Records of Strange People and Strange Events in the Old Mansion

Chapter 53 Book

Zhu Badger is very happy to write Spring Festival couplets. He can feel the vibrancy of pen and ink, the life of words, and the joy of festivals with every stroke. He has a unique calligraphy experience.

In the past, the Spring Festival couplets in the old house were all written by Mr. Zhu. When Zhu Badger grew up, he took the initiative to inherit this special annual opportunity to splash ink.

Writing and pasting Spring Festival couplets is a solemn ceremony for the people in Lvbubu village, especially those living in old houses, who pay special attention to this folk custom, which is no less important than going to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors.

Zhu Badger knows how to be humble, but she is not modest when writing Spring Festival couplets. When Mr. Zhu told everyone that Zhu Badger is the granddaughter of Grandma Taizu, it is more meaningful and joyful for her to write Spring Festival couplets for everyone. She did not hesitate to write for everyone. Every household writes Spring Festival couplets. Of course, she is confident in her calligraphy. She has obtained Mr. Zhu's authentic calligraphy and surpassed Mr. Zhu.

Mr. Zhu said that although his brushwork is sophisticated and powerful, it is too conventional and lacks vitality and beauty. Although Zhu Badger is young, her calligraphy is already proficient. She is unique in innovation and full of vitality and beauty. She is the most suitable person to write Spring Festival couplets.

When Zhu Badger walked out of the house with a pen and inkstone in hand and came to the front yard, the two Eight Immortals tables in the front yard had been placed together. The pieces of red paper on the table were raised as high as half a person. Ma Yasha was still cutting at the table. Paper, the neighbors lined up in a long line in front of the Eight Immortals table, all the way to the persimmon tree of the cross-eyed husband’s house.

Lan Yuliu spread paper for Zhu Badger, and Lu Huan polished ink for Zhu Badger. Zhu Badger first wrote a big word "福" on a large square piece of red paper.

"it is good!"

"Well written!"

"What a blessing!"

Everyone applauded, and Zhu Yunshan held "blessings" in both hands and went to post them at the front door of his old house. One-armed Luo followed closely to help.

Zhu Badger wrote the word "福" again. Ma Yasha came over to pick it up and put it on the screen wall of the old house. Zhu Hu went over to help.

Next, Zhu Badger wrote more than a hundred characters "福" in succession. These more than 100 characters "福" were written in eight kinds of fonts and more than one hundred writing methods. Lan Yuliu and Lu Huan kept cheering when they saw it. Later, I held the word "福" written for them both, smiling and amazed.

Zhu Badger said that the word "福" has rich meanings and a long history. The word "福" can be found in oracle bone inscriptions. Nowadays, calligraphers can write hundreds of ways of writing the word "福". Among them, the character "福" in Prince Gong's Mansion in Dadu City The word is recognized as "the best blessing in the world".

Mr. Zhu nodded frequently and added that the character "福" in Prince Gong's Mansion was written by Emperor Kangxi. The reason why this character "福" is called "the best blessing in the world" mainly lies in the exquisite composition of the character.

First of all, the character "福" in Prince Gong's Mansion is the only "福" character in calligraphy that has the characters "福" and "Shou" written together. The right half of the character "福" happens to be the "福" in Wang Xizhi's Orchid Pavilion preface. The word "shou" is written in this way, so it is known as "longevity among blessings, and both happiness and longevity". Not only that, the word "福" in Prince Gong's Mansion also contains the strokes of "子", "cai", "field", "shou" and "福" in Chinese characters, which means "many children, many talents, many fields, many". "Longevity and many blessings", the true five blessings in one. Moreover, the "field" part in the word "福" is not sealed, which symbolizes boundless blessings and boundless blessings.

Lan Yuliu spoke and said that she had been to Prince Gong's Mansion. There were 9999 bat patterns all over Prince Gong's Mansion. Counting this tablet with the word "福" written in Kangxi's imperial book, it happened to be "ten thousand blessings", so the "福" in Prince Gong's Mansion The words are truly "the first of ten thousand blessings" and "the best blessing in the world". Lan Yuliu said that she bought a blessing bag with "The Best Blessing in the World" at Prince Gong's Mansion, and put on the blessing plaque and beads engraved with the words "The Best Blessing in the World" and "Fu". Only then did she feel blessed to come to Lvbubu. Only then can I be blessed to live in the old house, only then can I be blessed to live in the main house, and only then can I be blessed to live with Zhu Badger and everyone as one family.

When Zhu Badger saw Lan Yuliu roll up his sleeves to show everyone the lucky cards and beads, he put down the brush in his hand and went over to take a closer look. Sure enough, he was the "most blessed person in the world" in Prince Gong's palace. He praised Lan Yuliu for being blessed and made up his mind at the same time. One day I must go to Prince Gong's Mansion to see with my own eyes the "No. 1 Blessing in the World" and buy "the No. 1 Blessing in the World" blessing bags for myself, Zhu Yunshan, and Ma Yaksha.

After writing the word "福", Zhu Badger first wrote a couplet for the front door of the old house: "The spring breeze turns into rain in the Taiping Pond, and the donkey's foal embarks on its journey and the willow silk grows." The horizontal comment reads: "Peace lasts forever."

"Good, not cliché, very poetic for the occasion." Mr. Zhu gave a thumbs up.

The squinty-eyed woman squinted at the couplet for a while, then asked Mr. Zhu: "What's so good about it? Why do I feel so ordinary? Is it okay if I don't attract wealth and everything goes well?"

"What do you know? Ordinary means extraordinary. Who doesn't know how to write the couplet that says, 'Blessings come with spring every year, and wealth comes every day'? There are also 'Rui around the heavy door increases a hundred blessings, the first episode of Chunhui' Can you understand a couplet like Qianxiang' at once? The fairy writes about the things in front of us, but the meaning is far-reaching. Without the spring breeze and rain, can Taipingtang be peaceful? The violent storm will definitely flood the sky. Of course, the fairy is not talking about things. It means that we all must be harmonious to each other, like the spring breeze turning into rain, so that we can live in peace and harmony. We will open the village to traffic soon, and the good days in the future will be like the willows by the Taiping Pond, growing year after year."

After Mr. Zhu finished speaking, there was thunderous applause. The squinting woman looked at Mr. Zhu lovingly with squinting eyes and said in a cooing voice: "Oh, you are just knowledgeable. An ordinary Spring Festival couplet is said so well by your golden mouth. How are you going to write the Spring Festival couplets for my family?"

"Spring couplets are written by fairies, you have to ask fairies." Mr. Zhu stepped aside. He really couldn't resist the cross-eyed woman's squinting eyes that were firing at him, let alone the anger spouting from Zhu Hu's mung bean eyes.

The squinty-eyed woman squeezed to Zhu Badger's side and looked at a freshly written Spring Festival couplet on the table and asked with an apologetic smile: "Is this from my home?"

"Are you cured? Mom, let's take some of our own and stick them up." Zhu Badger asked the cross-eyed woman casually, raising her head to greet Ma Yasha.

Ma Yasha came over and held up the Spring Festival couplets and asked the cross-eyed woman: "What disease do you have? Will you be cured so soon?"

"Possessed by ghosts, all diseases will dissipate with a bowl of fairy water. Haha." The squinty-eyed woman squinted at the Spring Festival couplets on Ma Yaksha's hand. The first couplet read: "The horse attracts purple energy" and the second couplet read: "Spring comes from the cloud mountain." Hua", horizontal comment: "Happy and happy".

"Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. All three members of the family have joined this pair and are celebrating the New Year happily." Mr. Zhu kept shaking his folding fan.

"A whole family of three has entered this pair? Horse? Oh, Madam Ma's horse. Yunshan sends spring flowers, the name of the eldest brother Yunshan. Where are the badgers? There are no badgers?" The squinting woman muttered as she looked at the Spring Festival couplets. I asked Mr. Zhu loudly after the meeting. Mr. Zhu hurriedly retreated behind the Eight Immortals table, covering his face with a folding fan. Zhu Hu went over and pulled Xianyanpo to his side, and said angrily: "Isn't Huanhuanxixi a badger? It's embarrassing."

"Ouch, this Huanhuan is this badger? Wonderful, indeed wonderful. Fairy, quickly write a Spring Festival couplet for our family. It must be wonderful, it must be wonderful." Squinted Woman broke away from Zhu Hu's hands and ran to Zhu Badger again. .

Zhu Badger pointed to a Spring Festival couplet already written on the table and said, "Is this wonderful enough?"

The squinty woman couldn't wait to get closer to take a look, but she stood too upright and couldn't see clearly. She tilted her head and looked sideways. After seeing it, she kept saying "wonderful, wonderful, wonderful."

Zhu Hu didn't think so at first, but after listening to the slant-eyed woman's wonderful words, he couldn't help but lean forward and look around. After looking at it, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't explain why.

"Everything goes as expected, Huhu is alive. Come on, go and stick it up." Lan Yuliu handed the Spring Festival couplets to Zhu Hu, but Zhu Hu didn't want to accept them. Lan Yuliu glared, and Zhu Hu obediently took the Spring Festival couplets and returned to his home. Squinting Po saw Zhu Hu returning and followed him. Lan Yuliu shouted at the back of the cross-eyed woman: "Don't you want Hengpi?" "You want it, the wealth is rolling in. How can you not want the wealth?" The cross-eyed woman returned to take Hengbi and ran home.

"Badger, it's really yours. Then Zhu Hu is really angry again." Lu Huan snickered.

The Spring Festival couplets written by Zhu Badger to Zhu Hu's family are actually very good. The first couplet reads: "Everything goes as you wish." How is it that a person can have everything go as he wishes in this life? The second line of the second line "Tiger and Tiger are alive", isn't it good? Okay, only when you are alive can you have vitality, vitality, and prosperity. How good!

It is a pity that the pronunciation of "du", "du", "you" and "you" in the dialect of Lvluibu village are almost the same. When read in the dialect of Lvbui villagers, this couplet becomes "Everything goes well alone, but Huhu is angry". Is it okay if only one thing is satisfactory all year round? Isn't Huhu the nickname of Zhu Hu? The cross-eyed woman usually likes to call Zhu Hu affectionately "Tiger". If Zhu Hu is angry, it will either hurt his liver or spleen and stomach, which is definitely not good.

The squinty-eyed woman praised the Spring Festival couplets written by Zhu Badger for her family because they were well written because they had "tiger" on them and the horizontal comment said "wealth is rolling in". Wealth is rolling in like water from the Yangtze River. Is that okay?
But Lu Huan's understanding is different. Since "everything goes as planned and Huhu is angry", then all the "rich wealth" must go away, from the squinty-eyed mother-in-law's family to Zhu Badger's family.

Hehe, this is only to blame because our Chinese characters are too broad and profound. You can understand it this way or that way. Anyway, what I mean is a blessing. If you think too much, you can’t blame me. Zhu Badger laughed at himself and asked Huang Doujiang, who was standing in front of the Eight Immortals table, what her family's Spring Festival couplet requirements were?
According to the order of residence in the old house, Zhu Badger's house was followed by Zhu Hu's house, and then Weasel's house. Weasel said that his foot injury was not healed yet, so Huang Doujiang came to receive the Spring Festival couplets. Huang Doujiang said, it’s not good to write our names in the Spring Festival couplets. It’s either a rat or a wolf, or a bean or a sauce. Fairy, just write our okra in the Spring Festival couplets. I hope she will publish it in the new year. If you get rich, you will get rich. The main road in the village will be repaired as soon as possible, and big cars will come in to take everyone to the provincial capital.

"Okay!" Zhu Badger readily agreed, splashing ink without thinking, and soon wrote a Spring Festival couplet and handed it to Huang Doujiang.

When Huang Doujiang saw it, she was so happy that she clapped her hands on her thighs and happily took the Spring Festival couplets home to post them up.

Lan Yuliu and Lu Huan jumped in front of Mr. Zhu and gave Zhu Badger a thumbs up. Zhu Yunshan and Ma Yaksha covered their mouths and laughed, scolding: "You kid!"

The Spring Festival couplets written by Zhu Badger to Weasel's family are: "Spring blossoms and autumn fruits, years of hard work are full of fruits; old phoenixes and new chicks, the hall is full of elegant red sunflowers and joy." The horizontal scroll reads: "Flowers bloom for wealth." To say that Zhu Badger mocked Okra through the Spring Festival couplets is really an injustice. The first couplet: "Spring flowers and autumn fruits, the branches are full of fruits of hard work for several years." How well written is it, isn't it good to have a bumper harvest? Second line: "The old phoenix and the new chick, the elegant red sunflowers in the house are full of joy", not to mention, each generation is better than the last. Horizontal comment: "Flowers bloom for wealth and honor", flowers bloom, wealth and auspiciousness, good cannot be the best.

"Hehe..." Lu Huan snickered, Lan Yuliu snickered, Mr. Zhu wanted to laugh but suppressed his laughter, watching Zhu Badger shaking the folding fan in his hand.

"Hey, quickly spread the paper and grind the ink. Tian Xiaolei, what kind of Spring Festival couplets does your family want to write?" Zhu Badger asked Tian Xiaolei after scolding Lu Huan and Lan Yuliu.

According to the order, it was the next turn to write Spring Festival couplets for Tian Xiaolei's family. Zhu Badger didn't want Lu Huan and Lan Yuliu to laugh at the Spring Festival couplets she wrote for Weasel's family. Tian Xiaolei, who was standing in front of him, tilted his head and looked at Lu Huan and then at Lu Huan. Lan Yuliu looked at Zhu Badger again, seemingly confused and aware that something was abnormal.

When Tian Xiaolei heard Zhu Badger ask him, he stood up straight and scratched his head, which was still wrapped in a floral quilt, and said, "My Spring Festival couplets must be both wonderful and good."

"What should be both wonderful and good? Please explain it clearly." Zhu Badger raised the brush in his hand and asked Tian Xiaolei impatiently.

Tian Xiaolei grinned and explained: "It has to be as wonderful as Zhuhu's Spring Festival couplets and as good as Weasel's Spring Festival couplets, both wonderful and good, both wonderful and good, hehe."

"No problem, just wait a moment." Zhu Badger dipped his brush in ink and breathed a sigh of relief. Humph, I thought you, Tian Xiaolei, had gone to work in the provincial capital, and you had seen through the Spring Festival couplets I wrote to Weasel's family. It seems that you are still the same Tian Xiaolei, the Tian Xiaolei who only knows how to catch frogs and stuff them into Mr. Zhu's chamber pot. , I thought the Spring Festival couplets I wrote for Zhu Hu’s family were really wonderful, and the Spring Festival couplets I wrote for Weasel’s family were really good.

Tian Xiaolei saw Zhu Badger's brush dipped in ink on the inkstone for a while without lifting the pen. He stretched his head in front of Zhu Badger and asked, "Fairy, is it difficult to be both wonderful and good at the same time?"

"What the hell!" Zhu Badger took up his pen and first wrote the word "king" on Tian Xiaolei's face, and then "swish, swish, swish" on two pieces of red paper: "A harmonious family, a happy family, good fields and thousands of hectares" and "safety in all seasons and spring in all seasons, ten thousand catties of gold."

"Miao Miao Miao, OK, OK, fairy, where is Hengpi? Hengpi hasn't been written yet." Tian Xiaolei was ecstatic and couldn't wait to hold the Spring Festival couplets while asking Zhu Badger urgently.

Zhu Badger smiled and replied: "Isn't Hengpi written on your face?"

"It's written on my face? How can I stick it on it? It's impossible to stick my face on the door?" Tian Xiaolei almost cried.

Lu Huan couldn't stand it anymore. He snorted and said to Tian Xiaolei, "Your face is already pressed against the door. Your family's faces are all pressed against the door."

"No, my face is still there, isn't it? The faces of our whole family are still on his face." Tian Xiaolei stretched out his hand to touch his face.

Lan Yuliu couldn't bear it anymore and interjected: "Tian Xiaolei, do you know that your face is still there? The faces of your family are still there? Go back and post the Spring Festival couplets, don't be embarrassed here."

"Do you, an outsider, have the right to tell me whether our family has any shame? Let me tell you, if it wasn't for the sake of the fairy, I would have done something to you." Tian Xiaolei's face was trembling, and his lustful eyes were straight. Gou stared in front of Lan Yuliu.

Zhu Badger didn't want to affect everyone's celebration of the New Year, so he threw a piece of red paper in front of Tian Xiaolei and said, "Take it back quickly and stick it on it. Do you really want to stick it with your face on the door?"

"Wangwangwangwang, good, good, wonderful, wonderful, thank you fairy, I will take it back and post it right now." Tian Xiaolei picked up the horizontal strip with the four words "Wang" and the Spring Festival couplets written by Zhu Badger and ran home happily.

Lu Huan looked at Tian Xiaolei's back and pouted and asked Zhu Badger: "How can you write so well for such a bad family?"

"Okay? Next one." Zhu Badger continued to write Spring Festival couplets for each family living in the old house.

Lan Yuliu Lalu Huan stepped aside and spoke: "Didn't you hear those screams when Tian Xiaolei left?"

"Did he scream? No." Lu Huan wondered.

"Think about it."

"When he left, he read the words Wang Wang Wang Wang on the horizontal strip, and then said OK OK, Miao Miao Miao, without barking."

"You screamed too."

"Ah, woof woof woof woof, the dogs are barking, this badger is really bad."

"You're Huanhuan too, and you're meowing too."

"This badger is so powerful. She doesn't even use curse words when she curses people. So is there something wrong with the Spring Festival couplets she wrote to Tian Xiaolei?"

"Any questions? 'One family is harmonious and one is blessed, thousands hectares of fertile land' and 'Four seasons of peace and four springs, thousands of pounds of gold', how wonderful."

"No, she couldn't have written so well for Tian Leizi's family. There must be something wrong in it. 'One family is harmonious and one family is happy' is no problem. 'Thousands of hectares of fertile land' and 'Thousands of hectares of fertile land' are problematic. There is something wrong with the word 'acre', so it should be Write 'Thousand acres of fertile land'."

"One hectare is equivalent to a hundred acres, and a thousand hectares is equivalent to hundreds of millions of acres."

"A hectare, a hectare, tilt, pour, fall. The fields of fertile fields, the fields of the fields, the fields of the fields will fall."

"Keep your voice down, don't let others hear you."

"You badger, you kill without blood."

"Will you read the second line again?"

"'Four seasons of peace and four seasons of spring, ten thousand catties of gold', is there any problem with the second couplet?"

"Ten thousand taels of gold is already great, why do we need ten thousand jins of gold?"

"Oh, Mingbi only uses Jin Lun, she, she, she, madam..."

"So you and I should take it easy, be careful that she kills us invisibly."

"Is it possible? If so, she should have attacked you long ago and let you go to see Zhu Hu quietly?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? You'd better ask for happiness!"

(End of this chapter)