Reborn in the 60s and adopted

New Year's Day, a new year, a new atmosphere. Tang Mei was awakened by a burst of firecrackers. She stretched herself and muttered, "Woo, the new year is here."

Tang Mei got up and brushed her teeth when she saw the kitchen door open and smoke rising from the room.

When I entered the kitchen, I saw Aunt Tang and Uncle Tang working on the stove. "Good morning, Mom and Dad."

The two looked back, and the little girl, who had just woken up and was still a little dazed, looked at each other knowingly.

I only heard Aunt Tang San say, "Oh, my lazy daughter got up."

"Happy New Year, Mom and Dad"

"My daughter is still happy. Here is your New Year's money." Uncle Tang and Aunt Tang took out the red envelopes from their pockets and handed them to Tang Mei.

Tang Mei took it happily. She didn't expect that she also had New Year's money. She squeezed it and found it was quite thick.

The family of three had a reunion meal, with each person having a bowl of hand-made glutinous rice balls.

"Is it delicious?"

"Delicious, is this filled with red bean paste?" Tang Mei couldn't believe that she could taste such authentic red bean paste flavor.

"Of course, this is your mother's specialty." Uncle Tang looked at his wife with a smile.

“Even dumplings can’t stop you from eating. Come on and eat.” Uncle Tang looked at the head of his family with amusement. He could never change his habit of showing off. Fortunately, he was at home.

Just as the three were about to finish eating, there was a knock on the door.

Uncle Tang quickly stuffed the last glutinous rice ball into his mouth, opened the door, and saw the two little ones from his eldest brother's family.

"Hey, you two are here so early."

"Uncle San, Happy New Year." The two men knelt on the ground with a thud.

Uncle Tang was startled. "What are you doing? New Year's greetings?"

"Uncle San, Happy New Year and best wishes for prosperity. Give me the red envelope," Tang Li and Tang Jianguo said in unison.

"Here, take these, you two little brats." Uncle Tang took out the red envelopes he had prepared long ago and handed them to the two little guys.

Tang Li and Tang Jianguo stood up immediately after they touched the red envelope.

"Thank you, Uncle San. Uncle San made a fortune this year," said Tang Jianguo.

"You little brat, haha, your sister is still eating, she should be almost done, go in and find her, I'm also going out to pay New Year's greetings to the elders in the village." Uncle Tang laughed from ear to ear, shook his head and went out.

When Tang Mei heard the two voices, she quickly chewed the glutinous rice balls in her mouth, ran out of the door, and saw that it was her cousin.

"Oh, you two came so early."

"Little lazy pig, it was you who said we wanted to go out and play yesterday, why don't you hurry up?" Tang Li looked at her sister with amusement.

"I'm not a lazy pig." Tang Mei muttered softly.

"Yes, yes, you are not a lazy pig, brother, it's okay, right?" Tang Li held Tang Mei's little hand.

"Hey, you two girls are really naughty." Tang Jianguo didn't expect that the war would come to him without him saying a word. Looking at the happy smiles of his two sisters, he smiled without caring.

"Let's go out and play with our friends in the village." The three of them held hands and went to the entrance of the village brigade.

At this moment, dozens of children gathered at the entrance of the brigade, competing to see who had picked up the most unexploded firecrackers this morning. Goudan was still looking left and right in the crowd, when suddenly his eyes lit up.

"Hey, Brother Jianguo, come here quickly, let's see who has more bubbles."

The three of them walked up to Goudan and saw many children holding small firecrackers in their hands.

"Where do so many come from?" Tang Mei looked at Goudan in surprise.

"These are the firecrackers that weren't set off this morning. Let's compare who has the most now. Later we'll go and blow up cow dung." Goudan raised his head, as if he had already won because he had the most.

Tang Mei looked at the many unfired firecrackers and thought that the village’s income must be very good this year, otherwise she wouldn’t have let these children pick up so many.

"Oh, there are so many children here, there is no place for us to sit today." You old lady looked at the stools in the hands of so many children and didn't know where to put them.

Grandma Wang looked at the children and smiled kindly, saying, "Let them play here while we go to the grain drying ground across the street."

"Okay, this year is still good. We have some spare money this year, and every household can afford to set off firecrackers," said old man Qiu. As he said that, he happened to see Tang Lao San jogging hard. "This blind bastard Tang Lao San didn't see that we old men and women were here, and he didn't even come over to say hello. He's not polite at all."

Uncle Tang was passing by here at this moment, and was in a hurry to go to the village chief's house, so he didn't even notice that there were other people around.

"Who are you calling a bastard? Several of us old men and women are still alive and well this year, all thanks to Tang Laosan. If he hadn't come to water our mushrooms so often, we wouldn't have earned so much money this year. He also gave us so much cotton, so that we have new quilts to cover ourselves with this year and won't freeze to death." Grandma Wang glanced at Old Man Qiu. She also saw Tang Laosan running forward in a hurry. If there wasn't something going on, he would definitely come over to say hello to them.

"Hehe, I didn't say anything about Tang Lao San." Old man Qiu touched his nose, thinking back to what he said. It seemed that he was not wrong, and he straightened his back all of a sudden.

"Didn't you tell Tang Laosan how he treated you in previous years? You don't even know. Under such difficult circumstances, he insisted on secretly giving us food, which kept us old men and women alive. Moreover, Tang Quan is a man who cares about us. I heard that the village will elect an acting deputy village chief after the New Year. You all know what to do by then." Grandma Wang looked at Old Man Qiu seriously.

"Hey, do you think I'm stupid? It must be recommended to me. It's good for me." Old man Qiu glared at Grandma Wang unhappily.

Grandma Wang didn't just stare at him, but waved to Tang Mei, Tang Li and the other two.

The three siblings followed their grandmother to the middle of the threshing ground and sat there.

"I knew you would come and take it." Grandma Wang took out a red envelope and a handful of fruit candies and handed them to the three siblings.

"Grandma Wang, I can't accept it. You are so old, and you must need money." As the eldest brother, Tang Jianguo certainly couldn't take the lead in taking money from the lonely elderly people in the village. He refused with his whole body.

"Take it, or I will be angry," said Grandma Wang with a serious face.

The three of them had no choice but to take it, thinking of going home to give it to the adults at home and then returning it to Grandma Wang.

"You three brothers and sisters, come to me"

Old Man Qiu gave the three siblings an iron box filled with biscuits.

Old Mrs. Li was not to be outdone, and stuffed all the melon seeds in her pocket into the hands of the three children.

The three of them were holding a lot of harvest, but it was not a good idea to just wander around the village, planning to go home and put it aside for later.

After a while, the three of them went to the village company commander's house with a large group of children from the village to pay New Year's greetings. The New Year at this time was very lively. This family gave some fried dough twists, that family gave some steamed buns, and some wealthy families would give some candies.

After a sweep around the village, a large group of children gathered together and walked around to see if there was any cow dung.

"Hey, here, here." A snotty kid with a pile of black cow dung in front of him waved at a group of kids.

A group of people surrounded the pile of cow dung and set off several firecrackers. Tang Mei and Tang Li hid far away, fearing that the cow dung would jump onto them.

"Bang" the cow dung was exploded, and the children who were hit by it had dung all over their bodies and faces, but no one cried, all of them were smiling with their mouths pinched.

"See, I guessed it right. I knew that this cow dung would spread everywhere." Tang Mei said to Tang Li.

"Hey, you little rascal, it's a good thing you dragged me so far, otherwise we would both be covered in cow dung." Tang Li patted Tang Mei's hand with amusement.

The group went to find the next place with cow dung.

"Hey, there's a barrel here. Why don't we put it in and listen to the sound it explodes." A brave child pointed to a wooden barrel next to him.

A few half-grown children nodded in agreement.

"Okay. Now it's my turn to light the fire."

"Bang" the barrel and you make a huge explosion sound.

I was so scared that I ran back quickly.

"Tang Mei, look how timid you are. How can such a small cannon blow up the wooden barrel?" Goudan ridiculed the timid Tang Mei.

"You are so brave, Goudan! Aren't you afraid that I will beat you to death?" Tang Mei threatened angrily.

Goudan rolled his eyes at Tang Mei, stuck out his tongue, and made a face at her.

Tang Mei didn't want to pay any attention to him.

Tang Mei is happy today. She never thought that being a village child in the 60s would bring her so much joy.

The children today were not hungry and played until their family called them at noon.

Tang Mei and her two siblings watched as everyone went back home. They didn't wait for their parents to call them, and when they reached the fork in the road, they each went back to their own homes.

After lunch, Tang Mei did not go out in the afternoon. Her mother went to take a nap and her father went to the village, not knowing what he was doing. She stayed at home to prepare for the next semester's textbooks and draw, but she had to go to Aunt Tang's home for several days, so she had to complete the task in advance.