Chinese New Year's Eve, the last day of the Lunar New Year, is the most important traditional festival for the Chinese people. On this day, the home and outside should not only be cleaned, but also paste Spring Festival couplets, New Year's pictures, and hang lanterns. Each family must prepare delicious food and the whole family will be reunited for the New Year. Especially the dumplings at midnight.

Sending away Aunt Chen for the New Year, Zhou Xiaozheng and Lin Lishan of the Zhou family went to the army all day long, and they became more and more busy. Considering that their family could not keep dumplings together on Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhou Jiao could only eat dumplings together for breakfast on Chinese New Year's Eve.

For this meal, Zhou Jiao packed five kinds of dumplings, including pork sauerkraut, pork mushroom and cabbage filling, shrimp and pork filling, leek egg filling and beef dumpling filling. Each dumpling has a lot of coins and red dates in order to be auspicious.

In the early morning, there were bursts of firecrackers, and the military families from all over the world in the compound had a local custom, and the only thing that remained unchanged was to paste Spring Festival couplets, New Year's paintings, and hang lanterns. Every family is even more energetic to prepare a table of Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

The Zhou family got up early in the morning, pasted Spring Festival couplets, New Year paintings, hung red lanterns, and let off firecrackers, and the family gathered around to eat dumplings in advance.

Zhou Xiaozheng went to the army to arrange the staff on duty, and Lin Lishan kept arranging performances for the art troupe, leaving Zhang Guoqing and his wife at home with their children.

During the day, Mrs. Cheng secretly took Zhou Jiao to hide in the room and prepare to worship the ancestors, and then took her to the nearby canteen to make dumplings with the military families. Before she could pack an hour, the old lady took the opportunity to rush her home to take care of the children.

Out of the cafeteria, children can be seen everywhere lighting small firecrackers and throwing them at the female comrades passing by. The "bang" frightened the girls and made the naughty children laugh. On this day, no one would speak ill of pranks, and the lesbians who were teased were smiling regardless of whether they recognized them or not.

The gate of Zhou's house was open, many people from the big courtyard went back and forth, close partners gathered in the living room, and the boys chatted about the troops who had returned from the battlefield on the peninsula, each talking about the inside news. For tonight's show dinner, they no longer have the excitement of the meeting when they first moved into the compound.

Zhang Guoqing hugged the child with a smile, he didn't make any remarks, and avoided sensitive topics when he encountered them. In the living room, boys and girls who are close in age gather together, and there will be no shortage of topics. It is clear that they already have a concept of hierarchy, and the children of the highest positions in their father's generation usually like to summarize.

The speech of these second-generation children is affected by the environment, and they often care about political issues in small talk. They usually look tall and tall, but they are straight, and once they make friends, they really make friends with their lives. When their relationship is good to a certain point, they will be very casual and do not distinguish between you and me. Asking the other party to do something is just a sentence, and if they don't do it well, they will scold each other, and they will not beat around the bush. Fang Fei, who has usually participated in the work, will be pulled to the hotel by everyone as soon as they receive their wages, and often there is no half a dime in their pockets in the middle of the month.

They are very clear about the inside and outside of the hospital. Everyone in the courtyard has opinions, fights until the head is bleeding, and swears that they will never get along with each other, but as long as the other party is bullied outside the hospital, it is natural to unite and help fight.

From time to time, there were elementary school students in the compound, as long as he said that he was bullied by other compounds, he shouted casually, and immediately a group of brothers and brothers in the courtyard stepped forward and brought people over to ask for justice and fight. Once, there was a group of children who were six or seven years old and shouted and beat them up!

Since Zhang Guoqing came into contact with these people and had a harmonious relationship between the two sides, every time he saw them at home, he asked them to pour tea by themselves, and he was hungry. It's no longer polite for them to come to Zhou's house now. If Zhou Xiaozheng is not at home, it is as casual as being at home.

When it came to the meal, they didn't go home, and a few people got together to touch each other's pockets, and when they saw people coming one after another, they directly called people to run to the service club to get fish and meat, and move wine jars. Knowing that Zhou Jiao is ready, they like to spend a few dollars in their pockets, and the picture is fun. After drinking, I didn't eat food, and I laughed and ate dumplings with my stomach.

It was time for the auditorium to gather in the auditorium, and no one would clean up the mess left behind. Everyone held the military quilt to cover the peace, closed the door casually, and gathered to the auditorium.

The auditorium has a new look. Huge presidential New Year's paintings, the walls are covered with red paper couplets, hanging large and small red lanterns, and laughter and laughter everywhere reveal the flavor of the New Year. Except for the first few rows of seats reserved for the leader. Later, all ages got together, and the partners who usually put on the shelves without saying a word also laughed today.

Didn't you see a lot of parents watching them? When soldiers educate their children, the vast majority of them are directly kicked with their feet, and if they are trained or beaten in front of everyone, no one's face will look good.

Living in the compound, Zhang Guoqing saw soldiers whipping children more than once. The children in the compound are estranged from their parents. Parents are busy with work and are often away from home, children go to and from school in the compound, life is taken care of by nannies, and families without nannies have three meals a day mixed canteen. They just want their children to be safe, and they lack communication with each other. What about the children, who were born 50 years ago and didn't see their father once or twice during their growth, where did the feelings come from?

This is also the reason why he and Zhou Jiao's family attracted attention as soon as they returned to the compound. Now the people who see Zhou Jiao in the compound, both young and old, jokingly call her the baby pimple of the Zhou family. Two days ago, Zhou Jiao exercised early in the morning, and five or six-year-old children came over to call her baby pimple sister.

As the leaders above entered, the auditorium burst into warm applause. After the opening remarks, it was a theatrical performance. The same program was watched by people's interest, and several leaders were unaware of the halftime exit.

Zhang Guoqing smiled at the old man who left, and nodded slightly. On this day, his father-in-law had to go down to the army to accompany the soldiers, and his mother-in-law had to arrange performances on the first day of the first lunar month. On Chinese New Year's Eve, thousands of families are reunited, and their family can't wait to eat dumplings together to welcome the New Year's bell.

Zhangjia Village in Northeast China. At this moment, the children's long-awaited Chinese New Year's Eve has finally arrived. On this day, the second Zhang Guoqiang's family gathered in the old courtyard to celebrate the New Year with Zhang's father and mother.

The two families gathered around the big table, smiling and waiting for Zhang's father and mother to say a few words before moving.

In the past, Dad Zhang would sigh a few words that the family has worked hard this year, and they will make persistent efforts in the coming year.

Zhang's mother will praise her daughters-in-law and encourage them to add more people in the coming year, work hard after the beginning of spring, and govern the family diligently and thriftily.

Father Zhang looked at the children in front of him with a smile on his face, and said with a smile that the days are getting better and better, and he is very satisfied, and then he will rely on their own efforts. Advise family members to learn to be content and think twice about everything.

Zhang's mother followed closely and threatened that she was no longer at home, and hoped that her two daughters-in-law would take care of the boy and children in the coming year.

After Dad Zhang started the chopsticks, he saw that the two sons below were busy taking care of the children, and he remembered that his old son's family was far away, and he was very disappointed.

This will be his old son at home, the first thing is to pour him wine first, serve his mother with food, and tell some jokes to make him laugh. From time to time, he looked out of the house, as if expecting them to return.

The second eldest Zhang Guoqiang had already braved the heavy snow to erect red lanterns in the two courtyards of his younger brother in the county seat and village, and he knew that his parents must be thinking about Xiao Wu on Chinese New Year's Eve. This will make him deliberately joke that Zhang Guoqing and his wife escaped fast enough to save the New Year's money for the children.

His words made everyone laugh. Everyone knows it's a joke. Since Zhang Guoqing's family went to the capital, their family's parcels have not stopped, and Aunt Fang, the county seat, has sent them to Zhangjia Village in three or five days.

In addition to the children's fabric toys, Zhang's father and mother even have cotton boots and hats, and there are three sets of new clothes. Not to mention that Zhou Jiao knitted two sets of sweaters and pants for the two elders a year ago, and before leaving, Zhang Guoqing had already given the child five cents per person.

"Xiao Wu is not at home, and I really feel that something is missing. I don't know if I'm used to living in the capital? There are a lot of nobles over there, so they must not be at ease with our family. ”

It's not as good as your own home. After Zhang's mother left the old son's family, she fell asleep, and in her dreams, the old son laughed and called his mother.

Zhang Guoqiang saw that she was worried, and hurriedly smiled and said, "Mother, don't you know our little five?" That is, everywhere you go, you are welcomed. ”

Sure enough, I saw that Zhang's mother was shocked, and she was very happy when she talked about her old son's past deeds.

Dad Zhang couldn't help but ask, "Do you think Xiao Wu will really wait until work to come back?" His godfather came over a few days ago, but he said that after fifteen, they would definitely come back. This kid sent something over and didn't say when he would come back, so it was very good. ”

Zhang Guofu laughed when he heard this, "Dad, it's only a few days before I come back after the fifteenth day and the end of the first month." I estimate that Xiao Wu will come back at the end of the first month. Uncle Zhou must be reluctant to give up his daughter. You, just wait for your old son to come back. ”

Thinking of Zhou Xiaozheng's father and daughter, Zhang's father and mother laughed, and they felt a lot more relieved.

After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the deafening firecrackers in the village rang out one after another. Xizi and they knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhang's father and Zhang's mother. The ritual of kowtowing is solemn, kneeling on both knees, knocking on the ground on the forehead, and repeating three times. got the New Year's money of one person and one dime, and they hid in the house one by one happily.

Zhang's father took his two sons and three yards to take turns setting off firecrackers. The children were not afraid of the cold weather and followed around, and gathered a group of friends to play with small firecrackers outside.

Zhang's mother took her daughter-in-law and began to cook dumplings. As soon as the dumplings came out of the pot, the children couldn't stand the cold and ran back. After the family ate dumplings, Zhang's father did not let the children keep the New Year, and let them all go back to the house. Tomorrow on the first day of the new year, the family will inevitably go to the ancestral hall and go to the elders' house to pay New Year's greetings.

The hall left Zhang Dad and the two old mouths leaning on the kang and chatting in a low voice about old things, and kept watch quietly until dawn.

At this time, in the compound of the Beijing Military Region, with everyone counting down, the New Year has finally come. 58 years came quietly.

In front of the bonfire in the square outside the auditorium, several literature and art lovers played the accordion, played the harmonica and played cheerful music with the erhu. The onlookers were also reluctant to go back and sang along.

Ping An was brought back by Mrs. Cheng early, Zhang Guoqing and Zhou Jiao looked at the fireworks in the distance, forgetting all their troubles and sorrows.

On the Chinese New Year's Eve of 57 years, all the scenes in the compound have become unforgettable memories for their lives. Such a lively scene is gone, things are not everything, and old friends are still sighing when they get together again in the future.