Fengcheng old events

Chapter 177

Zhang Xinglong’s meal for the gods (reunion dinner) was eaten in the army, a group of soldiers sat around the table with a small bean, it was very lively.

The dishes are hearty and there is white wine.You can drink today.The soldier tricked Zhang Xinglong into drinking, and he stuck out his tongue when it was so hot.

After dinner, he went downstairs and returned home. Liu Guixin was feeding the dog. He turned his head and took a look: "Oh my god, this kid, is this drinking? This little blush looks like a monkey's butt."

The two families gathered around to see the novelty, laughing and laughing, and the laughter spread out of the yard.

Throughout the year, that is, these few days can rest, relax, and smile happily without thinking about anything.

Paste couplets with sticky blessing characters, hang red lanterns, dolls put on new clothes, and wait around the stove for the best meal of the year.

The adults also smiled and said happy new year when they met, and they all hoped that the new year would have a good omen.

The children have not been beaten these days, and the front and rear yards are full of laughter.

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On New Year's Eve, the whole family set up a kang table and played poker together to survive the New Year.

In this day and age, there is no TV and no entertainment. The night watch is really a slog. Every house is brightly lit. Most of the children run out after eating and go crazy in groups. It is rare that no one cares about when to go home.

At nine or ten o'clock in the evening, the poker game stopped. Zhang Qingzhi and Liu Guixin brought out noodles and minced meat. They scalded celery, chopped green onions, smashed peppercorns, and placed the boards on the kang, and the whole family gathered around the boards to make dumplings.

Adults do it, children follow suit.

Liu Guixin washed some steel rollers, wrapped them into dumplings one by one, and put them together with normal dumplings.Whoever eats the dumpling with the steel spade will have good luck in the new year.At this time, there is no concept of getting rich.

Even if you have this idea, you can only think about it in your heart, and no one is ashamed to say it.

The eldest brother and sister-in-law of the Sun family didn't have the habit of staying up late, so they went to bed early.

There are five members of the Sun family, the second and fourth children have long since disappeared, and they don’t know where to go to play. The remaining three sisters ran to Zhang Qing’s house. It is interesting to have a lot of people.

Everyone laughed, talked, and made dumplings together.

Starting at 11:30, firecrackers began to sound intermittently in the residential area, reaching the peak around twelve o'clock, and the ears were filled with continuous explosions, and the smell of gunpowder smoke in the air was like being on a battlefield.

Explosive flames flickered everywhere.Throwing balls and jets, splashing flowers, sky-piercing monkeys and flying saucers flew high into the sky with the cheers of the children.

Heihu ran into the house in a panic and curled up in the corner of the Kang, wanting to be protected by his master.Tonight, it is treated the same as the host, and there are dumplings to eat.

After letting off the whip, Zhang Qingzhi took a few children out of the house to deliver lanterns outside to express their respect for the deceased relatives, and burned paper money to make the three children kneel and kowtow.The worshiper is Liu Huaqi.

To send lights is to light candles. If there are graves here, it is more difficult to put them in front of the graves.If there are no graves, place them at crossroads or in an open place that feels appropriate, and protect them from wind so that the candles will not go out as much as possible.The more complete the burn, the better.

Standing in the residential area and looking at the Shanxi Mountain in front of the back mountain, the shadows danced vaguely, all of which were the flames of candles.One may be invisible, and a few are nothing, but dozens or hundreds of them will be quite spectacular.

Those candle lights that seemed to be floating in the darkness merged into a small sea of ​​flames, flickering and jumping, indescribably beautiful.

After setting off the firecrackers, Liu Guixin and the Sun family sisters had already finished making dumplings and cleaned them up. The white and fat dumplings were put into the pot, and the hot steam rushed up and rolled in the kitchen.

The fourth son of the Sun family also ran back, panting.

"Aren't you causing trouble? What are you doing?" The boss of the Sun family acted like a big sister.

"No, I'm hungry and come back to eat. What's the matter?"

"Cut, it's just you? You don't need to poke your tail, I know what kind of shit you're going to pull. It's Chinese New Year these few days, you calm down, don't make other people find it difficult to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Do you hear me?"

"Go wash your hands, the dumplings are ready." Zhang Qingzhi patted the fourth child to smooth things over: "Okay, wash your hands and eat."

When the hot dumplings were brought to the table, the children's saliva was about to flow out of their mouths, and they swallowed hard.

Soy sauce, white vinegar, mashed garlic, sliced ​​cooked meat, marinated pork feet, stewed chicken, braised fish, marinated sausage jelly are all served.

At present, there are no vegetables in the New Year's Eve dinner in Northeast China, and it is all meat. It was not until around 90 that vegetables began to appear on the table for the New Year's Eve dinner.More expensive than meat.

After eating, it was the first day of the new year, and the children neatly paid New Year's greetings to their elders.

The children of the Sun family bowed, and Zhang Xinglong kowtowed to his parents along with his elder brother.

Liu Guixin took out the new money he had prepared and specially exchanged from the bank, giving [-] cents to one of his own children and one yuan to each of the Sun family.The eldest sister can't enjoy it because of her work.

This is called suppressing money, suppressing evil spirits and evil spirits so that they cannot harm children.It's not what we call New Year's Eve. We all look forward to our children growing up. What age is it?

There are elderly people in the family, and the filial gifts of children, grandnephews and nephews are called lucky money. I hope that the elderly will grow one year later and enjoy their family more.

Then it was poker again.

At this time, playing poker is not about winning money, but just having fun and being lively.

Melon seeds and peanut candies are brought out and put aside, as well as thawed frozen pears and apples.This treatment is only available during Chinese New Year.

The children couldn't hold on any longer soon, and the Sun family went back to the house, and the three little brothers fell asleep here.

Zhang Qingzhi cleaned up the poker table: "You can sleep for a while, I'll watch over."

"Then I'll sleep for a while, I'm really sleepy. I'll get up and change you later." Liu Guixin collapsed on the bed without taking off his clothes.Sleep till dawn.

Zhang Qingzhi was also sleepy, but he didn't want to sleep. When he was really sleepy, he went outside to look at the warehouse, and walked around the vegetable garden a few times to smoke a cigarette.

You can't sleep on New Year's Eve, and you have to watch the year, so that you will have good luck in the coming year.

If jumping into the river on New Year's Eve would bring great luck in the coming year, Zhang Qingzhi would definitely do it.He wished so much for the family to go well.

The night in the deep winter gradually quieted down, and the flickering lights of the patches of red lanterns dyed the night pink, which seemed so peaceful.

Occasionally, there are children who don't come home late at night and rush through the alley.

The workers from Class C came out of the factory with their lunch boxes in their pockets and scattered in all directions.There will be a plate of hot dumplings waiting for him at home, they.Add two taels of white wine and eat a mouthful of frozen and tender skin jelly. This is the pinnacle of life.

Is there anything better than the peace and harmony of your family?
During the Chinese New Year, the whip is hung three times, in the afternoon of the new year, in the middle of the night at thirty, and in the morning of the first day of the new year.

People in this era still believe in many things, especially good things.

They strictly abide by the traditions and rules, and complete every step carefully, for fear that if they make a mistake, they will be scolded by their ancestors and ghosts, which will bring disaster.

Perhaps it is because of this that this generation, though poor, is content and happy.

(End of this chapter)