After the New Year’s Eve dinner, it’s time to sit around the stove and “fry melon seeds,” “fry peanuts,” and “bake and wash the sand.” These tasks are all “single-handedly handled” by my mother. My father calls on our three brothers.

People fight "Fourteen".

On one side, they were frying "melon seeds", on the other side, they were playing "Fourteenth Fight", and on the other side, the "Spring Festival Gala" was playing on the TV.

At this time, the mother will inevitably "complain", "I am the 'long-term worker' of your family. After dinner, you play cards and bully me for being illiterate. It is late on New Year's Eve and I have to do this for your family."

That."

My father would smile and say, "It doesn't matter, the two of us will carry it. When I win the money, I will give you half of it."

Mother: "What if you lose?"

Father: "Old rules, if you lose, you don't get a penny."

Playing "Dou Shi Shi" is a kind of "characteristic culture" in our family, and it is also a "way of communication".

That's good. My cards are always not very good, either "not enough red" or "dry" (meaning the cards that I want to mess up are gone). I will soon lose the fifty corns. Xiao

Jie's luck wasn't good either, and he lost almost half of his fifty corns. Brother Jun even won ten or twenty corns by his own strength. The rest were won by his father.

The rules are like this. One corn represents a dime, and fifty corns represent five dollars. When someone loses all fifty corns, the game is over. This person needs to pay five dollars.

Redeem your fifty corns. Then continue playing. If there is one corn left and you have not lost all the money, it will not be settled. When everyone no longer wants to play, they will each take out the corns and count them until they have fifty.

It is your own capital. If it is less than fifty, you will pay as much as the difference. Similarly, in addition to the fifty capital, you will pay as much as you win. The winning and losing are balanced.

We played several games, and the winnings and losses were not big, just twenty or thirty yuan. However, everyone was in a high mood while playing, and those who won money naturally had high morale, while those who lost money were a bit silent.

Fortunately, my father is finally going to give out "New Year's money". This is a "huge amount of money", fifty yuan per person.

After receiving the money, my brothers and I happily washed our feet and prepared to go to bed.

There are also "rules" for washing feet. Each person washes with a basin of hot water, which is more "luxury". It is said that "if you wash your feet well, you will have food everywhere." I don't know when this came up, anyway.

I have been saying this since I was a child. It is also the custom there. It means that if you wash your feet on New Year's Eve, you can catch up with others for dinner wherever you go.

After everyone had washed up, they started to clean up and prepare to "take on the sky". The time point for preparation is at one o'clock in the morning. We must be in time for the "ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four" on the TV

, three, two, one. Happy New Year!" before.

To clean the house well, you need to pick up the dustpan, broom and put them away. Because according to the "rules", you are not allowed to sweep the floor with a broom on the first, second and third day of the Lunar New Year. In addition, you are not allowed to sprinkle water on the ground.

You are not allowed to pour water out. You are also not allowed to hit or curse others. In addition, you are not allowed to "cook and eat by frying". You should pay attention to "being harmonious and smooth".

The adults placed the Eight Immortals table in the center of the main room, placed the reserved pig ears and pig mouth, pig tongue and liver, sausages, cut pork legs, poured four glasses of white wine, and placed them on the table.

Put eight pairs of chopsticks, and then put two pieces of paper money on each of the four benches. Once these preparations are done, quickly light three pairs of wax and three sticks of incense and insert them on the shrine, on the ground and outside the door.

.And place the prepared large firecrackers in the courtyard dam. Wait until the countdown "one" sounds before lighting the fuse.

The sound of "cracking" firecrackers and "Happy New Year" sounded at the same time!

Then the sound of "catching the sky" firecrackers sounded from every household in the village at the same time. It was really deafening! Shocking!

It’s Chinese New Year! It’s Chinese New Year!

Everyone said to each other: Happy New Year! Then they silently made beautiful New Year wishes in their hearts.

I don't know what their New Year's resolutions are. But my New Year's resolution is a very complicated one, that is, I hope "the situation will become clearer soon." Because if the situation becomes unclear, I don't know whether I should "go" or "go".

Keep".

Father suddenly said: "The artillery fire this year is very auspicious, which is a good sign."

As for what the good sign was, he didn't say it clearly, and we didn't dare to ask. We were afraid that we would talk too much. If we asked the wrong question, we would get into trouble. Let's just think that our father is a "prophet of the unknown" and "the secret cannot be revealed"!

Everyone went to rest happily.

Xiaojie and Brother Jun were discussing where to play when they woke up in the morning. Xiaojie said: "Let's go to Tianhuang Temple to play. Brother, where are you going to play?"

I said, "Tennoji Temple might be crowded. I don't want to go."

Brother Jun: "Then let's go play by ourselves."

Mother said: "I will go play in the Guanyin Water in the Dragon."

Father: "I still follow the old rules and find a few friends to play cards."

Everyone basically agreed with each other about the arrangements after dawn, and then went to rest separately.

I lay down upstairs and fell asleep. Then I had a dream.

In the dream, for some reason, I was walking on a very wide dirt road. It felt like it must be a hot day. Because I was still wearing short-sleeves and shorts, and a pair of black sandals on my feet.

I walked on this dirt road and it felt soft. It turned out that there was a very thick layer of ash on the dirt road, and very fine and very fine. Dust as fine as flour, and it was also yellow in color.

It feels good when I walk on it, because the fine dust covering my feet feels a little warm.

But when I looked up, I saw rolling low hillsides, one after another, seemingly endless. Then there was no tree anywhere, and there were unknown weeds growing randomly everywhere.

There was a very wide river on one side of the road, but it didn't feel like the water flow was big because I didn't hear the sound of running water. When I saw the river, I suddenly felt very hot. I hurriedly walked to the river.

Wow! The river water is really freezing cold! Quickly retreat to the river bank. Look up at the sky again! It feels like the sky is very close here! The sky is the cleanest and bluest sky I have ever seen since I was a child. Even

The white clouds in the sky are also large and very white. They look like huge marshmallows!

Maybe it’s cooler by the river, right? Or maybe I need to go somewhere! Anyway, I’m back on the dirt road again. Just as I was walking leisurely along the dirt road, suddenly, someone was rushing from behind me.

Passed an off-road vehicle.

The off-road vehicle drove by, bringing up billows of dust. It was like a heavy yellow fog, blocking my sight and making me cough. Moreover, my whole body was covered with dust as fine as flour.

Just when I wanted to curse a curse word in my heart, I woke up.

It turns out that this is just a dream. But the scene in the dream is so real. However, I have never been to this place. I have never seen it anywhere. What kind of place is this? What is this dream?

What does it mean?
Chapter completed!