First entry into the workplace

A busy day has passed, and today is New Year's Eve, the 29th day of the lunar calendar, the last day of this year.

Every year on New Year's Eve, the women in the village would get up early and make breakfast. After the whole family had breakfast, the adults would take their children and go to the town to go to the market together with the villagers.

I used to walk all the way, even though the mountain road was difficult, the children were still very excited, jumping and jumping all the way, and no one would complain of being tired.

Going to the market before this year was considered one of the group activities in the village, and there was another group activity, which was tomb-sweeping during the Qingming Festival.Lan Yipeng basically does not participate in group activities in this village.

As for going to the market years ago, Lan Yipeng went there once when he was young.When he was a child, he also envied his brothers and sisters, as well as the children in the village, who could go to the town with their parents to play.At that time, his parents said that he was weak and not suitable for walking this mountain road, and the town was crowded and crowded, so they didn't take him there.Of course, this is just a kind of rhetoric, because Lan Yipeng still goes up and down to work at home, and does more work than his brother and sister.

Lan Yipeng didn't go to a fair with his classmates until he was in the sixth grade of elementary school. He still used the money he saved from going up the mountain to find herbs and sell them. His parents never gave Lan Yipeng pocket money.

Of course, there was no such thing as pocket money at that time, unlike today’s children, whose parents would give them a certain amount of pocket money every week or even every day.However, parents at that time would still give their children a small amount of money to buy candy or something, just irregularly.And if some children do well in exams, the family will also give money rewards.

As for Lan Yipeng, his parents never asked about his academic performance.As for his first place in the exam, they all learned about it from the villagers. After knowing it, it was like not knowing when they returned home.

What impressed Lan Yipeng the most was that he scored full marks in mathematics and 30 points in Chinese in the final exam of his preschool class. At that time, there were no kindergartens, and he was in preschool class when he first started school.When he returned home with the report card, he dared not show it to his parents for fear of being scolded.Because his elder brother's grades in the preschool exam the year before were better than his current one, with a score of 59 in Chinese, just one point short of passing. As a result, his father beat him up when he returned home, scolding him for not studying hard.

But when his parents came home, no one asked about his grades all night.Lan Yipeng was worried about this for several days, but nothing happened.As for whether his parents knew about his grades later on, Lan Yipeng didn't know.

After that, he knew that his parents didn't care about his grades, so Lan Yipeng didn't worry about grades anymore.So in elementary school, Lan Yipeng's brother and even his sister's grades were always better than him.

It wasn't until he went to junior high school, went to the town, and saw a different life and different scenery that Lan Yipeng realized that he had to study hard and get out of the mountains.Since then, his grades have improved year by year, and he has become the best one in the family.

But no matter whether he was the first in the school or what, his parents still didn't ask, and he gradually got used to it.Later, when other people's children were admitted to junior colleges, they had to set up several banquets at home to invite the villagers to have a drink, but he was the only one in the village who was admitted to a bachelor's degree, but no one cared about it. He didn't care, as long as he could Just go to college.But at that time, people in the village didn't have any idea about college or undergraduate.

Cough cough, it's a bit far away, back to the topic of group activities in the village.Another group activity is on Qingming Day. Everyone in the village is surnamed Lan, and they used to have the same ancestor.Therefore, every year during the Qingming Festival, people in the village will collect money together to buy a lot of meat, and everyone will prepare meals together, and carry the meals to the back mountain to visit the tomb with a pole.

The cemetery is not far from the village, and it takes only ten or ten minutes to walk there. Therefore, most of the children in the village will go there.Just like a spring outing, a group of adults in the village lead a group of children, and they even pick up food.When you get there, the adults weed and clean together, while the children play wildly beside them.After cleaning up and worshiping the ancestors, adults and children will gather around the baskets and start eating together.After eating, come back together, this Qingming ancestor worship activity is considered complete.Afterwards, each family began to sweep their own graves.

Lan Yipeng has never participated in this collective ancestor worship activity, even his own ancestors, such as his grandfather, he has never paid homage to.Of course, it wasn't that he didn't want to go, but that his father didn't let him go.

Today, Lan Yipeng's mother got up early as usual, made breakfast, and asked his father to have breakfast together.Then the two went to the market.

Lan Yipeng got up on time at eight o'clock, had breakfast, swept the floor, washed his clothes, and then went back to his room to study.

As for Wu Ming, it is basically impossible to get in touch now. The signal is not good, and there is still a time difference between the two places, so I just send a text message, which may not be successful.

No way, let's study hard, it happens that no one is at home, so it's quiet.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Lan Yipeng's parents came back.Similar to previous years, I bought chicken, duck, fish, candy, melon seeds, biscuits, etc., as well as red paper, ink, firecrackers, incense for worship, paper money, etc.His dad even cut his hair.

The two elders returned home, put away their things, had a drink of water and something to eat, and rested for a while, and then began to kill chickens and ducks, wash vegetables and cook, and get busy.

Lan Yipeng doesn't need to do this kind of New Year's work, especially the New Year's work, just don't get in the way of the kitchen.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, I heard the sound of firecrackers being worshiped by the villagers. The villagers called this worship ceremony worship of gods.

Every time there is a festival, the villagers will serve cooked rice, chicken or duck, and festival-related things, such as rice dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival, and apple and orange candies for New Year’s Eve and Spring Festival.Go to the temple at the east end of the village to worship, and then go to the ancestral hall in the middle of the village to worship.

On New Year’s Eve, in addition to the places where people would worship in the usual festivals, they would also worship the things that the children at home belonged to. For example, those who belonged to the water would go to the river to worship toward the river.

Lan Yipeng's parents worked until five o'clock in the afternoon, and finally got the things for worship done. Lan Yipeng's father carried the things on a tray and went to worship the gods.In the past when he was a child, his father would bring his brother to worship together, but Lan Yipeng never went there.

After worshiping God, his dad started cooking dinner.Usually, it is also a big festival like Chinese New Year, so Lan Yipeng doesn't have to cook dinner.

On New Year's Eve, there is another custom, which is to sweep the ground, wash your hair and clothes on this day, and most men will even have their hair cut.According to the old man, until the third day of the new year, one cannot sweep the floor, one cannot wash one's hair, one cannot do laundry, and one cannot even have a haircut.

But now I don't follow the rules so much, so I won't do these things on the first day of junior high school.Generally, they start to wash clothes normally in the second day of junior high school, and some people can wash their hair.As for sweeping the floor and getting a haircut, it is generally not done until after the third year of junior high school.

Lan Yipeng's mother had already swept the floor, and then washed his hair, and when he finished taking a bath, he called Lan Yipeng again to let him come out to take a bath, and then began to wash clothes.

After packing up, Lan Yipeng came out, fetched water, washed his hair, took a shower, and then washed his clothes.As for the haircut, there's no need for it. Let's talk about it when I go to the company during the Chinese New Year.

Not long after, Lan Yipeng's father prepared dinner.After bringing the dishes to the table in the living room, the family began to eat.At the dinner table, the two elders were still chatting, and Lan Yipeng ate in silence.

After dinner, Lan Yipeng sat down on the roof of the building.At this moment, it was already dark, and the villagers basically had dinner, and started to set off fireworks on the open space or on the roof.

Lan Yipeng's family didn't buy fireworks, and he actually didn't let them go.In the past, his brother would only buy fireworks when he was at home, and after dinner, he would take his sister to the roof to set off fireworks. Lan Yipeng usually didn't participate, and sometimes they went up together and watched from the side.

Sitting on the roof now, looking at the fireworks blooming one after another, I have a beautiful feeling of peace and tranquility. It would be great if Wu Ming was by my side. I don't know what he is doing now?

Lan Yipeng stayed on the rooftop for a while, sent a blessing message to Wu Ming, and sent a group of blessing text messages to colleagues, friends, etc., and then went downstairs to return to the room.

In the living room, the Spring Festival Gala program is playing on the TV, and Lan Yipeng's father is writing couplets in the living room.Cut the bought red paper and spread it on the table, then pour the bought ink into a small bowl, and use a brush to write on the red paper one by one according to the couplets written on the paper in advance.Every time a sheet is written, it is taken upstairs, put on the floor to dry, and then posted the next morning.

Lan Yipeng's grandfather used to be an elementary school teacher in the village, and his grandfather basically wrote the happy events and New Year's couplets in the village.After his grandfather passed away, it became his father who wrote it.However, in recent years, people in the village have gradually stopped posting couplets, and what they want to post is to go to the town to directly buy couplets printed in golden fonts.

Therefore, Lan Yipeng and his family are still writing and posting couplets by themselves.

Lan Yipeng's mother was busy in the kitchen, washing the dishes, and preparing the glutinous rice flour and fillings for making glutinous rice balls the next morning.Mustard greens are still being boiled in the pot on the stove. This vegetable has to be cooked until the next day. The fire cannot be extinguished. It has to be burned slowly with a big wood and a small fire. This is also one of the customs in the village. Alright.

After packing up the things in the kitchen, Lan Yipeng's mother took her mobile phone and went to the top of the building to call her son and daughter.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, Lan Yipeng's father finished writing the couplet.Then the two elders went to bed.

The village didn't have the habit of keeping watch until twelve o'clock before, and usually they got up early to set off firecrackers on the first day of the next day.It's just that young people nowadays like to go to bed late and wake up late, so they organized a New Year's Eve activity.

In fact, they are young people in the village who collect a sum of money to buy things, get together on New Year’s Eve, set off fireworks, play cards, sing, drink, and chat on a concrete floor in the middle of the village until twelve o’clock.Only then did they go home and set off firecrackers at the gates of their own houses, and then they got ready to go to bed, so they didn't have to get up early to set off firecrackers the next day.

The concrete floor in the middle of the village was only built in the past few years. There is also a basketball hoop and a ping-pong table. They were all made by young people in the village who collected money from each family and bought materials together.

Of course, his brother also participated in this young people's party when he was at home. Lan Yipeng also went there once before, but he didn't like this kind of occasion, so he didn't participate in it later.

Lan Yipeng was typing the code alone in the room, and he could hear the sound of fireworks outside from time to time. This sound lasted until twelve o'clock in the evening. After a burst of firecrackers went off, it slowly quieted down.Lan Yipeng then turned off the phone and went to sleep.