The Spring Festival in villages and towns is always lively. Villagers who have been busy for a year are always willing to spend all their spare money on extravagant festivals and don't feel wasted. Township government and other institutions are no exception. The small coffers that have been saved for a year are usually exhausted in the weeks before the festival.

Setting off firecrackers, dancing lions, beating gongs and drums and Yangko teams are the necessary items in Hedong Province during the Spring Festival. Even when the situation was not good a few years ago, villages and towns would organize these activities from the higher authorities.

84 In the Spring Festival of, conditions in xizhaizi Township were much better. At least, the people who participated in the activities could not only have a full meal, but also get paid.

Mung bean cake, flour noodle, babaofan and other folk pastries are still the main characters of the festival. Although there are bacon and fresh chicken, most of them are still the same. Only those families with a high income and a small population can really eat meat for several days. Farmers with a large population and a small income usually eat meat once at the beginning of the thirties, and then eat the rest at the end of the fifteenth.

As the Secretary of the township party committee of xizhaizi Township, Yang Feng's family conditions are naturally the best in the township. He not only has a high income, but also saves a lot of money. For example, the dragon dance team, the lion dance team, and the Yangko team. When each team passes by, they have to hop for a quarter of an hour in front of the door of the Yang family. After these teams pass by, they naturally want to take as much as they want with the remaining firecrackers, grain and cakes.

In previous years, Yang Feng was rude. As a party secretary, he earns dozens of yuan a month. If he doesn't find a way to get something, he will be really poor.

This year is different.

Yang Rui sent some money to his home, all of which were legal rewards endorsed by Jielikang. The monthly interest of the money in the bank was higher than Yang Feng's salary. Although it was not necessary to spend all of it, people's psychology suddenly changed.

This year's Spring Festival, Yang Feng in addition to the things sent by the countryside, other gifts received after the return, and ultimately left behind, are all some rare mountain goods.

The first soup Yang Rui drank at home was cooked with mushrooms, which was fresh and fragrant.

Rui's mother was very happy to see her son drink well. She immediately started her husband to make dumplings.

Comrade Yang Feng was so miserable that he couldn't help complaining: "if you want to find a nanny, how can you find it? I'll chop the meat myself."

"When my son goes to school, there are only two people in the family. What kind of nanny do you want? Besides, if the nanny doesn't go home for the Spring Festival, the meat should be cut carefully, and it's delicious."

Every day, Yang Feng's hand carrying the tea cup danced with a big kitchen knife, and soon he was tired of sweating. Nowadays, when people eat dumplings, they have to buy meat and chop it by themselves. It's really a hard job to chop the thick pieces of meat into minced meat. It's usually the most important work for men during the new year. The duration depends on the population, but one or two hours is always required.

Yang Feng couldn't stand it, so he called Yang Rui: "son, come here to help. Let's change."

Yang Rui couldn't hide himself. He moved a small stool to sit down, picked up the kitchen knife and said, "is there no machine to stir the stuffing? I remember that there seems to be one in my uncle's house. You can stir up the meat by turning it with your hand. "

"That's a big machine made by your uncle and his factory last year. He wants to give us one. Your father says it's not delicious." Rui Ma laughed and said: "I also think hand chop is delicious."

"Dad's right." Yang Rui glances at his father.

Comrade Yang Feng, with a wooden face, pounded the cutting board with a kitchen knife.

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During the Spring Festival in the countryside, the sound of firecrackers will not be heard until the fourth and fifth day of junior high school.

Of course, three five from time to time, there will be a separate sound of firecrackers, it is the bear children to the bundle of firecrackers to break up, one by one lit.

In order to find the firecrackers that couldn't be set off first, some bear children did not hesitate to risk being blown up and went under the crackling firecrackers to look for the firecrackers.

Yang Rui has more than once dragged the bear child out of the firecrackers. In order to avoid this kind of risk, he often chooses an earlier or later time to shoot. However, even if he delays too late, the bear child who listens to the sound of the firecrackers will still rush to the nearest place at the moment of the firecrackers, Will be committed to the spark without hesitation.

Fortunately, after the second year of junior high school, when there was no need to set off firecrackers, Yang Rui simply scattered the rest of the firecrackers to the children in the compound, and instantly became the most popular man.

However, in the eyes of Comrade Yang Feng, Yang Rui is still just a boy and an important show off prop.

According to the custom of xizhaizi village, from the third day of junior high school, Yang Rui followed his parents to the county town and the city to pay New Year's greetings, and his identity immediately changed into the top figures in the legend

Other people's children!If we say that the class number one is bronze "other people's children", the age number one is silver "other people's children", and the gold "other people's children" who have provincial and municipal level awards, the top science students in the national college entrance examination have simply crossed the platinum, diamond and Amethyst levels, and directly excelled the God level "other people's children".

In Nanhu city or Xixian County, Yang Rui's "children of other people's families" are absolutely invincible when they meet gods and kill Buddhas.

In the face of Yang Rui, the national champion of Peking University, we can't even talk about the three good students, the squadron leader of the two bars, the squadron leader of the three bars, the key class of No.

His light can shoot you - a few years later, the man who was defeated by the God level "other people's children" recalled this scene, full of memories, full of pain and cracks.

Yang Rui, who has been pushing all the way, is not tired of eating other people's white cut chicken, picking up other people's spicy snails and drinking other people's soft drinks. After all, his work is very simple.

Generally speaking, the beginning of new year's greetings is that Yang Rui is in charge of eating, and his parents are in charge of chatting. When the "adults" get bored, it's up to Yang Rui.

Rui Ma often asked: "Oh, your Xiaoming is so good, how about the final exam."

At this time, Xiao Ming, a student of scum level, will be reprimanded by his parents, and Xiao Ming, a student of bully level, will be directly pushed out: "come and tell your uncle and aunt."

But no matter what Xiao Ming said, he will eventually come into contact with Yang Rui's light: "study hard, and then like Yang Rui, take the university entrance examination, go to Peking University, and win the national champion!"

The peak of showing off appeared on the sixth day of junior high school. The middle-level officials at the municipal level organized a group meeting, mainly the leaders of the weaker and stronger municipal bureaus, as well as the leaders of some counties and towns to pay New Year's greetings to the municipal leaders. The advantage of doing so is to reduce the burden on the leaders, These middle-level leaders, who had no chance or qualification to pay New Year's greetings to city leaders, could at least be familiar with each other.

In previous years, Yang Feng was isolated from such activities. He was old and qualified, but his position was not high. He was willing to be a tightwad and even didn't want to go to the city.

But in the Spring Festival of 84, Comrade Yang Feng was invited unexpectedly.

Yang Rui was also asked to participate.

This time, however, Comrade Yang Feng was stabbed by the light of his own children. When he came home, he was proud and disheartened and muttered to his wife, "I'm going to be admitted to Peking University."

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