Grandpa is not vegetarian

From the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month, shopkeeper Li closed the warehouse, and then returned to Fucheng with the ledger to prepare for the New Year. An Xiaobei and the others have no home here, so they can only celebrate the New Year in a teahouse, because starting from Laba, there are several days of Beijing. Due to the wind and heavy snow, Boss Niu never came to the city, so Mu Yunyi stayed in the city. Seeing that the New Year’s Day was approaching, and he didn’t know if Boss Niu would still enter the city, Mu Yunyi decided to wait for another two days. If that doesn't work, go buy two donkeys and drive back with Shang Yi himself.

This Yueran teahouse has rules, because the four staff are all slaves of the Chen family, Chen Hexuan is considered sympathetic to them, allowing them to still be open during the Chinese New Year, but the tea and snacks have to be bought by themselves, and the money earned is counted as theirs. My own, so it is still open as usual. Although there are not as many customers as in the past, there are still a lot of profits. Mu Yunyi's storytelling is still divided by table and person, and the remaining profits are divided into ten shares. An Xiaobei and the others each get two shares. Mu Yunyi and Shang Yi each took a share.

When I got up this morning, the weather was excellent and the sun was warm. Mu Yunyi asked Shang Yi to move the tables and chairs outside, put them away by the street, set up pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and took out the red paper that had been cut in advance. Go ahead and start writing pairs.

The first one is for my own teahouse: Tea is intoxicating without wine, and books are fragrant, why should I spend them.

The Spring Festival couplets originated in ancient times and gradually spread in the Song Dynasty, but they were written or engraved on two wooden boards, and then hung at the door. They are called peach charms, and only rich families or wealthy businesses will make them. Well, it’s not easy for a small family to find someone who can write, and the two boards are also very expensive.

Mu Yunyi remembers that writing Spring Festival couplets on red paper was promoted by Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. Without Zhu Yuanzhang in this world, there would naturally be no paper Spring Festival couplets.

There were originally two peach charms in the Yueran teahouse, which were hung on both sides of the door, with the words: condensed into clouds and mist, and the fragrance of morning dew from tea.It has been hung for a year, and it has faded a little. It will be replaced with a new one when shopkeeper Li returns to work and reopens after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.This time, Mu Yunyi wrote it on big red paper and pasted it on the two large pillars with thick bowl mouths on the steps in front of the door.

Everyone had never seen this kind of "Peach Talisman" before, and they all felt it was a novelty. Looking at the bright red paper, it was also quite festive. Many passers-by stopped to watch, and even gathered around Mu Yunyi's table.

Mu Yunyi immediately wrote another pair: The jade chopsticks were set up and the three immortals went to the Eight Treasures Banquet together, and the golden jars were opened and Kyushu was drunk with a ray of incense.

Cut out another two pieces of square paper, with two big characters of blessing written on them, and Shang Yi took them to the opposite Zuixian Tower, stood at the gate and shouted: "Business Weng, fortune has arrived!"

Shopkeeper Weng is different from shopkeeper Li. He is not a domestic slave of the Chen family, but a native of Wangcheng County. Therefore, at the end of the new year, the restaurant does not rest overnight. Now most of the chefs in the restaurant have gone home. Some locals, shopkeeper Weng was setting up his abacus at the counter, making plans for a banquet reserved by a wealthy family. Novelty, when I walked to the door and looked, my face was even more surprised.

Mu Yunyi smiled and said again: "The shopkeeper, the fortune has arrived, do you want it or not?"

Shopkeeper Weng looked at the flying characters on the couplet, read it again, and liked it very much: "Yes! How can I not! Who can push the blessing out!" After passing the couplet, I looked up and saw the pair of Zuixianlou, and nodded repeatedly, "Not bad! Not bad! This is more interesting than Tao Fu!"

Mu Yunyi asked Shang Yi to go back and get the boiled paste, and help him paste it on the two pillars in front of the door. The shopkeeper Weng stood on the street, read it aloud, looked at it for a while, was full of praise, and then told the waiter to take it. Two strings of money to Mu Yunyi: "Good things come in pairs!"

Mu Yunyi didn't refuse, let Shang Yi pick it up, and went back to write a copy: the grains of golden wheat baked are full of fragrance, and the smiling faces attract a family portrait, plus two words of blessing, and then take it to the pastry shop next to it, Still shouting loudly at the door: "Shopkeeper Qiu, fortune has arrived!"

Shopkeeper Qiu was overjoyed when he saw it, and gave him two strings of money, and asked the waiter to wrap a bag of pastries for him.

Mu Yunyi wrote ten pairs in one go, and gave them to the shops along the street, some familiar and some unfamiliar, but giving couplets in such a New Year's Eve is about the arrival of blessings, so how can people not want them?And the two big sheets of red paper are also worth a lot of money, and the words on them are even more excellent. All the shopkeepers responded with a smile. The owner of the teahouse didn't earn any money for this set, and got a total of eighteen strings, which is one tael or eight silver coins. Seeing Shang Yi's tongue-in-cheek, An Xiaobei was envious, and Bai Wa was jealous.

After writing ten pairs, Mu Yunyi stopped writing, made a pot of tea, sat in the room and drank slowly, An Xiaobei said: "Mr. Xiao, you earn so much money, a pair of paper peach charms is two Hundreds of dollars, why don’t you continue writing? There are many shops on other streets.”

Bai Wa said: "You're just taking advantage of this trick. If you don't take advantage of this skill to earn more, you won't be able to earn any money when everyone else takes out the red paper to write."

Mu Yunyi smiled and said: "I can't deliver all the shops in the city, not to mention that people may not be willing to give two strings of money. As for other people who can write, we can't stop them. Contentment is the most important thing in life..."

Everyone felt a little sorry for Mu Yunyi, but Quchi couldn't help but said: "You are better off writing, Mr. Xiao. I will deliver it for you. For each pair you send, just give me five cents for running errands."

Mu Yunyi just shook his head and remained silent. After a while, people began to ask for justice. The first one who came was Zhao Fu, a servant of Zhao Yuanwai's family: "Mr. Making peach charms, saying that you are not enough friends, you have such a good thing, you don’t want to think about our family, because the master is too busy to leave, he specially asked me to ask for ink treasures!” He took another piece of silver and came out, “This is for the pen fee. "

Mu Yunyi thought for a while, Zhao Yuanwai was in the timber business, so he took a pen and wrote: Suzaku has been looking for sycamore trees since ancient times, and Qinglong has always urged pillars.Then I wrote the word "Fu": "I don't mean to write this to make money, but it's just for the new year, and I will be happy with everyone, happy and happy, the tune given by the shopkeeper Weng, give two strings of money, then just give me two strings of money. For this fate, I only accept two strings of money." He knew the weight of the silver by weighing it with his hand before he had practiced it, and went to the house to get the silver and weighed the silver, which was more than four taels, and Mu Yunyi told An Xiao Bei twisted a small piece of two renminbi, and returned the rest to Zhao Fu, who asked him to take it back to Zhao Yuanwai.

Not long after, Fan Juren came over in person, and Mu Yunyi also received two strings of money. After him, people came to ask for words one after another, and Mu Yunyi wrote them one by one, and everyone still received two strings of money. In the morning, I harvested a pile of copper coins, together with a few pieces of scattered silver taels, and took them to the bank to exchange them for silver. The total was seven taels or four. bank note.

At noon, Mu Yunyi asked Shang Yi to go to the West Market to see if Boss Niu came to sell firewood. It wasn't long before Shang Yi came back: "I didn't see Uncle Niu, but I asked someone, and they said his surname is Niu. The old firewood seller is here today, the firewood has been sold out, and now he is going to Dongshi to buy new year's goods, and I have seen his car and cattle."

Mu Yunyi was overjoyed: "We can finally go home! Xiaoyi, pack up quickly!"

Because of the blizzard, Mu Yunyi lived in the city for less than half a month, and was trapped in the city after Laba, until today, so he has accumulated a lot of things, first of all, including Shang Yi, everyone A new set of clothes, from the inside to the outside, including obscene trousers and underwear, including shoes and socks, these alone are a big burden.There is also a rabbit fur scarf, two small toys bought for Gao Yiqing, pens, inks and papers to take home, etc.

Say goodbye to An Xiaobei and the others, lock the door of the upstairs room, first take Shang Yi to the West Market, ask Uncle Bao, who sells charcoal, to help, and tell Boss Niu when he comes back, go shopping by yourself , will be back soon, and then take Shang Yi to Dongshi to purchase.

I first bought four kinds of candies, peanut candy, amber candy, green tea candy, and sesame candy, plus stove candy for the New Year’s festival.There are four kinds of cakes: Yunpian cake, honey orange cake, almond cake, jujube paste cake, and two catties of walnut cake.Jujubes, black dates, persimmons, hazelnuts, walnuts, pine nuts, chestnuts and other fruits also weigh one catty or two catties. Putting all the food together is a burden.

After eating and buying almost everything, I went to buy daily necessities such as candles, cloth, colored thread, paper, etc., and then went back home.

When he arrived in West Market, thinking that there would be one more person going in and out of the city in the future, Mu Yunyi bought three buckets of black beans from the rice store in West Market, totaling more than 50 catties. Wen, spent another 120 Wen to buy a cloth bag to put it in, and asked the little guy from Mipu to carry it on the cart of Niu Boss.

"Uncle Niu! This is my new apprentice, Shang Yi, just call him Xiaoyi, this is Uncle Niu." Mu Yunyi's core is a 20-year-old young man, although Shang Yi is 14 years old, but In his eyes, he is also the same as his little brother, and it is natural to call Xiaoyi.

Boss Niu was a little surprised: "You have accepted an apprentice? That's really gratifying. Congratulations, uncle first."

Mu Yunyi and Boss Niu are already very familiar, and he said with a smile: "Happy and happy, uncle, these black beans are for your rhubarb to eat, he dragged me away for more than two months, don't let it suffer in vain , I just thought that horses have no night grass and are not fat, and this cow must eat night grass if it wants to grow well, so I bought some black beans for it.” As he spoke, he went to the front and touched the bridge of Rhubarb’s nose, Rhubarb She obediently rubbed her head against his hand.

Boss Niu thought that Mu Yunyi bought these beans himself, but he didn't expect that they were for him. He was setting up his car, and when he heard this, he stopped immediately: "For Rhubarb? You kid, why are you messing around again?" Money, our family has left food for him, the food is not bad, it is not easy for you to earn some money, why buy this for him.” Said and ran to the gate of the West Market, looking east, because of the cold weather, the rice shop The little fella had already disappeared without a trace, and he couldn't help but stamp his feet, "I'll carry it back for you, let's refund this, even if you ask for a little less money, it's good to get it back, it's almost Chinese New Year, you can claim it It’s good to eat a few catties of meat with Yichun and Yiqing.”

Mu Yunyi came over and pulled him back: "Uncle Niu, I have already prepared the money for buying new year's goods. This bag of black beans is for Rhubarb, not for you. You have no right to refuse. I will buy it for you later." Things, you can just refuse, now that the north wind is picking up again, let's go out of the city and go home."

"You child!" Boss Niu sighed and came back to set up his car and drove out of the city.