Changing into small heels and silk scarves, Cheng Shaojun pulled the silver necklace around his neck, and tidied up his coat a little twisted, always feeling weird after changing clothes. She said: "Yan Ge, or forget it, I am in the group on weekdays, and I rarely go out, so there is no need to wear such beautiful clothes." ”

"Forget it, I've bought everything, and I can wear it in the art troupe."

Li Yange looked left and right at her outfit at this time, and always felt that something was missing, thought about it carefully, and suddenly patted her head and said, "Pants are not good, do you have any other pants here." ”

"Pants? What pants? Can't I do this? Cheng Shaojun looked down, a pair of dark labor pants, which looked very good.

"There are no jeans or looser pants?"

"There are no jeans, but a pair of looser pants."

"Then you can try it now."

Hearing this, Cheng Shaojun couldn't cry or laugh, and you didn't go out if you let yourself change your pants.

"Yan Ge, your tea."

At this moment, Cheng's mother walked in with steaming tea outside the house, and was a little surprised to see her daughter's new clothes.

"Thank you, Aunt Cheng." After Li Yange took the teacup and thanked her, she said with a smile: "Aunt Cheng, how about Sister Shaojun's clothes?" ”

Cheng's mother looked at it and said, "It's very good-looking, is it the Yan Ge you bought?" ”

"Hmm." Li Yange put the teacup on the table beside him, squatted down and took out a gray coat from the big bag, handed it over and said, "Aunt Cheng, this is for you, wear it and try it out." ”

"It's... Why is this still mine, you should take it back and wear it for your mother, Aunt Cheng doesn't need it. Cheng's mother looked at the coat handed over awkwardly.

"I bought it for my mother, Aunt Cheng, I bought it for you."

"Then you don't need Yan Ge, this dress costs a lot of money, you better take it back."

"How's that going to work! Aunt Cheng, you watched me grow up when I was a child, I still remember coming to you every day to eat, and now that I have grown up, I should buy a coat to honor you. ”

"This ......"

Cheng's mother looked at Cheng Shaojun in a dilemma, wanting to hear what she meant, Cheng Shaojun didn't want it before, and Li Yange was also afraid that she would refuse, so by the way, she also returned her share, lowered her head and took the big black bag on the ground. He said: "Aunt Cheng, Sister Shaojun, my family still has something to do, so I'll leave first, and I'll come back tomorrow for the New Year." ”

After speaking, regardless of the reaction of the two, he turned around and walked out of the house.

"Hey, Yan Ge!" Seeing Li Yange decisively walk out of the door, Cheng's mother just followed, and saw that Li Yange had disappeared at the courtyard gate, looked back at her daughter, and then looked at the clothes in her hands, knowing that the matter had come to this, she could only accept it.

She sighed and said: "Yan Ge, this kid is becoming more and more sensible, and when the Chinese New Year is celebrated tomorrow, Shaojun, you will take all the New Year's goods sent to you by the group to give Uncle Li and them New Year's greetings." ”

"Got it, Mom." Cheng Shaojun looked at the clothes on his body, took them off casually, put them on the bed, changed into his padded jacket, sat on the edge of the bed and stared at the pale yellow coat, silent, and didn't know what he was thinking.

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January 28, 1987.

Today is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve!

The thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve is the most important festival for the Chinese, and there is no one!

For children, the New Year means that they can eat delicious food, they don't have to go to class, they can have New Year's money, and they can go to the commissary to buy a few boxes of small firecrackers, so what children look forward to every year during the New Year.

The same is true for adults, after a year's hard work, by the end of the Chinese New Year's Eve, not only can you rest, but also have a good time to gather with family and friends to toast.

In the early morning, the cold wind howled, mixed with fine snow particles, and the face was faintly painful.

This year's winter in Rongcheng is a little colder than in previous years, and the pedestrians on the road are all wrapped in themselves.

In Mozi Alley, Li Yange wrapped his coat, held a couplet and a big "Fu" character in his hand, and strode towards a small courtyard at the entrance of the alley.

When he arrived at the door, he took out the key and opened the door lock, and with a bang, Li Yange pushed open the courtyard door and took a look inside, the layout inside was similar to that of home, there was a well on the right side of the courtyard, and there was a small flower bed by the wall, but there was nothing else.

Immediately, Li Yange walked around the house, it was empty, there was nothing, it seemed that the Sun family had cleaned up very thoroughly when he left, and not even a stool had been dropped.

Seeing that there was nothing to look at in the house, Li Yange returned to the gate of the courtyard, took out the paste prepared earlier, put the couplet flat on the ground, dipped it in some paste with a rough brush, and brushed the back of the two couplets one by one.

Shanglian: Four seasons Hongfu is full of wealth; Downlink: Good luck and prosperity in the New Year

Pasted on the left and right doors, Li Yange looked at it, and after making sure that it was neat and tidy, he pasted the word Fu on the door again.

"Yan Ge?"

Suddenly, someone behind him shouted, and Li Yange looked back and saw that it was Uncle Chen who was facing the door. He smiled and hugged his fists and said, "Uncle Chen has a good New Year." ”

"Okay, happy New Year." Uncle Chen was holding a soy sauce bottle in his hand, obviously just coming back from the front commissary to make soy sauce, and after seeing Li Yange, he said with a smile: "I heard your mother say that you went abroad?" How did you come back again? Is it that we are not used to living abroad, or are we comfortable living in China? ”

"Uncle Chen, I just went abroad for a few things, not to immigrate." I don't know how Dong Qiuhua told his neighbors, how it was rumored that he had emigrated abroad, and Li Yange also couldn't help but laugh and explain that he just went abroad and was not an immigrant.

After hearing this, Uncle Chen said, "I thought you went abroad to become a foreigner." ”

"How can it be Uncle Chen, I have a red heart to the motherland."

"Haha, well said, a red heart to the motherland! I used to read the newspaper that people nowadays want to immigrate abroad, and they don't know what is good abroad, and they can't understand foreign languages. ”

Perhaps because he was not used to seeing the news about immigration in the newspapers, Uncle Chen pointed out the country very much in front of Li Yange, and said that where he was about to rise, he almost danced with his hands.

"Uncle Chen, I see you're going out to make soy sauce, right?" Li Yange, who couldn't stand listening to it, had to point to the soy sauce bottle in Uncle Chen's hand.

Upon hearing this, Uncle Chen looked at the soy sauce bottle in his hand, and patted his head and said: "Oh, look at my memory, your Aunt Chen let me go out to make soy sauce, and the family is still waiting to cook Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, I won't say much about that Yan Ge, remember that when the time comes, I will come to pay New Year's greetings, my son bought a lot of New Year goods from the department store and came back, you come over and I will give you candy to eat." ”

"Don't worry, Uncle Chen, I will definitely go to eat candy for the New Year when the time comes." Li Yange smiled and waved goodbye to Uncle Chen, and saw the other party walk towards the depths of Mozi Lane, and also locked the courtyard door, then picked up the paste bottle on the ground, turned around and walked home.

As soon as he got home, he smelled the smell of food wafting from the kitchen, and the pungent aroma of food made his mouth water.

Li Jianguo, who was washing dishes and chopsticks by the well, heard the movement and looked back, "Are the Spring Festival couplets pasted?" ”

"Well, it's posted." Li Yange raised the paste in his hand, "Dad, where do you put the rest?" ”

"Just put it next to the kitchen, maybe it'll be used again tomorrow." Li Jianguo asked while washing the dishes, "Did you enter the house and see it?" ”

"Looked."

"How?"

"It's about the same as at home."

"It's almost, I'll dress up well when you get married in the future."

Hearing Li Jianguo say that he wanted to use it as a wedding room, Li Yange smiled and said nothing, not that he couldn't look down on it, the single-family house was close to Tianfu Square, and he couldn't take it down without tens of millions in the future. But he knows that in a few years, not only Mozi Lane, but also the surrounding old houses will be demolished to build a community.

Walked over to help Li Jianguo wash the dishes and chopsticks, Li Yange went into the kitchen to look, grandma was preparing for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with her mother in the evening, grandma was boiling lard in front of the stove, mother Dong Qiuhua squatted on the ground, making a fire on the small stove, and when the flame was up, she brought the canned meat next to her.

"Hungry, Yan Ge? I'll make you the tamales and pad your stomach first. Dong Qiuhua caught a glimpse of his son coming in, remembered that he hadn't eaten in the morning, clapped his palms, got up and walked to the steamer, and took out a pot of steaming tamales from it.

Looking at the fragrant steamed pork, Li Yange walked over and pinched a piece with his hand and stuffed it into his mouth, because it was too hot, he sighed several times, forcibly endured the hot mouth, and quickly chewed a few times and swallowed the dates.

Soft, tender, fragrant, and spicy tamales, not to mention how delicious they are, he said with a thumbs up while pouting: "Mom, the tamales you make are definitely the first in Rongcheng!" No! It is the first in Sichuan Province! ”

"You know the poor mouth, I'll decorate it for you and take it to the house to eat."

Dong Qiuhua was happy when he heard that, and walked to the cupboard to get the bowl, only to find that Li Jianguo had taken it out to wash it, and turned around and shouted outside the house: "Jianguo, have the dishes been washed?" ”

"No need Mom, I'm not hungry now." Li Yange shook his head, he ate some biscuits after getting up in the morning, and he was not very hungry now.

"Okay, I'll keep it hot in the steamer, if you're hungry, come and get it yourself." Seeing that he didn't eat it, Dong Qiuhua also put it in the steamer casually, the family was not so particular, they could eat if they wanted, and they didn't stuff it if they didn't want to eat.

Li Yange stood aside and watched her grandmother and mother busy preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, seeing that she couldn't intervene, she also said a few words and went out.

"Crackling ......"

A few children happily ran all the way in the alley with firecrackers, and the New Year's money was wasted on the firecrackers.

Li Yange, who was standing at the gate of the courtyard, saw this scene and sighed that this is called the New Year!

Decades later, firecrackers are not allowed to be set off during the New Year in the city, so is it still called the New Year?

Say what firecracker pollution, but it has been put for so many years, it has always been good, the sky is blue and the water is clear, if you really want to say that the pollution is still the exhaust pollution of the car.

Thinking about it, he looked up at the gray sky.

In a dozen hours, 1986 will pass, and the colors in my memory have long been repainted, and I don't know what the future holds.

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