Chapter 80: Longyang Town
In the early morning of the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, when I was still lingering with Long Tong in a sweet dream, the quilt was suddenly ruthlessly lifted, and my face was slapped a few times. It's about to be the New Year, and my father asked to go with him to clean the house with him.
In fact, I haven't been to my master's house for a long time, mainly because my mother doesn't allow me to go, saying that I just go to my master's house to be lazy and not study. My grandfather and grandmother always loved me and indulged me, as long as I opened my mouth, they did not hesitate to give me anything they could, and they didn't care if I was playful or not, and he would be very happy as long as I could visit them.
Because my mother is a hindrance, basically every time my master comes to see me in our new house, and he will bring some delicious dishes in a basket. In the past, our family lived together, but because my father and mother separated from my father and grandmother to make it easier to do business, and built the current new house.
I rushed to the master's house early in the morning, and when I saw the master, the master was already dressed as an authentic war militiaman, and when he saw me coming, the master hurriedly reported to his grandmother, who was overjoyed with a cane.
When I saw that I was injured and bandaged, the expression on my face was very complicated, worried and sad, and at the same time, I kept praying for the blessings of various gods, asking about my injury.
I haven't seen my grandmother in a long time, and I miss her a lot. When I was a child, my lord carried a lot of fat soil on the roof of our old house, and planted a strawberry with that mud, and every time it was ripe, my lord would go to the roof to pick strawberries for me and my sister to eat, and that piece of strawberry was specially planted for me and my sister.
But one day, only my grandmother took me and my sister at home, my sister and I were arguing to eat strawberries, and my grandmother loved us very much, so she set up a ladder to pick it for us, but when she got down the ladder, she stepped on the empty side, and then her grandmother fell off the ladder and fell her left leg, because the medical conditions at that time were not as good as now, grandma's left leg was still lame, and she needed to use crutches when walking. Whenever I see my grandmother with a cane in her hand, I feel sad in my heart, and at this time I always say to myself that I will study hard in the future, have a good future, and honor my grandmother with the best things.
For as long as I can remember, before we separated, my grandmother was always in charge of the food in our family, and my grandmother always liked to cook food for me and my sister, and sometimes my sister and I would fight over what my grandmother made, which made my grandmother have a headache for a while.
Most of the time, my father and mother were busy working to earn money to support the family, and basically left my sister and me to my grandfather and grandmother, and in general, my grandmother was responsible for taking care of my sister, and my lord was responsible for taking care of me. This is the standard of three generations in the same house, happy and happy, but in the case of stable food and clothing, my father and mother have higher requirements for materials, so they built a new house, and their grandparents separated from each other, and started a business in the new house.
When I heard that we had come to the old house without eating, my grandmother quickly cooked somen for me and my father. My bowl is full of sliced meat and eggs, this is what my grandmother gave me to eat when I was a child, although I don't like eggs anymore, the taste of this grandma has always been my favorite, many times, I will fantasize about being like in the TV series, one day I can bring Long Tong to see grandma, let her also eat a bowl of noodles made by grandma, or taste the strawberries that the old man planted for me and my old sister.
Although I went to the old house to help the old man clean the house, I had injuries on my body, and I was wearing bandages, so I should not climb the ladder, I could only wipe the table or chair or something, and even I could not do anything, because the old lady was still idle and I couldn't wipe the table and chairs clean, so she would rather do it by herself than let me intervene. I don't think my dad is going to do anything, he just wants me to spend time with my grandparents.
I stayed in the old house that night, because my father asked me to write the couplet. I've never written couplets, and my dad used to write them for the New Year, but my dad said that I was a high school student now and could write them, so I couldn't help but write them.
I don't understand, and I'm very reluctant, after all, one hand is still injured, it's inconvenient to write, and besides, there are couplets sold in the bazaar, so why bother people so much.
But my dad explained to me that our family has always written by himself, and he was also written by the master after he went to high school, and he was beaten by the master because he didn't want to write, so it was the same in my generation, in order to show that our family is a literate person, I have to write it myself, and I don't have the charm to write it myself, and I write it more spiritually, and I can clearly express the vision I expect in my heart.
I don't understand my father's logic, although my brush writing is not very good, but writing a few couplets is still difficult for me, and the master also promised to help me write, but not directly write me, just to guide my penmanship, help me cut red paper, and I have to be the one who carries the pen * knife.
After cutting the red paper all night, I counted them as a whole, and there were more than a dozen couplets, and I had to find them in the couplet book according to the meaning of the position of each door and window. Especially the door, which is extremely exquisite, represents the tone of the whole year in the coming year, sloppy, have a good tone, and do things smoothly in the coming year.
I didn't sleep much, and it was Chinese New Year's Eve, and every family would be very busy on this day, and in the north it may be busy making dumplings, but in the south it is indeed full of tricks. In our Longyang Town, we must make the traditional eight bowls, just because of the tone of one, "If you want to be haired, you will not leave the eight". And these eight bowls are actually to make eight dishes. Under normal circumstances, braised pork, chicken, crispy meat, long dishes, and vegetarian dishes are indispensable.
Every year for the Chinese New Year, our family will be different from ordinary people, we have to cook eight dishes, and the whole family will be busy on this day, and it will be relatively late to eat. I used to be disgusted with this situation because I didn't feel the need to cook so many dishes, because I couldn't finish eight dishes, and it was a waste of time.
In the evening, when I was worshipping my ancestors, the lord had to sing something in the hall that I had not understood for more than ten years, I don't know if it was a scripture or a sacrificial language, and it was an hour. Many times our family is still busy worshipping our ancestors, while other families have already finished eating and are watching the Spring Festival Gala.
Of course, it doesn't matter to me whether I'm busy or not, because my job is to write couplets. Maybe what my dad said is right, people who don't understand culture, buy couplets are random pastes, and some even stick the door to the side door, which is very incompatible.
It's different to write it yourself, you can refer to the couplet in the couplet book to change it yourself, change it until it is appropriate, and then write it on the couplet, which shows the vision of the family for a whole year or a lot. For our family, the biggest hope for the coming year is that my sister can be successfully admitted to university, and the family's business can be further improved. I read a lot and felt that it was inappropriate, so I wrote a pair myself: Shanglian: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter Seasons to Cast Wealth and Cast Penghui Downlink: East, West, South and North Fang Send Bao Zhu Renjie Horizontal Criticism: People and Money
After writing the couplet, I had nothing to do, and the rest of the family was still busy with the sumniest dinner of the night on Chinese New Year's Eve. It was already dark, and at this time, many families set off fireworks and firecrackers to welcome the New Year, starting their family's annual reunion dinner.
At this time, many villagers in the village set off fireworks, and I was attracted to run out of the house to watch. When I came out to take a look, I suddenly felt that the entire Longyang Town was boiling, the sound of fireworks and firecrackers exploding came one after another, and the leaves kept floating up and down with the rhythm of the sound, like a slight earthquake.
This place in Longyang Town is a bit special, since I can remember, I know that Longyang Town is an interesting place, because when I was a child, my lord would often tell me stories about Longyang Town.
Most people in Longyang Town always have a sense of pretentiousness. The name of Longyang Town is derived from the Taoist Feng Shui theory, there are nine mountains in Longyang Town, each mountain has a so-called dragon vein, which is called "Nine Dragons Gathering", and the number "nine" is the most masculine and rigid number in the world, so this place is called Longyang Town.
But there is a more special feng shui phenomenon in Longyang Town, the nine mountains in Longyang Town are facing one place, that is, Jiulong Fort, Jiulong Fort is a round mountain, from each of the nine mountains in Longyang Town, it looks like a bead half buried under the ground. So people gave it the most primitive name according to some Feng Shui explanations, called "Nine Dragons Playing Pearls".
Ma Ma's grandfather was the most powerful local landlord before the liberation, except for a Longyang Temple on the top of Jiulong Fort, everything on Jiulong Fort belonged to Ma Ma's grandfather, and "Nine Dragons Treasure Robbery" was still the most sacred place in a radius of 100 miles around at that time.
However, after the liberation, due to the land reform and the criticism of various landlords at that time, the "Kowloon Empire" of Ma Ma's grandfather's family collapsed in an instant, and all the land was confiscated by the government and redistributed to the local peasants, and our family was allocated a piece, which is where the newly built house of our family is now located.
After Ma's grandfather's house was renovated, the government left an old house for their family, that is, where Mali's grandfather's family now lives, which was a somewhat remote place in the early days of liberation, until the road was built later, and the road passed through the door of Mali's grandfather's old house, and the situation improved.
With the advantage of convenient transportation, there has always been the gene of a landlord doing business, and Mali's grandfather opened a small shop on the side of the highway, and the business is booming and making a lot of money. Later, when Ma Li told him that he wanted to do a toy business with me, his grandfather was very happy and thought that Ma Li's idea was very promising, so without saying a word, he immediately agreed and gave Ma Li the capital of 15,000.