Cui Hong nodded again and again on the side: "Yes, yes!"

The old master smiled, straightened his beard and said, "It turns out that you asked me to make red leaves." ”

Qi Lei hurriedly patted his ass: "Yes, old master, your old man is highly respected, if you are a matchmaker, Zhenhua's face will be bigger, bigger than a footbath!"

The old master seemed to be very taboo about the word matchmaker, frowned at Qi Lei, and said, "It's red leaves, not matchmakers." The matchmaker, the mold, is all in the New Year, and it can't be said that the matchmaker. ”

Qi Lei also expressed dissatisfaction with the old master's biting of words, and said with a smile:

"Isn't Momiji the matchmaker, isn't the matchmaker the Momiji? Moreover, if the matchmaker is modern, the autumn leaves are our local vernacular, and I don't even know how these two words are written......

The old master glared at Qi Lei and said:

"Who told you that red leaves are our local dialect? Let me tell you, our hometown dialect is Jianghuai official dialect, not local dialect, I can write anything you can say!"

As he spoke, the old master turned around and picked up the ready-made brush and red paper on the bookcase, and wrote down two words in a dignified manner:

Red.

Qi Lei leaned up to take a look, grabbed his scalp and said, "But it doesn't make sense, what does Hongye have to do with the matchmaker?"

"What's so unreasonable? It's just that you don't read much!" said the old master, snorting.

"Han Caiping, the palace maid of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem with red leaves in the deep palace, which flowed out of the river and was picked up by the scholar Yu You. Yu You also inscribed poems on the red leaves and floated into the palace along the water. After some twists and turns, the two finally became married. On the wedding night, Han Caiping wrote a poem, the poem said: A couplet of good sentences with the flowing water, ten years of romance is full of love. Today, he has become a friend of Luan Feng, and he knows that red leaves are a good medium. Therefore, since the Tang Dynasty, there has been the saying of red leaves, who dares to say that this is a local dialect?"

Qi Lei blinked, and was completely defeated by the old master.

He really doesn't know how to write the word red leaves in his hometown dialect and how it came about.

Today, he was taught a lesson by the old master, and Qi Lei knew that his hometown was not local, but he was a little dirty.

The old master put down his pen and softened his tone: "So I said that reading is a lifelong thing. You and Zhenhua are both high school graduates, both are readers, and you have to read books for a lifetime. ”

Qi Lei lost a game, didn't dare to talk back, nodded and said: "The old master is right, read and study, I will definitely read more in the future......"

Cui Hong wondered on the side.

I came to find the old master to make red leaves, how did the old master pull the gourd and the melon, and what did Qi Lei say to read and write?

Isn't the old master willing to help?

Qi Lei took out a cigarette, lit it for the old master, and said with a smile: "Old master, Zhenhua, this red leaf, I still want to invite your old man to come out......"

The old master looked at Cui Hong and said with a smile: "The man should marry the woman and get married, Zhenhua said that the family is married, congratulations, whose girl is it?"

"It's Zhenhua's classmate, on the night of the pig killing, the old master also saw that girl, who opened a tailor shop in the town and lived in Zhangguigang. Cui Hong said hurriedly.

"Oooh...... That girl is good, and she is as good as Zhenhua!" the old master nodded again and again, and said:

"But it's the end of the year, and the days of the year have come to an end, commonly known as the end of the day, and everything is not appropriate. Cui Hong, can't we talk about this in a few years?"

Cuihong's heart sank, but she smiled and said: "Old master, what I mean is to take advantage of the end of the year to settle the child's affairs, and during the New Year, Zhenhua can go to other parents to pay New Year's greetings to others." ”

The old master nodded, pondered for a moment, and said, "It makes sense. It stands to reason that I can't shirk when you come to me. But from here to Zhangguigang, ten miles away, my old bones, can't run, emerald red. ”

"This ......" Cui Hong was speechless for a moment, just sneering crampedly.

Qi Lei said with a smile: "Don't worry, old master, I'll find a board car to pull you tomorrow, if you don't like the bumps on the road, I'll put two quilts on the board car, you lie in the quilt and sleep, and I'll be responsible for pulling you to Zhanggui Gang!"

Who knows, but the old master's face suddenly changed, he glared at Qi Lei, raised his voice and said:

"Qi Lei, what are you talking about? Is my old man going to die? Covered with a quilt on the scooter? You actually said such things during the Chinese New Year, you are really open-mouthed!"

Qi Lei's face was embarrassed, and he hurriedly explained with a smile: "Old master, I didn't mean that......"

The old master waved his hand: "Go back, Qi Lei, this matter has nothing to do with you." Cuihong also go back, bring this wine back, and I will go to Chenghai in a few days to discuss this matter again. ”

"Okay, I'll go back first, these two bottles of wine are for the old master, and I definitely can't take them back. ”

Cui Hong was extremely disappointed in her heart, held back her tears, nodded, and went out with Qi Lei.

After leaving the old master's door and getting on the road, Cui Hong inevitably wiped her tears and sighed: "Alas, how can you find a red leaf, it's so difficult!?"

Qi Lei was also unhappy, and said angrily: "Auntie, don't worry, tomorrow I will make red leaves for Zhenhua, and I will go to Zhangguigang to propose to Zhenhua!"

Cui Hong couldn't help but burst into laughter, shook her head and said, "Forget it, Qi Lei, you are not married yet, and it is not very similar to making red leaves for others." ”

At this moment, Zhao Chenghai was sitting at home having dinner, continuing to pretend to be Zhuge Liang to analyze the success or failure of his wife Cuihong's trip.

Zhao Chenghai said to his son: "Your mother went to find the old master, and she must have touched her nose again and ran back angrily." ”

Zhenhua didn't believe it in his heart, raised his eyes and said: "That's not necessarily, the old master is warm-hearted, maybe people will agree." ”

The old master also said in person yesterday that the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband, as the husband of Dongwan Village, the villagers asked him for help, and he never shirked.

"Hahaha, you don't understand rural affairs at all! The old master is an old idea, and everything must be done according to the rules of the countryside. Zhao Chenghai laughed and explained to his son:

"What are the rules in the countryside? It is a man who is in charge of the house, not a woman who is in charge of the house. No matter how capable your mother is, she is a woman who wears a headscarf. No matter how useless you are, if you put a hat on the cow pile, you are also a man. When the old master does things, he must grasp the family and speak. Your mother just said it so wildly, and no one else's old master would take it seriously! She is not a family member, she doesn't count what she said!"

Zhenhua was stunned, is there still such a saying in the countryside?

Zhao Chenghai was triumphant and continued: "Needless to say, I know that the old master must be pulling gourds and melons and sending your mother back." ”

Zhenhua thought for a while and said with a smile: "I'll know when my mother comes back, you may not be right in your guess." ”

While he was talking, a figure flashed in front of the door, and Cui Hong came back with Qi Lei.

Zhao Chenghai looked at his wife's face, and deliberately shouted to his daughter Chunlan: "Chunlan, hurry up and serve your mother dinner." It's not easy for your mother to do this big thing today!"

"I won't eat it!" Cui Hong was aggrieved and angry, glared at her husband viciously, and scolded:

"You are a big man hiding at home as a turtle with a shrunken head, making me run around as a woman, and laughing at me. Zhao Chenghai, you will stay at home for the rest of your life, don't go out! Don't wear a hat when you go out, just wear a woman's scarf!"