"The New Year's Eve is not dead!" Mrs. Li reprimanded with a calm face, seeing that she was going to have no food today, she was very stunned, and glared at Xu Rujiao and prepared to leave.

Li Xiulan was even more angry, but her eyes were sharp, and she finally glanced at the grain bag, and saw a small oiled paper bag in the middle, which was a sauce elbow, which she recognized.

Li Xiulan stepped forward a few steps forward and opened the oil paper bag: "Haha, you don't have money to buy grain, but you have money to buy this!" It's a small pack, and it's not a big deal, so it won't starve you to death if you take it back to our mother. ”

As he spoke, he glanced at Mrs. Li, her face full of pride.

Mrs. Li's eyes lit up, she took the elbow of sauce, and the thick aroma of meat penetrated into her nose, which provoked her to laugh with an old wrinkle: "Your father was still talking a few days ago, but it happened that you bought it, so I'll take it back, and you should pack up and eat early." ”

Xu Ruyan was the first to rush up to stop: "Grandma, you can't take it, my mother said to keep it for the New Year!" ”

"You gluttonous girl, do you know how to do things? That's your grandma! Li Xiulan waved the person away, Xu Ruyan was only fifteen, she couldn't help but stumble back, bumped into Li Xiuqin's arms, and saw that it was her mother, holding Li Xiuqin's sleeve and saying: "Mom, you said to give me food for the New Year, don't ask grandma to take it away, mom begs you." ”

Li Xiuqin's expression was complicated, there were entanglements and discomfort in her eyes, she held back for a long time but didn't speak, pulled her second daughter, and taught her a low lesson: "Don't be big or small, your grandmother is an elder." ”

Mrs. Li and Li Xiulan left contentedly with the sauce elbow, Li Xiuqin looked at their backs and sighed deeply: "It's better to just cut it for Erya, so I can taste it." ”

Xu Ruyan's eyes were red, with two packets of tears, and her face was full of reluctance and sadness.

After Laba is the New Year, Xu Rujiao remembers that when she was a child, the most lively time for the New Year at home was at this time, when her father Xu Guangshi wrote a good calligraphy, and every family had to come to ask for Spring Festival couplets.

The brush and ink are ready-made, Xu Guangshi did not write a big-character poster for the production team, there was no side, the pen and ink were made by him, and the people who asked for the Spring Festival couplets brought red paper to them, saying what kind of auspicious words they wanted, and Xu Guangshi came easily.

wrote a couplet, generally say some auspicious words of thanks, a little more particular, maybe bring a few eggs or two taels of sugar, every time, are the three sisters of the Xu family the happiest.

Another family just got the Spring Festival couplets back, Xu Rujiao looked at the few pieces of red paper left on the kang table thoughtfully.

It was written in vain, sometimes the red paper can't be used up, and there is one and a half left, and it's not easy for people to take it back, so most of them let Xu Guangshi keep it for himself.

"Dad, catch up with Ming'er, you wrote all the red papers at home." After dinner, Xu Rujiao touched her stomach, which was not very full, and spoke.

"Our family is not in a hurry to write", Xu Guangshi thought that she wanted to post couplets, and several children loved to make a fuss about this, "It was only posted on the day of the thirty." ”

"It's not Dad", Xu Rujiao pondered for a moment and said, "I think what you wrote is good, and the people in the city will definitely look at it, if you sell it, maybe you can make money." ”

Reliving a life, Xu Rujiao's biggest wish is to protect her family to live a good life safely, and now the family is surrounded by walls, they can't even eat, and the eldest sister's marriage is a big stone in her heart. How to make some money to improve the current predicament is what she thinks about the most these days.

Who knew that her parents heard it but strongly objected, and Li Xiuqin's face changed: "Don't talk nonsense, this is a crime of speculation, so people can't hear it!" ”

"My dad wrote it and sold it himself, how can it be called speculation?" Xu Rujiao distinguished, "Besides, let's just be quiet, don't let people know?" ”

At this time, although the management was strict, it was not that no one was secretly doing business, the so-called supporting the bold, starving the timid, the first batch of people who became rich in this era, many of them started from this time.

"No, no, absolutely not, we don't care what others do, but don't you know what your father's situation is? Absolutely not......"

No matter how Xu Rujiao persuaded her, her parents disagreed.

After a few more days, Xu Rujiao looked at the endless stream of people coming to the door, and left with the Spring Festival couplets in their hands one by one, as if they were leaving with her money, and they couldn't sit still anymore.

The turning point appeared when Zhao Hongyan came with her father, she was a classmate of Xu Rujiao's junior high school, and her family lived in Dahao Village, about four or five miles away from Shuiquan Village.

Xu Rujiao turned a blind eye to Zhao Hongyan's obvious disdain for her, but took her to play uncharacteristically, the two sisters were at home, Zhao Hongyan didn't dare to bully her, so she glared at Xu Rujiao a few times arrogantly, the latter didn't care at all, and after the Zhao father and daughter left, she found her parents and said that a few classmates also wanted couplets.

"Which classmate are you?" asked Li Xiuqin, "what do you want?" ”

"Just Erping them, Hongyan told me that they all want it", Xu Rujiao made it up, "If you want couplets and blessing characters, Dad, you wrote it, and I will send it to them tomorrow." ”

"They don't know how to get the couplet, and they want you to send it?" Xu Ruyan pursed her lips when she heard this, "I don't even take the red paper." ”

"Anyway, we still have a lot of red paper in our family, and they are all classmates", Xu Rujiao begged her father, "Dad, you wrote it." ”

Xu Guangshi didn't like to be careful, and he readily agreed: "Okay, Sanya pulls the paper, and Dad will write it to your classmates." ”

Xu Rujiao stepped forward happily, Xu Guangshi wrote four pairs of doors and six pairs of small doors according to her meaning, and she cut a few squares of paper and asked Xu Guangshi to write several blessing characters.

After the handwriting was dry, wrapped in the old newspaper at home, early the next morning, Xu Rujiao took the couplet and went out.