Chapter 65: The New Year (I)

The day after she left, Xiao Nan's murderous reputation for arson and tiger injury spread to Sangyu Village, and the women who did not agree with the Lin family heard this rumor and did not care about the truth, and immediately played their own gossip and mouth, wantonly clamoring Xiao Nan's cruelty and ferocity, Xiao Nan's grandmother Zhu and others heard the sound and quietly added fuel to the waves, trying to take the opportunity to completely rectify the reputation of Lin's mother and son in one fell swoop. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Fortunately, Xiao Dalang has accumulated a lot of good karma when he was alive, and there are only a few people in the village who have a bad relationship with Xiao Nan's family, and although Xiao Nan has been a little naughty since he was a child, he has acted very measured, plus the bear that was divided more than a month ago, and this rumor was spread by the very bad reputation of Jiangpu Village, except for a few people in Sangyu Village who looked at Lin's mother and son unpleasantly, there were not many people who believed in this rumor.

Although there are not many people who believe this rumor, everyone still has doubts about Xiao Nan's family raising a tiger, you must know that the Northern Song Dynasty has a clear rule: ordinary people's homes are not allowed to raise beasts privately, Xiao Bianli is still young, and Xiao Nan's family lives far away from other families in the village.

For this reason, after this rumor spread to Sangyu Village, although it was approaching the end of the year at this time, there were still many people in the village who ran to Xiao Nan's house to find out.

On the evening of the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, Li Qinghe and his father Li Rongxin came to Xiao Nan's house together, Li Rongxin is now fifty years old, he is a talent himself, plus the children in the family are competitive, he has been in Sangyu Village for nearly 20 years, and his reputation in Sangyu Village is extremely high.

"Mrs. Xiao's family does have a little tiger cub, the old man knows about this, and the old man also knows that their family went to the county to prepare a case soon after picking up the tiger cub, and received a legal maintenance certificate, as long as the tiger in the family does not hurt people, it is not considered a violation of the laws of this dynasty, and everyone must not make trouble for this." Li Rongxin stood in the center of the crowd and said loudly.

"Third Uncle Weng, with your virtue and prestige, we dare not doubt what you said, but the problem is that yesterday, the princess of Jiangpu Village was injured by a tiger, how can you say this?" As soon as Li Zheng's voice fell, Li Liurong was quite dissatisfied and shouted loudly, Li Liurong is idle, tricky and aggressive, in Sangyu Village, the only person who can cure him is Xiao Dalang except Li Zheng, Li Zheng's family is powerful and powerful, he can't fight and admit it, but Xiao Dalang is about the same age as him, but he was crushed to death when he was alive, and now Xiao Dalang is gone, he seized such an opportunity, and naturally refused to let go of Lin's mother and son easily.

"Then Mrs. Wang, did you see her bitten with your own eyes? She only came to Xiao's house yesterday evening, if she was really bitten by a tiger, she would be able to jump up and down in just one day, and go around to publicize that Aunt Xiao was hurting people by arsoning with tigers? As soon as he said this, the hearts of the other people who were almost instigated by Li Liurong suddenly moved, yes, if the princess was really bitten by a tiger, how could she go around so quickly to publicize Xiao Nan's arson and hurt people?

Since the Xiao family's tiger hurts people does not exist at all, and Xiao Nan received the legal maintenance certificate early, the people gathered in front of the Xiao family's house really have no reason to find Xiao Nan's stubble, everyone quickly retreated, and the rumors naturally broke themselves, the next two days, the children under the age of ten in the village, if there is nothing to do, they will run to the Xiao family, and the grown up tiger is feared by everyone, but the little tiger who is only about four months old is only half the size of a soil dog, at best, it is an adult big cat with a slightly stronger body, and a tiger of this size will not only not make the children afraid, On the contrary, it made everyone extremely curious, and for a while, the Xiao family, which had always been cold, became unprecedentedly lively......

The pace of time continues to run non-stop, and in a blink of an eye it is Chinese New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year's Eve this day, the tradition in some places is only too big to keep the Chinese New Year's Eve year, and some places have New Year's Eve in addition to Chinese New Year's Eve meals, Sangyu Village is like this, early in the morning of the thirty-first day, the sound of firecrackers at the end of the village echoes endlessly, Xiao Nan has eaten breakfast, called Jiang Jingxuan and her to carry a large square table to the courtyard, and took out pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the study, ready to write Spring Festival couplets.

Some families only wrote the Spring Festival couplets on the first day of the new year, but Sangyu Village has the custom of ancestral sacrifice, the village has to carry out the New Year's sacrifice on the first day of the new year, Xiao Nan's family is a new funeral, and there is a family sacrifice after the New Year's inspection, so she can't spare time, for this reason, Chinese New Year's Eve, after breakfast, she is ready to write out a few couplets to be posted in the house.

The Xiao family's previous couplets were sometimes written by Lin Xiucai to help them write and paste back, sometimes it was Lin's pen, Xiao Dalang's martial arts are amazing, and his knowledge is quite extraordinary, but the essay collection and words are far inferior to Lin's, Jiang Jingxuan and Xiao Nan are quite talented in both martial arts and reading, and the words are also very outstanding at their age, but in the end, they are young and not as good as Lin.

In order to remember Xiao Dalang, the artistic conception and words of this couplet need to be extra cautious, according to Lin's meaning, he originally planned to let his father help catch the pen, but Lin Xiucai said that Xiao Nan can stand alone in both literary style and words, enough to catch the knife himself, for this reason, this heavy responsibility fell on Xiao Nan.

Jiang Jingxuan was quite surprised after hearing Lin Xiucai's words, Xiao Nan's previous level of handwriting was about the same as him, could it be that he hadn't seen her for a few months, and this girl's handwriting had made a qualitative leap? With such a question, Jiang Jingxuan followed Xiao Nan like a little follower, wanting to see the handwriting of his junior sister and fiancée with his own eyes.

Xiao Nan spread out the pen and ink, and then thought about the current situation of his own family, after a little thought, he splashed ink and waved Hao, not a moment, a dragon flying phoenix dance of the couplet was completed overnight, on the link: the mountains and rivers are pure and auspicious, and the father cultivates the mother and weaves the son into a virtuous; Downlink, Xiangyang people accept new blessings, accumulate good deeds and be safe forever. Horizontal batch: New Year's remembrance of father's endowment.

Since the moment Xiao Nan put down the pen, Jiang Jingxuan's eyes have widened, and after Xiao Nan put down the last pen, his eyes have been as big as copper Ling, and his eyeballs are almost protruding, and he is about to say something, when a crisp female voice in the courtyard has sounded one step ahead of him: "Ah, the eldest lady is writing couplets!" ”

The one who spoke was a little girl about ten years old, her name was Li Huiqin, she was the daughter of Li Qinghe's family, she carried a basket in her hand, walked into the courtyard of the Xiao family, and followed a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy behind her, this young man was her cousin, that is, Li Chengyu, the eldest son of Li Zhengqing, who served in another county, Li Huiqin had a good relationship with Xiao Nan's body.

"Mrs. Xiao, this, you really wrote this couplet?" Unlike Li Huiqin, as soon as Li Chengyu entered the door and saw Xiao Nan, an eleven-year-old lady writing couplets, he was surprised and his eyes unconsciously fell towards the words on the couplet, but he didn't want to look at it, he was taken aback, and couldn't help but exclaim in his mouth.