The three masters who had just finished helping their neighbors write a pair of Spring Festival couplets saw Li Ping'an coming over, and said enthusiastically: "Ping'an, have you written the Spring Festival couplets at home, do you want the three masters to write you a pair of Spring Festival couplets and paste them?"

"No, I can't put my hand on the table, so I won't come out to offer ugliness, this is not to listen to my uncle, your handwriting is good, isn't this specially coming to you to help write a pair of Spring Festival couplets" Saying that, Li Ping'an consciously took out a handful of peanuts and melon seeds from his pocket and took the initiative to put them in the tray on the table.

The tray on the pillar of the three masters is already full of peanuts and melon seeds at the moment, all of which were earned by the three masters writing Spring Festival couplets today.

Li Ping'an didn't realize that it was a bad thing to help others write Spring Festival couplets and receive gifts, the three masters brought their own paper, pen and ink, not to mention earning some peanuts and melon seeds or something, it was not too much to receive a few cents.

Not to mention now, even if the future asks a neighbor to help write the Spring Festival couplet, there is no empty hand, at least take a pack of cigarettes.

The little old man of the third master, when he heard Li Ping'an praise him for his good handwriting, he smiled proudly, that is, he didn't have a beard on his chin, or he had to touch his beard: "Of course, it's not me blowing with you, just our street, my words can also be ranked on the top, I have been practicing calligraphy since I was a child, and I have been practicing for more than 40 years.

Every year, when writing Spring Festival couplets, it is a rare highlight moment for Yan Fugui every year, which can not only show off his good hand, but also make some benefits, peanuts, melon seeds and candies for the New Year at home, I have never bought them for so many years, and I earn them all by writing Spring Festival couplets for people.

"That's that, the third master, you should write it quickly, the paste at home is ready, just wait to paste it on the door" is still busy today, Li Ping'an doesn't have time to listen to the three masters boasting here.

"Okay, okay, write now, your family should write two Spring Festival couplets, have you thought about what to write" The third master prepared the red paper, looked at Li Ping'an with a pen and said.

"You look at it, write it as others do, I can write it as you like, you can write two of them"

The current Spring Festival couplets are not something that can be written casually, if one is not written well, maybe the big hat will be buckled on the head.

Therefore, Li Ping'an does not intend to be unconventional, show off his literary talents, and hand over the decision to the three masters, just write with the flow.

Yan Fugui thought about it for a while, and quickly thought about the content of the two Spring Festival couplets, the brush was stained with ink, and under a burst of dragon and phoenix dance, the two Spring Festival couplets were quickly written.

"There are thousands of willows in the spring breeze; 600 million Shenzhou Shunyao"

"The four seas are churning, the clouds and the water are angry; Five continents are shaken, wind and thunder"

These two couplets are quotes from the poems of great men, which is a very common phenomenon in these years, and everyone is using it, and it will definitely not go wrong.

After waiting for the ink on the couplet to dry, Li Ping'an casually threw another pack of cigarettes to the three masters, and left the front yard with two freshly baked couplets.

After the things in the house were busy, Yi Zhonghai went out to work on the things in the courtyard, and Li Ping'an was not idle, so he needed to go out and buy the firecrackers for the New Year.

In this year, there is no ban on fireworks, and every year on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, every household has the custom of setting off firecrackers. When the cannon is finished, the children will hurriedly run out with flashlights, look for unburned firecrackers with their friends, and put the intact firecrackers into their pockets.

Li Ping'an bought two sets of firecrackers outside, and just arrived at the gate of the courtyard, he happened to meet Yan Fugui and Yi Zhonghai, who had just finished pasting the Spring Festival couplets at the gate of the courtyard, and the two were blowing each other in business at this moment.

Looking at the Spring Festival couplets on both sides of the gate, Yi Zhonghai touted to the three masters: "His three masters, your writing is really good, the more you look at it, the more you look at it, these are so beautiful."

"Words are like their people, words are like their people, according to the words of the past, if you don't see people and only see words, you will know that people are eight points" Yi Zhonghai's words scratched the itch of the three masters, and the three masters were very complacent about their words, and couldn't help boasting to Yi Zhonghai proudly.

Li Ping'an looked at the two who were complimenting each other in business, and almost laughed.

Just when the third master and Yi Zhonghai were standing at the door with paste to talk, Xu Damao pushed his bicycle full of mountain goods in front and back and walked over from a distance.

During this time, Xu Damao's guy has really worked hard, and he has been going to the countryside for more than ten days to play movies, if he hadn't accepted a few new apprentices to give him a hand, his small physique would have been tired and lying down.

The hard work of the past few days has not been in vain, and there is really a lot of pulling things at home in the villagers.

You can see from the things he pulls on his bicycle, full of mountain goods, fresh wild mushrooms, fresh vegetables, and some wild game in the mountains, there are really a lot of things.

"Section Chief Li, Happy New Year, Happy New Year, I just came back from buying firecrackers outside" After Xu Damao saw Li Ping'an, he hurriedly walked a few steps, pushed his bicycle to Li Ping'an, and greeted him warmly.

For Xu Damao, his own god of wealth, Li Pingan was still very polite, and replied with the same enthusiasm: "Chief Xu is really hard enough, in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, other comrades are on vacation, you are still working, this spirit is worth learning from everyone."

"I don't think it's any kind of hard work, it's all for the people, for the New Year, I will show a few more movies to the villagers, so that the villagers can have a happy New Year" Xu Damao heard Li Ping'an call himself Chief Xu, his face instantly bloomed with a bright smile, and Le's eyes were invisible.

The two greeted each other, attracting the three masters and Yi Zhonghai at the door.

The two turned their heads, and Yan Fugui looked at Xu Damao's bicycle, his eyes were straight, and he said sourly: "Damao, are you busy enough now?" ”

"Hehe, go to the countryside every day to show movies to people," Xu Damao said with a smile.

Yan Fugui was a little sour, and said sarcastically: "Then you have a harvest every day."

"Hey, the third master look at what you said, come on, come on, this mountain goods" Xu Damao said as he took out a bunch of wild dried mushrooms from his bicycle bag and handed it to Yan Fugui.

Xu Damao knew that this was Yan Fugui's red eyes, he got a lot of mountain goods from the countryside, and his eyes were a little red, so he took out some mushrooms from his bag and wanted to block Yan Fugui's mouth.

When the third master saw the dried mushrooms handed over by Xu Damao, his face immediately changed, and his face turned into a flower, but his mouth said: "Oh, it's good, it's good..." How embarrassing is that? Although Yan Fugui said that he was embarrassed, he was not embarrassed at all, and hurriedly took the string of mushrooms from Xu Damao's hand.

After Xu Damao gave the three great masters mushrooms, he continued to pull out another string of wild small mushrooms from his bag, wanting to get some mountain goods for Yi Zhonghai and Li Ping'an.

"If you have it, I don't want it, you can keep this mushroom" Seeing Xu Damao's actions, Yi Zhonghai hurriedly waved his hand and refused.

Lao Yi was very blind to Xu Damao's behavior of deducting things from the mouths of his fellow countrymen, and just watched Xu Damao come back with mountain goods, there was an unconcealable contempt in his eyes.

Coupled with Comrade Lao Yi's salary of 100 yuan a month, there is no shortage of food or drink, so he naturally looks down on this mountain goods.

Xu Damao was stunned for a moment with the dried mushrooms, and after reacting, he turned his head to look at Li Ping'an, and just wanted to speak, he heard Li Ping'an speak: "Chief Xu, I have mushrooms at home, there is no shortage of this, you can keep it."

Yan Fugui next to him saw that Yi Zhonghai's uncle and nephew didn't want it, so he hurriedly took the string of dried mushrooms from Xu Damao's hand with a smile, and said with a smile: "It's okay, you're welcome."

After finishing speaking, he took the wild small mushroom and put it to his nose and smelled it, and said happily to Yi Zhonghai: "Wild small mushroom, chewy" and then looked at Xu Damao, "I said that Xu Damao is really successful, you, this trip is really full of returns"

"Look at what you said, come on, I'll go in first" As he spoke, Xu Damao nodded to Li Ping'an, who was standing next to him, and was about to walk to the courtyard with his bicycle.

Yan Fugui, who had the benefit, said enthusiastically: "Okay, you walk slowly, come on, I'll help you" said and helped Xu Damao diligently, helping his bicycle full of goods to cross the threshold.

After Xu Damao left, Yan Fugui came to the side of the uncle and said: "After Xu Damao returns to the countryside, he can pour a lot of things into the pears, and the projectionist of your factory is really short of fat."

"Okay, three masters, let's go in first, I still have a few pieces of red paper, see who hasn't written, and then please write a pair" Yi Zhonghai didn't want to pick up Yan Fugui's words, so he diverted the topic.

"Writing Spring Festival couplets is, isn't that a gesture" Yan Fugui held two strings of dried mushrooms and said with a smile: "Let's polish the pen, the meaning will be done, haha"

Yi Zhonghai nodded, and said to Li Ping'an: "Ping'an, your aunt and Qiu Nan are busy working here, you go over to see if there is anything you can help, go over and help."

"Come on, I'll go over now" As he spoke, Li Ping'an carried two sets of firecrackers, passed Yi Zhonghai and the others, and walked quickly to the middle courtyard.

Back in the house to put down the firecrackers, Li Pingan came to the kitchen to see if there was anything that needed help, as soon as he entered the kitchen, he saw the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner prepared by a big aunt, good guy, tonight's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is really exquisite, completely in accordance with the old rules.

The so-called old rule is "four four bottom", that is, four cold dishes, four hot stir-fried, four meat dishes, four soup dishes, that is, sixteen dishes, in addition to soup, the dishes are four cold and eight hot, that is, four flat and eight stable.

And sixteen is the sixth, six represents Shun (six six Shun), the sixth is to be Shun, I hope everything will go well in the coming year. As for the specific dishes, it depends on the family conditions, the surplus eats some expensive, the non-rich eats relatively expensive, in short, it is better than the usual food.

These dishes prepared by a big aunt, at a glance, are not cheap, tonight's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner can kill 99% of the families in 49 cities in seconds, just today's table of dishes, without fifteen yuan, can really not be taken down.

"I said aunt, there are only four people in our family, even if you add the deaf old lady in the backyard, there are only five people, you have prepared these sixteen dishes a little too much, our family can't finish it" Looking at the table full of ingredients, Li Ping'an wanted to persuade an aunt to cook less.

The aunt who was busy with work did not raise her head, and said joyfully: "Look at what you said, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner must be rich, this year is the year of our family's importation, your uncle specially instructed me yesterday, I must follow the rules of the ancestors"

Seeing that he couldn't persuade an aunt, Li Ping'an smiled bitterly and shook his head, so he could only let an aunt go. Anyway, the weather is cold now, and the food can't be spoiled for a few days, just eat a few more leftovers later.

The kitchen is relatively small, and the first aunt and Ding Qiunan are a little crowded when they are busy, and after Li Ping'an came in, they couldn't turn around, so the first aunt began to pick people up: "Okay, don't stay here, the kitchen doesn't need you, you go outside to see if the steamed bun pot is still used?" If no one uses it, you go and steam our steamed buns."

This year's stove was set up in the backyard, and when Li Ping'an came over, Silly Zhu had just finished frying meatballs and was packing up and preparing to go back.

Li Ping'an casually took out a meatball from the basin, tasted it briefly, and gave a thumbs up to the stupid pillar: "Brother Zhuzi, you have a bit of a way, this meatball should be beef, right?" Where did you get it from? It's not a good thing."

"Delicious, right? Take more and go back to stew soup to drink, beef is rare, I looked for it for a long time last night to find it" Silly Zhu generously waved his hand and asked Li Ping'an to take more and bring it back.

Hearing what Silly Zhu said, Li Ping'an immediately understood that this grandson went to the pigeon market last night to purchase. It seems that there are still some doorways in the pigeon market, and even beef is sold, that is, tonight is the Chinese New Year's Eve, or definitely go to the pigeon market to walk around, buy some beef and come back to eat hot pot.

Glanced at the basin containing things, most of them were frozen tofu or something, there were not many beef balls, and it seemed that Silly Zhu didn't buy much beef last night.

Li Ping'an waved his hand and refused: "Brother Zhuzi, you can keep this balls at home and eat them, my aunt has prepared a lot of dishes today, and the family has a small population, so I can't eat them at all."

"Don't mind, what are you polite to your brother, go back and give it to the old man and the old couple to taste" The stupid pillar saw Li Ping'an's refusal, and immediately became anxious, that is, Li Ping'an didn't have anything in his hand, or he would definitely be able to put it in the bowl.

Looking at such an enthusiastic stupid pillar, Li Ping'an hurriedly said: "I really don't need to, today's family has made four or four bottoms out according to the rules of the old Sijiu City, and there are many dishes at home that can't be eaten at all, you can eat these balls as a family, and your family has a lot of people."

"Good guy, your family is atmospheric, I have eaten it at the bottom, I don't know how many years I haven't seen this thing in the courtyard, since you have prepared a lot of dishes at home, I will keep this ball and eat it myself"

Helping Silly Zhu tidy up his things, while the fire under the stove was not completely extinguished, Li Ping'an hurriedly filled it with some firewood, and after the fire was burned, with the help of Silly Zhu, he sandwiched the steamer on the stove and began to burn the pot to steam steamed buns.