In a blink of an eye, it is the twenty-ninth of the lunar month, and the last month of this year is the small moon, so the twenty-ninth of this year is Chinese New Year's Eve.

On this day, thin snowflakes continued to fall in the sky, and the sun was still shining. The people in the Li Mansion have already made New Year's pastries and cooked food, and the Spring Festival lanterns on the mansion have also hung new .......

The red window flower paper that the housekeeper asked the family to buy in the spring also arrived, and a few maids who had done the manual work volunteered to go, and there were paper-cut lanterns, firecrackers, and lions.

Li Bai, who has not spent the New Year at home for five years, argued that the door god couplet must be posted by himself this time, and the couplet must be written by himself.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the mansion was cleaned up by the people, and early in the morning I listened to my son's son to write a couplet, and Yingchun took a few family members to clean up the door frames, hall pillars and other places.

Many people in the courtyard came to see Li Bai write couplets. I saw Li Bai line up the couplets, horizontal batches, and bucket squares one by one, then fold them into squares, then fold them in half along the oblique angle, and finally disassemble them. At this time, there are already grids on the couplet, and each grid has a diagonal distribution on it, which is very regular.

Then Li Bai took out the pen 12 given by his father, poured Haoran righteousness into it, and wrote: The old year has added a few joys, and the spring year has reached a higher level, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the spring.

Li Bai has been able to write extremely neat handwriting since he was a child, but with the profundity of Li Bai's knowledge and the pride inherited from his master, this handwriting has also become chic and elegant.

Then the next couplet Li Bai wrote: Receiving the day Ruixue thousands of family music, offering the fragrance of plum blossoms for the year, and the family is happy.

Everyone watching on the side nodded one after another, praising Li Bai for his poetic talent, and his handwriting also had the atmosphere of a calligrapher.

After writing the couplet, Li Bai beckoned Yingchun to help with himself, cooked the taro, and then wiped it on the couplet, and posted it on the left and right sides of each door.

The bucket is posted on all portals except the gate.

Then he went to the street to buy a pair of door gods, and when he returned home, he cut open the two door gods on a piece of paper with a thin thread, and then posted them at the gate of the Li Mansion.

After Li Bai posted the door god, he always felt that something was missing.

At this time, the old Confucian in Tsing Yi appeared beside him and said, "Attract the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and try it again." ”

Li Bai did so, and moved the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, and then this spiritual energy was sucked away by the two door gods, and the two door gods who were originally dead and silent seemed to come to life at this time, with a bit of deterrence.

"It turns out that the door god after having Lingyun will play a role in deterring evil spirits." Li Bai said.

"That's natural, since ancient times, the emperors of all countries in the world of Jiuzhou have not been able to practice, so the Tang Emperor in the early years was infested by demons. Then the two Wufu who followed the Tang Emperor to conquer the world together proposed to guard the door for the Tang Emperor. This guard is for many years, and then the emperor really couldn't bear it, and watched his two generals fall into the night guard for themselves, so he found the top Danqing painter at that time - Ma Liang, at that time Ma Liang had a magic brush, and everything caused by his eyes could be painted like a god. Later, when Ma Liang heard about such a good event, he also helped the Tang Emperor to paint two pictures, which were posted outside the door. It was really as good as two generals guarding the door, and after that, the ghosts did not come to disturb the Tang Emperor, and the tradition of the door god was preserved. Old Confucian Zhao Rui said.

After finishing pasting the couplet, Li Ke called Li Bai and Li Yueyuan to the hall.

Li Bai and Yueyuan naturally understood what their father was going to do. Therefore, the two knelt down and kowtowed to their father: "Chinese New Year's Eve brushes away the old worries, and the next year will surely be prosperous." ”

Li Ke was very happy when he heard it, and immediately gave the two of his own children turtle red envelopes. Then Li Bai got up, and when he came to the master and Mr., he kowtowed twice, and said: "The disciple wishes the master's fist to be higher again, and the student wishes Mr. to join the Tao as soon as possible." ”

"Hahaha, good apprentice." Cui You, who had white hair, said with a smile.

"Not bad, not bad." Old Confucian Zhao Rui said.

Then the two also took out the red envelopes that they had prepared for a long time in their arms. After Li Bai retreated, another wave of younger children came to the hall where Li Ke was. The immature voice said the auspicious words taught by the parents at home. Seeing so many juniors visiting him this year, Li Ke was very happy, which proved that their Li family had a great career.

After Li Ke gave each child a red envelope, the children dispersed happily. Others waited outside the side room.

When Li Bai and his sister came out of the hall, they went to the side room where their mother was with Li Yueyuan. kneeling and kowtowing: "The New Year is coming, my mother's face is still shining, and Fuxing Fitch is here." ”

After Li Bai finished speaking, he received a very thick red envelope. Then Li Bai and Li Yueyuan went to visit the other lineages of the Li family, and the uncles and uncles looked at Li Bai, who was already as tall as themselves at the age of thirteen, but with immature faces, and Xiao Yueyuan, who was well-behaved and sensible, and handed out their red envelopes one after another.

Li Bai and Li Yueyuan also respectfully said goodbye greetings. After all the elders were worshipped, Li Bai returned to his small courtyard, only to see a few ghostly little guys who did not dare to enter in front of his door.

"Ahem!" Li Bai coughed lightly, and all the little guys instantly lined up, like an army that had been practicing for a long time.

"Happy New Year Uncle Bai, may Uncle Bai bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. In the new year, Uncle Wangbai has achieved success in his studies, boxing, and swordsmanship. The little guy standing at the head of the team said with a tiger head.

Li Bai touched the head of the little guy wearing a tiger head hat, and couldn't help but sigh that he was only thirteen years old, and he had already become the uncle of his cousin's child.

In the five years that Li Bai was not at home, many juniors have been added to the family, but Li Bai doesn't know any of them. However, Li Bai can probably tell which brother's cub it is from the appearance of this group of little guys.

Li Bai listened to the blessing and asked the names of the little ones, and each of them had a red envelope. These red envelopes were prepared for him by his mother in advance when he gave his mother New Year's greetings.

At night, the group of little guys knocked on Li Bai's door, and the little ones were very bold and felt very kind to the little uncle who had only met once. After listening to the story of the New Year Beast told by their parents, a group of children wrapped themselves in the matter of setting off firecrackers to drive away the New Year Beast.

When Li Bai came to the gate of the Li Mansion compound, the sound of firecrackers was already crackling, and the young children of the neighbors next door seemed to be trying to drive away the New Year Beast. The whole alley is bright and dark, so it's not lively.

Then look at the ancestral temple in the town, there is a cannon pit, like a chimney, towering in the middle of the office. There were veteran gunners who filled the required materials, and the people below set fires, and then those were blown into the sky and exploded through the already lit fuses.

The sound of "bang, bang, bang, bang......" crossed the sky, brilliant and colorful. It's really the fire tree and silver flowers that are red, and the sky is blowing the spring breeze.

This is the custom of the people here for the New Year, which is carried out by the Ancestral Temple Supervision and Construction Bureau, and sets off "flowers and firecrackers", of course, more than one. Then the originally gloomy sky, because of the spread of the firecrackers just now, every house in the town went to a wide place, or on the roof or on the street. Knocking melon seeds, eating New Year's cakes, and greeting each other with a happy new year.

Immediately after that, several firecrackers exploded in the air, with different colors and different shapes, which were extremely gorgeous.

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At this moment, the monks of all veins in the Hanhai Emperor Pass in the north were still stationed at the head of the city. However, this group of people will not relax in the slightest because this is the end of the year.

"Lao Zhang, those of us who lack arms and legs should be sent out tomorrow." A martial artist with a broken leg by the campfire at the head of the city said, there was a demon mist circulating on his leg, apparently under a curse.

"Hmm." The one-armed man surnamed Zhang just snorted, as if he still wanted to stay here and continue to kill demons.

"I know you don't want to leave, you want to avenge the brothers who stayed here forever, but do you think you can still help people like you and me, who have broken hands and feet?" The man with the broken leg also had a lot of grief hidden in his eyes. The group of monks who came to the Imperial Pass with them back then were basically dead and wounded, but they still did not flinch in the slightest.

"Knock-knock-knock——!" Suddenly, the alarm bell rang three times.

"Enemy attack!" One of the monks shouted, then gathered his squad and flew down the city.

Because the two of them were seriously injured, there were two vacancies in the original team of five people, and the teammates just came over to them and said that it was okay, everything was still there, and you two would pack up and go home after a while.

Watching his teammates jump off the city, but they encountered a demon clan master who needed the combined efforts of five people to barely surround and kill, and then looked at the brightly lit Jiuzhou world behind him with brilliant fireworks, the one-armed man stood up and said, "Lao Lu, I'm not leaving, you can go back and take a look for me." Then he resolutely jumped off the city.

"Heh, don't want me to go back for you, you have to go back together, and if you can't go back, you will be buried together." Then the man leaped on one leg and got out of the city.

Tonight, there were many demon clan masters under the city, and the monks on duty were still unable to cope with all the dispatches, and one by one the team leaders sent out signals for help.

Not long after, a sword qi Changhong flew down from the city, directly taking the head of the leading demon, wisps of book-flipping wind and Haoran righteousness suppressed the fierce demon clan, pure martial arts fist to kill, show off their skills.

By the end of the battle here, the squad of about 70 people who had jumped off the city had only a few dozen survivors. One of them had a sad face, tears welling up, it was the previous battle with the one-armed and one-legged man team of the Wenmai monks, after all, there were two missing, so they were defeated, and the two monks were shocked to death, and when he was about to accept his fate, he saw two backs, so familiar, one with one leg and one with one arm.

"Brother Gao, if you have a chance, go home for us to have a look." The two said in unison.

I saw that the momentum of the two of them rose sharply, and the one-armed man threw a punch, and the demon monk was shocked back a few steps, and so did the man with the broken leg.

However, the two of them were defeated by the demon clan monk after all, but they turned their heads and saw that the sword light at the head of the city had flown down, and they knew that the youngest Wenmai monk in the team was saved.

Then the two of them spontaneously ignited the foundation, and the strong man of the demon clan who fought was defeated and retreated, and the strong man of the demon clan fought hard, and the two knew that they were invincible and had no way to retreat.

Blowing up his body, Zhang Kui, Lu Shu calmly went to death!

Then the strong man of the demon clan was shocked back more than ten zhang, and at this time, Bai Hong had arrived, his head rose to the sky, and blood poured out from his neck.

"Brother Gao, if you have a chance, go home for us to have a look."

This sentence lingered in the mind of the young Wenmai monk who was seriously injured and fell to the ground......

The separation of life and death of the strong still has a sense of grandeur. The joys and sorrows of the weak are silent.