Reading: Beginning as the Dean of the Academy

Chapter 77 Amitabha

New Year's goods.

Nowadays, many young people always feel that the Chinese New Year is becoming less and less old-fashioned. One of the most important points is that they are sold on New Year's goods.

New Year's goods are a series of necessary items for food, clothing, use, wear, play, offering, gift, raw, and cooked that Chinese people buy during the Spring Festival.

And this process of buying things is called buying new year's goods, and it is also one of the most lively activities of the Chinese New Year in the past.

It’s just that the reason why buying New Year’s goods was so lively in the past was because of the inconvenient transportation and lack of supplies at that time. Both vendors and buyers chose the same time and time, so it was naturally very lively.

At that time, the society was poor, and it was rare for many families to eat a good meal or wear new clothes, so buying new year's goods every year became everyone's expectation.

But in the modern era of material abundance, every household has no shortage of chicken, duck and fish, and clothes can be bought at any time. When relatives come to pay New Year’s greetings, they can also go to the vegetable market to buy fresh vegetables at any time. Looking forward, the taste of the year will naturally fade.

Buying new year's goods now is a kind of ceremony, enjoying the lively atmosphere of the new year.

Su Le followed behind her elder sister, strolling around with interest.

Naturally, he doesn't need to carry the things he bought, and his brother-in-law is responsible.

Su Le also felt at ease, just kidding, how can a scholar do such rough work without the strength to restrain a chicken.

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There are many vegetable markets in Xinzhou City, but the one with the strongest New Year atmosphere is the old market on East Street.

The shops in the East Street Market sell the most lanterns, plaques, red cloth, and these items that are only used for good things.

Therefore, this street is also called Xishi Street.

On weekdays, East Street is not very lively, and only those who buy wedding supplies come here, but during the Chinese New Year, East Street is the busiest.

Tricycles and electric vehicles drove in and out with these supplies, even if they accidentally bumped into citizens who came to buy new year's goods, that is to say, I'm sorry, and there was harmony.

"This offering is for ancestors and gods to enjoy. Don't quarrel when buying things, otherwise it will be disrespectful to ancestors and gods."

Su Le thought of the time when he followed his father to buy New Year's goods here when he was a child, but now that he thinks about it, these rules may be the ideas of merchants in ancient times to make money.

You must be in awe of the ancestors and gods, and if you don't quarrel, you won't be able to bargain.

Even the offerings to ancestors and gods are counter-offered, how can the ancestors and gods think of you, and how can they bless your family?
Su Le can't deny that some traditions do have reasons and particularities, but some are purely businessmen who earn money by taking advantage of people's respect for ancestors and gods.

The latter is a feudal superstition, so it is no wonder that the higher authorities will severely crack down on it.

"Xiao Le, do you want to buy some Spring Festival couplets?"

Su Yue was very happy strolling in front. When she saw a stall selling Spring Festival couplets, she turned her head and shouted.

"Xiao Le is the dean, so you still need to buy Spring Festival couplets. Besides, the handwriting of Mr. Shen is very beautiful. If it doesn't work, just ask Mr. Shen to write a few pictures. It's more beautiful than the writing on this booth."

As soon as Lu Bo heard what his wife said, he immediately objected and joked. He was holding eight lanterns in his left hand and a few rice cakes in his right hand. Although the Spring Festival couplets were not heavy, the straw that broke the camel's back was often the last straw.

The brothers and sisters of the Su family are all black-hearted, and they don't know how to help themselves with their empty hands.

Lu Bo slandered in his heart that he didn't dare to order his wife around, but his brother-in-law actually said that according to the rules of the world, if you learn boxing from me, then I will be your master. Have you ever seen a master help an apprentice carry things?
It makes sense.

You have the ability to call your sister and daughter-in-law to have a look.

With this kind of resentment, Lu Bo's tone of voice naturally became louder, which made an aunt who set up the stall look down suddenly.

"Boss, the words on our Spring Festival couplets are all written by famous calligraphy teachers in the city. These teachers usually make a pair of Spring Festival couplets, which don't want hundreds or thousands of them. Have you seen this? Written by Mr. Cai Genping Cai, the dean of the Teachers College."

Obviously, Lu Bo's words "Xiao Le is the dean" aunt heard it, it was ironic.

The deputy dean of the teacher's college is called the dean. What kind of dean are you, I am afraid that you are not the same as those captains of property security in the community. You put money on your face and call the district chief.

"The spring couplets written by these teachers you said will be sold? False propaganda is against the law."

Lu Bo was a criminal police officer, so occupational diseases came up immediately, and he suspected that this aunt was cheating. The vice president of the teacher's college would sell the Spring Festival couplets he wrote?

"I don't like to hear your words, why can't I sell them."

The aunt turned back, Su Le stepped forward, and the quarrel here also attracted the attention of the people around her. A girl who was shopping for new year's goods at other shops saw the commotion, her pretty face changed, and she put down the bag in her hand. The object hurried over.

"Mom, what's wrong?"

The sound of mother caught Su Le's attention. Following the sound, when they met each other's eyes, both Su Le and the girl had a look of surprise on their faces.

"Su Le, it's you!"

"Chen Qingzhi, long time no see."

Su Le's expression was a little awkward, not only because it was the mother of an old classmate who was arguing with her brother-in-law, but more importantly, there was an incident between him and Chen Qing that he now feels a bit deadly in retrospect.

In the words of modern netizens, it is embarrassing to be able to deduct a house with your toes.

"Chen Qingzhi?"

Su Yue looked at Chen Qingzhi with her eyes. The little girl was very beautiful. Although she was not the most beautiful, she was still considered Xiaojiabiyu. The most important thing was that the name sounded familiar to her.

"You're the one...my brother took me to eat Thai food..."

"sister!"

Su Le interrupted his elder sister's words, because he saw Chen Qingzhi's embarrassment, and to be honest, he was also embarrassed to think about it.

He and Chen Qingzhi were in the same class in high school. At that time, influenced by the movie "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years", many boys in the class began to talk about girlfriends.

He thought that he couldn't fall behind. Having a girlfriend is a very cool thing, especially if this girlfriend is still beautiful, it will definitely make other boys envious

For this reason, he set his sights on Chen Qingzhi, the well-known beauty in his class, and found an excuse to ask Chen Qingzhi to have dinner on the weekend, and he chose a Thai restaurant that had just opened in the city.

At that time, this restaurant had just opened, and there were Korean cuisine and RB cuisine in the city, but the Thai restaurant was the first. For this reason, he also checked some rules of Thai food, knowing that Thai people would say sawadika when they meet.

But maybe that day Chen Qingzhi was dressed up too beautifully, with a fluttering long skirt, or maybe it was the first time to invite a girl to dinner alone, Su Le was a little nervous, seeing the waiter put his hands together, Su Le quickly followed suit, Here comes the sentence: Amitabha Buddha.

Su Le has no memory of how he finished the meal that day, but only remembers that his face was always hot.

It was also because this matter was a bit embarrassing, and I always felt embarrassed to face Chen Qingzhi, so there was no follow-up between him and Chen Qingzhi.

As for my elder sister knowing about Chen Qingzhi, it was because he learned from his brother-in-law at the time, and it was his brother-in-law's idea to eat Thai food, and half of the expenses were also sponsored by his brother-in-law.

It's just that Su Le didn't expect that her brother-in-law, in order to pursue and get close to her elder sister, turned around and told her about it regardless of brotherhood.

(End of this chapter)