: Top the beam (rewards will add more updates)

"This is a pheasant." Gu Qing didn't intend to hide it. There was too much game at home, so he couldn't hide it at all. "It was brought by a wild wolf, the same female wolf that gave birth to Xiao Hei. She comes here every night.

, maybe because he was worried that Xiao Hei would have nothing to eat, he sent me a bunch of pheasants, hares and the like."

She picked up the pheasant in her hand and said, "I still have some at home. I can't finish them all for fear of spoiling them. Let's stew this pheasant and eat it."

A pheasant weighed three to four pounds. It was not fat, but it was still a lot of meat. A group of children at home started to swallow their saliva.

Gu Qing put down her things and left.

Mrs. Gu took the pheasants in to clean them up.

Mrs. Sun returned to her room with a bowl of chicken soup, called Gu Lu in, took out a piece of meat and stuffed it into Gu Lu's mouth.

Gu Lu swallowed it whole and continued to look at her mother with her eyes open.

Mrs. Sun glared at her: "Call your sister in and give your sister a bite."

Gu Lu was looking for Gu Tao in the yard. When she saw Gu Meng going out, she didn't even call out. She returned to the back room and said, "Eldest sister has gone out. I'll catch up with her and give it to her with a piece of chicken."

Sun nodded, picked up a piece of chicken and handed it to Gu Lu's hand.

As soon as Gu Lu walked out, she opened her mouth and swallowed the chicken.

"Lulu, what are you eating?"

Gu Lin jumped out from the edge.

Gu Lu wiped her mouth: "I didn't eat anything."

"I've seen it all, you're eating meat. The eldest sister gave your mother the meat, and you actually ate it secretly!" Gu Lin shouted, "Second aunt, Lulu secretly ate chicken, and she swallowed a large piece of chicken!

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Mrs. Sun was carefully tasting the chicken soup in the back room. When she heard a cry outside the room, she immediately understood what was going on.

She picked up a cane and came out and slapped Gu Lu on the butt: "I said it was for your sister, but you ate it secretly. What's wrong with your mouth? You want to eat everything. I'll beat you to death!"

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Gu Lu was slapped and ran away.

Mrs. Sun didn't dare to catch up, mainly because she had a child in her belly and was afraid of causing trouble.

The construction of the new house started very quickly. It looked the same in one day, but it changed drastically in three days.

Seeing that the new house was about to be built, Mr. Gu became more and more nervous. He took the initiative to take on the job of finding beams. He searched for logs in the mountains every day. After searching for almost ten days, he still couldn't find anything he liked.

When building a house in this dynasty, the most important thing was to install the beams. The beams in the house represented the role of the head of the family and had a profound meaning. Therefore, the selection of beams became a very delicate matter.

It must be fir, but it cannot be a single tree. The trunk must be straight and the branches and leaves are luxuriant, which means that the descendants will be prosperous. The width of the tree body cannot be too different...

Mr. Gu patrolled the mountains for many days and finally found a perfect fir tree. He quickly called for help to cut down the tree.

If you are cutting down a tree normally, you don't need to be so nervous, but this is a central beam, and there are particularities to cutting down. For example, when a cedar tree falls, it must face south, and any small cedar trees in the surrounding area must not be damaged...

This tree took a lot of effort and was finally cut down perfectly. Four people carefully carried the tree down the mountain.

When they arrived at the bottom of the mountain, before Mr. Gu had time to show off his achievements, he saw Gu Hui talking in the middle of the village with her eyebrows flying.

Gu Qing saw Mr. Gu coming back with beams from a distance, and immediately said: "Our beams have arrived, I'll go take a look."

Everyone also gathered around to watch the fun.

"This beam is good. It has enough beam in the middle."

"Ms. Gu, your house is almost finished. When will the beams be put up?"

Mr. Gu took a puff of dry cigarette, and the old man said calmly: "I'm looking for someone to make ends meet. In three days it will be an auspicious day, so it's time to go to bed."

Gu Qing said with a smile: "On the day of Liang Liang, our family will arrange meals. Everyone who has time can come and join in the fun."

Gujia Village has always had such a custom. On the day of the Liang Liang ceremony, a banquet is arranged to invite craftsmen, relatives and friends to gather together, which is more lively than getting married.

Gu Qing had already started preparing for this day, and specially invited the eldest daughter in the village who was good at cooking to cook a big pot of rice.

The population of Gujia Village is quite large, but she does not have a good relationship with every household. A rough calculation shows that there will be about fifty or sixty households coming to have a banquet. Plus the workers and craftsmen, at least twenty or thirty tables will have to be prepared.

This can be regarded as a big event in Gujia Village. The last time we had a banquet was in the spring of last year. For more than a year, no one in the village had done anything important.

Gu Qing listed the menu. There were six dishes on the table, which were neither too shabby nor too luxurious. They were: Braised meat platter, tofu and meatballs, mushroom chicken, scrambled eggs with fungus, stir-fried wild vegetables, pork bone and radish soup, and

Wine was prepared for the dozen or so tables of craftsmen.

This kind of dishes is quite good when viewed in Gujia Village as a whole.

The day before the beams were laid, two temporary large earth stoves were built in the yard, one for steaming rice and the other for frying large pots of vegetables.

Mrs. Gu took Mrs. Song and Mrs. Sun to cut the meat. Jinhua Niang and Yinhua Niang were making tofu and meatballs. Gu Qing was making braised meat. All the children in the family went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables for tomorrow's banquet.

Ingredients to be used.

Mrs. Sun looked at the table of pork and couldn't help but murmured: "My eldest niece is too generous. Why buy so much meat? Just put two taels on a plate and leave the rest for my family to eat?"

"You short-sighted thing." Old Mrs. Gu scolded, "This is Liangjiu. We don't let the craftsmen who put Liangliang eat and drink well. They didn't pay attention when they put Liangliang and tiles in. When the time comes, they will eat it.

A bigger loss."

It's okay to dig and dig in other places, but you can't be sloppy when it comes to wine in Shangliang. This is closely related to the prosperity of the family, so you must be careful.

There is an old saying in the village: If there are beams on the roof, there will be food in the house. If there are no beams on the roof, the livestock will not prosper.

A saying passed down from generation to generation naturally makes sense. Mrs. Gu hopes that the life of the eldest family will be prosperous and that the four eldest grandchildren will become more and more promising. The better the Shangliang Wine is, the better the future prospects of the children will be.

The bigger.

That night a group of women worked until very late before going back to rest.

Yang Pei and Zhu Tao did not go home, but stayed at the new house to guard the ingredients in the yard and the tile noodles that had just been shipped back.

The genius was slightly bright, and the men working in the village came.

Mr. Gu directed people to set up several large tables in the yard. The tables were covered with red cloth, and then placed sacrifices, pig-headed roosters, wine cups, etc.

Immediately afterwards, he took out the red paper couplets that Mo Li had written yesterday and pasted them on both sides of the main house.

The beams of joy are filled with joy, and the spring light fills the courtyard thousands of miles away.

After all the things that should be prepared were prepared, almost the whole village came to watch. It was an auspicious time. The masons and carpenters came forward and began to perform the beam-sacrifice ceremony. A pot of wine was poured on the ground, and they murmured: "

Liang, please come to the front of the hall...the first glass of wine is to honor the ancestors...the fifth glass of wine is poured high, and there are three stars on it to shine..."

After the beam ceremony is over, it is time to install the beam. The custom in Gujia Village is to find eight lucky young people to climb up the roof to pull the beam. After pulling the beam, it is time to stabilize the beam. This is a technical job and requires a professional carpenter to check the position. It cannot

After the slightest mistake was made, the beams were placed in place, and then came the most exciting part of throwing the beams, which was the favorite part of the children in the whole village.

As the owner of this house, Gu Qing and the carpenters stood on the beam and threw the wedding candies, cakes, red date cakes and other items that had been prepared from a high place. The whole village would come to grab them. At the same time,

, the sound of firecrackers rang out at the door of the house. They were not firecrackers, but burning bamboo. When the bamboo joints burned, they would make a crackling sound. It was extremely lively.

Amid the bustle of joy, Mr. Gu led his men to move thirty tables and set them up in the yard of the new house.

Mrs. Gu took the women to the table one by one. The tangy aroma made everyone's mouth water. Six dishes, one bowl of white rice for each person, was enough to satisfy everyone.

Of course, these people didn't come here to eat for free, they all brought gifts.
Chapter completed!