Ji Tang

Chapter 398 Crazy couplet!
In the sound of firecrackers, one year old,

The spring breeze sent warmth into Tu Su.

Thousands of doors and thousands of households are chaotic days,
Always exchange new peaches for old ones.

On New Year's Eve, Ji Song asked someone to get red paper.

Yes, he wanted to write couplets, and he was very dissatisfied with the fact that they were not posted on New Year's Eve!
Listening to the crackling sound of firecrackers, I wanted to get out the gunpowder.

In this era without gunpowder, firecrackers were real 'firecrackers'.

Put the cut bamboo sections on the fire and burn them. When they are roasted to a certain extent, they will suddenly crack and make a sound.

According to ancient legend, a ferocious beast named "Nian" will come out to cause trouble on this day.

So everyone used the sound of cracking bamboo to scare away the Nian beast, so that everyone could celebrate the New Year well. This is also the origin of the Chinese New Year!

Otherwise, how can we have a good New Year without scaring away the Nian beast!

First couplet: The people are safe and the country is prosperous.Second line: The good weather and good weather praise the good years.

The horizontal batch is: Happy New Year!

Ji Song looked at the written couplet and nodded with satisfaction, then ordered: "Go and stick these on the doorposts on both sides of the door."

The front door of the Hao Jinghou Mansion suddenly became lively. Liu Laoer went up the ladder to post the couplets himself, while the butler Zheng Li was directing from below!
"Move to the left! No, it's to the left. Can't you tell the left and right or something?"

"Yes, move a little to the right, a little, why are you doing such a big move? You are so stupid!"

Liu Laoer was filled with confusion as he listened above, but when he saw so many neighbors gathered at the door, he could only endure it for the time being.

"now what?"

He changed his position again, turned around and said angrily.

Zheng Li ignored his dissatisfaction, looked around, and made these adjustments.

When Liu Laoer was about to have an attack, he said with satisfaction: "Well, it's good now, okay, come down quickly!"

Seeing that they had finished their work, everyone at the door asked: "I said Butler Zheng, what are you doing at home! Why are you sticking it up if you have nothing to do?"

Zheng Li looked back and thought, oh, we are an old acquaintance.

This person is the housekeeper of Zuo Shilang of the Household Department next door, and the two of them often deal with each other.

"I don't quite understand what you're talking about. My Lord Marquis said that we should have a new look in the New Year and write some auspicious words. Isn't it comfortable to look at?"

The other party nodded and said thoughtfully: "Well, it's interesting, but I don't know if there is anything taboo about it?"

Zheng Li perked up as soon as he heard this. He really knew this.

He pretended to be profound and pondered for a moment, and then said: "My Lord Marquis said that first of all, the dialogue must be neat and rhymed, and it must not be made up randomly. Of course, it is better to have allusions."

“But there’s no need to make it obscure, as long as the meaning is good, it’s a happy occasion!”

"Been taught a lesson!"

The other party cupped his fists at Zheng Li and said.

Zheng Li held his head high and looked narrow-eyed, and said with some pride: "These are just my narrations. They were all said by our Marquis."

But the other party was not impatient at all. After he finished speaking, he complimented a few words and then left!

People were coming and going on the street, and many people saw the couplets in front of the Haorenhou Mansion. When an acquaintance passed by and saw Zheng Li there, they came over to ask.

In less than half a day, the news about posting couplets in front of the door quickly spread, and someone specifically asked Ji Song to write couplets. He was happy when he heard that, anyway, he is not afraid of anyone who comes!
It spreads to ten, and spreads to hundreds. More and more people know about it, and the rumors become more and more outrageous.

Finally, it was passed down that as long as the couplets were posted in front of the door, the Wenqu stars in the sky would come to read them.If it is written well and can be praised by his elders, then he will bless the children of this family.

I heard that the children who are blessed are all good at studying.

As soon as this rumor came out, it immediately detonated the entire city of Chang'an. Every household took the cut red paper and went to find knowledgeable scholars to write couplets.

It is said that the more knowledgeable a person is, the more likely he is to be noticed by Wenquxing.

As a result, all the famous scholars in Chang'an were 'patronized'.

But after all, there are more monks than meat, and there are too many people in need to take care of them.

I don’t know who started it, but students from Taixue actually set up a stall and wrote couplets at the entrance of Taixue.

But it's not free. It costs three cents for a pair of couplets, and you bring your own paper.

At first there were some reserved scholars who were unwilling to write couplets for these mud-legged people, but when they saw the profit, they immediately threw their reserve aside.

In order to get good couplets, some businessmen even buy them at high prices.

If anyone could get the couplet handwritten by Hao Jiehou, he would pay ten guan for it.

"You said someone paid ten thousand dollars to buy that boy's couplet?"

When Li Shimin heard the news, he spit out a mouthful of tea.

The maid next to her quickly stepped forward to wipe it, but Li Shimin snatched it away and wiped it casually.

Chen Shou smiled bitterly and said: "Back to Your Majesty, people outside are saying this now. As long as anyone sells Hao Ruihou's autographed couplets to him, someone will really buy it. After Hao Ruihou heard about it, he never wrote it again."

Li Shimin said jealously: "Doesn't that cost a thousand pieces of gold per word?"

Shiguan is ten thousand copper coins, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is worth a thousand gold coins!
"Who says it's not? People outside are going crazy now."

Li Shimin stood up and thought about it more and more frustrated. His handwriting was not bad. They would rather ask for that boy's calligraphy than anyone would ask him to write. It was simply unreasonable!
"Go and ask that boy to write hundreds of couplets for me. If he can't finish them, he will write them in the main hall tonight."

I thought: If I really write hundreds of paintings, then the cost of tonight will be covered.

Of course, you can never say that. Who wants to have so many doors in the palace? You have to put one on each door no matter what!

Yes, that’s what I think. I am rich all over the world, how can I be so stingy?
Chen Shou went to the Haorenhou Mansion, but to Chen Shou's surprise, Zheng Li, the housekeeper of the Haorenhou Mansion, was waiting at the door. When he saw him, he immediately greeted him, as if he was waiting for him.

"Please come in, the Marquis is waiting for you inside!"

After saying that, he didn't give Chen Shou a chance to ask questions and walked in directly.

He suppressed the doubts in his heart and followed him. He came in the name of the emperor, but he wanted to see what tricks Ji Song was playing!
Anyway, what I will say later must be at least a hundred copies, otherwise this matter will not be finished.

When he came to the pavilion in the front yard, before he reached it, he saw the couplets he had just finished hanging around the pavilion.

Chen Shou's face looked a little ugly. He didn't even need to count, but he knew that there were almost a hundred couplets here.

What does this mean?
This shows that His Majesty’s plan to defeat Ji Song went bankrupt before it even started!
Before he could ask questions, Ji Song said without raising his head: "Sit down first when you come. I will be finished soon."

Chen Shou sat down to drink tea with a livid face. No matter how good the tea was, it was tasteless to him.

"All right!"

Ji Song put away his brush, moved his somewhat stiff wrist, and smiled at Chen Shou: "I heard that the palace had not posted the couplets yet, so I took it upon myself to write a few more copies. You can wear them for Your Majesty when you go back. This is a little bit of my thoughts!"

Then he pretended to be confused and said: "You are here because Your Majesty has something to give you?"

　Thank you Bai Xue Fei Fei and Ao
　　
　
(End of this chapter)