Chapter 495 New Year's Day

This morning, all the alleys in Sijiucheng were full of people, and children were running and playing happily with firecrackers everywhere.

The sulfur smell after the firecrackers were set off was really nice. Due to the different residential density and openness, the sulfur smell here is much stronger than that in Shanghe Village, and it feels more comfortable.

Because this is the smell of the New Year. No matter how hard or tired you are at ordinary times, it will become the past under the influence of this smell, and move towards a better tomorrow.

As for later generations, many people say that this era is full of happiness, and everyone's face will be filled with happy smiles.

But these people are a bit too self-evident. At this time, people are living a busy life without even a New Year's holiday.

Everyone is more worried about the gaps in clothing and food, and the various bills required for human relationships, marrying daughters and daughters.

Some people in later generations like to describe the equality of this era, saying that workers and farmers are the masters of the house.

Haha, the facts cannot be said to be completely different.

How to say it, the people who said these words are just as nerds who promoted the Zhou Dynasty's well-field system in the Qing Dynasty.

Because no matter when, the people at the bottom will always worry about these things. Unless you can step into another new level, this situation will never change. It's nothing more than different times, different basis for worrying, and different things.

Han Li first greeted Yu Daqiang's family for the New Year, but it was not popular to kowtow at this time, or say auspicious words such as congratulations and prosperity.

Those with average relationships would say "Happy New Year, uncle and aunt." "I wish you can achieve new results in ** this year."

Those with better relationships usually bowed slightly and said a blessing such as "Happy Spring Festival, uncle and aunt, I wish you a life like sesame blossoms this year."

After Han Li greeted Yu Daqiang's family for the New Year, he then took him to gather several similar children in the alley and started visiting.

During the whole process, more and more people gathered, just like they were marching to war. The people in front had already finished their New Year greetings, but there were still people behind who had not entered the house. When they turned around and left, they would occasionally bump heads, which led everyone to laugh and leave together, so it didn't take long to finish all the rounds.

Today, everyone had many relatives to visit, so when they separated, they agreed to get together another day.

Because Han's father had to go to pay New Year's greetings to some older colleagues in the unit, Han's mother had to follow the street office to pay New Year's greetings to some five-guarantee households and military families, and even the eldest sister, second sister, and youngest sister had their own tasks.

So when Han Li came back, they hadn't come back yet, but this was just the right time for him to ask the Yun sisters what happened just now?

"Happy New Year, my two babies. May our babies become younger and more beautiful, and stay young forever."

"Brother Li, if we stay young forever, we will become monsters."

"Monsters are good. I like you two little monsters, especially the time when you tied the fox scarf around your waist."

"What do you mean by tie it around my waist? You obviously forced me to do that."

At this time, I can only satisfy my desire to talk, so that my fingers will not be too bored if I hold something. Don't think about other thoughts, because I don't know when someone will come to the house. Han Li put one arm around one of them and fooled around for a while and asked.

"By the way, what did you two talk about with mom when my dad and I came back?"

The two sisters stretched out their wrists at the same time, and Han Li realized that they both had a simple gold bracelet on their wrists.

"This is a family heirloom given to us by my aunt. She said it was passed down from my grandmother's generation."

Han Li's mouth twitched when he heard this. He had only heard the word "grandma" from his father a few times. It is said that they were also separated during the war. At that time, grandpa and his family had not yet settled in Sijiu City.

And my father and mother met in the old city, how could she get the heirloom from my grandmother? Could it be that my grandfather gave it to my mother before he died? But the quality of these two gold bracelets seems to be very new, not like they have been there for years, could it be that my mother is lying.

But even if my mother is lying, he, as a son, can help to get it back now.

"Really? I only heard my mother mention it once, and this is the first time I have seen the real thing, but you have received our family heirloom, and even if you become ghosts in this life, you can only be my bride alone."

The three of them got together to enjoy the countless intimacy during this period of time, but happy times are always short. The family members are waiting to take family portraits, so they all rushed back as soon as possible after finishing their own things.

After the family members arrived, they checked each other's clothes and badges on their chests and went out together.

Almost all the stores on the road were open for business. They were going to the largest and oldest photo studio in Xidan, not far from Mianhua Hutong.

The couplets in front of these stores and factories are mostly "Don't stop fighting on the 30th, and don't complain about being tired when contributing to the country. Keep working on the first day of the new year, and don't complain about the hardship when adding glory to the people."..

Taking photos in this era is definitely a luxury. Ordinary people have to save money for a long time to save money for taking photos.

However, during the Chinese New Year, everyone's enthusiasm is still unstoppable. Most of them are young people who are dating and getting married, and there are also family portraits like the Han family, where children go to the countryside to work as educated youth.

At present, the largest photos produced by photo studios during this period are only 6 inches, and they are all black and white photos, not color photos.

Some people think that color photos of this era were already popular in my country in the 1960s and 1970s when they see color photos of this era? Actually, it is not the case.

As long as you observe carefully, you will find that these color photos are very strange. They are either monotonous in color, lack of change, excessive in color, or dull and stiff, etc.

In fact, most of these color photos from the "photo studio" are hand-colored, but this kind of coloring is not something that every photo studio can do.

You must go to those large photo studios, because only such places have the profession of professional photo colorists.

However, even if you go to these large photo studios, it will be useless if you are unlucky, because this is a very rigorous technical job. Since it is a technical job, there are good and bad skills. If you encounter those with bad skills, your photos will look very strange.

The photo studio that Han Ma mentioned is the Guotai Photo Studio in Xidan. This photo studio has a long history and the masters inside are very skilled.

The most important thing is that it is located in the jurisdiction of Hanma Subdistrict Office. It is for this reason that she knows all the photographers and colorists here, and there will be no weird photos when taking photos here.

(Color photos gradually entered the daily life of the people in the late 1970s and early 1980s.)

As soon as she entered the photo studio, the salesperson here started chatting with Hanma. When she learned that her whole family came to take photos, she arranged them to the front, and they didn’t have to wait at all.

Today, Hanma also spent a lot of money. First, she took a family photo of all the people in the Han family, and then a family photo with the Yun sisters. Next, Han Li and his father and mother, with the Yun sisters, with his own sister, the three Han sisters and the two Yun sisters, and Han’s father, Han’s mother and the two Yun sisters.

Hanma waved her hand and let them take photos happily. When it was time to pay the bill, the corners of her mouth twitched uncontrollably for several times.

When choosing whether to write the inscriptions of the great men on the photos, everyone unanimously decided to write inscriptions on those family photos, and not on the other photos. After discussing for a while, they chose to put the words "Wind and rain send spring away, snow welcomes spring, flowers fall and read the chapters, red flags roll in the west wind" on two family photos.

Finally, the salesperson told Han's mother that it would take a week for the photos to come out, and she would send them to the street office by herself, but Han's mother smiled and said she would come to pick them up in person.

After the family came out of the photo studio, Han's mother stuffed a handful of banknotes into the hands of someone unknown and said.

"The temple fairs on the street have recovered a little in the past two years, and there are many fun things on the street during this period. You should go and take a look, don't stay at home all day and get bored. Son, you don't have to worry about your master. When you get home, ask your father to pack up and go over. Your eldest sister and others will go over to cook at noon, and you can just have fun outside."

In this way, Han Li encountered the third expulsion from his family today.

Neither Han Li nor the Yun sisters were very interested in visiting the city, because they had lived here since childhood.

This was just like those people who bought houses near parks in later generations. Before moving in, they always thought that they would go to the park for a stroll every day, but after they actually moved in, they rarely stepped into the park throughout the year.

But since they were out, they had to have fun. The three of them didn't ride bicycles. They would squeeze into the bus if they were far away, and walk slowly if they were close.

Han Li bought a big windmill and a long string of candied haws for each of them. They watched big-headed dolls and land boats near the Fire God Temple, and most of the images were characters in model operas.

As for lion dances and dragon lanterns, which were slightly mythical, there was none, because these were strictly prohibited.

Listening to crosstalk and watching acrobatics on the overpass, and running to the Tian** Square to set off firecrackers, the three of them had a lot of fun.

Of course, the current characteristics are also indispensable, those alley wanderers fighting with the educated youth returning to the city.

Since they all came out in groups during the New Year, any fight must be a group fight.

At this time, the children from the compound basically did not participate, because they could usually get a legion farm system. Now they have wages, and they are older, so they will not easily conflict with the children in the alley as before.

When they saw a fight, Han Li took the two sisters to watch from the side. Anyway, playing is playing, watching is watching. If someone wants to come and cause trouble, they have to see if Han Li's size will agree.

In the afternoon, they rented three pairs of ice skates by the lake. The three of them played here for a whole afternoon and did not return home until it was dark.

At this time, Hao Hongmin, who was far away in Lu City, did not spend a good year. One was the problem of her family's own fixed frame, and the other was that she was once again disliked by her mother.

And today in Shanghe Village, He Mi, Qi Zhaodi, Hou Yuhua, Zhang Shulan, and Meng Zaihong all gathered together to celebrate the New Year.

However, when chatting, Meng Zaihong's tone was full of dislike for the male educated youth in the educated youth compound. This problem occurred when the pigs were slaughtered and divided before the New Year.