The Spring Festival in the townships is always lively. Villagers who have been busy for a year are often willing to spend all their spare money in extravagant festivals without feeling wasteful. The township government and other institutions are no exception. The small treasury that has been hard to save for a year is usually consumed in the weeks before the festival.

Setting off firecrackers, lion dances, and gongs and drums are must-order projects during the Spring Festival in Hedong Province. Even when the situation is not good in the past few years, townships will also rush to the superior departments to organize these activities.

During the Spring Festival in 1984, the conditions in Xizhaizi Township improved a lot. At least, the people participating in the activities could not only have a meal, but also get a reward.

Folk pastries made of mung bean cakes, noodle people, eight treasure rice and other grains are still the protagonists during the holidays. Although there are also fresh bacon and chickens, most of them are still good. Only families with high incomes and small populations can really eat meat for a few days. Farmers with large populations and low incomes often eat meat once on the first day of the 30th day of the 19th day of the 15th day of the year.

As the party secretary of Xizhaizi Township, Yang Feng's family conditions are naturally the best in the village. Not only does he have a high income, he can also save a lot of money. For example, the dragon dance team, the lion dance team and the yangko team. When each team passes by, they have to jump in front of the Yang family's gate for a quarter of an hour. After these teams pass by, they naturally want to take as much firecrackers, grain and pastries as they have left.

In previous years, Yang Feng was rude. He was the party secretary and earned a few dozen yuan a month. If he didn't find a way to get something, he would be really poor.

This year is different.

Yang Rui sent some money to his home, all with legal rewards endorsed by Jielikang. The money was placed in the bank, and the monthly interest rate was higher than that of Yang Feng and his two. Although it might not be necessary to spend it all, people's psychology suddenly became different.

During the Spring Festival this year, Yang Feng received other gifts from the village and returned them after receiving them. In the end, all the rare mountain goods were left.

The first sip of soup Yang Rui drank when he went home was cooked with a sip of mushrooms, which was fresh and fragrant.

Seeing that his son was drinking well, Rui's mother was happy and immediately mobilized her husband to start making dumplings.

Comrade Yang Feng was in a miserable way and couldn't help complaining: "I said I wanted to find a nanny. Why did I search for it? I would just chop the meat filling myself."

"My son went to school and there were only two people at home. What kind of nanny is needed? Besides, the nanny doesn't come home during the Chinese New Year. The meat filling is fine, and it will be delicious if it is fine."

Yang Feng's hand dancing with a big kitchen knife when holding a teacup every day, and he gets tired and sweaty after a while. Nowadays, people have to buy meat to chop it by themselves when eating dumplings. It is really a chore. It is usually the main job for men during the Chinese New Year. The duration depends on the population, but it is always a one or two hour.

Yang Feng couldn't stand it and greeted Yang Rui: "Son, come here to help, let's change it."

Yang Rui couldn't escape even if he wanted to hide. He obediently moved a small stool and sat over, picked up the kitchen knife and said, "There is no machine for stirring the filling? I remember that there seems to be one in my uncle's house. He can smash the meat by turning it with his hands."

"That was made by your uncle and his factory last year. They imitated the big machine in the factory. You want to give us one. Your father said that the stir-frying was not delicious." Rui Mom laughed out loud: "I also think it tastes delicious when I chopped it with my hands."

"Dad is right." Yang Rui glanced at his father.

Comrade Yang Feng had a silence and knocked the cutting board with a kitchen knife.

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During the Chinese New Year in the countryside, the sound of firecrackers will not be reduced until the fourth and fifth day of the lunar month.

Of course, from time to time, there would be a sound of individual firecrackers, which were the naughty children who broke up the bundles of firecrackers and ignited them one by one.

Under each string of firecrackers that were directly set off, you can also see naughty children. In order to find the firecrackers that were not ignited first, some naughty children risked being bombed and climbed under the crackling firecrackers and looked for the cannon.

Yang Rui dragged out the naughty child who ignored the danger from under the firecrackers he lit up at home more than once. In order to avoid such risks, he often set off the cannons earlier or later. However, even if he delayed too late and listened to the cannons with his ears, he would still rush to the moment the cannons sounded. If there were close distances, he would devote himself to the sparks without hesitation.

Fortunately, after the second year of junior high school, there was no need to set off firecrackers. Yang Rui simply scattered the remaining firecrackers to the children in the courtyard and instantly turned into the most popular man.

However, in Comrade Yang Feng's eyes, Yang Rui is still just a boy and an important prop to show off.

According to the customs of Xizhaizi Township, from the third year of junior high school, Yang Rui followed his parents to the county town and city to pay New Year's greetings, and his identity immediately changed into a legendary top figure:

Other people’s children!

If the first in the class is the bronze-level "other people's children", the first in the age is the silver-level "other people's children", and the one with provincial and municipal first-level awards is the gold-level "other people's children", the top scorer in the national college entrance examination science subject has simply surpassed the third level of platinum, diamond, and amethyst, and the direct level of "other people's children".

In Nanhu City or Xi County, "other people's children" like Yang Rui are completely invincible when they encounter gods and kill Buddhas.

What are the three good students at the school level, what are the squadron leaders with two bars, the squadron leaders with three bars, what are the key classes of the No. 1 Middle School in the city, what are the undergraduate students of junior college students, facing the national top scorer, Yang Rui of Peking University, there is no question of being instantly involved.

His light can shoot you - a few years later, a man who was defeated by a god-level "other people's children" recalled this scene, full of memories, memories full of pain and cracks.

Yang Rui, who pushed past, was not bored by eating other people's white-cut chickens, picking up other people's spicy snails, and drinking other people's soda. After all, his job is very simple.

Generally speaking, the beginning of the New Year greetings is that Yang Rui is responsible for food and parents are responsible for chatting. When the "adults"'s chats are boring, Yang Rui will take action.

Rui's mother often asked: "Oh, your Xiao Ming is so good, how about the final exam?"

At this time, Xiao Ming, a poor student, will be scolded by his parents for a while, and Xiao Ming, a top student, will be directly pushed out: "Come and tell the uncle and aunt."

But no matter what Xiao Ming said, he would eventually be exposed to Yang Rui's light: "Study hard, and in the future, like Yang Rui, take the college entrance examination, go to Peking University, and win the top scorer in the country!"

The peak of showing off appeared on the sixth day of the lunar month. Middle-level officials at the municipal level organized a group of people, mainly the top leaders of the weaker municipal bureau and the second leaders of the stronger bureau, as well as some county and town leaders to wish the city's new year. The benefit of doing so is to reduce the burden on the leaders. In addition, these middle-level leaders who had no chance or qualification to wish the city's new year can at least be familiar with each other.

In previous years, Yang Feng was insulated from such activities. He was old and qualified, but his position was not high. He was willing to be a land tiger and even was too lazy to go to the city.

But during the Spring Festival in 1984, Comrade Yang Feng was unexpectedly invited.

Yang Rui was also named and asked to participate.

This time, Comrade Yang Feng was stabbed by the light of his own children. When he returned home, he muttered to his wife with pride and discouraged, "Isn't he just got into Peking University?"

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