Portable space

"Brother, where are these two big lanterns hanging?" Fan Ming called out to Zhang Taiping.

"Hang it on the door frame outside." Zhang Taiping said, "I'll hang it." He said and walked over.

There is another gate outside the courtyard, here is just a gate frame supported by two pillars, with a triangular bamboo cover on the top, with the words "Zhongnan Shanzhuang" on it, and there is no door leaf underneath.

"How to hang it?" Fan Ming looked and saw that there was no place to hang it.

"This is simple." After Zhang Taiping finished speaking, he went into the house and found a steel bar to bend two hooks, and brought out a ladder along the way.

As a result, Wukong got on the ladder first, beckoned to give it the lantern, and it came to hang it.

Zhang Taiping shook his head and said: "You can't do this job, come down quickly, don't waste time."

"Squeak." Wukong was still baring his teeth and claws on it.But as soon as Zhang Taiping stared, he stopped cooking immediately, and got down obediently with a sullen face.

Zhang Taiping climbed up the ladder, nailed the steel bar hooks to the bamboo cover, then propped up two big red lanterns and hung them on it, and asked Fan Ming to take out the wires and electric lights that had been prepared in advance and connect them. It is fire safe, and it is also convenient when these two lanterns are used in the future.

Fan Ming looked it up and down and said, "It's very beautiful, it feels like a former residence in the mountains." After a pause, he said, "However, isn't brother going to post couplets here?"

"Couple?" Zhang Taiping realized that there is indeed a lack of a couplet here, and said, "I want to post it, but I forgot, so I will write it now."

After entering the room, I found a large piece of red paper, picked up the largest brush and swipe it around, writing black and white on the red paper, and immediately a couplet was formed.

The first couplet is "spring arrives like a brocade", and the second couplet is "the wind comes and the bamboo sings its own song". Although there are not many words, it fits the charm of the manor.

Just after posting the couplets, a group of children ran in, and when they saw two big red lanterns, they sang the nursery rhyme they had learned, "Big New Year's Eve, light up the lanterns, one by one is red, the village dolls make a big fuss, My face is red under the light of the lantern."

Listening to the nursery rhymes sung by the children's immature voices, Zhang Taiping laughed and said, "Come back tomorrow morning, and give everyone some money."

The children immediately became happy, and now the children are the ones who celebrate the New Year, and for them, the happiest thing in the New Year is to set off firecrackers and receive New Year's money.

A black boy asked: "Uncle handsome, is Yaya at home?"

"Here!" Before Zhang Taiping could answer, Yaya ran out of the room and responded.

"Yaya, let the cannons go!" said the black boy, and raised a small box of cannons in his hand.

The cannon in his hand is the favorite cannon of the younger children. It is called "foreign artillery". As the name suggests, this kind of cannon does not need to be ignited.It burns slowly and has enough time for people to go out, and it has no power. It is just a sound. Even if it is held in the hand, it will only make the palm yellow and hurt for a while. It will not cause major damage, so parents are most assured of their children. We played with this kind of gun.

Yaya would naturally go, but she also wanted to get some guns from home, so she said to Zhang Taiping: "Father, I want guns too."

When Zhang Taiping bought firecrackers, he prepared a lot of these box cannons for the children, and said, "Wait a while, Dad will fetch them for you."

Cai Yazhi, who was also standing at the door, said sadly, "It's dangerous to fire cannons at a girl's house. What if I get hurt?"

Zhang Taiping didn't want to kill the child's innocence and fun just because of the possibility of injury. For a child, the New Year without firecrackers is destined to be incomplete. He shook his head and said, "This kind of firecracker has no power, and it won't hurt."

He took out a large bundle of box cannons from the house, and distributed a box to every child in the yard, but he still said: "Don't throw it on people, don't throw it in the firewood, do you understand?"

The children responded in unison: "Got it!"

This kind of thing must be indispensable to Wukong, and sure enough, it also stretched out two hands to beg Zhang Taiping.

Zhang Taiping regarded it as a child, and gave it two boxes, but emphasized emphatically to it: "You can't throw it on people, you can't throw it into firewood, you know!?"

Wukong nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and followed a group of children out.Immediately there was a dull cannon sound outside the yard and the sound of the river ice breaking. It must be that the children took the box cannon to the river to blast the ice.

Zhang Taiping also took out a few thunder cannons from the house, the thickest one was as thick as a child's arm.

Cai Yazhi smiled and said, "You look like a child."

Zhang Taiping laughed loudly and said: "It doesn't matter if you set off firecrackers for children or adults. You can get rid of all the bad luck of the old year with many firecrackers during the Chinese New Year. The coming year will be prosperous and prosperous."

At this time, Cai Xiaomei also came out of the house. She has been cheerful since she was a child, and she has a boyish temperament. When she was a child, she had a lot of firecrackers with boys. When she saw Zhang Taiping holding a thunderbolt in her hand, her eyes lit up. Said: "I haven't fired a cannon for several years, brother-in-law give me some."

Zhang Taiping said: "The firecrackers are placed on the top of the big cabinet, you can get them yourself."

Cai Xiaomei went into the room and took out a large pile of broken cannons, holding an incense stick as thick as a lit chopstick in her hand.

Cai Yazhi saw that the pockets in her hands were full of cannons, and said, "It's over now, what are you going to put in at night?"

The little girl said with a smile: "Sister, don't worry, my brother-in-law bought a lot of firecrackers, and I can't finish them."

Cai Yazhi rolled her eyes and said, "You're so old, why do you still look like a boy?"

Cai Xiaomei stuck out her tongue and said, "I haven't let go of a gun for many years. It's rare to have this opportunity this year to relive the fun of my childhood."

Cai Yazhi shook her head and said, "If you always act like a boy, be careful that you won't be able to marry." Although she said this, she never had such worries in her heart, just like a mother treats her own children. She has always been her pride, and with her younger sister's good conditions, she won't have to worry about finding a good husband's family.

Cai Xiaomei didn't discuss this issue with her sister, she jumped beside Cai Yazhi in a funny way, kissed her on the face and said, "Sister, don't worry."

Cai Yazhi touched the cheek kissed by her younger sister, as if she had returned to the intimacy when she was a child, and her heart was full of warmth.

The little girl shared the thunder cannon in her hand with Fan Ming and said, "Do you want to try it?"

"Okay!" Fan Ming happily took it, and she was about to ask Zhang Taiping for it.

Zhang Taiping stood on the edge of the yard and looked down at the small river below. The children had already left here and he felt relieved. This kind of cannon is different from the box cannons played by children, and it is very dangerous. So be careful not to throw it on people.

Lit a cigarette, took a deep puff and said to Cai Yazhi who was standing at the door of the house: "Ready, cover your ears."

Cai Yazhi smiled and watched him clamp his ears with his hands.

Zhang Taiping pointed the thunder cannon with the thickness of a child's arm on the cigarette butt, there was a snorting sound, and the lead wire ignited with sparks and ignited rapidly.He looked for a point and threw the Leizi Cannon into a large piece of river ice.

Two seconds later, there was a loud noise that shook the sky. At the same time, the ice in the river splashed everywhere, and the river inside was directly blown up to a height of more than ten meters. The scene was very spectacular!

"It's so powerful!" After the sound, Fan Ming put down his hands covering his ears and exclaimed in surprise, then ran to Zhang Taiping and said, "Brother, let me use the cigarette, and I will try it too."

Zhang Taiping took a puff of the cigarette to make the sparks on the cigarette butt brighter, then handed it to her.

This was the first time Fan Ming fired a cannon, so he was inevitably a little nervous.After getting ready to throw it out, he lightly tapped the wire on the cigarette butt before throwing it out reflexively, and quickly covered his ears.

However, after a few seconds passed, there was no sound.Putting down his hands, he asked strangely, "Did you throw it on the surface of the water and drown it?"

Zhang Taiping said speechlessly: "This kind of lead wire can't be ignited, but you throw it out before it is ignited."

Immediately, Fan Ming blushed, gritted his teeth and said, "Try again, this time it will definitely ignite!" Then he put the fuse close to the cigarette butt again, and this time waited until it was indeed lit before throwing it out.

At the same time, Cai Xiaomei also ignited one and threw it down. The two cannons rang out in no particular order, and two jets of water exploded into the sky.

"Light it up, light it up!" Fan Ming clapped his hands and said dancing, really happy like a child.