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Chapter 66 It's New Year's Eve

"You know me?" Sheng Qingxi asked excitedly.

Cao Xue nodded: "I watched the promotional video of "Defying the World" and thought it was very good. I searched the Internet for information and found out that you are the director of "Defying the World". You are called the youngest director by the outside world."

"Do you think "Defying the World" is good? Do you want to go to the premiere? I have tickets in hand, I'll give you some!"

Seeing the two talking together quickly, Bai Tang and Zhang Feng exchanged glances, and returned to Bai Tang's room to carry out the appraisal and transaction of the next antique.After the third antique belonged to Zhang Feng, half an hour had passed, when Bai Tang and Zhang Feng walked out of the room, they heard Sheng Qingxi's words.

"Well, the arrangement of the ending is very good. I look forward to your script."

"No problem, I'll email you the script in a week at most." Cao Xue promised, patting her chest.

"Cao Xue, have you changed your career to become a screenwriter?" Bai Tang asked.

"No, I just have a story in my head. Sheng Qingxi thinks it's good and encourages me to write it. He can shoot it."

"That's great. When the movie you collaborated with comes out, I'll definitely go and support it."

"Okay!" Cao Xue laughed heartily, "To be honest, I do intend to change my job to be a screenwriter. I can make money by writing the stories in my head. It's a very good job."

"Then turn it on. Your writing is good and your imagination is rich. It's suitable for you to be a screenwriter." Bai Tang encouraged.

"Forget it. All screenwriters have received professional training. My level is far behind them. This time, Sheng Qingxi was the one who directed the script. Let's just accept it!" Cao Xue shrugged.

"I think your level is good, much better than some screenwriters who like to plagiarize." Sheng Qingxi said, he was very displeased with some screenwriters in the screenwriting industry who like to plagiarize other people's works and pretend to be borrowed from them.If you change the name of the person and the year, it becomes a new work. The main plot is there. Are the audience fools or blind? .

"If Ms. Cao wants to become a screenwriter, I can help. I have a friend who is a teacher in the screenwriting department of the Kyoto Film and Television Academy, and I can recommend you to him." Zhang Feng also interjected to help, of course watching For the sake of Sheng Qingxi and Baitang.

"I really don't need it!" Cao Xue quickly refused. She wrote the script just to vent her dissatisfaction with the scumbag, and she didn't think about changing her major.

Except for Sheng Qingxi's disappointment at Cao Xue's resolute refusal, Bai Tang and Zhang Feng smiled and said nothing.The three of them stayed at Bai's house for dinner. Chef Wu Xuemei, although not as delicious as Bai's mother's cooking, still made the three of them eat with oily mouths and round stomachs.

"Baitang, your food is really good. I will often come here for dinner in the future. Don't you mind?" Cao Xue rubbed her bulging belly, oscillating between food and body for a minute, and firmly put the weight loss Thoughts went out of my head.She doesn't even have a boyfriend anymore, why is she still so concerned about her figure?
"Okay, but you can't just eat and not work, at least you have to help." Baitang nodded holding a cup of hawthorn tea.She didn't eat much, but hawthorn tea was one of her favorite drinks. After Bai Ma brought out a pot, she immediately poured the first cup for herself.

Bai Ma uses hawthorn and cassia seeds to make hawthorn and cassia seed tea. Cassia seeds can clear the liver and improve eyesight, promote water and laxative. After being combined with hawthorn, it has the effect of lowering blood pressure and regulating fat. It is suitable for the elderly. Of course, drinking it is also beneficial for young people.

"I can do both washing and chopping vegetables, and it's okay to do the dishes and clean up." After Cao Xueli made the promise, she ran to Bai Ma's side to prove her ability with practical actions, "Auntie, I'll serve the dishes for you."

Sheng Qingxi was envious: "I really want to stay in City D and never leave!"

Zhang Feng smiled: "Didn't your last movie be filmed in D City? If your next movie is also in D City, you can come to Bai Tang's house for toothpaste festivals often!"

"Good idea!" Sheng Qingxi clapped his fists and decided to bring the team to City D for filming. I believe that Xiong Wenjun and Yuan Shaochuan would have no objections.These few also miss the Bai family's food very much.

"Hey, hey, our house is not the cafeteria of your crew!" Baitang protested jokingly.

"Oh, don't be so stingy!"

Not long after Sheng Qingxi and Zhang Feng left, the Spring Festival arrived.

23 sticky melons, 24 cleaning the house, 25 making tofu, 26 cutting meat, 27 slaughtering roosters, 28 making noodles, 29 steaming steamed buns, staying up overnight at [-], visiting relatives and friends on the first day of the new year, and the second day of the new year Worship ancestors, go to temple fairs on the third and fourth day of the junior high school, and walk on the street at night on the fifteenth day.

The above are the folk songs of the New Year that have been passed down for a long time. Unfortunately, the atmosphere of the New Year in modern cities is not particularly strong, and many New Year customs are ignored by everyone.Fortunately, there are old people in the family, and they all pay attention to traditional customs.Bai Tang and Wu Xuemei were directed around by Bai Ma.This year, the daughter came back, Wu Xuemei and Xing Xiaokang spent the New Year at the Bai family, plus another little bun, Ai Wanxi, compared to previous years when the old couple of the Bai family stared at each other, it was more lively and warm.Bai Tang liked this kind of atmosphere very much. In the past two days, because of work, she couldn't go home to accompany her parents, so she could only live alone in other places.Thinking about those days made her sad.

Early in the morning on the 31st of the Lunar New Year, Bai Ma called everyone up to work together.Bai's father went to the flower market to buy flowers, Bai's mother and Wu Xuemei were preparing for the reunion dinner, and Bai Tang took two little door gods to post Spring Festival couplets and window grilles.The front door of Bai's house was used as the front door with portraits of Qin Qiong and Yuchi Jingde, and the door of Xing's house was used as the back door with Zhong Kui's portrait.

"Auntie, the gatekeeper is so mighty!" Xiao Baozi helped pass the scissors and transparent glue on the side.Looking at the door god New Year picture that Xing Xiaokang held up high, Xiao Baozi couldn't help but praise it.

"Of course, this is the Mianzhu New Year picture. The door gods on other New Year pictures are not as powerful as the door gods on the Mianzhu New Year picture!" Xing Xiaokang said to the little bun with an expression of "I know everything".

"What are Mianzhu New Year paintings?" Little Baozi asked curiously, tilting his head.

Xing Xiaokang really knows what Mianzhu New Year paintings are, because he helps to post door gods every year, and Bai's father has already told him about Mianzhu New Year paintings.

"Mianzhu New Year paintings, also known as Mianzhu woodblock New Year paintings, are named after Mianzhu City, SC Province, the hometown of bamboo and paper. They are popular in Southwest China. Most of them are printed with woodblocks and then filled in with color. Mianzhu New Year paintings and Tianjin Yangliuqingnian paintings, Shandong WF Yangjiabu woodblock New Year pictures and Suzhou Taohuawu woodblock New Year pictures are both one of the four New Year pictures, known as the three treasures of Sichuan and the three wonders of Mianzhu, reflecting the optimistic thoughts and feelings of the Bashu people and the ancient customs of the Han nationality." road.

"Brother Kang is amazing, he knows so much!" The little bun was full of admiration, and Xing Xiaokang proudly pushed his little chest up.

Baitang pursed her lips happily, the children are so cute. City D is not far from Mianzhu, and the Mianzhu New Year paintings are the ones that Baitang saw when he was a child.It is said that the history of Mianzhu New Year pictures can be traced back to the Northern Song Dynasty. Due to the invention of movable type printing, woodblock New Year pictures became popular and developed among the people. Painted beam walls enable New Year painters to develop their art in practice.During the reign of Qianlong and Jiaqing, due to economic prosperity, Mianzhu New Year pictures entered its heyday, and a New Year picture guild was established accordingly, named "Fuxi Club", with more than 300 professional practitioners, more than 1200 workshops, and an annual output of more than [-] million New Year pictures. Exported to Hubei, Shanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan, and exported to India, Japan, Vietnam, Myanmar, Hong Kong, Macao and other countries and regions
She quickly took Xing Xiaokang's door god and pasted it on the gate, and took two steps back, it was fine, it was not crooked.Posting door gods is to pray for the longevity of the family.It is said that if there are two door gods affixed to the gate, all ghosts and ghosts will be intimidated.

Next came the Spring Festival couplets and window grilles. Just after half of the window grilles were pasted, Dad Bai went home with a large bouquet of flowers and a pot of kumquats.The two boys dropped the half-pasted window grilles and ran to see the flowers Papa Bai bought.Bai Tang brought out a batch of antique vases a long time ago, Bai's father said that his daughter's prodigal had already thrown pebbles into the vases and filled them with water, and put flowers in several antique vases according to the types of flowers .

Lamei packed six bottles and placed them in the living room, bedroom and Xing's house respectively.Wintersweet is fragrant, and the whole home is enveloped in a fragrant atmosphere, which makes people feel refreshed.Two bottles of Lucky Bamboo were placed in the two living rooms.Lucky Bamboo is also called Wannian Bamboo, Longevity Bamboo, Kaiyun Bamboo, and Fugui Pagoda, which symbolize good luck.The meaning is good and easy to feed, and the family will be doubled during the Chinese New Year.Dad Bai also bought twelve pairs of reds, which means that the moon will be red for twelve months.

"Brother Kang, I want to eat oranges!" Ai Wanxi drooled looking at the golden kumquat tree.

"You can't eat it. Otherwise, you have to wait until after the New Year." Xing Xiaokang took Ai Wanxi's hand away from the kumquat tree, "Eat the apple, and my brother will help you peel it."

"Okay!" Ai Wanxi struggled and agreed, her brother must have important reasons for not letting him eat oranges, and she had to listen to him.

Without the two little ones messing around, Baitang quickly put up the window grilles and walked into the kitchen following the scent.Sausages and bacon were being cooked on the stove, and the aroma permeated the entire kitchen, making Baitang's mouth water.She lifted the lid of the pot, tore off a piece of bacon and threw it into her mouth.Well, it's delicious!
After being intoxicated for a while, Baitang opened her eyes, and saw two buns, one big and one small, standing in front of her, staring at her - mouth with drooling corners of their mouths.

"You want to eat too?"

He kept nodding.

"Wait!"

Baitang lifted the lid of the pot again and took a piece of sausage out, divided it into three sections, and shared one section with the two little guys.

Bai Ma looked angry and amused, and scolded: "You just know how to eat secretly! Is the matter done?"

Baitang nodded while eating: "It's done!"

"Then why don't you hurry up and help!" Bai Ma then ordered the two younger ones, "You two eat less, lest you can't eat lunch!"

As soon as the words were finished, Dad Bai walked to the door of the kitchen: "Give me a piece of pork ribs!"

Bai Ma: "... old foodies!"

(End of this chapter)