i have a mountain

Chapter 134

A few children poked their heads out cautiously under the eaves, took a look and then retracted, jumping and jumping happily. Seeing Aowei's excitement, Yu Fei felt his hands itch, and the two of them came out with a bucket of fireworks each. , count one two three and light the fuses together.

"Tom tom tom tom tom tom tom..." Yu Fei pointed out that the barrels of fireworks were set off in a row, forming a huge fan shape in the air, and matched with Aowei's barrel with flare-like fireworks, presenting a different kind of fireworks in the air beauty.

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After a while, Yu Fei's father and elder brother also came back, followed by a few uncles and brothers. With the addition of these people, the fireworks team grew much stronger in an instant. When the fifth uncle and fifth aunt arrived, the entire eaves The station is almost full of people.

Yu Feishanfeng was busy pouring smoke and water. For Chinese New Year, all the guests who come to the house are guests, and no one can neglect it.

Just as everyone was commenting on which of the fireworks just set off was better, fireworks also started to take off in the southwest corner of the village. After a moment of silence, the crowd began to discuss again.

The village party secretary sneered and said, "The show has started again. It's like this every year. After other people's houses are finished, you can enjoy your fireworks, right? It shows that you are better than others."

Then he said to Fei: "How many fireworks do you have at home?"

Before Yu Fei could speak, Ao Wei, who was in the middle of setting off the fireworks, heard it, and said loudly: "There are still many in the house, and they can be played for a long time."

The village party secretary said: "Okay, let's release it vigorously, and it can't be released for a shorter time than other people's homes."

Ao Wei cheerfully agreed: "Well, just watch this one today."

Yu Fei was depressed, and the two of them asked and answered completely ignoring his master's opinion, but after seeing his father cheerfully keeping silent, he obediently shut his mouth.

Then it became even more lively. After you sang and we sang, a firework 'battle' lasted until about ten o'clock, so many people staying at Yu Fei's house had no interest in the Spring Festival Gala broadcast on the TV in the house.

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"Guoguo, come here, this is your lucky money." Mother took out a brand new 20 yuan note and put it in Guoguo's pocket.

This is a tradition in my hometown. Before the children go to bed on New Year’s Eve, the elders in the family will give each child lucky money. This money is different from the lucky money that will always be confiscated by your parents for the reason that I will keep it for you.

This money must be in the child's pocket for the New Year, and few parents will collect this money. This is the only lucky money that children receive during the New Year that they can control by themselves, so the denomination is generally not large.

"Thank you grandma." Guoguo said sweetly.

"Hey, hurry up and go to sleep with grandma, you have to get up early later." Yu Fei's mother said dotingly, rubbing her head.

"kindness."

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With a small square table, a blanket, and mahjong on top, Yu Fei, Aowei, Shan Feng, and the third uncle who has not left have built the Great Wall together.

Anyway, it will start to rise again in a few hours, and I can't sleep enough to sleep, so I can just play mahjong, wait for the fifth watch, and come back after the New Year's greetings to catch up on sleep.

In Yu Fei's hometown, there is no such thing as keeping the year old during Chinese New Year, only the fifth watch.

According to the time in ancient times, the fifth watch is from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] in the morning. That is to say, the fifth watch needs to get up at [-]:[-] in the morning on the first day of the new year to worship the gods and set off firecrackers. For a meal, eating dumplings is also called drinking soup.

However, with the passage of time, there is not so much attention to time. Now after midnight, there are many people who start to set off cannons and worship God, just to wait for a series of processes to go through, so that they can go back to bed and sleep again. a while.

Then wait until the sky is bright, and then go to the elders' homes to pay New Year's greetings one by one.

No, just after zero o'clock, firecrackers started to sound from the east, and there were dull sounds from farther away.

"Every year, they start firing cannons early in the area. Why are you talking about it so early? Three." Uncle San said while playing a card.

Aowei quickly reached out his hand to stop Shanfeng from drawing his cards, and said, "Peng, Wutiao, how do you know that he got up early? Maybe he didn't sleep, and he was just waiting for this moment."

"You played all the cards I wanted." Shan Feng said dissatisfiedly, after drawing a card, he played it again: "[-], what a scumbag."

Looking at the [-] to [-] cards in his hand, Yu Fei felt that he had a better chance of drawing himself, so he let go of the Shanfeng card and reached out to touch one, hey, amazing, [-]!
Rejoicing, he stretched out his hand and pushed the card and said, "Zi Mo, ten yuan for a family, give the money quickly."

Ao Wei stretched his head to look at his cards and shouted: "Why didn't you win the [-] my brother played just now?"

Yu Fei rolled his eyes: "I have such a big chance of winning with this card, why should I win against Xiao Hu? You see how good it is to beat the three of you now."

Reluctantly, Aowei took out ten yuan from his pocket and handed it over. It was borrowed from Yu Fei before the opening, and it was agreed that if he won the money, the two of them would split half and half. Win less.

While shuffling the cards, the third uncle said, "Do you know why our family sets off firecrackers at the fifth watch of the new year?"

"This kid knows it all, in order to drive away the Nian Beast." Aowei quickly answered.

The third uncle glanced at him and continued to ask: "Then do you know why you put a barricade at the door during the Chinese New Year?"

The three of Yu Fei looked at me and I looked at you, all with puzzled looks on their faces. This is passed down from the older generation. Every year on the [-]th, a barricade is placed at the door. The thicker and straighter the better. .

Seeing the three of them like that, the third uncle smiled proudly and said, "You don't know that, do you? You're still young!"

"You know you can talk about it." Yu Fei said.

"Ahem!" The third uncle cleared his throat, raised his posture and said, "If you talk about this, then you will have a child without a mother. It is a long story."

"Then don't talk about it." Aowei said while counting the cards.

Because Shanfeng is a bit older, it is not easy to show off to his elders, so he can only laugh on the sidelines.

The third uncle looked constipated, and said with a little anger: "Listen carefully, otherwise no one will know the allusion in it in the future."

"It's as if you know it." Aowei whispered.

"What did you say?" Uncle San hit him with a dice and said.

Ao Wei caught the dice in a hurry, and then said with a smile: "I didn't say anything, just waiting for you to tell us the story inside."

Seeing this, the third uncle stopped talking to him, and said with a mysterious expression: "The allusion of this door-throwing stick must start from the end of the Yuan Dynasty. That's where they are recruited and killed, and ordinary people can only hide everywhere."

On New Year's Eve, the general led his troops on horseback to hunt down the remnants of the Yuan army. He saw a woman holding a big boy in her arms and leading a little boy to run. The soldiers caught up with her and wanted to kill her. If you don't open it, throw the little boy away and run away with the big boy on your back.

General Lan Yu was very surprised, stopped her and asked, "Are you a fool? If you weren't a fool, wouldn't you be able to carry a child faster than carrying an older child?!"

The woman said: "The older boy belongs to her elder brother's family. Now the child's parents have been killed by officers and soldiers. If the child is lost, the elder brother's family will be broken. The little boy is her own. If she loses herself, she can still live." Regenerate a continuation..."

After hearing this, General Lan Yu said with emotion: "You are a virtuous person, go back, I won't kill you."

The peasant woman said, "My lord, in this troubled world, sooner or later I will die by the swords of the soldiers. You should kill me."

General Lan Yu thought for a while and said: "Don't worry, when you get home, find a stick and put it across the door, when the soldiers come again, don't go out, you will be fine."

The woman said, "Your Excellency, are you serious?"

General Sapphire nodded, and the woman quickly thanked her. "

After the woman returned home, she did as General Sapphire said. The people in the village came back to see that the woman was eating at home, and there was a horizontal stick at the door. The people in the village asked her why, and she said from beginning to end. After reading it again, everyone in the village put a horizontal stick at the door after hearing what she said, and the news spread overnight to relatives and friends in distant towns.

After the woman left, General Lan Yu raised his tent in the camp, and issued an order: the household with the stick at the door is a kind family, and they are not allowed to enter the house. Anyone who violates this order will come to see him first.

From then on, on the night of the New Year's Eve, every family put a barricade at the door and it became popular.

After listening to the third uncle, the three of Yu Fei looked at each other in blank dismay. There was still such a big word in the small door stick.

"Hearing what you said, I also remembered an allusion." Aowei said.

"What do you know, you little kid?" Uncle San didn't like it very much when someone jumped out to question the authority of his words.

"I heard this from the grandfather behind the village when I was a child. I had already forgotten it. I just remembered it after hearing you say that today." Aowei argued.

The grandfather Ao Wei mentioned was the uncle of the third uncle's generation, and also the elder brother of Yu Fei's grandfather.

Hearing what Aowei said, Third Uncle hesitated and asked, "What did he tell you?"

Ao Wei thought for a while and said: "I don't remember everything, I seem to remember that he said that the blocking stick is for blocking people."

Human stick? ? ?

Yu Fei was inexplicably terrified, as if he knew what this guy was going to say next.

Sure enough, Aowei went on to say: "Human sticks are people who have their limbs chopped off, but they are already dead, but there is a resentment in their bodies that supports their actions. They will be dispatched collectively every thirty years. Rolling around in the wilderness, the purpose of putting barricades is to stop those people from rolling into my house."

The third uncle had a dull expression on his face, and it took him a long time to ask, "Then where did these sticks come from?"

Ao Wei thought for a while and said: "I remember grandpa said that some treacherous people who were tortured in the underworld can only come out for a while when they are thirty."

The third uncle looked at him and said, "Then we have another way of saying it, do you know?"

Ao Wei shook his head in confusion.

The third uncle said sadly: "The gate of ghosts opens on New Year's Eve, and the purpose of setting up a door-throwing stick is to keep those wild ghosts, evil spirits and other things out of the door."

Yu Fei shuddered, and quickly said: "Let's stop this topic here, this New Year's Day stunned you to call it a horror movie."

Shan Feng rubbed his arms, and said with a face of approval: "That's right, that's right, I'm getting goosebumps from what you're talking about."

The third uncle returned to normal: "Come on, let's continue playing mahjong."

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"Jiubing, do you know why you go door to door on the morning of the first day of the new year?" The third uncle asked casually.

"I want lucky money." Ao Wei said while grabbing a card.

"No." The third uncle shook his head and said, "That's to make sure that no one has been eaten by the Nian beast or some kind of evil spirit."

Ao Wei was scared away when he just caught the cards in his hand...

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(End of this chapter)