The Great Era of Rebirth: 1993

   Chapter 16, New Years Eve

   The sweet potato rice was not cooked, and the rice was damaged. When Ruan Dezhi saw later Ruan Dezhi took a kitchen knife and wanted to peel a mouse for cooking, he was so angry that he went back to his room and fell asleep.

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   There was no snoring during the day, Zhang Xuan slept very comfortably this time, and it was past twelve noon when he woke up again.

   It was still windy and raining outside, and there were far fewer pedestrians on the road than in the morning. All the tired birds hurried home to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner.

   As soon as he got up and took a bite at lunch, Ruan Xiuqin assigned him a task to go to the house of the leader of the growth team across the river to divide the fish.

   There is a phenomenon in Shangcun, each production team has its own public fish pond, which is then contracted to individuals. It is expressly stipulated that no matter who is the contractor, regardless of profit or loss, every year, each person in the production team can be divided into half a catty of fish according to the household registration book.

   For example, there are 4 people in the old Zhang family's household registration book, and they can get 2 catties of fish for free every time in recent years.

   The river is not far from the gate, the straight-line distance is about 300 meters, and the detour across the bridge is not more than 500 meters. When Zhang Xuanzhang arrived with the black cloth umbrella, the production team leader's family was overcrowded, and all the miscellaneous things came to divide the fish.

   Explain the purpose of your visit, as long as you sign and sign, you will get 2 catties of fish.

   After signing, I went to the big bathtub to pick and choose, and finally picked a grass carp that weighed 2 jin and 8 taels.

  The production leader is his own family, his cousin, took a look at the steel scale and said, "I have to pay an extra 8 taels."

   Zhang Xuan nodded and said yes.

   At this moment, my uncle and wife came over and swiftly passed a grass rope through the fish's gills, and then stuffed it into Zhang Xuan, saying that it was all from his own family, so he didn't need to give extra money.

  Uncle Tang is a stingy person, so he was a little anxious, but after receiving the cannibalistic eyes of his daughter-in-law, he had to take a deep breath of dry smoke and watch Zhang Xuan carry the fish away.

   In fact, he just wanted to disgust this petty cousin, so when he got home, he asked the eldest sister to send the money.

  The old Zhang family is poor, but he has to be strong, right? It's not hundreds of thousands of tens of thousands, how can you go to shame? Simply bad reputation.

  Ouyang Yong, as the prospective son-in-law, came to present the New Year sacrifice in the afternoon according to the custom. The standard three lives: chicken, fish, and meat.

  The chicken is a big red rooster weighing seven pounds, and the cockscomb is red and pleasing; the fish is also a large grass carp with a weight of more than 5 pounds, and there is a lot of pork, which is no less than 4 pounds by visual inspection.

   Willing to! atmosphere!

   This eldest sister is married to the Ouyang family. You must know that Zhang Xuan has never seen Yang Ende so lavish in his last life.

   It's not that he is greedy for small business and small profits, but if you give a New Year's festival, are you embarrassed to give away half of the chicken and seven taels of meat? But Yang Ende did just that. It was a big scandal in Shangcun, and it was passed down as a classic topic by outsiders for decades.

   In previous years, Zhang Xuan helped to kill chickens and cook, but this year there was more Ruan Dezhi, Ruan Xiuqin forced him back to his room to read.

   I don’t have the right to freedom anymore. It’s New Year’s Eve, I just want to relax, can’t I? Sitting on the bench, Zhang Xuan complained to Zhou Huimin in the tone of speaking with his wife.

   Zhou Huimin on the wall didn't talk to him, she just smiled brightly at him, obviously not wanting to eat raw rice between her in-laws and her husband...

   In the evening, the clouds are shrouded in clouds, the fog is lingering, the mountain wind blows, and the weather is getting colder, which is a bit like Chinese New Year.

   After six o'clock, Ruan Xiuqin urged Zhang Xuan to take a bath, and then brought him a pair of brand new self-made cloth shoes with melaleuca soles and a new set of clothes, which he happily asked him to put on.

   This is a fixed drama every year, called a new look. No matter how poor or hard the family is, Ruan Xiuqin will stick to it.

Don't hurry up, don't hurry up, at seven o'clock, the old Zhang family lit the firecrackers on time, and saw Ruan Xiuqin knelt down and worshipped at the shrine with three incense sticks. Ancestors bless good weather and prosperity...

   In the end, she always specially greeted her deceased husband and eldest son to eat more and better, and also instructed the father and son not to quarrel with others in the underworld.

   Twelve bowls of New Year's Eve dinner are called Yueyuehong in the village.

   Chicken, fish, and meat are a must. Egg rolls, pig blood meatballs and stewed radish are not absent every year. The other dishes are just looking together, and enough for 12 bowls.

  If the family is really poor, scooping two bowls of each dish is fine, anyway, that’s what the old Zhang family did. Ruan Xiuqin couldn't get enough of 9 dishes, and she still scooped up heavy samples later.

   At the request of Comrade Ruan Xiuqin, each dish must be eaten with a chopstick, saying it is a blessing.

  Especially to eat more tofu fish, there is more than enough every year, the meaning is very good.

  The lucky and unlucky Zhang Xuan didn't know, he ate quite well anyway, with sweet wine and vegetables, and his mouth was full of oil. This was the most comfortable time he had eaten after his rebirth.

  I got two red envelopes tonight, Ruan Xiuqin gave two yuan and Ruan Dezhi twenty-two, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is meat, Zhang Xuan pretended to be very happy to receive it, and then consciously secretly stuffed it into his mother.

  No, no! She will find an excuse to go back in a few days, since childhood to the new year, it would be better to learn more about it earlier.

  No mobile phone, no TV, no entertainment program. After the New Year's Eve dinner, the four of them gathered around a charcoal brazier to bake on the fire, eat sunflower seeds and peanuts, talk, and prepare to keep the New Year's Eve until 12 o'clock.

   Later, the power went out. Fortunately, Ruan Xiuqin, who was not surprised, prepared a red candle. This time, she set two candles.

  At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, while the Zhang family was happily discussing Zhang Ping's dowry for next year's marriage, there was a noise from the old courtyard house 400 meters away along the road, the sound of fighting, and then it turned into crying...

   The piercing voice was so loud that almost all of the 3,000 households in the entire Upper Village heard it.

   Zhang Xuan was a little bit of an afterthought. At this moment, based on his memory, he thought about this absurd thing.

  If the memory of being late is not wrong: on this New Year's Eve, when the old and the new year are over, there are two families who fight for the sake of luck and the first well water that reaches 12 o'clock in the New Year, and accidentally kill someone.

   It was the sister-in-law who beat the younger brother to death.

   Actually, Zhang Xuan knows that the reason why the fight is so fierce is that there are hidden feelings in it, and it is not a simple fight for well water.

   It is also unbelievable to say that the real reason behind it is that the sister-in-law and the younger brother have an affair and have feelings.

   But after the two had been fornicating for about half a year, the younger brother felt ashamed of the elder brother, and proposed to his sister-in-law to break up.

  But the sister-in-law is completely in love with this younger brother, and she is unwilling to live or die. For this reason, my sister-in-law begged my brother many times to get back together, but all of them were rejected, so love gave rise to hate.

   Then, when digging well water this time, he made an excuse to be very angry, and deliberately hit his brother's temple with a pole.

  ! Good guy, a deadly move!

   There was a lot of noise outside, and many people who were full and had nothing to do rushed there.

   Ruan Xiuqin didn't allow a few people to watch the fun, saying that the New Year's Eve was afraid of getting bad luck, so the old Zhang family of four went up to the gate for a meeting, and from time to time gossip and gossip with the surrounding neighbors.

Sure enough, it didn't take long to see a group of people hurriedly rushing to the town hospital carrying bamboo chairs. On the bamboo chairs was a thick quilt, and under the quilt lay a young man in his twenties. brain.

   "Go in." After watching it for a while, Ruan Xiuqin felt a little depressed, she pushed the three of them in. Then, seeing that the wind was too strong, she closed the door again and set the door bolt horizontally.

   But less than 20 minutes after entering the house, someone went from house to house to inform that the person was dead, and when they were brought back to pass everyone's door, they all came out to set off firecrackers.

   In fact, this is an old custom. Wherever the dead pass, people will take the initiative to set off a firecracker to see them off, but it will not be set in vain. Afterwards, they will get a towel and a pack of cigarettes.

On New Year's Eve, Ruan Xiuqin and Ruan Dezhi were sitting together to reminisce about the past, talking about past events, and talking about childhood innocence. The two seemed to have endless things to say. Later, the interest came, and they also added meals, and each drank more than a bowl of soju.

   At this time, Zhang Ping also joined in the fun, half a bowl of soju went down, her face and neck were redder than the monkey's butt, swaying, swaying, and finally she shrank under the table, drunk and unconscious.

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