After lunch, the sister and brother immediately carried a "huge amount of money" and moved two benches to sneak out.

Wu Tianjia lived in the eastern district of Shangcheng, which is the location of the city's cultural center, out of the alley is the cultural road, not far to the east is the library, Xinhua bookstore and several newspapers and magazines, and later built a cultural market nearby, becoming the province's pirated book distribution center.

At the entrance of Xinhua Bookstore, there will be many stalls selling couplets for the New Year every Chinese New Year, and Wu Tian's booth will naturally be located here.

"That's it!" Wu Tian said, standing under a brick wall on the east side of Xinhua Bookstore.

"Why are you here? We should go to the west, closer to home. Wu Yuan said.

"It's close to home, but it's the library opposite, be careful of being caught by my mother." Wu Tian said, "Although the location here is poor, we are not afraid of deep alleys because of the smell of wine." ”

Wu Yuan rolled her eyes, although she was young and didn't know how to do business, anyone could see it at a glance, put the stall here, basically don't want to sell a couplet!

As early as the twentieth day of the lunar month, someone had already occupied the position at the entrance of the Xinhua Bookstore, and one by one they lined up to Wu Tian, which was already twenty or thirty meters away from the Xinhua Bookstore, and they were the most marginal. Not to mention, people's stalls are all "big business", the last time there are three or two large tables, and some have also set up a simple shed, surrounded by handwritten, printed red couplets, very imposing, where like them, only two small benches!

Wu Yuan ran to Xinhua Bookstore to buy red paper with a stomach full of dissatisfaction, while Wu Tian took out the ink and brushes he brought from home and placed them on the small bench upright, but the stall next to him couldn't help but grin - you said that the little kid in this year is really a little ghost, is this a play house running to the street?

The one smiled, but Wu Tian was not happy, and glanced at the one with a slanted glance, but saw that it was a guy in his thirties, wearing a pair of glasses with thick bottoms of wine bottles, wearing a set of washed white Lenin suits, and two pens in his upper pockets.

In other words, peers are enemies, this is our competitor. But looking at this person's business, it doesn't seem to be good, Wu Tian didn't bother to pay attention to him, and took out a roll of red paper from his arms, but it was the three couplets written by his grandfather that he secretly brought, unfolded, pinched two thumbtacks and nailed them to the wall behind him - do business, you have to put two samples, don't you?

"Tsk, little friend, who wrote this, not bad...... That's nice! The thick glasses looked at the couplet in Wu Tian's hand and couldn't help but admire.

Poor Wu Tian's head is not much longer than the couplet, and he is worried that he can't hang it on the wall, and when he hears the person who shook his head and appreciated our couplet, he couldn't help but say angrily: "I ......"

"You wrote that?" The one couldn't help but open his mouth.

“…… Grandfather! Wu Tian was gasping for breath.

"Uh......" The one breathed a sigh of relief, and was a little speechless, so he said, if you can write such a good word as a six or seven-year-old kid, let's just fold the brush and go home, so as not to be embarrassed here.

Seeing that Wu Tian finished speaking, he went to hug the small bench again, and wanted to climb up to hang the couplet, but the one hurriedly came over to take the couplet in Wu Tian's hand and said, "Little friend, come, uncle help you hang it, don't fall." ”

Wu Tian didn't appreciate it, and shouted: "Who are you, you want to be my uncle?" You're taking advantage of me! ”

This little devil's temper is not small, and the one who couldn't help but cry and laugh handed the couplet to Wu Tian again, and said: "That's good, that's good, I'm not your uncle, you can ...... it yourself."

Wu Tian shouted again with both hands in his arms: "I said, why don't you know how to do things?" Just now you said that you want to help me, then a good person will do it to the end, and hang those two pictures for me too. ”

The thick glasses couldn't help gritting his teeth, looking at the little fart who was only as high as his waist, but in the end, he was helpless to smack his lips, and still helped Wu Tian hang up the three couplets.

At this time, Wu Tiancai showed a smiling face, walked forward with his teeth bared, and wanted to pat someone's shoulder, but he couldn't reach it, and he couldn't even reach his arm, so he could only pat it twice on someone's big hip bone, and said, "You're a good person!" What's your surname? ”

The one who was speechless again smacked his lips - you six or seven-year-old kid actually called me big brother? You're not much older than my daughter, okay? Didn't you let us fall for a lifetime?

But the problem is that in the face of such a little kid, and a smile on your face, you can't let out the fire.

"Free of expensive, surnamed Chang, Chang Tianhua." Thick glasses said helplessly.

"Brother Chang, hehe, my surname is Wu, my name is Wu Tian, Koutian Wu, lawless Tian, you can call me Brother Wu. Hehe, Brother Chang, are you a teacher at that school? Wu Tian didn't care if people were unhappy, and pulled up the homely routine with a shy face.

"How do you know that I'm a teacher?" Chang Tianhua said in surprise.

"Hehe, look at your simple dress, your transcendent temperament, at first glance, you are a hard-working gardener who cultivates the next generation of the motherland, and an engineer of the human soul." Wu Tiandao.

Chang Tianhua couldn't help grinning and said, "Your kid's mouth is quite sweet, hehe......"

Wu Tian said with a smile: "Where is it, hehe, it's just that I am a small person, and we two brothers set up a stall together, so we have to take care of Brother Chang more." ”

Chang Tianhua couldn't help but nod his head speechlessly, this little kid, could it be a personal essence? It's so big, and the mouth is so slippery?

Sure enough, after a while, Wu Yuan bought the red paper and came back, and Wu Tian ran over to borrow a paper knife with a cheeky face, shouting one by one, Chang Tianhua was so depressed that he could only lend him the knife. However, Chang Tianhua, who is idle and has no business, has also been aroused enough curiosity, these two little guys even bought red paper, do they really want to sell couplets? Can he write?

Wu Tian took the knife, folded the red paper a few times and was about to put down the knife, Chang Tianhua hurriedly shouted: "Little friend, you fold it too narrowly, so wide that you can't write two lines of words up and down." ”

Wu Tian didn't just put down the knife, and said in his mouth: "I'll only write a couplet." ”

Chang Tianhua couldn't help but shake his head, children really don't know how to do business, you must know that most of the couplets on the street of Lu Dao are just cut into a strip of paper 112 centimeters wide, and the upper and lower couplets are written on the left and right, so that people can go home and cut them in half by themselves, but Wu Tian directly cut them into nearly ten centimeters wide, but said that he only wrote one couplet? How much paper is wasted?

It was not only Chang Tianhua who couldn't see it, Wu Yuan was also so angry that he pointed at Wu Tian's nose to "withdraw capital", Wu Tian had to coax the old sister and said: "Sister, look at how many couplets are sold here, how fierce the competition is, if we want to sell things, then our things have to be better than others, right?" Our couplets are wider than others, and the words are bigger than others, so they are naturally easy to sell, and if you think about it, as long as you sell more couplets, how many couplets of red paper can you earn......"

Chang Tianhua listened to it funny, what is the basis for writing couplets? The most important thing is to have good words! You are a little brat, no matter how wide the paper is, no one may believe that you can write good words, and it is strange that you can sell it!

"You're a good word, how much is a pair?"

Chang Tianhua heard that someone was talking, and the business came to the door, so he hurriedly turned his head, only to see an old lady in her sixties standing in front of her, and then looked at the old lady's eyes, and couldn't help but be depressed - the old lady was not looking at the couplets she wrote, but the ones written by Wu Tian's grandfather next to her.

Chang Tianhua is a real person, so he had to point at Wu Tian depressedly and said: "I didn't write these pictures, he ...... them."

"Yes, yes, I hung these couplets, buy them, right? How many do you want? Wu Tian didn't wait for Chang Tianhua to finish speaking, he immediately took over the conversation, and his mouth was full of cannons, but the old lady who read the couplets was stunned, these couplets were written by such a little child? You must know that although the old man was alive, he liked calligraphy very much, although he couldn't write well, but he also practiced a little vision with the old man's ears and eyes, and the words of these couplets must have a few decades of skills, to say that the young man in his thirties is talented and has practiced hard since childhood, but it is possible to make do, but it is impossible for such a small doll to write, right?

Wu Tian didn't care so much, he had already spread a piece of red paper on the small bench, grabbed the brush and dipped it in ink, and said: "Grandma, for the New Year, paste the Spring Festival couplets to have a festive picture, I will first write you a firecracker to say goodbye to the old year, how about plum blossoms to welcome the New Year?" ”

didn't wait for the old lady to answer, Wu Tian had already put down the pen, and the old lady didn't stop it, nor did she agree, just watched Wu Tian write a few words one by one, and said, "Little friend, how long have you been practicing this word?" ”

"I've been practicing for more than a year." Wu Tian said as he wrote.

"Okay, I can write like this in more than a year, it's good, hehe." The old lady complimented, "However, these pictures hanging behind you are not written by you......"

"That's what my grandfather wrote." Wu Tian said.

"You little friend is not honest, you didn't write it, didn't you mislead the masses by hanging it up?" The old lady said.

"My handwriting was taught by my grandfather, and I was his student, so it's not a big mistake to hang a few of his handwriting as signboards, right?" Wu Tianma slipped the couplet and said, "Grandma, look at it, my couplet is wide and big, how beautiful and festive it is on the door, although the words are almost there, but I am young, it is rare to write like this." You just buy my couplet, you buy my couplet, it is an affirmation of me, I will redouble my efforts to practice calligraphy, and strive to become a great calligrapher in the future, if you don't buy my couplet, that is to discourage my enthusiasm to practice calligraphy, in the future, our country will have one less calligraphy master, that is your responsibility......"

The old lady was so crying and laughing by Wu Tian's words, she pointed her finger at Wu Tian and said, "Okay, good, grandma shouldn't be this sinner through the ages, hehe, just buy your couplet." Well, I want a total of four couplets, so don't you write me a duplicate of it. ”

"Don't worry, don't say four pairs, even forty pairs don't have the same kind." Wu Tian shouted happily, "I'll write you another picture of the mountains and rivers of the spring returning to the earth, and the weather in China is new." ”

Wu Tianma slipped another pair, changed the red paper, and said: "How about writing another pair of east wind blowing out the green of a thousand mountains, and the spring rain is sprinkled with new things?" ”

"Hehe, your baby has a lot of tone, but the couplets are too old, is there anything fresh?" The old lady was a little cunning and embarrassed Wu Tianlai.

"Fresh, huh?" Wu Tian scratched his head, the two couplets just now are commonly used Spring Festival couplets, so I remember it clearly, but if you want to say that it is fresh, that is, it corresponds to the current Spring Festival couplets in the early eighties......

Wu Tian simply picked up the pen and wrote: the heart of the party, the heart of the people, the unity of all people, the national fortune, the family fortune, and the grand luck.

Chang Tianhua held his glasses and said, "Hey, where did you copy this couplet?" Why haven't I seen it? ”

Writing couplets is not necessarily the compilation of couplets, generally there is a small book that specializes in writing couplets, and they usually copy it down when they encounter it, and there are also some publishing houses that specialize in printing some new couplets to sell, so don't look at the twenty or thirty couplets on a street, but the content is basically the same, as for copyright? As the saying goes, there is a big copy of the world's articles, not to mention a small couplet, so Wu Tian is very confident to take this later work as his own: "I made it up myself, can't it?" ”

Chang Tianhua laughed dryly, but he didn't believe that Wu Tian made up the couplet himself, at his age, even if he could memorize more than ten or twenty couplets, he could be called a prodigy.

Over there, Wu Tian had already changed the red paper again, pinched the brush and wrote: The hall is surrounded by purple qi and is blessed, and the spring is full of longevity!

"Uh...... I haven't seen this one before...... "Chang Tianhua was a little straight-eyed, I don't believe that the superficial one just now was made up by Wu Tian himself, and this one is even more impossible. But the problem is that there are people all over the city who write couplets on this street, and I haven't seen anyone write this one......

The old lady was very satisfied and said: "Okay, this is good, Fulu Suxi has all the blessings, your doll is really a little prodigy, hehe......"

"Grandma has won the award, if you praise me again, I will be proud......" Wu Tian happily asked Wu Yuan to cut a few short strips with the scraps of red paper, and wrote a horizontal batch, plus some miscellaneous items such as good health, going out to see joy, and spring in the garden.

"Grandma, you buy my couplet is an affirmation of me, I can't make your money, you can give a dollar and get it!" Wu Tianma dried a few couplets, rolled them into a roll, and held them high and handed them to the old lady.

The old lady was not happy, and said, "How can grandma take advantage of your children, one piece is one piece!" ”

While speaking, the old lady took out a small handscroll from her personal pocket, shook it open, picked up a dime and handed it to Wu Tian.

"Xie Lu Xie Grandma!" Wu Tian was no longer polite, took the money directly, and said, "Grandma, look at the neighbors at your door who didn't buy Spring Festival couplets, you can help me introduce them, I have to write a few more paintings, and I can pay for the New Year to go to school after the New Year." ”

The old lady said happily: "Don't worry, I will definitely help you introduce this little prodigy, hehe......"