On the thirtieth day of the lunar month, Chinese New Year's Eve, Bai Lu was woken up by the sound of firecrackers before dawn, and on the afternoon of the 29th, the family returned to their hometown in Baijiagou.

The full name of Baijiagou is Baijiagou Village, which is a village in the county seat below the city, this ditch is named after a stinky ditch outside the village, and later after the construction of the city, the stinky ditch became a viewing river.

The geographical location of Baijiagou Village is not biased at all, it is on the side of the road on the edge of the county, and the roads in the village are also asphalt roads.

Bai Lu's family lives in Bai Lu's grandfather's house, a two-story building, a small two-story building, the yard area is not small, and it is more than enough to park a big car with four front and eight back.

This yard was originally Bai Lu's grandparents' house, originally not so big, after the old couple died, the house was given to the second uncle who had been taking care of the old couple in the village, the second uncle's house was next door, and later the courtyard wall was demolished, so there was such a big yard, and the house was also rebuilt.

Bai Shengjun has four brothers and sisters, the eldest is Bai Lu's aunt, then Bai Lu's father, and the second uncle and second aunt.

Bai Lu's aunt has a daughter, found a good son-in-law, the family has gone abroad, and she didn't come back for the Chinese New Year this year, the second aunt's family is in the provincial capital, like Bai Lu's family, they all came back on the afternoon of the 29th, and the second uncle has been in the village.

Some people may wonder why the Bai Lu family is so rich, and the uncle and aunt don't make anything.

Anyone would be wrong to think so.

The restaurant opened by Bai Lu's second aunt in the provincial capital was opened with the help of Bai Shengjun, and after so many years, business is also booming. As for the second uncle, don't look at it in the village, but the second uncle is much richer than the second aunt, and there is a farm opened by the second uncle in the north of the village, with chickens, ducks, geese and pigs, and the annual income is not low.

Bai Lu was woken up by the sound of cannons, and he didn't sleep anymore, what do you have to say? If you can't beat it, then join in. Bai Lu got up with his clothes on his clothes and prepared to go to the gun.

As soon as I opened the door, I met White walking over.

There was a foreigner in the village, but it can be regarded as meeting something new, last night I took White to a small supermarket in the village, and the news spread that night, Bai Lu saw many people passing by outside the gate to look at the courtyard, which means that everyone knows how to be polite, otherwise they have to run in to watch.

"It's early." Bai Lu looked at White's chicken nest-like hair. "You're not tidying up?"

"It's scary." White looked terrified. "I thought there was a war outside, but it was just fireworks."

Bai Lu's music, this is the common problem of foreigners in the Chinese New Year, especially the freer the country, the more this problem, when I hear the sound of cannons, I always want to find a place to hide.

However, White's receptivity is also very strong, and he also adheres to the idea of joining if he can't beat it, and runs to the small square in the village with a small box of cannons with Bai Lu and puts it away.

Don't look at the sky before dawn, there are already many people in the small square, without exception, all of them are children, Bai Lu and White are the biggest.

As soon as White appeared, the children stopped firing the guns, and they all gathered together to watch White, after all, they had never seen a foreigner with the same coat color as the big golden retriever at the entrance of the village. After a while, a bold child came over and said "Hello, how are you" to White in English. ”

White's self-familiar personality will definitely not be restrained, looking at the child with a cold DC big snot in front of him, he grinned: "Never been better." ”

Now the kid is dumbfounded, this is not right, I said "How are you", shouldn't you say "I'm fine, Thank you, And you"? That's what the teacher taught, but what did this foreigner say? What is he going to break?

Then the kid looked at White blankly, his mouth opened and closed, and he couldn't say a word, Bai Lu was afraid that he would be direct in the next second.

"What do you want to say?" Bai Lu asked the child with a smile.

"I ......" The child looked at Bai Lu and finally understood. Uncle, can you help me ask him where he came from? ”

"You don't have to ask." Bai Lu smiled. "He's from a beautiful country, what else do you want to know?"

"It's gone, it's gone." The child shook his head vigorously, ran back to the child's pile, and then began to tell the story of his conversation with foreigners, which aroused the envy of many friends.

Playing and playing, Bai Lu and they played with the children, probably Bai Lu and White are rich among the children, although White does not understand the language, but playing, it does not necessarily need language communication, the child is squeaking and screaming there, White is also squeaking, anyway, just play crazy.

Later, there was a bold child who actually grabbed the second kick with his hand and put it, White had to learn, and asked Bai Lu to take another box of two kicks.

Then, the whole village was "ding" in the morning...... It wasn't until after nine o'clock that Fang Yaru, the younger sister of Bai Lu's second aunt, came to call them, and then left in the eyes of a group of children who were reluctant and agreed to play together at night.

The two of them went home with the smell of gunpowder, took a bath first, and then began to eat as a family.

It is said that it is breakfast, in fact, it should be considered breakfast and lunch, Bai Lu's family has always been like this, breakfast on the day of the New Year will be eaten relatively late, after breakfast, the whole family will work together, prepare for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the afternoon, almost three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and then prepare dumplings for Chinese New Year's Eve.

After eating, when they were almost cleaned up, Bai Lu and a few young people let them go out to play.

Bai Lu drove, with White sitting in the co-pilot, and in the back seat were Bai Ying, the sister of the second uncle's family, and Fang Yaru, the sister of the second aunt's family, followed by Baizhu and Baiyang.

Bai Ying is a little older, twenty years old, a sophomore, Fang Yaru is the youngest, only eighteen years old, and she will take the college entrance examination this year.

"Yingzi, how can there be any fun in the county?" Bai Lu asked.

"Let's go to Main Street, there's a temple fair over there." Bai Ying lay in the middle of the backrest of the main and co-pilot's backs to command. "Park the car outside, the temple fair won't let the car pass, we have to walk over."

The temple fair, in fact, is to catch up with the big set, it used to be the New Year's only once, now it is every New Year's festival, a street of three kilometers, both sides are all stalls, eating, drinking and having fun.

After explaining to White what it means to catch a big set, White suddenly yearned, after all, he had never seen this.

Found a location on the side of the street to park the car, a few people walked to the main street, sure enough, it was crowded, and it was full of human heads, Bai Lu reminded not to get lost, mainly to remind White that the two sisters were not worried, after all, they were all locals.

White was completely happy, and wanted to buy everything he saw. I haven't seen a corn popper before, so I bought a large pack, and several people held one in their mouths, like smoking cigars.

As I walked, I saw a seller of grilled squid, driving one by one.

Then White suddenly pointed to the bottom store on the street, Bai Lu saw it and quickly grabbed him, good guy, paper fire shop, this product looks good at wreaths, and wants to buy wreaths.

After Bai Lu's explanation, White suddenly realized: "Oh, it turned out to be for memorial purposes, I look very good-looking, and I want to buy it back as a decoration." ”

If your dad doesn't kill you, you'll be counted as your own child!

Bai Lu had to tell White again to ask him before buying anything he didn't know.

After playing until the afternoon, a few people were still ready to go back, and it was mainly White who was still unsatisfied, who got into the car, and kept muttering that there were still a lot of things to buy.

The trunk was almost full, full of things that White bought, and quite a few odd things.

For example, the bed sheets, or the kind of bed sheets with big red flowers, as soon as he bought them, he bought all the styles with flowers, red, yellow, green, and the color numbers were complete, and when he asked about the use, he was going to take it home as a tablecloth in the restaurant.

There is also the kind of thirty yuan a piece, the main color is either red or green, and the middle-aged woman's favorite color padded jacket also bought a few pieces, saying that he would go back to give it to the stepmother who was two years younger than him. Bai Lu didn't understand whether this thing was really stupid or pretending to be stupid, he could definitely see that this was not good-looking, so he did it on purpose?

And then I bought a lot of window grilles and spring couplets.

These are all normal, more abnormal, like the kind of two small squares, the glass cleaner with magnetic suction, the lighter with the flashlight and bottle driver function, and the strangest thing is that this thing also bought a kind of pressing machine with an old pole.

Looking at the little thing White bought, the two girls laughed all the way, Bai Lu was a little speechless, if he hadn't stopped him, White would even want to buy a few leather picks.

……

At half past three in the afternoon, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was served, after eating, the sound of firecrackers outside almost stopped, basically at this time the elderly have to sleep for a while, stay up late at night, many children will also be called home by parents to sleep, some do not sleep, just play mahjong at home.

The same is true of Bai Lu's family, the elders either sleep or play mahjong, and the rest of the young people have nothing to do, just wandering around the village like street slickers.

At twelve o'clock in the evening, the steaming dumplings were on the table, and with the countdown of the host on the TV, the cannon outside had reached its hottest, and the yard was also full of fireworks.

Bai Shengjun gave a stick of incense to Bai Lu: "Go, you are the eldest son and eldest brother of your generation, and the matter of firing the cannon will be handed over to you in the future." ”

As soon as Bai Lu beckoned, White followed, and then, the fireworks in the sky converged with the sound of the village bells.

After the cannon was about to pay New Year's greetings, the elders sat in a row neatly, several juniors in Bailu kowtowed to the New Year, White looked fun and joined in the fun, and then got a big red envelope with a thousand yuan in it.

This made White very happy, and then asked Bai Lu if he still had it, Bai Lu Heran: "Come, you knock me a few, and I will give you this too." ”

"I don't believe you." White learned well. "This is for the elders to the juniors, right? You're my friend, not my elder. ”

After eating dumplings, the elders began to play mahjong, Bai Lu took White and one of them to take a box of guns and went to the village to wave, after all, they made an appointment with the children in the morning, and it would be very dishonest if they didn't go to the appointment.

I played until two o'clock, and then I finished the cannons, and then I went home to sleep.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I was still woken up by the sound of cannons, and today the whole family got up late, and the main family was there, so there was no need to go to the New Year, but after nine o'clock, many people in the village started to pay New Year's greetings to the streets.

White kowtowed when he saw people coming, and made the people who came to pay New Year's greetings stunned.

Good guy, this is the country is strong, and Lord Yang will bow his head without saying a word?

White bowed his head for the first time and moved too fast, Bai Lu didn't stop him, startled the people who came to pay New Year's greetings, and then had to find a red envelope for him.

Then Bai Lu didn't care about White, as long as this goods came to pay New Year's greetings, he would kneel down to people, without exception, all came to pay New Year's greetings to give red envelopes, the amount was not much, one hundred and two hundred, but it couldn't stand the number of people, this morning, it was White who earned a lot, adding up to more than three thousand.

It wasn't until noon that no one came, and White withdrew his eyes from staring at the gate, and Bai Lu smiled: "Do you feel that it is easy to make money?" ”

"I'm not interested in money, I'm only interested in this holiday custom." White beckoned to Yaru and Bai Ying, and gave them all the red envelopes he had earned from New Year's greetings in the morning.

"Brother, isn't this okay?" Bai Ying held back a smile. "He's been kowtowing all morning."

"It's okay, you two take it." Bai Lu stuffed the red envelope into the hands of the two. "It's a gift from him for both of you."

Then I heard Fang Yaru say on the side: "Brother, why don't you bring him here for the New Year next year, this foreign monk will chant the scriptures, and we also paid New Year's greetings in the morning, and we didn't receive a dime." ”

At this time, the second uncle Bai Shengmin came over: "Bai Lu, come on, come on, the second uncle will tell you something." ”

Bai Lu asked, "What's wrong with the second uncle?" What do you have to say? ”

"And command, what can I command." Bai Shengmin said with a smile. "Look, isn't your sister almost a junior, I also asked her with your second aunt, what about her, is she thinking about continuing to take the postgraduate entrance examination after finishing her bachelor's degree, I am thinking with your second aunt, do you want her to study abroad?"

"What's the matter, Yingzi won't come back to inherit the family property after graduation?" Bai Lu said with a smile.

"I do." Bai Shengmin also smiled. "Dealing with livestock all day long, it stinks, and she doesn't like it as a girl."

"Eighteen million a year, what do you want?"

"Are you embarrassed?" Bai Shengmin pointed at Bai Lu. "You don't go to your dad's job."

"We're different." Bai Lu shook his head. "If she wants to go abroad, she can go out."

"I don't have a problem with your second aunt." Bai Shengmin said. "Isn't it that we don't understand, it just so happens that you brought a foreign friend over and wants you to help ask and see what kind of charter it is."

"He knows a yarn." Bai Lu said with a smile. "That's it, when I go abroad next time, call Yingzi to join her, let her choose by herself, see which school she likes, don't wait for her undergraduate graduation, just transfer over."

"Can it still be like this?" Bai Shengmin was surprised. "Then the famous universities abroad are vegetable markets, and you can go there if you say you can go?"

"That's definitely not going to work, you have to take an exam." Bai Lu said. "It's just to take her to adapt to the environment first, and then find someone to take the exam or something."

"Oh, that's fine." Bai Shengmin nodded. "Then the second uncle will thank you."

"Look at the second uncle you said." Bai Lu smiled. "That's not all, besides, you just donate some money to that school, and people will let you go."

……

After spending the third year of junior high school in his hometown, Bai Lu's family returned to the city.

After playing crazy in the village for several days, Bai Lu was still a little uncomfortable, mainly because no one fired the cannon in the morning.

On the fourth day of junior high school, Bai Lu followed Liu Jinnian to his grandfather's place to pay New Year's greetings, and after a busy day, it was already evening when he got home, and he made an appointment with Qiao Xiaoqiao to go out to play the next day, and went to bed early.

On the fifth day of the new year, Bai Lu sent White to the airport first, and the kraft candy was also enough, carrying the big bags and small bags of things he bought to prepare to go home, and told Bai Lu to go to see him, and he would ask a lot of beautiful female models to play with.

When he arrived downstairs at Qiao Xiaoqiao's house, Bai Lu took out the prepared New Year's gift from the trunk, in addition to cigarettes and alcohol, he also took a set of jewelry for Qiao's mother, and the pocket watch given to Qiao's father was given by White.

Bai Lu was warmly received, after all, he was already a prospective son-in-law, and when the son-in-law came to the door, the mother-in-law must be cooking a table of good dishes.

I was going to pick up Qiao Xiaoqiao and go out in the morning, but I didn't let me go, so I had to have lunch.

"Uncle, did Xiao Qiao tell you?" Bai Lu chatted with Qiao Guoqing.

"Say what?" Qiao Guoqing was stunned for a moment, and suddenly said, "Oh, you said you were going out to play?" Ahem, are you really going? ”

"That's not really good, I can still lie to you." Bai Lu said with a smile. "Let's go on the tenth day of the first month, and come back after the fifteenth."

"Are your parents going too?" Qiao Guoqing asked.

"They don't go." Bai Lu said. "My dad has to leave in two days, and my mom has to be busy with the company's affairs after the New Year, so she doesn't have time."

"Then we're not going either." Qiao Guoqing said. "This makes you take us out to play and throw your parents at home, like what."

"What's this?" Bai Lu poured tea for Qiao Guoqing. "Uncle, it's okay, my parents know, they really don't have time, let's just play ours."

Chatting with Qiao Guoqing, the doorbell rang, Qiao Guoqing muttered as he got up: "Who is this, there is still a New Year's greeting on the fifth day of the new year?" ”

As soon as the door was opened, there was a middle-aged man standing outside the door, still carrying a clutch in his hand, Bai Lu had good eyes, and he saw a box of eight-treasure porridge on the sofa.

"Old Joe, have a good New Year." The people who came smiled and greeted the New Year.

"Yo, Lao Yang, hurry up, sit in the house." Qiao Guoqing deserves nothing of people. "Look at you, come on, bring something."

"How can there be no courtesy to come to greet the New Year?" The man saw Bai Lu. "It's ...... Son-in-law? ”

"Ah, son-in-law." Qiao Guoqing introduced it with a smile.

"Are your girls married? When did you call me? ”

"It's not just engaged, it's not over yet." Qiao Guoqing said.

"I said, then let me know on the right day."

After chatting for a while, Lao Yang got up and prepared to leave, Qiao Guoqing left him for lunch, and he said that there was something to do.

Li Huizhen didn't come out of the kitchen until the people left: "What is that old Yang looking for you again?" I'll tell you, he's going to borrow money from you again, but he can't. ”

Qiao Guoqing waved his hand: "What's the matter, he's here to pay New Year's greetings." ”

"New Year's greetings?" Lee Hye-jin pouted. "How can anyone come to visit the New Year on the fifth day of the new year?"

Bai Lu listened on the side, there was something here, but he didn't want to ask, just listen to it.

Bai Lu didn't ask, Li Huizhen said herself: "Bai Lu, your uncle didn't promise anything just now, right?" ”

Bai Lu shook his head: "No." ”

"That's good." Li Huizhen said. "Let me tell you, that old Yang is not a thing anymore, he was not a good thing when he was young, he was either a dance hall or a group of people all day long, and when he got into trouble, he borrowed money everywhere, and your uncle lent him several times, but he didn't pay it back."

"Nothing." Qiao Guoqing hurriedly said. "It's all back."

"Mean that?" Li Huizhen snorted. "I remember the last time I borrowed 2,000 yuan from you, right? It took almost a year to pay it back. ”

"Isn't that going to be paid back?"

"I won't quarrel with you for the New Year." Lee Hye-jin turned around and went into the kitchen again.

……

At noon, they had lunch at Qiao Xiaoqiao's house, and the two went out.

Still during the holidays, there were a lot of people on the street, Qiao Xiaoqiao was going to go to the movies, but all the tickets for the nearby show were sold out.

"By the way, your movie was released on Valentine's Day?" Qiao Xiaoqiao shook Bai Lu's hand.

"What do you call me that movie, aren't you also involved?" Bai Lu asked with a smile. "Are you still going to study with a teacher?"

"Learn." Qiao Xiaoqiao said. "I'll go when I'm done with this time, I'll inquire about it, and there will be acting teachers in our City Normal College."

"There are still acting teachers at the Teachers College?" Bai Lu was stunned. "Isn't that a teachers' college?"

"Why are you still confused during the New Year?" Qiao Xiaoqiao touched Bai Lu's head. "Graduates of teachers' colleges have to be teachers, right? Then there must be no wife in the wife's cake? There are many majors in the Teachers College, and there are also art schools in it, but they are not as famous as those ones, but I have inquired, and the teachers are still very good, and they teach alone, and the price is much cheaper than in the capital. ”

"And." Qiao Xiaoqiao snorted: "I'm going to wait for us to come back and go to the second exam!" ”

"What's the situation?" Bai Lu was puzzled. "I've told you several times, aren't you in a hurry? Why did you change sex after the New Year? ”

"I'm devastated." Qiao Xiaoqiao pouted aggrievedly.

"Yo." Bai Lu was happy. "Quick, speak up and listen, what's unhappy, let me be happy."

"You owe a beating." Qiao Xiaoqiao pinched Bai Lu's arm angrily. "Isn't the New Year going to a relative's house to pay New Year's greetings, this time I can't talk about work and whether I'm looking for a partner, I said I can't drive, okay, they actually said what age it is, and they can't drive, and it's not convenient to say that they can't drive anywhere now, let's talk a lot, and introduce me to the driving school instructor, I'm angry."

Bai Lu was even happier: "That's it?" ”

"Isn't that annoying enough?" Qiao Xiaoqiao was puffed up. "If you still laugh, you laugh at me!"

"I'm not smiling." Bai Lu restrained his smile. "Isn't it just driving, let's go, let's find a venue, I'll teach you now, isn't the second section of the automatic transmission just a reverse garage and side parking, not even a ramp start, guaranteed to teach you in an afternoon."

Then, Bai Lu took Qiao Xiaoqiao to find a driving school nearby, and for the New Year, there was no one except for the driving school employees on duty. Originally, he was not allowed to enter, but when Bai Lu said the sentence of 5,000 yuan to practice for an afternoon, the driving school staff hurriedly asked the leader, and the leader said that this could be had.

However, not to mention that in the afternoon, it took less than half an hour for Bai Lu's teaching plan to be declared a failure, and Qiao Xiaoqiao's reversing directly reversed the car on the tree.