A few days passed in a flash, and it was the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Early in the morning, the old village chief came to Zhang Taiping's house with red paper, the old man was playing Tai Chi in the courtyard, the village chief waited next to him without disturbing, don't look at people in their fifties, but they are really juniors in front of the old man.

After the old man picked up the towel on the tree and wiped his sweat, the village chief stepped forward and said, "Uncle, see if you can write a pair." "Salivating, I don't have the posture of being the village chief at all.

The old man didn't speak, just waved his hand to follow. The old village chief understood at a glance that this was agreed, and followed the old man to the study in the back room with the red paper. In fact, the village chief's family had already bought a pair, but now that the old man had gone down the mountain, he bought a piece of red paper and cut it into long strips, and went to Zhang Taiping's house to ask the old man for some pairs. The old man's brush is well-known in the village, and when he didn't go up the mountain before, he didn't need to buy the pairs in the village every year, he just needed to buy the red paper and cut it.

The old man didn't start writing in the study, but moved a table to the courtyard before he began to prepare for ink. The village is only in the past few years from the big set to buy some Spring Festival couplets back, now the old man from the mountain down, I believe that there are not a few people who have an idea with the old village chief, so move a table early in the yard, save the time when the study is crowded.

Grinding ink without hurry or slowness is not only a process of grinding ink, but also a process of adjusting the mood and making people enter the state. If you want to write well, the mood is very important, what kind of mood to write what kind of words, words can reflect the person's surname and can also reflect the mood of the person.

The village chief was not in a hurry, and stood aside and watched. After grinding the ink, the old man said to Cai Xiaomei, who was standing next to him and watching, "Bring a bowl of hot water." ”

Cai Xiaomei's agile figure put into the kitchen and brought out a bowl of hot water, put the water on the table, and the old man took out three large, medium and small brushes from the pen holder, which were all good pens made by Zhang Taiping with wolf hair, the old man couldn't help but nodded, and put it in hot water for a while.

Fan Ming, who was lying on the table next to her, asked curiously, "Grandpa Zhang, what is this for?" ”

The old man stroked his beard and said with a smile: "If the pen is put for a long time, it will be stained with a lot of dust, which will not only be unfavorable for inking, but also leave small bumps in the written words, which will not be smooth and unsightly, and affect the effect of the words." ”

After soaking for a while, he took out the pen and shook off the water on it, and then the village chief unfolded the red paper and spread it on the table, pressing the four corners with smooth marble strips, and asked the old village chief, "What couplet do you want to write?" ”

The old village chief patted his head and said: "I don't have anything in my head, I can't think of any good couplets, I don't bother the two masters, so my uncle can just help me think of one and write it out." ”

"You're going to save effort."

"Hehe, uncle, how old are the capable."

The old man didn't object, but he agreed, and looked at the village chief and thought for a while, took out a medium-sized pen, dipped it in a full amount of ink, and put down the pen like a god. With the old man's pen walking away, Fan Ming read out the words one by one.

"Happy to live in a treasure land for a thousand years, prosperous and prosperous according to the family, everything is prosperous, and welcome the New Year."

The old man just put down the pen and the village chief applauded, although he has been the village chief for so many years and knows how to read, but there is really not much understanding of where this couplet is good, the reason why it is applauded is because it comes from the hands of the old man, even if the content is not good, these eighteen words are also worth better.

It seems that the village chief has been a fox in the past few years, and he came to the right place early in the morning, and just when he had just finished writing the pair to the village chief, the ink had not yet dried, and a few more people came in the yard, all holding the same cut red paper in their hands.

Seeing that the old village chief was also there, Han Cuihua said: "The village chief came so early, I thought I was the first." ”

The old man does not refuse to come, as long as he can come, he will write a couplet, some even two. Han Cuihua's couplet is: Good luck all year round, treasures from all directions enter the house, and the family is prosperous. It is in response to the scene of her family opening a store to buy money, and it also alludes to the harmony between husband and wife.

After a while, another group of people came, with the same purpose. In the village, the couplet written by the old man is pasted on the door of the New Year, which is an honor, and almost every family will come to ask the old man to write a pair.

Zhang Taiping was followed by a dog on his shoulders early in the morning, but he walked the dog and let the eagle go.

When he came back, Xiao Jin flew to the top of the yard first and saw a group of people in the courtyard below, and let out a long whistle to warn Zhang Taiping. The people in the courtyard heard the eagle chirping and looked up at Xiao Jin, who had spread his wings and was two meters above the courtyard, and they all understood that Zhang Dashuai was back.

Sure enough, two big dogs rushed into the yard, followed by Zhang Taiping, who was wearing only a single shirt in the winter. After Ah Huang and the lion entered the courtyard, they patrolled back and forth around the crowd, and kept sniffing people's legs. The two of them are different from the local dogs in the village, the size is too much pressure, the villagers who are queuing up all feel a little cramp in their legs, and they dare not move, for fear of being misunderstood by the two big dogs and being attacked, if they are attacked by these two big dogs, it will be uncomfortable, I heard that this Ah Huang is a fierce lord who is not inferior to the big green skin in the mountains.

Zhang Taiping saw the villagers' fear of Ah Huang and the lion, and waved his hand to drive the two big dogs into the front yard.

I came to the table and took a pen and waited, to see if anyone would come up to me to write. The villagers also lifted a pen when they saw Zhang Taiping, but they didn't come up to ask him to write. Although Zhang Taiping has changed a lot during this time, and the villagers' senses of him have changed decisively from before, basically no one believes that he can write calligraphy, and no one comes forward to ask him to write, preferring to wait in line here for a while.

Wang Peng came late and lined up at the back of the line, waiting a little impatiently, and saw Zhang Taiping holding a pen and preparing to write, and no one stepped forward, so he ran to Zhang Taiping with great joy. I also thought to myself that there was no one here, and I wouldn't be able to cut the queue when I came here. His worship of Zhang Taiping is blind, I believe that some people say that Zhang Taiping can fly, and Wang Peng, who has a hot brain, may believe it.

Spreading out the red paper, Zhang Taiping listened to the couplet that came out of Wang Peng's mouth, and immediately waved ink into a couplet. Some people in the back of the queue ran over curiously to stand on Zhang Taiping's side and take a look, although they didn't know how to write, they could still distinguish the quality of the surface of the handwriting. is not ambiguous, immediately spread out the red paper and let Zhang Taiping also write a couplet. After the two couplets, some people moved to Zhang Taiping's side.

The two of them wrote couplets to the villagers together, and the scene was very lively. Fan Ming took a lot of photos with a camera and words. Xing Rushui also looked at the two of them, the old man's words are clever and not work, the font is calm and powerful, just like the old man's life of washing away the lead and seeing the truth, there is no glitz and hustle, what is left is only calm and back to basics; On the other hand, Zhang Taiping's words are also good, but the style is diametrically opposed to the old man, and he can't hide the golden iron horse and killing spirit between the turning points.

Xing Rushui looked at Zhang Taiping's handwriting for a while, this man looked usually plain and indifferent, but this font revealed a restrained edge. Don't underestimate it, and don't dare to underestimate it!

One morning, the two of them wrote a couplet to everyone who came. After lunch, the atmosphere suddenly became thicker, and the sound of firecrackers continued to sound. People successively pasted joyful couplets in red and black letters on the door.

Zhang Taiping led Fan Ming and Cai Xiaomei to start doing these things for their own family. Paste couplets but don't even need ladders, stick Cai Xiaomei with vinegar and flour and together to make a paste, this paste is the rural soil method, but the effect is really wonderful, it is not easy to fall off on the wall, with other stickers intended to fall, when the year is not over the couplet fell to the ground, unlucky!

After pasting the couplet, a row of hollow carved whiskers was pasted on the eaves, and it was the words "happy family, all the best".

Fan Ming and Cai Xiaomei took the initiative to ask one person to stick to Qin Qiong and the other to stick Jingde, and the two doors were aligned up up and down.

When Fan Ming posted the word "Fu", he was stopped by Zhang Taiping: "The word Fu can't be pasted like this, it must be pasted upside down." ”

"Backwards, why?" She understands a good word, why should she post it upside down, "What's so important about it?" ”

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "It is indeed exquisite. It is said that "blessing" and "blessing" come down from heaven, if you put the word "blessing" on the head, it indicates that the blessing is rushing to the sky and running. Only by sticking the word 'Fu' upside down will the blessing descend on the world, will it come to us, and we can feel the blessing. ”

Fan Ming immediately had a look of sudden realization after hearing this, pasted the word "Fu" upside down again, clapped her hands happily and said, "Blessing falls from the sky!" ”

After pasting these, Cai Xiaomei took out the paper flowers she bought at the big set. Zhang Taiping and the three of them took these paper cutouts of zodiac signs or auspicious characters or unknown flowers, and pasted a small one on each window, and the excess was pasted on the wall in the courtyard.

After doing this, I looked back at the courtyard, and the red makeup everywhere in the courtyard was full of joy. It's Chinese New Year!