Chapter 308

New year's Eve, the last day of the lunar year, is the most important traditional festival for Chinese people. On this day, we should not only clean the house but also paste Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures and lanterns. Every family should prepare delicious food and celebrate the new year. Especially dumplings at midnight.

Aunt Chen, Zhou Xiaozheng and Lin Lishan, who had been sent home for the Spring Festival, were in the army all day. They were more and more busy. In view of the fact that their family can't make dumplings together on Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhou Jiao can only have breakfast on New Year's Eve and eat dumplings together as a reunion.

For this meal, Zhou Jiao packed five kinds of dumplings, including pork sauerkraut, pork mushroom and cabbage stuffing, shrimp, pork and pig meat stuffing, leek egg filling and beef dumpling filling. Each kind of dumpling is put a lot of coins, dates, in order to get a lucky.

The sound of firecrackers began in the early morning. In the courtyard, there was a local custom of military families from all over the world. The only thing that did not change was to stick Spring Festival couplets, paste New Year pictures and hang lanterns. Every family is going all out to prepare a wonderful new year's Eve dinner.

Zhou's family got up early in the morning, pasted Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures, hung up red lanterns, and after setting off firecrackers, the family gathered around to eat dumplings in advance.

Zhou Xiaozheng went to the army to arrange the duty personnel, and Lin Lishan kept going to the art troupe to arrange a performance, leaving Zhang Guoqing and his wife to take care of their children at home.

During the day, Mrs. Cheng stealthily takes Zhou Jiao to hide in her room to offer sacrifices to her ancestors, and then she takes her to the nearby canteen to make dumplings with military dependents. The old lady took the opportunity to drive her home to take care of her children before the package lasted for an hour.

Out of the cafeteria, children can be seen everywhere lighting small firecrackers, especially to the passing female comrades. The "bang" sound scared the girls and made the naughty children laugh. On that day, no one would speak ill of pranks, and the female comrades who had been teased, whether they knew or not, were all smiling.

The door of the Zhou family was open, and many of the children of the courtyard came back and forth. Close friends gathered in the living room. The boys chatted about the troops retreating from the peninsula battlefield, and each talked about internal information. For tonight's show dinner, they have lost the excitement that just moved into the courtyard.

Zhang Guoqing hugs the child with a smile. He doesn't make any comments. He avoids sensitive topics. In the living room, boys and girls of the same age are gathered together and there is no lack of topic. Obviously, they already have a hierarchy of superiors and subordinates, and the children with the highest positions in their parents' generation usually like to summarize.

The opinions of the second generation of children are affected by the environment, and chatting often concerns about political issues. They usually look very lofty and upright. Once they make friends, they really use their life to make friends. If they get along with each other to a certain extent, they will be very casual. To ask the other party to handle affairs is a word. If they don't do it well, they will start to scold each other and will not beat around the bush. Fang Fei, who has been working at ordinary times, will be dragged to the hotel for a meal as soon as they get their salary. They often have no money in their pocket by the middle of the month.

They are very clear about the inside and outside of the hospital. Everyone in the hospital had a fight. They broke their heads and blood and swore that they would not contact with each other when they were bullied outside the hospital. They would naturally unite to help fight.

Often there are primary school students in the courtyard. As soon as they say that they have been bullied by other yards, he shouts at random. At once, a group of big and small brothers in the courtyard come forward with people to fight for justice. Once there were a group of six or seven year old children who followed and yelled to beat ya!

Zhang Guoqing has been in contact with these people and the relationship between the two sides has been harmonious. Every time he sees them coming home, he has asked them to pour tea by themselves. They are not polite to come to the Zhou family now. If Zhou Xiaozheng is not at home, it is as casual as in his own home.

When they arrived at the meal point, they did not go home. A few people gathered together to touch each other's pockets. When they saw people coming in succession, they directly called for people to run to the service agency to get fish and meat and carry wine jars. Knowing that Zhou Jiao is ready, but they like to spend a few money in their pocket, which is fun. After drinking wine, I don't eat rice. I smile and eat dumplings with my stomach.

Roaring noisy to the auditorium assembly time point, leaving a mess, no one will clean up. Everyone held up the army, was covered in peace, closed the door and surrounded the auditorium.

The auditorium is completely new. The huge new year pictures of the president are covered with red paper couplets and hung with big and small red lanterns. Except for the front rows, the seats are reserved for the leaders. After the various age groups get together, usually a word not on the shelf on the partners today are also laughing.

Didn't you see many parents watching them? In educating children, the vast majority of soldiers directly kick their children with their feet. If they are trained and beaten in full view of the public, their faces will not look good.

Living in the compound, Zhang Guoqing saw soldiers whipping their children more than once. The children in the courtyard are estranged from their parents. Parents are busy with work, often not at home, children go to and from school in the courtyard, life has a nanny care, no nanny family three meals a day mixed canteen. As long as their children are safe, they lack communication with each other. Children, born 50 years ago, have not seen their father once or twice on the way of growing up. Where does the feeling come from?

This is the reason why he and Zhou Jiao's family received attention when they returned to the courtyard. Now people who see Zhou Jiao in the courtyard, whether young or old, call her Zhou's baby pimple. Two days ago, Zhou Jiao took exercise in the morning, and five or six-year-old children came to call her baby pimple sister.With the entrance of the leaders above, warm applause broke out in the auditorium. After the opening speech, it is a performance of literature and art. Thousands of times the same program to see people excited, several leading midfield exit are unconscious.

Zhang Guoqing smiles and nods at the old father-in-law who leaves. On that day, his father-in-law would go to the army to accompany the soldiers, and his mother-in-law had to arrange a performance around on the first day of the first month. On the new year's Eve when thousands of families are reunited, they can't wait to eat dumplings together to welcome the new year's bell.

Zhangjia village in Northeast China. At this moment, the new year's Eve that the children have been waiting for is finally coming. On that day, Zhang Guoqiang and his family gathered in the old courtyard to accompany Zhang's father and mother for the new year.

The two families gathered around the big table and started after Zhang's father and mother said a few words in accordance with the old custom.

In the past, Zhang's father would lament that his family had worked hard this year and would continue to work hard in the coming year.

Mrs. Zhang would boast about her daughter-in-law, encourage more people in the coming year, work hard after the spring, and run the family thrifty.

Zhang's father looked at the children in front of him with a smile. He said with a smile that today's life is getting better and better. He is very satisfied. Next, he will rely on their own efforts. Advise your family to learn to be satisfied and think twice about everything.

Zhang's mother followed and threatened that she was no longer a housekeeper, and hoped that her two daughter-in-law would take good care of the man's children in the coming year.

After Zhang's father started his chopsticks, he saw that the two sons below were busy taking care of the children. He remembered that his old son and his family were far away from home, and he was deeply disappointed.

This will be his old son at home, the first is to pour him wine, to his mother's vegetables, will also tell some jokes to make him laugh. From time to time he looked out of the house as if expecting their return.

Zhang Guoqiang, the second son of Zhang Guoqiang, braved the heavy snow in December to erect red lanterns in the courtyards of the county town and the village. He knew that his parents would miss the fifth grade on New Year's Eve. At the meeting, he joked that Zhang Guoqing and his wife escaped fast enough to save the lucky money for their children.

His words made everyone laugh. Everybody knows it's a joke. Since Zhang Guoqing and his family went to the capital, their packages have not stopped. Aunt Fang of the county town has been sending them to Zhangjia village in three or five days.

In addition to the children's cloth toys, Zhang's parents have all kinds of styles from cotton boots to hats. There are three sets of new clothes. Not to mention that Zhou Jiao knitted two sets of woolen clothes and trousers for the two old people a year ago. Before leaving, Zhang Guoqing had already given her children five cents.

"Xiao Wu is not at home. I really feel that there is something missing. I don't know if I'm used to living in Beijing? There are so many noble people there that we must not be at home. "

A thousand good things are better than one's own. After Zhang's mother left her old son's family, she fell asleep. In her dream, the old son was smiling and calling for her mother.

Seeing her worried, Zhang Guoqiang said with a smile, "Niang, you don't know our little five? That is to be popular wherever you go. "

As expected, Zhang's mother's spirit was shocked and she was very happy about her old son's past deeds.

Father Zhang couldn't help asking, "do you think Xiao Wu will really wait for work to come back? His godfather came over the other day, but he said that they would come back. It's very good for the child to send things without saying when he will come back. "

Zhang Guofu heard a laugh, "Dad, after 15 and the end of the first month, it's no less than a few days. I think Xiao Wu will come back at the end of the first month. Uncle Zhou must not give up his daughter. You, just wait for your old son to come back. "

Thinking of Zhou Xiaozheng's father and daughter's tiredness, Zhang's father and mother's laughter made him feel at ease.

After dinner on New Year's Eve, firecrackers blaring in the village. Xizi and his parents kneel on the ground and kowtow to their parents. Kowtow ceremony is very solemn, kneel on both knees, forehead kowtow, repeat three times. Get a person a hair of new year's money, happy they all hide in the house.

Zhang's father and his two sons set off firecrackers in turn in the three courtyards. The children are not afraid of the cold weather, and they gather a group of small friends to play with small firecrackers.

Zhang's mother and daughter-in-law began to cook dumplings. As soon as the dumplings came out of the pot, the children ran back. After the family had eaten dumplings, father Zhang didn't let the children keep up for the new year and let them all go back to the house. On the first day of the new year's day, the whole family will go to the ancestral hall and pay New Year's greetings to their elders.

In the main room, Zhang's father and his wife leaned on the Kang, chatting about the old things in a low voice, and kept silent until dawn.

At this time, the courtyard of the capital military region, with the countdown, the new year finally came. 58 years came quietly.

In front of the campfire in the square outside the auditorium, several art lovers played the accordion, the harmonica and the erhu, playing happy music. The onlookers were reluctant to go back and sing a loud chorus.

Ping'an was taken back by Mrs. Cheng early. Zhang Guoqing and Zhou Jiao look at the fireworks in the distance, forgetting all their worries and worries.

On the eve of 57 years, all the scenes in the courtyard became unforgettable memories of their life. Such a lively scene will never return, things are different, everything is over, and old friends are still sighing.

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