Because after a few days will have to leave to catch the examination, Zhu Pingan these days at home in addition to reading books is to write couplets, New Year’s home to use couplets, the old house side of the estimated this year will also want to write their own, in addition to big brother and future sister-in-law’s family will want to write their own, in addition to big brother’s new marriage will also want to use the couplets, so Zhu Pingan these days in the home to write the couplets.
The couplets to welcome the New Year:
“Firecrackers sound to bid farewell to the old year, red plums bloom to welcome the new spring.”
“One family in harmony, one family blessed, four seasons of peace and four seasons of spring.”
“Auspiciousness at home, prosperity at home, wealth and prosperity at home.”
When he was in the mood to write, Zhu Pingan even wrote his own name into the Spring Festival couplet in a mischievous manner:
“The country is prosperous, the family is prosperous, the country is prosperous, the old is safe, the young is safe, and the young is safe.”
Of course, there were also the couplets that needed to be posted for big brother’s big wedding:
“A hundred years of love is knotted in two hearts, and a thousand miles of marriage is linked by one thread.”
“Auspicious clouds surround the jade luan and phoenix together with Qin and Jin, and purple gas rises to celebrate the new song of Ying and Yan.”
While writing the wedding couplets for his elder brother, his mother Chen came over with a sewing basket, took a bunch of coats and compared them to Zhu Pingan’s body, and then cut them twice with scissors, and then sat down to give Zhu Pingan new clothes.
“Mother, you’ve made me two new sets of clothes, enough to wear.” Zhu Pingan put down his brush, distressed that his mother Chen had made clothes for herself for days, and the dark circles under her eyes had come out.
“What do you know, you are going to the foot of the heavens, how can you be without a few sets of new clothes, you can’t let people look down on you.”
Mother Chen threaded her needle into the sunlight while giving Zhu Pingan some instructions on what to pay attention to when going out.
“Mother, I’ll thread the needle.”
Seeing that his mother Chen failed to thread the needle after a few attempts, Zhu Pingan placed the brush on the ink stone, took the needle and thread from Chen, and threaded it in one go against the sunlight outside the door before handing it to Chen.
Chen took the needle and thread, very satisfied, in the warm sunshine began to do needlework. After doing it for a while, Chen would also put the needle on her hair and rub it twice before continuing the needlework. Under the sunlight, the clothing stitches were neat and fine. Like fish scales, it ensured that the clothes were durable and strong.
The thread in the hands of a loving mother, the clothes on the body of a wandering son, ah.
“Swine child, what are you writing here?”
When Chen had made the clothes into a large prototype, she saw that Zhu Pingan was still writing a couplet. Then she asked.
“Writing couplets, these are for my big brother to put up when he marries.” Zhu Pingan answered in response.
Hearing this, Chen got interested and said to Zhu Pingan:
“Well, so what swine, write the couplets for your big brother’s wedding room, don’t forget your mother when you marry your daughter-in-law.”
Er
Ginger is still old and hot.
When Lord Mother had an order, Zhu Pingan naturally had to obey it, and after a little thought, he put pen to paper and wrote down a couplet:
“Marry your wife and don’t forget your mother. Happiness for ten thousand years.”
After listening to Zhu Pingan read the couplet, his mother Chen was very satisfied and asked Zhu Pingan to make a small mark on the couplet with a brush, saying that when the time came, she would let someone hang the couplet on the door of her elder brother Zhu Pingchuan’s bridal chamber.
Looking at Chen’s fussiness, Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but want to say: my mother is mighty.
“When the time comes for you to marry your daughter-in-law, you should also put up such a couplet.” Chen watched Zhu Pingan mark this couplet and then gave Zhu Pingan another instruction.
“Son will post a few more pairs at that time.” Zhu Pingan laughed doggedly.
His mother, Chen, was amused by Zhu Pingan’s dogged appearance and stretched out her finger to nod at Zhu Pingan’s head, and laughed angrily, “You’ve been sweet-talking since you were a child, and you still don’t have a straight face even after you’ve been successful in the imperial examination.”
Zhu Pingan laughed nervously.
“It seems that my mother will have to find you a daughter-in-law to control you. It will save you from being out of shape all day long.” Chen saw this and laughed.
“Then you must find a beautiful one for your son.”
Zhu Pingan thought Chen was joking, so he didn’t take it seriously and laughed playfully.
“Fine, find you a pretty fairy-like daughter-in-law.” Chen thought of Li Shu from Shanghe Village. Wasn’t that little girl as pretty as a fairy, so she said with a smile.
Fairy-like?
Isn’t that a joke, Zhu Pingan didn’t take it seriously.
In the evening, Zhu’s father drove the oxcart home from the leaning town, and at a distance he heard the bells on the neck of the big black ox, and as soon as his mother Chen heard the sound of the bells, she put down the needlework in her hands. The first time to go outside.
“His father, did you buy it back?”
Mother Chen asked to the door before she even reached the door.
What did mother want father to buy ah, so much importance. To know that the mother is raiding Zhu father’s money to drive the car are also waiting for Zhu father into the door before starting, now Zhu father has not yet entered the door it, mother Chen’s headed out.
Zhu Pingan was a little curious.
“Bought it back.”
Zhu father’s voice rang out from the door with an inviting flavour.
The big black cow shook the bell extraordinarily loudly, in the past, this big black cow didn’t shake the bell so cheerfully when it arrived at the door of the house ah, everything leaked out that there was something different from the usual.
Whinny
A horse neighing sound suddenly came from outside the door.
Could it mean that someone is coming?
Zhu Pingan curiously walked towards the gate, and then saw Zhu’s father was talking to his mother Chen at the gate, and there was a black stallion tethered to the side of the oxcart, er, perhaps it can’t be described as a stallion, compared to the legendary Lu, Red Hare, and other thousand mile colts, this dude had a complete look of a dangling horse in the herd.
The black horse is about 1 metre 2 or 1 metre 3, not tall at all. Black hair, mane is very long, the appearance is not God handsome, a handful of hair on the horse’s head down to make a partial, but also covered half of the eye, with a non-mainstream kill Matt like, and short and frustrated, completely in the herd of horses in a hangman’s foot.
The big black cow is a little less friendly to the black horse, constantly shaking the bell on the neck, demonstrating the same.
Hanging black horse is still a little bit high and proud, killing horse head twisted, nostrils are a little towards the sky, ignoring the big black cow’s provocation.
“His father, how much does this horse cost?” Mother Chen asked.
“Ten taels of silver.” Father Zhu untied the black horse from the oxcart and stroked its mane as he replied.
“Ten taels?” Mother Chen was a little bit fleshed out, these ten taels of silver were almost as much as what she used to earn in a year when she hadn’t separated her family.
“This is still an acquaintance, if it were anyone else it would have been more than one or two taels of silver more expensive.” Father Zhu explained without losing credit.
“Is that so?”
Upon hearing that it was more than one or two silver cheaper than others buying it, mother Chen was a little happier, looking at the black horse to the side, she said with satisfaction, “Well, it’s good to have this horse, it’ll be much easier for swine’s son to go to the capital to catch the exams.”
Have this horse is good, swine child go to the capital to catch the examination will be much easier originally mother let Zhu father to buy this horse is for oneself to enter the capital to catch the examination with.
A north wind blew, swirling up the dust on the ground and blowing onto Zhu Pingan, the wind in the cold winter months, but it felt like a spring breeze on the face, full of warmth
