Chinese New Year's Eve, when I first woke up in the morning, the sky was overcast, and there was occasional rain at the foot of the mountain. As the sun rises, the weather gradually clears, and people's mood becomes more and more light. The most important festival of the year is finally here.

I drank a lot of rice wine last night, but Liang Chuan didn't dare to snooze in the morning, so he got out of bed early in the morning to see if there was anything he needed to do.

Da Song came to such an experience, and he didn't think about doing anything earth-shattering, but he was immersed in such a peaceful fireworks and couldn't extricate himself, how good, how can there be any power to lean towards the government and the opposition to scold the world, he was a good mix in his previous life, and he was not just a horse plague at the bottom of the ruling class.

Isn't he fragrant on days like this? If you have to drag your family to disturb the society and shake the government and the opposition, it is called a skill, it doesn't seem to be it, who is afraid of a long life, and you can't live with An Sheng.

The sound of firecrackers everywhere is endless, and a special scent of firecrackers fills the air, breaking the silence of the small mountain village. Children are scurrying around in the fields, holding small firecrackers picked up from the pile of firecracker crumbs in one hand, and a stick of incense in the other hand, lighting the fuse of the firecracker, blowing up the vole hole, blowing up the field ditch, and having fun. Today is probably the happiest day of the year for children, adults give a few copper plates, buy candy, buy some small toys, as long as they don't poke any baskets, they generally don't care, unrestrained, free.

Every household boils paste paste Spring Festival couplets, the Spring Festival couplets pasted last year on the lintel after a year of wind and rain, the red has faded to white, the old Spring Festival couplets are peeled down, the new Spring Festival couplets are pasted, all look forward to the new year, can have a new look!

At home, the artist has already boiled the batter, flour and a little water, not too thick and not too thin. The paste should be used immediately, Liang Chuan looked at it, the Spring Festival couplets had not been written, and the red paper was empty!

Liang Chuan hurriedly called Ye Xiaochai to help cut paper together. Ye Xiaochai was ingenious, and did these delicate jobs in an orderly manner, and after folding the long Spring Festival couplets in half, he used scissors to snap them out and cut them out quickly. Originally, no one came to paste the union on the gate of the He ancestral hall, because this is public, and few people generally regard it as their own home. But now that Liang Chuan has moved in, he will treat it as his own home anyway.

The gate of the ancestral hall is tall, Liang Chuan asked Ye Xiaochai to cut out a pair of large couplets that are five feet long and about one foot wide, but it is difficult to write, Liang Chuan's words are too ugly, and I am afraid that writing out and sticking on the gate of the ancestral hall will damage people's face.

Liang Chuan handed the pen to Ye Xiaochai and asked her to write the Spring Festival couplets. Ye Xiaochai said: "Owner, I know how to write, but what to write, you have to tell me, I can write but there is no ink in my stomach." ”

Liang Chuan smacked his lips, thought for a while, and said, "Come, I said you write, Shanglian is Chaoyun Chaochao ”

"Wait!" Ye Xiaochai picked up the pen and followed Liang Chuannian to prepare to write, the first two words can be written, and the back is completely confused, and shouted urgently: "You slow down, I didn't understand, which dynasty, how to write?" ”

Liang Chuan said with a smile: "The front is towards the clouds, the back is seven towards the rising sun, and then a retreat, how to read it, it depends on personal understanding." ”

Ye Xiaochai followed what Liang Chuan said, and slowly wrote on the red paper. I didn't expect Ye Xiaochai to have this hand, the ancients said that a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, this is not right, wouldn't it be better for women to have both ability and political integrity! That good hand is many times stronger than Liang Chuan's. Liang Chuan thought to himself, if this was done with a hard pen, he would not lose to her, hum!

"Okay, what about the next link?" Ye Xiaochai raised his pen and asked.

"Downlink, long water, long stream, long water, then seven long words, and then one flowing water word! It's easy. ”

The upper and lower couplets are symmetrical, and sure enough, it is still such a strange couplet, Ye Xiaochai wrote carefully, and said in his mouth: "Who writes such a strange Spring Festival couplet, who can read it if you write it like this?" ”

"People who can read and understand more deeply are awesome characters? Ordinary people don't know that it's a word when they fall down, and they don't expect them to understand it. This is called a gimmick, do you understand, this couplet is the advertisement of our family in the future, and when the new house is built, let Master Zhao engrave this couplet on the pillar at the door! ”

Awesome? Gimmick? Ad? Ye Xiaochai heard it in a fog, but she just wrote what Liang Chuan said, why bother so much!

"Our family is cultured, we can't hang firecrackers to say goodbye to the old year, gongs and drums to celebrate the New Year, such a common saying, that's a lot of cheapness."

Liang Chuan happily took this couplet and pasted it on the door frame. This couplet was changed from the Shanhaiguan Jiang Numiao door couplet of the Southern Song Dynasty champion Wang Shipeng, and later Sichuan seems to have a similar, but the most famous couplet with the same word is this pair, today borrowed the predecessors, no, it should be the light of the descendants, take it to shine on their lintel.

After pasting the Spring Festival couplets, there are candles in the lanterns, now there is no need to light candles during the day, and so on at night, the candles are lit, and the red lanterns are hung at the door of every house, festive and auspicious.

Today, there is an extra pot in the yard for stewing roe deer meat, a few stones are piled up, and the firewood below is burning vigorously, and the fragrance of meat wafts all over the house. The villagers of their He clan will come to the ancestral hall today to worship their ancestors.

Most of their He villagers will use bamboo baskets to hold a few kinds of vegetables to worship the ancestors, the amount of vegetables is not much, the quality is even more average, there are a few fresh fish is already a good family, most of the people have a plate of radish, a plate of tofu, green vegetables, and then some cheap green jujube fruits, on the table. There are not many that really have big fish and big meat.

Today, most of the villagers of the He family who come to the ancestral hall to worship will be surprised, one is that someone at the door actually came to paste the Spring Festival couplets, and then there are people cooking meat in the courtyard, the taste of the meat is really fragrant. There are even people living in the ancestral hall, and it looks like the girl who asked for food a few years ago and his beggar husband who asked for food together. How did the two of them live here, He Baozheng is in charge of managing the ancestral hall on weekdays, does he have no opinion.

They noticed that the dishes of Yi Niang's family were not only rich in color, but also big fish and meat, and there were several jars of wine in the root of the wall, and the days were quite prosperous.

Yi Niang prepared the sacrificial wine and food, packed it in a bamboo basket, called Liang Chuan, she carried it with a flat shoulder, and prepared to go to pay homage to the land lord first.

The progress of Xinzhi is quite fast, and the masters are already busy doing the work of carpenters, that is, the doors, windows, beams and pillars, which need to be carefully carved, so it takes more time than laying brick walls.

Zhao Dafa watched Liang Chuan come over, stopped what he was doing, and took a few juniors to take the initiative to come forward to greet Liang Chuan and say: "Boss, tomorrow is the first day of the new year, first give you and Yi Niang an early year." ”

Liang Chuan led the art lady, the two stood intimately together, the two of them returned the salute to the masters, Liang Chuan took out the silver from his arms, and each master gave one or two silver, and said: "Masters, today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, it is the day of family reunion, you want to build me a house, but you can't go back." It's really tired of all the masters, this is a little bit of New Year's money, everyone is begging for good luck! ”

Several masters saw that Liang Chuan was so generous, and their hearts were warm, and everyone had complaints in their hearts when they couldn't go home for the New Year, but Liang Chuan's care like a spring breeze also gave them New Year's money, which made them quite moved. They can't remember how many people they haven't met such a good owner, so polite and generous to them.

They didn't dare to collect Liang Chuan's New Year's money, and pushed it back one by one. Liang Chuan insisted on giving them to them, but several masters couldn't push them, and the last one received a tael of silver, Zhao Dafa gave three taels, and the other little apprentices gave fifty yuan each. Under the command of Zhao Dafa, all the little apprentices in Luocheng came over one by one to receive the New Year's money, and everyone was so happy that they smeared the secret on their mouths, and said auspicious words to Liang Chuan and his wife.

After the New Year's greetings, Zhao Dafa asked them to go back one by one. Liang Chuan asked Zhao Dada, "What are your plans for tonight?" ”

Zhao Dafa said: "Today is thirty, the owner family must be lively, and a few of us old guys will not disturb the reunion of the east family." ”

Liang Chuan said: "Alas! You must come to me today, I have already told Yi Niang, at night the big fish and meat are made hard, the wine and meat are full, and you can't return if you don't get drunk today! The other little apprentices, don't worry, wait a minute, let Tingchang also go buy some wine and meat, their apprentices let go of eating and drinking, let's eat and drink happily! A must come in the evening! ”

Liang Chuan called Zhao Tingchang to go to Fengshan to buy wine and meat, more than forty strong men have to buy a lot of meat, but Liang Chuan is happy, Chinese New Year's Eve eats meat by himself can not let others even drink soup, that wine and meat into the intestines is not very tasteful, besides, it doesn't cost a few dollars to buy such a thing, I am afraid that Chinese New Year's Eve will not even sell meat to Zheng Tu of Fengshan.

Liang Chuan took some silver and asked Zhao Tingchang to arrange it himself, he didn't care how to buy meat and vegetables, but if Liang Chuan heard the rumors of Zhao Tingchang's gambling again or the gossip that everyone was not satisfied, let Zhao Dafa clean you up.

After sending the New Year's money, Liang Chuan and Yi Niang prayed for incense in front of the land lord, praying for the smooth completion of the new house, praying for good weather in the coming year, and praying that next year will be even better. I inserted incense, burned the tin foil money, packed up the offerings and went home.

He Baozheng also wants to come to the ancestral hall to worship his ancestors, although he is illiterate, but he is not blind, he looked at the Spring Festival couplets at the door, and it can be concluded that the words of this couplet are exactly the same! It must be Liang Chuan's ghost again. After sacrificing to the ancestors, he was going home, and he happened to meet Liang Chuan coming back, his eyes glanced at the meat and vegetables in the bamboo basket of Yi Niang, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva in his throat, and said: "Boy, did you write the Spring Festival couplets at the door!" ”

"He Baozheng, do you know how to appreciate?" Liang Chuan replied with a smile.

"I don't know how to appreciate it, but how come you seem to write seven or eight words exactly the same, is there such a couplet?"

"Of course there is, you can't understand that there are others, you will know later! By the way, I have good wine and good food here in the evening, and come to me for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the evening! ”