The twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, the southern year.

The small year usually refers to the day of dust sweeping and sacrificial stoves, and is regarded as the beginning of a busy year.

The snow on the ground melted, and early in the morning, Lu An followed the people at the crossroads into the mountains to cut firewood and sacrifice the stove with new firewood, which was also an unwritten custom.

Seeing that he didn't have Song Jia and Jingjing Lisuo, Wei Fangyuan said: "You can't do it, you can't talk about everything, right?" ”

How can a man say no?

Lu An didn't say anything, chose a catalpa tree the size of a rice bowl, and slashed 30 knives in one breath, and finally the knife fell down the tree.

After splitting the branches and leaves, he asked the branch secretary who was smoking next to him, "How heavy is this tree?" ”

The branch secretary glanced at it: "About 80 pounds, you are a man, you can make a hundred pounds, and you will not be ashamed when you walk." ”

The tone was all disdain.

Lu An was speechless and called Song Jia and Jingjing: "I will divide the tree into two from the middle, and you will each carry a section." ”

Song Jia said: "Brother, don't be reckless, 80 catties is enough, anyway, Uncle Wei married Sister Fang Yuan to you, he likes to look at Bian." ”

Jingjing helped: "Second brother, if you chase Sister Fang Yuan, you will be angry with Uncle Wei." ”

Lu An looked at the big-eyed father and daughter next to him, shook his head, looked for it, and changed it to a 110-pound tree.

In fact, he didn't want to be reckless, but wanted to see how his current physical strength was?

As a result, from the mountain to the crossroads, about 2 miles of mountain road, he changed shoulders several times in the middle without stopping.

It's okay, he is quite satisfied with his foundation.

In the afternoon, Liu Yang's brothers and sisters came, not only gave a leg of mutton, but also left an IOU of 4,000 yuan at home.

After the others left, Lu Yan held the IOU in both hands, like a baby, her face was full of smiles, she was not laughing at money, but happy with her own eyes.

Song Jia secretly said to Lu An: "Brother, it's terrible, you see that the eldest sister's eyes are full of honeycombs." ”

Lu An stretched out his hand and patted her: "What kind of metaphor are you?" ”

Song Jia covered her head: "What a metaphor, the honeycomb is full of holes, why do you live people?" I think the eldest sister is very stupid, then Liu Yang's family is so poor that she can't afford to pay back a penny, what is the practical point of making an IOU? ”

Lu An couldn't help but knock her again: "The eldest sister behind the arrangement, I owe the beating, although I can't afford it now, but people can't be poor all their lives, just have this heart." ”

Song Jia pouted, she still looked down on Liu Yang very much.

Everyone has their own outlook on life and values, he didn't forcibly correct his little sister's thoughts, but he was very pleased, this girl has this temperament, and she doesn't have to worry about being abducted by men in the future.

On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, the old Lu family rushed to make glutinous cakes, and on this day Meng Wenjie came with Meng Qingshui and brought some gifts.

Pouring a glass of water for the two, Lu An asked Meng Wenjie: "Are you going on vacation?" ”

Meng Wenjie was a little thirsty, and drank half a cup in one gulp: "No, we are going to the 28th of Layue, and if we are free this morning, we will come back to pick up grandma and go to Baoqing for the New Year." ”

Seeing that Lu Yan was going to cook, he hurriedly shouted: "Sister, don't be busy, let's leave later, hurry up." ”

Seeing Meng Qingshui staring at him without saying a word, Lu An felt a little guilty in his heart, thought about it and asked: "They are all busy, it's not fun for you to be at home alone, why don't you stay here for a few days, and wait for 29 I will send you back to Baoqing?" ”

Meng Qingshui was a little moved, but after glancing at Song Jia, who was hiding on the road, he shook his head gently: "Auntie's daughter is waiting for us in the town, I stay, she will have no one to accompany her." ”

Seeing this, Lu An didn't say anything more and personally sent the two to the town.

My aunt's daughter saw Lu Anzhen for the first time and looked at it carefully.

Before getting into the car, Meng Qingshui walked up to him, and wanted to say, "Lu An, let's reconcile, okay", but the words came to his lips and swallowed back, quietly looked at him, turned around and left, and got on the bus.

The shuttle bus started, looking at the familiar woman who waved goodbye to him, Lu An, who had been romantic all his life, suddenly felt bad in his heart.

If it weren't for Sister Qingchi, in fact, he was very willing to be good with her, although he was a little shrewd, he didn't have to say anything to himself, and he owed her too much in his previous life.

But I owe Sister Qing Chi more.

When she got home, Lu Yan, who was immersed in love, didn't notice that something was wrong with her second brother, but Song Jia looked concerned: "Brother, what's wrong with you?" ”

Luan said, "It's fine. ”

Song Jia asked, "Then why are you unhappy?" ”

Luan was silent.

After a while, Song Jia took out a freshly roasted golden glutinous rice cake from the stove and gave it to him like a treasure: "Brother, my skills are good, I don't get a little ash, you eat." ”

Lu An took it, broke it open, and half of each person.

The two siblings didn't speak, they just ate in the stove, one didn't have an old mouth, looked at each other, and ate another.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, when fishing in the reservoir, Lu An specially bought three large grass carp, all of which passed 5 catties, and gave one to the two aunts and kept one for his own family.

The next three days are cleaning, making fish and tofu, killing chickens, meatballs, washing bacon, chopping firewood for the New Year, fried melon seeds, peanuts, and going to the town to buy some loose sugar, all these jobs have to be done. The three siblings are busy every day, busy with chickens and dogs, and there are many miscellaneous things, and things come one after another, and if they are not careful, they will reach the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

In the afternoon, he received a call from Li Meng.

She asked, "Xiao An, when did you come out?" ”

Lu An asked, "Auntie, is there something wrong with you?" ”

Li Meng said: "We have temporarily decided to go to Changshi for the New Year this year, if you come out early, you can come directly to Changshi to find us, if it is the fifth day of the new year, we will almost return to Baoqing." ”

Lu An pondered: "In this way, then I won't go to my uncle's house to disturb me, and I'll come back after the fifth day of the new year." ”

Li Meng guessed that this would be the case, and the reason why he made a call was just to tell him that he was afraid that he would go to Baoqing in advance and make a mistake.

The two of them didn't have a big deal, and before they could speak for five minutes, someone called him to write Spring Festival couplets.

As the saying goes, people are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, and the Spring Festival couplets at the entire intersection are basically written by him.

Chinese New Year's Eve in '92 was particularly cold, the north wind was blowing, and the heavy rain kept falling, Lu An brought a plaid scarf and asked Najuan to take a few photos.

"That sister, take a picture of our house."

"Help us get into the Snow Peak Mountains behind us."

"Help me get a picture of the tea mountain across the river."

"Help me get the reservoir in."

"You're tired, come, I'll take a photo with you, treat you."

“.”

Called the eldest sister next door as a servant, centered on the intersection, and took a 360-degree panoramic photo in a row.

Najuan pushed him away: "If I don't take a photo with you, my object will be jealous when he sees it." ”

"There's an object?"

"I'm 25, what do you look at? What, do you have an idea? ”

"Uncle, that sister asked me if I had any thoughts about her?"

The commissary owner grinned and did not pick up.

Najuan asked: "I left in the second year of junior high school, where will the photos be sent then?" ”

"Send it to my school." Luan said.

Najuan took out a pen and paper and gave it to him: "Write the address." ”

Luan wrote the address.

Na Juan stretched out her hand: "Give me the film money, registered mail, and stamp money, a total of 52 yuan." ”

Lu An exclaimed: "So expensive? Why don't you grab it? ”

Najuan said: "You have taken more than 10 photos, and the fee according to the photo studio is more than this price, and I have already discounted it." I know that you are a rich man, and you do not lack this money, so bring it. ”

Lu An turned his back and walked home: "Ouch, don't want it." ”

At this time, the dishes had been laid out on the table, Lu Yan was burning paper, and Song Jia was burning incense.

Lu An went to the gate and lit a big firecracker, and in a crackling, 92 years passed.

When she was hexagrams, Song Jia suddenly said to her eldest sister: "Sister, help me ask if my father is still there?" ”

Lu Yan raised her head and looked flustered: "Little sister, don't say this during the New Year." ”

Song Jia let out a sigh of loss.

Lu An looked sad.

He knows that Xiaomei has been waiting for her uncle's letter all these years, but unfortunately she has been looking forward to it every year, and every year it has been disappointed.

He wanted to comfort a few words, but the little sister was stubborn and extremely assertive, and she wouldn't listen to these empty words. The more comforting it is, the more sad it may be.

In order to enliven the atmosphere, Lu An warmed a pot of soju and said, "Our brother and sister haven't drunk for many years, let's have some tonight." ”

Song Jia was afraid that her brother and sister would be unhappy by what she said just now, so she immediately happily took the bowl and received the wine: "I can drink, I want to drink half a bowl." ”

Lu An didn't dare to give half a bowl, but stopped without passing the bottom of the bowl: "Drink first, and then pour it if you want to drink it later." ”

Lu Yan was a wine mengzi, and asked for a large bowl, and the three of them toasted frequently, happily eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

In the middle of the night, Lu An got up to go to the toilet, but he didn't expect to meet Song Jia with a sub-hexagram and ask God under the shrine.

But she doesn't know how to play hexagrams, and three in a row are yin hexagrams.

What does the Yin hexagram represent?

Represents the hexagram of the dead.

She burst into tears instantly, but she covered her mouth and didn't dare to cry.

Lu An sighed and picked up the hexagram on the ground, "Ancestors and ancestors, you have manifested your spirits, see if my uncle is still alive?" If you are alive, make a holy hexagram, and tomorrow I will burn more money for you. ”

After speaking, the hexagram was thrown into the air, and it was indeed a holy hexagram when it landed.

With his skills, the ten hexagrams on his face are all holy hexagrams, and he stunned the little sister.

Lu An turned around: "Are you relieved now?" ”

The little sister burst into tears and laughed, without asking the reason, and smiled brightly.

Lu An is a man of his word, and the promises he gives are fulfilled on his knees.

The next day, when the first meal of the New Year was to worship his ancestors, he burned two large bundles of paper money in a row, making Lu Yan look stupid.

Lu An explained: "I dreamed of my mother last night, and today I will burn more for her old man." ”

He didn't lie, he did dream of his deceased mother last night, she sat at the head of his bed, looked at himself and said: I miss the three brothers and sisters.

Song Jia spoke: "I dreamed of my uncle, who was hanging on a beam and was woken up by fright.

Lu An was stunned.

Lu Yan frowned.

After eating, Song Jia quietly said to the eldest sister: "After the fifth day of the new year, eldest sister, you invite a goddess to the house, I always feel that the house is not clean." ”

Lu Yan nodded, "Okay, I also dreamed about it last night." ”

After speaking, the two sisters glanced at each other, and they were a little bored.

Lu An overheard the conversation between the two, and he wondered if the reason for this was that the scene hit the three siblings too hard and they would never forget it for the rest of their lives.

On the first day of the new year, Lu An did not pay attention to the traditional saying of "the first child of the first year, the second lang of the first year", and went directly to the house of the two aunts in the morning.

In the afternoon, I kept calling the Meng family.

Give Yu Guanzhi, Chen Quan, Chen Weiyong, Hu Yue, and Zhou Jingni.

At the same time, he also received a lot of New Year's calls, such as Qing Shui, such as Ye Run, such as Huang Ting.

There are also all the employees of the company, one by one, to him New Year's greetings.

was a little surprised, and actually received a call from Li Mengsu.

When I asked, I learned that she had just talked to Ye Run on the phone, and then asked for his number by the way and called.

But the two didn't say much, after all, they were in the commissary, how could they say more, they were all busy to death.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, he walked through the relatives of the village one by one, and then ran to the branch secretary's house and asked Wei Fangyuan: "I will go to Baoqing tomorrow morning, will you go?" ”

Wei Fangyuan didn't ask why, and replied very simply: "Go, I'm stuck at home, and I'm just going to accompany my eldest sister." ”

Lu An asked, "Why didn't your eldest sister come back for the New Year?" ”

Wei Fangyuan said: "She was unlucky and won the lottery on duty. ”

"Then you pack up and leave tomorrow morning at 5 o'clock to catch the 6 o'clock bus."

"So early?"

"There are few people in the morning, and you can't touch right or wrong."

Lu Ann is a little taboo about this.

I don't know if it's a coincidence in my previous life, but I have witnessed many such superstitious things.

For example, there was a male neighbor who went out to do a side job, and as soon as he stepped out of the door, he ran into an old man who picked up dog shit, a hoe, and a dustpan.

This is taboo.

The old man said that when he encountered this kind of bad luck, the best way was to go home and not go out. Because these are the two things that are standard for digging graves.

But the male neighbor didn't believe in evil, so he left directly and said hello to the old man.

The old man felt his conscience uneasy and persuaded him to pick a day before leaving, and he stopped for a while not to pick up shit.

The male neighbor didn't listen and went out.

Then he came back half a month later, but this time he was carried back, covered with a white cloth, and killed by a tree when he was logging in the mountains.

(End of chapter)