The winter days are short, and the countryside eats two meals, and when Xu Rujiao arrived home, Li Xiuqin was cooking, and the fragrance wafted out, and she suddenly felt even hungrier.

"Sanya is back", Li Xiuqin saw her first, "Your father still said that he would welcome you if he didn't come back, what's the matter, the couplets were sent to your classmates?" ”

"It's all sent", Xu Rujiao raised the red paper in her hand, "This is the red paper they supplied to our family." ”

Li Xiuqin glanced at it roughly: "Why are there so many?" "A piece of red paper is folded into several folds and spread out to be larger than the tabletop.

Xu Rujiao saw that her father was also there, so she took the opportunity to speak: "It was a few neighbors of my classmate who also wanted our Spring Festival couplets when they saw it, and I agreed, so they took a lot of red paper, and you wrote it all down, Dad." ”

"Okay, I'll write it later after dinner." Xu Guangshi agreed happily, he was full of literary talent, and he could only show one or two at such a time, in fact, he was very happy in his heart.

In addition, Xu Rujiao specially cut a large square of paper, so that her father wrote seven or eight big blessing characters, and wrote all the five pieces of red paper before giving up.

The remaining scraps were not enough to write couplets, so she cut them into small strips and asked her father to write the words "look up and see joy", "go out and see joy" and "six animals are prosperous", and sell it for five cents a piece.

The next morning, Xu Rujiao just arrived near the supply and marketing cooperative, the middle-aged man came, according to yesterday said to take the couplet and leave, Xu Rujiao stayed outside the supply and marketing cooperatives for a long time, sold a few copies, during which the salesman of the supply and marketing cooperatives came out several times to stare at her, Xu Rujiao was afraid that she would be bad, and decided to change places in the afternoon.

There are a lot of couplets today, she sold half of them in the morning, and I don't know what the business is like in the afternoon, seeing that the sun is in the middle, Xu Rujiao's stomach is empty, and she decided to fill her stomach first.

The only restaurant in Hongshi Township is next to the township government, saying that it is a restaurant, but in fact it is similar to a large canteen, and there is a guest house inside, and there are leaders or inspection teams or something from above, and they eat and live here.

Five cents for a bowl of braised noodles, two cents for meat buns, and one and a half cents for brown sugar baked cakes, no tickets.

Xu Rujiao ordered a big bowl of braised noodles, snorted and ate it hot, and finally relieved her hunger for days.

- Except for the porridge on the Laba Festival, she hasn't eaten enough these days.

Not only her, but also her family, there is not enough food to eat, most of the porridge Li Xiuqin boils every day is water, only a few grains of grain from Xixi, and even less is dry, most of the time it is sweet potatoes, and she will be hungry after eating it for a while.

Xu Rujiao thought about it, spent a dollar to buy two meat buns and four brown sugar baked cakes, and asked the master to wrap them, and she came to get them when she went home in the afternoon.

There are two factories in Hongshi Township, namely the enamel factory in the east and the Guodan peel factory in the west.

She thought about it and decided to try her luck at the Guodan Leather Factory.

There is a doorman at the gate of the factory, and ordinary people can't get in, so Xu Rujiao went directly to talk to the uncle who guarded the door: "Happy New Year, uncle." ”

She is good-looking, with big eyes and double eyelids, a little white face with a little baby fat, and a sweet and cute smile.

Seeing this, the uncle smiled: "Okay, which little doll are you, come to the factory to find your parents?" I don't know what your name is, I'll call you. ”

"Don't look for it", Xu Rujiao felt friendly from the other party's answer, and spoke boldly, "I just want to ask, do you want Spring Festival couplets?" ”

In recent years, although private businesses are not allowed, many people have done a lot of secretly, especially their Guodan Peel Factory, which secretly sells scraps.

There were also people who came to sell things before, and there were many female workers in the Guodan Peel Factory, and most of the clothes they sold were clothes, silk scarves, hair flowers, etc., and this Spring Festival couplets were the first time to see me.

"It's definitely going to be posted for the New Year, do you have it?" Uncle asked.

Xu Rujiao was not ambiguous, and immediately unfolded the newspaper bag and showed her Spring Festival couplets.

"Wow, it's pretty good." The uncle sighed with emotion and looked at it.

"It's all a good couplet, better than the supply and marketing cooperatives", Xu Rujiao spared no effort to sell, "Uncle, you see what you need, if the size is not suitable, you can also cut and write." ”

"You wrote that?" The uncle was very surprised, the couplet was indeed well written, but it didn't seem like the little girl in front of him could write it.

"Naturally not", Xu Rujiao smiled, didn't dare to say that it was written by her father, but said, "Someone else wrote it, you have a copy?" ”

The uncle thought for a while and said, "You wait here first, and I'll ask the factory leader." ”

Xu Rujiao nodded half puzzled, and said in her heart that she had to find a leader to buy couplets, could it be that she was looking for someone to denounce herself?

After waiting for a while, she hesitated whether to run away, and saw the uncle come over with a man in his forties.

Xu Rujiao was a little relieved, only one person came, and she shouldn't be arresting herself.

"This is Director Jin in our office, he wants to see the couplet", the uncle introduced the two, "Director Jin, take a look, I think it's good, why don't we post this in the factory for the Chinese New Year this year?" ”

Director Jin didn't say much, nodded slightly, and began to look at the couplet, and raised his head to Xu Rujiao for a while and said: "I want ten pairs of big ones, twenty pairs of small ones, and ten large Fu characters and thirty small ones, when will they be delivered?" ”