GBP Chapter 494 Making up for yesterday
Chapter 494 Making up for yesterday
After offering sacrifices to the ancestors, Shen Zhiqiu took the boys and girls in the family to write Spring Festival couplets, post them, and hang lanterns.
Writing couplets for the Jiu clans is a huge project and cannot be completed with just one or two pieces.
The door of the courtyard where I live, the door of the main hall of each household, the door of the old workshop, the new workshop, the large courtyard with five entrances, the door of each workshop,
That is, all the doors of the empty rooms on the second and third floors that are not in use temporarily need to be pasted with couplets, and as many pairs of couplets as there are doors need to be written.
At the workshop gate, Shen Zhiqiu was the first to start writing.
First couplet: A new year begins and spring returns to the earth.
Second line: Everything is new and good fortune is coming.
Horizontal banner: "A good year and a prosperous scene"
The gate of the courtyard where they lived was painted by Shen Youyou.
First couplet: Happy to live in a treasure land and prosper for thousands of years
Second line: Good fortune shines on the family and everything goes well
Banner: Welcome the New Year
There are also couplets written by little kids:
"Good fortune, wealth, prosperity, good years, good times, and good luck."
"Good fortune always stays in auspicious places, and wealth always comes to wealthy families"
"When spring comes, the flowers bloom and the ground is filled with fragrance. When wealth comes, thousands of families are filled with joy."
"..."
Although the meaning is simple and easy to understand, it does not diminish the inner expectations for life in the coming year and the best wishes for family.
Not only that, the half-grown boys and girls have recently been using their evening time to learn to read with Shen Youyou or Shen Zhiqiu.
After writing these couplets, he seemed to be still not satisfied, so he pasted couplets on the pig shed, stable, toilet and other places in his home.
Pigpen posted:
"First line: The canopy descends from the mortal world,
Second line: Hundreds of children and thousands of grandchildren will stay in the pig farm. "
Chicken shed:
"First couplet: The cock crows three times to welcome the rising sun?
Second line: Ducks travel around the world to celebrate the spring night. "
The barn:
"The six livestock are safe and the family business is prosperous, the five grains are abundant and the days and months are new."
Everything that can be posted has been posted.
After this incident, the brothers and sisters didn't know how to praise their sister.
You have to know that they wrote a lot of couplets. At the beginning, everyone could write a few couplets.
Even if it was a bit straightforward, it was still neat and festive. But later on, even their third uncle and third uncle began to hold their pens and ponder for a long time.
In the end, we still have to rely on Yoyo from their family. That little mouth keeps on talking, and couplets come up one after another, and none of them are the same.
At the back, Shen Zhiqiu was sitting there drinking tea and eating melon seeds, while Shen Youyou was reciting couplets.
Her brothers and sisters, aunts, and even the little kids in school, all took up their pens and kept writing the couplets she read out.
For the first time, Shen Youyou felt that “having a good memory is not always a good thing.”
After half a day, her voice was almost hoarse from reciting too much. It was New Year's Day, what kind of suffering had she endured?
In the evening, when the tables were filled in the plastic shed in the yard,
There were thirty tables, with ten dishes on each table: four-happiness meatballs, braised fish, chicken stewed with mushrooms, sauerkraut stewed with blood sausage, braised pork elbow, sweet and sour spare ribs, fried meatballs, fried fish, pork skin jelly, and candied sweet potato.
It means perfection.
Trays of tofu buns, trays of jujube flower steamed buns, and trays of rice cakes, still steaming, were also brought to the table.
This year, I don’t have to worry about whether others have eaten enough or not, nor do I have to wonder if there will be another meal after this one.
No one cared how much food it would take.
All they have to do is to eat whatever they want, with their stomachs full.
With a sentence: "Dinner is ready!"
All the people from the nine clans washed up, put on new clothes and new shoes, and sat down one after another.
The little kids, led by Shen Yuanbao, were so happy. After eating the big fish and meat, there were many candies and snacks waiting for them.
It was different from the previous ones, and each kid had to share two candies.
This time, as long as they eat their fill and remember to brush their teeth after eating, the adults will not bother them.
Life is so fulfilling these days.
For the girls of the Nine Clans, today was different from the past. They were extremely happy and felt an indescribable sense of relaxation all over their bodies.
It’s not like when I was in my hometown, I had to help my grandma and mom cook at home.
It is not like after they settled down, when they were busy working every day, and even in their dreams, they dreamed of the patterns of hairpins they wanted to make.
Although I also wrote couplets and made some snacks, it was just like playing, there was no difference.
The adults at home will not stop you, let alone point fingers at you and say, "You are so grown up, but you just go out and have fun all day long, and you are not afraid of being criticized."
Instead, we encourage them to have some fun, take a break, and relax as much as possible before they get married.
Even some fierce grandmas tried to comfort them: "Why do you care what others think? Who are they? Who are you?
Can you be like other girls? You have your own farmland under your name.
With the dividends from the hairpin workshop, he could earn nearly twenty taels of silver every month.
What can others say?
Don't say that our family has good upbringing, but the stubborn and willful one,
If you have these capitals to make a living, you can walk sideways in the future."
In fact, it’s still the same thing. It’s mainly the ideas of Shen Youyou’s family of three that have already subtly changed everyone.
Even Xiao Yang, who used to dislike young girls, now puts the first good food she picks up with her chopsticks into Erya's bowl when she eats, as for Yanzhu Yuanbao.
You little brat should be self-reliant since you are young, otherwise how are you going to earn money to support your family when you grow up?
Speaking of Yuanbao, this kid might be making too much noise. He doesn't eat properly and just stands up to pick up the food. But when he eats, he even crosses his legs like Shen Zhiqiu.
The old lady Hua glared at him and said, "Don't force me to slap you on your happiest day. You'll have to make it for me and eat it."
Shen Yuanbao sat down obediently and took a secret glance at his sister Yoyo, who was also sitting with her legs crossed and enjoying the food with a smile on her face. She still looked heartless.
I really want to ask his grandmother: "I am still a boy after all. You said it is not proper for me to cross my legs like my uncle.
My sister is a girl, so you are pretending not to see her cross her legs, right?"
But he didn't dare to say it out loud, mainly because Sister Yoyo would beat him up and she wouldn't know when to do it.
Classmate Shen Youyou knew nothing about all this. Her whole mind was focused on the delicious food on the table.
Although they are earning money now and the food at home has improved a lot, everyone is busy on weekdays.
Where is the time to prepare such a delicious meal?
It's stewed and fried, and it all takes a lot of effort.
They usually eat whatever they can get, and sometimes they even eat luncheon meat or meat stew wrapped in fire for lunch.
Add a cup of soy milk powder and it’s a meal.
But no matter how delicious it is, you will get tired of it if you eat it every day.
I really don't want to eat that, so at most I can just make some big pot dishes and boil some porridge.
In short, just cook whatever food you can get into your mouth quickly.
The snowflakes began to fall again and landed in the transparent plastic shed.
While eating delicious food, they can also enjoy the snow scenery. This time they did not eat in a hurry, but savored it slowly and enjoyed the good life with their heart.
A few old men, they drank a lot of wine today.
Even after Master Shen sipped his wine, he squinted his eyes and said, "I can still live another ten years like this."
Shen Zhiqiu raised his glass to toast his grandfather again: "Grandpa, what are you talking about? I think you can live another 30 years at least. You must be a centenarian."
"Haha! In the end, the old man will follow what Xiao Sanzi said and try to live to be over a hundred years old."
Hearing this, Shen Zhiqiu was a little drunk at the moment and said, "Come on, youngsters, stand up.
A toast to the old man and old lady, wishing our elderly,
May you live a long and prosperous life and live to a hundred years old!"
Then a group of people stood up, calling out to the old man and the old lady, wishing them:
"Long life and good fortune, a hundred years of prosperity!"
Maybe they were so excited at this moment that Shen Mazi, Shen Fugui, and the elder brother-in-law, these men, insisted on toasting Shen Zhiqiu together.
But after toasting him with one glass, he wanted to toast him again alone, which made Shen Zhiqiu very upset. He drank so much and kept burping, and when he looked at people, one person turned into two or three.
Even so, everyone still didn't let him go.
The men started to make a fuss and insisted that he speak a few more words.
Shen Zhiqiu stood up again and said, "Okay, I'll say a few more words to you all.
This year we successfully settled down, got a new home, and built a new workshop. Next year, we will build a new house.
So our good days have just begun. As long as we work hard, as I said last year, relying on our own hands, our life will get better and better every year!"
The men also stood up, raised their hands and shouted: "Every year is better than the last!"
Shen Luming was holding a piece of sweet and sour pork ribs in his hand, his face greasy from chewing, but he still raised his little face and shouted with a bunch of little kids: "Every year is better than the last!"
Shen Erya smiled and moved closer to Shen Youyou: "Sister, it's great to have you in our family!"
Her words almost expressed the thoughts of all the girls in the Nine Tribes. In the eyes of these girls, Yoyo was like a little sun that could warm their lives.
Thank you so much Yoyo for helping them make money and encouraging them to love themselves and be themselves.
Tell them that even girls can earn everything they want by themselves.
It is not what the family members said before, that girls are money-losing goods, they have to eat and drink at their mother’s house, and they will have to get married in a few years when they grow up.
If you meet a good family, you can come back to visit during the New Year and other holidays.
If you meet a family that is difficult to talk to, not only will you not be able to come back for a year or two, but even if you come back you have to ask for money from your family.
They themselves didn't know when it started, but slowly, they were no longer afraid when they saw their grandmother and mother shouting at the top of their voices.
It can even be said that nowadays at home, you rarely hear your family yelling at them, and they always speak to them gently.
If there are delicious foods or drinks, they will be put into their bowls first.
They are not heartless people. No matter how much work they do or how often they are beaten and scolded by their families, they will not be sad.
It’s not that I don’t see the hard work of my family and think that because I work all day to earn money, my family should be nice to me.
Whether they are family or friends, the relationship is mutual. They can earn money and give half of it to their families.
But they're not the only ones who hand it over. The money earned by grandparents, parents, and brothers and sisters should also be spent on the whole family, right?
As long as there is visible reward for their efforts, they feel that their efforts are worth it.
Because, not only their own family, but all the people in the nine clans are contributing to this big family.