On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, in addition to killing chickens and ducks to prepare for the New Year, there is also a special activity, which is to take off the spring flags hanging on the trees at the beginning of spring and wear them on the head. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Spring flags, also known as Hatsheng, Caisheng, and spring books, are ornaments made of gold and silver foil paper or silk tailoring, cut into double swallows, human shapes, flowers, etc., and hang on the tree on the day of the beginning of spring to show auspiciousness. This custom, which has been handed down since the Later Han Dynasty, is still used today, and there are more patterns.

In the small village of Zhangchang, there are also a few old trees, the day of the beginning of spring was the village children of all sizes lingered many spring flags on the top, of course, there is no silk no gold foil, only a variety of colorful colored paper, but the shape is actually very ingenious, there are moths, butterflies, grasshoppers and even dragonflies of the shape, moving with the wind, flying up and down, looking very good from afar.

The beginning of the new year is on the eighth day of the lunar month, many days earlier than in previous years, there was no spring flag at this time last year, this year it has been hanging for 20 days, some have been blown off by the wind, and finally everyone unanimously decided to take it down. Men and women of all sizes in the village wore a branch on their heads, and some of them loved beauty and plugged them all over their heads.

Zhang Zhaohua quickly picked out a few good-looking chunyan shapes, originally came to see two green peonies, but was picked away by the hand, but the chunyan is not bad - she rubbed it over and over for a while, and was happily walking home, when she heard someone calling her from behind, and said: "Sister Hua, your brother has come back from the city and pulled a cart of things, go and see!"

Zhang Sheng came back? Zhang Zhaohua hurriedly turned around and hurried to the entrance of the village.

Sure enough, I saw Brother Sheng from a distance, I didn't see it for two months, as if I had jumped a little, and my back looked like I was getting long, and I was unloading the things on the carriage down, and I finally paid the money, and the carriage seemed to be carrying other people, and it didn't stop and went away.

Zhang Zhaohua shouted, and saw Brother Sheng'er turn his head, also surprised, called her over and pinched her hair, and said, "Why do you look like you're so shorter!"

"It's not that I'm short," Zhang Zhaohua looked at him, and sighed a little: "It's you who are tall!"

Zhang Sheng not only grew taller, but also seemed to be a little stronger, and before he left, Wang made a jacket for him, which actually looked a little cramped. Before the brother and sister could say a few words, the children in the village who had been the little brother behind Zhang Sheng's ass all hula came up and asked nonsense.

Some asked Zhang Sheng where he was developed, some asked what was fresh and interesting in the city, and some directly pulled the New Year's goods brought by Zhang Sheng. "Wow," a male doll squirted a big white bubble from his nose, and said in surprise: "Brother Sheng, did you carry a sheep back?"

"It's just a sheep's hind leg," Zhang Sheng said with a smile: "Open meat for the New Year, stew mutton soup and drink!"

"There are big mouthfuls of meat to eat," this can make a group of big children envious, and they all said: "We only eat meat and flat food during the New Year, where can we eat such tender mutton!"

"Brother Sheng, you come back and be our head," another one shouted, "We can miss you tightly, without you to take it, we don't say it's a weasel for two months, even a bird egg hasn't been picked up!"

"Go, go," Zhang Sheng waved his hand, "I have serious things to do now, but—"

He rolled his eyes and said: "In another two or three years, when I get out of the city, I won't forget you, and if you are still willing to follow me, I will pull you into the caravan, all of them will be carried and all of them will be earned!"

The word "carrying" is too profound, these children don't understand it yet, but the phrase that all have money to earn is understood, and they all rejoice, and they all say that they will follow Zhang Sheng in the future - Zhang Zhaohua looked at it coldly for a long time, and he was a little convinced in his heart, he used to only think that Zhang Sheng didn't learn and didn't know how to make trouble, but now it seems that he has prestige in a group of children, and in the days when Zhang Sheng was away, these children in the village did not produce a new leader, and they were all like birds without heads, scurrying around.

Zhang Zhaohua looked at Zhang Sheng's appearance, and seemed to have some calculations in his heart. Zhang Zhaohua thought about it carefully, and he could vaguely guess one or two. After Zhang Sheng entered the caravan, he saw that although the leader of the caravan was in charge of large and small affairs, but after a sale, the benefits of the big head would be given to his own people. These own people, including those who broke through together at the beginning and were promoted by themselves, these people are solid and follow the leader, and other merchants who are attached to the caravan cannot be fully trusted.

Zhang Sheng understood it, and he vaguely planned for the long term, knowing the truth of one hero and three gangs, if he had a big day in the future, he would have to win over these brothers who had followed him since childhood.

"I don't have meat to eat, I want to eat it and ask your father and mother for it!" Zhang Sheng took out a bag of candy and scattered it, and said with a smile: "There are only black sugar and onion candy from the sugar shop in the county, just take it to sweeten it!"

The group of children rushed up, grabbed the candy and put it in their pockets, and hugged Zhang Sheng to the house.

This time, Zhang Sheng brought New Year's goods from the city included a leg of mutton, four pork knuckles, and three or five boxes of sugar bait fruits, and when Wang saw that he had bought many things, he said straight in his mouth that the New Year's goods had already been prepared, and there was no need to spend money to get them again, so it was better to save money and eat better in the city; Zhang Sheng smiled and said that they were all bought with the holiday reward money issued by the caravan steward and the consul, and the steward was issued by the length of time he had worked in the team, and Zhang Sheng got 25 Wen; the consul was issued by everyone, and from high to low it was the same money for each person.

The family was overjoyed when they heard this, but they didn't expect Zhang Sheng to get so much reward in less than two months after going to the caravan.

Zhang Sheng lowered his head and thought about it, nodded and said, "I suffered a grievance and fought with someone." ”

This surprised everyone, but they heard Zhang Sheng say slowly: "I saw a man selling Jiang rice on the street, and I saw that the noodle man was not doing very well, so he said a few words, saying that it was not as good as my mother, and he asked my mother to also make noodles, and I said that I was making flower buns, so he came over to beat me, and I was beaten back." ”

Wang Shi paused for a moment, and couldn't stand up with a straight laugh, Zhang Zhaohua and a few others just laughed, but they didn't find that Zhang Sheng still had the potential to tell jokes, and he said it was very funny.

At night, Zhang Zhaohua filled in her ninety-nine cold picture in her house. This cold picture is from the day of the winter solstice, draw a plum tree, paint nine plum blossoms on the branches, draw nine petals on each plum blossom, a total of eighty-one petals, representing the eighty-one days of "counting nine days", each flower represents a "nine", each petal represents a day, every day is dyed with a petal, after dyeing nine petals, there is a "nine", nine dyeing, winter will pass, and spring will come.

This is a very traditional calendar, Zhang Zhaohua painted such a vase of plum blossoms, hung on the wall, dipped in red ink every day to dye a petal, now has dyed sixty-six pieces, and fifteen pieces can welcome spring.

As soon as she filled in today's petals, she heard Zhang Sheng's voice and said, "Nannan, look at the way you hold the pen, you look like a showman!"

Zhang Zhaohua listened to his voice, and seemed to be different from the past, so he said: "When you go out, do you know the benefits of learning characters?"

"I didn't know it before, but now I understand," Zhang Sheng sat beside her, looked at her practice with envy, and said: "Nan, why don't you teach me again, I think I'm not an elm head, and I can beat it hard." ”

Zhang Zhaohua also taught him before, Zhang Chang also learned a basket of words, Zhang Sheng couldn't learn at all, and now it is abnormal, and he took the initiative to ask for words, which naturally made Zhang Zhaohua sigh very much.

"If you learn two words a day, as long as you remember it, you will be able to recognize all the commonly used words and be able to study books in two years," Zhang Zhaohua said: "If you make a little progress, you can learn five words a day for a year." Anyway, you are not required to be a showman, it doesn't hurt to write ugly, as long as you can write and recognize it - I know that you are learning to read the account book, Mr. Bookkeeper must be lazy to teach you, so that you have suffered a lot of dumb losses, you learn from me now, just recognize the words of the four pillars on the account book, this is learned quickly, and you are commonly known for half a month. ”

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