husband and wife

Chapter 115

Time is like a swallow's tail, it flies by without leaving any traces, and it is almost the Chinese New Year in a blink of an eye.At this season, all the pigs that should be slaughtered in each family have been slaughtered. Song's mother raised three pigs, a water of fat, meat and oil, and got a lot of money, and stuffed them all under the bed. Don't be stingy, Su Wan likes pig's trotter ribs and so on. She kept a lot of them, but she thought she wouldn't eat them. Saved one for her.And because the New Year's goods that the Song family bought in the county this year were very cheap, after discussion among the villagers, those who had a lot of money asked the Song family to borrow their carriages to go to the county as well. What's more important is that there are fresh things in the city, and taking the mother-in-law and son on this journey will make them happy for years to come.Families took turns to borrow, and it didn't really stop until the young year. When some people went to the county, Song's mother was not polite, and asked them to bring a piece of meat to the in-laws.Mrs. Su didn't take it in vain, and returned two bolts of cotton cloth, saying that they couldn't be sold at the bottom of the box in her store, and if she kept them, she would be harmed by the insects, so she asked her in-laws to take them and cut them out for the New Year.

So Mother Song and the others, in addition to being busy preparing for the New Year, stuffing sausages with cured bacon, and cleaning up before the year, not only sweeping the floor, but also cleaning the doors and windows with wine, that is called getting rid of the old and welcoming the new. As soon as they were free, they sewed non-stop with needles and threads. If they were not reluctant to light the oil lamp, they would not let go even in the dark. They rushed left and right, and finally sewed all the family's clothes before New Year's Eve.

Even Song Xiaomei was busy with her mother, but Su Wan didn't have to be busy. Only then did she realize that teaching bear children is a good job. Song Ziheng was just asking her to pass the time. She can do a lot of teaching work Well, I didn’t expect too much, it would be great to enlighten a few children, but after I came back this time, I tested them very much, only to find that even the oldest child who is the most impatient to study can memorize the three-character scriptures, and asked him to explain the other The meaning is actually all the way, the handwriting is not good, but it has only been learned for four months, and it is not bad to be able to write well. What's more rare is that Erwa's handwriting is correct.

From this, Song Ziheng looked at Su Wan with admiration, and confidently handed over the teaching work to her without touching it himself. Mother Song saw several grandchildren, and even the youngest three children were sitting there upright and endorsing the book, looking like a model. In this way, I told Su Wan not to care about anything, and Anxin taught a few children. As for Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Li, Mrs. Li habitually said some sour words, and she didn't dare to speak in front of Su Wan, only telling Mrs. Zhang secretly. After pouring bitter water, Mrs. Zhang ignored her, just listened to her and went over.

Two days before New Year's Eve, Song Ziheng's days of quietly reading books are gone forever. For no other reason, people in the village cut red paper and asked him to write Spring Festival couplets. This happens every year. People in Songjia Village go up and down. , I admire Song Ziheng very much on weekdays, and even get close to their family. I won’t say much about how popular the Song family is in the village. Writing Spring Festival couplets is just a piece of cake for Song Ziheng, although the amount is a bit large. But he couldn't help, he didn't think about getting any benefits, but the villagers were very conscious. If they bought well-written Spring Festival couplets, they would be several times more expensive than red paper. It takes a lot of pen and ink. When everyone brings red paper, they either stuff a few eggs or give pigs' feet. Anyway, they are pigs raised at home, and pigs' feet can't be sold for a lot of money. I heard that Ziheng's wife likes it very much. In short, they won't come empty-handed, even Song's mother, who has some complaints, is happy, and they themselves feel at ease, saving a lot of money, and Song Ziheng's labor is not in vain.Immediately everyone was happy.

It’s just a pain for Song Ziheng. There are hundreds of families in the Song family. Each family has at least two pairs of Spring Festival couplets, one pair at the gate of the courtyard, and one pair at the gate. There are door couplets, blessing couplets, and those posted on various walls, trees, and stoves, all inclusive.Moreover, the Spring Festival couplets can't be written indiscriminately. The writing should be neat and symmetrical. In Su Wan's opinion, writing one family's couplets is enough. The Spring Festival couplets of Bailai's family have to be written in these two days. She is very upset. It was for Song Ziheng to light a piece of wax.

Su Wan can't help, everyone here regards the Spring Festival couplets as a big deal, and she can't joke about it. Even though she has made great progress in her calligraphy, she can barely be called neat, but she can't share it with Song Ziheng. If everyone finds out about her A woman is writing Spring Festival couplets, and she is afraid that she will be drowned by spitting stars, but the eldest child and the second child are boys from Songjia Village, if they can write a few words, it will be a good story.Su Wan asked them to practice the blessings all morning, and then helped Song Ziheng write the blessings. This is the simplest, and it's not a voluntary labor. How many spring couplets the two brothers write, they can get as much money for the new year. But if one piece of writing is useless, there will be no board at all.The half-grown boy, in the face of the temptation of money, no longer has any worries, rolled up his sleeves and started working.Thanks to Su Wan's blessing, they will be best at writing blessing characters in the future, but that's for a later story.

The big baby and the second baby brothers contracted most of the blessings, which can be regarded as helping Song Ziheng relieve the pressure. The blessings posted by the Song family were all made by them. As for the lucky money promised by Su Wan, Song's mother couldn't be happier. It looked like she would never let her out, so she wrapped a thick red envelope and distributed it to the two brothers. Even Sanwa was a pure onlooker, and this year's red envelope was twice as thick as in previous years.

The whole family is full of joy, and the atmosphere of the New Year is very harmonious.

(End of this chapter)