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Chapter 92 New Year's Day test pen

Every Chinese New Year, I always think of my great aunt.Not because she has anything to do with Chinese New Year, but because she said a few aggressive and frightening words to me on the eve of Chinese New Year many decades ago. When I was ten years old, I lived in my hometown, Fuzhou.It is the first time to celebrate the New Year in a big family in a big city, with many friends, and everything is new.Years ago, my great aunt always sat on the front porch of her house, silently stacking tin foils, and bulging them together, like a hanging of silver ingots.I have never seen tin foil, and folding ingots is a lot of fun, so I often go to help her fold them.She is very happy to have a helper, and always gives me a stool to sit on, and patiently teaches me how to blow and fold.

While we were stacking, she always hummed in a low voice two lines of poems she wrote down from the "Pinghua" book: "Time flies like an arrow to make a person grow old, and the sun and the moon drive away a young man like a shuttle." I laughed and said: "Auntie, it would be great if 'time' really 'like an arrow' and 'sun and moon' really 'like a shuttle'! We look forward to the New Year every day, but it never arrives." Auntie He raised his eyes, looked at me from above the big copper-rimmed glasses, sighed a long sigh, and said, "What do you know? What's the advantage of passing too fast? The situation is not as good as the year, and the state of mind is not as good as the year. People are not old, but their hearts are old first. When people are really old, then..." She picked up a tinfoil ingot, "Then wait to use this." When I looked at her with startled eyes At that time, she sighed again and said, "When you grow up to be as old as I am, you will understand. Well, it is only good luck if you never understand!"

The people in Mao Zedong's era were lucky!We held the arm of the party, turned over, grasped our destiny in our own hands, worked hard, worked hard, worked skillfully, the situation got better every year, and our mood got better every year. Not old. Especially in the past two years, no matter which corner of the motherland they go to, people always say enthusiastically and courteously: "Come back next year, this place will look even better!" When you think of the flood dams that are being heightened, the chimneys emitting thick smoke, the pastoral land, and clusters of tall scaffolding... why don't you look forward to the time Run as fast as you can to see their fruit? If "time" really "like an arrow" and "sun and moon" really "like a shuttle", that would be great!

My aunt's old-fashioned words have no threat to me in the past ten years.At the same time, I also think that time flies, and years pass by before your eyes. If you sit with your knees tucked up and watch, sitting will make you old.Thousands of horses are galloping, one horse lags behind, a hundred flowers bloom, and one flower does not bloom. This feeling is not easy.When the streets and alleys are full of firecrackers, gongs and drums, and every household is "opening the door", you should also stand up excitedly and open the door. Although the candlelight is big or small, you might as well let the people who open the door on New Year's Day see your door. Inside is a red candle lit with vigor and enthusiasm.

Xiaozha". )
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