132. Shangliang (on the shelves at midnight today)
Before we knew it, it was the end of August. These days, the general kept dealing with the head of state. If the head of state could not defeat it, he became honest and did not bully other dogs from other families.
At this time, the newly built small building was completed.
In fact, the building was basically completed one week ago. During this period, the workers took him water and electricity lines, paved a front yard for him, and installed doors and windows. In this way, the building was basically completed and can be delivered.
Ao Muyang, accompanied by contractor Sun Fuhua, carefully inspected the building. The building quality is fine, the waterway circuit is fine, and the doors and windows are fine. It can be decorated directly afterwards.
After the inspection, he nodded and said, "Yes, this house is well built and very fast."
Sun Fuhua smiled with a cigarette in his mouth and said, "It's not that fast. Large areas of concrete and anti-seepage, retarded concrete can be done in 14 days. Generally, concrete of silicate cement and ordinary silicate cement only takes 7 days. And many people in your village come to help. If it weren't for repairing the house for the village, the building would have risen half a month ago."
Ao Muyang was already very satisfied with this speed. He spent two months to decorate it. Before winter began, he could almost move into a new house.
The delivery of new houses is the next celebration, and this link is called Shangliang.
In the past, fishermen built houses with mud houses, brick and tile houses, with only one floor, with a top roof, and the whole house is supported by a beam. For a house, the most important thing is this beam.
Therefore, when building a house is built, the owner will hold a grand ceremony and invite villagers to come and celebrate.
However, now buildings are built, and in order to make use of space, the top floors of modern rural buildings are flat, so that they can be used to dry food and sea food.
In such buildings, the function of beams is not that great, but the customs have been passed down for hundreds or thousands of years, and it is not just thrown away. Therefore, to this day, there is still a saying that a beam is raised in Qiantan Town.
In the past, we celebrated when we really put on the beams, but now we celebrate when we deliver the houses, which is a bit like the tradition of burning kangs in northern cities.
In addition, there are other purposes for calling the villagers together at this time, which is to let everyone check the house together to see where there are problems, so that the engineering team can modify it in time.
Going to the beam is a big deal and must be treated solemnly. In the past, people had to ask Feng Shui masters to count the days to come to the beam. Ao Muyang also joined in the fun. He found Fujizi, an old Taoist priest who helped him during the tomb construction, and calculated a good day at the end of the month.
Ao Muyang checked the house and was ready to celebrate. He talked to a few people about the time, and then the whole village soon spread. At noon, the entrance of his small building became lively.
The old man and the old lady who had nothing to do, the children who had gotten off the cram school and the women rushed to his house to wait for the beam.
According to local customs, when the owner is on the beam, he wants to sprinkle grains. In the past, he used to be just a serious matter of food, but now he is sprinkling snacks, candy, and even small red envelopes to attract everyone to compete and add joy to the owner.
Ao Muyang spoke, and he would definitely send red envelopes when he went to Liang today, so he attracted a lot of people.
Ao Fugui and his son helped him borrow a wooden beam. This is the village’s happy beam. If there is no real beam link to build a building, this happy beam will be used instead.
This Xiliang is straight and thick. It uses solid fir trees, with slightly smaller ends and slightly thicker in the middle. The whole is like a loach belly. A flying dragon is drawn in five colors on it.
A good tree harbour predicts that the owner's family will produce pillars. The flying dragon hopes that the owner's family will become a dragon and will prosper from generation to generation, and every detail is given.
Lu Zhizi also came to join in the fun. Ao Muyang waved happily when he saw her. She walked over and said with a smile: "It's very lively."
"It will be more lively later." Ao Xiaoniu said excitedly.
Lu Zhizi watched him take off her clothes and said, "It's so hot that I can't wear clothes? Why are you shirtless again?"
Ao Xiaoniu said: "No, teacher, later..."
"You will know later." Ao Muyang smiled, "Keep it secret first, don't be too surprised later. We have a custom here, which is quite a bad thing."
The old Taoist Fujizi was invited over. He pinched the time and shouted after the good time: "Don't make noise, master, drink!"
Ao Muyang went up with three glasses of wine. The old Taoist priest walked up to Xiliang and picked up a glass of wine sprinkled on one end of the wooden beam, shouting: "The first glass of wine is presented to the beam, and the children and grandchildren will be born in the Duke and Marquis!"
He took another glass of wine and scattered it among the wooden beams, and shouted: "The second glass of wine is presented to the beams, and a wealthy man will be born from generation to generation!"
The last glass of wine was sprinkled on the other end of the wooden beam and said, "The third glass of wine is presented to the top of the beam, and the stars of the children and grandchildren are shining brightly! Come on, firecrackers!"
‘Crack!’ ‘Crack!’
A string of firecrackers hanging at the door of the house were lit, and as the smoke filled the air, the festive smell suddenly appeared.
Song Qiumin and several women were busy placing tributes in front of the wooden beams, and then the old Taoist priest handed a piece of red paper to Ao Muyang and said, "Go, stick the wedding invitation."
Ao Fugui laughed and said, "Garbage, take a closer look, it's not that the six animals are prosperous!"
After hearing this, the people around him burst into laughter.
Ao Muyang was confused: "What? How can this upper beam be used to prosper the six animals?"
Song Qiumin explained: "The joke in Wangjia Village was that Wang Heizi's family had a new house two years ago. When they were on the beam, they posted the wrong wedding invitation and posted a livestock prosperity, which became a joke."
Ao Muyang smiled and said, "Actually it's not a joke. If there are too many livestock in Wangjia Village, they have to pay attention to the prosperity of the six livestock."
The villagers laughed even more, and Ao Fugui said, "Yangzi, you are so bad."
Ao Muyang was innocent: "What am I harming? I mean, there are many pigs, chickens and ducks in their village, and there are breeding farms in the village, so it is okay to prosper the six animals."
As he said that, he posted the wedding invitation on the wooden beam, with three words of seriousness: Chinese Dream.
When the villagers saw the words on the wedding invitation, they were amused: "Damn, Brother Yang, you have a high political awareness."
Most people didn't care about wedding invitations, and they all took the dominant position, because at this time, the highlight began, and the old Taoist priest shouted: "The master goes to the house and scatters grains!"
Ao Muyang sprinkled candy and small food from the balcony on the second floor, mixed with small red envelopes.
He scattered it and people snatched it up. Ao Xiaoniu and other shirtless children were the most active, rolling and crawling, and the whole place was rumbling.
Lu Zhizi was stunned: "God, what's this for? Why are you rolling around?"
A young man with a handsome appearance next to him said, "This is our tradition here. The boy rolls around, which means that wealth comes."
Ao Muyang scattered a bag of candy and snacks, sprinkled hundreds of red envelopes, and then came down and gave the rolling children big red envelopes.
After doing all this, he greeted his neighbors and relatives to have dinner together.
Seeing the delicate young man beside Lu Zhizi, he laughed: "Wenchang, are you here too? Let's go and have a drink together and have a chat together."
The delicate young man forced a smile and said, "I can't do it. Come here to say goodbye to my old classmate and I'll go back..."
A woman next to her said, "Oh, Wenchang, why are you anxious to go home after finally leaving the house? Have a good chat with Yoko, look at how good Yangzi is now. Why are you a college student so much worse than others? There must be a reason. If you talk to Yoko more, you will find the reason?"
The delicate young man smiled even harder and waved his hand and said, "Second Aunt, I have something to do at home, so what, Brother Yang, I'll leave first..."
What else the woman had to say? Ao Muyang frowned and said, "Second Auntie, stop talking, go and have a meal!"
Chapter completed!