Li Wansan bought wine and meat, plus a little silver, and gave it to Zhang Mapo's family, which was also regarded as a matter of hard work. He also prepared a dowry gift and sent someone to send it to the woman's house with Zhang Mapo.

Zhang Mapo asked the meaning of the two families and asked them to choose the date. Li Wansan looked at the time of Mr. Yin and Yang in the city and planned the date of the wedding.

On the day of the event, it was also lively. Six sedan chairs, ancient music in unison, flowers and chapters, red and festive. The girl Qiu Ren was wrapped in rouge and gouache and heavy makeup, wearing a phoenix crown, covering her face with a red hijab, wearing a red silk shirt on her upper body, an embroidered red robe on her coat, a shawl on her shoulders, and a red skirt, red pants, and red satin embroidered shoes.

Li Ji dressed in a wedding dress, neatly dressed, and looked dignified, and went to greet him.

Li Wansan held a feast in the courtyard, feasted guests, relatives and friends nearby, and familiar neighbors, came to congratulate and eat happy wine.

Li Ji married to the family, worshiped heaven and earth, passed the etiquette, and toasted before entering the cave room. This happy event is over.

After marriage, life returned to its usual state. There is no other source except for the difference in identity. Li Ji still writes and sells words, more diligently and hard-working than before, but he is still not very prosperous, and his life is becoming more and more tight and tight. The young couple experienced a short happy life at the beginning, and began to have dangerous contradictions and rifts.

His wife, Qiu Ren'er, did not confide in her heart, never said it on her lips, but secretly speculated in her heart. Li Ji was contemplating his business, he didn't care about going out early and returning late, and he never guarded against it in his heart, and gradually realized that it was accumulating more and more over time.

Father Li Wansan has been a relative since Li Ji became a relative, and he no longer beckons him to come over to learn skills and do things with him, and seems to regard him as an independent entity, which is advocated by himself. This child's family has long been a problem for him, but now that it is over, it will save worry and effort. Li Ji didn't mention it, and he didn't ask.

This Li Ji is also straight, a bookish and angry, clean and self-conscious. Neither ignore, nor ask, nor mention. Most of them don't care about everything, and they are all focused on their own lives.

Before I knew it, it had come to the end of the year, and every household began to prepare New Year's goods to welcome the Spring Festival. Rice cakes, New Year paintings, sweets, pork, fish, firecrackers, couplets, everything is available. The big families are more abundant, and the petty bourgeoisie is less, but the atmosphere of the New Year is also indispensable.

Although Li Ji has married a family, he has not separated from his father Li Wan. Although Li Wansan was also busy making a living, he also took a few days to spare time to prepare the New Year's goods. Hou saw that his son Li Ji had not taken action for a long time, and his daughter-in-law was silent, and he was also puzzled, and said to Li Wansan in private: "Daddy, this is the end of the year, and the New Year is about to be celebrated, and Jicheng and they don't see any action." ”

Li Wansan hurriedly asked: "Action, what action do you want?"

Hou said: "I don't see things to buy, and I don't have New Year's goods. ”

Li Wansan said: "Did I tell you because I was not prepared?"

Hou said: "No, how do I know this, I know that neither of them bought it." ”

Li Wansan asked in surprise: "Neither of them went?"

Hou said: "Can I not see the people living in a courtyard?"

Li Wansan asked again: "Then didn't you go over and ask them what the hell is going on?"

Hou said aggrievedly: "How should I ask, I can't ask." Why don't you ask, let's just bring them some of the things we bought?"

Li Wansan was a little angry and said: "What is it to take it, what do you need for Jicheng to come and get it." No, they didn't split up. He is such a big person, and he has to send it over. ”

Hou said in a low voice: "Did you talk to him, or did I say it?"

Li Wansan said sharply: "I said, you don't have to worry about it." ”

Anxious to get on the fire, Li Wansan also knew that he had to find an opportunity to talk to Li Ji. For this reason, Li Wansan went to the street market to find him, pointed at Li Ji and asked, "Are you so busy every day?"

Li Jidao: "I'm not busy, I'm busy." ”

Li Wansan complained: "If you're not busy, can you do some business?"

Li Ji said angrily: "Why don't you do your job, isn't it enough every day?" said and pointed to the paper and pen tools on the stall.

Li Wansan said helplessly: "Do your job? This is the New Year's Eve soon, and you don't have any New Year's goods?" Besides, you don't know how to prepare, and you don't ask your daughter-in-law what she means?"

Li Jidao: "Isn't this a time that can't be freed up, occupied by this little thing." Pull out the worker, I'll go get ready. As for her, she didn't plan to prepare, and she didn't say or ask, and I couldn't ask. ”

Li Wansan shook his head and said, "The two of you will discuss the matter, and we will do it yourself, we can't say anything." You hurry up and prepare the New Year's goods, if you don't need anything, go to our house to get it. ”

Li Wansan walked away after saying this, and Li Ji didn't say anything when he looked at his father's back as he walked away.

Afterwards, Li Ji specially rushed to a free time, called his wife, and went to the market with his wife Qiu Ren to buy New Year's goods. Since on the last day of the year, most of them no longer go out of stalls, and some things are no longer available, but they only buy a little bulk goods sporadically, and there are no firecrackers.

Back at home, the two went directly into their own house, and Li Ji was embarrassed to take things from his parents' house. When the old couple saw them coming back, they thought that they were all ready, and the matter was over, so they didn't ask any more.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, I stayed up late to keep watch, not to talk about the excitement, and the firecrackers did not ring, and handed over to my father Li Wansan, Li Ji didn't care too much, and the cold didn't pass like this.

Although Chinese New Year's Eve passed like this, Li Ji didn't care too much, but some people did. It's none other than his wife Qiu Ren.

It's okay to have nothing to do on weekdays, but if you have something, you pick it up and talk about it.

There is a reason for the incident, Li Ji only admired the old man Wu's writing because he admired it too much, and he sold the words for a few pennies, and bought some calligraphy from the old Wu head to appreciate it.

When he returned home in the evening, Li Ji was full of joy and was in a happy mood. His wife Wu was so happy and proud to see him, and thought that today's harvest must be considerable, otherwise it would be rare to see him in such a state.

His wife, Wu, deliberately asked, "Is there a happy event today?"

Li Jidao: "It's not a happy event. ”

Wu said: "There is no happy event, why are you so happy?"

Li Jidao: "The mood is really good, but happy events can't be talked about." In my opinion, it's a really interesting thing. ”

Wu Shi was curious: "What's the matter?

Li Ji had no choice but to sell the words for a few pennies, and then went to West Street to find Lao Wutou to buy a pair of calligraphy, and described it in detail before and after.

His wife, Wu, was suddenly unhappy, so she said, "You use the money from selling characters to buy calligraphy?"

Li Jidao: "Just because I like his line of text too much, I can't help but buy a pair." ”

Wu said: "If you like it, you will buy it, and what is the use of it?"

Li Jidao: "I thought it would be useful, so I bought it." ”

"What's the use, can it be used to live, or to live?" Wu said dissatisfied.

Li Jidao: "A copybook is a copybook, and living a life is a life, these are two different things, and they must not be mixed up, how can they be used to live." ”

Wu said: "You also know two different things, and you also know that you can't use it for life." So what are you buying it for?"

"Can't you buy it if you can't live a good life?"

"Then you have to think about how to live your life first, and then think about other things, life is not good, and you still want to buy it and do something. ”