Happy days always feel like time flies by too fast. It’s the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in a flash.

There are obviously a lot fewer people in the village. Those who went out to work have basically left. Those who went out to study are also leaving one after another. The rest are the elderly and children who stayed in the village, and some are working on the streets.

Business people and village cadres have not gone out to work. There don’t seem to be many people like me. I may be the only one in the village this year.

After breakfast, Qing'er and the others came to invite us to "steal the youth." In previous years, we spent more time together during the Chinese New Year than this year. I don't know the reason this year, but it seems that we haven't seen Qing'er and the others since the first day of the new year.

.In previous years, although young children and others could not come to visit us on New Year's Day, everyone would make an appointment in advance, or wait at the door on New Year's Day, and then go shopping together.

Everyone goes to pay New Year's greetings on the second day of the Lunar New Year, and it's almost until the fifth and sixth day of the Lunar New Year. "Shangjiu" is a time to get together and have fun. This year, the old man of the Wang family left during the New Year, and everyone went to help. Maybe there is no time to get together. Still

Well, we can get together again on the 15th.

Qing'er: "Brother, where did you go during the Chinese New Year? I didn't even see you."

Me: "You haven't gone anywhere. What about you? I still haven't seen you. You don't come to play with me either."

Qing'er: "We went to Tianhuji Temple to have fun on the first day of the new year."

Me: "Is it fun?"

Qing'er: "It's not easy to play at all, it's very crowded."

Feifei: "It's so crowded. Qing'er's shoes were even squeezed out."

Me: "Is it that exaggerated?"

Qing'er: "It's not an exaggeration at all. The person behind stepped on the heel of my shoe and took it off for me. I immediately squatted down to pick it up, but as soon as I saw where the shoe was, when I was about to pick it up,

The people behind me kicked me off the roadside and went down."

Me: "Did you pick it up?"

Feifei: "Brother, you don't know. Qing'er started crying loudly. Those people who were squeezing around stopped when they heard her cry. A kind uncle asked Qing'er why she was crying. Qing'er said

She told people that someone had stepped on her shoes and kicked them over a high ridge. So they kindly jumped off the high ridge to help her pick up the shoes and throw them up. The ridge was really high, and the uncle had to climb it.

If he couldn't come up, other people had to help pull him up."

Me: "Then where else have you gone to play?"

Qing'er: "I went back to my mother-in-law's house to pay New Year greetings on the second day of the Lunar New Year. I didn't come back until dinner on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. I came to see you when I came back, but your door was locked and there was no one."

I think we might help out at Wang's house at that time.

Feifei: "When we come back, we basically do 'winter vacation homework' at home every day. If we don't finish it, we won't be able to register for school."

Qing'er: "'Shangjiu' came to see you again, but Brother Xiaojie and Brother Jun said you weren't here. They didn't know where you had gone."

I think Xiaojie and the others were afraid that Qing'er and the others would come and interfere with my reading, so they deliberately told them that they didn't know where I was.

Feifei: "So, we didn't come to see you in the next few days."

Me: "Oh. How are you going to spend your time today?"

Feifei: "Mom said, tell us to come and discuss it with you first."

Me: "What are we discussing?"

Qing'er: "Mom said, he went to buy a package of 'hot pot base', and then bought a fish, some ham sausage, tripe, tofu, lotus root, bean sprouts, etc. We 'stealed green' together at night and took them to my house.

Cook hot pot and eat it.”

When Brother Jun heard that he wanted to cook hot pot, he quickly said: "Okay, okay."

Xiaojie glanced at Brother Jun, and then said: "I can't see you like that. Big brother didn't even say anything. What are you doing?"

When Brother Jun heard what Xiaojie said, he quickly lowered his head and made a face.

Me: "Okay. It's really comfortable to steal Qingqing and go to your house to cook hot pot and eat it. Then did your mother say what we need to prepare?"

Qing'er: "Mom didn't say anything. She just said that we should go 'steal green' together and steal some green cabbage moss, cabbage moss, croissant, lettuce, cauliflower, garlic sprouts, spinach, pea tips, etc. Then we took them back, washed them, and cooked hot pot.

eat."

"Stealing youth" is a custom here. Some other places have this custom, and some places may not, especially in cities. I guess they want to "steal youth" and there is no place to steal it. In addition to factories and high-rise buildings, there are also everywhere

It's a cement road, but do they have fields there? If someone wants to steal it, they can only go to the rural land in the suburbs and steal it.

"Stealing youth" should be regarded as a carnival during the Chinese New Year. Because stealing things usually violates the "village rules and regulations" and is subject to "moral condemnation". Only "stealing youth" during the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is allowed

. You will neither be punished nor scolded.

When night falls, the men, women, and children in the village quietly go out, heading towards the "target" they have already "reconnaissed"...

In order to cope with the "looting" of "stealing green vegetables", the villagers also "showed off their special skills". Some pulled the garlic sprouts in advance, dug up the spinach, chopped the croissant... Some vegetables were still too small, and the owner either secretly

He stood guard by the vegetable patch, silently watching the "green thieves" steal, and then said slowly and casually, "Just a little bit more, just a little more appropriate, don't waste it all for me." Also,

He will use his ultimate move - throwing shit.

Although "stealing youth" is a traditional custom, everyone still likes the feeling of "sneaking around" and making the little heart "bounce...bounce..." with nervousness.

Qing'er and the others left, and Xiaojie asked me: "Brother, do we really want to go to their house to eat 'hot pot'?"

Me: "What's the problem?"

Xiaojie: "Don't you know that person is very stingy? How could they be willing to treat us to hot pot?"

I know what Xiaojie meant was that Uncle Baobao was very stingy, and others said that he was "very scabbed like a dog." I don't know how "scabated like a dog" offended people, and became a dialect of "stingy".

Me: "Unexpectedly, Aunt Wenying sent Feifei and Qing'er to come over. There shouldn't be any lies. Let's make two preparations. I'll give Brother Jun some money to buy a pack of 'hot pot base' and prepare it when I come back. Wait.

When it gets dark, we go with them to steal some and go to his house to check the situation. If the situation is good, we will eat there. If the situation is not good, we will come back and cook for ourselves."

Brother Jun said with a smile: "Okay. Brother, please give me the money."

Xiaojie: "Let's pay ten yuan each to buy some more food."

Brother Jun: "Forget it. If you buy it and eat it at Qing'er's house, it won't be fresh tomorrow."

Xiaojie and I both smiled.

Seeing us laughing at him, Brother Jun quickly said, "I'm not willing to spend money. The main reason is that it's not fresh, and we don't have a refrigerator. It would be a pity if it breaks down."

I went upstairs to open my suitcase, took out the money in the small bag and counted it, and found that there was more than a hundred yuan left. It seemed that I would soon "run out of ammunition and food". There was a "

The "envelope" cannot be touched, and inside is the tuition fee of my brothers. I gritted my teeth and took out the thirty yuan of money in my small bag.

I handed the money to Brother Jun, and then said to Xiaojie and the others: "Brother will pay for these 30 yuan, and you two don't have to spend it. You can use the remaining New Year's money to buy pens, notebooks, etc. after school starts."

Come and use it.”

Xiaojie: "Brother, what kind of food do you want to eat?"

Me: "You guys buy a pack of hot pot base ingredients, a suitable fish, and then some tofu, konjac tofu, whatever is suitable. Then buy a bottle of drink."

Brother Jun: "Brother, buy Coke."

Me: "Look and buy."

Xiaojie and Brother Jun went out to buy things.

After they bought the things and put them away, we made some simple dinner after playing for a while. It wasn't dark yet, and Qing'er and the others had already come over.

We all discussed the "route to steal youth". It turned out that these little guys had already scouted. I hadn't scouted yet, and I didn't really want to steal. I just said, I'll wait for them at home. Wait for them to steal.

Just call me over when you get back.

Qing'er quit: "No. Everyone has to steal. Only by stealing can you be 'innocent, free from illness and pain'."

Feifei: "Brother, let's go. It will be fun if we all go together."

Xiaojie: "Brother, let's go. You go and help us look out for the wind."

Brother Jun: "Brother, let's go. If you don't go, if we encounter someone at the bridge who wants to "take advantage of others", then won't our hard work be in vain?"

"Heiheihei" here refers to those gangsters who pick up wooden sticks and act as thieves on the bridge to rob the passing children. They pretend that the things are from their home, and if they don't leave the things, they will have to
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