Clean the courtyard and sweep the cobwebs.

Change the door god, be respectful.

Wall clock Kui, drive away ghosts.

Nail the peach charm to keep the peace.

The New Year is here, and new clothes are on.

Light firecrackers and watch the big show.

The sesame sugar melon is fragrant and sweet, and you won't change it for an ingot!

Since Qian Laohan compiled the sugar melons he sold into this New Year's nursery rhyme, the customers who came to his store to buy sugar melons to eat have lined up all the way across the road, you can imagine how hot this business is.

Old man Qian, oh no! Now it should be called the money clerk, it is rumored that the money clerk has been guided by the nobles, the original cold business is immediately "daily gold", the old cotton robe has also been replaced with a fur coat, holding a small teapot all day long, sitting in the shop with Erlang's legs counting silver, the small life is moist and comfortable.

Every time someone asks him about a nobleman, this guy looks like "talking about him left and right", which makes everyone think that he is a miser, and gossip about him behind his back.

In the past, when there was no money, Qian Yuanwai always liked to take his own tea kettle, make a cup of purple group tea and go to the neighborhood to find those old friends Hu Tianhai to chat for a while, and recently found that no one chatted with him, so Qian Yuanwai was always a little unhappy in the past two days, and he didn't want to go out.

"Hey, outside of the money, I haven't seen you on the street for a few days, and I thought you were going to the state capital with the money to have fun!"

Hearing that someone was greeting him, he was outside the boring money clerk, so he quickly stood up and looked out of the door, but saw a little baby, walked in with a basket on his back, sighed, sat in the recliner again, and said, "It's not because of you Zhao Dagou!" ”

The dog was stunned for a moment, gently picked the back basket and put it in the corner of the shop, and then looked back at him and said, "The feet are on your legs, and I didn't stop you from going out, how can I complain about the boy?" ”

Qian Yuanwai snorted, and told the dog what he was worried about.

"Hehehe, don't pay attention to these hurtful villains behind them, if you are really bored, go to the kid's tea shop, there are many people there to chat with you, and there is a strange old man there, holding a scroll of books every day and laughing silly."

"There is also an old man who loves fighting birds, and every day after noon, he will carry a pair of birds and sparrows over to pass the time, and you can play for a while if you are fine!"

Qian Yuanwai originally wanted to say that his tea shop didn't even have a good tea, so what was there to go to? Later, when he heard him say this, he felt a little moved in his heart, and hesitantly told him that he would go over tomorrow to have a look, so he straightened up and asked, "Little dog, what are you doing here?" ”

The dog smiled and said, "You are really a noble person who forgets things, we made an appointment to meet today five days ago, have you forgotten?" ”

The Qian clerk hurriedly patted his head and said: "Oh, look at this head, I've been a little busy these days, and I've forgotten all about this stubble, forgive my sins." ”

The dog laughed and said: "It's okay, if it weren't for a few little men in the family, I really didn't have the money to buy food, and I wouldn't have made an appointment today in such a hurry." ”

The moneyman waved his hand, went behind the counter, opened the drawer of the silver coins, grabbed two handfuls of copper coins from it, stuffed them into a money bag, walked out, and handed them to the dog.

The dog took it and checked it first, opened it again, frowned, and said, "Outside the money clerk, this point is not enough!" ”

Qian Yuanwai replied with a smile: "Little dog, you take care of it, the materials prepared at home are insufficient, so you can take all the money in the account to buy materials, you can rest assured, in three days, my money will be recovered, and I will send it to you immediately." ”

The dog frowned and said, "That's okay, let's talk about it outside the money clerk, on the day of the 28th closure of the lunar month, the kid will come to you again." ”

After finishing speaking, he picked up the basket and walked out with the thanks of the money clerk.

Seeing this, some people can guess it, yes, this dog is a noble person outside the money clerk.

It is said that five days ago, the money clerk squatted on the side of the street with a depressed face, sighing and drinking tea, and the dog happened to be resting next to him, so he interjected and asked him.

He replied that the sugar melons sold at home were squeezed out by the sugar people, candy and jelly beans in the market, and they couldn't be sold at all, seeing that a batch of goods was about to be folded into his hands, and the mother-in-law at home also quarreled with him every day, thinking that he was always losing money, and he was in a bad mood for a while, so he went to the street to relax and relax.

The dog comforted him and said, "No, you can sell it at a discount!" ”

"I don't want to sell this sugar melon at a loss, and if it's cheaper, it will be discounted, so I really don't want to sell it at a loss."

Once the price of commodities comes down, it will be difficult to rise again, and I can understand his thoughts.

was pondering there, when a flash of inspiration suddenly dawned on him, and he told him, if I helped him sell all this batch of goods, could I give myself some reward?

As soon as the money clerk heard this, he immediately agreed happily, and made an appointment for five days, if he could sell the goods in his hand, he would give the dog two pieces of money.

When he walked away, the dog called Wang Xiaoyi, who had just run over humming a nursery rhyme, and listened to him sing the nursery rhyme in his mouth again.

Pulling his hair, he came up with a paragraph and added it to the end.

Tell him to go back and let the little beggars sing this nursery rhyme for the next few days, and the more people there are, the louder they sing.

Then this nursery rhyme about eating sugar melons spread throughout Yuchuan City.

There are only three shops selling sugar melons in the city, and the largest of them is Qian Yuanwai, so the customers who come to his house to buy things are also the most.

In a flash of inspiration, he helped himself earn two times of money, and the happy dog walked with floating, why do you have money?

Of course, it is to buy New Year's goods, there are too many things missing, so I have to pick up important things to buy, think about the family has not bought a peach charm, so I walked to the land temple with a basket on my back, it is said that where the peach charm is more effective, just buy two Zhong Kui statues!

The peach charm is written on the peach wood board six inches long and three inches wide, "Shen Tu" and "Yu Lei" ("Hou Han Shu Etiquette Chronicle" "On the first day of the first month, the peach charm is made to the household, the name is immortal wood, and the hundred ghosts are afraid. ”）

As the so-called exclusive magic weapon to exorcise ghosts and ward off evil spirits, it is rare in later generations, and most of them are replaced by couplets, but there are also some remote mountain villages that will hang a small piece of peach wood on the left and right sides of the gate during the New Year.

Before the Song Dynasty, the peach charm was specially used to drive away ghosts and evil spirits, and later there was a man named Meng Chang.

I disliked the monotony and ugliness of the peach charm, so I inscribed a few words on it, the celebrity effect, and the people below rushed to follow suit, and then the peach charm changed its appearance.

Because his inscription changed the nature of the peach symbol, the peach symbol changed from the original peach wood card to express a certain thought, that is, the couplet.

Lianyu, that is, the ancestor of the couplet.

Meng Chang inadvertently became the first person to write couplets.

The peach talisman slowly evolved into another branch, the door god.

It's always troublesome to carve with mahogany, and then there was a lazy person who replaced it with paper, and after painting, he took a look, hey, it was pretty good! So the custom of sticking to the door god was retained, in addition to the previous portrait of the door god in addition to painting the ghost to eat Zhong Kui, there are several ghost fairy statues, after the Tang Dynasty several bigwigs of the crazy magic change, passed to later generations to become Qin Shubao and Yu Chi Gong.

The couplet had just appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty, so it was only popular in big cities in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was really popularized in a large area until the Ming Dynasty.

I have seen more than a dozen carved peach charms, one is more expensive than the other, and the dog is reluctant to buy it at that price.

After turning around several times, I bought two portraits of Zhong Kui that were uglier than ghosts, and sighed, there are too few lonely ones!

I suddenly remembered that my father had said a rare thing called a couplet, some auspicious words were inscribed on the red paper, and the red and glamorous ones pasted on the door looked good and faintly revealed a gentle atmosphere, and the most important thing was that this thing was cheap!

I turned around several times and didn't find it, so I patted my head and thought about it carefully, well, at that time, my father said that this thing was only available in big cities, and it was estimated that I couldn't buy it in a small place like Yuchuan!

If? If!

I really admire myself, if I shoot too many heads, people will really become smarter hahaha.

Yuchuan County has not yet been popular to open and post couplets, pinching fingers and calculating that there are still five days, if you get this thing out yourself, there are many households in this Yuchuan County! If you plan well, you can't really make a lot of money.

Just do it when you think of it, this thing is not expensive, and it mainly sells novel ideas!

The main material is red paper, and the rest is writing.

Once this couplet is popular, it is easy to be imitated, so this business is also a one-rod transaction, and the news must be kept strictly confidential.

The tea shop closed early, all the square tables were put together, dozens of rolls of red paper were piled up on the counter, and the dog coughed and said to the four straight people standing behind: "Today, we are going to do a big business, if we do it well, we will buy a new dress for each of you during the New Year, are you happy?" ”

The four shouted: "Happy! ”

"Let's do it!"

Two of them were in charge of cutting paper, one was in charge of grinding the ink, and the other was in charge of hanging the written couplets on the strings that had already been stretched in the hall.

Breathe a sigh of relief, holding a pen in his right hand and holding the case in his left hand, he wrote "auspicious New Year" on a piece of red paper that is wide and four feet long.

Dabanya took it and quickly used a small fan to gently fan the wet ink dry, turned around and hung it on the string in the east hall, waiting for it to dry slowly.

By the time he ran to the table again, the second piece of paper had already been written.

The dog's words are not very beautiful, they can only be said to be well-behaved.

I started writing after lunch, and after half an hour, I only wrote thirty couplets, and my whole right hand was sour and numb.

With a slight shake, the word "Xi" had an extra tail, and the angry dog tore the piece of paper to shreds, and then threw the pen and sat on the stool, gently rubbing his right wrist.

Turning his head to look at the large basket of cut red paper behind him, he sighed and said: I can't help myself.

I always thought that it would take a lot of effort to write these things, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult when I actually wrote them.

After drinking a bowl of tea, I rested for a while and felt that my right hand had regained its strength, and I gave myself a boost with a shout, and walked to the board to continue writing.

What is rich and rich, the house is safe, the family is healthy, anyway, what is good to dictate, this thing is not a fuss, you don't need to use your brain, it is purely hard work.

Write and write, and write for more than an hour, I really can't hold on, look at the four people behind me stupidly, sigh, if only someone could help me write it.

Suddenly, there seemed to be a voice coming from the door, and the dog's face was happy, it really said that Cao Cao Cao had arrived!