In order to keep his classmates warm and for their safety, Wan Feng wanted to weld a carport for the tractor trailer and had to complete it on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.
Because they are going to Black Lagoon Market on the eighth day of the New Year.
The seventh and eighth days of the twelfth lunar month are not easy to celebrate. It is said that you can see people's frozen chins on the streets every day on the seventh and eighth days of the twelfth lunar month.
Wan Feng’s own chin definitely won’t freeze off, and he doesn’t want his classmates’ chins to freeze off either.
Therefore, on the morning of the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, he drove the tractor to the Gushan Machinery Factory and explained in detail to Xiao Dexiang what he was going to do.
He wanted to make an iron carport and an iron box.
Wan Feng just measured the size of the iron box and didn't have any big requirements.
The requirements for the carport are relatively high, with certain requirements for height, length, width and sturdiness. The most important thing is that it must be completed this morning.
This was not difficult at all for Xiao Dexiang and his team. After measuring the length, width and height of the truck bed according to Wan Feng's requirements, they took the materials and started working, promising to finish the job in three more hours.
Xiao Jun asked for thirty sets of couplets and was going to the village to sell them today. Wan Feng also wanted to go to the northern part of Gushan to buy some apples.
There are two places in the north of Gushan where apples are quite delicious.
The two hit it off immediately. Wan Feng left the trailer at the machinery factory and drove towards the northern part of Gushan Commune.
We walked north for about twenty miles and arrived at the Liying Battalion in the north of Gushan.
Xiao Jun went into the village to buy apples, while Wan Feng went to the orchard of Liying Brigade to buy apples.
Under normal circumstances, the apples in the orchard are usually purchased by the supply and marketing cooperatives during this period, and the same is true for the apples in Liying Orchard.
But most orchards will keep some money in reserve, to be distributed to the gardeners or to be secretly sold at a high price at the end of the year.
This is the kind of apple Wan Feng bought at Liying Orchard. It took a lot of effort to load two large sacks of apples into the cab of the tractor.
Xiao Jun went to the village to sell couplets and couldn't come back for a while, so Wan Feng didn't wait for him. When he came, Xiao Jun didn't ask Wan Feng to wait for him. If he wanted to go back, he could walk or take a ride.
Wan Feng didn't consider whether Xiao Jun could get a ride and went back directly.
After hooking up the tractor's cargo bed, Wan Feng went into the supply and marketing cooperative to buy hot pot.
On the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, the only place where you can see the New Year atmosphere is the supply and marketing cooperative.
Ropes were stretched out above the supply and marketing cooperative, and colorful New Year pictures were hung on the ropes one by one.
It is these colorful New Year pictures that make people feel the festive atmosphere of the New Year, and the New Year is indeed not far away.
When Wan Feng saw the dazzling array of New Year pictures, he was stunned for about a minute.
I remember that when he was a child, his favorite things to do during the Chinese New Year were: pasting New Year pictures, wearing new clothes, and setting off firecrackers.
What he remembers most is buying New Year pictures.
On the days of buying New Year pictures, the supply and marketing cooperatives are always crowded with people. People are everywhere. When people buy New Year pictures, it is like a rush to buy them. Everyone waves the money in their hands and shouts the number of the New Year picture they want to buy.
Wan Feng participated in several such scenes when he was a child. He was mainly responsible for watching, looking at this picture and that picture, and offering his valuable suggestions, saying which one was good-looking and which one was not.
Unfortunately, his valuable suggestions were never adopted by his mother, and Wan Feng usually thought the New Year pictures she bought were not good-looking.
His favorite is the New Year pictures of people holding guns. He likes it no matter whether the picture shows adults or children holding guns, and he thinks it looks good no matter whether the gun is real or wooden.
But my mother never bought such New Year pictures. Her reason was that who would hang guns and firecrackers during the New Year, so she only bought big-headed dolls with very little hair on their heads. Usually, these dolls wearing bellybands were holding a fish or being held by a fish.
No need to worry about being pricked by fish bones.
One time, when I went with my mother to buy New Year pictures, there were so many people that I didn’t even know where my shoes were. Not only did my feet almost freeze off, but I was also severely beaten by my mother.
After buying the New Year pictures, I look forward to posting them.
The 28th day of the 12th lunar month is the day for posting couplets and New Year pictures. If the child is celebrating the New Year, this day will be moved to the 27th day of the 12th lunar month.
Every family will sweep the dust and put up couplets and New Year pictures.
He was the most serious about pasting New Year pictures. A stack of pictures was placed on the kang. While his parents pasted them on the wall one by one, he sat on the pictures on the kang and touched the characters in the pictures with his hands.
Once this card is taken away, he will draw the next one.
"Can you please not put this on the wall? I can keep it for fun."
His requests were rarely met until the paintings were finally posted on the wall.
The house immediately looks brighter after the New Year pictures are posted.
After looking at the New Year pictures at home, people would go to their neighbors' homes and even other people's homes in the village to look at them. They would look at each house and see whoever could find a New Year picture that no other house in the village had and they would be very happy for a long time.
I don't know why I'm so happy.
When he was a little older, he could help with pasting New Year pictures, but most of the time he just carried the paste basin.
At that time, people would use a paste made from flour to paste New Year pictures and couplets on the wall. In the north, it was called "jiangzi". People would use a small broom to apply the paste and brush it on the wall. Then they would press the New Year pictures onto the place where the paste was applied and pat it a few times with their hands. It would be done.
Wan Feng's task was to carry the basin containing the pulp.
By the time Wan Feng grew up and could confidently apply the paste and paste New Year pictures by hand, the number of New Year pictures actually began to decrease until they disappeared.
Although New Year pictures were still sold in shops in markets in later generations, the rush to buy them was gone, and there were very few people buying them. Most families did not even put up New Year pictures.
Now Wan Feng saw these New Year pictures hanging all over the sky again.
Maybe because the New Year is still far away, not many people buy New Year pictures, but there are quite a few people looking at them, especially a group of half-grown children who tilt their heads back and walk around under the pictures, pointing and talking.
Wan Feng immediately decided to buy New Year pictures.
Wan Feng came to the stationery and books counter and said to the salesperson, "Sister, I want to buy some New Year pictures."
Because Wan Feng often came here in the summer, most people in Gushan Supply and Marketing Cooperative knew Wan Feng and were very kind to him.
"Which New Year picture do you want to buy?"
Wan Feng turned around and pointed at the paintings hanging in the air, then turned 360 degrees and said, "One of each. I want it."
The salesperson was dumbfounded. It was the first time he had seen someone buying New Year pictures like this: "You want more than a hundred of them?"
"I want them all, one for each. Give me the invoice and I'll pay you and you pick them up and bundle them for me."
The salesperson was at a loss for words. She had originally just wanted to have some peace and quiet, but she had no idea that such a monster would come and now she had work to do.
Wan Feng paid seven dollars at the cashier, then went to the hardware department to buy a copper hot pot, and also took a look around Yan Shufang's garment department.
But when Wan Feng returned to the stationery section with the hot pot, the salesperson had already picked out all the paintings he wanted, twenty sheets in a roll, for a total of six paper rolls.
"Do you have so many places in your home to hang these New Year pictures?" the salesperson asked with concern.
"You can't just paste it on the wall!" Wan Feng's answer was very domineering, but it made the salesperson very angry.
Even if you are just pasting the walls, you won’t need so much. These New Year paintings are enough to cover five rooms, including the walls and the roof.
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