When I was in elementary school, the countryside was still very poor, it was rare to eat meat a few times a year, and there was almost nothing to play in ordinary times, and the spiritual pillar at that time was to look forward to the New Year, and only when it came to the Spring Festival, even if the poor family was, they always had to cut some meat, dumplings, and fried meatballs, and only when they had dinner during the New Year could they have more oil and water! I love the Chinese New Year, and it's not just the food that attracts me, because as a boy, firecrackers may be more attractive to me!
In the countryside, as soon as Laba passes, some businessmen ride bicycles and carry a large wooden box full of firecrackers to sell along the street. In order to prove that their firecrackers are loud, these firecrackers often put a plate on the street in a crowded place (at that time, there were only about 20 firecrackers on a plate, about one or two seconds, unlike today's firecrackers that often cost thousands of firecrackers per plate), if people feel that they can, someone will pay for a few plates and put them on during the New Year! As long as I hear the sound of firecrackers in the street, my heart is very happy, because the New Year is coming soon!
Every year for the New Year, my family only buys three sets of firecrackers, after all, there are many places to spend money for the New Year, and all aspects need to be carefully calculated, these three sets of firecrackers are arranged as follows: one plate on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, one plate on the first and fifth days of the new year, and another plate on the morning of the second day of the new year! At that time, parents did not let their children play with firecrackers because they were not worried about safety, but because they were afraid that there would be no firecrackers after playing with firecrackers during the Chinese New Year! But my father's hiding is so tight that I can often find it! After finding the firecracker, I was like a treasure, carefully tore a small opening of the paper on the outer bread, and carefully took out one from the whole plate of firecrackers, the whole process should be very careful, a little more force may be the firecracker lead off, then this firecracker is not fun!
After stealing a firecracker, I went to my little classmates, and many times we discussed it, and after each person stole a firecracker, he gathered in the woods outside the village to set it off! There are many kinds of fireworks: some have several layers of colored paper on the outside of the firecrackers, and when they are blown up by the firecrackers, they are as beautiful as the goddess scattering flowers; Or find a broken basin and buckle the firecracker, which can collapse five or six meters high when the firecracker explodes; also collapsed glass bottles, and the sturdy glass bottles were blown to pieces (this is very dangerous, everyone must not do it); Another time I used firecrackers to blow up dung, my table mate ran slower, and a large piece of his back was broken, and it stinked and I couldn't smell it!
Later, my father also found out about my stealing firecrackers, so when I went back to the same place to steal firecrackers, I found that they had been moved to other places, but the hard work paid off, and as long as I worked hard, I could still find it! Later, my classmate Chunyuan taught me a good way, that is, when stealing firecrackers again, don't tear the package, but uncover it from the place where the package is not sticky, steal a few more at a time, and then find a few wooden sticks cut into the length of firecrackers, put them in the firecrackers, and finally use saliva to package the firecrackers on the sticky, so that parents will not find out that you steal firecrackers!
The method that my classmate told me was really effective, and in the year I got this method, I strictly followed Chunyuan's method, and sure enough, I was not discovered by my father, because the location of the hidden firecrackers had not changed! This year, I played with firecrackers the craziest, and the firecrackers I stole were also the most in one year, but the firecrackers that were stolen from the outside were as complete as if they had never been touched! I was secretly happy for my cleverness!
In the blink of an eye, it was Chinese New Year's Eve, and I suddenly had a kind of worry: if my father found that the firecrackers were full of wooden sticks, would he beat me up? But I also planned it, but I didn't admit it, so I insisted that it was the firecracker seller who broke it, and there were no firecrackers in it, just a wooden stick! The plate put on Chinese New Year's Eve was not stolen by me, I was slightly relieved, because tomorrow is the first day of the new year, even if the matter of stealing firecrackers is known by the father, we are particular here, the first day of the new year is absolutely not to beat the child, and even to shout at the child, otherwise the year will not be smooth!
The next day, I saw my father take out a plate of firecrackers, and oh my God, it was the one I stole the most. I didn't dare to think about it, my heart jumped suddenly, and suddenly I saw my father's hand holding the firecracker stopped, and a small pile of wooden sticks fell out of his hand, my father turned his head to look at me, and I lowered my head in fear! My father didn't say anything, he took the firecrackers he had left in his hand out of the house and set them off, and after a while I heard three deafening firecrackers from my yard! Oh my God, did I steal this plate of firecrackers and there were only three left? When I was a child, I was too inconsiderate! As it turned out, there were indeed only three left, and this was what my father told me a few years later!
During the Spring Festival of the following year, my father bought four plates of firecrackers, put one of them in the most conspicuous place, and the other three did not know how to put it! This is childhood, and I feel that that time is the real New Year!