Chapter 105: A Thriving One, Ask for a Monthly Pass)
Although the Spring Festival Gala is getting worse every year, watching the Spring Festival Gala on New Year's Eve is still a habit that many rural families have always maintained. In previous years, the Qin family did not have TV, so they could only watch it at the village convenience store.
Of course, there are also many people who have TVs at home and still like to watch them at the village convenience store. After all, there are so many people and chatting while watching TV. This is a favorite among the elderly in the New Year.
As for young people, they basically drink, play cards and play mahjong, and this is basically the same trend throughout the country.
This year, everyone in the Qin family went anywhere, so they stayed in the villa chatting, drinking tea and watching the Spring Festival Gala, and the whole family was having a happy time.
In addition to chatting with his family, Qin Liufu also chatted with Su Xiaoman on WeChat.
In a blink of an eye, time has reached 23:50, and there are ten minutes left to welcome the New Year.
"The New Year is coming soon, let's go out and set off fireworks!" Qin Baxing said eagerly.
He had long been unable to sit still. He was the age of sixteen or seventeen who loved to play the most. In previous years, his family had never bought fireworks and had no choice but to play. But this year, Brother Liu bought a large truck of fireworks, which allowed him to play enough.
Qin Liufu looked at the time and said, "Okay, I'm going out to set off fireworks!"
The family is looking forward to this. Although Qin's father and mother felt sorry for money, they thought that the Qin family would become a dazzling presence for all the villagers in Qinghe Village tonight, and the couple couldn't help but feel proud.
In life, the most important thing is to "return home in glory". How many people work hard for a year when they go out and save money, but when they return to their hometown, they become extremely generous. What is the reason?
Isn’t it just to show that he is doing well outside in front of the villagers!
To put it bluntly, it’s just for face!
There is a saying in our country that "I have to live with my face and suffer with my life", which means that people suffer so much to make them feel good about their face.
Those who suffer from face and even pay the price of their lives are Xiang Yu who committed suicide by slashing his throat in Wujiang and Boyi and Shuqi who starved to death in Shouyang Mountain. These three are typical examples of wanting face.
Xiang Yu was originally "the children of Jiangdong are of great talent, and it is unknown whether they make a comeback", but for the sake of "no shame to the elders of Jiangdong", he handed over the country to Liu Bang. It is really sad and lamentable.
In short, the people of China value face, which is well known to us both in ancient and modern times.
Especially rural people, they can put down all their faces when they are out of town, even if they are beggars, but in their hometowns in their countryside and in front of familiar villagers, they attach the most importance to face.
Of course, it is impossible to set off fireworks near the villa, otherwise the subsequent cleaning work will be annoying. The Qin family moved the place where the fireworks were set off to the open space where they cooked during the wedding banquet.
Qin Liufu said to Su Xiaoman on WeChat: "Xiaoman, can you set off fireworks during the New Year in your hometown?"
Su Xiaoman replied: "You can let it go!"
Qin Liufu said: "Will you put too much?"
Su Xiaoman said: "Not too many, many people set off three or two fireworks, while few people may not even set off any!"
Qin Liufu said: "That's really rare. It's very lively here. My family plans to set off fireworks until dawn tonight!"
Su Xiaoman said: "Ah? How many fireworks have you bought?"
Qin Liufu said: "Hehe, I bought more than 300,000 fireworks, a truck full of one truck!"
Su Xiaoman: "(⊙o⊙)"
Qin Liufu: "(^_^)"
The countdown to welcome the New Year begins. When the new year comes, Qin Baxing, who has been waiting next to the "Enjoy the World" fireworks, lit the fireworks on time.
With a "whisper" sound, fireworks soared into the sky, and then burst out with a "bang" in the sky, and the beautiful colors immediately illuminated the entire night sky.
At the same time, firecrackers were ringing in the entire Qinghe Village, and fireworks from each family soared into the sky, instantly illuminating Qinghe Village as bright as daytime.
At the same time, Qin Liufu said to Su Xiaoman on WeChat: "Xiaoman, Happy New Year!"
Almost at the same time, Su Xiaoman also said: "Luofu, Happy New Year!"
"Happy New Year!"
"Happy New Year!"
"Happy New Year!"
The Qin family, Qinghe Village, Bainiu Town, Baizhou County, Guizhou Province, the whole country, and overseas Chinese all expressed the same blessing to their relatives or relatives and friends far away from home at the same time.
When it comes to Spring Festival, big cities are indeed not as lively as rural areas. Even celebrating the New Year in big cities is not only not lively, but also at least ten times more deserted than usual.
For example, those big cities with the largest population of foreigners, the entire city almost becomes an "empty city" during the Chinese New Year.
Because cities have restrictions on setting fireworks and fireworks, many big cities cannot hear the sound of fireworks and fireworks during the New Year's Eve, and there are no various customs in the countryside, which feels no different from usual.
The most pitiful thing is that as those who do business return to their hometowns for the New Year, many people in big cities find a place to have breakfast outside from the first to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
Although Huang Tongtong is not a big city, Anguang County, where her mother's home is located, is affiliated to Yongcheng, the capital of Guizhou Province, where there are also considerable restrictions on fireworks and firecrackers.
In addition, her parents' home does not pay attention to fireworks and firecrackers, so it is naturally difficult to see the grand scene of fireworks and firecrackers flying in Qinghe Village.
Especially in the first ten minutes after midnight, almost every household was setting off fireworks and firecrackers. Huang Tongtong saw the grand scene for the first time.
To put it no exaggeration, in these golden ten minutes, people in Qinghe Village rarely spoke because the sound of fireworks and firecrackers was too loud and no one could hear them clearly.
For families with infants and young children, every time at this time, they will close their doors and windows in their homes firmly, and then their parents will cover their children's ears with quilts or cotton.
The fireworks of the Qin family are basically set off by Qin Baxing and Qin Jiuzhu. The brother and sister take turns to release them. You can put one, I will pick up the next one, and then you will...
The types of fireworks are very festive, with wealth and blessings, good luck, great red cannons, dragons and phoenixes dancing, happy new year, all the sky is celebrated, all the trees are full of gold, rays of the rays of the century, the umbrella of the Shenzhou, the rays of light (color boxes), silver dragons are flying (color boxes), treasures from all directions (color boxes), red sky, flowers bloom and wealth, gold and silver all over the ground, lucky stars, etc.
Among so many kinds of fireworks, the prices are different. The cheapest ones are like wealth, dragons and phoenixes dancing, and reds are no more than twenty yuan. The expensive ones are like light shining (color boxes), silver dragons flying (color boxes), treasures entering from all directions (color boxes), lucky stars are more than two hundred yuan.
The others are priced at a price ranging from dozens to more than one hundred yuan.
Fireworks in the Qin family kept exploding in the sky, especially fireworks like the rays of light (color boxes), the silver dragon flying (color boxes), the treasures from all directions (color boxes), and the lucky star are all things that pay for the money. The sound of the explosion in the sky and the beauty of the fireworks explosion are all the best.
Therefore, the Qin family's fireworks became the most popular existence in the village.
After spending the golden ten minutes, many families with average economic conditions in Qinghe Village have gone from being participants to being spectators today. In the past, the Qin family was one of these many families.
Half an hour later, more than 95% of the families in the village were shut down!
An hour later, there were only three families in Qinghe Village that were still setting off fireworks, and the Qin family was one of them.
Two hours later, the other two companies in Qinghe Village also went out of business, but the Qin family was still strong, and the fireworks continued to explode, attracting all the attention of the village.
In addition to the Qin family, there is also a family in the neighboring village that is still persisting, and the sound and the light brought by the explosion of fireworks in the air can be heard from afar.
When the time pointed to three in the morning, all the fireworks in the villages were turned off, and only the Qin family's fireworks were still setting off.
Originally, Qin's father and mother were over fifty years old, so it was not interesting to be spectators in previous years, so they naturally went to bed early. But this year, they were the protagonists, and even though Qin's father and mother were a little sleepy, they were unwilling to go back to sleep.
Qin Baxing and Qin Jiuzhu set off fireworks for two or three hours, and they became a little tired. Then several brothers and sisters of the Qin family, including sister-in-law Huang Tongtong, participated, and boxes of fireworks were brought out to set off, which was a fulfillment of their childhood dreams.
The custom in Qinghe Village is to worship ancestors on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, and it means that the earlier you worship, the earlier you get rich, so the villagers have to get up at around 4 a.m. to cook and kill chickens.
At this time, the Qin family was still setting off fireworks, which was a rare spectacle in Qinghe Village.
It was set off until about five in the morning before the fireworks of the large truck were almost set off.
Of course, this is also because the Qin family sets off one by one. If thousands of fireworks like TV are set off together, it means buying all the fireworks from the fireworks factory, but I am afraid that it will not last for so long.
After the fireworks were set off, the elder brother and Qin's father and mother also prepared the meal for worshipping their ancestors, so the whole family went out to the Qin family's ancestral temple to worship their ancestors.
Fireworks and firecrackers are also set off here, but they are basically just a firecracker or a firework.
After worshiping our ancestors, we had a simple breakfast after returning home. Everyone who was already sleepy quickly returned to their room to rest.
Anyway, the customs in Qinghe Village are usually not allowed to visit relatives on the first day of the Lunar New Year, so the Qin family is not embarrassed to be embarrassed if no one comes to entertain relatives.
When the Qin family went back to rest, everyone in Qinghe Village and neighboring villages were discussing the grand occasion of setting off fireworks in each village last night. The unique Qin family was naturally mentioned frequently, and their words were full of envy.
After the wedding banquet that caused a sensation in Bainiu Town before the New Year, the Qin family's reputation in the villages has spread. Everyone was envious of the grand occasion of the Qin family setting off fireworks last night, and they also felt that it should be like this.
This is the villagers' recognition of the strength and status of the Qin family.
Chapter completed!