Chapter 1500 Happy New Year

February 16, 1988, the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month.

On that day, Zhao Hong was awakened by the sound of firecrackers.

Today is the Chinese New Year, every household will be whipped up before breakfast, no matter whether the conditions are good or not.

Thinking of the children who were picking up firecrackers from home that day, Zhao Hong sat up directly.

"Mom! Mom!" Zhao Hong called Wang Meilan, and woke Zhao Na next to her up.

"Son!" Wang Meilan, who was serving dishes in the outer room, called Zhao Jun who was holding dishes from the bowl stand, and said, "You come and serve dishes, I'll see you two sisters."

After saying that, Wang Meilan put down the spoon and headed towards the west room.

It was five minutes or seven o'clock when Wang Meilan entered the house, and it was gray and half bright outside. With curtains pulled in the room, Zhao Hong had already turned on the light.

At this time, next to Zhao Hong and Zhao Na's pillows, there was a stack of clothes each. On the top is a small vest and a small pants, and on the bottom are cotton jackets, cotton pants and outer pants.

These are all new, and there are new pairs of socks tucked in the outer pocket.

"Mom, wear it first." When Zhao Hong picked up the vest and handed it to Wang Meilan, she heard Zhao Jun in the outer room and said, "Dad, hurry up and fire up the fire, and you'll have a meal later!"

"Dad, wait for me!" Zhao Hong shouted. Wang Meilan, who was suddenly startled, raised her hand to pull Zhao Hong away, frowned and asked, "What are you doing?"

Then, without waiting for Zhao Hong to respond, Wang Meilan pointed at Zhao Hong's nose and said, "Let me tell you, you can whine around with those children, don't say I'll deal with you during the New Year."

When Wang Meilan pointed at him, Zhao Hong hid back and whispered, "I want to set off firecrackers."

"What cannon are you firing?" Wang Meilan angrily put her vest on Zhao Hong's body from top to bottom, and said, "I see you look like a cannon, so let the cannon collapse again."

"My dad said I would like to fire the fire." Zhao Hong was a little sluggish when she spoke. Seeing this, Wang Meilan pulled her away and said, "Today's New Year, if you dare to shout, I will let you howl."

Hearing Wang Meilan's words, Zhao Hong curled her lips and became stronger in an instant!

"Second daughter!" At this time, Zhao Youcai's voice came from the door, saying, "Get dressed quickly, Dad is waiting for you."

"Just show off!" Wang Meilan said, "A girl, what can you tell her to fire?"

"Don't they let go of those children?" Zhao Youcai said, and then picked up a half-meter-long water willow stick as thick as a finger from the stack of firewood, then bent down and inserted the end into the stove pit.

When the two little girls were dressed neatly and came out of the house, Zhao Youcai pulled out the water willow stick, and one end was already burning.

Zhao Youcai threw the fire out. When he saw the fire blowing, he handed the water rosy stick to Zhao Hong.

"Don't let the child break." Wang Meilan was a little worried, but Zhao Youcai disagreed and said, "No."

After saying that, Zhao Youcai did not rush to take the two daughters out, but took them to the west room.

"Second daughter, old daughter." Zhao Youcai opened his hands, gently hugged Zhao Hong and Zhao Na, and said, "How did you teach you yesterday?"

Zhao Hong was old after all. When she saw Xing San, she remembered it and immediately shouted to Xing San: "Happy New Year, Mr. San!"

"Happy New Year for the Third Uncle!" Zhao Na shouted immediately.

"Hey, it's a happy New Year, a happy New Year!" Xing San said, then he took out the money from his pocket.

According to the customs here, when you meet elders today, you have to shout "Happy New Year". When you meet peers, you can open your mouth and talk first. If you meet younger generations, wait for the other party to greet you.

"Come on, my second daughter!" Xing San held a thin stack of one-yuan banknotes in his hand, counted five of them and gave them to Zhao Hong, saying, "Get whatever you want to buy, and buy whatever you want."

This is New Year's money.

Not all elders have New Year’s money, and you will definitely not be less than what you should give. If you shouldn't give it, you will be given one.

After the construction of Yong'an site for 20 years, most of the four family areas lived in the area were workers, so there was no kowtow here.

"Thank you, Mr. Third." Zhao Hong took the money happily. Xing San saw that she was holding a fire-burning stick in her hand, so he said to Zhao Hong: "Second daughter, don't stick your sister in the fire!"

After talking to Zhao Hong, Xing San went to pay Zhao Na the New Year’s money again.

After hearing what Xing San said, Wang Meilan gave Zhao Youcai a look.

"I understand, third uncle." Zhao Hong responded and stuffed the money into her outer pocket.

"Second daughter, you have your money in hand." Wang Meilan confiscated Zhao Hong's New Year's money and instead reminded her: "I'll give you a bag."

There is a saying that children here receive New Year’s money. Today is the New Year, and it will be the new year until tomorrow morning. By then, the effect of paying money has been over and it will disappear in the child's sleep.

The two little girls collected the New Year's money and followed Zhao Youcai happily. The moment they left the house, firecrackers sounded at the door of the Li family.

The three of them walked out, and Li Dayong, who had set off firecrackers, walked in. Seeing Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong hurriedly shouted, "Happy New Year, brother."

"Happy New Year, great courage!" The two brothers smiled at each other. Zhao Hong and Zhao Na, who had just collected money in the house, shouted in unison, "Happy New Year Uncle."

Li Dayong responded to the two little girls with "Happy New Year", but did not give New Year's money, which made Zhao Hong and Zhao Na a little disappointed.

The Zhao and Li families have a good relationship, which is known to everyone in the village. When Zhao Chun was just around the corner, Li Dayong, who was not married, had no money, but he also stuffed Zhao Chun a dollar during the Chinese New Year.

When Zhao Jun was there, Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei had just gotten married. Thinking that Zhao Youcai helped him a lot, the couple rushed to give Zhao Chun and Zhao Jun New Year’s money during the Chinese New Year.

But that time, Wang Meilan refused. Wang Meilan said that both families will have children in the future. It would be too troublesome to each other, so they would simply not bother with each other.

In fact, Wang Meilan said this not because she was afraid of trouble, but because her family already had two children, and it would be a loss for the Li family to continue.

It was also from that year that the two families were in harmony, but they did not give each other New Year's money.

Waiting for dinner in the room, Zhao Youcai went to the warehouse, took out two whips and a wheel of iron wire, and then walked out of the yard.

Zhao Hong and Zhao Na followed behind jumping. Before going to bed yesterday, Zhao Youcai promised them to take the ladies to set off firecrackers.

When he arrived at the gate of the courtyard, Zhao Youcai pulled out a one-meter-long larch pole from the steak pile in the east, and then twisted the firecrackers onto the larch pole with iron wire.

Zhao Youcai raised his pole and lifted it up. The firecrackers hung down, and the wire exposed by the red paper fell in front of Zhao Hong.

"Second daughter, please." As soon as Zhao Youcai finished speaking, Zhao Hong raised her hand, pointed the fire stick at Daonan, and shouted, "Why are you here again?"

Zhao Youcai turned his head and heard a boy say to him, "Happy New Year, Mr. Zhao."

"Oh, good New Year, boy Sun." Zhao Youcai responded. He recognized that the child belonged to Lao Sun's family in Tunnantou. Zhao Youcai couldn't remember what this kid's name was, but he vaguely remembered that he was his second daughter's classmate and deskmate. When he was slaughtering a pig that day, he made his second daughter run away with fear.

"Happy New Year Zhao Hong." Sun Ruihai said hello to Zhao Hong carefully, but saw Zhao Hong pointing at him with a fire-starting stick and saying, "Hurry up, do whatever you should do, don't put it at my doorstep!"

"What are you doing, your second daughter?" Zhao Youcai frowned and said to Zhao Hong, "You let it go, what do you care about others?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Hong glared at Sun Ruihai fiercely, then picked up the fire stick and gently blew the burning head.

As the fire shone brightly, Zhao Hong raised her stick and carefully pulled her towards the lead.

There is no danger when setting off firecrackers normally. Then the lead is two centimeters, and it will be fine if you lit it and dodge it for two steps.

But when Zhao Hong was so angry that she was really angry, she felt a little upset when she started to take action.

At this time, Zhao Na hurried behind Zhao Hong, and her small hands nervously grabbed the corner of Zhao Hong's clothes.

Seeing that the fire head was about to touch the lead, and the difference between the two was about two millimeters, Zhao Hong was trembling all over and her arms shook back, and the fire head and the lead instantly opened twenty centimeters.

Zhao Hong moved, and Zhao Na instantly jumped back, but her hands were still tightly holding Zhao Hong's neck.

"Huh?" Zhao Youcai was stunned. When he turned to look at Zhao Hong, he saw the little girl poking her head out of her fire again. But when it was three millimeters away from the firecracker lead, as if something was biting his hand, Zhao Hong suddenly pulled his hand back, and Zhao Na behind her jumped to the left, pulling Zhao Hong to twist her body to the right.

At this time, Zhao Youcai realized that his second daughter did not dare to point it.

If Zhao Jun was a child, Zhao Youcai would have to scold him. But the daughter is different from the boy. Seeing Zhao Hong like this, Zhao Youcai smiled and found it interesting.

"Hahaha..." Zhao Youcai laughed, but this laugh was not what he said. I saw Sun Ruihai not far away pointing at Zhao Hong and laughing, "You two sisters are catching chickens?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Youcai looked at his two daughters and saw Zhao Hong in front and Zhao Na in the back. Zhao Na was still holding the corner of Zhao Hong's clothes with both hands, which was really like an eagle catching a chick.

"I don't have to worry about it!" Zhao Hong yelled at Sun Ruihai, but heard Sun Ruihai smile and said, "Zhao Hong, you are cowardly, you dare not fire a fire!"

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

Zhao Hong's face darkened, and then she became furious: "See if I dare to beat you!"

As he said that, Zhao Hong threw the fire stick in his hand to the ground and took a step forward to Sun Ruihai and rushed to him.

Zhao Na, who was following Zhao Hong, also rushed out with her small fist.

Sun Ruihai, who was still mocking Zhao Hong last second, changed his face and turned around and ran away!

"Come back! Come back!" Seeing this, Zhao Youcai quickly called the two daughters back loudly.

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"What are you doing? Go out for so long?" Wang Meilan, who was sitting on the edge of the kang, stared out the window.

The food was served, and the three of them were not back.

After Wang Meilan finished speaking, the sound of firecrackers rang outside the house.

Zhao Youcai was a loyal person. He did not complain when he returned to the house, and he went to the kang to have dinner as if nothing had happened.

This morning, the Zhao family ate cabbage and vermicelli meatballs. The meatballs were fried radish meatballs that day. There were too many fried items that day, and several families had eaten for several days.

After breakfast, Wang Meilan used white flour to make paste. Then, Zhao Jun, Zhao Youcai and Xing San went out to post couplets and the word "Fu".

Although three people went out, Zhao Jun himself was the one who actually posted it, and the two were in command.

The Zhao army was comparing in front, while Zhao Youcai and Xing San were behind, commanding the Zhao army to go left and right, and always correcting whether the Zhao army was crooked or not.

After confirming the position, first brush paste and then stick couplets and characters Fu.

The couplet and the word "Fu" were written by Li Baoyu's father-in-law. For the couplets of several families, Li Baoyu carried the red paper and ran to the Liu family eight times. For this reason, Li Ruhai joked about him for several days.

The word "Fu" is pasted on the door of the room, and couplets are pasted on both sides. On the door is a horizontal copy with three pieces of money hanging.

The money he hung was cut by Yang Xue, the owner of the convenience store. He made three pieces of paper and wrapped in paper and labor.

There are many places to post in the Zhao family. Couplets, money, and blessing characters must be posted on the doors of the room, warehouse, and yard doors, and blessing characters must be posted on one side of the tent on both sides.

This busy work is mostly half an hour. It was quite cold early in the morning, and Zhao Jun's hands were red.

When Zhao Jun posted the couplet, Wang Meilan was not idle either. She took a large basin outside the house and picked up a lot of frozen pears and persimmons from the large jar, soaked them in water to slowly.

Then, Wang Meilan stood aside in the east and west rooms, and piled up the table with melon seeds, peanuts, sugar, oranges and apples.

"Son!" Seeing Zhao Jun come back, Wang Meilan arranged for him to say, "You go to the convenience store to take a look. The trough cake has been made, right?"

"Don't you say nine o'clock." Zhao Jun glanced at the time. It was just past eight o'clock, so he said, "Okay, mom, I'll go over and take a look."

After dinner in the morning, I ate it at around 4:00, 5:00, and then at the New Year’s Eve dinner in the evening.

There was no meal at noon, and now it was four or five o'clock in the afternoon. The period between the two was too long. Wang Meilan was afraid that the children would not be able to hold on, so she asked Zhao Jun to buy trough cakes.

She had already inquired about it. The convenience store will be closed until noon today, but Wang Fu and his wife will get up early to make some trough cakes.

The newly-made trough cake is delicious, with a layer of scent on the outside, and a bite of it with a crispy texture. After being left for a long time, it won't be like this.

Before Zhao Jun went out, Zhao Youcai chased him to the door and told him, "Don't wrap the trough cake. If you pack it with hot ones, it won't be delicious. If you take a bag of paper, you will come back."

"Yes, okay." Zhao Jun agreed and complained in his heart: "You understand so well, why don't you go?"

Thinking of this in my heart, Zhao Jun couldn't say it, otherwise he wouldn't be scolded during the Chinese New Year.

After leaving home, Zhao Jun did not go directly to the convenience store, but walked towards the Ma family.

I have to wish my father-in-law and mother-in-law a New Year.

As the Zhao army walked along the way, the sound of firecrackers were everywhere in the village and red paper confetti was found at the doors of each house.

The little girl and boy, if the family is in good condition, they wear new clothes. If the conditions are not good, they also remove the cotton jacket at home, wash the noodles and put them on again. Although it is not new, it is clean.

These children, one group of four, five, one group of them, their faces were red and the village was running around. Although the laughter was covered by the sound of firecrackers, the children's happiness could not be covered by anything.

"Uncle Dachun and aunt, it's a happy New Year!" Whenever Zhao Jun saw someone older than him, he would say hello and say hello to wish him a New Year.

"Aunt, I'll help you stick it." When he walked to Han Dachun's house, he saw that Han Dachun and his wife were posting couplets. Zhao Jun wished them a New Year's greetings and asked for help.

"Child, don't touch your hands." Han Dachun's wife refused Zhao Jun and said, "I will do this little work with your uncle in a while."

"Jun, you don't need you." Han Dachun also said that Zhao Jun was not needed, and then he asked, "What's your dad doing at home? He didn't say that he would come over to wish me a New Year?"

This is a joke. Unless the peers visit or visit relatives, they do not deliberately wish you a happy New Year.

Zhao Jun knew that Han Dachun was joking at that time, so he smiled and said, "Okay, uncle, I'll tell him when I go back!"

"Tell him, he will have to scold me when he is finished." Han Dachun smiled and said, "I will sneeze later, and that's what he will scold me."

Zhao Jun laughed, said goodbye to Han Dachun and his wife, and walked quickly towards the Ma family.

When they were about to arrive at the Ma family, Zhao Jun saw Ma Yang and the two boys placing two loud noises at the door of their house.

Seeing Zhao Jun coming, a boy rammed Ma Yang and said, "Your brother-in-law is here!"

"Ah!" Ma Yang turned to see Zhao Jun, rushed towards Zhao Jun, and said, "Sister... No, Happy New Year, Brother Jun!"

Zhao Jun agreed with a smile. At this time, he was infected by the atmosphere of the New Year and immediately said to Ma Yang: "Xiao Yang, there is nothing to do in the afternoon, can we go out to play?"

I only spend three days during the Chinese New Year, New Year's Eve, the first and second day of the New Year. I haven't updated these days, so I will start up updates tomorrow.