Liang Sanlang's new mansion was completed, which became the biggest happy event for He Lu in recent years. The frustrated Helu people have not had the wealth to build a big house for many years. Thanks to Liang Chuan, an outsider, he has the ability to bring face to the village and make money with the people in the village. Although he is a member of the Liang family. Happy, but everyone in Helu was happy for Liang Sanlang.
He Lu used to be poor. Everyone guarded a few acres of thin land and plowed with their backs to the sky for a lifetime. The more they plowed, the thinner the land became, and the more people plowed, the poorer they became. After Saburo led us, we began to feel that life was a little more exciting. We could sit under a tree to enjoy the coolness and make bamboo weaving every day, and the wages we earned were much more than growing food in the fields.
Sanlang told the villagers that when his new house is completed, several houses will be set aside as schools for all the children in the village to go to school. Going to school, what a distant and dreamy word, this small village in the ravine has not produced a decent scholar for several generations. The white gray walls of the ancestral hall have long been covered with yellow dust, and there is no plaque for promoting people to become scholars. There was a lot of spider silk hanging on it.
We are still poor. This disease of poverty cannot be cured. Who can afford to provide for their children to sit in a big and bright house and eat free meals. Everyone also knows that studying can make a difference, but if you use up your family's surplus food to pay your husband's tuition, he may still look down upon you!
Renyi Sanlang, he said that there is no charge for children to study and learn literacy, and they just send them over. Is this the canon of Wenquxingjun Zhuanqufuwen or the great sage Bodhisattva's heart! If you can write a few words, you can make a living doing ink, and you no longer need to hold a hoe. A child's life can be considered a turnaround.
Zhao Jinyu put up a high-quality plaque on the front door. This is the front door of the owner and his face to the outside world. A home with a plaque must be luxurious and elegant, and the momentum cannot be compromised. As for whether it should say "Zhang Zhai" or something else, that was the owner's idea.
It is also necessary to choose an auspicious day when moving to a new house. In mid-April, Zhao Jinyu asked Liang Chuan how to write the word and who would write the word. Liang Chuan did not think much and asked Meng Liangchen to write the word. His handwriting was the best he had ever seen. The best and most charming, as for what to write.
Liang Chuan wanted to write about the Qinghe Yan sect, but this was not popular in the Xinghua area. I feel a bit sorry to write about Zhang Zhai. After all, this was Li Chuyi’s home, and it would be unkind to occupy the magpie’s nest by myself. Writing about the Zhang Mansion is even more against the rules. The highest level of feudalism. As rich as Zheng Zuliang's family, there is only a big vermilion plaque of Zheng's house hanging in front of the door. They dare not take the idea of the Zheng Mansion. Ordinary people only live in the house and cannot Call the government.
On the large square plaque, he asked Meng Liangchen to write only two words "Wang Hometown". No one could understand his situation or the "hometown" of his hometown that he might never return to. . After writing it, the plaque was covered with bright red silk cloth, and the apprentice helped hang it on the door frame. On the day of entering the house, the red cloth would be unveiled!
People of later generations would like to buy new clothes and live in new houses every day, but the ancients did not see it that way. People are not as good as old clothes. As the saying goes: When people move to poverty, the fire is extinguished. In an old house, there are the figures of the predecessors and the thoughts of the descendants. It is passed down from generation to generation with the meaning of inheritance. Relocation is the deepest word in the heart of the Han people to express love. No one would leave their homeland and find another place unless it was due to war, floods, plague or locust famine.
Although the house was ready at the end of April, the old master Zhao Fafa said that the best date to choose is May. Everyone does not like to hold happy events around the Qingming Festival in April for fear of offending their ancestors. He Baozheng also said the same thing. He said that this was a great event for the whole village and should not be taken lightly. He would help manage it when the time comes.
He Baozheng made a special trip to Xinghua, asked all the Feng Shui masters in the city, compared the head of the family's zodiac, the stems and branches, and the new house to sit facing the four heavens, and finally determined the date. On the second day of May, this was the Feng Shui of all the people in the city. Everyone is optimistic about Jichen.
Liang Chuan asked Zhaodi to go to Xinghua to invite the Shitou siblings, Zheng Ruoying from Fengshan, the bearded Zheng Fucheng from the yamen, the three Baozheng from the next village, Jiang Lizheng from Fengshan, Meng Liangchen, and even Ma Dan to help him The fish-catching kid was also invited over. Anyway, everyone who has similar friendships is invited to come over and let’s have some fun together. Sun Houpu's home is too far away, so I couldn't invite him if I wanted to.
The housewarming also required sacrifices. He Baozheng had all the necessary things to buy when he moved to Xinghua in Fengshan. New rice, new buckets, red envelopes, new bowls and chopsticks, new spoons, six auspicious items, and red paper incense candles were all available.
Zhao Fafa led his apprentices to clean up the leftovers in the new house for several days after the house was completely completed. Dust will return to dust and dust will return to dust. What can be buried will not be piled on the ground. What can be burned will be burned completely. Leaves a residue.
On the first day of May, He Baozheng, Yi Niang and Yang Xiu went to Fengshan early to buy food and drinks for tomorrow's housewarming party. Liang Chuan said that he would treat the whole village to a feast of delicious food and drinks tomorrow, and only happy things would be fun if they were shared together. According to local customs, generally only wealthy families would buy one.
I bought a whole fat pig and a fat sheep, the local Black Mountain wild sheep. They were all killed, soaked in plain water, and brought back in an oxcart. The seasonal vegetables were afraid that they would not be fresh, so He Baozheng hired a cart driver and asked him to help buy a few of the items they had ordered as soon as the vegetable vendor came out of the stall tomorrow. The dishes were sent to He Lu for a little money. He Baozheng moved more than half of the rice wine from the lower pavilion. Hundreds of people were drinking wine. If it was missing, the atmosphere would be ruined. He delivered mosquito coils from the lower pavilion and earned more than 30 yuan on hand. This was what he had left after paying Liang Chuan's dividends.
Nothing can be done with money. It happened that a family's old cow died in the market. After reporting it to the county government, they brought it back, slaughtered it, and hung the beef up for sale. Fortunately, everything goes well on the big day, and the beef that is usually rare to buy is now available. I have gathered all the three animals, but the beef only has one cut, and the price is extremely expensive.
Because the bamboo weaving work was a major event in the Sanlang family these two days, we also stopped working for these two days. It was everyone who took the initiative to stop work and come to Liang Chuan's house to help with the work. Liang Chuan seemed to have nothing to do, but when he started doing it, he realized that this work would not be finished at all.
It is not allowed to bury the pot to cook food during the housewarming banquet. The stove for cooking the big banquet is to use the stoves of the masters in Luocheng. But where can these tables and chairs go to produce so many tables and chairs for the guests to sit on tomorrow? Liang Chuan's family didn't have one, so everyone moved the biggest tables and chairs in their homes and gathered them in the patio of the new house. He Lu hadn't held such a big event in many years. He Baozheng himself He couldn't even remember whether it was his grandfather or great-grandfather's generation who could afford to invite the big guys in the village to have such a big banquet.
There are also large bowls and pans. To put it simply, it is a banquet. From arranging staff to wash and cook tableware, picking vegetable leaves, cooking, reception, passing dishes, and carrying wine, the staff can't be arranged in a short time! Everyone is here to eat, so we can’t let everyone wash the vegetables. Reluctantly, Liang Chuan asked He Baozheng to go to Xianshui Village to hire some women to help him and pay them!
Liang Chuan's new house has not yet been moved in, but it is already extremely popular. The thirty or so women who made bamboo weaving for Liang Chuan all came, and they brought the men from their own families with them. There were people inside and outside the house, and everyone saw Liang Chuan. Everyone’s big new house is praised with a thumbs up. How much money does it cost to build such a big house? The last person with this ability was He Jialuo’s grandfather, the previous Lao Baozheng, but that’s not the case. How many lifetimes of money has their He family saved? . Saburo is a man of extraordinary abilities, and a life of fine clothing and good food is what he puts in his hands, and he can come easily.
It was also the first time for everyone to come to Liang Chuan's house. They could walk around everywhere. The house was used as a wall and there were no walls around it. The houses on three sides and the wall beside the gate separated the house. The wall was very high and gave people a sense of wonder. An illusion of looking up.
Liang Chuan suddenly had an illusion in his heart. The life in his previous life was convenient but made him feel extremely empty and anxious. But in this world, relying on his own hands and mind, he allowed everyone to slowly get better and live a better life with him. I also enjoy this kind of interpersonal relationship, as if I was destined to have this kind of relationship.
Everyone has a place that suits them. There are no mediocre people, only people who don't know how to use it and use it in the wrong place.
A group of village girls from Xianshui were invited to help. It was an auspicious day for other people, especially a day like moving house. You must not speak ill of other people's families. But every big-mouthed woman looked at other people's villages becoming more and more prosperous, their eyes were so hot that they were bleeding, and they felt all kinds of envy, jealousy, and hatred in their hearts. Others were here to help, and they, like servants, were sitting in the corner washing pots. Bowl, picking vegetables.
Once upon a time, no girl from their village wanted to marry in this dilapidated village. The two villages were so close that they didn't want to because they looked down on He Lu's poverty. Now, inexplicably, the people from He Lu have passed away. Even though he was living a good life, he still looked down on this village stupidly. .
He Baozheng brought the pigs and sheep back, and asked a villager in the village who had been in charge of the banquet spoon to help him cook the spoon. He Baozheng was of the same generation as He Baozheng. The master held a large, bright kitchen knife, dragged the pig and placed it on the chopping board. He clicked it twice and cut off the pig's head first, saving it for tomorrow's sacrifice. The pork was cut off one by one, and two plump streaks were kept for the offering. The other pigs were put into the water, and the pork ribs and pig tails were cut into two parts.
Many people in the village haven't eaten pork for a long time. Meat is expensive. The people in the village looked at a fat pig and a fat sheep and swallowed hard, comforting themselves that they would have plenty of meat to eat tomorrow.
The children followed the adults to join in the fun, just looking forward to a bite of food. They looked at the various fish and meat in the hot pot, and their mouths kept flowing. The adults laughed and laughed again and again, but the children were still greedy. non-stop. They were in small groups, laughing and playing, singing songs they didn't know where they made up: Haosaburo, Yoshisaburo, lead everyone, make a lot of money, build a big house. . .
After the Luocheng masters completed the house, they originally wanted to let the apprentices go back to Luocheng first, leaving a few masters behind to calculate the wages. Liang Chuan has kept everyone here and has been busy these past few months. Why rush? Don't you want to take a second look at your results?
