One cup certainly wasn't enough to knock Gu Hui out, and besides, it was only noon, so Grandma Gu and Grandpa Gu wouldn't let anyone drink too much.
After lunch, it's time to put up Spring Festival couplets and the character "福" (fortune).
Gu Shouxin was left behind to write the Fubao, which was written for the ancestors. It was to be burned before dinner and during the worship ceremony, and also to be burned in front of the grave on the morning of the first day of the lunar new year.
Uncle Gu admitted that he was bad at writing and didn't want to join in the fun, but Grandma Gu caught him: "After your father and I die, if you can't write, will you have to go begging your younger brother, who has already divided the family property, for help? Aren't you ashamed?"
“And you, fourth brother! Don’t think that just because you’re the youngest and your two older brothers wrote it, you don’t have to pay respects. Come here and learn!” Grandma Gu called out to Uncle Gu, who was trying to slip away.
"Mother, you made me learn from my eldest brother every year, but in the end, it was still our father who wrote it!" Uncle Gu said aggrievedly.
"Yes! Wasn't your second brother a scoundrel before? Now even the most scoundrel is learning to write, and you two are still slacking off?" Grandma Gu essentially scolded all three brothers.
Grandpa Gu looked at the mother and her three children with a smile, then picked up his pen and began to write the format.
They have a lot to write about, including the ancestors of the Gu family and the ancestors of the Ye family.
So, Lu Zheng was assigned a task: to take Gu Xin, Gu En, and Gu Si to put up Spring Festival couplets, while Gu Hui and Gu Nian were to help prepare dinner in the kitchen.
Lu Zheng was quite happy.
He had Gu Xin take the bowl of paste he had made, and Gu Si and Gu En take the couplets and the character "福" (fortune), and they started pasting them on door by door.
"Brother Yuan, will you teach me how to hunt next year?" Gu En liked Lu Zheng the most because he could hunt big cats.
His second uncle could have done it too, but he's always been too busy!
“Brother Yuanyuan, I want to learn too! I want to learn too!” Gu Xin chimed in.
Lu Zheng, who was originally looking for an excuse to refuse, said: "Okay, after spring plowing is over, let's go to the mountains to make traps. We might not be able to catch the big ones, but we can still catch the little rabbits and chicks."
Lu Zheng has a wealth of experience hunting in the mountains.
"Brother Yuan, can I take you with me?" Gu Si asked.
"That's fine, we'll invite Sister Huihui and Niannian along then," Lu Zheng said with a smile.
“Okay! Brother Yuan, we’ll hold the stool for you, here’s the paste!” Gu Xin handed the paste to Lu Zheng.
Gu En and Gu Si quickly took out the "Fu" character and Spring Festival couplets, brushed them a few times, and then asked Gu Si, who wasn't holding onto the stool, to stand further away to see if they were pasted up straight.
After finishing the decorations at the old house, we went to decorate the second house.
After finishing the decorations at the second house, they went to Lu Zheng's house to put them up.
"By the way, I noticed you don't have any lanterns. I happen to have a few extra here. Let's take them and hang them up!" Lu Zheng suggested, remembering that he had some left over from Jixiang's delivery yesterday.
“Great! Grandpa was planning to make some, but my mom said my uncle was making and selling them, so we could go get some. But we only found out this morning that my uncle had sold out. The market closed this morning, so there’s nowhere to buy any,” Gu En said.
“I’ll add some lamp oil first. When it gets dark, Enzi, you can have your eldest uncle or second uncle come out and light the lamp,” Lu Zheng said.
“Brother Yuan, aren’t you celebrating the New Year with us tonight? Grandpa Yang and Aunt Xiaohuan are coming too, it’ll be more lively with more people!” Gu Xin said.
"I'm going to Zhoujia Town tonight to visit my great-uncle, and I won't be back until tomorrow. I'll bring you some good food tomorrow!" Lu Zheng said with a smile.
"Thank you, Brother Yuan!" the three siblings said happily.
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