Lin Jingshen, Lin Liansheng and others took out the red paper they had bought, cut it with scissors, prepared ink, and asked Lin Jingshen to start writing the couplets.
Lin Jingshen is a teacher and he writes calligraphy quite well.
Before I finished writing my own letter, people from the Gu family started coming to my door one after another with red paper.
Nowadays, many people have never been to school and are illiterate.
Even if you can read, you can't write couplets.
So we have to find someone else to write this couplet.
If you ask someone outside to write for you, you have to pay them, so you usually ask someone you know nearby to write for you.
If it’s written by someone you know, just give something.
Many people were holding two eggs in their hands, some were carrying a bunch of vegetables, or two radishes or something like that. In short, they were all things they had at home, and no one was empty-handed.
Wen Tang and Chi Yue were watching the fun at the kitchen door, holding freshly-cooked melon seeds in their hands.
I saw a young woman running towards the kitchen with a child in one hand and red paper in the other.
She went into the kitchen calling "Auntie".
Gu Jinfeng also stopped what she was doing and said, "Xiaohui is here!"
The girl called Xiaohui smiled shyly, "Well, my aunt is busy!"
Gu Jinfeng smiled and nodded. "Let's fry some peanuts." Then she grabbed a handful of freshly fried peanuts and said, "Xiaohui, come and try some."
Wang Xiaohui looked at her left and right hands and shook her head, "No, auntie, I..." She looked around, as if she was looking for a place to put down the red paper in her hand.
Wen Tang clapped his hands quickly upon seeing this and said, "Let me help you hold the baby!"
Although Wang Xiaohui already has a child, Wen Tang knows from her expression that this girl is not very old, maybe even younger than her and Chi Yue.
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