Although this New Year's Eve dinner was more sumptuous than before, Lu Xiuzhen and Lu Jianguo chewed wax together.

I feel unhappy and I don’t feel delicious when I eat anything.

However, it was just the two of them, and everyone else had a great time eating.

Especially the younger generations, they don’t have as much thought as their parents, and they are simply enjoying delicious food.

Lu Xinyuan and He Guilan had a great time eating and drinking tonight. Because they had another strong son, they would be even more gloomy when they spread it out.

Even Lu Ze's eldest uncle Deng Xuenong feasted on Maotai and even toasted Lu Jianjun and his wife in an attempt to get closer.

Being in the officialdom is a basic skill.

Even though he didn't look down on Lu Ze's family in the past, it did not prevent him from pleasing Lu Jianjun and his wife in every possible way.

He doesn't have the burden of idols like Lu Jianguo, nor does he have the low emotional intelligence like his wife.

Seeing that my second brother's family is about to get up, I must get closer. If you don't please me at this time, should you wait until the person finds that he looks down on me before taking action?

Deng Xuenong is not stupid, so he naturally knows how to make the most beneficial choice.

From time to time, he looked for topics and toasted his second brother Lu Jianjun and his family. Even Lu Ze was toasted two glasses alone.

His actions made Lu Jianguo and Lu Xiuzhen feel angry.

But Deng Xuenong didn't care and wanted to repair the relationship with his second brother and his family.

It is said that if you don’t hit people with a smile, your brother-in-law will take the initiative to get close to you, how could Lu Jianjun and Xu Fangping not give face?

After eating the New Year’s Eve dinner, we packed the table and served peanuts, melon seeds, frozen rice candy, as well as local fruits such as Nanfeng tangerines and Gannan navel oranges. We held a tea party while watching the Spring Festival Gala.

This is the tradition of the old Lu family for many years. After the New Year’s Eve dinner, the whole family will watch the Spring Festival Gala together.

Only at this time can the old Lu family calm down. Watching the evening party program, commenting or complaining from time to time, occasionally laughing a few times, and no one makes a fool of himself.

The 1999 Spring Festival Gala was an important milestone for CCTV Spring Festival Gala.

Feng Gong and Niu Qun, the two old partners, have gone from the 1989 Spring Festival Gala crosstalk "Birthday Wishes" to the 1999 Spring Festival Gala crosstalk "Look at These Two Dads". Each of them is one of the finale language programs of the Spring Festival Gala that year, and it is definitely the glory of the Chinese crosstalk industry at that time.

That is, after this Spring Festival Gala, the two parted ways and went their separate ways.

Feng Gong basically gave up crosstalk and started to switch to sketches, starting the classic opening mode of "I miss you so much".

This year is the year when Macau returns. The "Song of the Seven Sons·Macau" sung on the Spring Festival Gala is also a rare classic among the main melody songs.

"Do you know that "Magang" is not my real name?

I've been away from your swaddling clothes for too long, Mother!..."

In a sense, it is even better than the "Pearl of the East" in 1997.

After all, the lyrics of this song come from the poetry works of the modern patriotic poet Wen Yiduo.

The sketch queen Zhao Lirong is also the last time she appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage this year.

This highly respected and famous Pingju/skirt performing artist passed away in July 2000 due to illness, which made countless audiences feel regretful.

Another king of sketches, Mr. Benshan, with his old partner Song Dandan and Cui Si, presented the classic sketch "Yesterday Today Tomorrow" together this year.

Among them, Mr. Benshan's words "The spring breeze of reform blows all over the ground, and the Chinese people are really committed to it." More than ten years later, he has become one of the most popular ghost BGMs of countless short video players and one of the favorite ghost animals.

However, the songs of this Spring Festival Gala are very average.

In addition to Richie Richie's "The Girl on the Opposite Comes Here", other songs are not as good as two brainwashing songs that are a bit memorable.

One of the songs "Eighteen Bends of the Mountain Road" is the top divine song that will be popular all over the country this year. It is definitely a must-order song for many big guys who do engineering and are in KTV entertainment.

Another song "Go Home to Check It Home" has become a classic collection song for middle-aged and elderly parents.

Supermarkets and small shops like to use this song to attract elderly customers the most. Once played, it gives middle-aged and elderly customers a strong sense of intimacy.

This Spring Festival Gala is quite interesting, but starting next year, the audience will find that the Spring Festival Gala is getting ugly.

Classic partners are no longer there, language programs are bad, and songs are all cold-blooded, but programs such as dance and acrobatics are occasionally refreshing.

That's why I said that the 1999 Spring Festival Gala was an important milestone.

Watching the Spring Festival Gala program and feeling the atmosphere of the New Year, the old Lu family also had a lot of laughter and joy.

At about 10 o'clock in the evening, the hosts of the Spring Festival Gala began to report and read out some Spring Festival congratulatory messages. However, this moment is the time when firecrackers are set off in many places.

Like many places, Zhongling County has the customs of "closing wealth door" and "opening wealth door".

The wealth gate on New Year’s Eve and the wealth gate on the first day of the Lunar New Year are actually caused by the particularity of the God of Wealth.

You should know that during the Chinese New Year, such as the Kitchen God and the Jade Emperor, all received and sent him, but the God of Wealth only had the day to receive the God of Wealth, and did not listen to anyone who sent the God of Wealth away.

Everyone hopes that the God of Wealth will never leave, so it is known as "closing the door of wealth" and "opening the door of wealth".

As for whether the God of Wealth can be locked up, whether the God of Wealth wants to report to heaven like the Kitchen God, the people don’t care whether the God of Wealth will leave secretly and don’t care about him. At least in people’s hearts, the God of Wealth has never left, so there is a saying that “closing the wealth door” on New Year’s Eve.

As for the time when the wealth gate is closed, it is different from place to place.

Some are worshipping ancestors on New Year's Eve, some are around 10 pm on New Year's Eve, and some are at 12 pm on New Year's Eve or 00 pm on the first day of the New Year.

Many people in Lidu Town usually close their finances after 10 pm.

Set off firecrackers, ask for the God of Wealth, and then close the door and keep the God of Wealth. The whole family cannot open the door and go out all night, leaving their wealth at home.

It was not until the morning of the first day of the next day that the door was opened after firecrackers were set off, commonly known as "the door to open the wealth".

It's ten o'clock and it's time to close the wealth door.

Lu Ze took out ten thousand firecrackers from the cardboard box, pulled Lu Fei's little fat man, and went to the door of the yard to set off firecrackers.

The firecrackers were rolled up by a roll of ten thousand times, stretched out several meters long, hung on the bamboo pole where you were drying clothes, and walked around them for several circles and dragged some on the ground.

The little fat man Lu Fei has been addicted to game consoles since the afternoon. Not only did he not watch the Spring Festival Gala, but he was not even too scarce to play with the fireworks prepared for him.

Lu Ze hung firecrackers, lit a fine incense, and arranged for the fat man Lu Fei to take this incense to set it on.

In the village and in the town, every household lights red candles and incense during the New Year.

Especially in front of the tablets or portraits of our ancestors, the red candles and incense are thick, as thick as the children's arms.

This is a rule passed down in the past. It used to be for lighting and worshiping ancestors, but now it is more like a fixed ritual link during the Spring Festival.

So in the town, every household will have fragrances of different thicknesses.

Using this burning incense to light firecrackers instead of using a lighter is also an old rule and a quaint sense of ritual.

The fat little Lu Fei lit the lead of the firecrackers and jumped back immediately after being scared.

Ten thousand firecrackers were unusual. Not only did the explosion sound loud, but it took a long time to finish it.

With such sincere firecrackers, God of Wealth may stay for a while.

Otherwise, why should the people worry about how many firecrackers sound?

After setting off firecrackers and closing the yard gate, even if the "closing the wealth gate" ceremony was completed.

The little fat man was still waiting to go back to continue playing games, but Lu Ze grabbed him. He took out a few large fireworks from the cardboard box and let Lu Fei set it on the open space in the yard.

The fireworks themselves were prepared for this little fat man. Wouldn't it be useless if he didn't play with them?

Small fireworks are fine, and large fireworks are not played away. If they are put into the house, they will be a time bomb. What if it causes a fire.

Seeing Lu Ze and his brothers set off fireworks in the yard, their cousin Lu Shiqi also ran to the yard to watch it, and applauded from time to time.

As for girls, no matter how old they are, as long as they have not been worn away by life, they are naturally interested in things like fireworks, which are full of romantic colors.

As for cousin Deng Zhichao, he thought he was an adult and had never played with Lu Ze and the other two little kids.

After setting off the fireworks, Lu Ze's mother prepared a large pot of "stove" and brought it to the table, and served a bowl for each person.

On New Year’s Eve, you usually eat dumplings in the north and rice cakes in the south. But Lu Ze’s hometown is different, and you will eat a food called “红” here.

The "source" in Lidu Town is different from other places.

It's a bit like Hu La Soup, but the ingredients inside are much richer than Hu La Soup.

Put down all the ingredients such as mushrooms, fungus, tofu, bamboo shoots, tofu, water chestnuts, eggs, meat foam, cuttlefish, shrimps and other ingredients, add water and cook it, and then mix it with potato flour into a paste.

The ingredients added for the assorted "stool" you drink during the Chinese New Year should be richer than usual, and you can add more if you have the conditions.

Not only has ingredients, but also sticky. It can be eaten and drunk.

It symbolizes perfection, smooth sailing in the coming year, and no worries about food and drink.

The old Lu family, drinking the mixed soup, enjoying the delicious food, continued to watch the Spring Festival Gala, and secretly thinking about the new year with many expectations.

Everyone is immersed in the strong New Year atmosphere, without any family matters or trivial matters, and the house is peaceful. At this moment, it looks like home.

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PS: Chapter 2, there are two more chapters left behind, and you will walk a day.
Chapter completed!