因忙于公事,直到腊月二十九傍晚,我才回到阔别十多年的老家与亲人团聚过大年。其实,父母早已作古,团聚者只有兄弟,在欢喜之余,心头总感到有一层淡淡的哀愁。在我的家乡,按老传统,有“宁穷一年,不穷一日;宁苦一年,不苦一日”之说。人们除要吃好的穿新的,还要休息好玩好,3天的社戏要演,花炮照例要放,到了正月十五前后才算过完了年,开始上地忙活。明天就是大年三十,想必大哥一家正为准备过年忙忙碌碌。可当我进了大哥家的院门,却出乎意料,院子里静悄悄的,哥嫂都不在,只有侄女育芸在厨房里忙乎。当我问其爹妈时,她说,眼下蔬菜大棚里活正紧,都忙去了,只留她一人在家准备年饭,估计很晚才能回来。早些时,从大哥的来信中我知道家乡这些年种蔬菜发了,有些家庭一年仅韭菜收入就 Because I was busy with official business, I did not return to the reunion of her hometown with her relatives after 10 years of absence until the twelfth lunar month of the twelfth lunar month. In fact, parents have long ago, reunited only brothers, apart from the joy, my heart always felt a touch of sadness. In my hometown, according to the old tradition, there is “rather poor year, not poor one day; rather suffer one year, not bitter one day ” Say. In addition to eating well to wear new people, but also good rest and play, 3 days of social drama to be played, fireworks should be released as usual, to the fifteenth day before the end of the year, began to work on the ground. Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve thirty, presumably big brother is preparing for the New Year is busy. But when I entered the big brother’s home courtyard, but unexpectedly, the yard is quiet, brother-in-law are not, only niece Yu Yun busy in the kitchen. When I asked her father and mother, she said that at the moment the vegetable shed was tight and busy, leaving only one of her to prepare her own meal at home, which was estimated to be coming back late. Earlier, from the letter from my brother I know that these years of home made vegetables, and some families a year only leek income