Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 227 The most beautiful fireworks in Hongfeng Village
After returning home, Lin Heng turned on all the lights in the house and lit the fireplace.

Finally, we made a lot of charcoal and burned a lot of fire, which means a prosperous fire.

He used to think that these customs were meaningless and could be omitted, but later he discovered that life still needs some rituals, otherwise they would be even more boring.

Life goes by slowly like this. After recognizing the essence of life, he still loves life. He only understood it when he got older.

"As the saying goes, it's thirty nights of fire and fifteen nights of lights. Tonight it's going to be prosperous."

After lighting the fire, Lin Heng began to tell Xiaoxia the story of the Nian beast. This was something his parents told him when he was a child, and now he tells it to his daughter.

After listening to Lin Heng's words, Xiaoxia tilted her head and said, "Dad, let's set off cannons to scare the Nian Beast and scare it away!"

"Okay, I'll set off fireworks for you."

Lin Heng said with a smile and went to the house to bring out a box of fireworks. It was already dark outside, which was a good time to set off fireworks.

Place the fireworks near the door outside the yard gate, use a lighter to light the fuse and quickly close the door and run into the yard.

Their fireworks stopped, and other houses started to set off firecrackers and cannons. The sound was loud and extremely lively.

"There is no good dish, hurry up and cook it, I will bring another dish over." Liu Juan said with a smile, turned around and went to the kitchen again.

"The fireworks are coming!"

During the Chinese New Year, every ton of vegetables would make them full. By the time they finished their meal, it was already half past nine.

Xiaoxia nodded hard.

With sighs, most people in the village raised their heads to enjoy it. There was no fireworks show in the village, so this year it was Lin Heng.

Lin Heng looked at the ingredients on the table and said with a smile, this dish must have taken a lot of effort.

"Doesn't it look good?"

I went home burping. I had to stay up late tonight for the New Year's Eve party, and I couldn't sleep because there were firecrackers setting off everywhere.

"I want to see it." Xiaoxia said against Lin Heng's face.

After drinking a glass of wine, everyone chatted while eating. There were fried sweet potato balls made of sweet potatoes and glutinous rice flour on the table. Xiaoxia liked them very much and ate them one after another.

"I just said that the blazing fire over there turned out to be a bonfire." Mother Lin said with a smile.

"nice!"

"This is from the Lin Heng family. It's great to have money."

At almost eight o'clock, the voice of my eldest nephew Lin Wei came from outside.

In the yard, Lin Heng was holding Xiaoxia, Xiulan was leaning against him, and the three of them were also watching the gorgeous fireworks.

Lin Heng didn't shirk, so he took Xiaoxia and Xiulan and ran away. There was a bully at home, so all he had to do was lock the courtyard gate.

Lin Heng is very interested in fried creek grouper. His sister-in-law is a person who can save things. This creek grouper should be from summer, and it was dried into dried fish and preserved until now.

When I was a kid, when there were no fireworks, I liked to light sticks in the air and go back to the house to make various patterns. But I always got the damn lesson that playing with fire wets the bed.

Xiaoxia got tired of playing and went into the house to talk to Jinbao. Lin Heng and Xiulan sat by the fire to warm themselves up.

Therefore, many people raised their heads to appreciate the beautiful fireworks released by Lin Heng.

"Hey, someone lit a bonfire in the village. It's so big."

Lin Heng picked up Xiaoxia, and with a roar, the fireworks shot into the sky, exploding with a bang, like a flower blooming.

When everyone was seated and the wine and drinks were poured, Lin Yue said: "Mom, Dad, brother Xiulan, let's start!"

"Look, what beautiful fireworks."

Lin Heng stopped putting the box away after putting it away. He got the fireworks sticks for Xiaoxia, lit them and she ran happily in the yard.

Xiulan also nodded, who doesn't want to see the beautiful scenery.

Lin Heng asked while watching the fireworks.

"beautiful!"

At that time, he was confused as to why they didn't care about playing at night. Later he found out that this was an excuse not to play with fire.

Lin Heng lit one himself, and Xiulan also lit two to play with. They liked to draw circles in the air, or simply watch the fireworks burn out quickly.

"Boom boom boom!"

Lin Heng sat down for a while before Lin's father walked in from outside.

This kind of patterned fireworks is relatively expensive, even the most common ones are expensive. The ones bought in the village are the ones that make loud noises but only explode without scattering colorful patterns. They are usually called sky cannons.

"Then let's see."

Lin Heng went into the house and took another box. After a while, the fireworks took off and the children in the village cheered again. Xiaoxia was also very happy.

"Let's go."

"Second father, my food is ready. Come and eat."

After a while, the fireworks were set off, and Xiaoxia and Xiulan had not yet recovered.

"Do you still want to watch it?" Lin Heng asked with a smile. There were seven large boxes of 49-shot fireworks in the room.

“It’s so rich!”

A fire was burning in the bedroom fireplace, and there was a charcoal fire in the main room outside.

Lin Heng and Xiulan brought the bathtubs in to boil water, and the three of them took turns taking a bath. It was natural for those who were saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new to take a bath.

After taking a shower, there was no TV to watch or radio to listen to, so Lin Heng took a book and read to the two of them.

In fact, now that there is electricity, he can buy a black and white TV or a radio. This does not require the Internet, and the TV only needs a TV pot.

But he thought it would be better to wait until later. Reading these books by himself was much better than others. He planned to wait until around 1990 to buy a TV or something like that.

"Dad, I'm sleepy."

At around eleven o'clock, Xiaoxia couldn't listen anymore and started acting coquettishly.

"You can rest soon, let's play something else."

Lin Heng thought for a while and said, it will be twelve o'clock soon.

I played with Xiaoxia until twelve o'clock. I put her on the bed without continuing to tell her stories. She fell asleep soon after putting her on the bed.

"Let's go to sleep. We'll still have a look at the stars tomorrow morning."

Xiulan took a nap, although the cannons were being fired outside.

"it is good."

Lin Heng also nodded, added some firewood to the fireplace, and went to bed to rest with Xiulan in his arms.

As midnight approached, it was quiet outside for a while, but less than three hours after sleeping, the sound of cannons was heard again. This was someone rushing to be the first to see the sky star.

The two slept for another hour. At four o'clock in the morning, the sound of firecrackers outside came one after another. After a while, they heard their parents starting to set off firecrackers.

"It's time to get up."

Xiulan rolled into Lin Heng's arms, patted his face and said with a smile.

"Kiss me and get up."

Lin Heng smiled, hugged her and kissed her for several minutes.

Then the two of them turned on the lights, got dressed, and got up. Naturally, they had to wear new clothes in the new year, and the two of them put on new clothes from the inside out.

Lin Heng put on a black coat, brown trousers, and black boots.

Xiulan wore a white turtleneck sweater, a brown woolen coat that she had never worn before, black trousers, and brown mid-calf boots with a fur collar.

After getting dressed and washing up, she sat in front of the mirror and put on delicate eyeliner, foundation, and lipstick. When she turned around, Lin Heng couldn't help but be stunned. She was so beautiful.

In particular, her temperament is very dignified, she looks elegant and peaceful, soft and quiet. She doesn't look like a rural woman, but a beautiful and educated young woman. Xiulan saw Lin Heng in a daze, stretched his head in front of her, and asked playfully: "Do you think I should wear my hair in a high ponytail, or would it look better if I wore it loosely like this?"

Lin Heng looked at her and said: "Let it be worn loosely. I think your style today is more suitable for wearing your hair down. It looks soft and elegant with it down, and it looks capable and clean with it tied up. It depends on what kind of temperament you want."

"Then wear it."

Xiulan thought for a while and said that her hair was cut last time she went to the city, so it didn't look messy when she wore it.

"They all look good anyway." Lin Heng smiled and stretched out his hand to smooth out a few strands of her hair.

After a pause, he suddenly bowed and said: "Happy New Year, my wife. I wish you live younger, be in good health, and have all the best."

"You have such a sweet mouth, I'll give you a red envelope."

Xiulan smiled softly, took a red envelope and put it in Lin Heng's pocket.

Then he smiled and cupped his hands and said, "Happy New Year, hubby. I wish you good health and success in your career."

"You don't want to wish me more and more handsomeness." Lin Heng said pretending to be angry while holding the red envelope.

Xiulan tilted her head and blinked: "There's no need for handsome, so that others won't worry about you. It's fine that you are mine alone."

As she spoke, she took the red envelope from Lin Heng's hand, stood up on tiptoes, kissed him on the mouth, and put a little lipstick on him.

"Okay, you put some more red envelopes, and I'll dress Xiaoxia."

She said after tidying up Lin Heng's clothes.

"it is good."

Lin Heng licked his lips and prepared many red envelopes, some for children and some for parents.

Xiaoxia was woken up and kept crying. She stopped crying until Lin Heng said he would give her a red envelope and buy a lot of candies.

"There are red envelopes for saying Happy New Year today. You can buy a lot of candies." Xiulan also touched her little face and comforted her.

Xiaoxia rubbed her nose and said with a cry: "Happy New Year~"

"Now, this is what mommy gave you. Tell your daddy that there is still more." Xiulan handed her a red envelope with five yuan in it.

"Happy New Year, Dad~" Xiaoxia looked at Lin Heng again and said with a sweet voice.

"Happy New Year, my dear, may you be healthy in the future."

Lin Heng also handed him a big red envelope.

Xiaoxia is wearing a Northeastern-style cotton-padded jacket with lots of peonies printed on it today. She looks like a little lion.

By the time she got up and washed her face, it was already half past five, and it was still dark.

"It's snowing so hard." Lin Heng walked out and opened the door and said in shock.

Although it's still dark, the snow outside is so clear.

"It snowed yesterday, and it really snowed today. This is a good sign."

Xiulan took Xiaoxia to the door and said with a smile.

"Yes, the auspicious snow heralds a good year, let's bring out the star in the sky."

Lin Heng nodded with a smile, went back to the house, took the square table, and went out to worship the heaven and the earth, worshiping toward the southeast, which would be auspicious today.

The door is opened, incense is burned, and five thousand firecrackers and a box of forty-nine fireworks are set off. This is also called opening the door to wealth.

After all three people kowtow and worship, they can go out.

Naturally, the first step was to go to his parents' place. There was still light snow falling in the sky, but it did not affect everyone's mood.

"Happy New Year to grandma and grandpa."

With the experience of getting red envelopes just now, Xiaoxia learned by herself without any teacher, and took the initiative to bow to the two elders and ask for red envelopes.

"Happy New Year to Mom and Dad!"

Lin Heng and Xiulan also greeted each other.

"Thank you my good granddaughter."

"Your mouth is so sweet."

Mother Lin was so happy that she gave Xiaoxia a red envelope, and then gave one to Lin Heng and Xiulan.

After Lin Heng collected the red envelopes, he gave one to each of his parents and said with a smile, "This is to honor you during the New Year."

"Thank you, son." Mother Lin was completely rude and accepted it with a smile.

The same goes for Father Lin. The red envelopes on the first day of the new year are all festive, so he has to accept them.

"Happy New Year to my brother and sister-in-law. I wish you good health and a stronger love."

Caiyun also said quickly from the side.

"Of course Caiyun is yours too." Xiulan gave her a red envelope.

"Thank you, sister-in-law. You are the nicest person, and you will definitely stay young forever." Caiyun said happily, holding Xiulan's hand.

Just when she was happy, she remembered a milky voice beside her: "Happy New Year, aunt!"

Caiyun touched her little face and said with a smile: "Your aunt is not married yet, she is also a child, and I don't give out red envelopes during the New Year."

Xiaoxia continued to bow: "Happy New Year, aunt, give me a red envelope~"

Caiyun had no choice but to turn around and run back to the bedroom. After a while, he took out a red envelope and gave it to her: "I'm afraid of you. I'm giving you the first red envelope in my life. You must be healthy and smart."

"Thank you, aunt." Xiaoxia laughed and kissed Caiyun.

"Happy Chinese New Year to my grandparents. I wish you good health and all the best!"

After a while, Lin Wei and Lin Tao ran in one after another. They knelt down and kowtowed, smiling and asking for red envelopes.

After he finished kowtowing to Father Lin and Mother Lin, he turned to Lin Heng and Xiulan: "Happy New Year to my parents!"

"Here you go." Naturally, their red envelopes were ready.

After Lin's father, Lin's mother, and Liu Juan and Lin Yue also gave red envelopes to each other, Lin Heng said: "Okay, let's go out to pay New Year's greetings to Guanyin, and pick up some money along the way."

Mother Guanyin is naturally a deity. The temple is located on a hilltop at the junction of Hongfeng Village and Shimen Village. It is an ancient temple that has existed since Lin Heng was a child. Every New Year, every household goes there to burn incense and worship.

"Yes, it's time to go, it's six o'clock."

Mother Lin nodded.

Everyone brought incense and firecrackers and set off to the temple.

At this moment, the genius was slightly bright, and everyone was moving forward with flashlights. There were already groups of people on the road, all using flashlights and carrying incense watches to worship Mother Guanyin.

Lin Wei, Lin Tao and others were playing and having snowball fights for a while, and blasting firecrackers for a while. All the children on the road were like this.

"Lin Xian, happy New Year."

"The year is with you."

Father Lin was also saying Happy New Year to others on the way.

Lin Heng held Xiaoxia's hand, Xiulan and Caiyun held hands, and everyone was talking and laughing. Everyone in the village was familiar with each other, and everyone greeted each other when they met.

When they walked to the temple soon, it was already brighter. It was estimated that the sun would come out in a while, but it was snowing today and they were destined not to see the sunrise.

There are many people visiting the Guanyin Mother Temple. Every year, not only their two villages, but also many people from Baima Village below come to worship.

The temple of Guanyin Mother is not glorious. From a distance, it is just a stone house standing on the top of a mountain. The only beautiful thing is a hexagonal money furnace next to it, which is extremely simple and solemn.

Lin Heng and the others waited for a while and finally entered the temple. At this time, it was finally bright and they could see the road clearly.

The person who looked after the temple was a sixty-year-old man from Shimen Village. Lin Heng and others greeted him with a smile and began to light incense and worship the Guanyin Mother.

(End of this chapter)