I went to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the Lunar New Year and walked through the whole village in a few minutes, and I was very melancholy.
I didn't know if it was because of the snow or because it was cold at home, I didn't see anyone on the road in the village, there were just a few more cars in the village than before, I thought it was just that I was at home, so I went out for a walk, and the result was the same, and I didn't see anyone. I was looking forward to going out on the first day of the Lunar New Year to greet the people in the village, who knows, I will be even more melancholy when I come back on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
Our village is actually not small, in previous years, on the afternoon of the Chinese New Year's Eve, we followed the rules to go to the grave of the ancestors, and in the past, at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the road was full of people.
I went too. But this year the situation is strange, there are not many people on the road.
I thought I was coming early, but in fact, the time was just right, more than three o'clock in the afternoon.
Ancestor worship and homesickness should not be the most obvious at this time? But now, not at all.
When you leave the village, you can see the cemetery, there are many, many of them, and the snow has not completely melted, and the place above the wheat seedlings knows that it is a cemetery at a glance.
But not too many people went to the grave, just a few people.
I found that there were not many people, so I went back, thinking that on the first day of the Lunar New Year, I would go to the village elders one by one, as in previous years, and everyone would chat together.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, at six o'clock in the morning, some people began to pay New Year's greetings.
I followed the elders of the family out to pay New Year's greetings, thinking that the first family would go to Grandma Zhang's house to pay New Year's greetings, she was old and the location was also at the entrance of the village, so under normal circumstances, I went to her to pay New Year's greetings first.
As a result, the uncle said not to go, she left in August this year, because it was buried secretly, so there was no funeral, and there was no need to go to their house to pay New Year's greetings.
Grandma Zhang is considered to be the elder on our side, she is kind-hearted and likes children, we all like to go to her house to play, but I didn't expect that she was gone, and few people in the village knew, even if she knew, she just whispered and didn't dare to say anything.
Although I also heard that she was not in good health, I just didn't expect that she would leave so suddenly and be caught off guard.
However, this is nothing, I didn't expect that the fat third master would also leave.
My grandmother's old house, next to the riverbank, where a few families lived scattered, I grew up there when I was a child, and we had a good relationship, whether it was doing farm work or pulling vegetables to sell in the field, the fat third master and my grandparents always went together.
When I was young, the fat third master taught me to recognize the scale, teach me to settle accounts, and teach me how to shout and sell vegetables.
We all set off at five o'clock in the morning to sell vegetables, so we rarely eat, and the fat third master would always buy a little baked cake and share a little for me.
He's fat and laughs, and he's been that way for so many years.
I went to college, and once a year I came back, and every time he called me, he started greeting me when I was far away and asking me how I was doing.
He's like an elder, an elder who is really good to you, I just didn't expect that he was gone.
The fat third master is sick, he has been sick since I can remember, he has been taking medicine, he owes a lot of money to the village clinic, every year the village doctor is worried about asking him for an account, we sometimes collect wheat, the village doctor will go directly to his wheat field to ask for an account, and pull away the wheat if he doesn't give money.
The granddaughter of the fat third master, who is about the same age as me, always cries and makes trouble, saying that if the wheat is pulled away, they will have nothing to eat.
Village doctor, we are a village after all, so we finally compromised.
I did know he had been sick all along, but he had been sick for decades and I thought I would be able to see him again when I came back this time.
But why did he leave?
I can understand it, but I can't accept it.
I went to a few old people to pay New Year's greetings, and later found that they were either gone or paralyzed in bed.
After all, 5 old people in the village left last year.
There are 5 of them, all of them are old people who watched me grow up, and they are all old people who have witnessed my elementary school, junior high school, and college, why did they leave?
I used to come back from school and they would smile when they saw me. When I graduated from college and worked, they would see me and ask, "Is it a holiday?" How many days off are you? ”
They have the impression that I have been going to school and reading all the time.
It wasn't until I got married later that some old people were surprised and thought I was just a child.
I also told them to go to pay their respects during the Chinese New Year.
It's just that I didn't expect that some people were gone.
In the past, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, we were walking around in a village, there were a lot of people, and there were many people who worshipped.
But now, it's gone, there's nothing.
It's only a few minutes, and I walked around, and I didn't feel like a New Year at all.
Some people say that now the New Year has no New Year's flavor.
I think, it's not that there is no New Year's flavor, the New Year's flavor has always been there, it's just that the old people who watched us grow up are gone, and you think, this year, I'm not used to it!