Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 13 The Old Liang Family

Chapter 13 Old Liang's House

The old Liang's family ate three meals a day throughout the year, dry food for lunch and dinner, and thin food in the morning, except during busy farming seasons.

A few days ago, collecting cotton stalks was a very labor-intensive task, so in those few mornings, Mrs. Sun cooked in big pots and cooked in small pots.

After two days of leisure, it returned to its original state.

Jinxi's breakfast is brought to the house by Mrs. Sun.

A barley cake, presumably made a few days earlier, had black shells on both sides.It's hard to pinch in the hand, break it a little, the smell is a bit sour, and it's dry and rough when chewed.

Fortunately, there was a small bowl of wild vegetable porridge that was so scarce that it could be eaten. Jinxi soaked the broken wheat cake in the porridge, and ate it like this. The injured vitality will recover faster.

In such a countryside, if you want to live well, it is very important to have a healthy body.

After breakfast, Jin Xi didn't lie down anymore, let Jin Rou lead her around the front and back of Lao Liang's house.

The structure of the houses here is similar to the architectural style of ancient Huizhou.The houses in the village are all facing south, row by row, well situated.Looking around, you can see the blue tiles and white walls of the same color, and the eaves are layered on top of each other.

In this area, the main gate of the main house is called the twisted door, and the twisted door of Old Liang's house is wide open, facing the bluestone road outside.

Because at the end of the month, Lao Liang's parents and grandsons were engaged, at this moment, almost all the doors inside and outside the house were covered with red paper-cutting, which was a pattern of magpies climbing on branches.

The structure of the house, whether it is the beams and purlins of the roof, or the top pillars, doors and windows, are all made of elm.

The homonym of elm is Yu, which means ten thousand loads of surplus grain, and farmers like this kind of good luck.

The main room is deep and long, with wing rooms on both sides, and a square patio in the middle of the main room.

Jin Xi is no stranger to this kind of house structure. In her last life, her hometown was in the area of ​​Huizhou, and there was a courtyard like this in the well-preserved old house of her uncle's family.

There are drainage channels in the patio, and there are washing stones on all sides.

When the door is closed due to rain and snow, you can wash and wash vegetables in the patio of your home without going outside.

The function of the patio also divides the long and deep house into two entrances, the inside and the outside.

In front of the old Liang’s courtyard, next to the hinged door, the outer hall is basically useless, it is only used as a hallway and aisle, and occasionally piles up some farm tools.

There are two rooms on the left and right, the eldest house Liang Yuju and his wife, with their four sons, happen to be fully occupied.

The one behind the courtyard has the same structure and number of houses, people living in the second room, and Liang Yuzhou who is not yet married.

In the inner hall, there is a nave hanging in the middle, and there are couplets on both sides of the books. It should be some years old. The corners of the paper are soaked by the rain from the roof, and some of them are yellowed and peeled off.

Jin Xi is not interested in the nave and the couplets, her gaze shifts to another thing.

It was a shrine, which enshrined several ancestral tablets of the old Liang family. On both sides of the shrine, some yellow paper was pasted, and densely written on it.

Jin Xi took a quick look, and the general content should be the record of the birthplace of the Liang family and the Jiaxing Yide of the ancestors.Next to the shrine, Liang's surname was also used, and a couplet was inscribed as evidence.

Jin Xi was surprised, although the old Liang's family was an ordinary peasant family, not only did they hang a nave, but also enshrined these people. It turned out that the old Liang's ancestors were a side branch of the Anding Liang family, and there were famous people in the family!
Famous families in feudal times like to make these, and use them to worship their ancestors, not forgetting their homeland and ancestral roots, and they are proud of it!

Jin Xi deduces from the year recorded on the yellow paper that the Jinji Mountain Village she is in now should no longer be the place in the time and space of her previous life, she has traveled to a different time and space.

In the inner hall there is a big Eight Immortals table with two heavy wooden chairs on both sides of the table.A little further away, there are rows of chairs on both sides of the wall.

Jin Xi reckoned that this is where the old Liang's family would sit according to their seniority when they hold important family meetings, right?
"Sister, it's noon, adults are about to finish their work, let's go back to the house!" Jin Rou has been obediently following behind Jin Xi, she said crisply.

Jin Xi looked away, patted Jin Rou on the head, and the two sisters came out from the side door of the main room and came to the backyard.

The backyard is a typical northern quadrangle structure. Judging by the quality of the roof tiles, it must have been newly built because the family members gradually increased and the two houses in front could not fit.

The upper room is the stove room and the dining hall, with three wing rooms on the east and west sides. On the east side lived the old couple of Liangtou and their old daughter Liang Yumei.To the west lived the family of Liang Yuzhong, the third son.

There is a large piece of land in the backyard, which has been reclaimed as a vegetable garden, and firewood and cotton stalks are stacked against the walls on both sides.There are five or six chickens in the chicken pen, clucking and chasing after them.A half-grown piglet was lying in the pigsty, whining and chirping.

There are houses and fields, pigs and chickens are raised, there is also a small grocery store in the town, and Lao Liang's family is in the countryside, so he must be considered a well-to-do family, Jin Xi thought to himself.

This rural village in a different time and space is very special, not only in terms of architectural style, but also integrates the characteristics of the past time and space, the north and the south, and the accent of people's speech, it also combines the accents of the north and the south of that life.

Tan's and Yang's accents are very different.

Jin Xi's lunch is still settled in her own room, and she eats sweet potato stewed rice, the rice grains are almost counted, and they are all stewed and rotten sweet potatoes.

Two chopsticks of seasonal vegetables, a small bunch of pickles, with little oil and salt.

When the sweet potatoes were about to bottom out, two slices of bacon were exposed at the bottom of the bowl.Jin Xi was surprised, this must have been secretly hidden by Mrs. Sun.

The flesh was so thin that it was almost transparent, but for Jin Xi who hadn't touched any meat for a long time, it was already a shocking surprise.

In the afternoon, Lao Liang's family didn't go out to work in the fields, they gathered in the dining hall of the upper room, and Lao Liang was assigning tomorrow's tasks with his sons and daughters-in-law.

Although old Liangtou was old, he was in good health and his voice was thick and resonant, which could be heard all over the courtyard.

Under the window of the west room, Jin Xi is teaching Jin Rou to turn the hand rope, listening to a sentence or two from time to time.

"Father, don't worry, we will remember all the things you explained, and we will definitely follow your arrangement, but we will make you grow old, let our old Liang's family, not to mention the ten miles and eight villages, No matter what, we have to earn a good reputation in our Jinji Mountain Village!" A man's voice said excitedly.

Jin Xi has heard the voices of Liang Yuju, Liang Yuzhong and Liang Yuzhou, so this voice must be the second uncle Liang Yulin.

"Our old Liang family, our ancestors produced saints. Although they have fallen down now, the ancestral precepts and rules passed down by our ancestors must not be lost! Li Hui is the eldest grandson, and he has a reputation as a scholar. Let's start from Li Hui. Start here, let the neighbors around you see, what is orthodox dignity!" Old Liangtou's thick voice sounded again, more excited than before.

(End of this chapter)