Chapter 889 There are many visitors this year
Yan taught Taotao and Xu to cut the window paper-cuts, which include five blessings for longevity, a bumper harvest, surplus every year, precious flowers and auspicious birds, pomegranates and vases, gorgeous peonies, flying birds and flowers, magpies and plum blossoms, etc.
Yan's hands were truly deft. Holding the paper in one hand and the scissors in the other, vivid and beautiful patterns were quickly created under her hands, causing Qiao Xuan, Tao Tao and others to exclaim in amazement and admiration.
The glazed windows are very beautiful with these lifelike window grilles in various shapes and patterns.
A long row of red lanterns hung under the eaves. They were round, neither too big nor too small, decorated with golden tassels. When lit at night, the dim red light cast a festive glow across the courtyard.
The Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters in the house were all cut out of red paper and written by Shao Yunduan.
This job has been Shao Yunduan's for many years, and many villagers have come to ask Shao Yunduan to help write couplets and blessing characters.
There are a lot of people coming this year.
After all, Shao Yunduan’s handwriting is no longer Shao Xiucai’s handwriting, but Jieyuan’s handwriting.
The words are still the same words, but they are no longer the same words.
The couplets written by Mr. Jie Yuan himself must be more auspicious than those written by Mr. Xiu Cai!
Moreover, this year, if Shao Yunduan passes the imperial examination and becomes an official, his status will be different, and he will not give his calligraphy to others easily.
He might write one or two couplets for the village head, clan elders, etc., but he would not give calligraphy to other families casually. And out of respect for the court officials, no one would be so ignorant as to ask for it.
This year, Shao Yunduan wrote Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters for people, and he accepted everyone's offer.
The villagers were in high spirits, gathering around the big table, forming a huge crowd.
The yard of the Shao family's main house was bustling with people coming in and out.
In previous years, in addition to asking Shao Yunduan to write Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters, some villagers would also ask Shao Liulang to write them.
There are even more that can be written by Shao Liulang.
Because the eldest branch of the Shao family had never boasted about how outstanding and great Shao Yunduan was, but Ma and Third Uncle Shao were different, so everyone thought that Shao Liulang was more outstanding, so of course more people went to him to write.
But this year, no one went to the third branch of the Shao family.
Are you kidding me? How can a student's calligraphy be compared with the calligraphy of the top scholar? Only a fool would give up the calligraphy of the top scholar and ask for the calligraphy of a student instead.
Mrs. Ma and Uncle Shao were originally looking forward to the villagers coming to ask for Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters. This is the proudest and most proud day of them every year.
Looking at the envious eyes of the villagers and listening to their praises, I felt so happy.
But this year, no matter how long I waited, there was still no one there, not even a single person in sight.
I saw someone coming from afar twice, but who knew they were just passing by.
The couple was so upset!
"What's wrong with these people? Don't we need to put up couplets and blessing characters this year?"
"snort!"
Isn't this nonsense? The two people actually knew that if no one came, it didn't mean that they didn't need to post it at home, but that they must have gone to the main room!
Humph, they are all snobs.
The two men were angry at the villagers' snobbery and were even more worried that their son would feel bad.
Sure enough, Shao Liulang, who had locked himself in his room studying hard almost all day long, came out so early today. He glanced at the deserted yard and frowned slightly.
(End of this chapter)
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