Shanwa Small Rich Farmers

  At dawn, Wen Xu's biological clock 'drag' him up from the bed on time, sat up and stayed there for about a minute according to the old habit, and saved his eyebrows, Wen Xu lifted the quilt and prepared to get out of bed.

Wen Xu didn't expect that her movement was a bit loud today, which really woke up Shi Shang, and after seeing her humming, she turned her body around and looked at herself in a daze, and said quickly: "It's still early, you continue to sleep! "

   "Oh, what time is it?" Shi Shangzhen stretched out his arms to support his body and asked.

   "It's less than six o'clock" said warmly.

When Shi Shangzhen heard the time, he immediately fell on the bed again, stretched out his hands and pulled the quilt that had slipped off to his body, and said to Wen Xu vaguely: "Remember, don't forget to close the door when you come back. Paste it!"

   "I see!" Wen Xu helped his daughter-in-law tuck the quilt, got out of bed, changed into clothes, and went downstairs to take Xiao Yao to exercise together.

   After more than an hour, the two returned sweating profusely. When the others returned to the small courtyard, Hang Xiangdong had already left the house, and Li Yumei had made an appointment with Mrs. You Er and other women to go to the temple to offer incense today, so she didn't have breakfast when she came back today, so she had to do it herself .

   After taking a shower, Wen Xu made a fairly simple breakfast, vegetable and radish porridge, the only seasoning used was salt.

   "Uncle, are we going to have this for breakfast today?" Xiao Yao raised his head and watched Wen Xu throwing vegetables into the pot, so he opened his mouth to make peace.

Wen Xu said: "There are so many things today, how can I have time to mess around? Everyone is a little lighter this morning. Now that life is better, everyone is overnourished. The Spring Festival with a lot of fish and meat!"

   "I don't like vegetable porridge," Xiao Yao muttered.

   "If you don't like to eat vegetable porridge, you can have snacks. I don't have anything at home right now, such as fried fruits, pancakes, and small fried fish." Wen Xu said.

   "That's all cool," Xiaoyao said.

Now Xiaoyao is used to having a delicious breakfast in the morning, and even regards this morning meal as more important than noon. In the past, there were all kinds of breakfast plus various porridge, soup and so on. Today, the whole society has changed from the new China back to the old society all of a sudden, and I ate vegetable and radish porridge, and the porridge is so watery that I can almost see the bottom.

   "It's too cold? Don't you have a microwave oven at home? If you don't think a microwave oven can do it, there is an oven outside. If you can use it, use it yourself!" Wen Xu said.

  Xiao Yao thought for a while and said: "Forget it, I'd better eat some vegetable porridge!"

Waiting for the meal to be almost ready, Xiaoyao ran upstairs immediately, ran to the door of Hang Chen's room and knocked on the door. He was either diligent or he didn't want Hang Chen to sleep too comfortably. Go make a fuss.

   As expected, Xiao Yao came back disheartened after being hit by two pillows.

The two wanted to post the couplets, so without waiting for Hang Chen and the others to drink a bowl of porridge to moisten their stomachs, Wen Xu began to make the paste with flour, while Xiaoyao found out the couplets to be posted. Zhang Zhang spread out to the floor of the house.

   A few minutes later, Wen Xu boiled the paste, took a brush and threw his straight hand into the pot as a brush, and walked out of the kitchen with Zhai pot ears.

   "Uncle, which one should we post first?" Xiao Yao asked.

   "The one in the middle, the pair in the world, first stick to the pillars on both sides of the door of the house." Wen Nu took a look and decided to stick it from the door of the house first.

  Xiaoyao ran over immediately when he heard this, uncovered a pair of door couplets, and held them in his hands.

   When the two arrived at the door, Xiaoyao put down the door couplet, moved another stool into the room, and put it next to Wen Xu, so that he could step on it and brush the paste.

  Wen Xu brushed a palm-sized piece first, pasted the second couplet on the paste, then straightened it and asked Xiao Yao who was standing behind him: "How is it? Is it straight, is it short?"

   "Not short, just like that, perfect!" Xiao Yao said.

Hearing what Xiaoyao said, Wen Xu began to apply the paste on a large area of ​​the wooden pillar, and finally brushed the back of the couplet a few times, and then carefully pressed the entire couplet on the wooden pillar, so that the couplet and wooden The cylinder was tightly glued together, and if there were any corners that were not wiped off, Wen Nu would wipe them all over again.

After posting the second couplet, Wen Xu got off the stool and pulled it to the pillar on the east, and started pasting the upper couplet. The upper couplet needs to be adjusted according to the position of the second couplet, but this is not a demanding job. It took about three to five minutes before and after, and all the couplets were posted with a horizontal batch.

Next is the door of the studio, as well as scum, pillars, and these little things. Small couplets are pasted on the nest doors in the yard, and finally the gate. The gate needs to be more particular. There is also a door curtain. The children in the city probably don’t know what the door curtain is. The Naolian is not big, it is almost as big as an ordinary homework book, most of them are bright red, and some characters are carved on it. Ah, flowers and the like, or simply gold ingots, things with auspicious meanings such as blessings, wealth, longevity and joy.

This year is Wen Xu's first year of marriage. According to the old customs, the door curtain of the main gate of Wen Xu's house should be purple red, to be exact, purple red with bronzing patterns. I didn't even want to post it, but the third brother specially mentioned it once before the year, and bought a pair for Wen Xu when he bought it.

Generally speaking, there are at most sixteen stickers on the gates of people's houses. If it is the gates of each household in Wenjia Village, they can all enter and exit the car. Let alone sixteen stickers, twenty-six stickers are not enough. For the main gate, thirty-two sheets were pasted directly to cover the front of the door, and then the horizontal batch was taken to be officially completed.

  The couplet at the gate is naturally the largest, with a single couplet containing twenty-six characters, plus colored borders, almost covering half of the door.

  Pasted to the couplet at the gate, Wen Xu clapped his hands, jumped off the stool and took a closer look. He felt that he posted it well, but he felt vaguely that something was missing at the gate.

After thinking about it for a long time, she still couldn't figure out that something was missing. Wen Xu simply didn't want to think about it. She just picked up the bench and went back to the courtyard. While walking, she was thinking about what to do next. Her family's affairs were almost done, so The next thing is to hang lanterns in the village.

   Thinking of hanging lanterns in the village, Wen Xu suddenly remembered that there was something missing in his house, and it was nothing but lanterns.

"Go, go, find the lantern for me!" Wen Xu thought of the lantern and immediately began to provoke Xiaoyao, but he hadn't finished his sentence, so he remembered that this kid didn't know where the lantern was, and he didn't have one in the basement either. have been.

   "Okay, move the bench back, I'll get the lantern myself!"

After speaking, Wen Xu put down the stool in his hand and walked directly towards the basement. When he arrived at the basement, Wen Xu took out the key from the space and opened the door. When he pushed the door and went in, he searched in the corner and found the old lantern that was used last year. , the moment he saw the lantern, Wen Nu frowned involuntarily.

It’s not that the lantern is broken, or it’s old or something. It’s that last year I just thought about fashion and bought paper lanterns with a high speed. This kind of lantern was not a problem to hang last year, but today I want to use it. It's not in the right time, because if there is a heavy snowfall from the sky, this thing will be rotten in one night, and even if it is not rotten, it will be smashed by the snow.

  Thinking of this, Wen Xu put down the lantern in his hand again, and when he was about to leave the basement, he walked to the door, thought for a while, picked up the lantern and held it in his hand.

  After going out, the door was locked, and Wen Xu went up the steps with a lantern and walked back to the yard.

   "Xiaoyao, bring the stool here!" Wen Xu said to Xiaoyao who was already standing at the door.

  Xiao Yao asked curiously: "Didn't uncle hang on the door?"

   "I just remembered that this lantern is made of paper. It is not suitable to hang at the door. It should be hung at the door of the house. How can there be a cornice to block the snow for a while?" Wen Wen said.

  Xiao Yao picked up the bench and walked towards Wen Xu while asking, "Then what should we do outside?"

"What else can I do, buy a new one." After Wen Xu finished speaking, he remembered one thing: "Go to the studio and get me two nails, and bring the hammer along the way, I'll put a lamp on the cornice , hanging lanterns".

"it is good!"

   Saying that, Xiaoyao ran over quickly.

When the two of them hung up the lanterns, Hang Chen came out grabbing a small fried fish while gnawing on it. Seeing the two standing at the door, he couldn't help but look up curiously, and found two red lanterns hanging on the cornice. Can't help but praise: "The lantern is very beautiful!"

   "Lazy!" Xiao Yao directly replied to Hang Chen.

"Okay, stop making trouble, you eat your food, and you honestly go to your great-grandfather to ask for blessings and fortune and treasures, and I will hang lanterns for the village." Seeing the two of them wanting again Grinding his teeth, he immediately separated the two guys.

   "Brother, you left at noon, what shall we eat? We had a meal this morning, wouldn't we also deal with it at noon?" Hang Chen said.

At noon, Wen Xu had to go to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors. There was no such thing when there was no ancestral hall, but now there is an ancestral hall. The old people said that this matter should be formalized. The ancestral hall held an ancestor worship ceremony, and all men at home who were over sixteen years old had to participate. Wen Xu always followed the crowd, and if no one objected, he would naturally not object, and if there was no objection, he would naturally have to go.

   "You have nothing to eat without me? Besides, my aunt will be back at noon, don't worry, I won't be hungry for you," Wen Xu said to Hang Chen and then walked out of the yard.

  When we arrived at the village office, almost all the men in the village had come, and the second brothers Wen Shigui and Wen Shiqing were busy taking out the lanterns from the warehouse.

As soon as Wen Xu saw the lantern, he knew that the lantern had been replaced with a new one this year. The gauze surface and bamboo bones were directly used, and it was not the traditional round shape, but a drum-shaped palace lantern with a hat on the head. Compared with last year It's also more complicated to look good.

Divide everyone into seven or eight groups, and each group is in charge of a piece. Wen Xu's side is with Wen Shida, Wen Shigui and other people of the next generation, and they are assigned to places close to each other. More than sixty lights.

  Although it sounds like a lot, the lights in the village are all illuminated by electricity. Even if they want to use candles now, no one has the energy to light candles every night and blow them out at dawn. Shi Shangzhen had already considered this when installing the street lamps in Wenjia Village, so each street lamp has a special hook for hanging lanterns. With the hook, there is naturally a wiring hole reserved, which is called a wiring hole. In fact, it is just a socket, as long as you hang up the lantern, install the light in the lantern, and then plug it in, it will be completed, and each one will take two or three minutes at most.

  When the work was assigned, everyone used their own means of transportation to assign themselves to the lanterns and transported them away. Wen Xu and his group were divided into two groups, and each group of three started to hang up the lanterns separately. It took about two hours for Wen Xu's group to completely hang up the lanterns, and the brand new red lanterns immediately set off the festive atmosphere.

Waiting for everyone to notify me that everything is fine, Wen Shigui knows that the power distribution room has been powered on, and asks everyone to check carefully to see if there is any lamp that is out of order. bright. In Wenxu's area, I found two lights that didn't light up. One changed the bulb and the other changed the wires, and then there was no problem. The rest of the places are almost the same. There are only three or four places where there are problems with the wiring of the street lights, but these need professional electricians to do it. It's over.

  So the elders in the village dispersed, and went home to go to the ancestral hall to carry out the first official ancestor worship after the ancestral hall of Wenjia Village was built.