Chapter 254 [Spring Festival Couplets in the Pre-Qin Era]
The year is over, and in the eyes of the ancients, this is really a pass. There is no autumn grain harvest, the cold finches are difficult to eat at the end of the year, and there is not much accumulated grain at home, but in the New Year, you always have to sell some grain for a piece of meat, and pull a few feet of new cloth for the children to measure their clothes? The family is about to be hollowed out, and the creditor still has to force the door, isn't this closed? After the past, the next year is called, and if you can't get by, the family will hug and cry, and then sell yourself as a slave and go to those big families to be pigs and dogs, just for two meals a day.
Since Baijiazhuang has come out with a white left, you can see the prosperity of 50 years at a glance; As long as Bai Dong is there, the Bai family's New Year is not called Guan, and it can be called 'Festival' like those nobles. On the twenty-ninth day of the Lunar New Year, hundreds of pigs and sheep were killed in the Zhuangzi early in the morning, and the pigs were castrated according to Bai Dong's requirements.
The best mutton tendon meat and pork rump meat can only be enjoyed by Bai Longye's family and Bai Dong's family, and some clansmen sent it early in the morning, but Bai Dong was worried about the mutton tendon meat. According to the rules of the old Qin people, when the daughter-in-law is a daughter-in-law during the Chinese New Year, this meat should be cooked carefully and used to honor the in-laws; Bai Dong's father died early, so it should be the wife of the Bai family who made this meat and gave it to her mother to taste, and her mother ate it and smiled happily, which can be regarded as a daughter-in-law's filial piety, and the coming year will be harmonious and beautiful.
The difficulty is that Bai Dong's wife is not married, but he already has two concubines, bitter wine and flea; Although the bitter wine is Li Jiang's own big match, and his identity is different from that of ordinary concubines, the fleas have also made contributions to the Bai family's blood, and his mother has no partiality, and Bai Dong is also regarded as the back of his hand. But these two women, who are usually good as best friends, are secretly more energetic this time.
Now that he thinks of this, Bai Dong wants to slap himself. If you want to blame yourself, you have to blame yourself! Watching the flea train that the old army trained well. actually asked the public loser to create something similar to the flying tiger claw hanging steel cable, thinking of building this group of veterans into the Bai family's unique 'Flying Tiger Team', but he didn't expect the fleas to be so powerful, and using the training program he provided, he actually made these veterans into strange people who can fly the eaves and walk the wall.
Although Bai Dong ordered the news to be kept secret, he couldn't hide the bitter wine, and this girl found a lingering and sad night, taking advantage of the hazy moon and the hazy birds. It was the chicken soup and the horse killing the chicken, which made Bai Dong comfortable, and the pillow wind blew in his ears: "The husband killed Nanmo, what a majesty is that, the heroes of the world are all shocked, who else dares to invade our Baijiazhuang?" Besides, even if there are those bold rats, don't we still have masters like Sang Wazi and Flea Sister in our family? However, our Mandarin supermarket has opened branches in various countries and cities, and it sells the most precious goods, and every time it is time to travel far to transport goods. You have to worry about encountering bandits and bandits on the road. Just those invited rangers can't be relied on after all, and there was a ranger who stole goods last time. He also injured the escort manager sent by our family. I think these veterans who have followed their husbands to the battlefield are reliable, and it is too wasteful for three hundred people to stay in the village, so they can't allocate some to me, and they don't have to worry about being afraid every time. ”
Bai Dong is very embarrassed, these three hundred veterans were all trained by fleas and whips, and she regarded them as babies in her heart, and now the bitter wine is always a little inappropriate, and if the two daughters-in-law are conflicted, wouldn't it be a restless house?
"I know you're embarrassed. Am I not going to have trouble with my flea sister? Her background is more pitiful than mine, I still have a father, but she has never even seen her parents, for the safety of you and the Bai family, fighting alone in the ink blood merry, it makes people feel distressed to think about it, but the husband said, the way of doing business is to make full use of all the resources in your hands, if you waste a penny, the result will be a loss of ten yuan; These three hundred old soldiers are so powerful, they are much easier to use than those rangers, isn't it the biggest waste to stay in the village? If you are afraid that Sister Flea will misunderstand, then transfer 100 people to be the guards of the trading company, and another 50 people to be used by the academy in the future, this is a normal deployment, but is it not my greed? ”
Kujiu's words are very reasonable, and she doesn't really want to be jealous of fleas, but as a strong woman in the business world, she can't see these 'old army resources' being wasted.
Bai Dong shouldn't have agreed to her, but as soon as he ran to talk to the flea, he was almost beaten by the flea, but fortunately, thanks to Nie Zhu's loyal protector, there was no danger; The flea girl finished venting her anger, but she also knew that the overall situation was the most important, and promised him to transfer one hundred and fifty veterans, but taking care of the overall situation is taking care of the overall situation, if you say that there are no small bumps in your heart, it is self-deception. A few days ago, he pestered Bai Dong, asking him to teach him how to make mutton, and when he slaughtered the sheep this morning, he pointed to the lamb to be slaughtered and said, the tendon meat should be left to her, and she should honor her mother-in-law.
Bai Dong's head suddenly became big, and he had agreed to bitter wine earlier, and this year's tendon meat had to be made of bitter wine, who would have thought that the little daughter-in-law, who had never loved red clothes and loved arms, would have to play with high difficulty this year?
This is difficult to do, I have promised bitter wine, it is not appropriate to take away her 'filial piety' at this time, but fleas are also a piece of filial piety, why do you have to discourage people's enthusiasm? As soon as the lamb tendon meat was sent to the door, the bitter wine smelled the taste, and he was about to clean and divide it, when suddenly the fragrant wind flashed in front of him, and the flea appeared in front of him, staring at Bai Dong with those big black eyes: "Husband, what people have said, you should also honor your mother-in-law, and I want this tendon meat too!" ”
"Sister flea, you don't know how to make meat, let my sister make it if you don't have a place to spoil this good thing, my mother can't eat it alone, and the second one will be eaten for you, and it is guaranteed that your tongue will be fragrant."
Bitter wine held the meat and turned around to leave, but was blocked by fleas: "Slow." My sister is working so hard, and she has to worry about the Mandarin supermarket and the distribution and use of the three hundred veterans, and my sister is very ashamed. This time, let my sister also help my sister share some of it.,If my sister is polite.,My sister is going to be angry.。 ”
"Oh, my sister is not right, my sister is not afraid of hard work. Besides, if this lamb tendon meat is divided, isn't it even filial piety? So this year, my sister will do it alone, according to the order of the eldest and youngest, and my sister will do it next year. You don't have to worry, do you? ”
"My sister knows. Sister, I'm an anxious child."
I knew it was going to be like this! Oh, my God. What a gentle woman Kujiu was before marriage, although the flea was ridiculous, but she was still a cute character, how long has it been since she became a jealous mother-in-law? Later philosophers are not wrong, marriage is the grave of love!
Bai Dong has one head and two big, looking at the two women and grinning, You have to talk and go, but you can smell the deep smell of gunpowder. Bitter wine is just that. Mastering the Bai Family Trading Company and Wenhua Supermarket with one hand, he has been in a position for a long time, and his mouth is naturally unforgiving, and he can't imagine that once the flea is cured of mental illness, that little mouth can also speak and understand how he forgot about it, this little girl is from the Mo family, which of the Mo family is not a master who is both civil and military, can dance the sword on the horse, and can argue on the horse? Help me!
"Jun Shuzhi. The gentleman said, Bai Zuo doesn't have to be greeted."
Bitter wine and fleas were distracted, and they couldn't hold each other for a while. Bai Dong was feeling a headache, and a familiar voice came into his ears. But Fan Qiang arrived. Lao Qin's 'internal minister' personally passed on the book, which is naturally not trivial, and if he changes to other courtiers, he will burn incense to welcome him. Bai Dong was overjoyed, Uncle Fan, you are my uncle, you came too timely!
"The New Year is approaching, but the widow still misses you kid, but I think about it, but I really don't know what to reward you. Your sister-in-law said that your son is richer than a widow, and his daughter-in-law can be literary and martial, and she is more glamorous than a widow; Even if you reward money, you won't be rare, and you won't be able to reward beautiful women, I'm afraid that my flea brother and sister will enter the oak palace, so why don't you reward you with a piece of gizzard meat? There is also a red cloth, remember to hang it in front of the door, ask for a good omen"
Fan Qiang finished reading the Jun book, and he didn't hurry to leave, drinking the fragrant tea sent by Bai Chi, and secretly looked at the bitter wine and fleas without a glance, and after seeing the form clearly, the old guy smiled strangely at Bai Dong: "Boy, the king treats you very kindly." Fan Bo has passed on the book of the monarch for half his life, and it is the first time he has seen the king speak to his courtiers in such a tone. It's almost the New Year, you want to be harmonious and beautiful in this family, don't let you worry? ”
"Fan Bo is right, bitter wine, fleas, don't you soon receive the king's reward?"
The two daughters-in-law are still looking at the luck of the lamb tendon meat, and when will they not use the reward of Yingquliang to interrupt? Bitter wine and fleas glanced at each other, one came to pick up the gizzard, the other came to pick up the red cloth, seeing the red cloth, Bai Dong's heart jumped: "This is on the door?" ”
Fan Qiang glanced at him: "Otherwise, will you still be asked to make clothes?" ”
"Haha, Bai Chi, prepare pen and ink! Cut three pieces of red cloth, two long and one short, the size is the left and you have to write the Spring Festival couplets! ”
"Spring couplets?"
Bai Chi was slightly stunned, he really didn't understand what it was, but thinking that his master had always had novel methods, he didn't ask much, took Bai Dong's size, and found someone to cut the red cloth.
"The day after tomorrow is the Yuan Day, and it is also the season of spring hair, is your 'Spring Festival couplet' related to the Yuan Festival? Famber wants to see what you can write."
Fan Qiang didn't eat tea and snacks anymore, and when he saw Bai Chi holding pen and ink and a cut red cloth, he also walked to the stone table in the courtyard to see Bai Dong's new invention; Fleas and bitter wine didn't care about entanglement, one person held the lamb tendon meat, and the other held the gizzard meat given by Yingqu Liang, standing beside Bai Dong and watching curiously.
Bai Dong pondered slightly, and wrote down the couplet 'The husband sings the woman with this is the rich man who gathers wealth', Fan Qiang immediately applauded when he saw it, and the bitter wine and fleas glanced at each other, but they were both slightly red.
Bai Dong looked at the two daughters-in-law with a smile, and then wrote the following couplet: 'Mother and son filial piety have children and grandchildren Fu Lumian'.
"This one is better! The two lines of poetry express the affection between mother and son, but it always makes people feel that there is something missing? Fan Qiang looked at the fleas and bitter wine, and clearly wanted to use the topic to play.
"Fan Bo, this is not a new poem, but a couplet, which is divided into two parts: upper and lower couplets. You're not wrong, and you're missing a horizontal batch, which serves as a point. ”
Bai Dong smiled slightly, opened the upper and lower couplets, and wrote five words on the shortest and narrowest red cloth - 'Home and everything is prosperous'.
Fan Qiang laughed, and laughed very strangely; The bitter wine and the flea's face turned redder, isn't this couplet written by the husband for himself?
Watching Bai Dong command his family to paste the couplet on the door, Fan Qiang read it several times, nodding his head again and again every time he read it, pulled him aside secretly, and lowered his voice and said, "Boy, Fan Bo is the right person this time." Your kid will coax his daughter-in-law, it seems that you can't reconcile this matter" (to be continued......
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