Chapter 105 Beam Raising Ceremony
After the empty shell of the house is completed, only tiling and a little finishing work are left. There is no need to hire so many workers for this, and their own family members can do it, saving some wages.
The family got up early as usual.
Ye Yaodong saw that it was rare for the children at the table to get up so early at the same time and eat breakfast neatly. He joked, "Today seems to be September 1st, school is about to start, right? Your good days are coming to an end."
The two children, who are only in the first grade this year, said happily, "We have long wanted to go to school."
"Wait for you to go for a few days, you don't want to go!"
"Why?"
"Because there is a lot of homework to be done every day, Brother Ah Hai is still copying books in the room at the moment. I have never seen him so diligent. Only today can I see him getting up early in the morning and cramming."
"Hahaha, I said why I heard my aunt scolding while I was in a daze early in the morning."
"Fortunately I finished last night..."
Several children laughed at Ye Chenghai there.
Mother Ye also murmured: "If you are not busy in the morning, you will be flustered at night, and you will get up in the middle of the night to mend your crotch, so there is no one who can read."
At this time, the Lord also came out of the house with big dark circles under his eyes, and an army green satchel embroidered with five-pointed stars on his back.
"Hey, have you finished your summer homework? It's okay if you don't write. You don't need to sign up. You can go to the mountain to herd sheep. It's so comfortable to herd sheep. You can run around all over the mountain without doing homework. The mountain is full of peach trees and plum trees. Loquat tree, orange tree, grapefruit tree, hahaha~"
Ye Chenghai was yearning to hear it, but he could only sigh, "I also want to herd sheep, but my mother refuses."
Mother Ye gave Ye Yaodong a white look, "What nonsense? You didn't know how to study, and you are still here to hook him to herd the sheep, and he doesn't want to go, anyway, you have to study for another two years, finish the fifth grade, and read all the words." gone."
Sister-in-law Ye also slapped Ye Chenghai on the head, "Hurry up and have breakfast for me, and take your homework to sign up after eating, I still have a lot of work to do, if you give me a hard time, you will beat me up."
"Understood." Ye Chenghai replied weakly, and went to have breakfast honestly.
Ye Yaodong laughed loudly, but before he finished laughing, he heard his eldest son say: "Father, I'm going to herd the sheep too, don't study!"
His laughter suddenly stopped, "Fuck, let your sister go, don't study if you are good all day long, and study is the kingly way if you are bad..."
"Just now you said it's good to herd sheep, and besides, I don't have a sister!"
"I'll just talk about it casually. Being illiterate is hard. If you can't read, you have to recognize all the words..."
Lifting a rock to shoot himself in the foot is what he is doing now.
Lin Xiuqing patted him twice, "It's better not to talk nonsense, so as not to spoil the child, go and eat your meal."
Ye Yaodong felt that he was wrong. These children really knew how to go up and down the mountain and go to the sea.
After breakfast, Mrs. Ye and Mrs. Ye seemed to be chasing ducks, cursing behind and taking a group of children to the school to sign up, leaving only the two youngest of Ye Yaodong's family sitting on the threshold and watching.
Other adults also have to go to the new house to clean up the aftermath.
Ye Yaodong planned to cultivate a vegetable field at the back door of the new house, so that the couple could grow vegetables conveniently. He also wanted to go to the mountain to cut some bamboos and build a fence to raise chickens. Of course, the home should look like a home.
Ye Yaopeng saw him opening up wasteland with a hoe, and after asking why, he followed his example.
Certainly need to grow vegetables, otherwise what would they eat?
After the ground was almost opened, Ye Yaodong put the remaining loess in a dustpan and poured it into the vegetable field. He went home later to fill up the ashes in the stove, sprinkled it in and mixed it to increase some nutrition, and then he could grow vegetables. There is not much nutrition, and the vegetables will not grow big.
And it is necessary to pour a little manure and fertilize according to the situation, but this is still early...
Lin Xiuqing was also full of hope for the new home, cleaned everything inside and out, and followed Ye Yaodong to tidy up the vegetable field and sprinkle some vegetable seeds.
Wait until the day when the beam was raised, all the men of the Ye family were dressed neatly and went to the new house full of energy. Women were not allowed to go there.
In rural areas, it is believed that women are yin, which will bring bad luck to the new house, so even though this day is very lively, the women in the family did not go to the beam-raising ceremony, but helped prepare the meals for the banquet at home.
The workers who built the house will all come to help on this day. They will be the first to paste happy characters in the house, hang red silk, and paste couplets written in red paper on the beams and gates.
On the beams of the house, it is usually posted that "the green dragon supports the jade pillar, and the white tiger supports the golden beam."
The horizontal batch is "Shangliang Daji".
Then an incense table was set up in front of the main entrance, and the fruits bought by Ye's mother in advance were placed on the table. The three brothers Ye Yaodong respectfully burned incense and kowtowed.
Then, after setting off the firecrackers, it was almost time before the beam raising began.
The people on the beach need to do it at high tide, which means that money is coming in like a tide. It would be better if the moon is full, which means family reunion.
When the ceremony started, many villagers gathered around their new house to watch the excitement, which is rare in rural areas, and everyone came after hearing the news.
The upper beam is also called the rising beam.
Because when the beam is erected, the people above need to throw four strong red silk materials from the top, and then the people below will distribute it at both ends of the beam. The red silk hangs down a Qing Shunzhi copper tin, which means "peace and harmony". Then go up from the head beam in sequence to the order on the second beam.
The carpenter also sang poems while standing on the shelf, and the people standing below had to follow suit.
After the entire beam frame is installed, place purlins on the forks, and rafters are nailed on the purlins.
In order to commemorate, the rafter nailed to the middle of the house is specially made. Carpenters use a plane to level the side of the round rafters, and they need someone to write the date of construction, the name of the owner and the craftsman with a brush.
For example, Ye Yaodong’s house: On September 6, 1982, Ye Yaodong built a house with Li Si, a carpenter, and Wang Wu, a bricklayer.
After the beam is raised, it is time to throw the beam. The carpenter on the beam will stand beside the beam and throw peanuts, candies, and glutinous rice cakes onto the beam while singing poems. Everyone rushes to pick it up for a good start.
After the end, firecrackers will be set off, and the workers who built the house will be entertained. The Ye family has already set up two tables, and they will celebrate the completion of the house together after the end of the reception with good cigarettes, wine and food.
There is another point here, that is, bricklayers are still needed to continue laying tiles. If they are not treated well, if they are irresponsible or deliberately make trouble, the house will leak when it rains after the house is built, and it will be very troublesome to repair.
In this era, the ritual feeling of raising the beam is particularly heavy, unlike in the future, it is becoming more and more simplified.
After having a hearty lunch at noon, Mother Ye gave another red envelope to the carpenter who raised the beam and the worker who helped lift the beam, and it was considered complete.
The next step is to lay the tiles until the day of moving.
Building a house is tiring. Finally, this important task is almost over, and the whole Ye family is relieved.
Mother Ye smiled and said: "Moving on the 20th day of the lunar calendar, you should go back to your mother's house in advance and let your parents and brothers come over to have fun on the day of the moving."
The three daughter-in-laws all smiled and agreed.
After getting on the beam, Ye Yaodong stopped going out to sea with Father Ye, he had to work on his own boat, and made more than a dozen ground cages during this time.
He put them on the sea one after another, and there are already 3 rows. He collects them every one or two days. I don’t know if he is lucky. He will explode a few nets every time. It can be sold for 5-6 yuan, and when it is more, it can be sold for 7-8 yuan.
You know, at that time, he was only less than 3 rows of ground cages, and he was already on top of others' 5.6 rows of goods, sometimes more.
It's a pity that there are still too few ground cages. If there are more, he can also collect more goods. After more free time, they should be able to do more.
It happened that Ye Yaodong had finished his work and was not too busy during the day. He saved some seafood in his cage, and he took it to Ah Guang's house, and called a few friends along the way.
During this period of time, everyone was busy, and no one cared about the angry Awei and the mouse. He thought that so many days had passed, and it should be almost the same, so why not call everyone to chat, and let the matter pass.
But unexpectedly, when he went to Awei's house, he still turned his face.
"Heh~ what wind brought our Dong brother here, you are a busy man who is either building a new house or going to sea to make money, and you actually come to me when you have time."
Ye Yaodong pursed his lips, and said helplessly: "Everyone is a bit busy during this time, I saved some seafood, let's go to Aguang's for a drink or two and chat?"
"No, it's fine for you to chat, I have no skills, so I can only listen to your bragging when I go."
As he was about to enter the house, Ye Yaodong couldn't help cursing: "Fuck, it's just a trivial matter. As for it, didn't you just say it in advance?"
"If you really treat me and Mouse as brothers, you won't miss us. Anyway, we don't talk much, and we've always been very transparent. It's normal to be ignored, so play your own game."
Grass mud horse!
Ye Yaodong cursed in his heart, then turned around and left, he is used to him! Whoever leaves can't survive, right?
He is too lazy to put a hot face on someone's cold ass, but he just thinks it's a pity that brothers who have been brothers for many years suddenly parted ways because of a small misunderstanding.
Thinking of that classic sentence, I am afraid that my brother will suffer, and I am afraid that my brother will drive Lu Rover!
Brother's life is better than his death, right?
After leaving Awei's house, he didn't bother to go to Mouse's house anymore. The two of them were always on good terms, and at that time they also vented their anger through the same nostril.
He didn't feel sorry for them in any way, it's their mentality problem, don't worry about them.
Hurriedly went to Ah Guang’s house again, and other people were already there. Everyone saw him coming alone, and there was no one behind him, so they couldn’t help but ask: “Didn’t you say to call Ah Wei and Mouse? They won’t come?”
"Awei gave me a bad face, and said sour words, saying that he is not capable of anything, and that he is playing his own... grass, too lazy to care about him, mentality problem. After I came out of his house, I didn't bother to go Mouse family, I don’t want to hear sarcastic remarks.”
Ah Guang shrugged, "Forget it, let's ignore them for now, there's no need to put a hot face on a cold butt."
Xiao Xiao: "He has to figure it out by himself."
The fat man was cooking, he shook his head, "Oh, it's all about money."
Ah Zheng said confidently, "What's the matter with us earning our own money? How does it feel to care about him? Where does it make sense!"
"Forget it, don't mention it, let's take care of our own food and drink. How is Ah Guang trawling the net recently?" Ye Yaodong sat at the table, with one foot on the stool, and picked up a shrimp mushroom and peeled it.
"It's still called Ah Guang, shouldn't it be called Ah Shun? Hahahaha~"
"It's time to change your mouth!"
"Then why don't you ask him to pay a change fee?"
"Go, go, Mao's account change fee, I thought the new wife would serve tea, call it whatever you like, anyway, just change it in the account book."
Seeing that they were on the wrong side again, Ye Yaodong hurriedly pulled them back, "How is your harvest recently? Ah Guang and his father went out to sea, and you two will work on the boat? Then how do you pay for it?"
"I transferred the share of the small boat to them. When they sell the goods and save enough money, they will give it to me. Anyway, such a small boat can't use three people. It's just right for me to trawl with my father."
Xiao Xiao also nodded, "Yes, after Ah Guang was out recently, we have a lot more goods online."
Ah Guang looked at him contemptuously, "We also have a lot of trawl nets!"
"Is it possible that you changed your name, so you don't leak money?"
"Hmph, even eating can't stop your mouth!"
"Anyway, come and help with the fire, one or two of them sat there and ate." The fat man swung the spatula and wanted to hit them in the face. This group of shameless people called him over to cook, but when they came Just sit down and eat, where he cooks for half a day.
"you go…"
"you go…"
The four of them pushed back and forth. On a hot day, who would like to sit in front of the stove and light a fire? In the end, they had to cut their hair together with stone cloth.
Three stones, Ah Guang one scissors, so he can only accept the failure and obediently go to light the fire.
He sat in front of the stove and said positively: "Dongzi, when are you going to move? Let me know when the time comes. We will carry the bed and move the furniture for you."
"Are you free? I'll just call them when the time comes, you don't have to come."
"You said in advance, I must be free. How could I not be free for such a big matter as moving!"
Others are winking~
Ah Zheng smiled badly and said, "Dongzi, I heard that someone told your sister about someone from Xishan Village."
"What?" Ah Guang's eyes widened in shock, "When did it happen, why don't I know?"
Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes at him, "There is such a thing."
Xiaoxiao smiled and asked in a good way: "Have you seen each other? When will you get married? If you need help, please tell us."
"Looked at it today, I don't know what to do, and I don't worry about it."
Ah Guang suddenly felt a little restless, and they all looked at each other!
"That young boy doesn't look too bad, the short one is not as tall as our Ah Guang."
Ah Guang straightened up instantly!
"Ah Guang is not very tall, 175 is the most."
A Guang: Grass, I want to kill him with my eyes!
"Enough, do you think everyone can grow up to be as tall as you?"
"That's true!" This is also Ye Yaodong's pride.
The southerners are generally short, and they lack nutrition in this era. Everyone is not tall, and someone like Ah Guang who can have a height of 175 is considered tall.
After everyone reminded Ah Guang in a disguised form, they started bragging again.
"We have been working on this small boat for a few years, and then we can build a bigger boat together.
"It depends on the situation. Earn the money you can earn first, and don't think it's too little."
"A few days ago on the first day of the new year, it's a pity that Qifeng missed it, otherwise we can go to the isolated island again."
"I heard that there may be another typhoon in two days."
"The typhoon is the typhoon. Just take a few days off. We haven't had a few typhoons in a year. Just get used to it. Remember to take the boat to the safe haven."
(end of this chapter)