That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1039 This is a world where people are controlled by others or control others
Dumplings, which sound like "jiaozi", have the beautiful meaning of alternation of the old and the new, festive reunion and good luck in the traditional culture of flower-growing countries.

In the hearts of northerners, especially Dongshan people, dumplings have a very special status.

Someone in later generations made up a joke, saying that the Dongshan people eat dumplings on New Year's Eve. They eat dumplings on the first day, the second, the third, and all the way to the fifteenth day.

There is even a joke that when a daughter-in-law from another place came to Dongshan for the first time, her mother-in-law only served her dumplings but no dishes.

In fact, these are all rumors. It is true that dumplings are a high-standard etiquette for Dongshan people to entertain guests, but there are other dishes on the New Year’s Eve dinner table. Otherwise, how can you let the men in your family drink?
So on New Year's Eve, all the daughters-in-law of the Li family crowded into the kitchen to cook.
If Han Chunmei and her daughter were a little uncomfortable when they first reunited last year, this year Han Chunmei and Fu Yiru have been in frequent contact and the relationship has become more natural.

Wu Juying was in charge of the direction, Fu Guiru and Han Chunmei were the main chefs, Wen Leyu and Li Juan, Li Ying and Fu Yiru were apprentices helping out, they were busy and full of laughter, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

As for the men in Old Li’s family, they will not go into the kitchen today because they have a more important task - setting off firecrackers!
Fireworks were not banned on New Year's Eve in 1988. From the moment it got dark, the sound of firecrackers could be heard, alternating between fast and slow, and quite rhythmic.

Later generations had a short video of Uncle Benshan celebrating the New Year in the ruins which became very popular. No matter how poor or difficult his life was, he had to buy two pounds of white bread for a meal of dumplings on the last day of the New Year, and empty the last coin in his pocket to buy half a hang of firecrackers.

In fact, people don’t eat the dumplings because they are greedy, and they don’t set off firecrackers just to hear the noise. They are just motivating themselves and gathering their energy during the New Year to make next year’s life better than this year, and to make things better and better in the future.

So firecrackers and dumplings were equally important in that era.

It even seems that the family that sets off more firecrackers will have a better life.

The Li family bought a lot of firecrackers this year. Li Zhongfa, Li Kaijian, and Li Ye, three generations of the family, each with a child, began to teach their experience in setting off firecrackers.

How could children in the 1980s and 1990s not know how to set off firecrackers? They must be trained from an early age.

"Do you see this wick? Stretch out your arm and put the fire on it. When you hear a sizzling sound, turn around and run quickly."

"It's not even lit yet! What are you afraid of?"

Grandpa Li Zhongfa took his grandson Li Youan and taught him how to use the burning incense sticks to light the fuse of the double-kick firecrackers.
Unfortunately, although this child is the oldest among the three, he is the least courageous. He started covering his ears before the fuse was lit, and the burning incense almost burnt the fur on his sable hat.

This made Li Zhongfa, who had walked through the hail of bullets, very dissatisfied. This little grandson looked very much like him, but he didn't know who he inherited his courage from.

"Little Baoer, give grandpa one!"

Li Kaijian pushed his grandson out and asked him to show him to Li Zhongfa.

But Xiao Baoer just blinked his eyes, without even thinking of lighting the fire, and turned around to pull his sister out.

"You go and order it."

What the hell!

As a brother, are you encouraging your sister to go first?
What? Since your uncle is scared, it’s not shameful for you, as his brother, to be scared, right?
But the youngest one, Xiaodou, was the most excited and rushed forward with shining eyes.

"I'll do it, I'll do it"

Although Xiaodou'er is a girl, she is the bravest one. After getting permission, she couldn't wait to do it herself.

She held a long incense stick, stuck out her little butt and stretched out her arms. Following the posture her father had taught her just now, she rubbed the red incense head on the fuse and finally lit the fuse of the firecrackers.

Then the little girl just ran back two steps and stared at the firecracker, watching it make a "bang" sound and then disappear without a trace.

"Bang~Bang~"

"Gluck cluck~"

Little Dou'er giggled and jumped as she laughed, which made her grandfather and old grandfather very happy.

"Oh my! It turns out that their courage has grown into Xiaodouer!"

"Come, come, let me play another one for you."

"Bang~Bang"

Li Kaijian held a firecracker in his hand, and after lighting it, he did not throw it away but fired it from his hand.

Xiao Dou was shocked, with his mouth open for a long time, then he asked Li Ye for firecrackers, obviously wanting to follow Li Ye's example.

"I'll try, I'll try!"

"What the hell are you trying?"

Li Ye glared at Li Kaijian and pulled Xiaodouer behind him. The child is so young, you teach her to use handheld firecrackers? What if it explodes?
Parents in the 1980s were really careless. They didn't care if their children bumped into things, got banged, or got bit by dogs, as long as they didn't lose any arms or legs.

Li Kaijian was glared at by Li Ye and was a little annoyed, but Li Ye had Wen Leyu's support, so he couldn't scold him now, and finally just muttered something.

"What a jerk!"

In the 1980s, when people set off firecrackers, the ones they put on the ground were all rubbish.

You said I'm a bear?

Li Ye was very unhappy. Although he did not have the same military experience as Li Zhongfa and Li Kaijian, he was also a real man.

But just when Li Ye rubbed his fingers and prepared to play with the handheld firecrackers, he found that his daughter Xiaodou'er was excited and eager to try it, and he immediately lost interest in competing.

Parents are their children’s first teachers, and “stay away from unnecessary dangers” should be the most important lesson.

"Little Dou'er, firing these kinds of firecrackers is boring. Daddy will teach you how to fire these exciting ones."

Li Ye still took out the Gatling gun he had rubbed with his hands.

A dozen or so colored bead tubes tangled together were quite heavy, and Xiaodouer couldn't hold it by himself, so he needed Li Ye's help.

When dense colorful fireballs rushed into the sky, Xiaodouer was nervous and excited. He held the fireworks tightly with his two little hands, and his crisp "chuckling" laughter was unrestrained and joyful.

Little Youan and Xiao Baoer tightly grasped the trouser legs of their grandfather and old grandfather, looking at their little niece and little sister with awe, and felt a sense of blood suppression invisibly.

Li Ye looked at his daughter and then at his son, feeling somewhat helpless.

The personalities of these two children are quite different.

This is just like the people who set off and watch fireworks in later generations. Although they all witnessed the same fireworks, their natures were different.

Why are people who set off fireworks happier than people who watch them?
Because he controls the fate of the fireworks.

He could set off the fireworks whenever he wanted and set them off wherever he wanted.

The same applies in society.

There are always some people who have a strong desire to control, not only themselves, but also others.

A parent who wants to control his children at home will become very angry if he loses control.

A factory director wants to control the enterprise. Once the employees in the enterprise disobey his management, he will try every means to make them submit.

An emperor, who steps on corpses to reach the pinnacle of power, only wants to control the fate of all the people in the world.

In this human society, similar "control" is everywhere. Unless you are a sage who has seen through the world, you cannot escape the social relationship of controlling or being controlled.

Look at the elders in the family pointing fingers at the younger generations, which is also a release of the desire for control.

If you don't control others, others will control you.

The more control you have, the higher your social status will be and the stronger your desire for power will be.

The girl Xiaodou'er's desire for control is obviously stronger than Xiaobao'er's. Even if Xiaobao'er is as "talented" as Wen Leyu said, it is unclear whether the brother and sister can have a deep relationship in the future and make her, an old father, feel at ease.

"Xiaodou'er, your brother is a little timid, can you help him release one?"

"Row!"

Xiao Douer excitedly took a new firework, rushed to his brother, and began to teach him step by step.

"Hold on tight, I'm going to light the fire!"

"Oh oh oh."

"Hissssss~"

The fuse of the fireworks was lit, and the brother and sister grabbed the fireworks with their four little hands, just like firefighters operating a faucet, helping and relying on each other, laughing out loud.

(End of this chapter)