Rebirth 1958: My Home is in Nanluoguxiang

After putting up Spring Festival couplets, every household starts making dumplings. This time, the dumplings are not only to be eaten tonight, but also to be kept for the first month of the lunar year, so they make a lot.

There is no need to worry about not having a refrigerator. In Yanjing during the first month of the year, the outdoor temperature is more effective than a refrigerator. Put the wrapped dumplings in the yard and freeze them overnight. They will become hard and even mice will break their teeth if they bite them.

In the kitchen of Lao Chang's house, water was boiling on the coal stove. The room was filled with mist, and the family was happily making dumplings around the table.

The main force in making dumplings this year is Chang Zhengyang, who has now won unanimous recognition from the whole family and is called the dumpling robot.

I saw him using both hands, and dumpling skins of almost the same size quickly appeared under his hands. When there were enough, he started making dumplings.

There was no other way. He was rolling the dumpling skins too fast. If he kept rolling the dumpling skins, others would not be able to keep up with the pace and the number of dumpling skins would only increase.

Several flat baskets in the yard were already filled with dumplings.

"Come on, same as every year, still seven."

At this time, Chang Baichuan took out seven golden beans with a smile and looked at Guo Huiying. After the other party took them, she wrapped them in dumplings one by one.

Chang Zhengyang glanced at the male and female. Isn’t the shape of the dumplings too obvious?

"Wow, it's golden beans again! I will definitely be the first one to eat golden beans!"

This is such a crude trick that only the third, fourth and fifth oldest brothers in the family believe it.

Of course, Chang Zhengyang had to admit that when he was young, he also believed that he was very lucky and could be the first to eat the golden beans in the dumplings on New Year's Eve every year.

Although little Pig is young, she remembers clearly the scene of being the first to eat golden beans on New Year's Eve last year.

"The dumplings are coming, eat slowly, be careful not to burn your mouth!"

There were plates of dumplings on the table. In addition to dumplings, there were braised fish, cabbage and pork stewed with vermicelli, chicken stewed with potatoes and mushrooms, braised hairtail, scrambled eggs with green garlic, fried bacon with green garlic, fried peanuts, cold pig ears, cold shredded radish, cold shredded kelp, and the things fried in the morning. The table was as hard as it could be.

As for vegetables, I'm sorry, vegetable greenhouses are not yet popular these days. In the winter, there are only cabbages, radishes and potatoes in the Yanjing vegetable market, nothing else.

"I ate the golden beans, Dad, Mom, Big Brother, Second Sister, Third Brother, Fourth Brother, I ate the golden beans!"

Everyone looked at the little girl proudly showing off the golden beans in her hand. Chang Zhengyang and Chang Wanyue had expressions of "as expected", while the third and fourth brothers looked disappointed and doubted about their lives.

Why?

It had been years since they had been the first to eat the golden beans.

Kids, you are still too naive. This is a completely rigged entertainment show!

From the very beginning, you were destined to be the runner-up!

After a lively dinner, more than half of the dishes on the table were left, which was rare.

It's not that everyone is reluctant to eat, but they really can't eat anymore. Of course, Chang Zhengyang is an exception. If he really lets go and eats to his heart's content, he can finish the entire table of dishes by himself.

The reason why so many dishes are left over is to be eaten in the first month of the lunar year, which means there will be surplus every year and a better life in the coming year!

After dinner, Chang Zhengyang took out a deck of playing cards and called He Yuzhu and his sister from next door to come over. The adults played cards while the children gathered around the coal stove, reading picture books with relish.

On New Year's Eve without TV and mobile phones, it would be very difficult to stay up all night without some entertainment.

New firewood was constantly added to the charcoal fire in the brazier. Finally, it was past midnight and everyone went home to rest.

Chang Zhengyang did not go to Yulong Mountain tonight. After returning to his room to sleep, he was awakened by the sound of firecrackers as soon as he closed his eyes. When he opened the door, it was still dark and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder after the firecrackers.

The first thing to do when you wake up on New Year’s Day is to go to your parents’ bedroom to wish them a happy new year and get red envelopes!

"Happy New Year, give me the red envelope!"

Chang Zhengyang stood at the front and took the red envelope from Chang Baichuan. He opened it and saw a big unity note inside, which he casually put into his pocket.

Chang Wanyue and the others were different. They were very happy after opening the red envelopes, and they had a lot more change.

The Chang family is unlike other families. Ms. Guo Huiying never confiscates the New Year's money from her children.

Not long after, He Yuzhu's brother and sister also came to pay New Year's greetings, and they happily went home with red envelopes.

Breakfast was dumplings and last night’s leftovers. The family ate and then went out.

It was still dark, but there were already groups of people in the alley.

If you ask people in Yanjing what they would do on New Year’s Day, it would be hard to say in previous years, but in recent years they have developed a new habit, which is to watch the flag-raising ceremony!

"Happy New Year!"

"Happy New Year!"

Amid the sounds of New Year's greetings, people came out of their homes like streams flowing into the sea. In the alleys and on the streets, they slowly gathered in the square and quietly looked at the flagpole in front of the Jinshui Bridge.

The huge square was quiet, no one was making loud noises, and even the most naughty children were quietly nestling in their parents' arms at this moment.

Little Pig, who usually laughs all the time, sits on her big brother's tall shoulders, looking down at the dark crowd around her. When she sees the envious eyes of the children of the same age, she is as proud as a little swan with her head held high.

At some point, the sound of uniform footsteps was heard from the city gate. After a commotion, the crowd quickly returned to calm.

When the loud national anthem played, the flag-raiser waved the flag vigorously, and a bright national flag fluttered in the wind, and the singing of the people rang out in the square.

There are old people, children, men, women, workers, farmers, soldiers, doctors, teachers, and students in the singing...

There was no one directing, but the singing was so uniform, resounding over the square, over Yanjing, and over the land of China...

Chang Zhengyang's eyes followed the bright national flag upwards. A hint of paleness appeared in the sky, and he seemed to see the glorious future of the ancient yet vibrant China.

When the national anthem ended, everyone looked at the national flag fluttering in the air and left the square unknowingly.

After the family returned home and rested for a while, they began to pack up and pushed the tricycle out from the corner of the yard.

Speaking of this tricycle, Chang Zhengyang bought it in early December. He and He Yuzhu borrowed the tricycle from the steel mill canteen. When they went to buy cabbage, they suddenly remembered that the whole family would go out to visit relatives in the first month of the lunar year. Riding a bicycle was too bumpy and it was inconvenient to put things. It would be more convenient to get a tricycle, which could also be used to buy cabbage, coal and the like.

So he found someone to exchange the ticket and spent a total of five hundred and fifty dollars to buy this tricycle that was 1.7 meters long and 90 centimeters wide.