"Find some free time, find some time, take your children, come home often, bring a smile, bring blessings, accompany your lover to come home often, mother prepared some chatter, father prepared a table of good meals...
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The Spring Festival of 1999 came as scheduled. As a newcomer in the newspaper office, it was his turn to be on duty this year. The office prepared a New Year's Eve dinner in advance for the editors and reporters on duty. They were all a group of young people. They all watched TV, ate snacks and drank wine.
The wine is so lively.
The Chinese New Year in Shanghai Ning is the same as the Chinese New Year in the north. It is all about expectations and hopes. It is also about the busyness of the whole family in the stove on New Year's Eve. It is the sound of firecrackers one after another in the night, the joy of pulling rabbit lanterns and
The laughter of watermelon lanterns in the streets and alleys, and of course, the delicious New Year goods that Xiaonan and Xiaoman are most looking forward to...
For decades, the Chinese people's emphasis on the New Year has never diminished, whether in the south or the north...
The small mountain village on Yunmeng Mountain in Qinwan Jiaoshui City is still the place that Peng Bo cares about the most at this time. At this time, the whole village will light firecrackers, light candles, burn incense and kowtow in front of the old shadows and tablets of their ancestors...
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After calling his home, Peng Bo picked up the business cards he had collected this year and called them one by one to say New Year greetings. The leaders of the China Real Estate Association, Xu Yongmao, Ren Zhiqiang, Chen Songpu, Feng Wanmei, Hua Jie, Lu Gengshen... New Year's Eve
Calling people to say New Year greetings at night is the earliest in terms of time. There are not many people saying New Year greetings at this time, which will leave a deeper impression on people.
Sure enough, everyone who answered the phone was happy and sent many blessings to Peng Bo. However, before the call was finished, someone shouted in the corridor, "Peng Bo, someone is looking for you."
On New Year's Eve, who will come looking for me?
Peng Bo opened the door of the office, and Heinwei and Wu Qianyu were walking over smiling hand in hand. Wu Qianyu still had two lunch boxes in his hand.
For a moment, Peng Bo was really moved. In this city far away from home, at this time, there are still people thinking about you. It feels so good.
"Happy New Year." Peng Bo said with a smile and cupped his hands.
"Happy New Year." Heinwei also imitated his behavior, smiling and raising her hands.
Wu Qianyu said nothing, but looked a little uneasy, "You are having New Year's Eve dinner here, I thought..."
"You think I'm on duty hungry, so our editor-in-chief Bao won't be able to eat the New Year's Eve dinner." Peng Bo took the lunch box from her hand, but he was actually a little touched. This silly girl took a taxi across several streets at night.
The whole district wanted to give him a New Year's Eve dinner. Although he was full at this time, he still opened the lunch box in an exaggerated manner and greeted Heinwei, "I happen to be hungry too, let's eat together."
The dishes in the lunch box are very exquisite, including Sixi grilled bran, jellyfish skin with scallion oil, braised pork, stir-fried shrimps... Shanghai New Year's Eve dishes, etc., are neatly stacked in the lunch box, with a few louvered buns at the end.
Seeing Peng Bo eating gluttonously, Wu Qianyu became happy, while Heinwei gave him a thumbs up.
Peng Bo opened the drawer and took out two red envelopes, "Here, lucky money."
Hei Yinwei looked at Wu Qianyu and said, "Thank you, Mr. Bang." Wu Qianyu also smiled and took it, "Why do I feel like I'm still a child?"
"Then it's best to be a child forever. It's best to never grow up." Peng Bo picked up the camera on the table and said, "Come, stand still, right, stand next to the word "福" in front of the window. I'll take pictures for you.
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Heinwei and Wu Qianyu walked over with a smile. The fireworks outside the window lit up the night sky, and Peng Bo quickly pressed the shutter.
"Tomorrow morning, I will bring glutinous rice balls over again." Wu Qianyu looked at Heinwei and said, "Let's eat together." People in Shanghai eat glutinous rice balls on New Year's Day just like northerners eat dumplings in the early morning, but in his hometown Yunmeng Mountain
, the dumplings on the first day of the new year are eaten just after twelve o'clock. At that time, the whole Yunmeng Mountain is filled with the sound of firecrackers, the smell of gunpowder smoke, and the smell of burning yellow paper for the deceased old man, mixed with dumplings.
Fragrance, this is the most original taste of the New Year deep in Peng Bo’s memory.
The New Year's bell finally rang, and the blessing bells of Longhua Temple could be heard faintly. At this time, all parts of the country were immersed in a sea of joy.
Hei Yinwei and Wu Qianyu were playing poker with their colleagues in the club, and before they knew it, it was time to forget tonight again.
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Peng Bo bought a flight ticket at eight in the morning. Along the way, from the newspaper office to the airport, his cell phone started ringing non-stop.
Xu Shitan, colleagues, children of masters, Sun Hongbin, Wang Jianlin, Feng Lun, Yan Ning, Lu Yusen, Hua Jie, Zhao Wei, Li Bingbing... even Joseph of Citigroup, Kaifu Li of Microsoft, Tang Jun, Subuo Watanabe of Sumitomo,
Guy Paul from Ophelia...all called.
At this time, Laurie Minard of Forbes is also indispensable, "Happy New Year, Mr. Peng Bo." This American smiled and wished in unskilled Chinese across the Pacific Ocean thousands of miles away.
"Happy New Year, Lao Li, when will you come to China? On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, I will take you to see the Lantern Festival in Yu Garden." Peng Bo was very excited, and the taxi driver kept looking back at the young man.
After a while, it was all about the boss, what else was there, and a few words of English from time to time. This person can stand it, and so can his mobile phone.
"I will come, that's what we agreed." Laurie Minard spoke English again, "Just get ready. I think the lantern festival in Yuyuan Garden will be very beautiful. Oh, I remember, Clinton went there.
The place..."
After hanging up the call from Laurie Minard, the phone still kept ringing, and the battery was gradually running out of power. Peng Bo could only change a battery, and after passing the security checkpoint and entering the waiting room, the rhythm of the phone call slowed down.
Suddenly, a familiar phone call made his throat jump. He subconsciously looked at the people around him, but he didn't see the figure like a winter melon.
"Hey, happy New Year, Mr. Ding." Peng Bo sounded very awkward when Ding Dong called. He had received hundreds of calls, but this was the only one that made him feel uncomfortable.
"Happy New Year, Mr. Peng. I wish you great fortune and good luck in the Year of the Rabbit..."
"I also wish you fortune..." Peng Bo felt that his throat was dry at this time.
"Everyone will get rich, everyone will get rich," Ding Dong said with a smile, "Let's work together again next year..."
puff--
A mouthful of water spurted out without warning, and Peng Bo could only smile awkwardly, listening to Ding Dong's longing for next year.
But it wasn't over yet. The phone call didn't end until we got on the plane and turned off the phone. But when we got off the plane and turned on the phone, calls came in again from Li Ran, He Xi, and Ren Xiangjun, as well as some classmates from home who had already started making calls in the second grade of junior high school.
At the bureau party, I asked him when he would be home and rushed directly to Qinwan to attend the class reunion.
But at this time, Peng Bo's heart had already flown back to the mountain village, and he declined the invitation. He directly took a taxi and said, "Happy New Year, Master, Yunmeng Mountain."
"Come on." The driver took a hundred dollar bill and immediately laughed, "Happy New Year to you, we'll leave now."
The phone rang again, and Peng Bo picked it up casually. He felt a bright light in his heart. The call he had been looking forward to for many days finally arrived.