Chapter 49, Firecrackers
Chinese New Year's Eve is even more sleepless, tired of dull and sluggish New Year.
The new year is about to begin, and this is also the new year that Ning Caichen is looking forward to. He's ready, get through the years. It's like a big kid.
It is a Chinese custom to stay up for the New Year, but how many people have survived?
As a child, he was an orphan and had to follow the rules of the hospital. When he was older, he had lost his attraction to him, and he would not survive at all. There was even a place where the door was opened the next day. "Why did people stick to the door?" and then realized: Oh! It's another year.
This is Ning Caichen's first year after crossing over, and it is also the first year spent with his relatives, so he is more concerned than anyone else.
The Spring Festival couplets began in the Song Dynasty, but they prevailed in the Ming Dynasty.
Ning Caichen: At that time, the Spring Festival couplets were stickable or not, all up to the individual.
As a modern person, a modern person who wants to live a good year, Spring Festival couplets are naturally indispensable.
In the past, the Ning family did not post Spring Festival couplets, except for customs, mainly because they were shy and could not afford to post them. But now that Ning Caichen has won the show and divided the land, Ning's mother is also full of joy to watch her son post Spring Festival couplets.
In addition to pasting Spring Festival couplets, he also played with the children in the village, throwing stones, backgammon, and marbles with round stones...... He wanted to play everything he could think of.
The people in the village naturally watched with joy Ning Caichen's behavior of "inventing" the game to teach the children in the village, and no one stopped it.
He is a "Wenqu Star", this is a game invented by "Wenqu Xing", is there anything bad about it? No.
As a wealthy dynasty, children naturally had more time to frolic. Adults don't get angry at their children's playfulness.
This is the Song Dynasty. If it was the Ming Dynasty, a dynasty with frequent natural disasters, it would be difficult for the people to have time and mood to play.
It's just that Ning Caichen's playtime is not as good as that of the children. After people saw the Spring Festival couplets he wrote, they went to buy paper again and asked Ning Caichen to help them write the Spring Festival couplets.
The people in the village are also normal, but when someone from Hangzhou City also came and asked to write words such as "Demons don't come in", everyone knew that it was abnormal.
It turned out that all this was broken by the mouths of the two bad men.
Li Gongfu didn't fall under the curse, they didn't see it, but what happened afterwards, they all saw it.
The magic of Ning Caichen's calligraphy, needless to say. Li Gongfu just went home to get Ning Caichen's past notebooks, and he didn't have anything to do. This is what they saw with their own eyes.
And what you don't see is even more magical. went to the Pure Yang Zhenjun Temple, and this bad luck was solved. There's so much to imagine. The most reliable thing is that he is an official in the same hall as Lu Zu, who makes him a literary star himself, naturally everyone trusts him the most.
As soon as this rumor came, Ning Caichen's words became magical.
What they invited was no longer the Spring Festival couplets, but the door gods. That's why there is the word "demon".
What's even more ridiculous is the merchant of Hangzhou City. In the end, it was a dynasty with developed commerce, and they quickly turned their brains to commerce. Directly found Ning Caichen's house, begged Ning Caichen to write, and they sold.
Selling Spring Festival couplets?
This kind of work, how could Ning Caichen agree.
Let's not talk about this handwritten Spring Festival couplet, how much can I write in a day? Just their coaxing: Ning Caichen's words can ward off the charm of the homeland.
This is impossible, it is not his words that can dispel the charm, but the righteousness that can dispel the charm.
What righteousness is, he doesn't know. He thought it was even more ridiculous. He, a law student. But someone said to him, "You are following the path of Confucianism." Even if this person is an immortal, he will put a big question mark.
And now that he knew that they were here for the town's house, Ning Caichen couldn't agree even more. Because even if he agreed, this righteousness was not infinite, even if he gave it all, he couldn't write many paintings, let alone use it for business.
As the saying goes: "If you can't buy or sell, you will be benevolent." ”
Although it didn't make a business, but the merchants didn't have a reason to bring the gifts back, maybe now they only need to carry two pieces of cloth to enter the Ning family, but if they arrive, Ning Caichen becomes an official, and it will be much more difficult to come to the door again. They understand it.
They left gifts, and Ning Caichen would not let them stay in vain. The words they took away were more or less upright. Since he was a child, he has read independently, and he knows very well the meaning of equivalent exchange.
As for the power of his words, that is in the future, and has nothing to do with the present.
What happened now was that the villagers were simple, and when they saw that Ning Caichen's words could be exchanged for so many things, they gradually retreated. The crowds in the four miles and eight towns also stopped. Rustic villagers don't make this kind of bargain.
stopped the crowd, and Ning Caichen was relieved from the fatigue of writing.
However, he also wrote one more piece, written in cinnabar, in red letters on white paper, which is particularly eye-catching. It's a bit of a modern taste.
The sound of firecrackers is one year old.
When Chinese New Year's Eve arrives, there is a lively atmosphere everywhere, adults killing chickens and pigs, and children running and playing.
But compared to this firecracker, Ning Caichen is a lone show. Light it, put it in the fire and burn it, and blow up pieces of sparks, causing all the children to exclaim.
What Ning Caichen did even more surprised them was that he actually threw the firecracker in the water and exploded the water splash.
Everyone knows that this water can extinguish fires. But this firecracker is obviously fire, but it can be thrown into the water and exploded. This is clearly beyond their common sense.
They did not know the principle that if the gunpowder was well sealed, it would still explode in water. Only push this on Ning Caichen's extraordinary. Even if Ning Caichen let them light it with their own hands and throw it in the water with their own hands, they still can't change this.
Originally, Ning Caichen wanted to show that he was holding the cannon in his hand and exploding. However, after seeing that the skin of this artillery battle was not paper, but bamboo, he wisely dispelled this dangerous idea.
The shell of the cannon is paper, and even if it is blown up, it will only make your hands numb, and at most bruise.
But this cannon skin is replaced with bamboo, and it is different. The bamboo slices flying around are definitely a sharp weapon to hurt people. With so many children around him, it wouldn't be good if it blew up in the eye.
Even if they can't blow it up, they will hurt themselves if they do the same.
In the same way, he didn't demonstrate what a naughty naughty boy would do with firecrackers.
Although he still has a lot to play and has not demonstrated, he has brought to the children of the mountain village a way that they have never experienced before.
In this era, people buy firecrackers, just to welcome the New Year, there is fun, but not much, very little. Even if they play, they won't have so many tricks like Ning Caichen, a person in later generations.
Tired of playing, they went back to their respective homes, but Ning Caichen still remembered that it was not blown up into a thatched house.
It was so much joy that he didn't even notice the stray firecrackers he threw underwater, causing the fish to scurry. This is the Song Dynasty, such a big water wave of firecrackers vibrates, where have the fish of the Song Dynasty experienced, naturally they were scared and fled in all directions.
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