Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 1333

"I'll go. By the way, where did you put the firecrackers?"

"No, it's on top of the cupboard. Do you see it?"

"What about on top of that cupboard? Why can't I see it?"

"The one at the door, look carefully."

"I saw it, I saw it, but I couldn't reach it. I'll get a stool to reach it." Zhao Wenzhuo took a chair and reached out to reach the top of the cabinet.

After taking out the firecrackers, she shouted into the house, "Xiao Yu, Xiao Ping, I'm going out to set off firecrackers. Do you two want to join me?"

"Dad, I want to go, I want to go. Wait for me, I'll be out soon." Zhao Xiaoping heard her father's words and quickly responded.

"Okay, okay, don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry, slow down, slow down, don't fall." Seeing Zhao Xiaoping's flustered look, Zhao Wenzhuo said quickly.

Zhang Yu had already packed up when he saw his uncle-in-law going to get the firecrackers. Now he and his uncle-in-law were waiting for Zhao Xiaoping to finish packing and come out of the house.

While waiting, Zhao Wenzhuo took an incense stick from the drawer, put it into the stove and lit it.

When Zhao Xiaoping came out, she looked at the incense in his hand with her eyes shining. She came over and said, "Give it to me quickly. I want to light it."

"Here," Zhao Wenzhuo handed the incense in his hand to his daughter who was waiting beside him, and turned around and reminded her, "Be careful! Run quickly after lighting it."

When Zhao Xiaoping lit the firecrackers, they both laughed. She held the incense in one hand and moved it towards the firecrackers, covering her ears with the other hand, with her body wide open. She tried several times but still missed the target. She then pushed the incense towards the firecrackers, but before it lit up, she threw the incense away and ran away.

I ran away, closed my eyes and covered my ears, but I didn't hear any sound of firecrackers for a long time. I looked over in confusion, only to see unlit firecrackers and two people who couldn't help but smile.

At this time, Zhao Lei happened to be out of the door and saw this scene. Unlike Zhang Yu and Zhao Wenzhuo, he was not as restrained and burst into laughter: "Zhao Xiaoping, hahahaha, you are so brave! Hahahahaha, how funny!"

Zhao Xiaoping stomped her feet upon hearing this and complained to Zhao Wenzhuo: "Dad, Dad, look at my third brother..."

"Okay, okay, Xiaoping, I just didn't aim right this time." Knowing that his daughter would get angry and embarrassed if he continued laughing like that, Zhao Wenzhuo quickly tried to smooth things over.

In the end, it was Zhang Yu who picked up the incense on the ground and lit the firecrackers, and then the family went to bed.

At five o'clock the next morning, Zhang Yu was woken up by his aunt and prepared to eat dumplings.

Speaking of dumplings, Zhang Yu, who is from the north, said, "Without dumplings, there is no festival."

In the north, people eat dumplings on the beginning of winter, winter solstice, Little New Year, New Year's Eve, the first day of the new year, the fifth day of the new year, and the tenth day of the new year...

Even on festivals with their own special delicacies, such as the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, we still have to eat dumplings as a base!

Eat dumplings when you are away from home, as the saying goes "dumplings when you get on the bus and noodles when you get off the bus". Dumplings are also used as a treat when friends and relatives come over. Dumplings are eaten to improve your life...!
So for people in the north, dumplings are everywhere in life.

When the water in the pot boiled, my sister-in-law started making dumplings in her room. The dumplings were wrapped in the afternoon of New Year's Eve, and she made a lot of them. After wrapping them, she covered them with a curtain and took them outside. They froze hard in a short while. After they were frozen, they were placed in a clean vat outside.

Most of these dumplings are filled with cabbage and pork, with only a few filled with leeks and eggs.

Speaking of which, those leeks were planted by Zhang Yu in the flower bed at the door. When the weather was cold, although a shed was built with oilcloth, because the flower bed was above the ground and the warmth retention of the oilcloth was not as good as the plastic sheeting of later generations, when the first snow fell, the leeks inside were frozen and wilted, and did not grow much.

In the end, my aunt found two frames, filled them with some soil, moved the leeks into them, and then placed them on the end of the kang. Only then was we able to eat dumplings stuffed with leeks and eggs during the Chinese New Year this year.

When the uncle heard that his aunt was preparing to make dumplings, he took another string of firecrackers and went outside to set them off.

When he went there, he deliberately teased his daughter, "Do you want to let it go today?"

Zhao Xiaoping was so angry that her face was puffed up. Zhang Guifang slapped him and said, "It's New Year's Day. Why are you teasing a child? If he's really angry, let's see how you can comfort him."

"Xiaoping, you can't be angry during the New Year. After the New Year, your mother will remember it for you, and she will not forgive your father then." After hearing this, Zhao Xiaoping became happy again and raised her head proudly towards Zhao Wenzhuo.

The sound of "crackling", "crackling" firecrackers marked the beginning of the incident, as if a switch was turned on. As soon as the sound from their side stopped, it started again over there, without stopping for a long time.

As soon as all the firecrackers in the households in the yard were set off, the children who had been waiting for a long time rushed forward to pick up the firecrackers that had fallen to the ground and did not explode.

"Don't rush! I saw this first."

“I saw it first.”

"Wow, there are several here!"

"..."

A group of children almost started a quarrel, and finally the adults stepped in to stop them. After picking up the fireworks, they liked to throw them one by one and set them off, or take out all the gunpowder inside, put them together, and light them with matches, just like setting off fireworks.

For children, the Spring Festival is always a happy time. Making paper lanterns or setting off small red firecrackers individually can make the happiness last for the whole year.

What surprised Zhang Yu the most was that Qi Gang came over and called him, "Uncle Xiaoyu, Uncle Xiaoyu, let's go set off firecrackers together. I was lucky today and found a lot of unexploded ones."

As he spoke, he spread out his hands to show him today's life. In fact, there were not many, only about ten or eleven or twelve.

"No, go out and release it by yourself." Looking at Qi Gang's somewhat disappointed eyes, Zhang Yu felt inexplicably guilty.

He took out a small section of firecrackers from the house and handed it to him. When Qi Gang saw the firecrackers, he first smiled, then became a little horrified, "Uncle Xiaoyu, you took so many firecrackers, your aunt won't scold you, will you? Put them back quickly."

Although he was envious of the firecrackers in Zhang Yu's hand, he thought about his own home. He only dared to take out a few from the string of firecrackers each time. If Uncle Xiaoyu took out so many at once, something bad would definitely happen.

"Uncle Xiaoyu, let me tell you, that's not how you get firecrackers, you have to smoke them, you can't get so many at a time." He looked at him seriously while talking.

"It's okay. I'm an adult now. I bought this myself. Don't worry. Just take it back."

Qi Gang took it in his hand and looked at him with some concern. It was only until he saw that he was serious that he accepted it.

He was also a little envious. When he grows up, he will also buy a lot of firecrackers like Uncle Xiaoyu and set them off at once. "I'll go. By the way, where did you put the firecrackers?" "No, they're on the cupboard. Do you see it?"