From wilderness to palace

Chapter 227
Even if there is only one person in the family, Liu Yaozu, who chooses to stay in his hometown for the New Year, still wants to make this New Year more lively.On the morning of Lunar New Year's Eve, the entire Kaoshan Village, like other villages, began to be busy welcoming the Lunar New Year.

Like other villagers, Liu Yaozu got up early and took out tools to clean the newly accumulated snow in his yard.Even if after cleaning, it will be frozen or covered with ice and snow soon, but it must be cleaned after all.

In contrast, the yards of other villagers' homes are hardly cleaned.Because the villagers all know that cleaning the snow in this season is somewhat useless.But for Liu Yaozu, there is always something to do in a day.

In fact, Liu Yaozu, who had just returned home yesterday, saw Liu Yaocheng entering the door with a roll of red paper.Looking at the smiling face of the other party, Liu Yaozu was speechless and said, "Are you short of that money?"

"The money is not bad! But I think the kind of printed couplets bought on the street have no soul. Anyway, you can write well, so I will trouble you about writing couplets. Paper and ink, I Brought them all.”

What Liu Yaozu didn't expect was that besides Liu Yaocheng who was the first to visit, Liu Yaoxing also brought his son to the door with some red paper in his arms.The reason is very simple. Many people in the village know that Liu Yaozu's calligraphy is very good.

During the Spring Festival, every household has to post couplets, although now you can buy printed and ready-made couplets on the street.But many rural people still like to invite educated people to write couplets, and feel that it is more meaningful to paste such couplets on the door.

Facing the villagers who came to the door one after another, Liu Yaozu could only greet them politely, and even left Liu Yaocheng behind to make tea for the villagers who came to the door.And what Liu Yaozu has to do is to take a brush and start writing couplets to the villagers.

In order to avoid duplication of the content of the couplets, Liu Yaozu also found out the couplets left by his grandfather in his early years, and selected suitable couplets for the villagers from them.Looking at the neatly written couplets, these villagers are very satisfied.

There were even quite a few older people who said with emotion: "Well, the only ones who are truly educated in our village are you and you. In the past, the couplets in the village were basically written by your grandfather. now you."

"Yes! The couplets you buy on the street are good-looking, but they are the same ones posted in every house, so they are meaningless!"

Faced with the compliments from these villagers, Liu Yaozu smiled and said nothing.In fact, he had experienced such scenes as a child.And he could feel that the villagers' request for his help in writing couplets had another profound meaning.

That is, the villagers all know that Liu Yaozu celebrates the New Year alone this year.If there is nothing to do, they are not easy to disturb the door.By asking Liu Yaozu to help write couplets, come to his house to sit and have fun, and it won't make Liu Yaozu feel too lonely.

Liu Yaozu, who was shoveling the snow, thought about helping the villagers write couplets yesterday, and his calligraphy skills seemed to have improved a lot. Liu Yaozu also said with emotion: "It seems that calligraphy needs to be practiced frequently!"

Liu Yaozu didn't think the combined skills of the gentleman's six arts were of much use earlier, but now he feels that they are closely related to life.Moreover, the skills instilled in the system do not completely follow the ancient teaching model of the six arts of a gentleman.

While he feels that the system is quite user-friendly, Liu Yaozu is also glad that he has the system by his side.If it hadn't been for the emergence of the system, I'm afraid he would still be sinking into the sea of ​​sadness and unable to completely break free!
There are gains and there are losses!Between gains and losses, who can say clearly what is important and what is important?
Looking at the cleaned yard again, Liu Yaozu cleaned the pavilion with double eaves again.For this pavilion built in the yard, Liu Yaozu quite likes it.It's just that in this season, the pavilion seems somewhat unusable.

Even Liu Yaozu often said, wait for a while, maybe the pavilion will look very comfortable and easy to use!
Liu Yaozu, who usually cooks in a rice cooker, chooses to cook in an iron pot today.When the rice is almost cooked, remove some from the steamer, and put the remaining rice in the pot to prepare porridge.

The reason for cooking gruel is naturally to use the porridge to post couplets.Although the temperature in Paoshantun is very low, if you apply the hot porridge quickly, you don’t have to worry about it getting stuck on the wall and freezing.

Just when Liu Yaozu cooked the rice porridge for posting couplets and left some porridge for breakfast, Liu Yaocheng ran over and said, "Brother Azu, haven't you posted couplets yet? My family has already posted them!"

"You've put it up, so what are you going to do?"

"Help! How can you post it if you are the only one?"

Liu Yaozu, who made Liu Yaocheng reply, really seemed a little speechless.Some hot porridge was called, and Liu Yaocheng took the couplets he had written for his family, and he found a ladder to paint the porridge and paste the couplets on the wall.

Looking at the couplets written by Liu Yaozu to his family, Liu Yaocheng also said with emotion: "Brother Azu, the couplets posted by other people's homes are all about praying for wealth and blessings. The couplets you wrote, are you praying for something too grand? ?”

"Guotai Min'an, what's wrong? Praying for money, do you think I need it now? Besides, only with Guotai Min'an can we live a good life. What is a good life? Wealth and blessing, isn't it? Have a good day?"

After refuting Liu Yaocheng's sentence, Liu Yaozu quickly posted a couplet written for himself.The first couplet is: The spring is bright and the mountains and rivers are covered with beautiful flowers.The second line is: Huaxia takes off, the motherland is young, and the horizontal batch is Guotai Min'an!

For Liu Yaozu, although there are many couplets to choose from, he still likes this couplet.As he said to Liu Yaocheng, Huaxia is developing rapidly now, and their generation really needs to thank Guotai Minan.

Furthermore, compared with the couplets written for other people, Liu Yaozu felt that his own couplets should be more atmospheric.After pasting the couplets on the gate, he did not forget to paste the written couplets on the other back doors, side doors and even the pillars of the pavilion.

In previous years, Liu Yaozu and his grandfather were basically responsible for posting couplets, while grandma and mother were busy preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner.But for Liu Yaozu at this moment, he really doesn't have to worry too much as he eats alone and the whole family is not hungry.

Even this year's New Year's Eve dinner, Liu Yaozu prepared a lot.But if he is alone, even if he can eat, how much can he eat?Fortunately, the New Year's Eve dinner is not afraid of leftovers, and many people even intend to make more and wait until the first day of the New Year to eat.

In this case, it is also a good start, and you will have more than enough every year.Under normal circumstances, rural people’s New Year’s Eve dinner is relatively early.Many people even have breakfast for lunch, skipping one meal and then having New Year’s Eve dinner directly.

Many times, before the sun goes down, every household in the village will set off firecrackers, signaling that the family is getting together for the New Year's Eve dinner.And in order to grab the top prize, many families often start having New Year's Eve dinner at three or four o'clock in the afternoon.

Hearing the sound of firecrackers in the village, Liu Yaozu, who was busy in the kitchen, raised his hand and looked at his watch and said, "This group of people is really fast! It's only 03:30 to eat the New Year's Eve dinner. After the meal, they What are you going to do?"

Under normal circumstances, the New Year's Eve basically does not visit.But in the countryside, such rules basically no longer exist.Many young people returning to their hometowns, even those children who love to play and play, run around all over the village after eating.

Coupled with the fact that a travel company is set up in the village this year, and the ice and snow castle in the drying yard alone, it must be very lively this year.For those children, there are ice and snow slides specially made by the Ice and Snow Castle, and many children do not want to leave.

It was just getting dark, and the lanterns over the ice and snow castle had already been lit.There is lighting, and it is in the village. Adults with children in the village will not stop the children from playing.And with a place to play, it is easier for adults to find children.

Whose child didn't come home at meal time, go to the ice and snow castle to look for one.In previous years, children were running around in the countryside having fun.Every meal time, I can hear the voices of some adults shouting 'XXX go home for dinner'.

But in Liu Yaozu's view, this kind of human atmosphere is exactly what he wants.Compared to celebrating the New Year in the imperial capital, the city that has banned fireworks and firecrackers, there are only a few places where fireworks can be seen.

On the other hand, in places like Kaoshantun, as long as there is no fire, no one cares about setting off fireworks.But this year, even if there is only one person in the family, Liu Yaozu went to the city on purpose, and took a half-pickup of fireworks back to the village.

Not long after eating the New Year's Eve dinner alone, Liu Yaozu heard the voices of several children coming from the door.But the voice said with some hesitation: "A Bao, you are the biggest, you go in!"

"I don't! My father said that Grandpa has not finished his meal, so we can't disturb him. Agui, go ahead, Grandpa loves you the most!"

"No! I am the elder and you are the junior. I am a generation older than you, so you should go in first."

Liu Yaozu, who is sensitive to six senses, seemed a little bit ridiculous when he heard the children chatting outside.A child who calls himself Grandfather is older than a child who calls himself Grandfather.But in terms of seniority, they are naturally younger.

It is naturally very common in rural areas that people are younger than themselves, but their seniority is higher than themselves.And these children, who stayed in their own yard and refused or were embarrassed to come in, must have come for their own fireworks.

Although the people in the village have made a lot of money this year, it is natural for every household to buy a few barrels of fireworks to celebrate.But more villagers are still reluctant to buy such a barrel of hundreds or even hundreds of fireworks.

In the eyes of these frugal villagers, setting off fireworks here and there is obviously a waste of money!

Just as the children were pushing each other, Liu Yaozu quickly walked out of the house and said, "A Bao, A Gui, are you here?"

"Grandfather (Uncle), Happy New Year!"

The group of children who were called out still politely saluted and said hello.Seeing this scene, Liu Yaozu also felt very happy.He took out the New Year's bag that he had prepared a long time ago, and distributed one to each of the children who had paid New Year's greetings in advance.

The children who received the New Year's bag were naturally full of joy, but they did not forget the purpose of this trip.Compared with the lucky bag they got, they looked forward to the scene of Liu Yaozu setting off fireworks.How could Liu Yaozu be dissatisfied with the expectations of these children?

(End of this chapter)