in the village for hundreds of years.
It was said that my family was a big landlord, and now the old man in the village who is over 60 years old is still called Miss when he sees my mother.
Such great prestige comes from the fact that no matter what the year is, for hundreds of years, our family has not starved to death in the village.
If anyone dares to come to our village to trouble me, I dare to say, I can shout and call the whole village.
From going out before dawn in the morning, strolling until noon, and then holding the lights at night, at ten o'clock in the evening, it is still crowded here.
"When is this going to end?" Seeing that there were still so many people, Alice couldn't help but ask.
"In previous years, it lasted until two or three o'clock in the morning, and then they closed the stall, and when the stall was finished, it was basically five o'clock in the morning." I replied.
"That's how you fight?" Alice said as she shoved her cold little hand into my hand.
I took her little hand and put it on my face, and said: "It's not fighting, it's just trying to be lively, like those rich city people, playing with feelings, feelings, do you understand?" β
Alice pouted and said, "The feelings of farts are poor and exquisite!" Of course, I'm not talking about these working people, it's about those who are rich and blind! β
"You're not blind, you've bought more than a dozen truckloads of stuff today! I'll give more than a thousand just to the second dog! I said and looked at the second dog who was smiling but very bad.
Ergou is a few years younger than me, don't look at his humble appearance, this product is a master's degree student of a certain 211.
Just graduated, interned in a financial company in Wangcheng, and the salary during the internship was tens of thousands of dollars a month.
But they still come to make this kind of money, which shows that the people of Wangcheng are all "mercenary", as long as they can earn money, they don't care about the level of work.
"Almost, I bought couplets and fireworks, let's withdraw it!" Alice is finally tired of shopping.
"Thirty couplets, eighty-six blessing characters, and ten pairs of window flowers!" I said to the couplet seller.
As soon as I heard the couplet, my face was happy, because the big set was coming to an end, and the couplet couldn't be sold, so it would be next year, and it would be useless, and it would be impossible to keep it and buy it next year.
So when I heard my words, I was overjoyed, this is a big deal.
Alice looked at it in surprise, I rolled my eyes, and said very awesomely: "No way, Lao Tzu has many rooms at home!" β
It's not that I'm bragging, my old house, as well as the shop, and the ancestral hall, add up to really need so much.
Finally, it was to buy fireworks, Alice made a move, Alice walked around, and said to all the people who bought fireworks, the rest, those that can't be sold, will all be sent to my old house.
I was also drunk, and I almost didn't punch Alice that night watching the fireworks in the whole house.
The next day was the Chinese New Year's Eve, and when I got up in the morning, I had to light the fire when I worshipped the ancestors, and my father couldn't light it, so my father drew a circle on the side, and then burned paper inside, and chanted something to say.
When I was a kid, I used to ask my dad, what is this for?
My dad said that this is to burn the ancestors of the old Wang family.
And secretly told me that he must give birth to two sons in the future, one must be surnamed Wang, otherwise he will not be blind even if he dies, and he is sorry for the ancestors of the old Wang family.
My dad pressed me to the circle on the ground and kowtowed four times before letting me go.
After worshipping the ancestors, go home and paste couplets, then set off firecrackers, and then eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
Our family's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is different from that of people in the city, and we have the most sumptuous meal at noon, not at night.
But generally the lunch will be delayed until two or three o'clock.
This year, because of Alice, my parents are very happy.
After dark at night, Alice began to set off firecrackers, and she was so happy that she kept posting on Moments.
I looked at her circle of friends, and there were only five of them, except for Victoria, and the four of them, it was me, and I didn't know what she was showing.
In the evening, everyone watched the Spring Festival Gala and grabbed red envelopes, although it was only a few cents, or a few yuan, but they were all very happy.
Wait until twelve o'clock, set off firecrackers again, and then cook dumplings to eat.