Seeing that the year is approaching, the countryside is filled with the flavor of the year. People who raise pigs in the New Year began to wait in line for the butcher to kill the pigs, and people who raise fish ponds began to drain the ponds. The room kept ringing all day, and the villagers pounded the soaked glutinous rice into rice noodles in the room to prepare for the kitchen god Baba on New Year's Eve. Baba is wrapped in tung leaves and steamed in a steamer. The freshly cooked Baba is soft and glutinous, and it is sweet and fragrant in the mouth. When it's cold, it hardens, and when it's buried in a firewood pile and cooked, it's brown and refreshing. Farmers in winter leisure have cleaned the house before and after, and the cesspit that has been soaked for several months has been scoured out from the bottom and sprinkled with a layer of lime, which indicates a new beginning.

The big capon kept in captivity for several months was slaughtered and hung under the eaves, swaying with the cold wind in winter.

After the off-year, I officially entered the New Year. Rural people pay attention to the New Year. From the 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first month of next year, the countryside always celebrates the China New Year. Doing nothing in the New Year, doing nothing at home and visiting relatives and friends are the only recreational activities. After the tenth day of the first month, the countryside began to dance dragon lanterns. This time is the busiest time in the countryside, and many young girls and boys meet at this time. Unconsciously, they will achieve an eternal marriage.

In the countryside for the New Year, every family should post Spring Festival couplets. Even if an old man died at home the year before last, the Spring Festival couplets will inevitably be posted, but the color has changed. The first year is green, the second year is yellow, and it can return to red after three years. So during the Spring Festival, when you pass by his door, you can know his family's situation from the color of Spring Festival couplets. This is a kind of culture, an ancient culture that has been circulating for thousands of years. When I know what culture this is, I have to feel ashamed that I have read too little.

Guo Wei called on the whole town to mobilize. On New Year's Eve, the light will shine on the ancient countryside, ending the dark age and entering the bright age.

Guo Wei's call received a positive response. First of all, the headmaster personally arranged for the township middle school to ask the music, physical education and beauty teachers of the school to recall the students with special skills and prepare to organize a huge celebration team. Not wanting to lag behind, the primary school got something to offer flowers to the leaders.

Township * * * cadres perform their duties, set up a good stage, please join the music team and write propaganda slogans. Liu Xiaomei is responsible for purchasing the guests' corsage, Hao Qiang is responsible for the on-site security, and sister-in-law Bai Yue also closes the shop, helping Lao Wang make recipes in the canteen and preparing delicious food for the guests.

Xue Bing was so busy for several days that he put his heel behind his head. He doesn't want to move when he goes back to bed at night. No matter how much I tease him and cater to him, I am boring. I went to her dormitory several times and didn't want to go again. Every night, I go to the store in Qin Xiao to buy some food, and then go back to the dormitory to sleep.

This kind of fighting was only seen when I was studying in Dazhai. Guo Wei called me to the office and asked me to do a few things.

The first thing to do is to invite provincial and municipal TV reporters, which is not difficult. I have classmates from these two departments, and I can do it with a phone call; The second thing is to draft a press release and broadcast it to reporters afterwards. It's not difficult. I can still handle it myself. The third thing is more difficult, writing a speech for the leaders who came to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Who are the leaders here? I don't know the taste of the leader, and people won't read what I wrote, which may be self-defeating, so I delayed Ai for a long time and didn't express my position.

Guo Wei comforted me and said, "Just write boldly. It's all right. The leader has been through many battles, and he only makes reference to what kind of manuscript. "

I said, "Is it the leadership of the county party committee or the municipal party committee?" Guo Wei proudly said: "I originally wanted to invite the county party secretary and the county magistrate. Yesterday, I received a phone call from Minister Huang of the Municipal Party Committee, and Deputy Secretary He of the Municipal Party Committee will personally congratulate me. "

Deputy secretary he? My mind immediately jumped out of the temptation of director Chen Yazhi. Is it my cousin I haven't met before I came?

"Deputy secretary in charge of urban and rural construction, highway system is his old man's house. We cut the ribbon this time, which is two major events, one is a bright spot and the other is smooth. The arrival of Deputy Secretary He is a concern and love for our rural hometown. We must greet the inspection of superior leaders with the best attitude. " Guo Wei once again asked me to say, "These two days, you will write behind closed doors, remember, write speeches, write more achievements, and write less lessons."

I nodded, withdrew from his office and stood at the door of the corridor. I watched the stage set up by Li Daping in front of the villages and towns. The red flag fluttered on the stage, and the students were busy rehearsing on the stage. My eyes searched for Xue Bing, who leaned wearily against the post beside the stage and directed the colorful students to dance.

After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, it is a report performance of Gu Nong Township, and the performance plan has been finalized. In addition to the dances and chorus of township middle schools, there are also programs sent by villages, including ancient paintings and fishing drum performances.

In the frozen agricultural past, let the leaders sit under the stage and watch the performance. Who will be responsible for the frozen disease? At first, I opposed this arrangement, but Guo Wei didn't listen at all and insisted on this procedure.

Back to my room, I lay on my back in bed, grabbed the quilt and covered myself. It's cold outside the window. At the end of each year, there will be a snow in the ancient countryside. It won't snow much, but it won't melt. I will always be with ancient Nong Rong after the New Year. There is no snow this year, but the weather these days indicates that a heavy snow is coming.

I decided to call my aunt. As soon as the phone was connected, my aunt asked me in surprise, "haven't you gone home for the New Year?"

I said, "There will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the village. I'm afraid I can't go home until I graduate from primary school."

Aunt said, "Work is of course important. I can't help my mother at home anyway. " She paused and told me with joy: "Your uncle also went home for the Spring Festival this year. It seems that he will quit after the Chinese New Year. "

I smiled and said, "Aunt, you don't want to join the army. How can you rest assured that you have such a beautiful wife at home? "

Aunt scolded: "Yufeng, are you old or young?"

I quickly excused myself, and when my voice changed, I asked, "Aunt, do I have a cousin who is the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee?"

Menstruation hesitated for a moment and said, "Sure, what's your name?"

I said, "How come you never told me?" Aunt cried and scolded with infinite grievances: "Your boy rolled his eyes and denied people when he was an official, didn't he?" Last time you came back, Ghost mentioned it. You don't care, but you blame me, don't you? "

I smiled and said, "You fight."

Menstruation asked me, "Why did you suddenly think of this?" I said, "I heard that he will come to our ancient countryside to cut the ribbon this time."

"That's a good thing, just because you can recognize relatives." My aunt giggled. "You are a cousin. I have only met her once and I don't know her very well. "

After chatting for a few words, menstruation told me that the shops in Zhu Zhu are very big now. She often goes to my house to see my old mother. My aunt said worriedly, "What's wrong with Mr. Xue? Never have two feet on both sides. "

I patted my chest and said, "Absolutely not."

Hang up the phone, my mind is in a daze. Xi Meizhu often goes to my house? Little girl, hasn't your cousin Xue Bing mentioned me to you?

I decided to stay in Xue Bing dormitory tonight. I want to talk to Xue Bing. If she really didn't mention us, I should try to stop Xi Meizhu's behavior. I can't capsize in their small river ditch!

After thinking for a while, I didn't come up with a clue. I sat up again, dug out my pen and paper and began to write my speech.

Hardly had I written a few words when the door was knocked. When I opened the door, I saw Sister Moon standing by the door with a smile, holding a thermos in her hand and asking me if I wanted boiled water.

I said, "Thank you, Sister Moon." Take the thermos from her hand.

She poked her head around my room and said, "Aren't you going to invite me in?"

I said, "I'm writing a speech."

"You write yours, I can't sit?" I had to invite her in. As soon as she entered the room, she closed the door behind her and said, "It's windy and cold outside."

I smiled, found a cup and poured her a glass of water.

I have seldom seen Sister Moon since she went to Heng Yue. Now that she has lived in the city for several months, she is beginning to smell like a city dweller everywhere. Sister-in-law Bai Yue should not be a rural person. Although her reincarnation was not good, fate played a big joke on her after a turning point, and she finally realized her dream of eating state grain.

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