The Spring Festival in 1992 was coming, and the Yang family was particularly lively because of the extra people added this year. The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner family began to prepare early in the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the four elderly people were busy in the kitchen, and Li Tongfu led Yang Liufang and them around the living room to make dumplings. In the kitchen, two mothers fry and cook, each showing their cooking skills, and making all kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas.

According to tradition, the afternoon of the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve is the unified ancestor worship in the village, because the northwest Feng has not passed the door, and Liu Xia has not married, so they cannot enter the family tree. Although Li Tongfu is the godson of Yang's father and Yang's mother, he is not a successor to the household after all, so according to the clan rules, he still cannot enter the ancestral hall to participate in the sacrifice. After the four old men took Yang Liufang from the ancestral hall to invite back the ancestral tablets of the two families, they carried out family sacrifices in the evening. During the family festival, the whole family participates, and the young people solemnly bow with the elderly, thanking the kindness of their ancestors and praying for better development in the new year.

In addition to worshipping ancestors, the Yang family also has a procedure - sacrificing Luban, the ancestor of carpentry. When sacrificing the ancestor, only Yang Liugen and Yang Liufang were carpenters who entered the Luban Gate, so only two people could participate in the sacrifice. Different from previous years, it was Deacon Yang's father, this year it was replaced by Li Tongfu, the two worshiped in the courtyard, and Li Tongfu carried out the worship procedure until the worship of the two was completed.

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner started at eight o'clock in the evening, and before the meal, Li Tongfu, as the eldest in the family, led them to pay New Year's greetings to the four old people. Now the traditional rules of New Year's greetings have been changed, and no kneeling is carried out, but Yang Liufang still bows to the master and the master because he has worshipped the master. The four old men did not spare their wallets, anyway, their sons (apprentices) gave a lot of money, and they came back this year and gave 500,000 cash, all of which were bundles of new banknotes. They usually don't live on interest like other old people, and they don't spend much money, and they leave it to their children sooner or later. Therefore, everyone's New Year's money is impartial, and it is a red-packed, unbundled 10,000 yuan new banknote. In order to please the old man, the four of them happily accepted the red envelope. Northwest Feng is another matter, because it is a newcomer who has not passed through the door, Yang's father and Yang's mother naturally want to give a meeting gift, in addition to the New Year's money, but also a red envelope of 10,000 alone, which means "one in ten thousand".

Yang Liufang handed over his New Year's money to Northwest Feng, and said in front of the whole family: "Our wife is in charge." Northwest Feng made a big red face, and the little pink fist slapped him on the shoulder.

The family sat around to eat, drink rice wine brewed by Yang's mother, and watch the Spring Festival gala. Yang Liufang was about to open a bottle of Moutai, but was stopped by Master and Abba, saying that there were only two bottles left, and they asked them to bring it to the secretary on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

This year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala is more exciting than in previous years, because it is the first time to introduce a competition mechanism and adopt bidding for the director of the party, so the program selection is more personalized, relatively exciting, and close to ordinary people. After eating, the four old people continued to play mahjong to pass the time, and the four young people went to the room to listen to songs, play games, and drink to pass the time. By twelve o'clock, Yang Liufang was already unsteady on his feet.

Suddenly, the fireworks and firecrackers in the village shook the sky, and the Yang family was of course unwilling to be the queen, and the daughter-in-law who had not passed the door during the Spring Festival this year was even more public. Last year, Yang Liufang bought a trunk of fireworks, and this year, the two old men rode a yellow croaker car four times and piled up a small half of the house in the warehouse downstairs. The old people also came out to open the big bronze door of the house, which means blessing. When Yang Liufang was helped downstairs by Li Tongfu to drink the northwest wind, a large number of fireworks and firecrackers had been set up, and a wooden board was used as a shield. The sky outside the courtyard is already blooming with red, yellow, green, blue, and purple, and the night sky is bright in the intermingling of colorful fireworks, and the happy faces of those who look up are full of happiness in the alternation of light and dark. Yang Liufang and Li Tongfu lit a group of "Five Blessings", and "Bang Bang" was almost two simultaneous explosions of thunder, and colorful fireworks began to shine in the sky above their yard. The old people also took the lit fireworks sticks and let the thunder explode into the sky.

Yang Liuxia is bold and also sets off fireworks with her brothers, but Northwest Feng rarely sees this kind of scene. In previous years, the New Year was celebrated in the Northwest Provincial Geological Compound, because the government has regulations to take the lead in banning, so even the New Year's yard is quiet, except for the red lanterns hanging at the gate, and the red couplets pasted at home, which are no different from the New Year. Then the next day, the leaders of various organs and units of the geological system came to pay New Year's greetings to their parents, and their parents also went to the old leaders' homes in the province to pay New Year's greetings. Yes, the human touch, it's the human touch. Yang Liufang, who had drunk wine, came over to hug her, took her a large bucket of fireworks with one hand, and held her hand leisurely, wanting to set off with her, she was so frightened that she withdrew her hand. When Yang's mother saw it, she came over and threatened to beat her half-drunk son.

Liu Xia still has a way to wrap a piece of paper around the lead of the bucket of fireworks for her sister-in-law. Northwest Feng carefully went to light the paper, quickly ran back to Yang Liufang, the two embraced, she leaned her head on Yang Liufang's shoulder, and in an instant the paper ignited the fireworks lead, and the colorful flowers bloomed through the vast night, illuminating the happy and sweet face.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the family has not yet woken up, and the New Year's greetings have already come. Li Tongfu is diligent, as the eldest in the family, he first greeted the guests for the old people, Yang Liufang had already woken up, and the northwest maple also got up, the two quickly washed, and the family gathered in the living room, beckoning the village people who came to pay New Year's greetings to eat melon seeds and candy, and invited everyone to set off fireworks to play.

There are more and more people paying New Year's greetings, and everyone simply talks in the courtyard. Under the flower stand that was originally used for summer dinner, there were seats and melon seeds and candy on the glass table with a black steel frame, and everyone came to talk auspicious New Year's greetings with Yang's father, Yang's mother, and master's mother. Some young people like to be lively, so everyone takes care of themselves and sets off fireworks to play. Until more than ten o'clock, there were guests who came to pay New Year's greetings one after another, and Yang's father and Yang's mother and master also urged them to pay New Year's greetings to the secretary, and the five of them brought two bottles of Moutai wine and a box of gifts to the secretary's house.

The secretary's mother-in-law took the gifts, invited them to sit on the sofa in the living room, the secretary made tea himself, Li Tongfu led them to say auspicious words for the New Year, the secretary was polite to them, and did it for a quarter of an hour, Yang Liufang saw that there were other people behind, and walked away under the pretext. At noon, the village held a dragon dance performance, and the village secretary originally asked each family in the village to produce one person, but everyone shirked it, and later each family simply paid for a professional dragon dance team. The dragon dance team first danced in the village square, and the old people and children also had some bored young people to watch, and then they danced with dragons in various streets, and gave ten or twenty yuan to the door of someone's house.

At noon, the family made a lot of dishes, and Yang Liufang wanted to drink porridge, but his parents said that he couldn't drink porridge on the first day of the new year, because the old saying says "messy into a pot of porridge", there is a taboo. They made duck soup, but the four young people drank the soup, and the four old men could only make them a full casserole. After lunch, Yang Liufang took a shower and slept with Northwest Feng until dinner, when Grandma knocked on the door and told them to get up and eat. Look at the watch it's already eight o'clock.

Dinner was still a table of big fish and meat, Yang Liufang was tired of eating, but he couldn't show that he didn't want to eat in front of his parents, so he reluctantly ate a bowl of rice, and the vegetables on the table were swept away by the four of them. The old people didn't understand, and said that if they didn't have money before, they wouldn't be able to eat if they wanted to. It is true that Yang Liufang studied art with his master at the age of 15, and until he founded his own furniture factory in Xizhou, he never thought that he could live such a tired life of eating big fish and meat.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, in the local area, it is the day when relatives go back to their parents' homes, the Yang family does not go out, let alone go back, there are few relatives, and there are a few relatives in the master's family, but a few years ago he moved to Wenzhou, and there was less movement in the past few years, and there were only one relatives in the morning, and the Yang family did their best to entertain them. When the four elderly people came back from exercising at the senior activity center, they found that the young people were still sleeping, and they were drinking tea and playing cards in the living room.

At noon, the four young people were called up after the meal, and after eating, Yang Liufang proposed to go fishing. Northwest Feng only learned "Kitten Fishing" in the Chinese textbook of primary school, and when he grew up, he only read about fishing in the Chinese characters of the book, and he did not try, except for tourism, he rarely went to the riverside, and he felt novel when he heard that he wanted to fish.

Yang Liufang asked Master and Abba to find four bamboos in the warehouse, and Master was worried that his daughter and Northwest Feng would tie their hands, so he also repaired the grip for them and wrapped them with strips of cloth to make them strong. Yang Liufang also ridiculed the master: "Eccentric, preference for women over men." The master who was so amused that he couldn't smile laughed out loud.

Liu Xia drove Li Tongfu and Northwest Feng in the car, leaving Yang Liufang alone to carry four bamboos and walk to the river. After Li Tongfu and they arrived, the river was already full of fishermen, some fishing and some watching, after getting off the car, Li Tongfu politely scattered cigarettes for everyone, and said some auspicious words for the New Year. Seeing them coming down, there was a familiar busy to show them the fishing spots. The people in the village were also atmospheric, and they deliberately transferred them together.

After Yang Liufang arrived, he was ready to fish after greeting everyone, he first helped Northwest Feng tie the fishing line, adjust the drift, and then start fishing. Over there, Li Tongfu also helped his junior sister Liu Xia tie the fishing line and adjust the fish drift, and the four of them started almost at the same time.

Unlike last year's myopia without glasses, this year Yang Liufang put on glasses, his eyes were very good, the first to catch the fish, and then the small crucian carp connected the rod. The first time Northwest Feng fished, he couldn't help it, and when he saw that his dear had been fishing, he simply came to help him pick fish, and when she didn't catch fish, she played with the fish in the bucket on the side. Yang Liufang was afraid that she would catch a cold, she was presumptuous, seeing that no one paid attention to putting her hands into Yang Liufang's neck, Yang Liufang was excited by the ice, and then she lay on his back to warm her hands.

Li Tongfu also caught a lot of fish over there, and his junior sister also had more than a dozen. Yang Liufang began to adjust the float, and kneaded the bait mixed with white flour and sesame oil and hung it on the hook, and the fish caught was really bigger. Each time it was appreciated by Northwest Kaede, sometimes a sneaky kiss.