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That was the first heavy snowfall that spring. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, when the firecrackers were ringing in my ears, when Chenchen was still lying in bed and refused to get up, it had already fallen to a height of more than half a foot.The corn cobs that my mother stacked in the yard and the tributes on the New Year's Eve altar were covered tightly.

"Auspicious snow heralds a good year, happy new year" I greeted Shiyang festively.

When I entered the main room, my mother was crying by herself, "Mom, why are you crying? Where is my father?"

"Hey, Liu Fudong's family Daxinger disappeared in the village. On the night of thirty, your old man and other villagers in the village went to the west of the village to greet them. His mother-in-law, aunt and baby were crying miserably. The old man knows, tell me how long you can hide it. Such a big incident happened, but one of the pillars of his pot house was lost. Now it seems that the police station came to see the scene. I heard that he came back from shift work at the metal magnesium field I was hit by a car on the road, and I didn’t come back. It was the old man Wang who guarded the forestry in the neighboring village who told the branch secretary.”

"Where is the car?"

"Ran"

"Damn it, I caught the one who shot Gou'er, that bastard bastard did such a vile thing." He was so excited at the time, and spit out the foul language that was always forbidden at home in front of his mother.

I suddenly remembered that it was very cold last night, and Daxing died just like that, under Daxing.

"I'll go and have a look"

"What are you going to do? Your father has already gone with other older folks and Daxing's family. You are not married yet. You should not go on the first day of the new year."

I couldn't listen at all, Sazu and Shiyang ran to the road outside the village.

A lot of people had already surrounded in darkness, and the scraps of paper left over from the firecrackers in the front glass factory were scattered on the snow.The mothers-in-law and aunts in the village were also crying to persuade Daxing's daughter-in-law. Gu hugged Daxing's two dolls, and they were crying badly, which made people worry.The police have cordoned off the scene, drawing survey maps, taking pictures, and asking about the condition of the first forest guard in the neighboring village, Old Man Wang. "He's gone, maybe he was hit by a car at the time, it's just that the black-hearted bastard ran away, and probably died of freezing because no one cares about him." Some people were discussing,

"Don't dare to let Daxing's parents and grandma know about it," a woman beside him said in a crying voice.Then Daxing's wife and children were wailing again, digging on the hard ground, and their brand new clothes were covered with snow and mud.The tragic scene did not match the atmosphere of festoons and lanterns in Hecun'er.

My father saw me in the crowd, he didn't say a word, he turned his head heavily and went to work, I dragged Shiyang back home, my mother was right, it wouldn't be a big deal if I came, at most it would be unpleasant field.

That day, we didn't have any meals, and people in the village talked more about the many benefits that Daxing had brought to everyone when he was alive, and the remaining old and young, what's the matter.

"How can a person die so well?" my mother said, "poor orphans and widows, life is going to be miserable."

"Then it's up to others? Who can fight with fate? Those who leave also leave. Whoever dies, whoever suffers, and the rest have to live. The only thing that can be done is Dora, a fellow villager. The two children have grown up, and the family will continue to have a strong family, so I don’t feel ashamed to treat the ones when Daxing was here.” My father said, picking up the shovel and yelling at the second youngest Lao Tzu to go on a blind date with others. Outside the village, a coffin shed was set up for Daxing.It is a customary rule in the village that if people in the village die outside, it is inconvenient for them to enter the village. It is said that it is not good for the people in the village. field to go.

Chenchen didn't get up until one o'clock in the afternoon. My mother didn't blame him this time. Every time something like this happens around us, we all have an inexplicable appreciation for life, and we will look away from many things that we couldn't figure out before. For example, those in their [-]s and [-]s in the village say, "You can do whatever you want, save money for someone, who knows when Grandpa Hades will kill you" and spend the hard savings symbolically "ruthlessly" For a while.

Chenchen didn't know what happened before, and he woke up happily, singing and watching TV, saying that his vacation is coming soon, and he will start making up lessons on the seventh day of junior high school, yelling, "I still want to go to my uncle and fourth aunt's house up".

Seeing that we were not talking, I said, "You don't come with me, I will go by myself after I finish my homework", and then went to do my homework by myself.

"Your brother is funny"

"Well, he is the funniest in our family, the pistachio of my parents"

"Your family is also very happy, your family is very kind"

"How do you remember this?"

"Thank you aunt for steaming the Zodiac Flower Momo for me. I like it very much. I haven't had a year like this for many years. My family seems to never remember that there is such a person as me, except for my mother and grandma, but they also share with them. Like Daxing, he died prematurely.”

"Don't think too much, just treat this as your own home." I patted Shiyang on the shoulder, "My parents like you very much. They have been poisoned by the remnants of feudalism for so many years, and they have always been patriarchal. I like boys very much, not more than you"

Shiyang hugged me and cried, and then I patted his shoulder lightly until my hands were sore, and he didn't cry enough.

"I said ancestor, have you cried enough? If not, let me change hands, okay?"

It was almost dark when my father came back, Chenchen was sleepy doing homework in bed, and fell asleep again.He Shiyang was going to go on the fifth day of the lunar new year, but my mother said that she would not go out on the fifth day of the new year and asked to leave on the sixth day.

Coincidentally, even though the snow arrived after the beginning of spring, it was delayed for three or four days and did not melt. Chenchen scolded Tian'er every day, saying that he was delayed going to my uncle and my fourth aunt's house to pay New Year's greetings.Chenchen goes there every year, not because he misses my uncle and fourth aunt too much, but mainly because of the huge lucky money.My mother has long refused to let them give it, but my uncle and fourth aunt both like Chenchen very much. They say that if they are not married for a day, they will be a baby. They will not give it when they get married. , Pidianpidian's mouth was about to burst into laughter, so from elementary school, junior high school, and high school, there has been no interruption in the past New Year's greetings.

On the fourth day of the lunar new year, my mother went to the house of Er Gui, who was running the bus from the village to the provincial capital, and gave me and Shiyang two train tickets back to Beijing at noon on the sixth day of the new year. "If I don't make up lessons, I will go to Beijing with you two to play for a few days before I come back," Chen Chen said disappointedly.

"Study your book well, if you have the ability, you can go to university in Beijing this fall," my mother said to him

"Lian Chen—boss, how did you get into college?"

"Is there anything else I can do? Work hard. I lost 10 catties when I was taking the exam."

"Cut, forget it, it's all about cheating"

"Ha, then try cheating this year too"

"Take a good exam. You take the admission notice and go to Beijing in a decent manner. Lianchen and I will pick you up at the station and send you to the school. Lianchen said, if you want to take the entrance examination for the Communication University, which school The score is too high, and we have to fight with our backs to win it.” Shi Yang encouraged him

"Okay, okay, I'm going to read a book"

"Don't watch and fall asleep in bed again." I laughed at him

"It's called working and resting"

Just as he was talking, heart-piercing cries came from the street, "What's the matter?" Shiyang was startled.

"The person died for three days, and the night paper was burned, it's all right," my mother told him, and then closed the door and went.

Just after falling asleep, I heard the horn honking desperately outside the door, "Whose house is this? Annoyed dark places don't make people sleep well in the middle of the night." Chen Chen said, "You are in charge of others, and I haven't arrived yet." There was a sound from your yard." Suddenly I wondered if Ergui's bus had come back, so I put on my clothes and got off the kang, and then I heard my mother and Ergui talking outside.

"Here are the tickets that your Lianzi asked for. Two tickets, one for 75, 50 yuan in change, you take it."

"I have to trouble you every time, I haven't eaten yet, come in and drink a bottle of wine with your brother Shusheng to warm up." Then he called me "Shusheng, brother Ergui bought a return ticket for your doll up"

"It's not a big deal for the folks in the village. When my family was in distress, you and my brother Shusheng helped me a lot. When I was leaving on the sixth day of the lunar new year, I took my car. I took the dolls and took them away. Send it to the train, you and my brother Shusheng don’t need to send it by a single door.”

"The dolls are all grown up, and we don't need to send them now. Let's see when the time comes. I guess they will leave later than you, so don't wait for them."

"The two ghosts are back, hurry into the pot house, we two brothers, have a good drink, and ask your sister-in-law to prepare some cheap things for us (bian, four sounds, yi, one sound. It means ready-made) appetizers”

"No, Xiuying and the dolls are still waiting, I'll go back first, and have a drink when I'm free."

"Okay, then you can drive more slowly when you go out and drink less, you know"

"I know, close the door and go back, it's cold"

.........

"So I bought a train ticket. I thought I was doing something wrong. There was a lot of noise." When Chen Chen spoke, my mother had already brought in the train ticket.Tell the three of us to cover the quilt.I heard from my mother that it was snowing again.Outside the yard, my father was sweeping a walkable path about one meter wide with a broom.

Neither of us was talking, and we fell asleep peacefully at night in the snowy countryside, listening to the sound of barking.

...One night, a lot of snowflakes, one night, quiet and speechless...

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