Chapter 0527: Old Sir
After the marriage was completed, Zheng Xuejing temporarily returned to Quancheng, because then Wang Zheng was going to the woman's house to ask for a post. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
In ancient times, the annual life card was much more complicated than now, how the man started, how the woman replied, very particular. Of course, these are the particularities of the rich, and the poor can only settle for it. The man went to the woman's house and asked for the woman's birthday, which was written on a piece of red paper.
Of course, the birthday on the red paper is not something that anyone can write, so you have to find the old man.
By 2009, there were still a few old gentlemen in each village who had gone to private school. The village respects people who have studied private school, and calls them old gentlemen, and they will go to the old gentleman for help with some important things that need to be written.
For example, in the early 90s, there were no printed couplets all over the countryside at the time. If ordinary people want to paste couplets, they have to find someone to write them, or write them themselves.
In the 80s and 90s, the general level of education in the countryside was not high.
In Dazhai Township, for example, the total population is more than 30,000 people, and then there is only one rural middle school, the 12th Middle School in southern Thailand, which was founded in 1954, and before 1966, only two classes of 80 junior high school students were enrolled every year, and then from 1966 the high school was added, enrolling two classes per year.
Because of the special historical period, before the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1978, most of the graduates trained by the 12th Middle School in southern Thailand stayed in Dazhai Township to work as farmers.
In a total of 24 years, the total number of junior and senior high schools trained by the 12th Middle School in southern Thailand for Dazhai Township is only 1,920. In townships with a total of 30,000 people, the proportion is less than 7 percent.
Moreover, because these junior and senior high school graduates have never learned calligraphy, when they need to write couplets during the Chinese New Year, most of these little talents are unreliable, except for a very few who have practiced calligraphy and can make do with writing pairs.
Then at this time, those old gentlemen who had studied private schools before liberation came in handy.
The thing of private school slowly disappeared after the liberation, after the land reform, because the school teacher had no land and could not support himself.
The core content of private school education is Confucianism, and then it mainly teaches things like the Four Books and the Five Classics. Rural children enter private schools at the age of seven or eight, study for seven or eight years, and grow up at the age of sixteen or seventeen, which can be called little gentlemen.
By 2009, Mr. Little would have become an old gentleman.
The youngest gentleman must have been born before 1933, and by 2009, the youngest gentleman will be 76 years old.
However, if you want to talk about Taohualing Village, there is really no old gentleman who has finished reading private school, Wang Zheng used to remember when he was a child that when their family posted couplets every year during the Chinese New Year, they were sent by his grandmother's family.
Wang Zheng's grandmother is a neighboring village of Taohualing Village, Luohanyu Village, there is an old gentleman in this village, by 2009, he was over 80 years old, everyone called him Wei Sanye, he was a very kind old man, with a scar on his face, a disabled and lame son, and his grandson was a teacher in college.
The original old gentlemen were a little wronged later, because these people who had studied private schools were not good, and most of them were landlords.
Moreover, many old gentlemen are lonely and miserable until they are old, and they don't even have a daughter-in-law because of the ingredients.
And even if they have children, many children have lost many opportunities because of their parents' composition, including joining the army, recruiting workers, going to school, and so on.
However, the irony is that these old gentlemen have reached their grandchildren, and then many families have turned over.
That is, after the 90s, 00s, and 10s, many of the descendants of the original overthrown landlords have become leaders in all fields of society.
There was a time when the descendants of the landlord were a very discriminatory title, but later, in the mouths of the common people, they did not look at it that way, and they found that the descendants of the landlord were really smarter.
Wang Zheng's annual life post was written by Wei Sanye, with his birthday written on it.
On January 6, 2009, not long after the marriage, Wang Zheng entrusted his two sons and two daughters to his mother to take care of, and then he went to Quancheng with his annual post written by Wei Sanye.
took his annual post, and then handed it to Zheng Hui.
The custom of this year-changing post is found in many places, and those who have been married should still have an impression.
Zheng Hui took the New Year's post from his prospective son-in-law and solemnly placed it on the big table.
Then after warmly entertaining his prospective son-in-law for lunch, Zheng Hui put his daughter's annual life post and Wang Zheng's annual life post together, and then wrapped it in big red paper, and at the same time pressed some money into the red paper.
Under normal circumstances, in 2009, the amount of money on the New Year's life card of the woman's parents is mostly 600, 800 or 1,000.
Of course, this situation is among the working class, and people like Wang Zheng can't follow this standard.
Because the bride price given by the Wang family for the engagement was 9,999,999, the Zheng family's money for the New Year's post should not be too small. This amount of money can't be discussed with the man, so he can only make his own heart, and in the end, Zheng Hui and Ma Hong discussed and pressed 31,008 for Wang Zheng, and took the homonym sent by the three families together.
When he came back from Quancheng, Wang Zheng brought Zheng Xuejing back together.
Wang Bin hasn't seen Zheng Xuejing for several days, and he misses her very much, and Zheng Xuejing misses Wang Bin very much.
Among Wang Zheng's four children, Wang Bin has the best relationship with Zheng Xuejing.
After coming back with the New Year's post, Wang Zheng and Zheng Xuejing handed over the New Year's post wrapped with two people to Wang Xiangzhong.
Wang Xiangzhong weighed the package of the big red paper bag and shook his head.
Because it is almost the end of the year, there are still some things to be busy, so Wang Zheng's wedding can be done quickly.
After Wang Zheng and Zheng Xuejing sent the New Year's post back, Wang Xiangzhong personally drove a car to Luohanyu Village.
Wang Xiangzhong found Wei Sanye, and then opened the big red paper package in front of Wei Sanye and his son, and then put all the money in front of Wei Sanye.
Wei Sanye was an old-fashioned person, and looked at Wang Xiangzhong with a frown: "Xiangzhong, you ......"
Wang Xiangzhong respected Wei Sanye very much: "Old man, my son is very happy, please give him merit." ”
"This money ......"
Wei Sanye's son is named Wei Tingyu, one year older than Wang Xiangzhong, born in 1958. The two knew each other when they were children, and Wei Tingyu's leg was not crippled at that time, and later in 1971, Wei Tingyu's leg was discounted, and then it was missing.
Wei Tingyu was reluctant to marry him because of his disability, and later married a mute daughter-in-law. However, his son Wei Kun is very smart, two years younger than Wang Zheng, and later in 2004 he was admitted to Imperial Capital University, and after graduating from the bachelor's degree, he was admitted to the graduate school.
"It's the end of the year, be filial to your old man."
Wei Sanye smiled, took out one from the thick stack, and then looked at Wang Zheng and Zheng Xuejing's annual life posts and calculated them, and then wrote a pair of combined annual life posts, and then transcribed another one, pushing the rest of the money and the newly written annual life post to Wang Xiangzhong.