Chapter 425: Writing Spring Festival Couplets
On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, the snow stopped all over Huaicheng.
"It seems that Xiao Yuanbao is right, next year will be a good year!"
The prefect Liu Hong held the letter from the old Bai family in his hand, looked at the clear sky, and his face was full of smiles.
Next year's harvest year is stable!
Although the weather cleared, Lord Liu, who was extremely responsible, still did not dare to take it lightly, and asked his subordinates to notify the counties to pay attention to the prevention of various possible disasters caused by the previous snow.
Bai Muban also mentioned in the letter that the snow in the Nanguan Mountain area is serious, and the most feared thing is not the snow disaster, but the fear of flooding in the spring.
Liu Hong also personally wrote a letter to his former subordinate, Zhang County, who is now in Yangfeng County, ordering him to pay attention to the snow in the Nanguan Mountains to prevent possible floods in the spring.
Shenshu Village.
Lao Bai's family has completed the preparations for the New Year, the big red window flowers are pasted on the windows, and the big red Spring Festival couplets are pasted on the door.
The yard was full of joy.
Everyone put on new clothes, especially Xiao Fuyuan, wearing a big red jacket, Qiu Niang put an auspicious bun on her head, the whole person is cute and energetic, just like the dragon girl walking down on the New Year's painting.
The courtyard was full of people.
There are not only people from Shenshu Village, but also villagers from ten miles and eight towns.
These villagers came to Lao Bai's house mainly to ask for Spring Festival couplets.
As a well-known talent in ten miles and eight townships, Bai Erzhuang has shouldered the task of writing Spring Festival couplets for the villagers since he entered the middle of the lunar month.
First write it to the people in my own village, and then write it to the next village.
After Bai Panmei came back, she and Bai Erzhuang wrote Spring Festival couplets to the villagers.
In previous years, there were not many people who asked for Spring Festival couplets, and they were generally written on the twenty-fifth or sixth day of the lunar month. But this year, because the villagers from ten miles and eight townships came to ask for the Spring Festival couplets, the brothers did not finish writing until the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month.
The reason why these villagers came to ask for Spring Festival couplets was mainly because the name of Xiao Fuyuan's blessing spread out, and everyone wanted to come to Lao Bai's house to get lucky.
The villagers did not come in vain, this one carried fried goods, and that one carried cakes, and the table in the courtyard of Lao Bai's house was full.
In addition to asking for Spring Festival couplets, everyone also has a layer of selfishness.
I just want to meet the lord of Furong Township and coax her to say a few auspicious words.
"In the past, Shenshu Village was the poorest village in Nanguan Town, and every household could eat meat over the years, all of which was due to the owner of Furong Township." An old lady from an outlying village stood in the crowd and whispered.
The villagers from the outer villages nodded their heads.
It's not, I'm usually busy and rarely come to Shenshu Village to walk around, but I heard that Shenshu Village has a good life.
It's better than the rumors.
The New Year's goods purchased by every household are incomparable to those in other villages. The yard was full of chicken and fish, everyone was wearing new clothes and jewelry, and some people came to Lao Bai's house with a bowl to watch the excitement, and there was so much meat in the bowl.
Unlike in their village, new clothes can only be worn on the morning of the first day of the new year, and meat must be left on the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve to be eaten.
"Not only Shenshu Village, you see that the shopkeeper Xu in the town has opened to Huaicheng, and it is also stained with the light of the Furong Township Lord." Another person said enviously.
"We can't compare with the villagers of Shenshu Village, after all, the township lord of Furong is from Shenshu Village; We can't compare with Shopkeeper Xu, after all, they have their own family foundation. If you want me to say, as long as the lord of Furong Township says a few auspicious words to me, and bless me to beat a few more catties of wheat next year, I will be satisfied. An honest descendant said.
"I think so too, just bless my sheep to have a few more lambs."
"I have a big wish, I want my daughter-in-law not to have a granddaughter, but to have a grandchild."
"Or you are not blessed, if your granddaughter is like the Furong Township Lord, you see if you still want a grandson."
"Of course, it's better to have a grandson, isn't it better for Furong Township to be a kid?"
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The villagers in the outer villages held the Spring Festival couplets that dried the ink, and blocked Lao Bai's house and were reluctant to leave.
The words of discussion naturally reached the ears of the old lady Bai.
She didn't want her granddaughter to stand up and say auspicious words to everyone.
The so-called auspicious words, you have to work hard to live a good life, don't you?
Take their Lao Bai family as an example, everyone said that the Lao Bai family has won Xiao Fuyuan, and life is getting better and better.
But before Xiao Fuyuan, the old Bai family had excellent character, and no matter how poor the family was, they had not lost their backbone, and they had been working diligently in farming, working, and studying.
Not everyone in Shenshu Village has a good life, and those people who have a good life are not diligent.
Xiao Fuyuan's words are just icing on the cake.
Mrs. Bai is not familiar with all the people in other villages, in case there are such clandestine and slippery people, who have set up Xiao Fuyuan's auspicious words, but the life is not good, isn't this a hidden danger for her granddaughter.
For example, the old lady who said that she didn't like her granddaughter was said to be very vicious and almost drowned her own granddaughter.
How can such a person deserve the blessing of Xiao Fuyuan?
Therefore, Mrs. Bai resolutely did not let Xiao Fuyuan casually throw auspicious words, as early as when the words of the people in the other villages were about to move, Mrs. Bai ordered Da Lang to quietly take Xiao Fuyuan to Ah Zhen's house from the small door.
"Why didn't our Furong Township Master come out?"
Someone saw Old Lady Bai come out and asked out loud.
"Where is the Furong Township Lord, let us meet the Furong Township Lord."
Mrs. Bai looked at the big guy and said with a smile: "My granddaughter is not at home today, and she was invited by the little master of the next door to cut the window flowers together, and said that she would cut it until night." ”
People from other villages naturally didn't believe it, and they all thought that Mrs. Bai was an excuse.
But they were too embarrassed to go inside and look for it.
waited until mid-afternoon, all the Spring Festival couplets were written, and they still gathered in the courtyard and did not leave.
It doesn't seem to be good to get angry during the New Year, but if you don't get angry, these people really affect the old Bai family's New Year.
When Mrs. Bai just wanted to act as a villain, Village Chief Zhao appeared, and with a wave of his hand, he picked people up: "Go, go, the Spring Festival couplets have been written, and they are still standing in the courtyard of other people, what is this for?" Do you want to eat at Lao Bai's house? ”
"Village chief, we just want to pay a New Year's greeting to the Furong Township Lord, and we don't mean to stay." Most of the villagers still want to save face, and when they heard Village Chief Zhao say this, they couldn't hold back their faces.
"The village chief has received everyone's kindness for the head of Furong Township, and I will definitely convey your greetings for the villagers for the Lord of Furong Township. The townsman is a little doll after all, playing next door and having fun, it's a cold day, so don't bother. It's all gone! Let's disperse! ”
also gave the Furong Township Lord a New Year's greeting, when he Zhao Village Chief didn't know what their idea was? Don't you just want to get a few auspicious words from the Furong Township Lord?
The people in this village are not enough to listen, let alone the people from other villages?
The township lord of Furong is the township lord of Shenshu Village, and if he has any auspicious words, he can only say them to the people of Shenshu Village.
If you don't accept it, you don't accept that your village also has a village owner?
Do you have such blessings?
Village Chief Zhao even said that the people from other villages would be scattered.
Some people passed by the door of Ah Zhen's house, and saw the red figure of the Furong Township Lord flashing through the crack in the door.
But in the end, I didn't dare to knock on the door.