Rebirth of Pig Raising in the Countryside

Chapter 78
The Spring Festival is a festival that has haunted Chinese people for thousands of years.

On this day, thousands of families across China are celebrating.

Throughout the year, everyone gets a complete relaxation on this day.

Every household, the sound of firecrackers.

In front of the big round table, chickens, ducks and fish are surrounded.

The children have new clothes, and the adults are always chatting and eating.

On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, have a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve.Everything is to show the importance of the Spring Festival to Chinese people.

On the street, the firecrackers have not stopped since around twelve o'clock at noon.According to legend, in ancient times, there was a ferocious beast with one horn and four legs, Xi, who went to the people's homes to look for food every time it snowed heavily at the end of the year.

Later, someone drove the beast away with broken bamboo.

Therefore, people have kept this tradition.

The Spring Festival is unique to China only in the whole world.Every New Year's Eve, every household puts up door couplets and sets off fireworks.

However, due to the impact of Western culture in China, many young people have gradually paid less attention to our own cultural festivals.

Christmas, Valentine's Day and other messy foreign festivals have survived in China in a deformed way.

Maybe, after a few years, our own festival will be forgotten by the new generation, maybe.

Even though it is [-] years now, foreign monks like to chant scriptures, and many young people are keen to celebrate Western festivals.

However, for Liu Xiaoming, his festival is only Spring Festival, not Christmas.

Only Tanabata, no lover.

In his words, 'I can respect these festivals, but whether I accept them or not is up to me. '

At noon, Liu Xiaoming cooked the most sumptuous meal this year in the rented house with the ingredients he bought.

There are four bowls on the table, although he is the only one, but he just put four bowls.

Among them, one bowl was empty.The other two bowls contained half a bowl of rice.

On top of the bowl, a pair of chopsticks are placed horizontally.Next to one of the bowls was a half glass of white wine.After Liu Xiaoming served all the dishes, he picked up a glass of white wine next to half a bowl of rice.

"Grandpa, grandma. Although your two elders have passed away, your relatives are my whole life's relatives. Today, it's New Year's Eve, and my grandson made a toast to your two elders."

After speaking, Liu Xiaoming poured half a glass of liquor in his hand on the ground.

Yes, Liu Xiaoming respected those two old people who raised him.

Three years ago, Liu Xiaoming's grandfather passed away, and his grandmother followed him a year later.

Grandparents raised Liu Xiaoming from the age of ten months to adulthood.

Without these two elders, Liu Xiaoming didn't know what he would be like now.

In China, during the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, it is necessary to sacrifice the elders who have passed away.

After pouring three glasses, Liu Xiaoming put down the wine glass, and respectfully kowtowed three times in front of the bowl.

Then, Liu Xiaoming stood up and sat on the edge of the table to start eating.

As for the other bowl, no one knows whose.

One person, four bowls.Liu Xiaoming's reunion dinner is over.

Afterwards, after tidying up the table, Liu Xiaoming started cleaning at home.Tomorrow is the first day of the new year, and the house must be cleaned today. On the first day of the new year, no brooms are allowed.

After cleaning up, it was already evening.

Spring Festival Gala, maybe we are bored now.However, it still does not hinder people's expectations for the Spring Festival Gala.

Not for anything else, just for the host’s words to wish the people of the whole country New Year’s greetings.

This sentence makes many people have a strange illusion that they are really celebrating the New Year with the people of the whole country.

After all, the country is so big, the only thing everyone is doing together is watching the Spring Festival Gala on TV.

Liu Xiaoming is no exception. He likes to watch the Spring Festival Gala.

He doesn't want to comment on the quality of the programs in it, because it doesn't matter whether it is good or bad.What matters is that feeling.

Many people say that the Spring Festival Gala is getting worse and worse, and they no longer want to watch it.

However, compared to the TV dramas that some people chase all night, the Spring Festival Gala is actually very good.

There is a Spring Festival Gala every year, and it is impossible to satisfy everyone.The Spring Festival Gala is not a formal party, but a meaning.

"It's a pity that no one gave me lucky money this year. I should be able to have lucky money at my age. If this is the case, then I will give myself a red envelope."

Liu Xiaoming couldn't help talking while watching the Spring Festival Gala sketch.

To be honest, the Spring Festival Gala is still a very high-level party.

Liu Xiaoming likes many programs in it.

What surprised Liu Xiaoming the most was that he actually saw Master Xing during the Spring Festival Gala in [-].Although Liu Xiaoming should have seen it originally, he had forgotten it.

After all, how many people still remember the Spring Festival Gala they watched many years ago.Liu Xiaoming likes a few words in the cross talk at the party

'I use the words of my dad's colleague, here are two gold bars, you know which one is noble and which one is dirty. '

'Don't panic if you don't go up, maybe heaven is down below. '

These two sentences are very thought-provoking.

Watching the Spring Festival Gala, eating melon seeds and fruits, Liu Xiaoming walked through the first year of his rebirth in this small room alone.

On the morning of the first day of the new year, glutinous rice balls are an indispensable food.

Tangyuan, also known as Yuanxiao.It is one of the many festival foods in China.

The glutinous rice balls filled with sugar, shredded potatoes and tofu are rising and falling in the boiling water, and their glorious appearance looks particularly beautiful.

Liu Xiaoming scooped up the overripe ones and put them in a bowl, then ate them.

"Unexpectedly, the glutinous rice balls I made by myself taste pretty good."

After breakfast, Liu Xiaoming got on the bike and left.

Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and Liu Xiaoming is going to pay New Year greetings.

First of all, Liu Xiaoming's goal is his father's house.

Although, the two parties have separated.However, Dad is Dad, and during the holidays, etiquette cannot be less.

Huaxia is a country that pays attention to etiquette.The stepmother Liu Xiaoming doesn't need to care, but if his own father doesn't go to pay New Year's greetings, it will be unreasonable.

When he came to the door of the house, he knocked on the anti-theft door that had never been warm to Liu Xiaoming.

"squeak"

It was Liu Xiaoming's stepmother who opened the door, although her expression remained the same as before.However, at this time, she was already much more polite, and she was no longer as sarcastic as before.

"Come in, your dad is watching TV inside."

It's strange that she talked to Liu Xiaoming, and the words were still so 'gentle'.

Liu Xiaoming knew the reason and didn't care.He took off his shoes and put on a pair of sandals next to the shoe cabinet. The cold feeling made Liu Xiaoming shiver again.

For the first time, this woman brought Liu Xiaoming a pair of cotton shoes that looked like Liu Xiaoming's father.

wear this. "

Liu Xiaoming changed the shoes silently, it was indeed rather cold.When he came to the room, Liu Xiaoming saw his father Liu Shu watching TV with a pack of cigarettes in front of him.A little smoke is filling the air, and there is a large plate of fruits, melon seeds and sugar on the coffee table in front.

"dad"

Liu Xiaoming's shout made Liu Shu look away from the TV, and when he turned his head to see Liu Xiaoming, there was a trace of surprise in his eyes.

"came back"

"Um"

"Well, let's have dinner at home at noon."

After hesitating for a while, Liu Xiaoming still agreed.

"Ok."

Hearing this, the stepmother Tan Mei next to her didn't object, instead she turned and went to the kitchen.Liu Xiaoming sat down on the red sofa.

"Let's smoke."

Liu Shu handed over a pack of cigarettes, which were still unopened.Liu Xiaoming remembered that he bought it himself a few days ago.

"Okay, why didn't you go to my aunt's house this year?"

Every year on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Liu Xiaoming, a relative of everyone, spends time together.

Usually it's the first year of junior high school, either at aunt Liu Ying's house or at sister-in-law Liu Xiang's house.

"Your second uncle didn't come back this year, so we each lived in our own homes."

"Oh"

"You made money last year, which is not bad."

This is a compliment, Liu Xiaoming has not heard his father praise him for many years
(End of this chapter)