The contentment of rebirth

Eat, do not like these things of worship.It’s okay to kneel down and worship a few times, after all, it’s something I’ve been used to since I was a child, but if I go to those temples to worship, the crowds, the smoke, the tears and sweat will be together. flowed down.

Chen Weiwen went there with his sister a few times when he grew up, but later he was reluctant to go. He didn't want to crowd people, and he didn't want to shed tears.

More and more relatives came to worship their ancestors in the ancestral hall, and there were more and more children. The twins were very happy, and finally there were children of similar age who could play together. Even Chen Jiayin and Chen Weijun found playmates , ran out to play.

Chen Weiwen was very depressed, and he also came out to play with him. In fact, he didn't really want to come out, but he was the only child in it, which seemed too abrupt. In order to be reasonable, he had to come out together.

There is nothing interesting around the ancestral hall. At a glance, all the ancestral halls are large and small, and there is a mottled stone path under his feet. Chen Weiwen ran out with the children who were about his age, and followed them. .The child in front was chattering and eating the candy in his pocket with a smile on his face, while Chen Weiwen followed silently behind him, pursing his mouth in obscurity.

He is not familiar with these children who grew up in the old house, and they don't have a common language, so they really can't speak together.

The entire process of worshiping the ancestors lasted about one to two hours. According to Lu's mother, the ancestors had to eat enough, and only when they were full would they be happy to bless their grandchildren and grandchildren.

Then there was the burning of gold paper, adults and young people gathered around a big iron bucket to burn gold paper, and Chen Weiwen and his elder brother Chen Weijun also came forward to burn gold paper together on behalf of their own family.After burning the gold paper, kneel down and worship again, you can put away the worship food and go home.

Two hours later, the dishes were already cold. When I got home, Mother Lu reheated them all again, and then served them again. The family of six sat around the table, watching the Spring Festival Gala on the black and white TV, eating New Year’s Eve reunion dinner.

In Chen Weiwen's hometown, there is no saying or practice of vigil on New Year's Eve, so the children are still going to bed at nine o'clock as usual, and they will get up early tomorrow.

On the first day of the new year, Chen Weiwen and his brothers and sisters got up at five o'clock. First, they had to worship the gods, such as the God of Wealth, the parents of heaven and earth, and Grandpa Zao. .

I didn’t go home until noon. After lunch, the New Year’s event basically came to an end. I knew that I was busy again on the fifth day of the lunar new year, and everyone was free to arrange the rest of the time.

If you want to go to a classmate's house, you can go to the classmate's house to play, and if you want to go out for a walk, you can go for a walk. Anyway, there are no people on the street during the Chinese New Year, and the risk factor has dropped a lot.

As for relatives and friends who come to pay New Year's greetings, it is enough to have Mother Chen at home. This year, Father Chen is not here, and some relatives and friends have also gone out of town with Father Chen.

So the brothers Chen Weiwen didn't have to stay at home to help their mother. In fact, they were both children, and even if they sat there, they couldn't get in the way.

Chen Jiayin and Chen Weijun all went to their classmates' homes, the twins also went to find their friends, and Chen Weiwen went to Chen Zihao's home. Fatty's classmate came to his home a few days ago and invited him to go to his home, saying that it was his home. A relative brought a box of foreign pure chocolates and a can of coffee from abroad, and he kept them and wanted to share them with Chen Weiwen.

Pure chocolate, Chen Weiwen looked at it, dark chocolate, bitter; coffee, at first glance, it was also black coffee, without coffee mate or sugar cubes, it was still bitter.

Chen Weiwen's expression was a bit gloating. He watched Chen Zihao tear open the package of chocolate excitedly, took a piece and handed it to himself, "Here, I haven't eaten it these few days, I just wait to eat it with you." After speaking, he was happy Throwing the chocolate in his hand into his mouth.

"Hmm..." Chen Zihao first made a meaningful sound of doubt, and then jumped up and shouted: "It's so bitter, so bitter, why is it bitter, isn't this foreign chocolate?" His face was full of grief and indignation of being deceived.

Chen Weiwen slowly felt the chocolate melt in his mouth. The rich chocolate aroma weakened the bitterness of the dark chocolate, and it was delicious. "Pure dark chocolate imported from abroad is bitter."

"How come? Chocolate is sweet." Chen Zihao retorted, it's not like he hasn't eaten chocolate before.

Chen Weiwen had no choice but to popularize the knowledge of chocolate, Chen Zihao nodded suddenly, it turned out that his expectations these days were all in vain.

19 siblings

The chocolate didn't taste good, and the coffee didn't taste good, so Chen Zihao gave up his idea of ​​enjoying it with Chen Weiwen in the room, pulled Chen Weiwen and ran downstairs, took out a lot of fireworks, and the two of them came to the door together with Chen Zihao's brother, Chen Zixin Fireworks were set off in the front space.

Chen Weiwen held a firework in his hand, 'Puff, puff! Feeling the vibration coming from his hand, Chen Weiwen felt a little complicated in his heart as the fireworks shot up to the sky one after another. It has been more than half a year since he was reborn and returned to his childhood.

In the past six months, apart from finding himself an odd job of assembling plastic flowers during the summer vacation, he did nothing to help the family. He never thought that he could easily own thousands of fortunes, nor that he could have the magic weapon of space, and even more so. I never thought that I could suddenly become a genius from a mediocrity.

But he also failed to help his family improve their economic conditions, and he failed to help his eldest brother and sister improve their grades. What he wanted to do, he did nothing.

The eldest sister, Chen Jiayin, had to stay at home to take care of her newborn brother, so she started school one year late. She started school at the age of six.In her previous life, the eldest sister’s grades in the senior high school entrance examination were not good. Later, she chose a technical secondary school at random, and her major was not good. After less than a year of study, the eldest sister dropped out of school.

With his butterfly effect this year, the eldest sister's grades still haven't improved, but in order to make money, she found a job in a clothing factory. This way, the eldest sister has less time to study, and it's good if her grades don't drop .

The fireworks in his hand had just been set off, and Chen Weiwen went to the trash can and threw them in. His thoughts turned to the pattern he saw in the elder sister's exercise book a while ago. That should be the design of the jacket.

A while ago, when the elder sister went to work, Chen Weiwen happened to get an exercise book on the bed, saw the name of the elder sister written on it, knew it was the elder sister's homework book, and planned to put it on the table, but unexpectedly turned over with a gesture, and the above Several pages of the book were flipped open, revealing the pattern drawn on the back.

Chen Weiwen initially thought it was a small pattern drawn by the elder sister for leisure, but after a closer look, he saw that it was the lines of a shirt.Open the next few pages casually, there are patterns drawn on each page, it can be seen that he is a beginner, the lines are a bit stiff and too simple, but it can be seen that the painter is very careful, it seems that every stroke is special With great effort, there are many light gray traces around the pattern. It should be that I felt that the drawing was not good, so I wiped it off and repainted it.

It seems that the eldest sister seems to be studying fashion design.

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When I went home at night, Mother Lu told the children that Father Chen called just now. There was no phone at Chen Weiwen's house, but the call was from the neighbor's canteen. The children surrounded their mother excitedly and asked what their father said. How is it outside.

Knowing that Papa Chen is doing well outside and that business is going well, Chen Weiwen felt relieved. Mama Lu said that Papa Chen wanted to call on New Year's Eve, but he was too busy to make time, so he called today.

Chinese New Year, perhaps for other children, is a very happy thing, there are delicious things, money to spend, to buy favorite toys, not to go to school, not to do homework, parents will not hold them back, Because adults are busy too.But for Chen Weiwen, there is nothing to celebrate the new year except that he is one year older and taller.Oh, there is still one thing, that is, my front teeth are slowly growing out, and the situation of speaking leakage has also improved.

Those children's favorite fireworks and snacks are no longer attractive to him, and toys and games are not worth money and time to him.

It’s not that he doesn’t have life pursuits (playing life pursuits?), and it’s not that he doesn’t want to enjoy life well. It’s just that people who have grown up will naturally lose some of the things and things they liked when they were young.After all, people change.

For Chen Weiwen, Chinese New Year is a holiday, a few days of rest without doing anything.The rest is for better work, so after the sixth day of the sixth day of the plastic flower business, Chen Weiwen resumed his life before the Chinese New Year. He got up early to run, exercise, eat breakfast, and assemble the plastic flowers. After lunch, he continued to work hard and finished the assembly in the evening. Carried it back to the merchant and then came back with another bag.

In the following days, while assembling the plastic flowers, Chen Weiwen began to pay attention to the eldest sister's every move.He found that the eldest sister would often draw pictures on the back of the exercise book that had already written homework by herself, and all the paintings were the same picture. It could be seen that the eldest sister was practicing drawing this shirt.

One night, Chen Weiwen saw his elder sister painting again, so he walked up to her and sat down. Chen Jiayin was concentrating on drawing his practice task for today, when he suddenly felt someone beside him, turned his head and saw that it was the two Brother Weiwen.

"Sister, what are you doing?" Chen Weiwen asked pretending to be ignorant.

"I..." Chen Jiayin was at a loss for a moment. She was practicing fashion design.