People always say that the Spring Festival is a representative festival in China, and it is true.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, there is a custom in many places that is a vigil, and the most direct result of the vigil is not waking up the next morning.

It's not that I don't want to get up, but the main thing is that I can't open my eyes.

There is a tradition in Lijia Village that on the first day of the Lunar New Year every year, each family must have a man to go door to door to burn incense and pay New Year's greetings, so before this day, they will turn in groups.

It was impossible for Li Youbin's father to go, so he got up early in the morning and ran to play cards, and the burden naturally fell on Li Youbin's shoulders.

When Li Baoming came, Li Youbin was still sleeping.

When she was called up by her mother, she scolded and scolded them, thinking that they came too early.

Reluctance is reluctance, and the year is still to be worshipped.

I took a handful of incense from a drawer, rolled it in yellow paper, and went out with a lighter.

It was already noon when the village turned.

The last one is Li Baoming's house, go to his house to give some incense, burn a piece of yellow paper, kowtow three times, and whisper: "Give my uncle and aunt a New Year's greeting!"

Li Baoming's parents hurriedly helped him up: "Don't be so polite, just come, what year is it."

This land is not like other places, everything has to be polite, in Li Youbin's eyes, it is normal to pay a New Year's greeting, but when you pay New Year's greetings, you will be polite.

It's nothing to be polite about.

Just like Li Youbin, he is never polite when he comes to Li Baoming's house, he sits on the sofa after the New Year and waits for Li Baoming to stew tea, and he is not the only one so casual, Bruce Lee and Li Xiongwei are the same, they find a stool and sit down around the stove.

Li Baoming took the steamed bun in the kitchen, shook the tea can, put it on the stove and began to stew tea.

When drinking tea, it is not just for tea, but mainly for a few people to sit down and discuss where to go in the afternoon.

"Where are you going in the afternoon?" Li Baoming watched the water in the teapot begin to bubble, so he took some tea leaves and put them in.

"What do you say?" Li Youbin put his hands on the stove and roasted.

Winter in the north is very cold, although there is a stove in the house, but if you have to leave your hands outside for a long time, it will still be a little cold, it is best to put it on the side of the stove to bake.

Bruce Lee also put his hand on the stove and said, "Do you want to drink?"

"Don't, haven't you drunk too much these days?" As soon as he heard that he was drinking, Li Xiongwei quickly shook his head, he didn't drink well, and he still had some stomach pain after drinking these days.

"Then what do you say you're going to do?"

The stove is still very powerful, a pot of tea will be ready soon, Li Baoming tore a paper money and padded the handle to pick up the tea from the stove and poured some for one person.

"I heard that this year's basketball game in Yanjia Village started in the afternoon." Bruce Lee picked up the teacup and took a sip.

Yanjia Village is a village near Lijia Village, this village is developing relatively fast, the economy is much better than Lijia Village, and there is even a special stadium.

This is mainly due to the large number of cadres in Yanjia Village.

Basketball games are held every year, not only in Yanjia Village, but also in many larger villages, such as Zhangjiawan and Gaojiapo.

Then each village sends players to the nearest village where a basketball game is held to participate in the game, and if they win, they can go to the village to participate in the finals, and the final winner has a cash prize.

These nearby villages all belong to a township, called Qingbao Township.

Lijia Village has not sent players to participate in the Spring Festival basketball game for several years, not because they don't want to participate, but mainly because the young men in their village don't like to play basketball.

In fact, in Li Youbin's father's time, Lijiacun still played basketball very well, and even had a record of four consecutive championships.

Of course, there hasn't been much to accomplish since then.

"So early?"

Li Youbin is skeptical about Bruce Lee's words, after all, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, everyone is at home for the New Year, who has nothing to do to play basketball.

"I don't know, I've heard it too." Bruce Lee shook his head.

"Is anyone from our village going this year?"

"I heard that the Li Yanrong brothers have formed a team and plan to participate this year, but I don't know what the specific situation is."

Li Yanrong and Li Yanbin are well-known in the village for playing basketball, and sometimes they can play an afternoon on the basketball court in the village.

"Aren't you going to go? I remember you used to be on your school's varsity team, right? Li Youbin looked at Bruce Lee.

Although Bruce Lee doesn't play often, he plays really well, and he used to be a player on their school's varsity team in high school, a point guard position.

"Alas, I haven't fought for half a year, I don't want to go, and people haven't called me, and I don't particularly like to see the brothers." Bruce Lee sighed, "Let's go when they call out, after all, to earn glory for the village, just forget if you don't call it, the hot face of the province will stick a cold ass." ”

The Li Yanrong brothers love to play, but they don't play well, they like to play personal ball, and they always like to blame others. On weekdays, he also likes to be nosy, and he likes to talk behind his back, and he is not welcome in the village.

Li Youbin didn't know much about these two people, and he didn't plan to contact such a person from the beginning.

After drinking tea and coming out of Li Baoming's house, several people went to Yanjia Village.

Li Baoming and Bruce Lee's homes were close, and one of them rode a motorcycle and took Li Youbin and Li Xiongwei to Yanjia Village.

The picture is short, and a few people have taken a shortcut.

It is indeed at least fifteen minutes faster to take a shortcut from Lijia Village to Yanjia Village, but this section of the road is particularly difficult to walk.

There is only a small road about 70 centimeters wide, and the two of them are riding motorcycles, and one person is carrying one, which is very dangerous.

A little bit of technique or a little distraction can lead to a twenty-year-old death.

Fortunately, there were no accidents on the road, and several people arrived at Yanjia Village safely.

Li Youbin still feels that his good deeds and accumulation of virtue in the past few days have played a role, or God doesn't want to see blood during the Chinese New Year.

When I arrived at the stadium, it was already crowded, but I didn't expect that there would be a game on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Bruce Lee answered the phone and left on a motorcycle, and when he left, he said to Li Youbin in a shy, "I'll pick up someone."

Li Youbin didn't think much about it at the time, and found a high place with Li Baoming and started watching the game.

There should have been an opening ceremony before the basketball game started, but Li Youbin and the others came a little late, and when they arrived, the opening ceremony was just over, and they missed the most interesting scene in the afternoon.

It's okay to miss it, after all, a few people didn't just come to watch the opening ceremony, the main purpose was to watch the basketball game.

After the opening ceremony, there was still a period of time before the start, and the brothers didn't want to sit still, so they found a place to smoke a cigarette.

After smoking a cigarette, before the game started, Bruce Lee returned.

When he saw the person Bruce Lee picked up, Li Youbin frowned.

A dusty memory from high school slowly unveiled.