Chapter 8 New Year's Celebration
Wear new clothes, celebrate the New Year, and have a happy New Year.
The New Year in the countryside is more lively than in the city. Every house is lit up and brightly lit.
Every household will steam steamed buns, steamed flower cakes, croquettes, boil a large pot of meat, and place tributes, and they are very busy.
Every year during the Chinese New Year, Li Huizi will help her father paste couplets together, and she will not leave this year.
Today Chinese New Year's Eve is the Chinese New Year's Eve, and it is the day of the annual couplet.
A family of three, after breakfast, began to get busy. Li Huizi's mother was alone in the kitchen making dumplings. Li Huizi and her father, Lao Li, were happily pasting couplets on the doors of the houses.
In the north, every year at noon on Chinese New Year's Eve, every family wants to eat dumplings, and they also pay attention to the morning and evening times. If a firecracker starts to go off in one house, it doesn't take more than five minutes, and other households in the village will scramble to follow it one after another. According to Li Huizi's mother, the god of the family is going to the sky to hold a conference, and whoever has dinner early sends him away early, whose god will occupy a good seat in the sky, and this family will have a smooth sail in the coming year, and the life will not be worried.
When she was very young, Li Huizi believed in these things, and she also believed that there were gods in the sky. Every time she wants to kowtow to those immortals during the Chinese New Year, she will sincerely bow to those immortals. Finally, the entire forehead is covered with bright red marks.
Since she went to junior high school, her knowledge has become richer and richer, and she knows that there are no gods in the sky. That's just a kind of belief of people, since then, she has never kowtowed to those gods, and her mother is still doing what she should have done in previous years.
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"Dad, should this year's blessing word also be pasted upside down?" Li Huizi pasted the couplet while repeating the question that she would ask every year.
"All of them are pasted upside down, so that the word blessing is reversed, which means that the blessing has arrived." Li Huizi's father answers in a fixed way every year.
In a while, they finished pasting all the places in the house where they were going to post the couplets, and the house was full of New Year's atmosphere.
"Mom, do you want me to help you make dumplings?" Li Huizi ran to the kitchen and asked her mother again.
"No, you don't know anything, just watch TV by yourself."
"Mom, let's go to Li Zhen's house tonight to keep the New Year." Li Huizi said to her mother again.
"Okay, if you can sleep, you can sleep for a while, and when the girl is older, don't stay up late." Li Huizi's mother advised.
"Got it, Mom." Li Hui said coquettishly.
Lee Ho-woo, Lee Ming-che, Lee Zhen and Lee Hui-ja, who have stayed up all night every Chinese New Year's Eve since they were in the third grade of primary school. Knocking melon seeds, eating peanuts, watching the Spring Festival Gala, playing poker, and staying until about four or five o'clock in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year, when the firecrackers outside crackled non-stop, the four of them would go together to visit the elderly grandfather and grandmother in the village.
It is also the most lively at that time, because when you go out at that time, you will meet older brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts, who are also visiting the New Year.
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This year's New Year's Eve is Li Zhen's turn, and Li Zhen has also made an appointment in advance with the three of them, and today's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner will be eaten at her home.
Li Zhen's father is a cook in the village. Whoever has a black and white happy event will find him, and they will be blessed tonight with a good dish.
As soon as it got dark, Li Huizi couldn't wait to go to Li Zhen's house happily with two large bottles of carbonated drinks. This was begged from her father with her three-inch incorruptible tongue, if it weren't for the fact that she was in junior high school, Lao Li would not have agreed to let Li Huizi drink carbonated drinks.
"Li Zhen, I'm here." Li Huizi shouted happily as soon as she walked to the door of Li Zhen's house.
"Huizi, come in, your uncle is stir-frying for you." Li Zhen's mother came out of the kitchen and greeted her warmly.
"Hello auntie, what about Zhen'er?" Li Huizi said with a smile and handed the Coke to Zhen'er's mother.
"Dump new clothes in her room, and I'm going to wear them tonight." Li Zhen's mother said with a smile.
"Hehe, I'll go to the room to find her." After Li Huizi finished speaking, he went straight to the east room of the main hall of Li Zhen's house. It was Zhen'er's boudoir, she often came to Li Zhen's house to play, and she was already familiar with their family.
"Go, I'll call you when we eat." Li Zhen's mother looked at Huizi's back and responded.
"Xiao Zhenzhen, I'm here." Li Huizi naughtily pushed open the door of the east room and shouted affectionately.
"Huizi, come and see my new clothes, are they beautiful?"
At this time, Li Zhen looked at the self in the mirror sadly, and he was very beautiful.
Li Zhen was wearing a handmade cotton jacket with the most popular striped red gown, a pair of navy blue cotton pants underneath, and a new pair of black striped boots handmade by her mother. Li Zhen doesn't like long hair, she has always had a student's head that reaches to her shoulders, and she has a pair of small eyes that are very joyful. Take a look at it from a distance, it's really attractive.
"Beautiful, our little Zhenzhen has always been beautiful." Li Huizi walked up to Li Zhen with a smile and said.
"Hey, thanks. However, you are also beautiful today. ”
In fact, Li Huizi also deliberately changed into new clothes for the New Year before she came. She wore a short coffee-colored padded jacket today, the collar of this padded jacket is erected, and it is very full, and the cuffs and lower edges are elastic, and the overall look is very slim.
The two girls looked up and down in the mirror again.
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"Li Zhen, we're here."
Lee Hye-ja heard the voices of Lee Ming-che and Lee Ho-woo and pulled Lee Jin out of her room.
"Come and see, what did we bring with us?" As soon as Li Huizi and Li Zhen walked out of the room, Li Haoyu smiled and said mysteriously and took out the things in his hand from behind his back.
"Canned?" **Two large bottles of naked canned yellow peaches are dangling in front of their eyes so domineeringly.
"Wow, that's nice." Li Zhen danced happily. If it weren't for the Chinese New Year, they would have rarely eaten them.
"Kids, clean up the table, we're ready to eat." Zhen'er's father came over from the kitchen and commanded happily.
"Yes, uncle." Lee Ming-che said mischievously.
They happily began to clean up the table, and then happily set up the dishes again.
"Wow, that's so hearty. Cold cucumber, vinegared eggplant, fried lotus root, cold pork offal, Sixi meatballs, stir-fried pork intestine with red pepper, fried chicken with chili, braised fish, sweet potato balls. Li Huizi reported the name of the dish in the same way.
"Uncle, you're amazing. Today I'm going to let go of eating. Lee Ming-che said, swallowing his saliva.
"Eat it all, but don't leave it all behind." Li Zhen's mother said with a smile.
"Good work, uncle." Li Haoyu has the sweetest mouth every time.
"Sit down, let's have a drink. You drink drinks, and your uncle drinks liquor. Li Zhen's father said with a smile.
"Come, I'll fill it for you, uncle." Li Huizi said and picked up the Caozhou Laojiao and poured wine for Li Zhen's father.
"Auntie, don't be busy, hurry up and sit down." Lee Ming-che shouted at Lee Jin's mother, who was still busy in the kitchen.
"Okay, I'll be right here."
After a while, Li Zhen's mother brought out a plate of dumplings from the kitchen.
"Auntie, come and sit here." Li Haoyu hurriedly gave up the position next to Li Zhen's father, and pulled Zhen'er's mother to sit down.
"Come, let's have a drink together, uncle wishes you a new start in the new year, be happy, happy every day, and go to the next level in your studies."
"Thank you, uncle."
"Thanks, Daddy."
"We also wish you and your aunt good health and all the best." Li Haoyu, Lee Mingzhe and Lee Huizi said in unison.
Everyone toasted and celebrated.
The Spring Festival Gala in 1998 kicked off in a song "Spring Festival", and the hosts Ni Ping and Zhao Zhongxiang spoke passionately on TV.
At that time, Li Huizi's favorite cross talk actors were: Niu Qun and Feng Gong. That year's "Meet in 1998" has always existed in Li Huizi's mind, accompanying her through spring, summer, autumn and winter.