Pokémon: From the college entrance examination

New Year's Eve.

early morning.

"Su Li, can you hang the lanterns symmetrically?"

"Dad, save some face for me, Xiao Ming is still here watching!"

"Xiao Ming looks at what's going on! Dear grandson, help your dad hold the ladder steady, Su Li, hurry up!"

"Okay, okay, I'll move right now."

The three of them, the father, son and grandson, gathered in the yard in front of the house and were making preparations for the New Year.

"Well, after hanging the lanterns, it's time to put up Spring Festival couplets. Spring couplets are the most important thing. Su Li, where are the Spring Festival couplets I asked you to bring?"

"Dad, it's in the trunk of the car. I didn't take it out yesterday."

"Hmph! Let me see your eyes."

Arriving at the car parked in the small courtyard, Grandpa Su Chang took the Spring Festival couplets from Su Li, pulled them open and started reading.

"The door welcomes the blessing stars, and the door opens to the door with thousands of auspicious clouds. Hengbiao: The journey is thousands of miles. It's good, it's good, is it too ordinary?"

"Dad, it's better to be normal."

"Yeah, that's fine. Xiao Ming, go see if your grandma and your mother's rice cereal is ready. We're going to put up Spring Festival couplets!"

"it is good!"

Su Ming came to the kitchen and saw a bowl full of rice cereal. He couldn't help but ask:

"Mom, grandma, it's not like we don't have glue and tape at home. Why do we have to use rice paste to stick the Spring Festival couplets?"

"This is a tradition left over from the past, and the paste we made is very sticky. Compared with glue and tape, the Spring Festival couplets will stick more firmly!"

"After all, it is a good method passed down from our ancestors. My dear grandson, please take this bowl of rice cereal over."

"it is good."

After Su Ming brought the rice cereal over, he also cooperated and put up Spring Festival couplets.

The order of posting Spring Festival couplets is also particular.

Generally, the horizontal batch is read from right to left, and the top couplet is affixed to the right.

Of course, there will also be horizontal batches from left to right, so the situation is the opposite, with the first couplet posted on the left.

As for the methods of distinguishing the upper and lower couplets of Spring Festival couplets, there are two methods.

The first type is naturally the flat and oblique lines. Generally speaking, those whose ending characters are in the third and fourth tones (oblique tones) are the upper couplets, and those whose ending characters are in the first and second tones (the flat tones) are the second couplets, but there are occasional exceptions.

The second method is to look at the content of the Spring Festival couplets. There are generally causal, temporal, progressive and other relationships between the upper and lower couplets. You can read them through before posting them and combine them with the horizontal batch to feel their meaning.

The Spring Festival couplets Su Li brought were oriented from right to left, so the first couplet was affixed to the right.

"Welcome to the door to welcome the blessing star!"

Next is "Huna Qianxiang Xiangyun Kai" on the left.

Finally, there is the horizontal criticism of "a journey of thousands of miles".

After finishing the posting, Grandpa Suchang began to order everyone to post the characters "Fu" in their respective rooms. There was no requirement as to whether it was upright or backwards.

After a busy period.

The next step is to apply window grilles.

Grandma Chen Ruxiang's craftsmanship is still superb, and she can easily cut picturesque window grilles even after wearing reading glasses.

Su Ming also cooperated and pasted the window grilles cut by grandma on the window.

Now, the flavor of the new year is very obvious.

Su Li took out a lot of uninflated balloons from somewhere, and also took out a can of helium.

"Xiao Ming, come here and help."

It didn't take long.

Su Ming grabbed a handful of balloons tied with thin strings.

The balloon was light and fluttery, trying to escape from Su Ming's clutches.

"Come out, nut dumbbell! Su Ming can let go!"

The Nut Dumbbell is an elf that looks like a flat durian.Its metallic body is covered with thorns, surrounded by three black stripes, and there are triangular patterns under its eyes.

The eyes have green outlines, yellow orbs, and black pupils.

There is a green spike on the top of its body, and three long green appendages like vines surrounding it, with spiked metal disks tilted above it.

As soon as Su Ming let go, a dozen helium-filled balloons quickly flew upwards.

"Nut dumbbells, flying needles!"

Only a sound like firecrackers was heard.

"Clap clap clap!"

The Nut Dumbbell skillfully pops the balloon, and the sound caused by the explosion also brings a lot of youthfulness.

After all, fireworks are not allowed in the town, so this is the only solution.

......

Su Ming's New Year preparations are in full swing.

The Hangzhou Elf Inspectorate also feels a bit turbulent.

"The address given by No. [-] is still wrong?"

"Well, Zhang Ju, I think she is pretending to be stupid on purpose!"

"It involves the forces of the Black Spirit Organization in Hangzhou. She obviously knows its importance. We must pry her mouth open!"

"Yes, Bureau Zhang!"

"Ask Du Li to accompany you, she is good at interrogation."

"Roger that!"

......

"Su Li, where are the two elves I gave you?"

"Dad, the Fruit Tree Base also needs elves to take care of it these days, so I left the Big Food Flower and the Meng Song Cactus."

"Hmph, don't even look at your eldest brother Su Long. He is now the municipal gym leader of the Magic City!"

"...Dad, it's not like you are partial and left the trump card to your elder brother."

"You two have different development directions. If you plant fruit in a large area, it would be best for those two elves to guard it for you. Su Long is developing in the direction of a gym trainer, so he needs an elf who can control the gym."

"You two should cultivate it on your own. You can't rest on my laurels and live like this. You have done a good job in cultivating this nut dumbbell."

"No matter how well you cultivate it, it still can't compare to Big Brother's Dou Li Mushroom."

"Oh, you brat."

"Su Ming, come here!"

Su Ming, who was playing with the koi carps, marsh jumpers, timid insects, and the newly subdued Marilu by the lake, heard his father's call in the courtyard, so he trotted over and asked:

"Dad, what's the matter?"

"I'll give you a task. In the new year, have an elf battle with your cousin Su Yi. You must win!"

"Ah?! What's wrong with my cousin... My cousin is now a senior trainer and has more combat power than me..."

"No matter! Beat him!"

Grandpa Su Chang said with a smile:

"Your dad doesn't want to lose to your uncle and lets you look for face."

"Ahem, by the way, uncle will be back tonight for New Year's Eve dinner."

"Well, I'll be back."

"Fortunately, my son lived up to his expectations and got the provincial badge before the college entrance examination. I will tell my elder brother tonight that my son is going to a top university, haha!"

"..."

"..."

In the days leading up to New Year’s Eve.

Swampert has learned another move.

Koi's waterfall climbing skills!

But Su Ming was not happy at all.

Every time one more skill is learned, it means that the elf's potential has been tapped a little bit. If all the potential is exhausted before evolving, it will always be in the form of a bog jumper!

Look at Team Rocket’s Meow God!

In order to learn to speak, other skills can only be grasped wildly with one move, and there is no potential for evolution.

Su Ming was thinking about whether he should find some natural and earthly treasures to extend the potential of the Swamp Jumping Fish.

It can't have unlimited potential.

When the time comes, let’s look at the other fruits at my father’s Suli Fruit Base. There may be some that the elves like to eat. If they evolve as they eat, that will be a great joy in the elf’s life.