1979 The Life of Idle Fish

Chapter 35
This alley, which had been silent for a long time, was awakened by the sound of "cracking" firecrackers.

A bit of cold wind passed through, bringing coldness and taking away the smell of gunpowder.

The snow has all melted away. The weather is very nice today. Not to mention the wind and sunshine, it is also cloudless.

At noon, the whole family gathered around the red sandalwood Eight Immortals table and looked at the delicacies on the table.

"Hey, hey, wipe your saliva, you look like a loser"

Don't think this must be my lovely wife Su Guilan.

We can’t give some face to those who are celebrating the New Year. Even though there are only three of us, it’s very shameless to say it.

It's over. Once Su Guilan knows about this, it means that all relatives and friends know about it.

I secretly hate myself for not being able to hold the door shut, so how can I let the water out? It embarrasses me.

While wiping his mouth with his hand, he explained arrogantly: "How can you? Your eyesight is dazzled. You sit all the time. You must be tired from cooking! My son, please press your arms and rub your legs to show your filial piety."

"Don't, I'm afraid you'll tear it apart for me."

This guy is definitely up to no good.From now on, there will be new things for the sisters to talk about.

What delicious food do you cook? When my son smells the saliva of the food I cook, his chest will be wet. If you say this, you will definitely win a lot of foodie fans.

"How is this possible? Now you don't even believe in your own son?"

Luo Tao didn't believe this fact and asked relentlessly.

"I'm only afraid of my own child."

Well!Why does it sound bad to hear this?
"Can you two calm down? We've made a quarrel with our ancestors." Luo Shaoyi listened for a while and stopped the quarrel between the two of them.

I saw an incense burner and incense candles on the large table in the main hall. Three incense sticks were lit in the incense burner, but the incense candles were placed on the copper candlestick and were not lit.

There is an ancestor portrait hanging on the wall. There are four generations of ancestors of the Luo family, including grandfather Luo Jing and grandmother Luo Bai.

Luo Tao had little impression of his grandma, and she left when Luo Tao was seven or eight years old.

As soon as this was said, they all fell silent.

It's enough to make a fool of oneself when others see a joke. This person can't afford to be embarrassed if his ancestors see a joke. When he sees it in the future, just thinking about it will make people excited.

Eating, eating, it's easy to take it seriously if you think too much about it.

Luo Tao's favorite "eight bowls" were finally put together this year. In previous years, there were only four. When I couldn't eat them the most, I couldn't remember them for so long. At the worst, there were two.

The eight major bowls in the capital are divided into many types. The high-end ones are the table we made today; there are also low-end ones;
There are also eight thick and thin bowls, as well as the "Eight Manchu Bowls" and the "Eight Halal Bowls". The Chinese people can really think about this aspect of eating.

No matter how delicious the eight bowls of noodles are, they are not as good as the hand-made noodles made by my own mother.

Luo Tao picked up the chopsticks, felt something, and put them down again.

"Okay, there are only three of us at home, so don't talk so much about the old etiquette." Luo Shaoyi said this before he even moved his chopsticks.

If you think about it, there's nothing wrong with what you said. There are only three people in the family who set so many rules. Aren't they just playing with themselves?

The eight dishes are: a large bowl of three-yellow chicken, a large bowl of yellow croaker, a large bowl of elbows, a large bowl of meatballs, a large bowl of rice vermicelli meat, a large bowl of pork belly, a large bowl of loose meat and a large bowl of spareribs.

Luo Tao went up and pulled off the only chicken leg with chopsticks. Why was it just one leg, but what about the other leg?
If my wife, Su Guilan, were not stingy, I would have had half the ingredients for the big yellow chicken, which would be a big deal if I were to open a restaurant.

Not only this one, but the others are also less than half the amount. Today is "eight small bowls".

This matter!There's nothing to say. In Luo Tao's eyes, it's just petty. In Su Guilan's eyes, it's frugality. Eat as much as you can and stick to the principle of not wasting.Luo Tao could feel a murderous aura, and he knew who it was without even thinking about it.No matter what she thinks, take it into your mouth first and then talk about it.

After this meal, my mouth is full of oil, and I don’t lack meat at ordinary times!
Why do I have such a big appetite today? Fortunately, I am in a good mood!

After dinner, I helped my parents clean up, and then looked at the table. Fortunately, there was a tablecloth on it, otherwise the oil might have soaked into the wood.

The space at home is small, and these babies are greatly wronged. The chairs they sit on, the table they eat on, the bowls they eat on, and the paintings on the wall are simple.

This is such a big capital city, apart from those real giants, there are not many houses that are arranged like this.

Time passes quickly!I want to take advantage of the opportunity to make a lot of money and buy a house.

After cleaning up the oil stains, Luo Tao went around the room to check and check, if something went wrong, Luo Tao would have to kill him.

Luo Tao took three old bookkeeping books from the study room, and first made separate books for furniture, porcelain, calligraphy and painting.

Starting with the north room, there are seventeen pieces of furniture, six pieces of paintings and calligraphy, and after counting, we will go to the west wing with 33 pieces of furniture and nothing else.

Then he went to the east wing where he lived and ransacked his house. Sixteen pieces of furniture, six ancient coins, and 41 pieces of porcelain were found.

There are 63 miscellaneous pieces of calligraphy and painting, four editions of stamps, one hundred volumes of ancient books, and six pots of green gold bars.

The ancestral items include "Lanting Preface" written in cursive script by Wen Zhengming and a "Lanting Study" Hetian jade seal.

In addition to the books I bought over the years, there are nearly [-] treasures left by my ancestors, and there are also dozens of modern porcelain and miscellaneous items. The pile of scraps is also worth a lot of money.

Although there are not tens of thousands of pieces, I have not bought too many modern works of art, and most of them are treasures.

Most of these were bought at Friendship Stores and Trust Stores, and there are more than 100 ancient books collected by generations of the Luo family.

I tidied it up and I am very satisfied with it. Although it is not much now, it still fills up the room.

After finishing all these things, it was getting dark, and the sound of firecrackers came one after another, even while eating.

After dinner, it started to snow again outside, and the alley was filled with memories of childhood that could no longer be returned.

Laughing, crying, chasing and playing, some naughty boys even deliberately placed firecrackers in the lanterns carried by girls.

A "pop" sound can blow out the candles in the lantern. If you are unlucky, the lantern will be lit.

At this time, there were very few plastic lanterns. The frames of the lanterns were mostly made of bamboo and thin sorghum poles, with a thin layer of rice paper on the outside, stained with glue.

Then thread a thin but strong rope, tie the lantern to a bamboo stick about fifteen centimeters long, and press the candle, and the lantern is ready.

The Lantern Festival takes place every year from around the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival.

The most embarrassing things during the Chinese New Year are buying new clothes, having a delicious meal, ordering New Year's money, setting off firecrackers, and making your own lanterns.

Making lanterns is mainly about competing with your friends to see who can do it well and who can do it skillfully.I know a little bit about calligraphy and painting, and I can also write a few sentences in a dance.

A bit like artistic youth, "artistic youth" is the hottest term in this era, dominating the charts for many years.

Among the young people on campus today, some of them don’t have a few or dozens of currently popular poems in their stomachs.

ah!The era of artistic youth has come.

Almost all the classic novels after the reform and opening up were written at this time, and even Ma Wei published his works during this period.

(End of this chapter)