Chapter 325: Writing a Couple to Celebrate the New Year
Zhang An was feeling happy along the way, but he didn’t expect that this business would be so cost-effective.
Exchange the chickens and ducks at home for special supplies. In this way, you can earn nothing but blood, and you won’t lose anything.
The pickup truck was driving on the city road, looking at the lights on both sides of the road.
In some places, the flags and lanterns have not yet been hung up, and the staff are still working overtime.
Zhang An couldn't help but sigh, this era is still full of popularity, and the New Year is everywhere.
"Zhang An came to see your mother-in-law again."
As soon as Zhang An entered the courtyard of the family area, some neighbors who were familiar with Su Ying's family took the initiative to say hello to Zhang An.
"Yes, uncle, my parents are off work today for annual leave, so I came over to take a look."
Zhang An took out the cigarettes he had been carrying in his pocket and scattered them for everyone One lap.
After saying a few words, he said goodbye and went upstairs.
It is noon time now, and Wu Qiuping is busy in the kitchen.
Although we have already agreed to go to Zhang An’s house to celebrate the New Year, we still have to eat the lunch at noon.
It’s just that Wu Qiuping didn’t cook, she just made a soup and cooked rice noodles for lunch.
If you cook, there will definitely be leftovers if you can’t finish this meal. When you come back from the countryside, it will definitely be ruined.
"Xiao An, come and serve it yourself. The rice noodles are cooked."
Although Zhang An said that he had eaten rice cakes at home, Wu Qiuping still had to cook them for him.
"Okay, Mom, I can do it myself."
Originally, Zhang An planned to do it himself and just cook it a little.
As a result, Zhang An arrived in the kitchen and was dumbfounded when he saw it.
He didn't expect that his mother-in-law had already cooked a large bowl of rice noodles for him, which was full of stale rice noodles.
The bowl of soy sauce was almost half full. I knew that Zhang An didn’t eat fatty meat, so it was all lean meat.
There is a kind of hunger that makes your mother-in-law think you are hungry. Wu Qiuping was really afraid that Zhang An would be hungry.
"Dad, these are the cigarettes and wine given by Lao Zhu. Keep these cigarettes for smoking, and I will take the wine back for us to drink during the Chinese New Year."
After finishing the rice noodles at noon, Zhang An He took out the cigarette Zhu Yuliang gave him and handed it to his father-in-law.
My father doesn’t smoke, and my grandfathers don’t smoke much. Chen Ze and the others brought a lot of good cigarettes.
So Zhang An left the cigarette to his father-in-law. After all, he was in the system and needed cigarettes and alcohol to clear the way when things happened.
And this kind of iron box cigarette is different from ordinary ones.
If you go to find someone to do something, as soon as you take out this cigarette, many things can be solved without opening a word.
Because this thing is no longer a cigarette, but an identity.
"How many times have I told you that you have to call me Uncle Zhu? He is much older than me."
Su Shaowen felt that he could no longer change his son-in-law's name for Director Zhu.
"Dad, there is no need to change it. Comrade Lao Zhu strongly requested me not to call him uncle."
Without him, every time Zhang An took the initiative to call Zhu Yuliang uncle, it was Find him if you have something to do.
So Lao Zhu would rather have less trouble than hear this honorific.
And he had been with Zhang Anchu for a long time, and found that this man was like an old monster in a young body.
When he was chatting with Zhang An on weekdays, he felt very uncomfortable when he heard Zhang An calling him uncle.
Su Shaowen shook his head. Forget it, there is no way to save it. If you can’t change it, you won’t change it.
Anyway, children have their own ways of making friends.
“Hey, special offer, this is a rare thing.”
Su Shaowen's eyes widened when he saw Zhang An taking out the cigarette from the bag.
Taking the iron box, Su Shaowen held it in his arms as if he had a treasure.
His level is not high enough to have these things.
If you could get it in the past, you could only get it by following the leaders above.
"Okay, I'll keep two boxes of these for later when I find someone. You can take the rest back."
In the end, Su Shaowen, who had been excited for a long time, resisted. Temptation, I only planned to take two boxes, and returned the others to Zhang An.
"Dad, you can keep it if you like. I don't smoke anyway."
"Who is going to smoke these cigarettes? I don't smoke these two packs myself. I'll keep them for later." Take it out when you need someone."
Su Shaowen is not short of tobacco and alcohol, not to mention that Zhang An often brings them to him.
Although the eldest son-in-law is not around, he often asks Chen Ze to help deliver things.
"Okay, I'll leave it at home anyway. If it's gone, you can go get it yourself."
Then Zhang An wanted to wash the dishes in the kitchen, but Wu Qiuping pushed him out and he was not allowed to do anything.
There is a saying that the more a mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more satisfied she becomes.
It is said that a son-in-law is half a son, but now Wu Qiuping and Su Shaowen regard Zhang An as their own son.
When I got home, I hurriedly served anything delicious and delicious, for fear of breaking something.
In the past, when Zhang An was not married, he could still help with cooking and other things.
Now Wu Qiuping doesn't let him do any work in the house, it's so precious.
Even if Zhang An and Chen Cheng were together, Zhang An would be favored.
After all, Zhang An is the new son-in-law, and he is also the new youngest son-in-law, so his status is naturally extraordinary.
"Okay Mom, just pack up your things and we have to go."
Zhang An still had to wait to go home to help with the New Year's Eve dinner. If it were any later, he would have to wait for them to go back for dinner at home.
"Okay, okay, I'll get it done right away."
After cleaning up the kitchen, Wu Qiuping went back to the house to change clothes, then packed some things before getting ready to go out.
If you are going to stay at Zhang An's house for a few days, you must bring a pair of clothes.
Su Shaowen and Wu Qiuping had not lived in Zhang An's house for such a long time before, and Zhang An's house did not have the clothes they wore.
However, the two elders should go there often in the future, so they should start to prepare some of these clothes.
“This is a New Year’s gift from our work unit, why don’t you bring it over.”
The old mother-in-law was still thinking about what she had at home, so she took it to Zhang An’s house.
Zhang An had already seen these boxes of things at the Forestry Bureau in the morning.
"Mom, there's no need to bring it. We have more food at home. Chen Ze even brought a car there a few days ago."
In order to set off quickly, Zhang An took his mother-in-law's hand and went out together, letting the father-in-law behind him close the door last.
By the time Zhang An returned from Changqing, it was already past one in the afternoon.
Getting out of the car and walking to the backyard, Wu Qiuping and Su Shaowen came face to face with the two cheeky ones who couldn't be driven away.
After calling Zhu Yuliang, Zhang An did not continue to drive them away and let them be happy.
“Oh, this is a red-crowned crane. I have seen it on TV before, but I didn’t expect to see it alive today.”
Like Fatty Lu, the father-in-law and mother-in-law They were both stunned.
The two black-necked cranes were the same. After seeing the stranger, they reacted and flew outside.
"Mom, this is not a red-crowned crane. Just look at their skulls and you will know that they are black-necked cranes." Zhang An had taught Su Ying science before, and now Su Ying was showing her dad something ready-made. Mom, get educated.
“Yingying, can’t we keep this thing at home?”
Wu Qiuping still had some common sense in this regard, and she frowned and said worriedly.
"Mom, don't worry, we didn't raise these, they are shameless and will not leave."
Su Ying wanted to get rid of them. Every day these two She had to eat a lot of fish, which made her feel distressed.
"Don't worry, Zhang An has already gone to see Uncle Zhu. Nothing will happen."
Su Ying told Wu Qiuping about the black-necked crane couple from beginning to end Let’s talk about it in detail.
And after hearing Lao Zhu’s assurance, Wu Qiuping felt relieved.
She thought that no wonder her son-in-law came back from Lao Zhu's place today, probably for this matter.
At this time, the family was already packing up the ingredients. Wu Qiuping took a breath at home and joined Wang Fang's team.
The two parents are really close to each other, and they were talking and laughing while they were busy.
At this time, Zhang Jianguo had already gone to the mountain to pick up Zhang and his party.
Zhang An was going to pick him up in the morning, but at that time Zhang and his party had to worship Sanqing in the Taoist temple.
So at noon, after he made arrangements, Zhang An was not there, so Zhang Jianguo went to pick him up.
When Zhang An arrived home, Zhang and his party set up a table in the yard and started writing Spring Festival couplets.
After seeing it, many people came over with paper and lined up waiting to write.
Zhang An saw that there were many people, so he set a table next to him and helped write together.
Otherwise, with so many people, I might have to write until dinner time in the afternoon.
In previous years, Zhang An was the one doing this.
But today Zhang An went to the city to pick up his father-in-law, and everyone was waiting for him to come back.
After seeing Zhang Yixin coming down the mountain later, he came over with paper and asked Zhang Yixin to help him write.
Seeing Zhang An setting up the table, Su Ying came over to help grind the ink.
At first she could still help in the house, but after Wu Qiuping came, both mothers kicked her out.
She happened to have never seen Zhang An touch the brush, so she had to take a good look when he was sharpening the ink.
Seeing Zhang An coming, many of the people who were still waiting for Zhang and his party to help write the couplets came over on their own initiative.
There is no doubt that Zhang Yixing wrote well.
But in the area of Shangzhai, Zhang An has been writing for so many years.
So everyone knows that Zhang An’s writing is not bad, especially in the past two years.
"Uncle, just tell me what you want to write this year."
The first person to come was Huang Ming's father, Huang Dabiao. Zhang An dipped his pen and asked with a smile.
In previous years, Zhang An wrote whatever he thought about, but last year Huang Dabiao wanted to do something different.
I don’t know where he found a pair, so he asked Zhang An to write it as a pair.
When Zhang An heard it, he realized that it was indeed a pair, but somehow it sounded like two first couplets.
Just because of this, the folks around me laughed for a long time.
Zhang An was also a little naughty, obviously wanting to tease Huang Dabiao and make him look bad.
"Hey, I'm a farmer. If you have such a personal idea, just help me write it."
Huang Dabiao is also generous and not embarrassed at all.
Anyway, you all laughed last year, what should I be afraid of?
After so many years, Zhang An has become accustomed to it. He stroked the red paper and placed it on the desk, and put it on his own paperweight of Davidia wood, ready to start writing.
These papers were cut by themselves when they were at home. The ones for the main door, the small door, and the windows are all obvious.
The first is the widest pair of gates. Zhang An didn’t think much, picked up the brush and started writing.
Su Ying knew that Zhang An's handwriting was good, because when she wanted to be lazy, Zhang An would write many things for her.
But she didn't expect that Zhang An could have such profound skills in calligraphy, and he didn't look like he was writing by a young man in his twenties.
At this time, Su Ying looked back and thought that this man seemed to have something, as if he knew everything.
With Zhang An's big wave of his hand, the wolf hair seemed to move smoothly in his hand.
In an instant, several fonts that penetrated the back of the paper and penetrated into the wood jumped out on the paper, and a pair of gates were completed like a dragon and a snake.
"The spring breeze brings prosperity and wealth, peace and prosperity, family business is prosperous, and good fortune comes to your door."
Most people in the village don't understand what a good couplet is, they only know whether the word looks good when written.
Also, the words in the couplet can be broken down into good or bad meanings.
As long as they see that the words in the couplet express excellent meanings, then this pair is a good couplet.
Compared with the large door pair, other pairs are better because the paper is not as wide as the large door pair and the font is also smaller.
It didn’t take much time to finish writing Huang Ming’s couple. Huang Dabiao thanked him, grabbed the couple and went home.
With Zhang An's participation, everyone's pairs were quickly finished, and everyone was busy going back to post the pairs
Because there are many people in the village, they are very particular about the time for posting the pairs.
It is generally best to post in the afternoon on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month and in the morning on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month.
Because there is no 30th lunar month this year, it is appropriate to post it in the morning or evening on the 29th day.
Actually, in previous years when Zhang An was the only one writing, not so many people would come.
There are still many people in the village who can write pairs, so everyone spreads out to avoid wasting time.
But this year when everyone saw Zhang Yixing coming back, they all wanted to ask him to help write.
After all, the old Taoist has an extraordinary reputation in the village, and he has a status that makes people respect him.
So I don’t know who started it today, everyone came here.
Zhang An’s couple had already been written when Zhang and his party just came down the mountain.
Before Zhang An came back, his family had already made paste and applied it.
But it is impossible to take a rest, because there are still many things in the kitchen.
Zhang An still has several more important tasks, such as killing fish. Although he does not work at RT-Mart, Zhang An still has a lot of fish to kill at home today.
Those sea fish that Lu Jun brought, among others, the Eastern Star Spot and Sea Bass must be arranged today.
For this reason, Zhang An also specially learned how to handle and cook seafood.
Entering the space, Zhang An found that the small fry in the lake had grown up a lot.
Now it can be seen that they are the descendants of sea bass.
Zhang An looked carefully for a long time, but couldn't find a single eastern star spot.
Now Zhang An has determined that these two Eastern Star Spots have turned male and there is no hope of giving birth.
With a slightly disappointed expression, Zhang An grabbed one first.
This big red Zhengdong was only three or four kilograms in size when Fatty Lu brought it over.
Unexpectedly, almost a month has passed, and he has already grown to seven pounds, fully doubling his height.
Originally Zhang An planned to kill two, but now it seems that one is enough.
(End of this chapter)