The Spring Festival in the township has always been lively. Villagers who have been busy for a year are often willing to spend all their surplus money on extravagant festival celebrations without feeling wasted. Township governments and other institutions are no exception, and the small coffers that have been saved for a year are usually depleted in the weeks leading up to the holidays.

Firecrackers, lion dances, gongs and drums are must-have events during the Spring Festival in Hedong Province, and even when the situation was bad in previous years, the townships and towns would fight the autumn breeze to the higher authorities to organize these activities.

During the Spring Festival of 84, the conditions in Xizhaizi Township were much better, at least because the people participating in the activities could not only eat a full meal, but also receive remuneration.

Mung bean cake, noodles, eight treasures of rice and other folk pastries made of grain, is still the protagonist of the festival, although there are bacon fresh chickens, but most of them are still the same goods, only those families with high income and small population can really eat meat for a few days, the farmers with more population and less income often eat meat at the beginning of the thirties, and then eat the rest of the meat to see fifteen.

As the secretary of the township party committee of Xizhaizi Township, Yang Feng's family conditions are naturally the best in the township, and he not only has a high income, but also saves a lot of money. For example, the dragon dance team, the lion dance team and the Yangge team, each team passed by, and they had to jump in front of the gate of the Yang family for a quarter of an hour.

In previous years, Yang Feng was unkind. He is the secretary of the party committee, and his salary is dozens of yuan a month, if he doesn't want to get something, he will be really poor.

This year is different.

Yang Rui sent some money home, all of which were legal remuneration endorsed by Jielikang, and the money was placed in the bank, and the interest every month was higher than Yang Feng's salary, although it was not necessarily necessary to spend it, but people's psychology changed all of a sudden.

During the Spring Festival of this year, Yang Feng returned the gifts after receiving other gifts in addition to the things sent by the township, and what was left in the end were all rare mountain goods.

The first sip of soup that Yang Rui drank when he went home was roasted with mushrooms, which was fresh and fragrant.

Rui's mother was happy when she saw that her son was drinking well, and immediately mobilized her husband to start making dumplings.

Comrade Yang Feng was so miserable that he couldn't help complaining: "I said that I wanted to find a nanny, how to find it, or I chopped the meat stuffing myself." ”

"My son went to school, there are only two people in the family, what kind of nanny do you want, besides, the nanny doesn't come home for the New Year, the meat filling is fine, and it is delicious. ”

Yang Feng's hand holding the teacup danced with a large kitchen knife every day, and he was tired and sweated for a while. Nowadays, when people eat dumplings, they have to buy meat and chop it themselves, and it is really a chore to chop the thick lumpy meat into minced meat, and it is usually the main work of men during the New Year, the duration depends on the population, but an hour or two is always required.

Yang Feng couldn't stand it and beckoned Yang Rui: "Son, come over and help, let's change it." ”

Yang Rui couldn't hide if he wanted to, so he obediently moved a small stool and sat over, picked up the kitchen knife and said, "There is no machine to stir the stuffing? ”

"That's what your uncle made by himself in the factory last year, and the big machine in the factory is imitated, and he wants to give us one, and your father said that it is not delicious. Rui's mother laughed out loud: "I also think it's delicious to chop by hand." ”

"Dad is right. Yang Rui glanced at his father.

Comrade Yang Feng had a wooden face and knocked on the cutting board with a kitchen knife.

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In the countryside for the New Year, the sound of firecrackers will not be reduced until the fourth and fifth days of the new year.

Of course, from time to time, there will be a separate firecracker sound, that is, the bear children dismantled the bundles of firecrackers and lit them one by one.

In order to find the firecrackers that failed to ignite first, some bear children did not hesitate to risk being blown up, and drilled under the crackling firecrackers to find the firecrackers.

Yang Rui more than once dragged the bear child who ignored the danger from under the firecrackers he lit, in order to avoid such risks, he often picked an earlier or later time to set off the cannon, however, even if he delayed too late, the bear child who listened to the sound of the cannon with his ears pricked up would still rush to the moment the cannon sounded, and if there was a close distance, he would throw himself into the spark without hesitation.

Fortunately, after the second year of junior high school, when there was nothing to set off firecrackers, Yang Rui simply scattered the remaining firecrackers to the children in the compound, and instantly transformed into the most popular man.

However, in the eyes of Comrade Yang Feng, Yang Rui is still just a boy, and he is an important prop to show off.

According to the customs of Xizhai Township, from the third year of junior high school, Yang Rui followed his parents and went to the county seat and city to pay New Year's greetings, and his identity immediately changed to a legendary top person:

Someone else's child!

If the first class is a bronze-level "other person's child", the first age is a silver-level "other person's child", and the gold-level "other people's child" has a provincial and municipal first-class award, the national college entrance examination science champion simply spans the platinum, diamond, and amethyst levels, and is directly a god-level "other people's child".

Within the scope of Nanhu City or Xi County, "other people's children" like Yang Rui are completely invincible when they meet gods and kill Buddhas.

What school-level three good students, what two-bar squadron leader, three-bar captain, what city No. 1 middle school key class, what secondary school students, college students, undergraduates, in the face of the national champion Yang Rui of Peking University, can't even talk about being seconded.

His light can shoot you - years later, the man whose heart was crushed by the god-level "other people's children" recalled this scene, full of memories, full of memories of pain and rift.

Yang Rui, who pushed all the way over, ate other people's white-cut chicken, pinched other people's spicy snails, and drank other people's soda, but he didn't feel bored, after all, his job was very simple.

Generally speaking, the beginning of the New Year's greeting is that Yang Rui eats, and his parents chat, and when the chats of the "adults" enter a boring state, it will be Yang Rui's departure.

Rui's mother often asked: "Oh, your Xiao Ming is really good, how is the final exam." ”

At this time, Xiao Ming, who is a scumbag, will be reprimanded by his parents for a while, and Xiao Ming, who is a scholar, will be pushed out directly: "You come to tell your uncle and aunt." ”

But no matter what Xiao Ming says, he will eventually come into contact with Yang Rui's light: "Study hard, and in the future, like Yang Rui, you will be admitted to university, go to Peking University, and win the national champion!"

The pinnacle of showing off appeared on the sixth day of the first lunar month, and the middle-level officials at the city level organized a group meeting, mainly the first leader of the weaker municipal bureau and the second leader of the stronger bureau, as well as the leaders of some counties and towns collectively went to the city leaders to pay New Year's greetings, the advantage of this is to reduce the burden of the leaders, in addition, these middle-level leaders, who originally had little opportunity and qualifications to give the city leaders New Year's greetings, at least can be familiar.

In previous years, Yang Feng was insulated from such activities, he was old, his qualifications were old, but his position was not high, he was willing to sit on the ground and was too lazy to go to the city.

But in the Spring Festival of 84, Comrade Yang Feng was unexpectedly invited.

Yang Rui was also named and asked to participate.

This time, it was Comrade Yang Feng who was stabbed by the light of his own child, and when he returned home, he muttered to his wife proudly and angrily: "Isn't it just that I was admitted to Peking University." ”

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