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Chapter 701(1/2)

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On the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, it is advisable to get married and put on the bed and put on the beam.

Wang Fu, a farmer from Liangxiang, had already asked someone to count the auspicious day and time to go up to the Liang. The thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month is the auspicious day of the twelfth lunar month before the New Year. The auspicious day and time have been selected, so it cannot be changed. Even if it is windy and rainy on this day, it must be taken to the Liang according to the selected auspicious time.

If this day is sunny, then it is a good sign that the weather is beautiful, the spring is beautiful, and all things are shining, which will be a very good sign. Of course, if it is windy and rainy, it will also be called wind and rain, which is really a good weather.

However, Wang Fu was still very much looking forward to a sunny day on Thirteenth.

As the days approached, Wang Fu's three brick and tile houses were gradually being completed, and the yard walls outside had almost been built. Looking at the clear sky and clear sky for several days, Wang Fu felt even happier.

On the thirteenth day, Wang Fu had already gotten up before dawn. In the yard of the old house, he drew a load of well water from the village well, washed his face carefully with a towel, and then used the toothbrush he bought from Beijing when his daughter came back. He carefully brushed his teeth several times until his mouth was cool and fragrant.

After washing up, he went back to the house and put on the lapel lambskin coat he bought for him, and also wore a pair of short lambskin boots.

Before leaving the door, he put the tobacco pot and tobacco bag in his arms, and finally thought about it. He turned around and walked to the closet and took out a paper bag from it. It was a big front door brought back by his son, who was a soldier who was on vacation last time, saying that he had smoked it. However, Wang Fu felt that cigarettes were much more expensive than cigarette bags and was reluctant to smoke them easily. Today was a great day. Wang Fu opened the cigarette and took a pack and put it on his body. Thinking about it, he finally put another pack in it.

The upper beam is a traditional custom of building houses in the Han family. The Han family's houses are basically made of wood, earth or brick and tile structures. No matter whether the roof is covered with tiles, grass or bark, it must have beams.

Building a house has always been a big deal. In the future, buying a house may have to save ten years. In this era, for people who lack cash, it is also a big deal in their lives. Building a house may even have to live in several generations, and refining it generation after generation.

If it were in the past, if you built a house, you would have to help all your relatives and friends, and you might even have to borrow a lot of money.

Therefore, there will be no accidents when building a house. If there is any leakage, it will leave a shadow that is difficult to eliminate in the owner's heart, especially in this era of common superstition. Therefore, before building a house and laying the foundation, there must be a ceremony. You must kill a big rooster and burn incense and sacrifice, set off firecrackers and prepare gifts.

When the house is almost built, a grand ceremony will be held when the main beam is placed.

Wang Fu's wife Zhang had prepared three gifts for sacrifice early in the morning, including a pig's head, a goose, three carp, and a bowl of pointed white rice and a pot of wine.

Wang Fu carefully checked the gifts and then asked his wife.

"Is the big cock ready?"

"Okay, I've asked my little sister to tie up the biggest big red rooster."

The beam-up ceremony is very important, and today's auspicious time is in the morning.

When the auspicious time comes, the ink master will burn incense and sacrifice wine, worship the gods of heaven and earth, and invite the ancestor Lu Ban to come, support the pillars and set the beams, so that the pillars are upright and ends, forever. At this ceremony, the blood of the big red rooster must be used.

Wang Fu's brothers also came to help. This morning, they were going to kill a big fat pig. Today, they had to set up wine as usual. Thanks to the craftsmen who built the house and relatives and friends who helped the workers. My aunt, aunt, sister-in-law, and sister-in-law, have already set up a stand in the yard, picking and washing vegetables, cutting vegetables and cooking fires, and cooking.

The person in charge of the spoon was a uncle of Wang Fu. He was an old man in his sixties. He was not a chef in a hotel and restaurant, but he was also a famous country banquet chef in all corners of the countryside. In the past, when people held weddings and weddings, they would not go to the city to hire a cook, but they would ask the villagers to help. The most remarkable record of Wang Fu's ability to cook big pot dishes is that he once took over a wedding banquet of more than 30 tables for a family, and he made such a large venue. Moreover, the dishes he cooked were more in line with the tastes of the villagers. He was also very good at controlling the ingredients, not wasting, and he could make the dishes decent and elegant.

Today, my nephew brought wine to Liang, and Mr. Wang was of course the only one who took action personally. Today he was the commander of the kitchen, and the women and girls were his soldiers. They wanted to use these small amounts of simple ingredients to make a sumptuous, decent, and not much money or waste.

Before you go up the beam, you must sacrifice to the beam first.

The master and their apprentices who had been busy with their new house in Wang Fu's house for three months also changed into clean new clothes today.

"Daliang, carry the altar to the new house with your brother." Wang Fu shouted to his son.

Wang Daliang is Wang Fu's son and an army infantry stationed in the Great Wall. Just half a month ago, Wang Daliang, who had served in the army for three years, was transferred to the local garrison troops.

According to my son, the army is now divided into field troops and garrison troops. The main tasks of the garrison troops are still cities, fortresses, and port guards. Anyway, the field troops are the main battles, and the garrison troops are the main guards.

However, Wang Daliang transferred to the garrison and left the main force, but he was promoted to a corporal and became a non-commissioned officer, with a good future. Wang Fu was not very clear about these things, nor did he know that this was actually a disarmament by the court.

The Army had previously maintained a scale of more than one million and had more than one hundred towns, including the main forces of A and B, as well as Jiazi Towns, mobilization towns, and supplementary towns. Anyway, the Army was very large, at least how many troops there were, which was a secret of the court. Except for the senior generals of the Military Affairs Office, the Prime Ministers and the Prime Ministers were not sure that they all knew about it.

But since the Mongolian surrendered, the Jurchens perished, and the annexation of Japan and merged Korea. Even the northwest was temporarily stable, the Han army of the empire seemed to have some remaining force.

Therefore, the emperor has begun to adjust the army again. In addition to many experienced army soldiers who have moved to the navy to become marine forces, the army towns have also begun to be more refined.

Now the entire army system is re-divided into three major parts: field army, garrison army and reserve army. Among them, the field army is also the main force of the Imperial Army. It is planned to be adjusted and organized into 18 towns. Then many other army will be changed to garrison army, and the garrison army will be stationed in various cities. It is responsible for city guards and patrols. It also assists local public security and crime investigation and smuggling.

The field army and the garrison army have different responsibilities in the future. The field army maintains strong combat effectiveness and is a dozen iron fists that have always accumulated together.

The garrison troops were relatively scattered and were stationed in various places.

As for the original mobilization army, reserve army, etc., they were all adjusted to reserve army and were no longer included in active service. They were only the reserve force of the court.

Under these axes, the number of active army troops in the empire dropped from more than one million to eight hundred thousand, of which the field army was 360,000 and the garrison troops were 440,000.

The Navy's active service scale is also being adjusted, and some armed merchant ships and small warships will be further retired, and the fleets will develop in a more refined and more capable direction. The Navy will have a total of 200,000 active service, including 120,000 naval soldiers and 80,000 marines.

As for the Japanese Imperial Army, foreign legions, and Mongolian princes, they are all included in the reserve service and are not directly included in the active service.

The military field troops are paid higher than the garrison troops, but Wang Daliang is now promoted to a non-commissioned officer and his salary has also increased a lot. This time he was promoted to a corporal, and Wang Daliang also got a vacation. It happened to be the time when his family's house was built.

Wang Daliang and his uncle's brother carried the big eight immortal table in front of the new house, and Wang Fu placed the three animals gifts and other gifts on the altar.

The master waited for the incense and worshipped him, and then walked to the beam.

This straight beam is very straight, it is a good fir tree. The master first took out five yellow dragon-han copper coins and placed them in the middle of the straight beam, and then placed a pair of chopsticks on it.

At this time, Wang Fu quickly handed over a brand new piece of red silk cloth.

The master used this red silk cloth to wrap the section of copper coins and chopsticks, and nailed them tightly.

At this time, there was another very important ceremony for sacrificing the beam, which was blood dropping. The master cut off the head of the big red rooster and dripped the chicken blood on the beam. He was still chanting, "This chicken is not an extraordinary chicken. The Queen Mother of the Queen Mother reported the chicken, wearing a phoenix crown and green ears, and wearing five-colored clothes. The Queen Mother gave Lu Ban to Lu Ban, and Lu Ban gave his disciples a short evil spirit. The heavenly evil return to heaven, the earthly evil return to earth, the yearly evil evil, the moon evil, the sun evil, the hourly evil, the evil evil stops, and the blood turn back, and the disciples come here and return to their original position."

After chanting the spell, Wang Fu immediately ordered his son Daliang to set off firecrackers.

With the sound of firecrackers, the beam was lifted to the roof and placed in a preset position at the top of the central column.

After careful effort, I finally put the beam in place.

Wang Fu wiped the sweat from his forehead, and a smile on his face was uncontrollable, "Daliang, go up and throw money."

According to the custom here, copper coins must be sprinkled when putting on the beam.

Many children had long been surrounded by the new house, waiting for the sky to rain and rain to fall from the sky. The richer the people, the more money they spill, the more people come to grab the money, and the more lively they will come. Especially if there are more children, it means that the family will have a prosperous future.

The school has already had winter vacation, so there are many children coming today, and Wang Fu is very happy.

He prepared a lot of copper coins for today's beam, and he went to the credit union to exchange them. Most of them were copper coins of one penny, and occasionally there were five penny, ten penny, and a large basket of copper coins, which added up to 1,688 copper coins, and they were asking for the lottery tickets that were sent all the way.

Wang Daliang climbed up with the copper coins of several kilograms on his back and shouted.

"Money dropped from heaven"

Copper coins fell from the sky, and the children rushed up, scrambling around with laughter, laughing and laughing.

One thousand six hundred and eighty-eight copper coins were sprinkled, which even attracted many onlookers to join the ranks of picking up money on the ground with a smile.

Soon, the money was spilled, but there were still many people looking for it on the ground.

The children all grabbed the money they picked up, their faces full of joy.

After picking up the money, the children did not rush to leave because according to custom, after sprinkling copper coins, they had to throw buns.

The copper coins on the beam were prepared by the owner himself, but the buns could not be prepared by themselves. They had to be delivered by relatives, and they had to be given by the elder sisters and brothers, such as Wang Daliang's aunts, uncles, aunts, uncles, and uncles.

The more you give away, the more you give away, the more you give away, the more you can throw, and naturally the more you will be.

In the early years, everyone was not rich enough, so they could only give ten or twenty families.

However, today Wang Fu's close relatives agreed to each other. Each family gave 100 buns.

When baskets of white buns were lifted up, the people watching were exclaiming.

Wang Fu is the first ordinary person in the village to build a brick and tile house. Looking at Wang Fu, who used to be the same as everyone else, now he has built a large brick and tile house. With such a big decent, everyone is envious. Many people have even made up their minds to start building a new house next year.

The buns were personally carried by Wang Fu's brothers, sisters, wives and sisters, and each basket was covered with a piece of red paper. Whenever the buns were carried over, a craftsman would shout their names and shout out the number of buns they gave.

"Sister Wang Cai's brother-in-law Jinhua, congratulations to Liang Daji, and give him 100 buns"

Wang Fu and his wife had many brothers and sisters on both sides, and in the end they received 1,800 buns.

The father and son kept throwing buns from above and into the crowd below. Everyone smiled and picked up the buns. The buns given by the beam were not kept, and they would throw as much as they were sent, and they would give them all to the villagers who came to congratulate. Almost everyone who came received several buns.

Although everyone is much better now than before, and a bun is nothing, this festive and lively really makes everyone happy.

After throwing the buns, Wang Daliang took out a pack of candy.

He stood on the roof beam and threw various candies down, making the children overjoyed.

The adults sighed that these candy candies are also sold in the Good Village, but they are all very expensive, much more expensive than bulk white sugar.

"The Wang Fu family is really developed. They build brick and tile houses, and their son becomes an official again. They receive 1,800 buns on the beam. It's really amazing."

"The non-commissioned officer is not an official yet."

"Why isn't it an official? I heard from Wang Fu that Daliang has become the squad leader?"

Someone said, "The squad leader only has ten people in charge. You have to be the platoon commander company commander to be promoted to the sergeant commander. Only by becoming the sergeant commander can you be a real official. Sergeant is not considered an official, at most, he is an official."

"Why is the squad leader not an official? Isn't he an officer even if he cares about ten people?" He had the copper coins sprinkled by the Wang family in his pocket, the buns thrown by the Wang family in his left hand, and the candy thrown by the Wang family in his right hand. Many villagers were soft-mouthed and short-handed, so they helped the Wang family speak.

Moreover, even if it is only equivalent to an official, in the eyes of ordinary rural people, officials and officials are all things they have to look up to.

"I heard that many matchmakers have recently proposed marriage to Wang Fu's house. My family has no daughter, so I would definitely ask the matchmaker to say marriage. Look at the Wang family's house, three large brick houses and tiles, with such a large yard. There is also Daliang, a child who is young and tall, eats public food in the army, and now he has become a squad leader. Maybe in two years he will become a platoon leader and a sergeant, and become a sergeant of the ninth rank and eighth rank. If he can marry into the Wang family, he will not be able to eat delicious food immediately and become a wife in the future."

"Wangshan, your third brother said that the family had not succeeded last time and asked me to tell me that. You are like Wang Fu and build three large tiled houses. This matchmaker will come to your house to talk to you immediately. With a new brick and tiled house, you don't need to beg others. Those women have to beg your house in turn."

Wang Shan was so moved that he said this.

"Building three brick and tile houses costs a lot of money. I heard that Wang Fu's new house costs more than a hundred yuan."

"It's just about one hundred yuan. If you don't earn enough in a year, at most two years. Your two older sons have been married and separated. But don't your family have three young children and four unmarried daughters? Now they all make money in the factory. Your family does not earn less than Wang Fu's family. If you build a house for about one hundred yuan, your family will save enough money in a year to build five or six large tiled houses."

Wang Shan sucked the big front door that Wang Fu had just dispersed to him and said, "It's like this now, but who knows whether this scene can last long? Even if you have two dollars, you can't spend all of it all at once."

"You are just picking. Everything has increased in the past two years, and it will definitely increase in the future. Bricks, tiles, craftsmen's labor. You can build it cheaper now. In a few years, you will definitely have to spend more money."
To be continued...
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