The people in their village keep vigil in the Chinese New Year's Eve, they don't look at the time, as long as they hear the rooster three times, they start to set off firecrackers, and if everyone hears the first firecracker, then their neighbors will also set off firecrackers together. For a while, the sound of firecrackers continued to "crackle", and it would not subside until every household let off firecrackers, but from time to time I heard one or two firecrackers (it was not like when it should be sounded, when everyone else was quiet, it began to sound)

There is also a custom in the village: when firecrackers are set off, if there are girls in the house, as soon as the firecrackers sound, the girls will climb to the highest place in the house to comb their hair. As soon as the firecrackers were set off, Lele and his sisters would take the comb and run to the roof to comb their hair. As soon as the sound of firecrackers subsided, everyone quickly climbed into bed and went to bed, thinking that tomorrow not only would they have red envelopes, but they could also make money, and they fell asleep beautifully while thinking about it......

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, you don't need anyone to wake you up, the first thing every household does is to burn incense sticks for their ancestors, and then set off firecrackers to show that the coming year is prosperous.

You ask her why she hasn't been woken up by the sound of firecrackers before? Wasn't the family poor at that time? The firecrackers I bought were only ten or twenty rounds, and I heard the "pop ......" twice, and before I could relax in bed, I stopped, and naturally I wouldn't be able to get up so easily.

Now, the brain-working people in the village have more or less made some money, and the firecrackers they bought are getting longer and longer, and they are ringing longer and longer.

Lele and his brothers and sisters followed the sound of firecrackers, and first went to greet the elders and get red envelopes. Then I went to breakfast, they didn't eat enough breakfast, and there were a lot of children in the village who came to the house to visit their parents, and their father and mother gave them one by one with two dimes of new money, and grandpa gave them a dime, and those children took the money happily, and when they were ready to leave, they also asked Lele and Xiaoyuan to go with them to each family to pay New Year's greetings and ask for red envelopes.

Lele told them that they would not go with them to pay New Year's greetings when they still had something to do later. Then follow my mom to prepare what I'm going to sell today.

The first day of the Lunar New Year should be early, and my mother always said: Do early birds eat worms?

When the family pulled things to the floor, there were already many people from the same village who were setting up stalls in the area, but they were selling some snacks and not taking up much space, so everyone worshiped each other for the New Year.

Mother Lan Ying put the table (this table is a piece of their family's door board that is not used, horizontally on two benches that are not too high, and then spread a thick sheet of material paper on it), and then put the bowls upside down and neatly on the table, as well as the condiments for cooking noodles are all placed on the table one by one, Lele and his brother went to put the small stool in front of the table for the guests who came to eat noodles to sit, the eldest sister has already gone to fetch water, and the second sister and the third sister unloaded the things from the tricycle one by one. When my mother had finished arranging the things on the table, she took four bricks to fix the two iron stoves, and then used two wooden planks on both sides of the iron furnace to block the wind, and the wooden planks were fixed and upright by my mother with four large stones. Then my mother began to burn wood in the stove to make a fire, and when the fire was lit, my mother put two pots on it. A pot of water, a pot of bone broth, put on low heat and heat slowly......

The eldest sister has already picked up three loads of water, three buckets are covered with cardboard, and a bucket is filled with a water scoop, which is open and needs to be used often. Both dishwashing basins were also filled with water. The second and third sisters are now rolling the soaked rice noodles into a ball and putting them in a sieve, each ball is the amount of a bowl of noodles.

Mom hung a large card with the words "Two Dimes for Vegetarian Flour and Triangular Dollars for Meat Flour" on two wooden boards that blocked the wind. A large pot of hawthorn tea and several cups of ingredients are also upside down on a round iron tray, which is free for those who eat powder.

Although they were ready, because it was too early, the people who came out early had also eaten breakfast, and most of the people were still willing to buy some melons or something while eating melons, and their noodle stalls were never patronized.

There are already people on the basketball court to occupy the seats; And there are only three or two old people who get up early in the field on the side of the king of mountain songs singing; The venue for grabbing fireworks is three, three, two, two, and two, and there are people waiting to see the excitement; There are a few children on the side of the table tennis table who are waving rackets and playing with their rackets, and the monkeys are leading the monkeys to walk around the field, and the monkeys are beating the gongs, and the monkeys are wearing a big red gown with pockets, and they are greeting the New Year. provoked the few people who got up early to watch, and they threw several cents and five cents to the monkey, and the monkey was picking up the money and putting it in his pocket.

This is all because early in the morning, there are not many people, Lele can see what is happening somewhere nearby when he raises his eyes.

With the passage of time, there were gradually more people, whether it was from their own village or from other villages, they all began to come to the floor of their village, and those who had competitions went to their own competition venues, and naturally they also went to cheer for them.

For a while, pedestrians coming and going blocked Lele's sight. But the radio on the basketball court was very loud, and now it has begun to broadcast, shouting in the local dialect that the teams of both sides participating in the first game will enter the court, because the game will start at half past eight.

For the villagers who are accustomed to getting up early, it is already late at half past eight

With a whistle, the preliminary round of the basketball game began and it was the women's team first, for a while, the basketball court was very lively, from time to time there was laughter, the whistle did not continue to sound, on the radio, Lele Lao heard the referee shouting "XX team X pulling foul" and "XX team X pushing foul" ...... The laughter of the people was even louder, but as long as the goal was scored, the applause and applause were also loud.

Lele couldn't help but remember that in her previous life, she went to watch the women's team's game, and she didn't remember which village it was at the time, and there were two shrews in the team, who grabbed, scratched, and pinched people during the game, and used all the tricks, and everyone in the audience sighed. Later, the team was asked to play with a red card, and as a result, the two women went to the rostrum to make a splash, and their village was banned for two years. And the team members who were their opponents were really worse, one had his face scratched, one arm was scratched, one was pushed down and injured, and two were okay because they didn't have direct contact with those two shrews

Hearing that the game is still going on now, it means that the two teams in the game still know some rules.

Everyone here is in full swing in the basketball game, and the fireworks on the barn field over there have been white-hot, the sound of gongs and drums "dong dong dong" is mixed with the sound of fireworks, and the exclamations of the peripheral audience are repeated......

From the first customer, a young woman with a child, to eat at Lelejia's rice noodle stall, other customers began to eat noodles one after another. Most of the people who came to eat noodles were people from other villages, and they probably walked for half a day to watch the game, and they were a little hungry, but they were reluctant to go back now, and Lele's rice noodles happened to be full. When she was the busiest, Lele's eldest sister was so busy that she couldn't even wash the dishes, and the third sister originally went to collect the dishes and chopsticks with Lele and Xiaoyuan, and later washed the dishes with the eldest sister; The mother is hot, the second sister puts the condiments, and the family is busy in an orderly manner.

At the most prosperous time, even if there is no place to sit, those guests would rather serve a bowl or squat or stand or find a clean place on the spot to sit and eat, most of them are people from the village far away from this village, they are reluctant to participate in the next game, and they are afraid that the rice noodles will be sold out late, they did not come to eat, and the dry food on the way to the road is almost the same, now they are hungry and thirsty, eat rice noodles and tea to drink, they will naturally not let go.

When Lele and his brother and sister collected the dishes, they sighed: These people eat really cleanly, they don't even let go of a drop of soup, fortunately they eat so cleanly, or they will be very happy to wash the dishes

After the dishes and chopsticks are cleaned, they will take boiling water and scald them before using them.

The boiling water of the hot powder, because Lele's mother has been adding firewood to boil the water and changing the water, so the hot water looks very clean all the time. When they were busy, the aunt and the eldest cousin came, this is a typical example of sending carbon in the snow, my mother gave the eldest cousin a red envelope, and the eldest cousin was happy, so she said:

"Auntie, do you need my help?"

"If you need Wenwen very much, you go and help your eldest cousin wash the dishes, Xiaoyuan, you go and jump a load of water to come back," Lan Ying turned her head and said to her eldest sister and cousin while scalding her powder.

In this way, their powder stall has another new force, and the aunt and the eldest cousin probably also came out to see the excitement, and now seeing that the eldest cousin is already busy in the powder stall, she feels that there is nothing to go to shopping alone, so she follows Lele to collect the wrist chopsticks.

As soon as two more people came to help, Lele let himself be idle, poured a cup of tea from his own cup, and while drinking it, he took the fritters that no one bought and ate them with relish......

"How much does this food cost you?" The big brother who was waiting to eat the noodles on the side, saw Huang Lele eating the thing that was fried in oil to make it yellow-orange-orange, and it was crispy and crispy, and it seemed to be delicious, so he asked Huang Lele.

"Huh? It's a fritter, and it costs a dime, right? Le Le raised the fritters in his hand and said.

"For a dime, get me one." As he spoke, he handed a dime to Lele.

Lele took the money, grabbed a big fritter with chopsticks and handed it to him. The big brother took the fritters and took a bite, they were really crispy, fragrant, and delicious

It just so happened that his rice noodles were also scalded, and he was eating a mouthful of noodles and fritters, and the young people on the side saw it and bought fritters from Lele one after another. Suddenly, the fritters that no one cared about were selling well, and Lele didn't make much, so they were all sold out after a while, and when someone asked, she said that there was a genius.

They were still worried about the rice noodles that could not be sold in the morning, but they turned out to sell very well, but it was just after two o'clock in the afternoon, and when the family was packing up their things, people kept asking:

"Do you still have powder for sale?"

My mother asked the eldest sister to take the bucket out of the workshop and put it on the side of the workshop, as well as the table and stool for the door panel, and they also put it in the workshop together, so that they would not have to take so many things from home to come here tomorrow

After being tired for most of the day, fortunately when I got home, my father had already heated all the meals for them, and they wanted to spread out their stomachs to eat more, but because they were too tired, they couldn't eat much.

Before dinner on the first day of the new year, the ancestors must be worshiped before they can eat

Before dinner, my mother asked Lele to send a boiled chicken to my grandmother, and some home-made sausages and bacon, nominally for my grandmother, but not for my uncle's family.

As soon as the cousin saw that Lele had brought something delicious, he immediately ran over and shouted:

"Happy New Year, Little Sister"

"Xiao Xiao, Hao Hao, Happy New Year, you go get a bowl and come over to fill the dishes, remember that these are for grandma and you to eat together?"

"I remember that my aunt's cooking is the best."

When Lele saw these two lovely cousins, he felt that they were reincarnated into such parents, and it was really sad to think that they were tortured by illness to the point that one knelt and begged for death, and the other knelt and begged his parents to let him live a few more years. Lele felt a little sour in his heart.

She remembered that the eldest brother was only nineteen years old when he died, and the eldest sister told Lele that before the elder brother died, he knelt down and begged the eldest sister to let him die quickly, and asked the eldest sister:

"Big sister, why didn't the little sister come back to see me?"

The little cousin's illness also occurred at the age of nineteen, but their parents did not say anything when they saw death, and others sent the little cousin to the hospital, and the little cousin relied on an oxygen tube to breathe. Their parents, however, can be ruthless in pulling out their little cousin's oxygen tube

If it weren't for the fact that one of my little cousin's friends happened to visit him in the hospital and witnessed his friend's parents pulling out his friend's oxygen tube, which he just stopped him from, the little cousin would have died at the age of nineteen.

At that time, the little cousin's friend saw the little cousin's biological parents doing such a thing, and said to the second elder angrily:

"You are reluctant to pay for Haohao's treatment, you go back, I will pay this money"

That is, with the support of the little cousin's friends, the little cousin woke up and lived for five more years, when the doctor told them that the little cousin's illness would occur once at the age of twenty-four, and if he could survive the age of twenty-four, he would live to be twenty-nine.

After the little cousin was discharged from the hospital, in the eyes of others, he was no different from a healthy person. The eldest uncle and aunt were afraid that the little cousin would die at any time, so they changed the age of his ID card. Jean, who was only nineteen years old, married his girlfriend, and at that time, his cousin-in-law's whole family was against her marrying her cousin, but she still married.

In the second year, the young couple gave birth to a son, and the little cousin has been working hard to do farm work to support the family. The eldest uncle and aunt have stopped paying attention to their little cousins since they had children. Their happiness only lasted until the little cousin was twenty-four years old and had another attack, and the two old ones did not go to the hospital to see them, and the cousin-in-law relieved the little cousin by borrowing money, but after returning home, he was already surrounded by four walls, and he was reluctant to let his wife work so hard, so he went to work in the field when she was not at home, and in less than a month, he fell ill again, at that time, he knelt down and begged his parents:

"Dad, can you lend me 10,000 yuan, the doctor said that as long as you have 10,000 yuan, you can give me a small operation, and I can live to be twenty-nine years old and see my son grow up a little."

His parents, who didn't know what to do, looked at their own child kneeling in front of them like a beggar, and shook their hands and left without paying attention.

It's not that they don't have money, according to people who know them, the couple must have two or three hundred thousand. But in their eyes, 10,000 yuan is bigger and closer than their son

At that time, Lele's family had borrowed a lot of foreign debts because their two children were in college, and they were also more than willing to do it, so where could they come up with so much money to help him?

The eldest brother-in-law said that what the younger cousin said when he was dying was:

"Brother-in-law, tell me, why, I have a pair of parents who are not as good as animals? I'm really dead, you can persuade Yaoyao to find a good man to remarry, it's best that the other party can let her take my son away, otherwise if my son lives with that old thing that is not human, he may live harder than me, at least I have a brother to rely on before......"

Lele hopes that his rebirth can change the sad and short life of his cousins......

(To be continued)