Siheyuan starts to eat the old man

Chapter 240 Chapter 239
The third uncle who had just finished writing a pair of Spring Festival couplets for his neighbor saw Li Pingan approaching, and said enthusiastically, "Ping An, have you written the Spring Festival couplets at home, do you want the third uncle to write you a pair of Spring Festival couplets and paste them on it?"

"No, my handwriting is not on the table, so I won't come out to make a fool of myself. Didn't I hear from my uncle that your handwriting is good? Didn't this come here specially to ask you to help write a couplet for the Spring Festival?" said Li Pingan consciously He grabbed a handful of peanuts and melon seeds from his pocket, and put them on the tray on the table.

The tray on the pillar of the third master is now full of peanuts and melon seeds, which are all earned by the third master from writing Spring Festival couplets today.

Li Pingan didn't realize that it was a bad thing to write Spring Festival couplets for others and receive gifts. The third master brought his own paper, pen and ink, not to mention earning some peanuts and melon seeds.

Not to mention now, even if future generations ask their neighbors to help write the couplets, they will not be empty-handed, at least they will have to bring a pack of cigarettes.

The third master, a little old man, heard Li Pingan praised his handwriting, and smiled proudly, that is, he didn't have a beard on his chin, or he touched his beard: "Of course, it's not me who brags to you, but we Street, my calligraphy can also be ranked first. I have been practicing calligraphy since I was a child, and I have practiced it for more than 40 years.

Every year when writing Spring Festival couplets, it is Yan Fugui's rare highlight every year. He can not only show off his good handwriting, but also get some benefits. The peanut melon seeds and candies at home for the New Year have never been bought for so many years. I earned it by writing Spring Festival couplets for people.

"That's that, third master, you should write it soon, the paste at home is ready, just waiting to stick it on the door." Today is still busy, Li Pingan has no time to listen to third master boasting here.

"Okay, okay, write now. Your family should write two couplets. Have you thought about what to write?" The third master prepared the red paper, looked at Li Pingan with a pen and said.

"Just look at it and write it. I will write it as others write it. You can just write two pieces."

The current Spring Festival couplets cannot be written casually. If one is not well written, maybe the big hat will be put on the head.

Therefore, Li Pingan did not intend to be unconventional and show off his literary talents, and left the decision-making power to the third master, just follow the trend.

Yan Fugui thought for a while, and quickly decided on the content of the two Spring Festival couplets. The brush was stained with ink, and the two couplets were written quickly after a flurry of flamboyance.

"Thousands of willows in the spring breeze; [-] million Shenzhou is full of shunyao"

'The four seas are turbulent, the clouds and water are furious; the five continents are shaken by wind and thunder'

These two Spring Festival couplets are all citing poems of great men, which is a very common phenomenon these days, everyone is using it, and there is no mistake.

After the ink on the couplets dried, Li Pingan casually threw another pack of cigarettes to the third master, and left the front yard with two freshly baked couplets.

After finishing the work in the house, Yi Zhonghai went out to work in the yard, and Li Pingan was not free either, he needed to go out and buy the firecrackers for the New Year.

These days, there is no regulation prohibiting setting off fireworks and firecrackers. Every year on the night of New Year's Eve, every household has the custom of setting off firecrackers.After the firecrackers are finished, the children will rush out with flashlights, and together with their friends, they will look for unburned firecrackers and put them in their pockets. The fight was quite intense.

Li Pingan bought two sets of firecrackers outside, just arrived at the gate of the courtyard, and happened to meet Yan Fugui and Yi Zhonghai who had just finished pasting the Spring Festival couplets on the gate of the courtyard.

Looking at the Spring Festival couplets on both sides of the gate, Yi Zhonghai boasted to the third master: "Third master, your handwriting is really good, the more you look at it, the more attractive it is, these are so beautifully written"

"Writing is like a person, and writing is like a person. According to the old saying, if you don't see people and only see the words, you will know the person." Yi Zhonghai's words scratched the itch of the third master, and he was very proud of his own calligraphy. The third master couldn't help but feel proud They boasted to Yi Zhonghai.

Li Pingan almost laughed out loud as he watched the two exchanging compliments in business.

While the third master and Yi Zhonghai were standing at the door with paste and talking, Xu Damao walked over from a distance pushing his bicycle full of mountain goods on the front and back.

During this time, Xu Damao really worked hard. He went to the countryside to show movies for more than ten days. If he hadn't recruited a few new apprentices to help him, his small body would have been exhausted long ago.

The hard work of the past few days has not been in vain, and there is really a lot of pulling things at home in my hometown.

You can tell by looking at the things he pulls on his bicycle. The bicycle is full of mountain goods, fresh wild mushrooms, fresh vegetables, and some wild game from the mountains. There are quite a lot of things.

"Happy New Year, Section Chief Li, I just came back from buying firecrackers outside." Seeing Li Pingan, Xu Damao quickly walked a few steps, pushed his bicycle to Li Pingan, and greeted him enthusiastically.

For Xu Damao, his God of Wealth, Li Pingan was still very polite, and replied with the same enthusiasm: "Mr. Everyone study."

"What kind of hard work do I do? It's all for the people. For the New Year's Eve, show a few more movies for the fellow villagers, so that the fellow villagers can celebrate the New Year happily." Xu Damao heard Li Pingan call himself Chief Xu , his face instantly burst into a bright smile, and Le's eyes couldn't see.

The two greeted each other, attracting the third master and Yi Zhonghai at the door.

The two turned their heads, Yan Fugui stared at Xu Damao's mountain bike with straight eyes, and said sourly, "Da Mao, are you busy enough now?"

"Hey, I go to the countryside every day to show people movies," Xu Damao said with a smile.

Yan Fugui was a little sour, and said sarcastically: "Then you have harvested every day, you?"

"Hey, third master, see what you said, come here, this little mountain product" Xu Damao said while taking out a bunch of wild dried mushrooms from the bag of the bicycle, and handed it to Yan Fugui.

Xu Damao knew it was Yan Fugui's jealousy. He brought back a lot of mountain goods from the countryside, and he was a little jealous, so he took out some mushrooms from his bag, trying to stop Yan Fugui's mouth.

When the third master saw the dried mushrooms that Xu Damao handed over, his face immediately changed, and his face turned into a flower with a smile, but he said: "Oh, well, well, this...how is this so embarrassing?" Although Yan Fugui said he was embarrassed, but he didn't feel embarrassed at all, and quickly took the bunch of mushrooms from Xu Damao's hand.

After Xu Damao gave the mushrooms to the third master, he continued to pull out another bunch of wild small mushrooms from his bag, wanting to get some wild mushrooms for Yi Zhonghai and Li Pingan.

"Yes, I don't want it anymore, you can keep this mushroom." Seeing Xu Damao's action, Yi Zhonghai quickly waved his hand to refuse.

Lao Yi couldn't see Xu Damao's behavior of taking things out of his fellow villagers' mouths. He just saw Xu Damao bring back the mountain goods, and he couldn't hide his contempt in his eyes.

Coupled with Comrade Lao Yi's salary of 100 yuan a month, there is no shortage of food or drink, so naturally he looks down on this little mountain product.

Xu Damao was stunned for a while holding the dried mushrooms. After he realized it, he turned his head to look at Li Pingan. Just as he was about to speak, he heard Li Pingan say: "Chief Xu, I have mushrooms at home. I don't need them. Just keep them Bar"

Yan Fugui next to him saw that Yi Zhonghai's uncle and nephew didn't want them, so he quickly took the bunch of dried mushrooms from Xu Damao's hand with a smile, and said with a smile: "It's all right, I'm welcome."

After finishing speaking, he held the small wild mushroom to his nose and smelled it, and happily said to Yi Zhonghai: "The small wild mushroom is chewy" and then looked at Xu Damao, "I said Xu Damao is really successful, you, this one It’s really rewarding to go there once.”

"Look at what you said, come on, I'll go first." Xu Damao nodded to Li Pingan who was standing next to him, and was about to walk into the courtyard with his bicycle.

Yan Fugui, who had benefited from the benefits, said enthusiastically: "Okay, you go slowly, come here, let me help you." He also graciously helped Xu Damao, and helped him lift his fully loaded bicycle. threshold.

After Xu Damao left, Yan Fugui leaned over to the uncle and said: "After Xu Damao returned to the countryside, he can pour a lot of things into Jiali. The projectionist in your factory is really in short supply."

"Okay, third master, let's go in first. I still have a few pieces of red paper. Let's see who hasn't written it. I'll trouble you to write a pair." Yi Zhonghai didn't want to answer Yan Fugui's words, so he changed the topic. .

"Writing Spring Festival couplets is, isn't that easy?" Yan Fugui held two bunches of dried mushrooms, and said with a smile: "Come with some moistening pens, and the meaning will be made, haha"

Yi Zhonghai nodded, and said to Li Pingan: "Ping An, your aunt and Qiu Nan are busy here at home, go over and see if there is anything you can do to help, go over and help."

"Come on, I'll go there now," said Li Pingan, holding two firecrackers, passed Yi Zhonghai and the two, and walked quickly to the middle courtyard.

After returning to the house and putting down the firecrackers, Li Pingan came to the kitchen to see if there was anyone who needed help. As soon as he entered the kitchen, he saw the New Year's Eve dinner prepared by the aunt. Good guy, tonight's New Year's Eve dinner is really special. Follow the old rules exactly.

The so-called old rule is "four four bottoms", that is, four cold dishes, four hot fried dishes, four meat dishes, four soup dishes, that is, sixteen dishes, except for soup, four cold dishes and eight hot dishes, that is, four flat and eight stable meaning.

The sixteenth is the sixteenth, and the sixth represents the smoothness (the sixty-sixth is the best), and the sixteenth is to be smooth, and I hope everything goes well in the coming year.As for the specific dishes, it depends on the family's conditions. Those who are rich can eat more expensive ones, and those who are not rich can eat relatively expensive ones. In short, they should eat better than usual.

The dishes prepared by the aunt are not cheap at first glance. Tonight's New Year's Eve dinner can instantly kill 90.00% of the families in the Forty-Nine City. Just today's table of dishes, without 15 yuan, I really can't afford it.

"I said, auntie, there are only four people in our family. Even including the deaf old lady in the backyard, there are only five people. You have prepared a lot for these sixteen dishes. Our family can't finish them all." It was full of ingredients, and Li Pingan wanted to persuade Da Ma to cook less.

The big mother who was busy didn't raise her head, and said beamingly: "Look at what you said, the New Year's Eve dinner must be rich. This year is the year when our family adds children and imports. Your uncle specifically told me yesterday that we must follow the rules of our ancestors. come by the rules"

Seeing that Da Ma couldn't be persuaded, Li Pingan shook his head with a wry smile, and could only let Da Ma go.Anyway, the weather is cold now, and the food won't go bad after a few days, so just eat leftovers for a few more days later.

The kitchen is relatively small, and it was a bit crowded when Da Ma and Ding Qiunan were busy. After Li Ping came in, she couldn't turn away, so Da Ma began to push people away: "Okay, don't stay here, the kitchen is not needed. You, go outside to see if anyone still uses the big pot for steaming steamed buns? If no one uses it, go and steam our steamed buns.”

This year's stove was set up in the backyard. When Li Ping'an came over, Sha Zhu had just finished frying meatballs and was packing up to go back.

Li Pingan casually took out a meatball from the pot, tasted it briefly, and gave Sha Zhu a thumbs up: "Brother Zhuzi, you have some knowledge, this meatball should be beef, right? What? This thing is not easy to handle”

"Isn't it delicious? Take more and go back to stew soup. Beef is rare. I found it after searching for a long time last night." Silly Zhu generously waved his hand and asked Li Pingan to take some back.

Hearing what Shazhu said, Li Pingan immediately understood that the grandson went to the Pigeon City to purchase last night.It seems that the Pigeon Market is quite sophisticated, even beef is sold, that is, tonight is Chinese New Year's Eve, so why don't you definitely go to the Pigeon Market to buy some beef and eat it in hot pot.

I glanced at the basin containing things, most of which were frozen tofu, and there were not many beef balls. It seemed that Shazhu didn't buy much beef last night.

Li Pingan waved his hand and refused: "Brother Zhuzi, you can keep these meatballs at home. My aunt has prepared a lot of dishes today, and the family is small, so I can't finish them all."

"Don't tell me, why are you and your brother being polite? Go back and give the old couple a taste." Seeing Li Pingan's refusal, Silly Zhu became anxious immediately, that is, Li Pingan didn't have anything in his hand, or He can definitely put his hands in the bowl.

Seeing such an enthusiastic silly Zhu, Li Pingan quickly said: "It's really unnecessary. Today, according to the rules of the old Sijiucheng, the family made four or four to the bottom. There are so many dishes at home that you can't finish them. Eat these meatballs as a family." , your family has a lot of people.”

"Good guy, your family is full of atmosphere, and you eat it all the time. I haven't seen this thing in the yard for many years. Since you prepare a lot of dishes at home, I will keep these meatballs for myself. up"

Helping Sha Zhu to tidy things up, while the fire under the stove had not been completely extinguished, Li Pingan quickly filled it with some firewood, and when the fire started, with the help of Sha Zhu, he clamped the steamer on the stove , Started steaming steamed buns.

(End of this chapter)