The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner lasted until late.

Although it is two families, plus the three little maids who have just settled down in the pharmacy, and the six women, there is only one boy in Shen Xi.

This Chinese New Year's Eve dinner the family ate quite happily, after dinner, because they had to keep the New Year, they did not fall asleep immediately, but gathered in the back hall of the medicine shop, baked the fire with a small brazier, Huiniang sorted out the accounts, Zhou sewed and mended, and Shen Xi, as the child king, continued to talk about the "Dream of the Red Mansion" that he did not finish.

After listening to a lot, the natural atmosphere is much more lively.

At first, Hui Niang and Zhou's two adults felt that no matter how wonderful the children's stories were, they were also those strange things, and they couldn't get into their ears at all.

But after listening to a paragraph, Hui Niang and Zhou couldn't help but focus, and even the work in their hands stopped unconsciously, listening attentively to the interesting things in the Grand View Garden.

Even when Shen Xi talked about the wonderful places, Hui Niang would occasionally ask a sentence or two, which made Shen Xi speak in more and more detail, even the encounters of the maids such as Mandarin Duck, Qingwen, and Si Qi, who were not originally going to be said, as well as the entanglement between the Jia family and the Xue family, the Shi family, the Wang family and other families, and how to turn from prosperity to decline.

If it was an unintentional person, he would definitely listen to Shen Xi's story as a pastime, but Lin Dai has been thoroughly integrated into the story, following Lin Daiyu's joys, sorrows, and sorrows in the story, her expression is constantly changing, and the three maids are relatively silent, ↙ Xiaoyu, who is silent, may be nostalgic for her life experience, and her eyes are red.

After entering the middle of the story, although it is still describing the wealth and glory of the Grand View Garden, there is already a feeling that everything is about to end when the sun sets.

At this point in the story, even Shen Xi himself felt that he couldn't go on, so he decided to put aside the paragraph of "Lin Daiyu burned the manuscript to break the infatuation, and Xue Baochai became a big gift", and added some interesting parts, such as Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, Baochai fluttering butterflies, Xiangyun drunken lying, etc.

Anyway, this story was the first one he said, and the original author Cao Xueqin would not be born until at least two hundred years later, and no one fought with him for copyright, so he could say whatever he liked.

The drum sounded three times, Hui Niang got up and looked at the sky, and asked Shen Xi to go to the backyard to prepare the two firecrackers that had been prepared a long time ago.

Although this Chinese New Year's Eve is a bit boring, it is much more lively than before. Lu Xi'er was young, and she had fallen asleep in Hui Niang's arms before she could do so, Hui Niang first carried her back to the room and lay down, and when she came out, there was already a faint sound of firecrackers outside.

Hui Niang smiled and said, "Xiaolang, you are the only man in the family, and the matter of setting off firecrackers will be handed over to you." ”

Shen Xi looked at Xiu'er, who was much taller and stronger than him next to him, and said reluctantly: "Isn't it good to let Sister Xiu'er go?" ”

Hui Niang smiled and explained: "It's still the most appropriate for you to go, and it's auspicious...... I hope that next year you will be disease-free and grow up healthy. In addition, you are studying at home, and I hope that you will succeed in your studies and let your mother live a good life as soon as possible. ”

Now Shen Xi no longer shirked.

The family happily came to the street outside with firecrackers, and they didn't need to find a place to hang them, they just put the firecrackers on the ground, Shen Xi covered his ears with one hand, and lit the fuse with incense in the other.

In the crackling sound, the firelight reflected on everyone's smiling faces.

Lin Dai smiled and covered her ears, but Xiu'er, Ning'er and Xiaoyu danced with their eyebrows, looking very happy.

After setting off the firecrackers, it was time to change the peach charm.

The peach charm appeared as early as before the Qin and Han dynasties, and two peach boards were hung on the left and right sides of the gate during the New Year, painting or carving the ghost of the great immortal "Shen Tu" and "Yu Lei".

How did the "peach charm" evolve into Spring Festival couplets? According to the Song Dynasty Huang Xiu in the "Maoting Hakka Words" record: the five dynasties of the Hou Shu to remove the year, the palace doors each give a pair of peach charms, generally on the title "Yuan, Heng, Li, Zhen" four words. At that time, the prince of Shu was long in words, "good books", and inscribed on the peach charm of the palace Celestial Mansion "Tianhang Yuqing, the ground is connected to Changchun" eight words, "I think the beauty of the word". It is generally believed that this is the earliest Spring Festival couplet in China.

In the Song Dynasty, according to the "History of the Song Dynasty Five Elements", it was recorded that every Chinese New Year's Eve in the Song Dynasty, "ordered Hanlin to be the inscription of the peach symbol, punctual point, and placed around the dormitory door". "Menglianglu" also records that on Chinese New Year's Eve, "nail the peach charm, change the spring card", this peach charm spring card is the original form of the Spring Union. The Song Dynasty Zhou Mi's "Miscellaneous Knowledge" records that Huang Qianzhi's inscription on the peach charm is: "How to be born in the New Year, Pepsi is like that." "The inscription of Spring Festival couplets on peach symbols has gradually developed into a popular fashion.

In today's Ming Hongzhi period, the Spring Festival couplets written on paper have long replaced the inscriptions on the peach symbols, so in a sense, the peach symbols are also Spring Festival couplets.

Hui Niang looked at Shen Xi and said, "Originally, I was thinking about going to the Spring Festival couplet stall to ask someone to write the Spring Festival couplets when I was approaching the end of the year, but I didn't want traitors to make trouble, and I couldn't find anyone writing this anywhere." Xiaolang, you are the only one in the family who reads, and I will leave the matter of writing Spring Festival couplets to you, you must write neatly and hang it out. ”

Shen Xi smiled and nodded.

It's not the first time he's written Spring Festival couplets, he often writes in his previous life, classmates, friends and colleagues in the unit know that he writes well, and he will be invited to splash ink every New Year. Thinking of this, Shen Xi couldn't help but feel a little sad, in the end, he was reincarnated as a human being, and many things had a feeling that he had been in the sea.

It is a little difficult to write a good Spring Festival couplet, strictly speaking, a good Spring Festival couplet can be combined with reality and describe the background of the times, but after all, it is just a good color, Shen Xi wrote "auspicious wishes, blessings, splendid wealth and wealth God arrives". I forgot to put away the pen for a while, there is no stagnation in a word, and there is grass in the line, where can a little doll write?

"It's so beautifully written."

Zhou was very happy to see it, "Hurry up and give it to Niannian, what is written on it?" ”

Shen Xi sighed and said, "This one is not well written, let's write another one." ”

Next to Hui Niang smiled: "Although Xiaolang's handwriting is sloppy, it is very neat, and the omen of auspiciousness and splendid wealth is very good, so hang it like this." ”

Shen Xi felt a little embarrassed in his heart.

Hui Niang doesn't know how to appreciate calligraphy, thinking that his words "with grass in the line" are scribbled, so that at least one or two decades of calligraphy attainments can be written out of good words, hanging out by people who know how to see I'm afraid there will be problems.

However, Shen Xi is not very worried, after all, Ninghua County is located in a remote area, and he doesn't know much about the mystery of calligraphy, so he can just write a painting in the morning and change it secretly.

The drum beats four times, which means that the ugly time has come, and now it is the New Year, and the whole family finally ushered in the most critical time of the vigil.

Hui Niang was very happy, and gave everyone a red envelope, and she also fulfilled her promise and gave Shen Xi a big red envelope, which was heavy, and Shen Xi couldn't help but touch it, the shape was a bit like the gold leaf sent by the big merchant who came to plant pox before.

It's a pity that Shen Xi just returned to his home in the back alley, and before he could open it to see what was inside the red envelope, the red envelope between him and Lin Dai was "confiscated" by the Zhou family, and it was kept on behalf of him.

"Go in and sleep, tomorrow I have to go to the door of the pharmacy when I get up in the morning and sweep the firecrackers on the ground." Zhou took it for granted and put the red envelope into his arms.

"Mother, aren't those good lotteries, why do you want to sweep?"

Zhou scolded: "The stinky boy doesn't want to work and find a reason...... Who said it was a color head, let you sweep it, you will sweep it. Don't be verbose, it's not early, go to bed! ”

Shen Xi stuck out his tongue and went inside with Lin Dai.

As soon as Shen Xi took off his clothes and got into the quilt, Lin Dai ran in and said mysteriously: "I saw my mother buy new clothes from us before, will there be new clothes to wear tomorrow morning?" ”

Since Lin Dai told Shen Xi what was on her mind, her attitude towards Shen Xi was much better, and she even took the initiative to tell Shen Xi the secret she saw.

Shen Xi yawned and said, "Won't you know when you get up tomorrow morning?" Today's story is so loud that my throat is almost hoarse, hurry up and go to bed to recover...... You can sleep too, if you can't get up tomorrow morning, your mother will scold. ”

This time it was Lin Dai's turn to stick out her tongue.

She didn't feel much sleepy, the family was lively and lively, and the drowsiness was long gone. Originally, Lin Dai wanted to come back and listen to Shen Xi "open a small stove" to tell her the story of the rest of "Dream of Red Mansions", but who knew that Shen Xi insisted on sleeping, she was somewhat unhappy.

But thinking that Shen Xi had indeed said all night, it was estimated that he was very tired now, Lin Dai still didn't wake him up after all, closed his eyes, and didn't know when he fell asleep.

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