Hello, 1983

There are not many cans, so Liu Qingshan simply opened another bottle and distributed it to everyone.

At that time, canned food sold for one dollar more than one bottle, which was really not cheap, so children in rural areas rarely ate it once or twice a year.

As soon as I heard about eating canned food, of course I was excited. Those who were a little ill and suffered from minor calamities immediately recovered. The illness was half cured.

The remaining two empty cans were washed by Shan Xing, saying that they were kept as small lanterns during the Chinese New Year.

Seeing how late it is today, Liu Qingshan patted her little head: "Wait until tomorrow brother will make lanterns for you."

I came back from the mountain the next day and found that the fourth child was alive and kicking again. It seemed that the treatment of canned fruit was effective.

Liu Qingshan ate a few cornmeal pancakes and drank a bowl of sauerkraut soup. Shan Xing placed two clean cans in front of Liu Qingshan.

During the Chinese New Year here, children from every household will carry small lanterns and run from the East to the West.

At that time, there was a special colored small candle, about the thickness of a little finger and ten centimeters in length. The little dolls called this candle "kowtow", and I don't know what it meant.

Probably because it is relatively short, and the time to kowtow is finished, right?

Glue this kind of small candle to the bottom of the jar and bottle, use hemp rope to tie a noose at the mouth of the bottle, and use a small wicker stick to carry it, and a small lantern is ready.

But this is only elementary, and the small candles inside are easy to fall. Today, what Liu Qingshan made for his two younger sisters is more advanced.

The most important thing is to get rid of the bottom of the canning bottle. You can put the bottle out to freeze for two hours, then pour hot water into the bottle, and the bottom of the bottle will explode at once.

However, if you do this, you can't control the bursting of the bottle, and it often falls apart directly, and a canned bottle is scrapped.

Liu Qingshan had a trick. He pulled the cotton thread from the thread board, folded it back and forth a few times, and put it in kerosene to soak it.

Then wrap it around a little bit above the bottom of the bottle.

"Fifth, fire up!"

Shan Xing held a matchbox, ready at that moment, immediately struck one, and lit the string.

With a hula, a circle of cotton threads all burned.

The most critical time has come. I saw Liu Qingshan put the canned bottle bottom down and slammed it into a basin containing cold water next to him.

With a crisp sound, the bottom of the bottle fell off.

Take out the canning bottle, the fracture is neat and perfect.

Seeing Yang Hongying next to her, she was stunned for a moment: "San Feng'er, I didn't expect you to have this ability?"

After speaking, he asked the fourth and fifth elders, "Caifeng, Shanxing, can you talk about the scientific reasoning here?"

These two are still too young, of course, I don't understand, I just know that it has something to do with heat and cold.

Yang Hongying told them about the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction, and the fourth child really understood it, and asked with wide eyes:

"Sister, there will be cracks in the ground in winter, but they will disappear in summer. Is it because of this?"

The little guy can draw inferences from one thing, it's amazing.

Yang Hongying also patted her little head to show her encouragement.

Shan Xing next to him added: "Sister, Caifeng and I played glass balls yesterday, and one of her flower glass balls rolled into a crack in the ground."

While the sisters and sisters were chatting, Liu Qingshan continued to work. He used a saw to pull two wooden boards slightly larger than the bottom of the can. This wooden board replaced the original bottom of the bottle.

A thin iron nail was nailed into the middle, and a length of about one centimeter was exposed. This is for candles.

Put iron wires on both sides, and the iron wires pass through the cans, just to fix the cans.

Bend a small circle on the top of the wire to tie the rope, and finally connect a small smooth wicker stick, and a small portable lantern is ready.

Liu Yinfeng also came to help, and cut some big red carp and flowers and butterflies out of colored paper.

Decorate around the bottle to make the little lantern even more beautiful.

The other one did the same. After finishing it, the two little girls ran out with them, impatiently wanting to show the new toys to other friends.

"It's still light."

Liu Qingshan shouted, but didn't call them, and simply didn't care.

At this time, Lin Zhi had already made a big pot of paste, and it was already the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month.

The newspapers have been bought from the brigade, and they were all brought back from Spring City.

After pinching a bunch of them and placing them on the dining table, Liu Yinfeng took the brush head and began to brush the sticks on the paper.

Yang Hongying carried the newspapers she had finished brushing with both hands, and handed them to Liu Qingshan, who was standing on the bench, and let him paste them onto the shed one by one.

Paste the shed first, then paste the wall, this order cannot be bad.

The tape recorder on the cover of the cabinet was also playing an English tape, and Liu Yinfeng mumbled a few words from time to time.

Listening to English tapes at work, Liu Qingshan always felt a little awkward: "Elder sister, second sister, I'm almost falling asleep listening to it, can you play a song?"

Well, Liu Yinfeng was really worried about falling on his brother, so he changed a tape, and then Ingrid came out for a while.

She ruffled the long hair beside her ear with her hand and glanced at Liu Qingshan helplessly.

It was Yang Hongying who smiled and changed the tape again, and said, "Yinfeng, you can't just think about studying, and pay attention to the combination of work and rest."

Accompanied by the familiar whistle, a relaxed and happy singing voice with a hint of sadness floated out from the tape recorder:

On the banyan tree by the pond, Zhidao was calling out to summer...

Liu Qingshan remembered that this childhood song was released the year before, and it was unexpectedly spread so quickly.

It seems that the pace of the times has accelerated, and they have to keep up with the pace of development of Jiapigou.

Just thinking about it, as soon as the door of the house opened, there was la la la la, and the fourth and the fifth ran in with a large group of snotty babies, all of them holding cans and bottles in their hands, and shouting for Liu Qingshan to help them make lanterns.

There was another person who wiped away tears, Er Zizi, who was empty-handed and could not find a canned bottle at home.

At that time, not everyone could find idle cans.

Liu Yinfeng replaced Liu Qingshan, and the elder brother-in-law was in charge of brushing the sticks. Liu Qingshan was surrounded by a group of little guys. It was estimated that these cans were enough for him to make it dark.

This can't be done. You have to ask helpers to send Sihuzi to call Zhang Zhuozi.

This time, it was much easier, Liu Qingshan was only responsible for frying the bottom of the bottle, and the rest of the work was done by Zhang Shuzi, and the efficiency was greatly improved.

After making one, the little boys ran out to one, and ran back after a while. The little lantern was tied to a rope and picked up with a wicker stick.

The rest are simple, you can do it yourself.

In the room, the voice of the song's childhood echoed, and Liu Qingshan could also feel the happy childhood of the little dolls around him.

Maybe they don't have watercolor crayons and kaleidoscopes, but their spiritual life is far richer than the children of later generations.

Nature is their playground.

Do-it-yourself toys can also bring happiness.

And this kind of happiness is often something that money cannot buy.

"Brother-in-law, hurry up."

Liu Yinfeng's voice sounded in the room, Liu Qingshan glanced at it and shook his head.

I saw the elder brother-in-law holding a brush in his hand, brushing the paste, and reading the newspaper while murmuring.

The little kids also covered their mouths and giggled, but Yang Hongying taught them: "Don't laugh, how can you become a writer without this serious learning enthusiasm?"

In Liu Qingshan's view, the eldest brother-in-law and the second sister Liu Yinfeng are almost the same kind of people. The common characteristics of such people are:

If you are crazy, you will be successful.

After plastering the house, and then plastering the grandfather's, a group of people worked for a full day, and this was considered to be the completion of plastering the wall.

After the newspaper was newly posted, the lights were turned on, and the room looked bright and dignified.

"Post New Year's pictures, post New Year's pictures!"

Xiao Lao Si couldn't wait for a long time, holding the three-headed and six-armed Nezha, and he kept shouting.

"I said why the wall feels a little less."

Liu Qingshan muttered a sentence, there is no New Year picture decoration, it looks really awkward on the wall.

He still remembers that for a few years when he was a child, his family really had no money, and he didn't buy any New Year pictures for the New Year.

It was the mother who took a small piece of steamed bun and carefully wiped it on the surface of the old New Year painting.

The dust on the New Year's picture was carried off by the scum of the steamed bread, and the New Year's picture became bright and beautiful, just like new.

This year's New Year's pictures are also very much bought. Grandpa's house has a picture of an old birthday star riding a deer on the kang head, and a big fat boy holding a birthday peach, which is very happy.

"This sika deer is the same as the big deer!"

Shan Xing pointed at the sika deer in the painting, her face full of excitement.

"Deer is a symbol of good luck and longevity, so people like sika deer."

Liu Shikui also smiled and felt very satisfied with this painting.

Older people, who doesn't want to live a long life?

The little fourth tilted his head and thought for a while: "Grandpa, next time the big deer comes, you can also ride it for a circle, and you will definitely become an old birthday star."

Ha ha!

He gave Liu Shikui to Le De, hugged the fourth child, and kissed her on the cheek.

Another painting is of a fairy holding a plate of birthday peaches.

At first, Liu Qingshan thought it was the Seven Fairies picking peaches, but after Shan Xingyi read the name of the New Year's picture, it turned out to be "Magu Xianshou".

The little fourth stared at the fairy's face for a long time, and said a little puzzled: "Why didn't you see Mazi on this Magu's face?"

Are there fairies with pockmarks?

Even Yang Hongying was amused by her: "Magu is a fairy because she cultivated to become an immortal in Magu Mountain, not because she has pockmarks on her face."

After thinking about it, she added: "It is said that she even experienced three times when the sea became a mulberry field."

"It's amazing, how long does it take!"

Shan Xing also widened her eyes, very surprised.

"That's why it's a symbol of longevity. Generally speaking, for grandfather birthdays, we like to use old birthday stars; for female elderly people, just like our grandmother, Magu is the best."

Yang Hongying spoke in a eloquent manner, and even Liu Qingshan followed suit.

In this atmosphere, Yang Hongying suddenly felt: She really regards this place as home now.

After posting the New Year pictures of my grandfather's house, I went back to my own house and continued to post it. On the wall above the kang head, there was naturally the Nezha Naohai, the fourth youngest.

Seeing that the fourth child was using a feather duster as a fire-point gun, and Shan Xing was using a handkerchief as a messenger, Liu Qingshan grinned: "This is the beginning of trouble, isn't it?"

There were also several stickers on the ground, making the room even more beaming.

After dressing up with their own hands, the home has a new look, and it feels different to do it yourself.

Decorate life with your hands, isn't the taste of the year contained here?