The Era of Hard Work

On New Year's Eve, the old village of Lujia Village was crowded with people and it was very lively.

The official Daoji with a long history seems to be back again.

Stimulated by favorable measures such as free booth fees and sanitation fees, and free gifts when going to the market, after nearly 20 times in more than three months, the Lujia Village Fair has gained a certain popularity.

During the Chinese New Year, there will be more people gathered.

From the bridge between Lujia Village and Majia Village in the north, all the way south to the south entrance of the village, there are many stalls.

Even on the east-west main road, the stalls are placed near Lujiacun Primary School.

In the temporary empty place, the firecracker sellers hung up and hung up the firecrackers and set them off non-stop. From time to time, two kickers would shoot up into the sky, flying into the sky and exploding.

There are fewer people on the east-west road, and Song Na, who came to the market early in the morning, asked Lu Dong, "How is the profit of firecrackers now?"

Lu Dong hasn't been in this business for a long time, and shook his head: "I don't really know."

Next to him, Li Wenyue took over the words: "The upper management is very strict, and the certificate is difficult to handle. Compared with your year, the profit is much lower."

Song Na put both hands in the pocket of the down jacket: "I was lucky that year, but I didn't hear that the higher-ups wanted to verify it, so I didn't dare to do it."

A car came from the west and headed towards the parking lot in front of the old village.

"Who is this?" Song Na asked: "There are so many people in the market, and they even drove their cars into the market."

Fortunately, the East-West Road is much wider than Laoji Street, and the crowds give way, and the cars pass through the middle of the road more easily. If this is on Laocunji Street, Daji Road must be blocked.

Lu Dong patted the ashes on his coat, and said helplessly, "Uncle Seven's new car."

Song Na asked again: "Uncle Qi also bought a new car?"

Lu Dong replied, "I bought it during the New Year's Eve."

"Let's go and have a look." Song Na saw Uncle Qi drive the car to the parking lot.

Li Wenyue pointed to the south: "Wait a while, Liu Linlin is here."

Song Na looked over there, there were quite a lot of people at the south entrance of the village, Liu Linlin was pushing her bicycle, she didn't squeeze into the crowd, she came from the exit of the parking lot at the south, followed by a girl who was taller than her, but she met her at the Hamburg Emperor some time ago Liu who has passed will recruit again.

Liu Linlin saw the three of them and came over to greet them one by one.

"There are quite a lot of people, and there are also many sellers." Liu Linlin locked the bicycle.

"Most of them sell vegetables, clothes, and daily necessities outside." Song Na took the conversation, looking familiar: "All the interesting ones are on Laoji Street."

Liu Linlin glanced at Lu Dong and Li Wenyue. These two were talking to Liu Zaizhao, and she responded briefly: "I used to come here often, and the changes are really great."

Song Na pulled down the brim of her hat to block the falling sunlight: "The old village has been relocated."

Liu Linlin nodded slightly and did not speak any more.

Lu Dong asked Liu about recruiting holiday workers, especially the payment of wages, and greeted everyone: "Let's go around the street."

A few people walked towards the exit of the parking lot, but within a short distance, a group of people in front almost blocked the entrance and exit on the north side of the parking lot.

Lu Jianren's car was parked nearby, and many people came to see what was new.

Someone went over and patted the front of the car: "Zuo Shandiao, what kind of car did you buy? Bread is not like bread, and a car is not a car."

"Ma Laosan, you lack knowledge." Lu Jianren raised his hand and grabbed Ma Laosan's second slap: "This is called a jeep off-road vehicle, do you understand?"

Ma Laosan quickly withdrew his hand: "Jeep? Isn't it green?"

Someone deliberately said: "Lao Qi, are you calling the pit of selling cars?"

This is of course a joke, no one in the surrounding area knows that there has always been only a mountain sculpture that traps people, but I have never seen a mountain sculpture called a trap.

Lu Jianren leaned on the front of the car, which was much higher than the car, and said, "This is a Cherokee, do you understand? It's a car for off-roading! It can play with rabbits in the field!"

"It's at the big fair, why don't you come here by car when you catch a fair?" Ma Laosan was also a person who had a hard time with Zuo Shandiao back then, and he felt uncomfortable: "Old Qi, you deliberately want to show off?"

Unexpectedly, Lu Jianren said directly: "You are right! I just bought a new car that cost over one hundred thousand yuan. Of course, I have to drive it around. Let you have a look, or I bought this car for nothing?"

He patted Ma Laosan on the shoulder with his big hand, as if avenging the new car: "Ma Laosan, don't talk such nonsense, you can drive one if you have the ability, and I will clear the road for you from the bridge !"

Ma Laosan pushed Lu Jianren's hand away, and said, "I don't have the same knowledge as you, an idiot!"

There was a lot of laughter around, and the laughter was also mixed with envy and jealousy.

Why are these bastards in Lujia Village getting better and better?

Amidst the uproar, Lu Dong and his party came over.

Song Na was the first to go forward and said to Lu Jianren: "Uncle Seven, your new car is really impressive, it looks impressive."

"Really?" Lu Jianren couldn't close his mouth with a cheerful smile: "I personally picked your seventh uncle, and I have never been on a business trip. If you want to go out to catch rabbits and birds in the future, you can come to my place to drive."

Song Na said, "Cherokees can go off-road. If I go to the mountains, I will definitely ask you to borrow a car."

Lu Dong took a step forward and reminded: "Uncle Qi, don't block the door, you won't be able to get in or out."

Lu Jianren said: "You have a lot of things to do." Having said that, he still greeted: "It's all gone, it's all gone, there's nothing to see."

Ma Laosan pursed his lips and said, "You are the one who makes people look at the car, and you are the one who drives people away..."

Lu Dong and Li Wenyue said that they should leave the parking lot first and enter Daji, followed by Song Na, Liu Linlin and Liu Zaizhao.

On Laoji Street, there are many people selling Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures and things for the New Year.

The second grandpa sold his own writing and paintings, and Lu Zhending got some rings and bracelets he made himself, as well as whips and iron chains...

Liu Linlin bought some Spring Festival couplets, and Song Na looked at Lu Zhending's booth for a while, bought some rings and pendants, and seemed to have some ideas.

Lu Zhending knew Song Na and refused to accept money.

Song Na hurriedly gave the money to the old man: "Grandpa Zhending, I may have to trouble you after the next year. If you don't charge money, I dare not come to you for help."

Lu Zhending accepted the money and said, "I'll take it. Xiao Song, if you have something to do, just come and find me."

Song Na smiled: "Okay, wait until the end of the year."

Walking quickly to the small dam at the head of the bridge, Li Wenyue signaled to the front: "Lan Lan seems to be setting up a stall."

A few people went over to see that Lu Lanlan and two other people in the village who were her age had set up a thin wooden board with a mat, and put some small cardboard boxes on it, and the boxes were full of bugs.

Specimens of various insects.

Li Wenyue went to her first, and asked, "Lan Lan, why are you practicing stalls?"

Lu Lanlan put down the fried dough sticks in her hand and smiled brightly: "Make some money and buy good ones to eat."

This is not surprising. Song Na leaned over, took a look, and said, "Scorpions, centipedes, spiders... Lan Lan, are you sure you can sell them?"

Lu Lanlan said: "The grasshoppers, crickets, dragonflies, and cicadas are all sold out, so that's all that's left. In autumn, I ask Nail to catch more bugs. I want to make specimens. He is good, and he only picks scary ones."

Song Na deliberately smiled: "One Line True Biography!"

Lu Dong flicked her knuckles: "It's hard to catch anything else."

Liu Linlin didn't go to the field much these few years, so she asked, "Aren't the fields everywhere in autumn?"

Li Wenyue's family's land is still being planted, and said: "In the past two years, we have used herbicides here, which has saved a lot of money. There are fewer weeds, and some pests have been directly killed by the pesticides. Farming has saved a lot of labor."

Liu Linlin understood: "Grasshoppers and crickets are rare?"

Lu Lanlan said: "I heard Nail say that when he walked two or three steps in autumn, he couldn't find a bigger grasshopper."

After talking about the conversation, without delaying Lu Lanlan's practice booth, several people left.

Lu Dong asked Song Na: "Do you need help from Grandpa Zhen Ding?"

"Seeing his stall, I came up with some ideas, but I haven't made up my mind yet." Song Na said simply, "I'll tell you when I have an idea."

Lu Dong nodded: "Okay."

After getting on the small dam, we simply walked along the newly built embankment to the side of the big pagoda tree. The old village was uninhabited, and it was quiet and desolate, especially during the Chinese New Year.

If these old houses are left unoccupied for a year or two, they will be dilapidated.

Fortunately, Lujia Village will start construction on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

After talking about meeting Lujia Village, Liu Linlin asked Li Wenyue, "Are we still getting together this year?"

The first callers of the Alumni Association of Qingzhao No. 1 Middle School were Li Wenyue and Yuan Jing, and they organized it with the school later, and these two people are usually in contact.

Li Wenyue said: "Ju! Tentatively decide on the sixth or seventh day of junior high school. We have to look at the specifics. We need to ask the school for their opinions."

The alumni association has developed to the present, and it is no longer a simple gathering of classmates. It is inevitable to be mixed with many things, especially the school. I hope that the alumni association can bring help to the school at some point.

These are all normal. It is impossible for a pure classmate friendship to have such a large scale as the alumni association.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, Liu Linlin and Liu Zaizhao took the lead to say goodbye and leave. They still had to do some work such as posting Spring Festival couplets when they returned.

Song Na followed Lu Dong back home, gave some things away, and took some things before returning to the University City.

Because of Song's mother's old cold legs, Song Na's family still stayed in Wenyuan of Xuefu this year to celebrate the New Year.

In the middle of the afternoon, Lu Dong and Hu Chunlan went to Lu Jianguo's place to have a New Year's Eve dinner as in previous years, so they could help out if they went earlier.

This year when Lu Xia returned home, Lu Chun picked thirty night shifts. Tonight is very busy for any police station.

Just for fireworks alone, there may be more than a dozen police cases that need to be dealt with.

Lu Dong faintly heard the above mention that Qingzhao wants to build a famous cultural and tourism city, and environmental protection is the top priority. Someone mentioned a proposal to ban fireworks and firecrackers during the Chinese New Year.

This item will become a reality sooner or later in Qingzhao.

Of course, there are none at present, and fireworks are naturally indispensable.

Especially for Lujia Village, which just moved to a new village this year, New Year's Eve is an important moment.

When it gets dark, all the lights are turned on, and all kinds of lanterns and flickering lights decorate Lujia Village with colorful lights, showing a beautiful picture scroll of lights.

The two trucks had already driven into the yard of the village branch, and on the open space at the gate of the brigade yard, a rope was pulled up as a place for setting off.

Ordinary fireworks are set off at the gate of the courtyard, and fireworks continue to rise into the sky in the courtyard, bursting into clusters of flowers.