allonlinenovel Chapter 207 Please Write Couplets
Chapter 207 Please Write Couplets
The 29th day of the twelfth lunar month
"Daxin, do you need me to clean your room for you?" Gu Qingqing prepared a rag and a basin.
"Don't bother, auntie. I can do it myself." Li Xin said quickly.
"Well, there's hot water in the pot, scoop some out and use it to clean your own room. After we're done, we'll write couplets at noon. Since the weather is nice today, I'll boil some hot water this afternoon to clean all of you stinky mud monkeys."
Hearing this, Li Xin said "Oh", lowered his head to smell himself, and muttered softly, "It doesn't smell at all, it smells good. The smell of the fried meatballs yesterday is still on my body."
I had originally planned to write the couplets in the morning, but Niu Yuzhu called Wen Wuyan to go cut bamboo early in the morning, so I had to change it to the afternoon.
After Gu Qingqing roughly cleaned her room, she went to the east wing. It had only been a few days since they moved in, so the room was not very dirty. It was almost as if Wen Wuyan came back carrying the bamboo just after they had finished cleaning.
Gu Qingqing asked him to go and wash up, and she took the children to the South Study.
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Daxin was grinding ink for Wen Wuyan in the study when he heard a voice from outside, "Is Qingqing home?"
Gu Qingqing, who was cutting red paper in the study, quickly responded, "I'm here."
"Mom, I'll go take a look." As soon as Gu Qingqing finished speaking, Dahua stood up and walked towards the door.
Then Dahua's voice came from the yard, "Aunt, my mother is in the study, come with me."
After a while, Dahua came in, "Mom, it's Aunt Geng."
There was almost no need for bragging. Gu Qingqing also saw Geng Chunhua and Li Yu following behind her. Gu Qingqing hurriedly stood up and asked, "You two rare guests, have you finished your work at home?"
The study was almost empty when Geng Chunhua came last time. Now there is a desk and a chair in it. Behind the chair is a lattice cabinet with a few books on it. There are also a few ugly-looking stones placed in the empty space.
But you know what, when the ugly stone is placed on the shelf, it looks much more pleasing to the eye.
There were pens, ink, paper and inkstone on the table. Geng Chunhua saw them and thought they were very nice. It turned out that someone really used the two rooms as a study.
After a quick look, Geng Chunhua said with a smile, "We don't come here for no reason. We have something to ask you to come and trouble your man."
"Please sit down. Dahua, pour a glass of water for uncle and aunt." Gu Qingqing said to Dahua while inviting them to sit down.
Geng Chunhua had just sat down, and when she heard someone wanted to pour water, she hurriedly stopped him and said, "Dahua, don't bother me. We'll just sit for a while and leave."
Dahua turned around and smiled at Geng Chunhua, then took a teacup from a table nearby, picked up the teapot that was simmering next to the charcoal fire basin, and poured two cups of tea.
"Uncle, auntie, have some water."
Geng Chunhua quickly stood up and took it. She looked at Dahua with eyes that were about to turn into tears. She praised with a look of love and without any fear, "Qingqing, your Dahua is really sensible. I don't know which boy will be lucky enough to marry our Dahua in the future. If my Goudan was not only six years old, one year younger than Dahua, I would have shamelessly come to your house to queue up."
Da Xinshou, who was grinding, paused and wanted to look up, but he resisted the urge.
As he paused, a drop of ink overflowed from the inkstone and splashed onto the table. Daxin looked at the lonely drop of ink and it took him a while to react. He reached out and wiped it off with his sleeve.
After he wiped it off, he regretted it because his aunt told them not to wipe these things with their sleeves, especially snot.
He quietly hid his sleeves behind his back, secretly glanced at his aunt who didn't notice him, and quickly glanced at the big flower before continuing to grind.
As for what else was said, he didn't pay any attention at all until Dahua walked over to him, handed him a persimmon cake, and whispered, "Auntie brought it, eat it."
Li Xin took a look but didn't take it, "You eat it, I don't like it."
Dahua put the things next to him and then went about her own business.
He heard his aunt say, "Mrs. Geng, please don't be partial to one and ignore the other. Your Geng Wen is also smart and clever."
Li Xin knew that Geng Wen was also called Goudan. The former was a name given by his father, and it was said that it was recorded in the family tree, while the latter was given by his mother, and it was said that he would be easy to raise.
"He's no good. He just runs around with Yangdan all day long." Geng Chunhua said, and then she looked around the study. All the children were there, even Sanhua was on a small bed not far from the charcoal basin, but Wen Wuyan was nowhere to be seen. She asked curiously, "Isn't the child's father at home?"
"Wuyan just went to the backyard and should be back soon. Does Sister Geng want to see Wuyan for something?" After Gu Qingqing asked, she noticed the red paper in Li Yu's hand and asked, "Could it be that Sister Geng wants him to help write the couplets?"
Geng Chunhua was happy and said in a loud voice, "That's right. We just went to the village chief's house. There were so many people there that they were almost at the gate. Li Yu and I were too lazy to wait, so we turned a corner and came to your place."
Gu Qingqing was flattered on behalf of Wen Wuyan. In the past, people in the village would go to the village chief or Wen Youcai, or even the previous village chief, to write couplets.
There is also an uncle named Wang who lives in the west end.
I didn't expect that someone would come to Wen Wuyan to write. It looked like writing couplets, but in fact, his writing would be hung in the other person's house for a year for the villagers to see.
How can it not make people happy?
Happy to be happy.
Gu Qingqing still said modestly, "Sister Geng, you are really brave. Wuyan has never written before, so you are not afraid that his writing will be shameful." After saying this, Gu Qingqing turned her eyes to Li Yu. She asked with some doubt, "Doesn't Brother Li know how to write? Why don't the family let Brother Li write by himself? This way, at least it is written by his own hand, and it will be comfortable to look at even if it is ugly."
Li Yu smiled awkwardly as Gu Qingqing stared at him. "I can only recognize words and do some calculations, but I can't write couplets."
"Brother Wuyan, which room are you in?" A few people in the room were talking when someone outside shouted again.
This time it was Erhua who ran out. Before she saw who was coming, she heard her father's voice, "Dajun, why are you here?"
"I came to ask you to help write a couplet." said Niu Dajun.
Gu Qingqing originally said that she would write couplets for Wen Wuyan's family in the afternoon and then let the children take a bath. Who knew that after writing couplets for Geng Saozi's family, she would write couplets for Dajun's family, then Yuzhu's family, and then Niu Song's family...
No one came home until the latter part of the afternoon.
When it was his turn, Wen Wuyan wrote twelve pairs in one breath, and only then did he finish writing for his family.
Gu Qingqing simply asked him to write a few more Chinese characters for "Fu" and wait to post them tomorrow morning.