A few people chatted while eating supper, and when the sky turned white, the vigil was over, and Xiao Lori and Gu Paner were sleepy and tired after frolicking with small fireworks all night, and they stayed up until now, and fell asleep when it was time.

Wang Xiang also yawned repeatedly, hastily ate a little breakfast and went to bed, and when he woke up after a while, he had to go to Lao Cheng's house to pay New Year's greetings.

When Wang Xiang woke up in a daze, Ning Xiang had been waiting for a long time, and when he saw Wang Xiang wake up, he smiled slightly: "I have asked Xiaoya to prepare hot water for her husband to wash, and her husband will go out in a while." ”

Wang Xiang nodded and said: "No way, I am a junior when I sleep, I have to go to Uncle Cheng and them to pay New Year's greetings, and Your Majesty is too, last year because I didn't go to the palace in time to pay New Year's greetings to Your Majesty, he was also told by him." ”

Ning Xiang pursed her lips and smiled when she heard this: "It's just that our husband can let His Majesty say it, and no one wants to let His Majesty say it." ”

Wang Xiang said speechlessly: "Whoever is rare will take it." ”

"By the way, what about Wu Shun?" At this time last year, Wu Shun was waiting for Wang Xiang to wash, so he felt a little strange that he didn't see Wu Shun today.

Ning Xiang said: "My sister is pregnant, and I stayed up late last night to keep a New Year's Eve and am still resting this time, but my sister has told me to come and serve my husband to wash up before going to sleep." ”

Wang Xiang nodded and said, "Well, Wu Shun's pregnancy has been a few months, and she can't stay up late to fight horses and hang horses in the future, so she has to rest well." ”

Ning Xiang said with a smile: "If it weren't for the New Year, who would stay up late to fight horses, don't worry, my sister's health is very good." ”

Because of the frequent consumption of mutant beast meat, Wu Shun and the others' bodies are indeed much better than ordinary people, and there is also Sun Simiao, a great divine doctor, who often comes over to help her regulate her body, so Wang Xiang is not too worried.

After a while, the little girl walked in with a copper basin, and Wu Shun served Wang Xiang after getting dressed and washing, and asked, "Do you want to eat anything more, husband doesn't seem to have eaten much this morning." ”

Wang Xiang shook his head and said, "Don't eat it, it's almost noon, and I'll have to eat it again when I get to Uncle Cheng's mansion later." ”

"Then the husband will come back soon."

Wang Xiang smiled bitterly: "I don't know if I can come back earlier, I still have to enter the palace after going to Uncle Cheng's mansion, you don't have to wait for me, you can eat by yourself when it's time to eat." ”

After speaking, Wang Xiang went out to pay New Year's greetings with the gifts that had been prepared a long time ago.

At this time, Chang'an City is very lively, the streets and alleys are full of people, although most of the shops are closed, but the road is full of stalls, there are selling food, there are performing juggling, there are storytelling and singing, the people are wearing new clothes and beaming, which makes people feel inexplicably in a good mood.

Since Wang Xiang tinkered out of the Spring Festival couplets last year, this year's Spring Festival couplets have become popular in Chang'an, as long as the wealthy people will dye the red paper and write the Spring Festival couplets instead of the original peach symbols, and then hang two red lanterns at the door, full of festivity.

Along the way, Wang Xiang saw a lot of stalls selling Spring Festival couplets, and there were a lot of people, Wang Xiang curiously came to a stall selling Spring Festival couplets to take a look, and couldn't help but smile, these Spring Festival couplets naturally can't be compared with Wang Xiang's house, the paper used is still rice paper, and the color of the dyeing is not very uniform, but the words on it are good, and what is written is the content of the Spring Festival couplets that Wang Xiang prepared for Lao Cheng and them last year.

Such a pair of Spring Festival couplets actually cost five yuan, and everyone doesn't think it's expensive.

If you think about it carefully, Wang Xiang understands, rice paper is more expensive at this time, and it is even more expensive to print and dye it red, and the person who writes the content of the Spring Festival couplets is obviously good at calligraphy, presumably it is to find someone to write, and the pen fee should not be low, this does not include the content of the Spring Festival couplets, but there is definitely no copyright in these years, and Wang Xiang has not thought of asking them for copyright fees.

Ordinary people really can't afford such expensive Spring Festival couplets, so most of the people who come to buy and watch them are rich and noble families in Chang'an City, or they are readers.

Readers don't necessarily come to buy Spring Festival couplets, they come to see the content of the Spring Festival couplets, in addition to the Spring Festival couplets that Wang Xiang prepared for Lao Cheng last year, the people who sell the Spring Festival couplets have also prepared some new Spring Festival couplets content, no, this is the reason why Wang Xiang can't help laughing, and the content of many Spring Festival couplets is really ridiculous.

"If you come up with a Spring Festival couplet, can you really get consistent money?"

A young man dressed as a scholar opened his mouth to ask, Xiang suddenly became curious, and muttered secretly: Could it be that there are so many activities going on here, no wonder there are so many people around.

The owner of the stall nodded and smiled: "Of course, everyone can testify, but the content of the Spring Festival couplets needs to satisfy me." ”

The scholar frowned and said, "How can I satisfy you?" ”

The stall owner pointed to a few pairs of Spring Festival couplets on the stall and said, "At least there must be a level of these couplets." ”

Wang Xiang couldn't help but smile when he heard this, the stall owner pointed to the content of several Spring Festival couplets he prepared for Lao Cheng last year, it seems that the stall owner also knows that the content of the other Spring Festival couplets is not very good, except for one or two fresh rich and noble people who bought one or two pairs, the others are not cared for at all, and they have been ridiculed a few times when they meet people with good literary talents.

So the stall owner came up with such a way to offer a reward to get a few new couplet content, the rich and noble are not bad for money, as long as the content of the Spring Festival couplets is new and good, it is not difficult to sell several times the price.

After listening to the words of the stall owner, someone suddenly shook his head and said: "These Spring Festival couplets are from the hands of Jiayuan Hou, who doesn't know that Jiayuan Hou is brilliant in literature and poetry, how easy it is to come up with Spring Festival couplets that are better than these, and the money has always been too little." ”

Hearing that everyone has such a high evaluation of his literary talents, Wang Xiang felt embarrassed, in terms of real literary talents, I am afraid that any scholar is stronger than him, he is just standing on the shoulders of giants.

"That is, if I can write the content of the Spring Festival couplets of the Marquis of Jiayuan, not to mention the money."

Suddenly, someone began to comply.

Seeing that everyone had opinions, the stall owner hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Na Na Na, don't say I'm stingy, if someone really writes the content of these Spring Festival couplets, I'll ...... I'll pay five times. The stall owner gritted his teeth.

He was reluctant to let the child catch the wolf, and he felt very painful when the money was raised to five times all of a sudden, but if someone could really write the content of these Spring Festival couplets, he would earn far more than that.

Hearing that the stall owner raised the consistent money to five times the money, everyone snorted softly, many scholars were a little tempted, many scholars were relatively poor before they got the fame, and they came up with a good Spring Festival couplets that could not only improve their fame but also get five times the money, they were naturally willing to give it a try, but they also knew that the five times the money was not easy to get.

(To be continued.) )