Grandparents have been waiting for them to come back, the family New Year's picture is not posted outside the gate, according to the custom of the hometown, the family did not come back to the gate of the New Year's picture pasted, is to refuse them to go home.

Ruan Yu hadn't seen her grandparents for more than half a year, and she was happy at this time, and after getting out of the car, she first helped bring the things in the car into the house, and then followed her grandfather to paste the New Year's pictures on the door.

Unlike in that house, when the New Year's pictures were pasted with tape, Grandpa Ruan boiled the paste by himself, served it in a small bowl, and dipped it in a toothbrush when he needed to use it, smeared it on the four corners, and pasted it on the door to stick it firmer than the tape. But because of this, the sticky place on the New Year's picture will often not be torn off, leaving pieces of shredded paper on the door, and after a long time, the New Year's picture will fade, and the paper will also rot, and it will become a gray patch.

Ruan Yu tried to wipe it with a damp cloth before, although it worked, but it was too long ago to get rid of it, and finally gave up.

After pasting the New Year's paintings, Ruan Yu took a few steps back, carefully looked at the New Year's pictures on both sides of the door, and felt that there was no crooked paste, but it was a little misaligned, but it was okay.

"Master, is this okay?"

"Alright, alright." Grandpa Ruan waved his hand and asked Ruan Yu to follow him into the house.

Ruan Yu first went to the well to wash her hands, and then went to the kitchen to find her grandmother: "Milk, I'm hungry, do you have anything to eat?" "I came out of the house in the morning, I didn't eat breakfast, I ate some snacks on the way, and I was hungry at this time.

Grandma Ruan and Mother Ruan were busy rolling out the dough and chopping the dumpling filling, and when they heard this, Grandma Ruan pointed to the direction of the hall and said, "There are my fried crispy meat, twist flowers, and hemp leaves on the table in the hall, just take them, you go and eat some first, don't eat too much, eat dumplings in the morning." ”

"Okay."

Ruan Yu jumped to the hall house, Ruan Yue was watching TV, and the big pot lid that was just installed at home last year could receive many stations, unlike before when there were only CCTV stations and some county-level satellite TVs.

Ruan Yu grabbed a handful of twist flowers on the table (here the twist is actually a dumpling, but in my hometown it is called twist, the default area of my hometown in the text is my hometown, in order to be consistent with Grandma Ruan, so the twist flower is used uniformly) to eat, her grandmother's fried twist is very crispy and tastes good, but she doesn't dare to eat too much, for fear that she won't have the stomach to eat lunch again.

After eating the twist flowers, Ruan Yu saw Grandpa Ruan come out of the kitchen and went to the yard and asked, "Master, where do I sleep at night?" Do you still live in the same house as before? ”

"I'm still sleeping there, the bed hasn't moved, your grandmother dried the quilt and made the bed yesterday." Grandpa Ruan washed his hands at the well in the courtyard and took Ruan Yu to the house where she lived.

The room is not very spacious, but it is very bright, because the windows are wide open, and they are almost catching up with the floor-to-ceiling windows, and this place was not used to live in the past, but the warehouse of the family. Ruan Yu slept with her grandparents when she was a child, but when she was older, she couldn't sleep in a bed, so she moved here.

A few bags of grain were piled up in the corner of the room, covered with a rain cloth, covering a small area, while Ruan Yu's bed was leaning against the window, and Grandpa Ruan also nailed a layer of transparent rain cloth outside the window in winter to keep warm. As for the bed covered with a thick quilt, there is a layer of space quilt pressed on top of the quilt, which was built by Ruan Yu when she was a child, and the color is also old, but Grandma Ruan is thrifty, and she is reluctant to throw it away if it is not broken.

"You sleep here with your sister at night." Grandpa Ruan said again, Ruan Yu was a little unhappy, she didn't want to sleep with Ruan Yue, but she still nodded.

Her bed is quite big, it is said that it is still the bed of her grandparents when they got married, it is no problem to sleep two people, there are many people in the family, but there are only three rooms, one for grandparents, one for her parents and Ruan Kangming, and Ruan Yue can only squeeze one room with her.

In the yard, Grandma Ruan is asking Grandpa Ruan to cook the pot, and the old family still uses the kind of pot made of bricks, and someone needs to fill the firewood underneath when cooking. Grandpa Ruan answered and walked out, and Ruan Yu also went out with him, going to the hall to watch TV.

In the morning, I ate a meal of dumplings, and in the afternoon, Ruan's mother and Ruan's grandmother moved tables and chairs in the yard, and then moved the chopping board, dumpling filling, and good noodles out of the kitchen, and rolled out the dumplings and wrapped dumplings.

This is also the custom here in Ruan Yu's hometown, the first day of junior high school does not work hands-on, and the second year of junior high school has to go to relatives, so on Chinese New Year's Eve, all the dumplings to be eaten for the New Year should be wrapped, because it will not be bad in winter, and it can be cooked directly when you want to eat it later.

Ruan Yu pulled a ball of noodles and played with it in her hand, sat in the courtyard bored for a while, and then went out to play with her former friends.

At night, when it was not dark, the village sounded firecrackers one after another, some long, some short, some far and some near, and when encountering firecrackers in the near place, Ruan Yu would happily run out to pick up firecrackers.

Chinese New Year's Eve will set off firecrackers before eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Ruan Yu listened to the sound of firecrackers outside for a long time, and from time to time asked Grandpa Ruan when he could set off firecrackers at home, and the answer he got was to wait for the meal to be ready.

Ruan's mother mixed three cold dishes first, and a few hot dishes to make. Grandpa Ruan put out all the sacrifices to the ancestors, two plates of fruits, a plate of knife head meat, a plate of steamed buns, and a plate of dried fruits, and prepared things, Grandpa Ruan first lit the four large candles on the table, then put on incense, and finally took out the yellow paper that had been folded earlier and burned it.

The stacking of yellow paper is also fixed, three together, two of which are crossed diagonally, one vertically placed in the middle, and then folded in half.

While burning yellow paper, you have to kowtow at the same time, Ruan Yu is very proficient in this set, and followed Grandpa Ruan to kowtow a few times, worship the ancestors, worship God.

After finishing the hall, Grandpa Ruan went to the kitchen again, this time to worship the king of the stove, the process is similar to the set in the hall, but the number of candles is reduced to two, and the tribute is only three plates, Ruan Yu suspects that the kitchen is not as big as the hall, and it can't put so many things.

After worshipping Ruan Yu, the king of the stove, he returned to the hall, CCTV was playing "Year after Year" on the TV, Ruan's father came out with a bottle of wine, and was looking for a wine glass, Ruan Kangming had already sat down at the table, and Ruan Yue was still watching TV.

"Ji Jun, it's almost time to eat, you put the cannon off." Grandpa Ruan came in from outside and asked Ruan's father to set off firecrackers.

Not long after Ruan's father went out, firecrackers sounded outside, and Ruan Yu stood in the courtyard covering his ears and listening, laughing happily.

After the firecrackers were released, Ruan Yu ran out to pick up firecrackers again, and met two children who also came to pick up firecrackers, and when she finished picking up, she counted the firecrackers she picked up, and this time she found three, and only found four when she went out to pick up firecrackers the first few times, adding up to seven, less is less, but Ruan Yu is very happy.

Before her mother called for dinner, Ruan Yu asked Ruan's father for a lighter and set off all the firecrackers outside the door.

Chinese New Year's Eve rice Ruan's mother made eight dishes, there are fish and chicken, few vegetarian dishes, just cold fungus, cool skin and spinach fried meat three and a half dishes, the most popular cold skin was robbed by their three children at the beginning, braised fish Ruan Yu ate nearly half of it alone, her stomach was bulging, and she didn't have the stomach to eat the last pot of sesame rice balls when it was cooked.

As soon as the Spring Festival Gala began at eight o'clock, the whole family stayed in front of the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala, Ruan Yu took a fruit plate with melon seeds and peanuts, and ate while watching, and drank some juice when his mouth was dry, or peeled an orange to eat.

At about ten o'clock, only Ruan Yu and Ruan's mother, Ruan's father, and everyone else couldn't stay up to sleep.

However, before going to bed, Grandpa Ruan and Grandma Ruan gave out all the New Year's money, each of them was fifty yuan, and Ruan's father and Ruan's mother each sent a hundred, all of which were brand new money.

Ruan Yu stayed up for a while, she was really sleepy, and she felt that her upper and lower eyelids were fighting, so she went to sleep first, and told her father before leaving: "Let go of the door cannon and remember to call me to get up." ”

When she returned to her room, it was so dark that she couldn't see anything, and by the light of the hall, Ruan Yu found the switch and turned on the light, and Ruan Yue turned over on the bed and covered her head with a quilt.

Ruan Yu took off her clothes, but she didn't finish them, and she didn't take off her thermal underwear, because she had to get up later.

When Ruan Yu lifted the quilt and was about to go to bed to sleep, Ruan Yu found that Ruan Yue occupied the bed alone, and she rested on the edge of the bed on one side of her legs, Ruan Yu wanted to sleep, unless she pressed her legs to sleep.

"Ruan Yue, Ruan Yue, wake up." Ruan Yu pushed her, shouting a few times but didn't wake anyone up.

There was no way, Ruan Yu frowned and felt a little angry in her heart, and moved Ruan Yue one leg to push her into the bed, but after moving, she realized that Ruan Yue's legs were too heavy, she pushed several times without pushing, and a few times Ruan Yue moved her legs back as soon as she pushed over, which made Ruan Yue even more angry, and she tossed for a long time before she could get into bed.

At twelve o'clock in the night, Grandpa Ruan called Ruan Yu up, saying that he was going to let go of the door cannon. The night was dark outside, but it was by no means quiet, and the opening of the door was sounding one after another, and the sound had been going on for a while.

Ruan Yu put on her clothes and went out, only to know that it was snowing outside, and the yard was already white. After a few explosions of the door opener, the dumplings cooked by Ruan's mother also came out of the pot, and a bowl was served to each of them, while Ruan Yue and Ruan Kangming were still sleeping and did not eat.

This meal is the first meal of the new year, Ruan Yu went to sleep again after eating, and slept until nine o'clock the next day before waking up, the sky was bright outside, and the snow had already stopped.

Ruan Yu sat on the bed for a while to come back to her senses, this is a habit of hers, otherwise she will be unenergetic. Ruan Yue hadn't woken up yet, and she was sleeping to death, so she got dressed and got out of bed first.

The house was quiet, Ruan Yu went to her grandparents' house to see first, both of them got up, Grandpa Ruan was not at home, and he probably went out to visit the house.

Grandma Ruan was boiling water in the kitchen, and the house was steaming, Ruan Yu went in to find her and asked, "Milk, where is the toothbrush?" ”

Grandma Ruan said: "In the drawer of the hall, it is all newly bought by your grandfather, you go and pick one, you know where the toothpaste is, the washbasin is placed outside the hall, remember to mix it with hot water, it is cold in winter." ”

Grandma Ruan had already boiled two teabottles of hot water, both of which were placed on the table of the hall, Ruan Yu was troublesome with hot water, and brushed her teeth directly at the well with cold water to rinse her mouth, and only used hot water to wash her face. In fact, in order to prevent the water from being frozen in winter, Grandpa Ruan wrapped the pressure well with three layers of rain cloth and three layers outside, the water is not very cold, and it is a little warm.

Ruan Yu soaked her hands for a while while washing her face, and when she finished washing her face, she quietly went to her mother's house and took out the children's cream she brought back and applied it.

turned on the TV, CCTV was rebroadcasting the Spring Festival Gala, and she had watched all the programs, so Ruan Yu watched it for a while and went to the yard to step on the snow to play, until the snow was full of footprints, and then she was really bored, so she went out to walk outside the village.

Outside the village is a large wheat field, which stretches to other villages in the distance, there are no buildings here, the world is open, the view is excellent, and there is even a kind of picturesque feeling, that is, there is no one to live, and I am a little cautious after staying for a long time.

Ruan Yu has been playing here since she was a child, and she is very familiar with it, she picked a small path to walk, there are wheat fields on both sides, and the wheat seedlings in the field are not very high in winter, covered by snow, and the green is only faintly visible.

After walking for a while, Ruan Yu felt that it was almost there, so he turned back along the road. At the intersection, she grabbed another handful of snow and pinched it into a small ball, thinking that it was not enough, so she grabbed a few more handfuls of snow and made the snowball the size of her hand.

Playing with snowballs, Ruan Yu inevitably thought of Meng Jiayue, and didn't know what he was doing now, eating! Or watch TV!

Ruan Yu was stunned for a while, then squatted down and wrote Meng Jiayue's name in the snow with her fingers, looking at the words on the snow, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and remembered what New Year's gift she wanted to buy for Meng Jiayue.

"Fountain pen." Ruan Yu muttered to herself, a smile overflowing on her face.

She used to see Meng Jiayue write articles with a pen, so sending a pen must be what Meng Jiayue needs, but Ruan Yu didn't plan to buy a pen in her hometown to give it away, first, she has New Year's money, and secondly, because she wants to send a good quality pen, otherwise it will break down after a few times, so much is boring.

However, Ruan Yu doesn't know anything about fountain pens, she knows who might know, her eldest cousin has gone to college this year, basically Ruan Yu can only see it during the Chinese New Year, and her eldest cousin is studying in other places, so she always has more knowledge than her, so she must know.

The most important thing is that Ruan Yu's grandfather's house is not far from City A, and it takes more than an hour to take a bus to City A. Ruan Yu can take the opportunity to buy a fountain pen in County G, if there is no estimate, he will have to wait back to City A to buy it.

In previous years, Ruan's mother went to her grandfather's house to visit relatives on the second day of junior high school, and sometimes it was too late to come back and she would stay in G County for one night, and today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, which means that she will go tomorrow.

Thinking of this, Ruan Yu's heart became inexplicably excited, feeling like she was going to do something big, and Ruan Yu went home with this mood.

The family basically got up, and when Ruan Yu went back, Ruan's mother was washing her face outside the hall, and she was rubbing her face with white facial cleanser, and when she washed her face with water, the water in the washbasin had turned white.

When I was about to eat at noon, there was a guest at home, it was a middle-aged man, Ruan Yu didn't know him, I heard him say that he was holding a banquet at home, and he wanted to invite Ruan's father to accompany the guests, so Ruan's father didn't eat lunch at home, and followed the uncle out.

Lunch is another dumpling, but Ruan's mother changed the trick to make it, no longer boiled in clear water, but used to make noodles, wide noodles and leaves mixed with dumplings to cook, both noodles and dumplings, this is called salty dumplings in my hometown.

Ruan Yu waited for a day and a night, and had breakfast on the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, Grandpa Ruan set off a small firecracker, and Ruan's father drove them to his grandfather's house to visit relatives.