Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 59 New Years
"Let me go, by the way, where did you put the firecrackers?"

"Well, it's on the cupboard, see?"

"What about the cupboard? Why didn't I see it?"

"The one at the door, look carefully."

"I saw it, I saw it, but I can't reach it. I'll take a bench to reach it." Zhao Wenzhuo took a chair and reached out to reach the top of the cabinet.

After taking out the firecrackers, he shouted into the room: "Xiaoyu, Xiaoping, I want to go out and set off firecrackers, do you two want to go together?"

"Father, I'm going, I'm going, you wait for me, I'll be out right away." Zhao Xiaoping hurriedly responded when she heard her father's words.

"Okay, okay, don't worry, don't worry, slow down, slow down, don't fall." Seeing Zhao Xiaoping flustered, Zhao Wenzhuo said hastily.

Zhang Yu had already packed it when he saw his little uncle going to get the firecrackers, and now he was waiting for Zhao Xiaoping with his little uncle, waiting for her to pack up and come out of the house.

While waiting, Zhao Wenzhuo took an incense stick from the drawer, put it into the stove and lit it.

After Zhao Xiaoping came out, her eyes lit up looking at the incense in his hand, she leaned over and said, "Give it to me quickly, I want to let it go."

"Here," Zhao Wenzhuo gave the incense in his hand to the girl who was waiting at the side, then turned around and told him, "Be careful! If you light it, run away."

When Zhao Xiaoping lit the firecrackers, both of them were amused. She was tremblingly putting the incense into the firecrackers with one hand, and covered her ears tightly with the other hand, and her body was still far away.I tried several times, but I couldn't get it right, so I slammed the incense stick at the firecracker again, and before I hit it, I threw the incense and ran away with a whoosh.

He ran to a distance and closed his eyes and covered his ears. However, he hadn't heard the sound of firecrackers for a long time. He looked over suspiciously, and only saw unlit firecrackers and two people who couldn't help but smile.

At this moment, Zhao Lei just went out and saw this scene. He was not as restrained as Zhang Yu and Zhang Wenzhuo, so he burst out laughing: "Zhao Xiaoping, hahaha, you are so courageous! funny!"

Zhao Xiaoping stomped her feet when she heard the words, and complained to Zhao Wenzhuo: "Father, father, look at the second brother..."

"Okay, okay, Xiaoping just didn't align this time." Knowing that if she kept laughing like this, the daughter would become angry from embarrassment, Zhao Wenzhuo hurriedly smoothed things over.

In the end, Zhang Yu picked up the incense sticks on the ground and lit the firecrackers, after which the family went to bed.

At five o'clock the next morning, Zhang Yu was woken up by his sister-in-law, ready to eat dumplings.

Speaking of dumplings, Zhang Yu, a northerner, said, "No dumplings, no festival."

In the north, we eat dumplings at Lidong, at Winter Solstice, at New Year’s Eve, on New Year’s Eve, on the first day of the lunar new year, on the fifth day of the lunar new year, and on the tenth day of the lunar new year…

Even the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals with exclusive food, you have to eat dumplings as a base!

Eat dumplings when you go out from home, the so-called "get on the car dumpling and get off the car noodles". When relatives and friends come, they will use dumplings as entertainment, and when they improve their lives, they have to eat dumplings...!
So for the north, life is full of dumplings, everywhere.

When the water in the pot boiled, the sister-in-law's house served dumplings. The dumplings were wrapped on the afternoon of the New Year's Eve, and there were a lot of dumplings at that time.Wrap a curtain and take it outside the house. It will freeze hard after a while. After freezing, put it in a clean tank outside.

Most of these dumplings are stuffed with cabbage and pork, and only a few of them are stuffed with leeks and eggs.

Speaking of which, Zhang Yu planted those leeks in the flower bed at the door at that time. When the weather was cold, although the shed was built with tarpaulin, because the flower bed was higher than the ground, the warmth retention of the tarpaulin was not as good as the plastic sheet of later generations, so the first When the snow fell, the leeks inside were a little wilted, and they didn't grow very much.

In the end, my sister-in-law found two frames, filled some soil, moved the leeks inside, and then put them on the top of the kang. This year, I was able to eat dumplings stuffed with leeks and eggs.

The little uncle here heard that the sister-in-law was about to make dumplings, so he took another set of firecrackers and set them up outside.

When I went there, I deliberately teased my daughter, "Do you want to let go today?"

It was Zhang Guifang who slapped Zhao Xiaoping's angry face and said, "It's New Year's Eve, what are you doing teasing your children? If you're really angry, how can you coax him?"

"Xiao Ping, you don't want to be angry when the Chinese New Year is over. Mother will remember it for you when he finishes the New Year. I won't be able to spare your father then." Hearing this, Zhao Xiaoping became happy again, and she was proud of Zhao Wenzhuo Raise your head.

"Crackling", the sound of "cracking" firecrackers kicked off, as if some switch had been turned on. The sound on their side had just stopped, and then it started again, without stopping for a long time.

As soon as the firecrackers of every household in the courtyard were set off, the children who had been waiting for a long time rushed forward to pick up the firecrackers that fell on the ground that did not go off.

"Don't grab it! This is what I saw first."

"Obviously I saw it first."

"Wow, there are several in here!"

"..."

A group of children almost started arguing, but it was finally stopped by adults. After picking them up, they like to throw them away one by one, or take out all the gunpowder inside, put them together, use a match, and put them away. Like fireworks.

For children, the Spring Festival is always a joy, pasting paper lanterns, and dismantling small red firecrackers and setting them off individually can make the happiness last for a year.

What surprised Zhang Yu the most was that Qi Gang came over and called him: "Uncle Xiaoyu, Uncle Xiaoyu, let's set off firecrackers together. I was lucky enough to pick up a lot of unfinished firecrackers today."

As he spoke, he spread his hands to show him today's life. In fact, there are not many, only eleven or twelve.

"No, you go out and let it go." Looking at Qi Gang's disappointed eyes, Zhang Yu felt a little guilty for no reason.

He took out a section of relatively small firecrackers from the room and handed them to him. When Qi Gang saw that section of firecrackers, he first smiled and then was a little frightened, "Uncle Yu, your sister-in-law won't scold you for taking so many firecrackers." Come on, put it back quickly."

Although he was greedy for the firecrackers in Zhang Yu's hand, but after thinking about his own home, he only dared to take out a few from the hanging firecrackers every time. Uncle Xiaoyu took out so many firecrackers at once, and something would happen.

"Uncle Xiaoyu, let me tell you, that's not how you get firecrackers, you have to smoke them, you can't get so many at a time." He looked at him seriously while talking.

"It's okay, I'm an adult, I bought this myself, don't worry, take it back and put it away."

Qi just took it in his hand, but still looked at him with some uneasiness, and he didn't accept it until he saw his seriousness.

There is also some envy. When he grows up, he will also buy a lot of firecrackers like Uncle Xiaoyu and set off all at once.

(End of this chapter)