Approaching the end of the year, Muyang's family actively prepared New Year's goods, eating rice, flour and oil, all kinds of vegetables, instant noodles, milk and eggs, as well as a pig hind leg pork meat shared by grandpa's family to kill the New Year's pig has been prepared.

The two big grass carp were put in the stainless steel basin for washing clothes, Mu Chen would go to see them every day, and from time to time he would say to his brother: "The fat orange cat next door is here again, and I want to tell my mother to transfer the fish to the house." ”

Outside Muyang's bedroom is a living room, because there is no money to buy furniture after building a house, the second floor is used as a warehouse, and Muyang can smell a fragrance when he opens the door every day, which is a unique smell a week before the Chinese New Year.

There is meat to eat every day, Mu Yang eats very happily, but Mu Chen said in disgust: "I don't want to eat pork." The family doted on him very much, in order to keep him from going hungry for the New Year, his father bought several fragrant ham sausages, and fried vegetarian meatballs for him in order to let him eat more food at each meal.

Mu Yang thinks like this every time he sees his younger brother who doesn't eat meat, Mu Chen is a sheep, and sheep eat grass, so Mu Chen doesn't eat meat, he belongs to a tiger, and a tiger eats meat, so he is happy when he sees meat.

When the two grass carp died honorably on Chinese New Year's Eve, Mu Yang's mother pickled the two fish with peppercorn anise and various marinades, and Mu Chen cried very sadly that day, saying: "Can you not kill the fish." There was no doubt that he couldn't, Muyang had to comfort him, saying that he would catch a few little goldfish for him in a few days before he stopped crying.

The two brothers don't sleep at night, saying that they want to keep the New Year for the elderly in the family, and the two are often viciously talked about by their mothers when they watch TV for a year, and they can't enjoy watching TV series every time.

Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, a day when you can watch TV dramas in the open, the two of them are noisy in the living room and no one cares, and their parents have gone to the door, this is a free world for two.

Waiting until ten o'clock in the evening, the grandfather of the hall came over to let the two brothers rest early, and the two brothers shook their heads again and again, saying that they wanted to keep the New Year for their grandfather and grandfather, and the old man was very relieved to hear it, and stood behind the two and smoked a cigarette before slowly leaving.

When the parents came back at twelve o'clock, the two brothers were a little sleepy and wanted to go to bed at this time, but how could people fall asleep early on Chinese New Year's Eve.

The annual temple fair in Xinghua Village began, and all the gods and goddesses had to enjoy the incense from Xinghua Village.

Adults burn incense and children follow kowtow, adults set off firecrackers, children hold cloth bags to pack tribute, the act of loading tribute is tacitly approved by everyone, because the whole village burns incense and leaves a lot of tribute, if you don't clean up in time, these foods will be wasted, and then God has the virtue of a good life, and the incense tribute is now the gods are equivalent to the gods have eaten, and the rest to the children of the mortal apricot village is also a good talk.

Muyang was pulled by his mother to kowtow in front of the statue of Confucius, this is his mother to Muyang to recognize the fairy godfather, Muyang worshiped silently in his heart to bless himself with learning progress and good health.

Mother told Mu Yang not to be ugly, the second obedient godfather is still the stone lion at the gate of the temple, and Mu Yang immediately understood why he was so fierce from childhood to adulthood.

Coming out of the temple, the two brothers each carried a bag of biscuits, all of which were new tricks that they didn't usually see, and they said that they must change their food when they went home.

At half past twelve, the cadres of the Xinghua Village Brigade lit the fireworks under the order of the village chief, and the fireworks flew all over the sky, red, blue, purple, and golden, turning into a flower in the air for a while, and turning into a meteor for a while, flying freely in the air, crackling firecracker bodies, and two double cannons accompanied by each other, at this moment, the whole village, regardless of men, women, and children, put down their lives and looked into the air.

In the dark night sky, fireworks of various colors are constantly flying, as if the gods are clearly spiritual, the old people sigh that another year has passed, the children are clamoring to follow the fireworks, the young couple thinks of their lovers who are far away, and the golden generation in the prime of life thinks that they must make money in the coming year.

The fireworks lasted for half an hour, during which Muyang met the neighbor's daughter, and the two asked each other nonsense.

"Where are you going?" Of course, it's burning incense, this point can only do this thing, Muyang sighed that no contact is faded after all, when he was a child, he still looked for himself to go to school every day, what did he say, but now he has become a stranger, and he can only say hello politely when he meets, and there is no other communication.

When they got home, the two brothers looked at each other's biscuits in each other's bags, exchanged what they thought were delicious, and slept at two o'clock in the morning.

At six o'clock the next day, before the rooster called, the two of them got up again, hurriedly put on their new clothes, and ran to pay New Year's greetings to grandpa and grandpa.

The old people got up very early, and they were waiting for their grandson to come to pay their respects, and the old man lived on the first floor, so he went to the old man to pay his New Year's greetings first, and it was a red dollar as in previous years.

The old man came from the war years, and in those days a dollar was very large, and he only gave one dollar no matter whose child came.

Then I went to the second floor, where Grandpa Tangya was smoking, and saw his two grandsons saying to him, "Happy New Year to Grandpa Tangya." "I knew that I was here to press the New Year's money.

The calloused hands took out a wad of money from the blue tunic pocket, Mu Yang saw a lot of red, green, and green, and saw two brown twenty yuan being pulled out, and the two took the money and left happily.

In Xinghua Village, children don't dare to ask for a big New Year's money, one hundred and fifty will be taken away by their parents, and only a few dozen yuan can be used by themselves.

The two happily ran to the small shop on the street with a huge amount of money, there are many things that the two have been in love with for a long time, and now is the moment for them to get what they want.

Mu Chen took a fancy to a sparkling revolver musket, the gun was made of iron, and it felt very good in his hand, that is, a box of bullets cost five cents, and it was a gun that burned money, but it was very fashionable to shoot two shots with the gun at night, and at that time you would feel that the five cents bullet was worth it.

Mu Yang is looking at an air gun, and the bullet is a plastic bullet, this kind of gun can't be aimed at other people's eyes, otherwise the other party will be blind if he accidentally shoots out.

took an air gun and shot at the window pane of a broken house where no one lived, only to see that the plastic bullet had been shattered, and in an instant Muyang felt that he had picked up a treasure, and the ten yuan was worth it.

The two brothers had fun on the first day of the Lunar New Year with guns, playing sparrows for a while, and meeting children who also held guns to try their marksmanship.