"Brother Yiming, it's time to test your knowledge." Tian An took a stack of cut red paper for Spring Festival couplets and rushed straight to Zhao Yiming's study.
Zhao Yiming looked at the thick stack of red paper in her hand and asked her with a critical look, "You've written so much, can you finish pasting it?"
"How can we never finish pasting them? Besides our house, we'll also have to put them up in every household in Jiayuan, in the village school, in the old Tian family house, in the shops in the county town. Oh! And in the village too. Even these are not enough!"
Listening to Tian An counting non-stop, Zhao Yiming felt that the red paper in her hand might not be enough?
Tian An listed the "empire" he had built one by one, then pointed at the red paper in his hand provocatively, raised his chin and looked at Zhao Yiming, "Brother Yiming, write Spring Festival couplets on all these red papers, and no duplicates are allowed. Can you do it?"
Zhao Yiming curled his lips slightly and said confidently, "How difficult is that? Just wait."
Then, he took the red paper, spread it on the table, put a paperweight on it, picked up the pen and dipped it in ink. Without thinking too much, he started writing calmly. All he could hear was the tip of the pen rubbing gently on the paper, making a rustling sound.
It is said that serious men are the most attractive. Tian An was lost in thought. Suddenly, a hand appeared in front of him, shaking up and down. "An An, what are you thinking about? You are so lost in thought."
At some point, Zhao Yiming had stopped writing and was staring at the dazed Tian An.
Tian An came back to his senses and picked up the Spring Festival couplets on the table awkwardly, "So fast!"
"Of course, if you don't hurry up, time waits for no one during the exam." He pointed to the remaining red paper and said, "There's still so much left! Are you going to wait until the New Year to wait?"
"Speed alone is not enough! Quality must also be up to..." Before Tian An finished speaking, he looked down at the Spring Festival couplets in his hand and couldn't say the rest of the words.
"How's the quality?" Zhao Yiming asked with a raised lip.
Faced with such excellent Spring Festival couplets, Tian An couldn't say it was bad in good conscience, so he just said, "This is just the first one! The later ones get harder, brother Yiming, you have to keep up the good work!"
Then I went out with the newly written Spring Festival couplets. This couplet is very elegant and suitable for posting at the door.
Tian An didn't ask anyone for help and pasted the Spring Festival couplets on the door by himself. As soon as he entered the door, Xiaokang took another pair from Zhao Yiming's study and said, "Sister, Yiming's brother-in-law said to put this on the door of your room."
Tian An opened the couplets and saw that they were indeed suitable for her door. She applied paste to the couplets, and Xiaokang helped her to paste them. When they were done, she went to Zhao Yiming's room to get them.
The Spring Festival couplets written by Zhao Yiming are all based on the people living in the room, so each couplet is indeed different and also fits the personality characteristics of the owner of the room.
In just over an hour, Spring Festival couplets were pasted on the doors and windows of the house. After that, Tian An took out the window decorations he and Granny Qin had cut a few days ago and pasted them on. Half an hour later, the whole house was ablaze with activity, and the New Year atmosphere was even stronger.
The Spring Festival couplets for other places have all been written, and they can all be given to Chen Qiang to arrange.
"Sister, the day after tomorrow is New Year's Eve. Let's go to town to play tomorrow!" Xiaokang, who was free, looked at his sister hopefully.
The village school was closed on the 15th day of the lunar year, but it snowed again, and he has not left the village since then.
Tian An looked at the snowflakes that had begun to fall again in the yard and refused, "The road to the county town is only open for two hours a day, so it would take half that time to go there and back. I wouldn't be able to accomplish anything there and would have to rush back. What's the point of going there?"
Since the first snow, it has never stopped. Several nearby villages take turns sending people out to clear the snow on the road to the county town every day, but it only lasts for two hours before the road is blocked again by snow.
Whenever Tian An wanted to buy something, he would ask the person delivering the goods to tell the people at the noodle shop to buy the things and bring them back the next day when they went to deliver the goods.
The supplies for the winter have been stockpiled long ago, and the holiday gifts to be sent to each household have also been sent out. Try not to go out unless it is important.
Xiaokang also sighed as he watched the snow falling heavier in the yard, "I feel like snowing is not good at all now. I can't even go out."
"Everything has two sides, too much is as bad as too little."
Xiaokang didn't understand what his sister was talking about. Looking at the bright red lights in the courtyard, he suddenly said, "Sister, please make me some candied haws! You promised me. Candied haws should be as red as the spring couplets and window decorations."
"You! You're just a greedy little cat."
Tian An said he was disgusted, but he didn't slow down at all. He stood up and walked towards the kitchen.
"Sister, where are you going?"
"Go make candied haws for the greedy little cat." Tian An said without turning his head.
The farmhands would pick some strawberries and cherry tomatoes from the greenhouse and send them over every day. There was also a holiday gift from Gu Jinyan's family in the warehouse, including a small basket of tangerines, which were originally intended to be saved for the New Year, but were just in time to be used now.
When Liu Da heard that Tian An was going to make candied haws, he specially found a wooden stick and made a straw target with straw to put the candied haws on.
Tian An looked at the straw target and suddenly felt that what he had prepared was a bit shabby.
"Chun Xi, please ask someone to pick some more strawberries and cherry tomatoes! We can make more." Then he went to the warehouse and took out some more tangerines to peel.
After washing and drying the strawberries and cherry tomatoes, Tian An took bamboo sticks and started to string the fruits, first with a slice of tangerine as the base, then a strawberry, then a cherry tomato, and finally another slice of tangerine to top it off. Four in a string was just right.
Xiaokang and Xiaogoudan saw that Tian An was having fun stringing vegetables together, so they started stringing them together themselves and kept trying new combinations.
Seeing the large white radish brought from the fields, he asked Chunxi to wash it, cut it into pieces, and put it on the string. He also saw the cucumbers grown in the greenhouse in the winnowing basket and wanted to try some as well.
The red and green colors on a bamboo stick look quite pleasing.
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