Han Li was urged by the two elders to leave Master's house, and it was now morning when he rode his bicycle to Liu Lao's side as far as possible.

Where there was no one on the road, there were two more big fish of more than ten catties in the snakeskin bag on the back seat of Han Li's bicycle.

This fish was still exchanged from Meng Zaihong when he was in Shanghe Village, and now it happened to be used by Han Li as his own trophy as a gift.

The inspection at the entrance was still unavoidable, and after the inspection was completed, Han Li was escorted to Liu Lao.

Liu Lao, as usual, walked his dog and trained larks every day, or played chess with a few people who lived here, or met some people who came to pay New Year's greetings, catch up, and build relationships, but most of them were blocked from the door.

But this is about to be the New Year, and his family has not seen the slightest trace.

Han Li didn't want to inquire about this, and he didn't want to know, so he chatted with Liu Lao for a while and talked about the process of dealing with that "Aunt Liu".

In the middle, Han Li also mentioned the matter of those foreign language textbooks, and Liu Lao just laughed at this and said that young people should learn more things, and turn the knowledge into their own fingers, maybe they will be able to use it one day.

Then the doorman called to say that someone was visiting, and Han Li also took the opportunity to leave the place.

However, as he was leaving, Gong Jianglong handed Han Li a cloth bag containing several bottles of canned cherries.

This canned cherry is delicious or not, but it is a scarce commodity, and it is difficult to see it in many stores due to various reasons.

Han Li left Liu Lao's place, and then rode his bicycle to his junior high school and high school teacher's house, as for why he didn't go to the elementary school teacher's place, because not all teachers deserve respect.

Han Li went to his teacher's house to pay respects to his early years, and the habit of sending something to some extent had already begun.

Han's father and Han's mother are both people who came from that era, and they all have a special respect for the teacher, even in the first few years, they will let Han Li quietly go to the teacher's house before the year.

And in this era, except for those who are selected as professors or assistant professors, other educators have a hard time.

However, it was still early in the morning, and it was a bit inappropriate to go to the teacher's side, so Han Li began to wander the streets.

At this time, in addition to the supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores, the most crowded places were the post and telecommunications offices, and there were long queues at the entrance of each post and telecommunications office, and some places could even be discharged two miles away.

These people in line are calling their relatives and friends, and most of them are calling those educated youths who go to the countryside to cut the queue, even if the phone bill is expensive, it may even cost the meat money for the New Year, and they also want to listen to the voices of their children there when the New Year comes.

However, the educated youths who can receive the phone call are in good conditions in the countryside, because at this time there are countless villages that do not even have electric lights, and can only rely on kerosene lamps and candles to illuminate, not to mention the telephone.

Han Li had never liked to go to crowded places, but now there were a lot of people everywhere, and at this time, the population of Sijiu City was not as large as in later generations, but there were few places where everyone could go, and even the alleys were full of children running and playing today.

Han Li eventually went to the bookstore to read the book for a while, and waited until it was almost time before he came out of it.

First went to the house of Mai Huaihai, a junior high school teacher who was relatively close to here, and Han Li put away his bicycle when it was far away.

He was carrying a snakeskin bag in his hand, which contained a small half bag of cornmeal and about a knife or two catties of fat, not that Han Li couldn't take out more, but that if he had more, it would be easy to make a mess.

Although he respects his teacher, he doesn't want to implicate himself because of this matter.

Although Mr. Mai Huaihai's family is relatively poor, it is also because there are too many children, but his current situation is not bad among teachers, because he was not divided into the other side in the first place.

Although the situation has been special in recent years, relying on that salary can also make the family survive.

Han Li didn't stay here for long, and the teacher and student briefly talked about the old days, and were pulled by the teacher to say a lot of words of thanks before leaving.

Next, high school teacher Zhang Yubo took out the same amount of things here, but his situation here was not very good.

The doors and windows had been lightly repaired, but it was immediately clear that they had been broken.

This teacher was usually extremely cautious, even if the Han Li brothers and sisters often came during the New Year's holidays, he would never talk to them more than one more question outside, but he didn't expect that he would still not be able to escape this catastrophe.

When Teacher Zhang Yubo saw Han Li coming, a smile appeared on his originally miserable face.

Han Li couldn't ask about this situation, and he didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only secretly put some more brown sugar and peanuts in the snakeskin bag.

This time, Han Li was expelled by Teacher Zhang Yubo before he could say leave, and he didn't say much, he just pointed to the door and window with a bitter face.

When Han Li left Teacher Zhang Yubo's house, it was already completely dark, and he first went back to his home.

After eating something at home, I talked back to my mother and the Yun family sisters and returned to the master's house to replace my father.

After tasting the master's pulse, decocting the medicine, washing his feet with water, and taking the night pot, Han Li lay back on the bed and slept.

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Jiayin year. Wu Yinyue. Dinghai Day, February 10, 75, the thirtieth day of the lunar month.

Early this morning, Han's mother came over with Sister Han and the Yun family sisters, and Han's father, second sister, and little sister still have to go to work.

This is all discussed by them yesterday, Master Li does not have the ability to cook alone now, and there is no one around him, so their family plans to spend the Chinese New Year's Eve here this year.

When they came, they brought meat, hairtail fish distributed by the unit, some New Year's groceries, and the "mixed rice" they bought.

Mixed mix is one of the must-have things for the New Year in Sijiu City, and they are divided into three grades: high, medium and low.

High-grade is called fine mixed mix, including preserved apples, preserved apricots, preserved peaches, dates, melon strips, green plums, hawthorn and sugar lotus.

The mid-range mixed mix is called coarse mixed mix, including dried pears, persimmons, hawthorn, crispy dates, hazelnut kernels, peanut kernels, etc.

The worst is called "miscellaneous scratching", which only contains melon seeds, peanuts, crispy beans, etc.

The Han family's mixed mix is the coarse mixed mix bought by the second sister of Han, and as for the New Year in Sijiu City, there are more high-end large eight pieces and fine eight pieces.

The big eight pieces are Fuzi Cake, Luzi Cake, Shouzi Cake, Xizi Cake, Jujube Flower Cake, Taishi Cake, Black Sesame Cake, and Saqima.

The fine eight pieces are jujube flower cake, jade butterfly cake, small roll cake, acacia cake, manna fruit, hibiscus cake, pink coat, egg yolk cake.

Although several members of the Han family go to work, they can still make up their lives to buy less to satisfy their hunger, but now that the New Year is approaching, those small and mixed, big and small eight pieces are really not things that their family can buy if they want to.

Being able to buy coarse mixed mix is still stained with the second sister's work in the supply and marketing cooperative, and the others can only rely on peanuts with skin for the New Year.

Han Ma and they began to get busy as soon as they came, if the situation in the Sijiu City family allowed, everyone must have carp, Sixi balls, and dumplings during the New Year. Wait a minute.

They were busy talking and laughing on the side, but Han Li was not idle here, he took out the pen and paper that his mother had brought with him when he came and began to write couplets.

Sijiucheng pays attention to pasting couplets on the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve, so after Han Li wrote it, he pasted it at Master's house, and then Han's mother sent him and the Yun family sisters back to her home to paste couplets.

However, it took Han Li a long time to go home and post the couplet, and what happened was probably only known to the bed in his room.

When the three of them came back, Han's father had already come over from the unit, and he was carrying the wine that the unit had just given him.

Now with most units in Sijiu City, the best in the eyes of the middle class is "Xifeng" wine and "Si Te" wine.

This is because it was the first wine tasting in the country in 52 years, because these two wines are both famous brands and the price is appropriate, so they have become the first choice for many people to celebrate the New Year or give gifts.

Next, the second sister and the younger sister all came back from the unit, and after another busy time, the courtyard sounded the sound of crackling firecrackers.

During the meal, Han Li didn't approve of Master's drinking at first, even if he said a lot of alarmist words, it didn't work.

In the end, Han Li could only stare at the master, choosing to decompose the alcohol in his stomach after it reached a certain amount.

Not long after eating, Master Li began to drive people away, and even Han Li had to drive them away at first.

He also stood up and walked back and forth in the room twice to prove that he was okay, but in the end, Han Li still stayed.

Yi Mao year. Wu Yinyue. Wuzi Day, February 11, 75, the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Han Li got up early in the morning and started cooking dumplings, setting off cannons, and kowtowing to Master, but after kowtowing, he was driven away by Master.

(New Year's greetings to one's family in Sijiu City are called kowtows, and others can only be called simple New Year's greetings.) ）

This time, Han Li didn't shirk because he had too many things to do today, and he just repeatedly told Master not to move. Wait a minute.

When I got home, I first kowtowed to my parents, and then I was led by my father to the West Mountain.

The ancestral home of the Han family is in the land of the alliance of the princes of the nine countries in Ji Province, but the ancestors can no longer find each other because of the war.

Dad and grandfather settled in Sijiu City in the country's first five-year plan that year, and their family would kowtow a few times in Xishan facing south on the first day of the new year and Qingming every year, which was a kind of thought.

It's a pity that my grandfather died in the third year of coming to Sijiu City, and my grandfather was buried here later.

Their father and son will also kowtow to the south every year on the first day of the new year and Qingming when they kowtow to their grandfather.

The father and son first placed wine, pork, fish, trough cakes, and a stove on their grandfather's grave, lit firecrackers, and kowtowed.

Unscrew off all the things that had been placed on the table, throw a small piece on the grave, and then quickly pack up the things and run.

If you don't run, you can't do it, everyone who goes to the grave is afraid of being caught, and if you are caught, it is not a joke.

However, the two of them have often been like this in recent years, and they are also very familiar with the road.

When the two returned home, Mother Han was pulling the Yun sisters to talk, but their faces seemed to be a little red.

But before Han Li could ask secretly, Han's mother opened her mouth to speak.

"You two hurry up and go out to pay New Year's greetings, and when we come back, we will go to the photo studio together to take family photos."

Han Li was kicked out again without asking a word, and the first stop after he came out was Yu Daqiang's house.

Because most of them are New Year's greetings to some elderly neighbors this time, although it is not far away, there are too many doors, so in previous years, they always contacted a group of people to visit the New Year, so that sometimes they can hide behind the crowd and be lazy.

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