"Then how expensive is the Spring Festival couplets sold! And the rich man can write by himself, so he has to buy it! In other words, small households and rural areas, these Spring Festival couplets are written by scholars who read in the village." Chen pursed his lips and looked at Qi Yaoyao and said, "If the scholar is easy to talk, then the Spring Festival couplets are not mentioned. If he meets the arrogant scholar, his face will be as long as a donkey." He sighed, "But what can I do? Who can tell me how to write? Now it is not easy to have a person who can write in this village who can write."

Qi Yaoyao Teng stood up and said, "Pomegranate, pomegranate calls Lu Ming to come."

"What are you doing?" Chen said to Qi Yaoyao who suddenly stood up.

"Write Spring Festival couplets and make a little money." Qi Yaoyao said to her with bright eyes.

"Can this make money?" Chen said with discontentment at her.

"Yes!" Qi Yaoyao smiled, "This year every household has grown vegetables in big baskets and made money. These couplets of copper plates are still affordable."

"But we don't have that many people who can write!" Chen asked at her worriedly.

"Yes!" Qi Yaoyao said with her eyes shining brightly.

"No, no, we can only be the four of us." Chen shook his head and looked at her like a rattle, "You still have to look at the child, you can't be tired anymore. Heng'er told Lu Ming."

"Can I not do it?" Qi Yaoyao looked at her with a sharp smile.

"That person is even less than enough." Chen looked at her with a giggle and said, "This is how much you can write!"

"There are people in the county school!" Qi Yaoyao looked at her with a smile and said, "There aren't all rich families in this county school, and there are poor students. Can't you make some money in these few days?"

"Yes, yes." Chen's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"And as Lu Xiucai, I don't know if Lu Ming is willing." Qi Yaoyao listened to the sound of Lu Ming's rapid footsteps coming from outside the yard.

"Madam, young lady!" Lu Ming bowed through the cotton curtain and said, "I wonder what to look for the young man?"

Qi Yaoyao briefly said the matter, "Don't you know that Lu Xiucai is willing?"

"Young man, let's do it now!" Lu Ming immediately agreed, why don't you make money?

"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Qi Yaoyao called him and said, "This red paper money, pen and ink money, you have to prepare first!"

Chen took out a hundred taels of silver notes from the camphor wood box, went out and handed them to Lu Ming, "Please use it first."

"Madam, can't use so much!" Lu Ming said, looking at Yinbiao with his eyes down.

"Hold it! I'm a little more comfortable with my hands. I don't want you to be embarrassed." Chen stuffed the silver note into his hand and said.

"That little one is gone." Lu Ming bowed, "I'm going to get busy, I'll prepare for the New Year..."

The pomegranate bag was filled with a lot of money and said, "I'm there! Don't worry, the meals for the four of us are just for the meals? Fried croquettes, fried chicken nuggets, fried pork ribs, fried tofu, and steamed flower buns, I'll pack them all by myself."

"Please give me your wish." Lu Ming looked at Pomegranate gently and said, "I'm leaving."

"Hey! Lu Ming, don't forget that County Chief Mo and his new year's goods were arranged." Chen shouted and reminded him.

"It's already arranged and sent it to you." Lu Ming said with a smile, bowed and retreated.

Chen looked at the pomegranate with black eyes and said, "You're busy!" He turned around and sat on the edge of the kang, and said with some concern, "I don't know if the students in the county school do it? After all, this man has a big face, and scholars still have a good face. He would rather be hungry than do this thing that seems a bit embarrassing to them."

Qi Yaoyao rubbed her chin with her index finger and said, "It depends on what you said?"

"How do you say this?" Chen said, looking at her with confusion.

"It's not good to say that it's just to make money." Qi Yaoyao's black eyes turned and looked at her and said, "Studying and becoming an official is the ultimate goal of a scholar. What is the purpose of entering the official career?"

"Being an official for thousands of miles is for wealth!" Chen blurted out and made his debut after hearing this.

"Ye! I see through this and don't say it out loud." Qi Yaoyao looked at her with a funny look and said, "Scholars claim to take the happiness and well-being of the people in the world as their responsibility. As an official, they benefit the people. The New Year is a big festival, and writing Spring Festival couplets for the people is also a good thing."

"Daughter-in-law, you are like this!" Chen shook his head and laughed.

"Besides, this poor student went to copy books for the sake of training or life, but he didn't see them disagree! Instead, he was very enthusiastic." Qi Yaoyao looked at her with shiny black eyes and said.

"It's different, copying books is also reading." Chen's deep eyes looked at her and said, "Heng'er copied books a lot when he was studying."

"So! This is also a practice writing songwriting by writing Spring Festival couplets." Qi Yaoyao looked at her with bright eyes and said.

"Human mouth is really convinced." Chen looked at her with a smile, "I'll leave this to Lu Ming, let's see what he does!"

&*&

Lu Ming was so busy that he was not stuck in the ground before the New Year. He left all the things he had to do to Chen and Pomegranate for the New Year’s Eve dinner.

"Here, come, fried meatballs, come and taste the sweet and salty ones." Chen came in with the freshly cooked meatballs and put the bowl on the kang table, "Try it quickly." He said that, and handed the chopsticks to Qi Yaoyao.

The vegetarian meatballs are white radish, carrots, and mung bean noodles, and fried in a oil pan. They smell the fragrance!

Qi Yaoyao picked up a ball with chopsticks, crunched... and took a bite, whimpering...

"Be careful," Chen said with a funny look at Qi Yaoyao, who was bulging his cheeks and whispering.

Qi Yaoyao swallowed the meatballs, "It's delicious, sweet and salty."

"Then we will start to explode." Chen's black and white eyes looked at her and reminded him again, "There will be chicken nuggets, pork ribs, meatballs later, and some belly."

"Yeah!" Qi Yaoyao nodded with a smile.

Chen turned around and came in with a teapot and said, "Drink more water, this fried food is dry!"

"Yeah!" Qi Yaoyao nodded lightly again.

"Daughter-in-law, don't just eat by yourself, you forgot about Dongdong." Chen said to his sleeping grandson, "This kid is really easy. He knows that we are busy and sleeps loudly."

"Don't worry, I can't forget your baby grandson." Qi Yaoyao's black pupils looked at her and smiled, "I'll wake him up in a while, otherwise I'll stop sleeping at night."

"Let's not cook at noon! I'll be full when I eat this." Qi Yaoyao picked up the meatballs again.

"Don't make it. When the fried food is over, you will be beaten with some millet porridge." Chen said with a black look at her.

"Madam, the oil is hot, let's fry it!" The voice of pomegranate came in from the hall and said.

"Eat slowly, I'll go out." Chen pulled the apron on his body, turned around and walked out, and started working hard with the pomegranate.
Chapter completed!