Chapter 3 Chinese New Year

Although the family is poor, during the Chinese New Year, my mother will always make a new set of clothes and a pair of cloth shoes for each child in the family. Mom's hands are very dexterous, and she buys the same fabric as other people's houses, and after she paints, cuts, and sews, the new clothes are definitely more beautiful than the clothes of any child in the village! At that time, most of the fabrics were not patterned, so my mother used colored threads to embroider beautiful animal or flower patterns on the clothes! Cloth shoes are also embroidered cloth shoes!

I can't help but say that my mother's luck is really strong! Since the separation, their family has been out of food at the beginning. Later, no matter what my mother did, she was so lucky that she was stunned! Their livestock are growing very fast! It was always slaughtered a month earlier than other people's livestock, and my grandmother was so angry that she often secretly came to take the livestock food back to feed their livestock, but their livestock still grew very slowly. When the children had no clothes to wear and no cloth tickets, my mother was stunned and walked alone on the road, and there were ownerless cloth tickets floating in front of her.

At that time, there were three major items in the countryside: bicycles, clothes cars, and tape recorders. They don't have a single thing!

One day, they suddenly saw their mother riding a 28-inch Phoenix brand bicycle, which was a big item! Lele and his brother immediately ran over and asked:

"Mom, Mom, whose bike is this?"

"Our family." Mom said with a faint smile.

"Oh! Oh! We have a bicycle at home, too! "My brother was jumping and jumping with joy.

"Mom, did you buy this car?" Lele asked cautiously, vaguely remembering that in his previous life, the bicycle was won by his mother after making a bet with others, but I don't remember what he bet on.

"Lele's stupid daughter, how can my mother have the money to buy it! This is a mother who won it back by making a bet with someone! Mom picked her up, pinched her little fat face and said.

"Mom, what are you betting on?"

"Haha...... Bet on my mother, who has never touched a bicycle, and slip down that steep slope, but your mother and I, once we slip down the slope, will ride! Then the bike is our house! Amazing, right? "Mom said it very simply.

"Hmmm! Mom is amazing and amazing! The brother and sister replied in the affirmative.

My brother didn't know what the steep slope was like now, but she still knew. The steep slope with a slope of nearly 60 degrees was already very difficult to descend from above, and I remember that many people died there in my previous life. The big steep slope is not just a steep problem, but its length of nearly 300 meters plus the nearly 90-degree turn in the middle of the slope, there is a small bridge at the bottom of the slope, the bridge deck to the bottom of the bridge is ten meters high, and the bottom is not a big river, but a small stream, and the water will flood the depth of the foot, and then there are craggy rocks everywhere, and those who fall down have no chance of survival.

She can't help but wonder about her mother, is her mother also reborn? I remember in her previous life, her mother was very fast at learning everything, and it took her three or two months to learn what others learned for a few years. He is also more skilled than others. In this era, my mother studied medicine and took the medical certificate, and it really only took three months to get this certificate home and study on her own (in her previous life, she often saw her mother reading with a very thick medical book) while treating people. When the villagers in the nearby villages were sick, almost all of them came to my mother for treatment, and they didn't see her make a mistake, and they all treated people in good health. Because of this, everyone in ten miles and eight villages knows their family, and my mother has a lot of weight no matter where she is! If moms aren't born again, it says a thing: their moms have a high IQ! Could it be that my brother's intelligence comes from my mother's genetics? is also a mother's child, why don't you pass on some wisdom to her?

I don't want to, let's talk to my mother about my grandmother's coming to steal their pig food again today:

"Mom, today Grandma came to steal our pig's food again to feed their pigs!"

"People are doing it, the sky is watching, and one day there will be retribution! Just let her steal it, if she is not sincere, she won't grow up if she feeds it, leave her alone. It's just a little pig food. Lan Ying replied indifferently.

Think about it this year, their family sold all those livestock, in addition to buying some small ones to feed, their family can also have a very prosperous year. In addition to chickens, ducks and fish, the family did not have to buy meat, and they also bought fabrics for the children to make clothes, sweets and snacks, and also bought them back to satisfy their hunger. Life is moving in the direction she's determined......

On the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the brother and sister followed their mother to make rice cakes, and when they returned, the brothers and sisters took a bath early and changed into new clothes. The sisters took the dirty clothes to the river to be washed, and they could not wash them tomorrow. This is a custom in the village, and the first day of junior high school is not allowed to clean, wash, or cook new rice. Therefore, everything is done in the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the meals are prepared for two days.

After worshipping their ancestors, the family had a lively Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. They don't have any unspoken table manners. According to my mother, what's wrong with saying something happy at the dinner table and having a happy meal? First of all: if you want to laugh, please turn your face to the back, so as not to accidentally spray food on the table! So when their family eats, it is always very lively, and laughter and laughter keep coming from the dining table......

After the meal, a clean table will be set up at home, and the sisters will start to beat rice cakes, which need to be mixed with glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour in proportion, add appropriate boiled white syrup or add water directly, stir evenly and kick into a ball, put a layer of kicked rice flour dough into the cake mark and then add sesame seeds or peanut kernel filling, and then put a layer of rice flour dough, cover the small seal cover, beat the seal cover twice with a hammer, beat the rice flour dough firmly, pour it out, and get a shaped rice cake, put those shaped rice cakes into the pot and steam them, you can eat them.

Mom brought the oil pan to the stove of the fire and prepared to make fried snacks, which were stirred and kicked into balls with glutinous rice flour, and then twisted or kneaded into their favorite shapes, and then fried in oil. She and her brother are relatively small, so they use rice balls to knead into various animal shapes, and adults make it relatively simple, directly twisting it into the shape of a flower, and then put it in the oil pot, and fry it until it is yellow, orange and orange, and drain the oil, which is fragrant and crispy, and is the children's favorite snack.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, when she was still asleep, she was pulled up by her brother to wash, and there were already a few friends waiting for her outside. The brother and sister joined forces with everyone to give red envelopes to the adults one by one. At that time, no matter whether you knew someone or not, as long as you went to their house to greet him, you would get a red envelope. Although there is not much money in it, it is also very happy. So when I was a child, I always looked forward to the New Year.

After taking the red envelope, they scattered and went home for dinner, and then made an appointment with the meeting place, and then went to the grain field to watch the competition organized by several villages in the first year of junior high school after eating.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, there will be a dragon and lion team competition organized by various villages, and there will be bonuses to be taken. The winning team fought for the honor of their village, and they could get a reward when they returned to the village.

The children like to watch the excitement, the fireworks not only beat the gongs and drums, the firecrackers 'crackle, crackle' non-stop, those dragons and lions dance up to grab the fireworks but not chaotic, there is nothing to rob the dark arrows, everyone is relying on strength to grab, the team that grabbed the most fireworks is the first place. And so on.

After the end of the firecrackers, the dragon and lion team will beat the gongs and drums to go to each family to greet the New Year, to which house, which owner will find the longest bamboo pole to put the red envelope on the top to tie it, and then hang the firecrackers, as soon as the firecrackers are lit, the lion and dragon dance teams will begin to grab the red envelopes in the firecrackers, which red envelopes are big, they will perform more in which house, indicating that the family will have a more prosperous life in the coming year.

At that time, my brother liked to light firecrackers the most, my mother would usually hold Lele and my sisters to watch, and my father would hold the bamboo pole high to prevent the dragon and lion from getting the red envelope so quickly. There will be villagers next to it, which is very lively.

In the second year of junior high school, there will be a duet song competition in the barn field, and the king of mountain songs will be judged. The children didn't understand what they were singing, so they weren't very interested. There is also a basketball team organized by Shili Eight Villages in a basketball game, and the children are just a few minutes to be lively.

As a child, I am most interested in the miscellaneous folk artists from other places, who will also perform in the barn, which is not far from what I saw on TV later. There are monkey players, tightrope walkers, big swordsmen, and some singing a little song. During the Chinese New Year, it is not easy for them to go to the village to perform, plus the New Year's Festival, the adults are happy to see it, those who have money will give some rewards, and the children who have red envelopes in their hands are also generous to give some.

What also makes the children happy is that during the Chinese New Year, there will be a lot of small snacks to sell, and the children themselves also have a few red envelopes for New Year's greetings, and they can buy some snacks they like to satisfy their hunger. Spend as much as you want, and adults won't care.

There are also sensible people who know that the poor children in the family will keep the red envelope money and not spend it. The exception is the third sister of her family, who belongs to the kind of thing: what goes into her pocket will not be easily taken out. She doesn't want to deal with you, no matter how much you coax, she will keep her mouth as tight as a mussel shell. For this reason, my mother once bet her with someone else, and if that person could make the third sister answer him, my mother would give him two hens. Instead, he loses two hens to his mother. The uncle didn't believe that he didn't even have the ability to make a child talk. started to use candy to tease the sister of the little young pioneer, even if she changed a lot of snacks to coax the third sister, it took most of the day, and the third sister just squinted at him, and she didn't pop out a word. Wait for that uncle to be like a green vegetable without moisture. And admit defeat and get ready to go. The third sister shouted faintly behind him:

"Uncle, don't forget to send our two hens back to our house."

The uncle, who had just walked with his feet up, stumbled under his feet, turned to stare at the third sister with a black face, his mouth moved, he didn't say anything, gritted his teeth and left.

Everyone who was watching the play happily went home, thinking that they could eat chicken at night! Huang Lele, who was carried behind by the second sister, was really happy! Feelings, her third sister is still a black belly, or a light brain, not a long one! Could it be, just like our grandfather Deng said: what is concentrated is the essence? Why, in her previous life, why couldn't she see that she, the third sister, was actually a character? It's really self-explanatory, it's amazing!

At that time, the more I thought about it, the more fun it became!

There are so many things for the New Year, the third sister can receive a lot of things in addition to red envelopes this time, and she should be the happiest!

My aunt also went home on the second day of the new year to pay New Year's greetings, and my grandmother didn't let her go to my uncle's house, she said that my little uncle usually talks to my uncle, and my aunt should eat at my eldest brother's house when she comes back! When the family is separated, the eldest uncle will have to be a grandmother who still has the ability to work, and let the grandfather, who has poor eyes and limited mobility, follow the Lele family. Although grandpa's eyes are a little blurry, he is still good to their children

Mom doesn't care about these things with them, and when my aunt's family comes back to pay New Year's greetings, she can do whatever she wants. Even if my aunt listened to her grandmother's words and said how her mother treated her badly, her attitude towards her mother, even if it was the New Year, she was cold-eyed. But my mother ignored them.

My aunt had an opinion about my mother and didn't want to stay, so she just went back after dinner.

Happy times always fly by, and the year has passed in a blink of an eye, and what the family should have done......