The sturdy peasant girl in space

Chapter 22
In a blink of an eye, it was the day when the beam was erected, because in addition to the people who built the house, there were also relatives from the Bai He family.Bai Jingwen ordered fifty catties of pork.On the first day, the chef made the meat dishes into semi-finished products.And Bai Jingwen bought some other pork heads and offal, which were all marinated, and the meat and vegetables were enough.

Early in the morning, Sixth Grandma brought Aunt Mei and a few women over to help. The chef was Aunt Yang from the village who remarried in the year Bai Jingwen was sold. It's very authentic, she's been the chef for all the weddings and funerals in the village these years, and it's not expensive to pay a hundred coins each time.

"Did you notify over there?" Feng asked as he watched the guests outside start to visit, pointing in the direction of his hometown.

"Well, my father notified them."

"I didn't say that, what the elders did was really dishonest. Before building the house, Xiaowen treated them to a big meal, but in the end, they didn't even show their face when building the house here. That's all for such a big event today. I haven’t seen anyone, I’ve never seen such an elder, if you have the ability, don’t come today.” Aunt Wang muttered while cutting the stewed meat.

"Hey, it sounds like you are her relatives. Who can't have something to do? Didn't you just come here after finishing your work? What else do you want to do?" Bai Jingwen's aunt Wu heard Wang Shi muttered nonchalantly.

"Really? Sister-in-law Wu has something important that is worth your family's delay until now. Seeing that there are no guests outside, all the guests are at the table." Aunt Wang sneered.

"Isn't this the return of Auntie Zi? It's not a big deal." Wu replied.

"Really? Your eldest sister-in-law is the wife of that family. She's so arrogant. Not only does she not help her brother's family with such a big matter, but she is also holding back." Wang Shi curled her lips and ignored her, then got busy .

"Why is our Da Ni not considered a wife, and the family has more than a hundred acres of land." After giving them a white look, Wu began to help.

"Xiaowen, how is the arrangement going? Is there anything else I need the help of the third aunt." The third aunt Liu looked at Bai Jingwen who was washing the vegetables and asked without saying a word.

"This kitchen can't use so many people. The guests are almost ready. I have prepared melon seeds in the main room. You can go and share some with each table. Then take the cold water out and don't let it in hot weather. People pick it up." Bai Jingwen knew that Liu Shi had no status in the family and didn't want to embarrass her.

"Okay, then I'll go." Seeing that there was indeed no place to set foot, Mrs. Liu went out.

"My in-laws are here, come in quickly, drink a glass of water first on this hot day." Seeing He Junhong coming in, Bai Zhengsong immediately stood up to greet him.

"Patriarch Bai, you're being polite. Don't say this house is really well built. I didn't believe it when the children passed by that day." He Junhong replied very satisfied.

"That's right, I like this girl Xiaowen, and she's quick to do things even if she's successful. Now you can rest assured." Bai Zhengsong replied.

If it hadn't been for the He family's son He Rui's accident, I believe that what happened to the He family during confinement would not have been so easy.He knew that even though He Junhong was born as a scholar, he was scary enough to be ruthless.

"Grandpa, why did you and Wenjie come here?" Shuanzi ran over and asked.

"Your grandma's ears are too old and she doesn't want to come here. As for your cousin's house, there is a big mess at home." He Junhong replied.

And Xiao Zhuzi took some snacks and dragged He Wenjie to run to find friends to hang out.

"Why isn't my in-laws coming? Don't they come today?" He Junhong asked Bai Zhengsong after searching around but couldn't find the old couple of the Bai family.

"I don't really know what's going on. The two daughters-in-law came to help, but the elderly, children and men didn't come over." Bai Zhengsong was also annoyed about this matter, but building a house is a major event in his life, what can't be done this morning just said.

"Uncle, my father asked you to go there for something urgent." Bai Shu ran in hastily and grabbed Bai Zhengsong's hand and said loudly.

"What's the matter, the sky is falling or the ground is sinking, didn't you see that the banquet will start soon? There is something we can't wait for." Bai Zhengsong slapped the table and shouted.

"It's my sister's business, so I won't let you go and have a look." Bai Shuxin said in a shrunken voice in shock.

"Tell your father and mother, there is a priority. If they don't come here, let it be. If I leave again, what kind of talk will people watch?" Bai Zhengsong felt that there might be something serious, but he still suppressed it.

Bai Shuxin smiled embarrassingly at He Junhong and ran out.

Bai Jingwen looked at the menu, braised pork with preserved vegetables, braised fish, stewed chicken with mushrooms, braised rabbit meat, braised pork head meat, braised liver, a platter of braised pig ears and shredded tripe heart slices, fried fungus with sliced ​​meat, stewed beans with sliced ​​meat, Braised eggplant, egg fried loofah, cold cowpea and fried peanuts, and finally a dish of egg drop soup.

At this time, Bai Zhengsong came in and asked Bai Jingwen to take out the sacrifices with her two younger brothers.The beam-raising ceremony is a vital part of building a house.There are a lot of things to prepare. Bai Jingwen asked Shuanzi and Zhuzi to bring the prepared pork, fish, red crown rooster, "five grain lucky bag", incense paper money, and offerings such as candy, peanuts, steamed buns, and copper coins. Take it out to Bai Zhengsong.

Before the beam was put up, the beam was first sacrificed, and the people cheered and carried the main beam with the red paper to the front of the main room, set up the altar, put pigs, fish, chicken incense candles and other sacrifices, and at this time He Hongjun put a section of red paper that he had prepared. The cloth was taken out and Li Zifeng tied it to the main beam to express his blessing.Then Li Zifeng picked up the wine bowl and toasted while saying auspicious words.

"Fu Yiliang had an auspicious day, the heaven and the earth opened, and everything was auspicious and prosperous when offering sacrifices to the beam. Born in the deep mountains and ten thousand feet long, the original surname was Fang and the name was Jinniang. My disciple invited you to be the central beam. Immortal Master Lu Ban made it himself, and the order of peace will be prosperous for thousands of years. A cup of sake toast Liangtou, the champion of the main family for generations. A glass of sake is toasted to Liangwei, and the main family is full of guys. A glass of sake is toasted to Liangzhong, and the main family will enter the farm for generations!"

After singing the congratulatory speech, Li Zifeng nailed a copper coin in the middle of the beam, and pasted it with paper money stained with cockscomb blood.After the ceremony, let the people lift the beam up to the roof steadily, shouting "Go up, good luck" while lifting.

After the beam was stabilized, the master builder in charge of building the house climbed onto the beam and prepared to throw it.

Beam throwing is the favorite part of all children, because the master on the beam will stand on the beam and throw down the candies, peanuts and other food prepared by the master, and there are copper coins!The children don't know whether it's bad luck or not, as long as there's something delicious and a coin to take, they'll all come in swarms.

The first thing to throw the beam is to pick up the bag.

Under the guidance of Bai Zhengsong, the head of the household Shuanzi stood firmly under the beam holding the basket, and Li Zifeng threw the lucky bag wrapped in red cloth into the basket, and then Li Zifeng began to sing auspicious words loudly.

"Throw beams to the east, the sun rises to the east, and the house is full of reds. The beams are thrown to the west. The unicorn sends children to hang double happiness. The beams are thrown to the south. The children and grandchildren are the champions. Great profit!"

While talking, he threw the prepared copper coins to all directions of the main room, and a group of children brought by the small pillars swarmed to grab them, and even adults participated in it, and they kept hearing "copper coins" It hit me", "I received a copper coin", "Hurry up, there's more over there" and other children's voices, and it was very lively for a while.

So far the upper beam is over.Bai Jingwen ordered people to start serving the dishes.As a result, seeing the dishes on the table, no one thought that the dishes would be so happy, so they picked up the chopsticks and ate them with big mouthfuls.

(End of this chapter)