Time flies by like a white horse passing by.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the factory had a day off for National Day.
In the blink of an eye, it was the end of the year, the factory was on holiday, and Chen Liang's transportation team was also on holiday.
The two returned to Taolin Brigade together.
Chen Liang helped Song Jin clean the house before returning to his own home.
Next, everyone started preparing for the New Year.
Modern people have a much richer material life than 40 years ago in terms of what they eat, wear, use and play with. Every day is like the New Year, which is something that people in the past could not even imagine.
Changes in material life seem to have caused certain changes in spiritual life. Many people complain that the feeling of the New Year has become weaker and weaker in recent years.
Song Jin remembers that he was looking forward to the Chinese New Year when he was a child. As a post-90s generation, the era he lived in was much better than the 1970s where he lives now.
There is still some time before the Spring Festival, but every household has started to get busy early.
Clean the outside of the house and tidy up the inside. When the sun is shining, wash the bedding, sheets, pillowcases, curtains, etc., and queue up to take a shower in the public bathroom. After returning home, change into fresh clothes from head to toe.
At that time, her mother would take her and her sister to the market to buy new clothes in advance, and then let them happily wear the new clothes on the morning of New Year's Eve.
As the Spring Festival approached, her mother took her and her sister to the market to buy melon seeds and peanuts.
Then he took out the watermelon seeds and pumpkin seeds that the family had saved from eating watermelons in the summer and roasted them with her and her sister around the coal stove.
She and her sister cooked and ate secretly, laughing and enjoying themselves.
In addition, my mother would spend money to buy fish, eggs, meat and glutinous rice, which is used to make sweet rice.
On the morning of New Year's Eve, the whole family will get up early, and then follow dad, uncle, brothers and sisters to visit grandpa's grave.
After returning from the cemetery, we started to post couplets and prepare the reunion dinner.
Chinese New Year is inseparable from rich dishes. Every household is cheerfully preparing fried meatballs, fried pancakes, fried fruit and fried dough twists early in the morning.
Song Jin's favorites are his mother's signature spicy pork and pickled pork.
New Year’s Eve dinner is a great day for the whole family to get together and have a happy reunion. The dishes on the table are not available on ordinary days.
This evening, they could eat to their heart's content, so the happiest people were definitely the children. Their parents smiled contentedly as they saw the whole family happily gathered together, laughing and feasting heartily.
At that time, I looked forward to the Chinese New Year because there would be delicious food, new clothes to wear, firecrackers to set off, and plenty of time to play without any constraints... At that time, I was more looking forward to it.
I feel very happy when I wear new clothes. I don’t care about the brand or style of the clothes. As long as they are new, I will be happy.
At that time, firecrackers were not banned, and as soon as the Chinese New Year came, I couldn't wait to urge my father to take me to buy firecrackers.
Firecrackers, double-kick firecrackers, sky rockets, firecrackers, big flash firecrackers... are all very fun. There are also some fireworks that are more expensive, so people usually buy fewer of them and are reluctant to set them off.
Remember to magnify the flash, hold the wick between your thumb and index finger and light it. When it is almost burned out, throw it hard to a far or high place. A flash of light will be accompanied by a crisp sound, and you will feel so happy!
Of course, the happiest thing was getting lucky money. Song Jin remembers it was during the Spring Festival of the fourth grade when he received 100 yuan in lucky money, which was the sum of money given by seven or eight adults. It was almost a huge sum of money, and he made a fortune.
In order to store this "huge sum of money", he even asked his mother to knit a wallet with wool. He always kept the money in the wallet and carried it with him at all times, holding his back straight. Hey, what a rich man!
Song Jin lay on the bed reminiscing about the past, and fell asleep while thinking.
In her dream, she returned home, a modern home.
Everyone in the family is here: dad, mom, grandma, sister, and her.
On both sides of the gate are posted couplets with a bright red background and black and gold characters: Happy New Year with laughter and joy, happy gathering together to welcome the New Year.
Happy family!
At this time, the family was sitting at the dinner table. Grandma's face was rosy and you couldn't tell at all that she was already 82 years old.
Her parents seemed even younger than before she left. Looking at the two sisters who were still eating, their faces were filled with happiness and satisfaction.
Her younger sister, who usually loved to compete with her, was now whispering to her on the phone, occasionally giggling. The strong sisterly love between the two surrounded Song Jin, a harmony she and her younger sister had never experienced before.
"She" was wearing a beige thin sweater and a black skirt, looking intellectual and gentle.
The face no longer has the childishness it once had. Now the only thing that can be seen as familiar is that face, a mature and quiet face.
They couldn't see Song Jin, who was listening to their conversation beside them.
It turned out that "she" had done very well in the college entrance examination and was directly admitted to a key local university.
But the major he chose was no longer the foreign language major he had been thinking about before, but administrative management.
Now I am working in a foreign company after graduating from university. In three years, I have risen from an assistant to a small supervisor.
It can be seen that her parents are very satisfied with her current state, her well-behaved and gentle personality, and her stable and decent job.
My younger sister also got into university to study accounting and will soon be looking for a job after graduation. The two of them are currently researching where to go for an internship.
Song Jin felt that everything was familiar yet strange. These were once her closest family members, her parents who had accompanied her growing up for more than ten years, her sister who had slept in the same bed with her for more than ten years, and her grandmother who loved her so much. It was still the same face, but now she felt so distant and alienated.
She felt her legs getting weak, so she walked over to the sofa in the living room and sat down, looking through the glass partition of the dining room at the happy family inside.
The TV was on, and it was playing a variety show that Song Jin had never seen before, and many of the stars in it were people she didn't recognize.
She's been gone for so long...
No matter how hard he tried to restrain himself, he stood up and slowly walked to the door of his room. The door was open, and he could see the layout inside by standing at the door.
She likes blue. She went to another city for the high school entrance examination in her second year of high school. After the exam, she went out to play with her classmates. While shopping, she saw Awu sold at the night market. She liked it so much that she bought it.
She moved into her current house when she was in high school. Her parents let her decide on the room layout. She placed a silver-gray plush blanket on her balcony window, hung a layer of light gauze curtains, and placed a small round table on the window, with two carrot pillows, one large and one small.
The dolls caught from the claw machines are arranged around the edge, including Ali, Gray Rabbit, Piglet, Naughty Leopard, Peppa Pig...
Now they are all gone, and the bay window is clean without any decoration.
There was no trace of the past in the entire room, as if everything in her memory was just a dream.
She didn't go in again and returned to the restaurant.
Everyone took turns looking at it, and then again...
Close your eyes, then open them again.
She was still lying on her big kang from Northeast China.
Everything that just happened seemed like a dream.
Maybe I was thinking back to my childhood, and whatever I thought about during the day I dreamed about at night.
Song Jin comforted himself.
But is it really just a dream?
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