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A few days passed in a flash, and suddenly it was the New Year's Eve.

Early in the morning, the old village head came to Zhang Taiping’s house with a red paper. The old man was doing Tai Chi in the yard. The village head waited beside him without disturbing him. Don’t look at people in their 50s, but they are really juniors in front of the old man. .

After the old man recovered his momentum and picked up the towel hanging on the tree to wipe off his sweat, the village chief stepped forward and said, "Uncle, see if you can write a pair." Salivating, he didn't have the usual posture of being a village chief.

The old man didn't speak, but waved his hand to signal to follow.The old village chief knew at a glance that this was agreed, and followed the old man to the study in the back room with the red paper in hand.In fact, the village chief’s family had already bought a pair, but now that the old man went down the mountain, he bought another piece of red paper and cut it into long strips, and came to Zhang Taiping’s house to ask the old man to order some pairs.The old man's brush calligraphy is well-known in the village. Before going up the mountain, you don't need to buy pairs in the village every year. You only need to buy red paper and cut them out.

The old man didn't start writing in the study, but moved a table to the yard and started to grind ink and prepare.The village only bought some spring couplets from the market in the past few years. Now that the old man has come down from the mountain, I believe that there are not a few people who have the same idea as the old village chief, so they moved a table early to the yard to save time. crowded.

Grinding the ink without haste or slowness is not only a process of grinding ink, but also a process of adjusting the mood and letting people enter the state.If you want to write good characters, your state of mind is very important. You can write what kind of characters you are in. Words can reflect your character and mood.

The village head was not in a hurry, he stood aside and watched.After grinding the ink, the old man said to Cai Xiaomei who was standing by and watching: "Bring me a bowl of hot water."

Cai Xiaomei's nimble figure threw herself into the kitchen and brought out a bowl of hot water. The water was put on the table. The old man took out three brushes, large, medium and small, from the pen holder. These were all high-quality brushes newly made by Zhang Taiping with Langhao. The old man looked at them Can't help but nodded, put it in hot water for a while.

Fan Ming, who was lying on the table next to him, asked curiously, "Grandpa Zhang, what are you doing?"

The old man stroked his beard and said with a smile: "If the pen is left for a long time, it will be stained with a lot of dust, not only the ink is not easy to write, but also small bumps will be left in the written characters, which is not smooth and unsightly, and affects the effect of the characters. "

After soaking for a while, he lifted the pen out to dry off the water on it, and then asked the village chief to spread the red paper on the table and press down the four corners with smooth marble strips, and asked the old village chief: "Would you like it?" What couplet to write?"

The old village chief patted his head and said: "I don't have anything in my head, and I can't think of any good couplets. If I don't bother the two masters, I can just help me think of one and write it out."

"You save effort."

"Hey, Uncle, how old is the capable one."

The old man agreed without any objection. He watched the village chief think for a while with his hands behind his back, took out a medium-sized pen and dipped it full of ink, and wrote like a god.Following the old man's pen, Fan Ming read out the words one by one.

"Happily living in a treasured land with thousands of years of prosperity will bring prosperity to the family and welcome the new year."

As soon as the old man wrote the pen, the village chief applauded. Although he has been the village chief for so many years and knows how to read, he really doesn't understand much about the advantages of this couplet. The reason for applauding is because it came from the old man's hand. Even if the content is not very good, these eighteen characters are worth better.

It seems that the village chief has become a fox in the past few years. It was the right time to come early in the morning. Just before the ink was dry after writing the pair for the village chief, a few more people came in from the yard, all with the same hands Hold the cut red paper.

Seeing that the old village chief was also there, Han Cuihua said: "The village chief came so early, I thought I was the first one."

The old man never refuses anyone who comes, as long as he can come, he will write a couplet, some even two.The couplet of Han Cuihua's family is: good luck all year round, and treasures from all directions come into the house. The horizontal comment: home and everything prosper.It just corresponds to Jinger's family opening a store to make money, and also alludes to the harmony between husband and wife to prosper the family.

After a while, another group of people came with the same purpose.It is a kind of honor to paste couplets written by the old man on the New Year's door in the village. Almost every family will come to ask the old man to write a couplet.

Early in the morning, Zhang Taiping followed the dog with Qing Cang on his shoulders, but he went to walk the dog and let the eagle go.

When he came back, Xiao Jin flew to the top of the yard first and saw a group of people in the yard below, and gave a long cry to warn Zhang Taiping.When the people in the yard heard the eagle's voice and looked up at Xiao Jin, who spread his wings two meters above the yard, they all knew that Marshal Zhang was back.

Sure enough, two big dogs rushed into the yard, followed by Zhang Taiping who only wore a single shirt in winter.After Ah Huang and Shi Shi entered the yard, they patrolled around the crowd, sniffing their noses constantly.The two of them are different from the local dogs in the village. Their size really puts too much pressure on people. All the villagers who are queuing up feel a little cramp in their calves, and they dare not move for fear of being misunderstood by the two big dogs. Attacking, it would be hard to be attacked by these two big dogs. I heard that Ah Huang is a fierce master who can't stand alone with the big green skin in the mountains.

Zhang Taiping saw that the villagers were afraid of Ah Huang and the lion, so he waved the two big dogs to the front yard.

I came to the table and took a pen and waited to see if someone would come up to me to write.The villagers saw that Zhang Taiping also picked up a pen, but they didn't come up to let him write.Although Zhang Taiping has changed a lot during this period, and the villagers’ perception of him is completely different from before, basically no one believes that he can write brush calligraphy, so no one comes forward to ask him to write. Wait a while in line here.

Wang Peng came late and was at the end of the queue, and he got a little impatient to wait. Seeing that Zhang Taiping was about to write, but no one had stepped forward, he ran to Zhang Taiping's place happily.I also thought in my heart that there is no one here, so I don't count as jumping in the queue when I come here.His admiration for Zhang Taiping is blind. I believe that some people say that Zhang Taiping can fly, and Wang Peng, who is so hot-headed, may believe it. Now, a mere calligraphy, in Wang Peng's opinion, is a piece of cake for Brother Zhang. dish.

Spreading out the red paper, Zhang Taiping listened to the couplet read from Wang Peng's mouth, and immediately formed a couplet with ink.Some people in the back came over curiously and stood by Zhang Taiping's side to have a look. Although they didn't know how to write, they could tell the good from the bad on the surface of the handwriting.Without any ambiguity, immediately spread out the red paper and ask Zhang Taiping to write a couplet as well.After the two couplets came out, some people moved to Zhang Taiping's side.

The two fathers wrote couplets to the villagers together, and the scene was very lively.Fan Ming took a camera and took a lot of photos.Xing Rushui also looked at the two of them. The old man's handwriting was large and ingenious, and the font was calm and powerful. It was just like the life of the old man who saw the truth after washing all the lead, without the glitz and noise, what was left was only Calm and back to basics; on the other hand, Zhang Taiping's handwriting is also good, but his style is completely opposite to that of the old man, and he can't hide his golden and iron horse and his killing spirit between his gestures.

Xing Rushui stared at Zhang Taiping's handwriting for a while, this man looked plain and indifferent, but the words revealed a restrained sharpness.Don't underestimate it, and don't dare to underestimate it!

One morning, the father and father wrote a pair of couplets for all the people who came.After lunch, the atmosphere suddenly became thicker, and the sound of firecrackers kept ringing.People have pasted happy couplets in black and red on the door one after another.

Zhang Taiping led Fan Ming and Cai Xiaomei to do these things for their own family.To paste the couplets, you don’t even need a ladder. You can stick it with the paste made by Cai Xiaomei with vinegar and flour. It is easy to fall off. If you use other stickers, you intend to fall off. The couplet will fall to the ground before the New Year is over, which is unlucky!

After pasting up the couplets, a row of hollow carved beards was pasted on the eaves of the door, on which are the eight characters "happy family, all the best".

Fan Ming and Cai Xiaomei took the initiative to invite Ying to post Qin Qiong and Jingde, and the two doors were aligned on the left and right.

When Fan Ming posted the word "Fu", Zhang Taiping stopped him: "You can't paste the word "Fu" like this, you should paste it backwards."

"Post it upside down, why?" She better understood why the word "Hao Hao" was pasted upside down. "Could it be that there is something special in it?"

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "It is indeed particular. People say 'blessing' and 'blessing', and blessings come down from the sky. If you put the word 'blessing' on your head, it means that you will have good luck." He rushed to the sky and ran away. Only when the word "Fu" is pasted upside down will the blessings come to the world, will come to us, and we can feel the blessings."

Immediately after hearing this, Fan Ming had an expression of enlightenment, and re-pasted the word "Fu" upside down, clapped his hands happily and said, "Fu comes from the sky!"

After posting these, Cai Xiaomei took out the paper flowers bought in Daji.The three of Zhang Taiping took these paper cutouts of zodiac signs, auspicious characters, or unknown flowers, and pasted a small one on each window, and pasted the rest on the wall in the yard.

After finishing this, I went back to look at the yard. The red makeup was everywhere in the yard, and I was full of joy.New Year's Eve!