Chapter 329 New Year’s Eve
January 27, the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
This year’s Spring Festival falls on Xiaoyue, so there is no New Year’s Eve. And not only this year, there has been no New Year’s Eve for five consecutive years from 2025 to 2029.
So the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month is New Year’s Eve.
Brother Nan sent Li Mu a WeChat message early this morning. She went to the capital with her parents.
Jiang Daimao: [Picture]
Jiang Daimao: The plane has taken off.
Li Mu: How did you get online?
Jiang Daimao: First class, with Wi-Fi
Li Mu: Oh, when will you return to the provincial capital?
Jiang Daimao: After the New Year, I can’t say for sure. In previous years, my dad would go back after celebrating the Spring Festival with my grandpa. My mother and I stayed in Beijing to stay with grandpa for a few more days, almost until after the seventh and eighth day of the lunar month.
Li Mu: That’s right.
Jiang Daimao: What? Can't bear to leave Brother Nan?
Li Mu: A little bit.
Jiang Daimao: Hehe! Don't miss me too much! /laugh/laugh/laugh
Li Mu could guess Brother Nan's expression through the text. He must be smiling brightly, because he is smiling now too.
But Li Mu’s reply was very cold: Oh.
Jiang Daimao: Will you miss me?
Li Mu: Yes.
Jiang Daimao: That’s good, just think about it slowly, hahaha!
Jiang Daimao: I will try to miss you once or twice, well, don’t be too little, be content! Be content and happy!
Li Mu raised the corners of his mouth and replied: Got it.
Jiang Daimao: I won’t tell you anymore. I got up too early today and I need to catch up on my sleep.
Li Mu: OK.
At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded from behind: "Can't you bear to leave Brother Nan?"
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Li Mu turned around and saw Li Qinran standing behind him, bending over and staring at his mobile phone.
"Why are you peeking at my chat?" Li Mu quickly locked the screen of his phone.
"You were too absorbed in chatting with Brother Nan. I called you, but you didn't hear me." Li Qinran looked calm.
“.”
Li Mu had a headache.
There was originally a kitten who loved to peek at the screen, and now she has a little sister.
"What did you ask me to do?"
"Go buy fireworks. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. If you don't go early, you can only buy what others pick out."
"Oh, let's go." Li Mu picked up the yogurt on his lap and went back to the house to change clothes.
It is prohibited to set off fireworks in the urban areas of the provincial capital. In the past, fixed setting points were set up. In a few years, the government funded the purchase of large quantities of high-end fireworks to set off, attracting thousands of people to empty the streets. However, this is no longer allowed.
But you can go to the suburbs to set off fireworks. There are few people there to control them. Perhaps because of the Chinese New Year, the government turns a blind eye.
It’s okay to go to the countryside. Fireworks in rural areas cannot be banned.
Li Mu and Li Qinran buy some fireworks every year, and then go to the suburbs to find an open place to play.
This has been the case since childhood, and it has become a habit.
According to the policy, buying fireworks is not something you can buy casually. There are only a few fixed fireworks and firecracker sales points in the provincial capital, which have been registered and obtained sales licenses, and other businesses are not allowed to sell them.
However, the wisdom of the people is infinite. If you just walk into a supermarket and give a few passwords, the boss will take out the hidden fireworks from the back room.
Li Mu bought two large barrels of fireworks and many small fireworks.
There are cylindrical tubes named Fire Trees and Silver Flowers by the boss, mini fireworks composed of sky cannons, as well as fairy sticks that Li Qinran likes, colorful chrysanthemum fireworks that spin in circles when thrown on the ground and other ornamental gadgets Son, it cost a little over eight hundred yuan in total.
The next day, New Year’s Eve.
Auntie and Lao Li got up early in the morning to make glutinous rice balls.
The glutinous glutinous rice dumplings for breakfast, two poached eggs in a bowl, are just right in sweetness. One bite warms the whole body and dispels the chill in the morning.
I like sweet yogurt. After breakfast, my belly was round and round, and I lay motionless on the sofa.
Lao Li sat next to the kitten, touched the kitten and started tinkering with the phone. After a while, a Huangmei tune began to sing from the speaker.
“Yingtai is not a girl, so why are there ring marks on her ears?”
"There is a reason for the earring marks. Why should Brother Liang be suspicious? There are many temple fairs in the village to honor the gods, and I play the role of Guanyin every year."
A very old-fashioned tune.
"Brother Liang, you have to concentrate on your work and don't think about your future."
"I dare not look at Guanyin from now on."
Old Li crossed his legs and followed the tune. He hummed softly and drew circles with his index finger.
Li Mu and his sister looked at each other with a smile on their faces.
Actually, Lao Li doesn’t like to hear this. He has never heard of it.
Li Mu only remembered that when he was a child, his grandfather would play these operas every Chinese New Year. Not only Huangmei minor tunes, but also various local operas. The old people in that era liked to listen to operas. He felt that these operas were played during the Chinese New Year. It’s a joy, but also tossing and tossing the vcd so that it doesn’t break after being stored for a long time.
Now Lao Li plays it every year, maybe because he is used to it, or maybe he just misses his father.
It’s just that the vcd is gone, and so is the old man.
Maybe he will do the same in the future when he gets older.
Li Muru thought.
Evening, eight o'clock. The Spring Festival Gala has already started playing on the TV in the living room. Lao Li is sitting on the sofa watching it, while his aunt is looking out the window.
From time to time there were muffled sounds and flashes of light in the distance.
People started setting off fireworks.
Li Mu and Li Qinran are also preparing to go out.
"There will definitely be a traffic jam on the way to the suburbs today. Please drive carefully."
The aunt warned them, "It's cold outside, so wear thicker clothes."
" Got it.”
Go out and go downstairs.
Drive straight out of the city.
They drove the car that my aunt usually used to buy groceries, and the fireworks they bought yesterday were placed in the trunk of the car.
The road was very busy and everyone wanted to go outside the city to put flowers.
The sky outside the city is darker and deeper, and the light of the fireworks is more conspicuous. You can even see clear fireworks occasionally.
Their destination was a town on the outskirts of the city.
The closer to the town, the denser the fireworks.
Li Mu parked the car on the roadside at the top of a slope, then the two of them got out of the car, took the fireworks from the trunk, and climbed up the hill next to them.
Far EasTone kept hearing the muffled sound of fireworks, like the beating of a heavy drum, which made people's heart beat faster involuntarily and they started to trot quickly.
When we stepped onto the top of the mountain, we had a panoramic view of the town, and the fireworks were almost as high as them.
"Bang, bang, bang"
Fireworks of different colors exploded in the night sky ahead, forming a dazzling scene on the dark curtain.
A scene of prosperity.
Not only here, such fireworks bloom almost everywhere in the country.
The distant capital.
A tall girl with a tuft of dull hair on her head stood together with her relatives and friends, and fireworks exploded above her head, blooming with shocking beauty.
Everyone except her was holding up their mobile phones to record the beautiful moment. Only she was looking up attentively.
Soon ashes fell into her eyes, and she just rubbed them.
Then he continued to stare, stare
Li Qinran turned on her phone to record a short video of the fireworks set off by others in mid-air.
Li Mu thought for a while, then took out his phone and found Brother Nan's WeChat account.
Li Mu: Have you seen the fireworks?
It took a while before Brother Nan responded to the message.
Jiang Daimao: I just finished the storage and bought eight large barrels, the kind that require two people to move. My neck is sore and my eyes are filled with dust.
Li Mu: Does the capital allow fireworks?
Jiang Daimao: We drove outside the Fifth Ring Road to release it.
Jiang Daimao: [Video]
Jiang Daimao: Does it look good?
Li Mu: It looks great, we are going to set off fireworks too.
Jiang Daimao: Record a video for me.
Li Mu: Yeah
After replying to Brother Nan’s message, Li Mu looked up and found that his sister had already set up the fireworks.
Seeing that he had finished chatting, my sister handed over the lighter: "Old rules, we each set off one bucket of fireworks, but I can also set them off for you, so you can free up your hands to take a video for Brother Nan."< br>
After a pause, she added: "I will release it for you for free."
". Then you can release it."
When Li Qinran heard this, he immediately took back the lighter, curled his lips, and his plan succeeded.
She walked to the fireworks, clicked, and lit the lighter.
In an instant, the flames touched the fuse——
“Chi”
My sister quickly ran back to Li Mu.
"Cluster"
A faint red dot jumped into the sky.
“Bang!”
The red dot exploded into a huge colorful light, and then divided into many small fireworks that scattered in all directions, making a roar in the air.
“Cluster bang!”
The colorful lights illuminated the night sky and the ground, reflecting the outline of the hill.
Li Mu recorded a video from the moment his sister started setting off the fireworks, and sent this scene to Brother Nan.
Fireworks keep blooming.
After the two large barrels of fireworks were set off, they started to set off small fireworks.
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(End of this chapter)