The daily life of a talented young husband who travels through a book and suffers from cruelty

Chapter 146

"Sanggong! I've already told Xiaoxizi to ask him to stop by the academy next time he goes to the other courtyard on Jingde Mountain to find out when he will resume school!"

This afternoon Li Xiaodao entered the study from the outside, and said to Xianggong who was arranging the books.

"Thank you, ma'am," Pei Zhiqi replied while tidying up. There were still two books to be placed so high that even his height had to stand on tiptoe.

Xianggong has almost finished tidying up, and the books are back on the shelf again, neatly arranged.

Li Xiaodao finished appreciating the fruits of Xianggong's labor, then lowered his head, and saw a small stack of red paper on the table.

She picked it up and flipped through it, and said with a smile: "Master, isn't this the paper I cut out to write couplets on? It's still alive. I thought it was gone during the Japanese invasion."

After putting away the book, Pei Zhiqi patted the dust on his hands and said with a smile, "Yes, I found it in the corner of the bookshelf, so I took it out."

"I remember Xianggong said that he would make up the Spring Festival couplets after he came back. Is Xianggong going to write couplets?"

Just as Li Xiaodao finished speaking, he suddenly remembered that he and his husband had an agreement on couplets a long time ago. He hurriedly turned around and wanted to go out, muttering: "There is no place to buy food these days, so I can only buy food at my brother's house." Pluck a few from the small vegetable garden to make do with it, sir, write it down first, and I'll go next door and pluck cabbages for the vegetable porridge tonight!"

She felt that her reaction was already very fast, but unexpectedly, she was stopped by her husband.

"Wait a minute, lady, don't you remember? We have agreed on the Spring Festival couplets..."

Li Xiaodao forced a smile on his face, turned back stiffly, and said to Pei Zhiqi: "Sister, what, I really can't tell you, I haven't met Spring Festival couplets when I grow up, why don't you let me recite the cycle of elements?" surface……"

Thinking that Xianggong doesn't know what the periodic table of elements is, she had no choice but to change the sentence: "I am willing to cook porridge for the next few days, so please forgive me. Think about it, how many times I posted the couplet on the gate?" Shame..."

Li Xiaodao looked at Xianggong eagerly.

The husband didn't speak, but looked at him silently with a smile on the corner of his mouth, his eyes seemed to say: "What you promised must be done, and the lady can't break the promise."

Reluctantly, Li Xiaodao raised his forehead: "I admit it. Come on! My husband said the Shanglian, let me think about it for three to five days, and I will definitely figure it out."

I was planted in the gentle hometown of the scholar Xianggong. At that time, I hadn’t seen him for many days, and finally saw him. No matter what the husband said, he was good, and he agreed. Now it’s not, and I started to pay off the debt.

Pei Zhiqi smiled and shook his head: "I'm going to write and post it today, as it happens that tomorrow is the Lantern Festival."

"Ah?" Li Xiaodao pursed his lips.

"Xianggong, why don't I teach you the sound of flicking the tongue in Fanyu? Haven't you always been curious about how the sound of flicking the tongue is made?" Li Xiaodao tried to divert Xianggong's attention.

"Okay, we'll learn when we finish writing the couplets," Pei Zhiqi agreed with a smile. After finishing speaking, he spread out two pieces of red paper, arranged the left and right sides, then took out a large brush and put it on the pen stand, and then began to grind the ink.

Li Xiaodao suddenly felt that this gentle and elegant husband was quite difficult to deal with.

"I'll put out the upper couplet first, and the lady wants to write the second couplet while the ink is grinding, how about it?" Pei Zhiqi said to the lady while grinding the ink.

Li Xiaodao sighed, leaned towards his husband playfully and replied: "My lady obeys."

Li Xiaodao's appearance made Pei Zhiqi smile slightly: "Miss, don't be nervous, I'll make the simplest one, it will definitely match."

"Okay, let's talk, Mr. Li." Li Xiaodao had given up struggling, and she smoothed the paper she was going to write later with her hands, and the red color was immediately dyed on her little hands.

Pei Zhiqi thought briefly, and read a sentence: "Chen You went to ride the wind in the old year——"

There are only seven words, Li Xiaodao thinks about it, it feels quite simple?

"I've already thought about it in my heart! But I'm too embarrassed to read it out, so let's just write it down!" Li Xiaodao said boldly.

She savored it in her heart, and felt that she was really right, not only nouns to nouns, verbs to verbs, even the tones seemed to be closed, and the pronunciation was very smooth.

Pei Zhiqi nodded and smiled, "Okay, it just so happens that the ink is finished."

Pei Zhiqi picked up a large writing brush, dipped it in ink, and was about to start writing, when Li Xiaodao hurriedly said, "My lord! Write in capital letters! Don't write cursive script, I don't know how to write."

"Okay," Pei Zhiqi replied with a smile, and then he wrote the first couplet just now on the paper stroke by stroke.

Li Xiaodao stared at Xianggong to see that he had finished writing, and couldn't help but sigh, Xianggong was concentrating on writing, with lowered eyebrows and elegant posture, every time she looked at it, she would fall into it.

"It's my turn." Li Xiaodao took the brush from his husband, dipped it in the ink, tilted his head to think for a while, and then slowly wrote down each word on the paper without hesitation.

On the afternoon of the th day of the first lunar month, couplets were added to the gates of Li Xiaodao and Pei Zhiqi's house. The first couplet on the right side was beautifully written, while the second couplet was not neatly written, some were skewed and different in size, and the horizontal ones were even more peculiar. The first and third characters are horizontal and vertical, and the second and fourth characters are similar in shape to the second couplet.

I saw that this couplet is——

The first couplet: Chen worry rides the wind in the old year
Second line: Japanese pirates and bad guys are not allowed to come

Horizontal batch: safe and sound all year round

After posting it, Li Xiaodao stood in front of the gate and thought for a long time.

Forget it, shame is shame, this is also a kind of affection, isn't it?
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The two laughed and quarreled after finishing the couplet, and then began to worry about the next thing.

In the evening, Li Xiaodao and Xianggong were sitting in the main room, sipping the boiled water in their cups, discussing what to do if there were no Yuanxiao meatballs for the Lantern Festival tomorrow.

The tea leaves were ruined by Japanese pirates, so now I can only drink boiled water; there is only a little flour and a little rice left in the kitchen at home, and there is no place to buy vegetables now, and I can’t buy glutinous rice flour. There is a little bit left, but it is definitely not enough to make meatballs.

"It stands to reason that during the Lantern Festival, you have to hang lanterns, eat Yuanxiao pills, and go to the street to enjoy lanterns, guess riddles, and watch makeup people, but this year, these things are very difficult." Pei Zhiqi sighed softly: "But the leftover glutinous rice is not enough to grind into powder. Wrap them into big balls, but you can dip some sugar in them and wrap them into small balls, which can be regarded as a symbol of reunion, so make do with the scene.”

"It's a good way," Li Xiaodao nodded in agreement.

Supplies are scarce now.Li Xiaodao should have started drinking menstruation medicine long ago, but he finished ten doses of this medicine last time, and he hasn't caught this month's one. Unexpectedly, there are Japanese pirates here, and now even his brother doesn't have enough medicine, so he can only Only when the merchants come back to the provincial capital to do business can they reopen.

Fortunately, last time I took three packs of painkillers and only drank one, leaving two packs in the kitchen. I was not poisoned by Japanese pirates. I can only use painkillers this month.

My brother said that after the Lantern Festival, the merchants should come back slowly. Li Xiaodao is counting the days, and the prescription is about to be prescribed~
When the menstruation is over, the merchants will come back, and she will have medicine to catch.

Thinking of this, the frustration of not being able to eat Yuanxiao pills and not being able to happily go to the streets with Xianggong to make Yuanxiao is a little better.

(End of this chapter)