"I'm old! I've been running all day today and I'm tired!

So this year the task of writing couplets is left to you!

Well, Xiao Chen, where are my portions of pork and mutton?" Wu Xinping said with a smile.

"Here they are!" Chen Lijun quickly took out two pieces of good pork belly and two legs of lamb from the backyard and handed them to Wu Xinping.

"Okay, I wish you all a happy new year!

Comrades, let's see you again after the new year!" After Wu Xinping finished speaking, he rode away.

"Happy New Year to Mr. Wu!" everyone shouted at Wu Xinping's back.

Hearing the shout, Wu Xinping held the handle with one hand and waved behind him coolly with the other hand.

Zhang Junping looked at Wu Xinping who was walking away speechlessly. This old man really knows how to play tricks.

"alright!

Let's seize the time and get off work after finishing writing!

You decide what words to write.

I'll write it for you!" Zhang Junping said with a smile.

Others don't know, but several framers know Zhang Junping's level.

Master Qin was the first to speak: "Manager Zhang, give me one: The past is good for a hundred generations, and the present is new. The horizontal comment: Everything is new."

"Master Qin, your couplet is great! It fits the spirit of the times.

Our country is now in a good era of renewal." Zhang Junping said with a smile, and then wrote out the couplet just now.

It started with Master Qin, and when I looked at it, it turned out that store manager Zhang’s handwriting was no worse than that of the old store manager.

They all came closer and asked Zhang Junping to write Spring Festival couplets.

Some thought of the words themselves, while others didn’t know what words to write and asked Zhang Junping to write them directly.

The spring is bright and the mountains and rivers are covered with splendor; China is taking off and the motherland is forever young; horizontal comment: the mountains and rivers are magnificent.

Spring fills the world with bursts of joyful singing; fortune comes to the family and the family is filled with joy; horizontal comment: Five blessings all over the world.

With the arrival of spring, all the flowers are blooming on the earth; everything is new in the world during the festival; horizontal comment: everything goes well.

Zhang Junping was not polite and directly picked up festive words and wrote them for them.

It took more than an hour to finally finish writing everyone's couplets. Zhang Junping put down his brush and rubbed his wrist.

"Everyone, I wish you all a happy new year!

I wish you all a happy New Year, good health to your family, a successful career, and a happy family.

After we go back, show the neighbors the benefits we receive during the Chinese New Year, so that others won’t say our painting shop is a poor unit." Zhang Junping said to everyone, clasping his fists and cupping his hands.

"Haha...ha! I also wish store manager Zhang a happy New Year! Even if you don't say it, we have to do it anyway!"

“New Year’s greetings to store manager Zhang! Don’t worry, we will definitely promote our painting shop well.

Let them be jealous!"

Everyone laughed and wished Zhang Junping New Year greetings.

"Finally, I want to tell you some good news, which is my last New Year gift to you all.

The art shop will be recruiting new people next year! Each of you will have a quota." Zhang Junping said with a smile.

After he finished speaking, he looked at everyone and saw that everyone was staring at him blankly without speaking.

"What's wrong? Not satisfied with this New Year's gift?

How about I change it to another one? Give each of you a bonus of twenty yuan?" Zhang Junping asked with a smile.

"Satisfied, we are satisfied! Manager Zhang, I was mainly frightened by your news just now." Chen Lijun said quickly.

"Yes! Manager Zhang, your New Year's gift is the best gift I have ever received in my life!" Guo Meizhen's eyes were red with excitement.

These days, she has lost several pounds because of worrying about her children going to work.

"Manager Zhang, are you kidding us?" Some people couldn't believe this was true.

"Think about it, have I lied to you?

Look at the meat you are carrying, have I lied to you?" Zhang Junping asked rhetorically.

"No! Manager Zhang, it's mainly because this gift from you is so precious that we can't believe our ears."

"Okay, let me say it again! Next year, each of you will have a recruitment quota.

This is the recruitment quota I requested from the leaders of the Press and Publication Bureau.

Do you hear it clearly now?" Zhang Junping said again.

"Listen clearly! Thank you, Manager Zhang!"

"Manager Zhang, I wish you all the best and wish you all the best."

"I wish you a prosperous career and a happy family."

Everyone paid Zhang Junping New Year greetings and said various blessings and auspicious words.

After a lot of commotion, a group of excited subordinates were finally appeased, and everyone cut off the power supply in the store.

Lock the door and put a couplet written by Zhang Junping and a big word "Fu" on it.

After wishing each other new year's greetings again, everyone went back to their homes.

When we arrived at the Dashilar Courtyard, Qiu Wenyan didn't come today, and neither did his two apprentices.

Only the carpenters are still working overtime.

Zhang Junping talked with the carpenter for a while, then went to the cellar in the backyard to take out four jars of medicinal wine and put them into the space.

Then he locked the cellar and left the courtyard.

Riding a bicycle to Caishikou, Scarface's stronghold.

"Master Zhang, why are you here? If you need anything, just ask Xiao Xia to say hello." Scarface, who was drinking and bragging, was a little surprised when he saw Zhang Junping. He quickly stood up and let Zhang Junping take the main seat.

Then he ordered someone to bring clean dishes and chopsticks to Zhang Junping.

"Okay! Don't bother me. I'm just here to borrow a tricycle and I'll leave right away!

You drink yours!" Zhang Junping said with a smile.

"Master Zhang, it's rare for you to come here, why don't you have a drink together?" Scarface invited carefully.

"Forget it today, let's do it tomorrow! Tomorrow night in my courtyard, I will treat everyone to wine and meat!" Zhang Junping promised with a smile.

During this period of time, Secretary Scarface was still very attentive to his work, so it was time to have a drink with him and have a heart-to-heart talk with him.

"Listen to Master Zhang!" Scarface nodded with surprise on his face.

He invited Zhang Junping just to test it out, but he didn't expect that Zhang Junping would be willing to sit down and drink with him.

“Calling everyone together tomorrow, it’s the Chinese New Year and it’s going to be lively.

I'll prepare some rare stuff for you." Zhang Junping said with a smile.

"Master Zhang, what you said made us feel itchy. Can you tell us in advance what kind of rare thing it is?" Scarface asked with a sneer.

"Haha...ha! You'll know tomorrow!" Zhang Junping smiled and patted Scarface on the shoulder.

Although he knew that Scarface's so-called itchy heart was just a joke, Zhang Junping was still very happy.

After joking for a while, Zhang Junping rode on a three-wheeled scooter that was 80% to 90% new and left Caishikou.

Scarface made Zhang Junping very satisfied with this point. He didn't ask a single word that he shouldn't have asked.

Zhang Junping rode a three-wheeled cart into a deserted alley. When he came out, there were already three large wine tanks on the cart.

A wine jar weighing one hundred kilograms.

Thanks to the sturdy tricycles of this era and the thick wooden boards on them, they could pull the three jars of wine.

Riding a tricycle, we arrived at the district committee family home.

The gatekeeper already knew Zhang Junping and let Zhang Junping in without even asking. He just looked at the tricycle curiously.

Although Qiu Zhengqiang has gone to work in the city government, he has not moved yet.

It is said that the house where the previous leader lived has just been vacated and is still under intense renovation.

I won't be able to move there until next year.

After Zhang Junping parked his tricycle, he picked up a wine jar and went upstairs.

It was very easy for him to weigh more than one hundred kilograms. If the wine jar wasn't difficult to use, he could easily lift each one with one hand.

Knock on the door.

The second sister Qiu Wenyu opened the door. When she saw Zhang Junping standing at the door holding a wine jar, she screamed in surprise, "Ouch! Pingzi, what are you doing?"

"Second sister, this is the medicinal wine made for our father!" Zhang Junping explained with a smile.
To be continued...