Occasionally, the sound of fireworks and firecrackers is heard, and the end of the year is approaching. Yu Xi packed a box full of clothes for her and her son, hugged her son Kangkang, who had just been able to stagger, and walked out of the "home" that brought her endless nightmares without looking back.

This is Yu Xi's second marriage, but this time it seems to be the same as the first time, she is going to get married twice and lose both. The marriage, which is full of countless beautiful fantasies, did not make her taste happiness, and in the end it only brought pain. This time, she resolutely made up her mind to leave. She didn't want her bad marriage to continue to destroy her limited youth and life.

Sitting in a motor car, changing cars, and taking a black ride, she looked very embarrassed when she arrived at her mother's house.

During the Chinese New Year, there are many warm memories in Yu Xi's young memories. The dim lights, the bright smiling faces of the parents, the snacks that you can't usually eat, and the table full of delicious food! Perhaps in order to find the warmth in her memory, every year when the New Year comes, her steps to go home are always ready to move.

The years pass inadvertently from the fingers, and the flavor of the year has slowly changed with the passage of time. Although they also make New Year's goods, paste couplets, and make dumplings, more fun has been replaced by modern entertainment. Groups of three or five sit around the table every day to "pile up the Great Wall", and the wanderers who return home are always busy partying, eating, karaoke, or holding their mobile phones to bow their heads. The picture of a family chatting and laughing around a warm stove is already precious.

When I was a child, adults began to work from the beginning of the lunar month. Make snacks, write Spring Festival couplets, and buy new clothes for the children. The smell of freshly cooked snacks in the kitchen is mouth-watering. A handful of crispy peanuts just out of the pot and a new set of new clothes for the New Year can also fill the immature heart!

Yu Xi's hometown is in the land of fishing and rice on the shore of Pohu Lake in the south of the Yangtze River. There are four distinct seasons here, hot in summer like being in a steamer, and in winter the north wind howling like an ice cellar; There are even more charming mountain scenery here, which makes people forget to leave! There have also been literati and ink writers who have passed through here and left behind a swan song for the ages!

Roll up your trousers and jump into the stream to catch fish, carry a small round basket up the mountain to pick mushrooms, and wade through the river to pick lotus seeds in summer...... These are precious memories. Yu Xi has always loved this land that gave birth to her from the bottom of her heart! The most memorable thing for Yu Xi is the rape flowers that bloom all over the fields in March, and the rhododendrons that are red all over the mountains in April. In the spring of March, at a glance, the blooming rape flowers seem to be covered with a magnificent carpet of golden yellow on the earth; The rhododendron, which has the unique reputation of "Flowers in the West", starts from mid-April, spreads to the roadside of the mountain, picks a petal with crystal dewdrops, puts it in the mouth and chews it gently, a sweet juice flows out from between the teeth of the tongue, infiltrating the heart, stomach, spleen and even the internal organs!

Accompanied by beautiful and delicate flowers, Yu Xi gradually grew into a slim girl with clear eyebrows!

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the sound of fireworks and firecrackers continued to explode in front of and behind the house. Kang Kang was frightened by the sound and was both excited and scared, and followed Yu Xi like a little tail, "Mom, Mom..." He hadn't been to his mother-in-law's house for a while, and the memories of the last time had faded in his little head, so the new things in the new environment made him feel new and curious about everything.

Mother was busy in the kitchen for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and Yu Xi cleaned the house inside and out. When it was about to get dark, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was also served, and the "highlight" of Chinese New Year's Eve - the reunion dinner began. Before the banquet, my mother always has a long list of good wishes to say. Every time her mother talked about that long list of good wishes, Yu Xi felt a little embarrassed and ridiculous. However, that is the simplest and most beautiful hope of a mother! With the mother's opening remarks, everyone raised their cups, picked up chopsticks and ......!

Soon after the meal, uncles and cousins came one after another. My father was the eldest of my father's generation, and since the death of my grandparents, my uncle and cousins have come to my father's place every Chinese New Year. There were three younger brothers and two younger sisters under his father, but the eldest aunt died of illness at the age of twenty-seven. Yu Xi was in elementary school at the time, and it was the first time in her life that she faced death, and she was still a young and beautiful aunt. The death of her aunt made Yu Xi realize what it means to be sad for the first time, so much so that for many years later, she often dreamed of her aunt in her sleep, and sometimes she woke up crying in the middle of the night due to excessive sadness in her sleep!

My uncle and cousins gathered around the stove and talked about the things that had nothing to do with their home in the past year. Only at this time, everyone will not talk about topics that are embarrassing to Yu Xi. For example, whose children have earned much money this year, and who has also bought a car, a house, and ...... this year.

In the old year, it ended in the sound of fireworks and firecrackers in the noisy "closing the door of wealth" at midnight; On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the curtain kicked off in a hazy fog. On the first day of the new year, the mountains, fields, and villages seemed to be swallowed up by fog monsters, and the thick fog made people feel a sense of breathlessness and oppression.

On the first day of the first lunar month, there is a sparse but important event, I have to go to my grandparents' house to pay New Year's greetings. Yu Xi's grandparents are no longer there, and now they are receiving their second uncle and second aunt. Two days ago, her mother gave her an irrefutable order that she must go to her second uncle's house today to pay New Year's greetings. Although Yu Xi was very reluctant, she didn't dare to refute her mother on the first day of the Lunar New Year, because her mother told her from childhood to adulthood that she must be happy during the New Year, and she would have good luck in the new year. So even if Yu Xi is unhappy, he has to pretend to be happy against his will.

On this day, there was also the aunt's family who went to my uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings, and occasionally the aunt's family was also there. When I was a child, it was indeed a happy thing, but after the age of sixteen, Yu Xi no longer felt that it was a desirable and happy thing. After the age of sixteen, Yu Xi can hide if he can, and if he can, he won't go. Because she never wanted to see her little uncle's disgusting face again in her life. But most of the time, she couldn't escape her mother's "obscenity" and had to go. Fortunately, my aunt's family came to my second uncle's house for the New Year, and returned to the city to do business after breakfast on the first day of the first month.

Yu Xi heard from her mother that almost all of her aunt's children have married and had children, but the youngest son, Xia Zhiyuan, works in Beijing and has not yet married and started a family. Yu Xi hadn't seen her cousin who always played behind her when she was a child for many years!

After the hour, the sun begins to penetrate the haze and show its "enthusiasm" to the earth. After my mother cleaned up the inside and out, she began to urge. "Yu Xi, are you ready? Is Kangkang's clothes ready? Don't forget to grab what you prepared for the previous two days. My father waited outside the courtyard with firecrackers, and when everyone had gone out, he lit the fuse with the cigarette butt in his mouth, and the family embarked on their first trip to the New Year in the lively and cheerful sound of firecrackers.