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 spare money on extravagant festivals without feeling wasted. The township government and other institutions are no exception. The small coffers that have been saved for a year are usually exhausted in the weeks before the festival.

Setting off firecrackers, dancing lions, and beating gongs and drums are mandatory activities during the Spring Festival in Hedong Province. Even when the situation was not good in the past few years, townships and townships would call on the higher authorities to organize these activities.

During the Spring Festival in 1984, the conditions in Xizhaizi Township improved a lot. At the very least, the people who participated in the activities could not only eat a full meal, but also get paid.

Folk cakes made of mung bean cakes, noodles, eight-treasure rice, etc. are still the protagonists of the festival. Although bacon and fresh chicken are also available, most of them are still good. Only those families with high income and small population can really eat them for a few days. For meat, farmers with a large population and low income often eat meat on the first day of the 30th day, and then eat the remaining meat until the 15th day.

As the secretary of the Party Committee of Xizhaizi Township, Yang Feng's family conditions are naturally the best in the village. Not only does he have a high income, but he can also save a lot of money. For example, the dragon dance team, the lion dance team, and the Yangko team, each team has to bounce and dance in front of the gate of the Yang family for a quarter of an hour when they pass by. Take as much as you want.

In previous years, Yang Feng was not polite. As the secretary of the party committee, his salary is only tens of yuan a month. If he can't find a way 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. The money was placed in the bank, and the monthly interest was higher than the salaries of Yang Feng and the other two. The mentality changed all of a sudden.

This year's Spring Festival, apart from the things from the village, Yang Feng returned gifts after receiving other gifts, and what was left in the end were all rare mountain products.

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

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

Comrade Yang Feng was miserable, and couldn't help complaining: "I said I wanted to find a nanny, but how did I look for it? I still chop the meat myself."

"My son has gone to school, and there are only two people in the family. What kind of nanny do you need? Besides, the nanny won't come home during the Chinese New Year. The minced meat should be finely chopped. It tastes fine."

Every day, Yang Feng waved a big kitchen knife in the hand holding the teacup, and he was sweating after a while. Nowadays, when people eat dumplings, they have to buy the meat and chop it themselves. It is really hard work to chop the thick chunks of meat into minced meat. It is usually the most important job for men during the Chinese New Year. The duration depends on the population, but one or two Hours are always needed.

Yang Feng couldn't take it anymore, so he called Yang Rui: "Son, come and help, let's switch."

Yang Rui couldn't dodge even if he wanted to, so he moved a small stool and sat down obediently, picked up the kitchen knife and said, "Is there no machine for stirring stuffing? I remember that there seems to be one at my uncle's house. You can turn it around with your hands and you can make it. The meat is shredded."

"It was made by your uncle and the people in the factory by themselves last year. They imitated the big machine in the factory. You want to give us one. Your father said that the one made by mixing it is not delicious." Rui's mother laughed out loud: " I also think hand-chopped is delicious."

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

Comrade Yang Feng put on a wooden face, banging on the cutting board with the kitchen knife.

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Chinese New Year in the countryside,

It won't be until the fourth and fifth day that the sound of firecrackers will be less.

Of course, from time to time, there will be separate firecrackers. It is because the brats have broken up the bunches of firecrackers and lit them one by one.

And under each string of firecrackers that were directly set off, you can also see the figure of the bear children. In order to find the firecrackers that failed to ignite first, some bear children did not hesitate to take the risk of being blown up, and got under the crackling firecrackers. Find a cannon.

More than once, Yang Rui dragged the brat who didn't care about the danger from under the firecrackers he lit at home. In order to avoid such risks, he often set off the firecrackers earlier or later. However, even if he delayed too late, the vertical The bear children who listen to the sound of the cannon will still rush to the moment the sound of the cannon sounds, and those who are close will throw themselves into the sparks without hesitation.

Fortunately, after the second year of junior high school, when there was no need to set off firecrackers, Yang Rui simply distributed 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 an important prop to show off.

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

Other people's children!

If the first class is the Bronze-level "other people's child", the first in the age is the Silver-level "other people's child", and the one with the provincial and municipal first-level awards is the gold-level "other people's child". , diamond, and amethyst three levels, straight to the god level "other people's children".

Within the scope of Nanhu City or Xi County, "other people's children" like Yang Rui are completely invincible.

What school-level three-good student, what is the squadron leader with two bars, what is the team leader with three bars, what is the key class of the city's No. 1 middle school, what is the undergraduate student of the technical secondary school student, facing the national champion Yang Rui of Peking University, he can't even talk about being beaten for a second .

His light can kill you——A few years later, the man whose heart was crushed by the god-level "other people's child" recalled this scene, full of memories, memories full of pain and cracks.

Yang Rui, who pushed along the way, did not feel bored eating other people's white-cut chicken, pinching other people's spicy snails, and drinking other people's soda. After all, his job is very simple.

Generally speaking, the beginning of the New Year's greetings is that Yang Rui takes care of eating, and his parents take care of chatting. When the "adults" chatting becomes boring, it's Yang Rui's job.

Rui's mother often asked: "Oh, your little Ming is so good, how was 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 top student will be pushed out directly: "You come and tell your uncles and aunts."

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

The peak of showing off came on the sixth day of the lunar new year. The middle-level officials at the city level organized a group meeting, mainly the top leaders of the weaker municipal bureaus and the second leaders of the stronger bureaus, as well as leaders of some counties and towns. To pay New Year greetings to city leaders, the advantage of doing so is to reduce the burden on the leaders. In addition, these middle-level leaders who did not have the opportunity and qualifications to give New Year greetings to city leaders can at least get acquainted.

In the past, Yang Feng was insulated from such activities. He was old and qualified, but his position was not high. He was willing to be a land tiger and didn't even bother to go to the city.

But in the Spring Festival of 1984, Comrade Yang Feng was unexpectedly invited.

And student Yang Rui was also asked to participate by name.

This time, it was Comrade Yang Feng who was stabbed by the light of his own child. When he returned home, he muttered to his wife triumphantly and discouraged: "Didn't you just get into Peking University?"

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