My village can't be like this

Chapter 325: Write a couplet 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.

Use the chickens and ducks at home in exchange for special supplies. In this way, in addition to making money with blood, you will not lose anything.

The pickup truck was driving on the city road, looking at the lights on both sides of the road.

In other 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 spread them around for everyone.

After saying a few words, he said goodbye and went upstairs.

It's noon now, and Wu Qiuping is busy in the kitchen.

Although I had already agreed to go to Zhang An's house to celebrate the New Year, I still had to eat the lunch.

It's just that Wu Qiuping didn't cook, she just made soup and cooked rice noodles for lunch.

If you cook, there will definitely be leftovers if you can't finish the meal. When you come back from the countryside, it will be ruined.

"Xiao An, come and serve it yourself. The rice noodles are ready."

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.

There was almost half a bowl of sour meat. Knowing that Zhang An didn't eat fatty meat, it was all lean meat.

There is really a kind of hunger that makes your mother-in-law think you are hungry. Wu Qiuping is really afraid that Zhang An will be hungry.

"Dad, these are the cigarettes and wine given by Lao Zhu. You can keep these cigarettes and smoke them, and I will bring the wine back for us to drink during the New Year."

After finishing his lunch of rice noodles, Zhang An 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 Lao Zhu.

"Dad, there's no need to change it. This is Comrade Lao Zhu's strong request that I not call him uncle."

Without him, every time Zhang An took the initiative to call Uncle Zhu Yuliang, he would come to him for something.

So Lao Zhu would rather have less trouble than hear this honorific.

Moreover, he had been with Zhang Anchu for a long time and found that this man was like an old monster in a young body.

On weekdays, when he was chatting with Zhang An, 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.

Children have their own ways of making friends anyway.

"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.

After taking the iron box, Su Shaowen held it in his arms as if he had a treasure.

He is not of a sufficient level 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'm looking for someone, and you can take the rest back."

In the end, Su Shaowen, who had been excited for a long time, resisted the temptation and only decided 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 just leave them and take them out later when I need to find someone."

Su Shaowen was not short of cigarettes and alcohol, not to mention that Zhang An often brought them to him.

And 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 you don't have it, go get it yourself."

Then Zhang An wanted to wash the dishes in the kitchen, but Wu Qiuping pushed him out and prevented him from doing 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 quickly served whatever delicious food and drinks were available, for fear of missing something.

Before Zhang An got married, he could still help with cooking and other things.

Now Wu Qiuping doesn't let him do any work in the house, and he is so precious about it.

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 also the new youngest son-in-law, so his status is naturally extraordinary.

"Okay Mom, just pack 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 and changed her 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 could wear.

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 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 don't have enough food at home. Chen Ze brought a cart over 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.

After 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've 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 were both stunned by them.

The two black-necked cranes did the same thing. After seeing the stranger, they reacted and flew outside.

"Mom, these are not red-crowned cranes. You can tell by looking at their heads that they are black-necked cranes." Zhang An had taught Su Ying science before, and now Su Ying was using ready-made things to educate her parents.

"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 this one, they were shameless and refused to leave."

Su Ying wanted to get rid of them. These two fishes ate a lot every day, 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 in detail about the black-necked crane couple from beginning to end.

And after hearing Lao Zhu's guarantee, Wu Qiuping felt relieved.

She thought, 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 ingredients. Wu Qiuping took a breath at home and joined Wang Fang's team.

The two parents were indeed very close, and they were laughing and joking while working.

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 had made arrangements, Zhang Jianguo went to pick him up when Zhang An was not there.

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 also 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.

Later, after I saw Zhang Yixin coming down the mountain, I came over with a piece of paper and asked Zhang Yixin to help me 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.

It happened that she had never seen Zhang An touch the brush, so she had to take a good look when he was grinding 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's writing is good.

But in this area of ​​Shangzhai, Zhang An has been the one writing for so many years.

So everyone knows that Zhang An's writing is not bad, especially in the past two years.

"Uncle, if you want to write something this year, just tell me."

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 would write whatever he thought about, but last year Huang Dabiao wanted to do something different.

I don't know where he found a pair, and 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 surrounding villagers laughed for a long time.

Zhang An was also a bit fussy, obviously wanting to tease Huang Dabiao and make him look bad.

"Hey, I'm a farmer. If you have such an idea, just help me write it."

Huang Dabiao was also generous and did not feel any embarrassment at all.

Anyway, you all laughed last year, so what should I be afraid of?

Over the years, Zhang An has become accustomed to it. He smoothed out the red paper and placed it on his desk. He placed the involucrata wood paperweight he made himself and prepared to start writing.

They had cut these papers by themselves when they were at home, and the ones for the main doors, small doors, and windows were 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 20s.

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 were penetrating into the wood jumped out on the paper, and a pair of gates were completed like a dragon and a snake.

"The spring breeze will bring you joy and wealth, peace and wealth will bring prosperity to your family, and good fortune will come to your door."

Most people in the village don't understand what Haolian means. They only know whether it looks good when written.

There are also the words in the couplet, which can be broken down into good or bad meanings.

As long as they see that the words in the couplet express excellent meanings, then the couple 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 of posting pairs.

Generally, it is best to post on the afternoon of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month and the morning of the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month.

Because there is no twelfth lunar month 29th this year, it is suitable to post it in the morning or evening on the [-]th day.

In fact, 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 today I don’t know who said it, everyone came here.

Zhang An's family's couplet had already been written when Zhang and his party just came down from the mountain.

Before Zhang An came back, his family had already made paste and applied it.

But it was impossible to take a break because there were still many things going on 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.

Not to mention the sea fish that Lu Jun brought, the Eastern Star Spot and Sea Bass must be arranged today.

To this end, 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.

It can now be seen that they are 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)