Chapter 372 372. Where are the Spring Festival couplets?

Chapter 372 372. Where are the Spring Festival couplets?

There were already four treasures of the study at home. As for the red paper, Zhou Aiguo made a phone call and someone delivered it ten minutes later.

At this time, Nie Wei had already ground the ink and was thinking about what to write.

"Write the couplet for the gate first." Zhou Aiguo saw this and immediately suggested it, and Su Qing beside him nodded in agreement.

It happened that someone was setting off firecrackers outside. Nie Wei looked out the window and quickly thought of a couplet. He immediately picked up the pen and wrote: "Two or three sounds of firecrackers are the beginning of the year."

As soon as the first couplet was written, Su Qing beside him couldn't help but applaud.

It was not because of the content of the Spring Festival couplet. Although Nie Wei's content was good, it was not so dazzling compared to his handwriting. Nie Wei's handwriting was the real reason why she applauded.

"Xiao Wei, I didn't see you practicing your handwriting, but you have improved again." Su Qing said in surprise while admiring the couplet that Nie Wei had just written.

"Actually, I practice occasionally at the company." Nie Wei answered in a modest tone, but he felt guilty saying this. He did have some brush calligraphy, but it was great to be able to write once a week. In fact, he himself didn't understand why his calligraphy could have made such progress under such lazy practice.

"Xiao Wei will not be a star in the future, but he will be more than enough to be a calligrapher. He is worthy of being my son." Su Qing completely believed Nie Wei's explanation, and then said proudly, and Zhou Aiguo beside him nodded in agreement.

On the contrary, Zhou Duoduo beside him didn't understand what calligraphy was, but just thought that her brother's handwriting was really beautiful, but she was more curious about the second line.

"Brother, write the couplet quickly, write the couplet quickly."

Under Zhou Duoduo's urging, Nie Wei picked up the brush again and wrote: "The plum blossoms are four or five points and the world is full of spring."

After writing the second couplet, Nie Wei did not stop, and directly took a shorter piece of red paper and wrote the horizontal banner: "Spring is everywhere."

"It's appropriate, I'll go hang it outside the door now." Zhou Aiguo said with a smile, and was about to take the spring couplet, but was stopped by Su Qing, saying: "Why are you in a hurry, the ink hasn't dried yet, wait a little longer, and I haven't studied the child's handwriting carefully yet."

"Haha." Zhou Aiguo was given a white eye by Su Qing, but he was not angry, standing aside and laughing.

"Mom, I can give you another couplet." Nie Wei said with a smile, and this sentence immediately received Su Qing's approval.

Thinking of his mother's profession, Nie Wei thought of a couplet about teachers.

"One seed, a thousand drops of sweat, spring sowing and autumn harvest, a bumper harvest."

"Ten thousand books, a hundred lectures, talk about the past and the present, a garden full of peaches and plums."

After handing the couplet to his satisfied mother, Nie Wei was urged by Zhou Aiguo to write one for him. Although Zhou Duoduo, who was standing by, didn't understand why everyone asked her brother to write couplets, it didn't stop her from joining in the fun and also asked for a couplet.

As a result, when Shu Chang came to visit Nie Wei's house, he saw Nie Wei still standing there splashing ink and writing.

"Auntie, uncle, happy New Year's Eve, Duoduo, happy New Year's Eve." After Shu Chang entered the house, he first blinked at Nie Wei, and then politely greeted Su Qing, Zhou Aiguo and others.

Su Qing saw Shu Chang coming, and finally put down the couplet in her hand, and asked the girl to sit down.

In Su Qing's eyes, Shu Chang is undoubtedly the daughter-in-law that her son has already reserved. Moreover, this girl is polite, good-looking, sweet-mouthed, and hardworking. In the eyes of Su Qing, the prospective mother-in-law, this is definitely a good daughter-in-law worthy of her own child.

Zhou Aiguo, who was standing aside, also looked at the girl with a smile. He was not good at speaking, but generous. He quickly went back to the house and took out a thick red envelope. Judging from the thickness and size, the money in it was at least 50,000 or 60,000.

"Shu Chang, uncle and aunt wish you a prosperous career in the coming year." Zhou Aiguo handed the red envelope to Shu Chang. Shu Chang thanked him very well and did not refuse. He accepted the red envelope generously, which made Zhou Aiguo and Su Qing very happy.

Then Shu Chang also took out the red envelope he prepared and handed it to Zhou Duoduo beside him. It was not as much as Zhou Aiguo gave, but it looked like it was also about 10,000 yuan, which made Zhou Duoduo very happy. After all, Zhou Aiguo usually controlled Zhou Duoduo's pocket money very strictly. It was also a super surprise for her to get so much cash at once.

Soon, Zhou Duoduo ran back to the room with Shu Chang's red envelope to count the money. Counting the red envelopes given by Nie Wei and the two elders before, the little guy can be considered rich this year. No wonder he couldn't wait to go back to the house to settle the accounts.

And Shu Chang then gave the New Year gifts he brought to the two elders. The one for Su Qing was a jade bracelet, and the one for Zhou Aiguo was a signature pen.

The two elders who received the gifts seemed quite satisfied. They didn't care about the value, but cared more about the girl's intentions.

After collecting the gifts, Su Qing greeted Shu Chang while asking Zhou Aiguo to post the couplets outside.

"Nie Wei, are you writing Spring Festival couplets?" Shu Chang walked to Nie Wei with curiosity, leaned forward to take a look, and saw Nie Wei writing Spring Festival couplets.

"How about I write one for you, and take it back to post on your door later." Nie Wei nodded and said.

"Of course, your calligraphy is so beautiful, teach me too." Shu Chang's eyes lit up when he saw Nie Wei's calligraphy. He thought Nie Wei's hard pen calligraphy was beautiful enough, but now seeing Nie Wei's calligraphy, it seems to have a more charming style.

Nie Wei naturally wanted to satisfy Shu Chang's thirst for knowledge, and he was quite a teacher. One wanted to learn and the other loved to teach, and the two began to "do something else", and the original Spring Festival couplet business was temporarily closed.

When Su Qing finished cutting the fruit plate and returned to the hall, she saw Nie Wei teaching Shu Chang how to write the character ‘一’.

“Ahem.” Su Qing looked at her son with a playful look, coughed lightly, and called to Shu Chang, whose face was a little blushing: “Chang Chang, come and eat fruit.”

“Thank you, Auntie.” Shu Chang was too embarrassed to learn, so he ran to Su Qing and whispered to her.

Nie Wei was very bored by this, and his mind was focused on the Spring Festival couplets again. This time he made faster progress and finished writing them in less than ten minutes.

The house, including the gate and several small houses, was included, and a pair of Spring Festival couplets was specially written for Shu Chang’s house. Seeing that Shu Chang and her mother were still whispering over there, the laughter was not suitable to reach Nie Wei’s ears, but he couldn’t listen to the conversation between women seriously, so he simply took the Spring Festival couplets out and pasted them with Lao Zhou.

When Nie Wei walked out of the door, he found that Lao Zhou was chatting with two neighbors.

"Old Zhou, you wrote these couplets yourself. The calligraphy is really impressive, much more beautiful than those bought ones."

"My child just wrote them casually, haha, it's okay, it's okay."

"You are so modest, Old Zhou, let your child write two for us."

"That's right, don't mention giving them as gifts, we can buy them."

"Okay, I'll let my child write one for everyone later, don't mention buying them, we are neighbors." Zhou Aiguo was so happy to be praised by his neighbors that he agreed to it on behalf of Nie Wei.

Nie Wei, who had just walked out of the door, happened to hear this and smiled helplessly, which was considered as tacit agreement.

Soon Zhou Aiguo returned to the house. The first thing he saw was Nie Wei standing behind the screen wall. He was stunned at first, then he looked at Nie Wei with joy and asked: "Xiao Wei, just now the neighbors all liked the Spring Festival couplets you wrote, and begged me to let you write one for them, take a look..."

"Uncle, just tell me how many families you promised."

"Not many, not many, just five, we have a good relationship on weekdays." Zhou Aiguo said immediately when he saw Nie Wei did not object.

"Then it's settled, just these five families." Nie Wei nodded readily, but also set a limit for Zhou Aiguo. After all, he couldn't write couplets all the time today, right? It was a rare holiday, and he had to rest well.

Five pairs of couplets were written soon, and Nie Wei waited for the ink to dry before handing them over to Zhou Aiguo.

Zhou Aiguo seemed very interested in the job of delivering couplets. As a big boss, he was usually numb to praise, but he loved to hear others' praise for his family, especially this kind of praise from the heart without much interest in profit, which he liked more.

So after getting the couplets, he couldn't wait to go out.

But Zhou Aiguo forgot his job, and the job of pasting couplets for his family fell on Nie Wei's head. Fortunately, Shu Chang came out to help soon.

Su Qing was in the room, watching the young couple outside flirting and pasting couplets through the window, and she couldn't help but feel happy. If she didn't know the nature of her son's work, she would have started to urge him to get married.

Shu Chang went home at noon, and Nie Wei drove her and visited the elders of Shu Chang's family.

Until he went home again, he found that his mother Su Qing had already started preparing the New Year's Eve dinner.

This year's New Year's Eve dinner was similar to previous years, with several home-cooked dishes, six meat and six vegetables, chicken and fish, which was considered particularly rich for a family of four. The family worked for two hours to get all the dishes, and then sat around the table, eating while waiting for the Spring Festival Gala.

"Have a drink with me." Zhou Aiguo poured Nie Wei a glass of wine as he did in previous years, and the two of them drank it.

Su Qing, who was standing by, saw the two of them finish their drink and immediately served them some food. Zhou Aiguo particularly enjoyed the feeling of being taken care of so carefully, and his eyes were bent with smiles.

"Are there people from your company in the Spring Festival Gala this year?" Su Qing suddenly asked while eating.

"There is a female singer, Alan, who came to our house to record before. She will be on the Spring Festival Gala this year." Nie Wei replied.

Su Qing had a good memory and immediately asked if it was the big-eyed girl. Nie Wei nodded and said yes, and then Su Qing immediately smiled and praised Alan a few words.

Then Nie Wei told Su Qing that Alan was singing "South of the Colorful Clouds" which was recorded at our house.

"Ah, what a fate. I thought the song you wrote was nice, much better than those love songs. Thank you for more songs like this in the future, as well as songs like "Memories of the Forbidden City." Due to her profession, Su Qing still prefers music full of history, even folk music, but she is not very interested in modern pop music.

Nie Wei did not refute his mother's idea, even though he didn't think so in his heart.

The New Year's Eve dinner lasted from 4 pm to 7 pm. Nie Wei and his family all had round bellies. Seeing that there was still an hour before the Spring Festival Gala, the family simply went out for a walk to digest the food.

While strolling, Zhou Aiguo also mentioned to Nie Wei that he had suggested buying the land in Sanya and Jeju Island.

"Why don't you and I do real estate? When we transferred our investment, the directors in the company had all kinds of doubts, but now they are all shut up. Not to mention Sanya, the land price we bought at the price of a third-tier city is now almost as high as the price of a first-tier city. Jeju Island is even more exaggerated. I heard that it will soon be changed into a special autonomous prefecture, just like our autonomous region. In short, the housing prices are soaring. It may be exaggerated to say that it changes every day, but it is true that it changes every month. Every month when I get the report, I am already dazzled or the employees below have entered the wrong numbers." Zhou Aiguo couldn't help laughing when he said this.

When Nie Wei suggested increasing investment in these two places, Zhou Aiguo was under pressure and finally implemented this plan against all odds. Now it seems that his insistence was absolutely correct. Now the company has acquired countless land in these two places, and its assets have also soared. I believe that Zhou Aiguo will become a new billionaire in China in the near future.

This also made Zhou Aiguo want to train Nie Wei as his successor more and more.

Although he thought about it, Zhou Aiguo usually didn't think about changing Nie Wei. After all, he was in his prime and it was not time for him to step down. But occasionally, he began to instill a concept in Nie Wei that the real estate company he was holding would belong to Nie Wei in the future, so that Nie Wei could be prepared.

Everyone was at home during the Spring Festival, so there were not many pedestrians on the street. Occasionally, a few neighbors came out to set off firecrackers, which made a deafening sound, followed by the smell of gunpowder, which was very choking, but this was the flavor of the New Year. I just don't know if the people of Kyoto in the future will blame the smog on the firecrackers set off in recent years.

Nie Wei and his family didn't stroll for long before they were ready to go back. After all, the air environment around the firecrackers was not good, and Su Qing was a little timid. The occasional sound of firecrackers could scare her enough. Zhou Aiguo felt distressed and kept urging her to go home.

Zhou Duoduo was a little unhappy at first. She was having a snowball fight with her brother, but fortunately, Nie Wei had a way. He persuaded her a few words and promised the little girl some things she wanted. The little girl's face immediately turned from cloudy to sunny.

But just when Nie Wei returned home, he suddenly paused because he seemed to have discovered something strange.

After a little thought, Nie Wei immediately walked out of the door and looked around, then he looked at his son standing outside the door for a long time without entering the house. Su Qing turned around and asked him why he didn't come in.

"Mom, didn't you notice that the Spring Festival couplets we just posted are gone?" Nie Wei pointed to both sides of the door and said with a smile.

When the whole family stood outside the door, they saw that the doorway that originally had the Spring Festival couplets was now empty, and the other three people were also dumbfounded.

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