Chapter 8 of the Quiet Year
The sky was exceptionally clear, and when I walked out the door and looked up, I needed to cover the excessive enthusiasm of the sun with my hands. Warm light poured on the body, and the warm current spread in the body.
Yesterday her husband called, Yafang knew that today was the Chinese New Year's Eve, so a sense of urgency fell in her heart.
Entering the wax moon, no matter where they are, the grass of hope grows vigorously in their hearts. The wanderer in a foreign land is inexplicably excited to go home, and the people who stay at home have the faces of their returning relatives in their minds over and over again, are they thin or fat? Hope and expectation are mixed with a trace of unspeakable panic, and the rush of people and vehicles seems to be shrouded in hurry......
The sky also seems to be different from usual, the flowing clouds seem to be traveling thousands of miles, and the wind is also chasing something for thousands of miles.
For the busy New Year, it reached its peak in Chinese New Year's Eve, and on this day, it is necessary to fry all kinds of delicious oil, all kinds of meat, croquettes, fried chicken, fried fish, fried lotus root...... It also symbolizes abundance and beauty in the coming year.
This day, in the hard work, in the family reunion, in the laughter, even if tired, will be full of smiles. After today, it is time to relax completely, and to start enjoying life. Even if there aren't many days like this, it's important to enjoy the moment to the fullest.
Ya looked at the fine weather and sighed with good feelings......
My daughter has been cooking by herself in the past few days, cutting diced potatoes and mixing condiments, beating eggs and making diced eggs and potatoes in a small electric cake stall, which is also very delicious, and my daughter eats it with relish. The bag of potatoes she bought a few days earlier had been eaten, and now she had made them with onions. A small bag of noodles, which she used to make bread and make egg cakes, was left with half a bag.
The New Year is approaching, many industries are on holiday, and Ya is afraid that there will not be enough food to eat. Dumplings don't need to be considered, the stuffing has been mixed before the holiday, wrapped and placed in the Xiaoice cabinet. There are no greens, there are many days of vacation, there are no greens to eat, and the stomach will be worried.
Ya rode a motorcycle and went straight to the supermarket, and the flow of people was still bustling. Ya looked down at the item and suddenly heard someone calling her, it was a former colleague. Ya smiled a little embarrassedly and said hello, and the female colleague asked Ya, "You didn't go back this year?" "I didn'--- go back." Ya hesitated, but still told the truth.
Ya's hair was combed casually, she wore a vest at home, and a black cotton jacket when she went out. The daughter kneaded her dough and wore this jacket a few days earlier, and there was flour on it that was not easy to wipe off, and her colleagues stared at her padded jacket twice and didn't make a sound, and Ya couldn't help but feel cramped.
These days at home, I wash my face casually in the morning, I don't even bother to apply skin care products, my hair is combed haphazardly and clamped up with clips, and I wear cotton slippers all day long.
Ya thought that it was a holiday, and colleagues should rarely meet again, but they didn't expect to meet it. You know, Ya usually appears neatly in front of people. Whenever she put on lipstick, her daughter and son would ask, "Mom, are you going out again?" ”
Usually, as long as she goes out, Ya must look left and right in front of the mirror, and only go out when she is satisfied. When I was a student, I was very simple, and after entering the society, I saw that everyone around me loved to wear makeup, so I slowly learned to wear some light makeup. Ya once sold cosmetics in a large shopping mall, and she had seen women with dull complexions countless times, and just because she wore lipstick, her whole complexion was brightened. So when she goes out, even if she doesn't wear foundation, she has to draw her eyebrows and wear lipstick.
Most of her colleagues were villagers from the vicinity, and a handsome young man from Yunnan said to her, "The first day you came, you felt that you were different from the women in this factory." Ya asked, "What's the difference?" The handsome little guy said: "Dress differently, walk differently, and look like a woman from the metropolis." "Ya has worked in Beijing for a few years, but it can't be said that working in Beijing is different, the clothes Ya wears are actually very ordinary.
Ya had been in another big factory for a while. A young girl who was interning at a technical school said to her: "Those boys in our technical school often talk about you behind your back, saying that you have bright eyes, that you must have been a class flower and a school girl when you were young. Ya couldn't help but laugh when she heard this.
Once in line at noon, a woman on another line strides around, causing the women on that line to laugh, and Ya knows that she is learning her to walk. There are many women who walk with elegance, and while they are struggling, they either look arrogant or aggressive. And Ya walks, with his head held high, but it gives people a soft and elegant feeling.
Ya had just been there for a short time, and he was just a small employee, but he was always mistaken for a supervisor by other employees. Ya has paid more attention to manners since she was a child, always sitting upright in class, and walking with her head held high, over the years, she seems to have an indescribable temperament.
Many female colleagues asked her if she had been trained to walk, and Ya didn't know how to answer, so she said that her previous job required appearance, and those female colleagues said, "Oh---, no wonder." ”
Ya is not very tall, her mother and sisters are close to 1.7 meters, but Ya is the shortest. Ya is not intelligent, and when he was in school, he excelled in hard work. is in the era of long body, but she rarely exercises, getting up early and going to bed late every day. Long-term lack of sleep and little exercise should have affected her growth and become her regret, but it does not seem to affect her outstanding temperament.
Ya exchanged a few words with her female colleague and said goodbye in a hurry. Ya regretted in her heart: "If you go out in the future, you must not allow yourself to be so embarrassed again!" ”
Ya bought cabbage, a big bag of potatoes, shallots, millet, mung beans, black beans, snacks, laxatives, laxatives are a must-buy.
Yesterday after tidying up the housework, Ya replaced the two beds with red sheets with a flowery pattern, and the beds should also be dressed in new clothes for the New Year. In the past few days, my daughter has been making food by herself, and the diced potatoes and onion skins have fallen on the board and on the ground, especially the kneading dough, and the flour has been sprinkled on the table and the ground, although she has also wiped it, but she has not wiped it clean.
When Ya presented a tidy home in front of her again, she heard her daughter pounding something in the bathroom, and it turned out that the urinal was blocked. Ya asked her daughter what she had thrown inside, and she said it was toilet paper, but it was just a large ball of toilet paper.
Jaya brought the wire and smashed it in, but nothing came out. As soon as you press the water valve, the water in the urinal keeps overflowing, and it is almost flat on the ground.
This morning, Ya saw a layer of mushy toilet paper in the urinal, which was left over from the water that had spilled up last night. Ya took them out, and Ya thought the urinal was open, so she pressed the sluice again, still the same as last night.
There are many days left in this holiday, what can I do if this urinal is blocked?
Ya remembered that when she was in her hometown, one year during the Spring Festival, she and her mother went to her uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings, and when her uncle opened the door, they found that the house was full of feces. Uncle lives on the first floor, the sewer is blocked, and the people on the upper floors have to defecate, and no one overhauls during the Spring Festival, so the one who lives on the first floor is unlucky.
Now it is also the Spring Festival, if this urinal is blocked, this year will be miserable, Ya is very anxious.
When she got home, Ya began to dredge with a lavator, but there was no reaction at first, and Ya shouted in her heart: "It's over!" Finished! When Ya was about to give up, she heard a few "dong dong dong" sounds under the toilet and removed the toilet, ah! The water is gone! Ya and her daughter almost jumped for joy. How could Ya endure the New Year, a burst of stench wafted over.
Ya works in the unit, and wherever she goes, her colleagues don't have to look back to know that it's her. She loves perfumes, especially floral ones. If you have a small courtyard, Ya will definitely be planted with flowers that exude a rich fragrance, such as Yueji, gardenia, osmanthus and so on.
When my father was there, the small courtyard of the family was full of flowers, and I could smell the refreshing fragrance of flowers from afar.
Ya's female colleagues began to resist the fragrance emanating from her body, and would say in front of her: "Smoked to death, choked to death!" Jaya didn't understand these women, so she asked, "Are women still so disgusted by fragrance?" The female colleague replied that she never used perfume, they were not used to seeing Ya, but Ya was sad for them.
Ya thinks: women are like flowers, and women should exude a little fragrance. Ya likes to use floral perfume, floral perfume is not expensive, and the ancients often wore sachets.
Ya's female colleagues, despite the behind-the-scenes talk about her head held high, her "model step" (of course not, but female colleagues like to say that she walks like a model), the fragrance of her body. But after a while, Ya found that these women also had a faint fragrance on their bodies, and they even walked with their heads held high.
Ya planted a handful of chives in a pot, and when she stir-fried vegetables at noon, she used scissors to cut off the stems and leaves. The garlic sprouts planted are already vigorous green, and Ya also cut them, and when they are cut, they are full bowls. The daughter cuts the potatoes with a knife, and Ya uses a knife to cut the turnips.
The daughter seems to be very interested in making food, and she is very interested, and she is not tired at all.
Alone with her daughter these days, Ya found that her daughter seemed to have grown up all of a sudden. When her son was there, she fought with her son and cried the same, making Ya lament why she didn't grow up and still treat herself as a child. After the son left, the daughter helped wash the dishes, sweep the floor, especially the food she made herself, and let Ya taste it first after it was done. When I'm not working, I draw and play with small toys.
Ya bought her daughter a lot of small clips, these colorful clips, one end of which is the pattern of a little girl and a little boy. The daughter set her little table beautifully, and she set up a little castle with nice little beds.
At night, the sound of firecrackers outside came one after another, and the daughter took out a few small clips and put them in her hands, and said to Ya: "Mom, this is you, this is Dad, these two are grandparents, and this is the little brother." Ya nodded and looked at her phone.
"Brother, come here, there's a lot of fun here", Ya heard her daughter making up her own conversation with her family, is her daughter too lonely? Ya felt a little apologetic.
There is no TV at home, and daughters and sons usually hold their mobile phones when they come back, and their husbands often put their mobile phones at home to show them in order to keep the children from pestering him when they go out to play mahjong.
Ya remembers that when she first went to Beijing, she bought a small TV for one or two hundred yuan, and she was able to receive many channels, and it did not affect the live broadcast of the Central Spring Festival Gala. No matter where your family moves, you can watch TV.
Now it's not so convenient, you have to buy a TV box and pay a year's cable TV fee, which is not suitable for migrant workers whose lives are not fixed. In the past, you could watch many TV programs by buying a satellite pot, but now it is difficult to receive them. When you look at it with a mobile phone, it is not only a small screen, but also a freeze at every turn.
Ya missed this year's Spring Festival Gala again, and although she returned to her hometown last year, she didn't see it. The reason is the same. The mobile phone is stuck, and although the TV is equipped with a large satellite pot, it can't receive any signal.
The bell rang at twelve o'clock, firecrackers began to rise one after another, and fireworks in the sky bloomed in various brilliant gestures.
I can't watch TV.,Ya can only continue to look at the phone.,Continue to browse the content you're interested in.,Before you know it's more than two o'clock.,Can't watch it anymore.,Otherwise, you'll get up late tomorrow.,God doesn't like people who sleep lazy on the first day of the New Year.。