The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 140 Breaking the ground and offering sacrifices to the gods

Because the lights were not allowed to be turned on, I naturally went to bed very early that day.

The next day was still only dim, so Xiang Ling got up in the dark, first woke up Yu Chuan, and then urged Jiao Shun to get up for morning exercises.

Jiao Shun yawned and stretched out a thick arm, and immediately felt a biting chill, so he quickly shrank back, complaining vaguely: "When did this fire start, I'm really going to freeze to death. "

As she said that, she took Yu Chuan'er back into her arms and said lazily: "Today is a special case, morning exercises will be skipped."

After hearing this, Yu Chuan'er hurriedly took off the outer clothes she had just put on, and put them in a mess by her pillow.

If it were someone else, they would probably have given up at this time, but Xiangling was serious, and said with a small face: "Since I have vowed to be physically strong, how can I make an exception so easily? Kuang Zhuzi once said, 'An inch of time is not to be taken lightly. ', if not..."

"You are the only one with so many sour words!"

Yu Chuan'er raised her head from Jiao Shun's arms, and said with a sneer, "You've only read a few books, and you fell in front of the uncle and picked up the text!"

Xiangling hurriedly explained: "I, I didn't, I just wanted to..."

"okay."

Jiao Shun got up from the bed, stretched his waist and said: "Xiang Ling said the truth, this time I really slacked off."

As he spoke, he lifted the quilt and sat down on the bed, and joked: "However, when I made an exception last night, why didn't you stop me?"

Xiang Ling blushed immediately, and was speechless in a murmur.

Yu Chuan'er was about to make trouble, but was urged by Jiao Shun: "My wife probably got up early today, so hurry up and tidy up and go take care of her."

She didn't dare to delay any longer, she hurriedly put on her clothes, first she and Xiang Ling waited on Jiao Shun to get dressed, then left Xiang Ling alone to wait on Jiao Shun to wash, and went to the main room to serve on her own.

After Jiao Shun could wash up, he flexed his muscles and bones, stretched his limbs, ordered Xiang Ling to spread a felt blanket on the ground, and took out homemade utensils, tossing about for about three quarters of an hour.

After working out a whole body of white sweat, he went to the main room for dinner.

He had just eaten two bites here, and Liu Changyou had already arrived outside, so Jiao Shun had to randomly pick up some hungry stuff to make up for, and hurried to the East Wing Hall to meet him.

Without exchanging pleasantries, Liu Changyou was about to present the gift, but Jia Lian sent someone to invite him again, saying that he wanted Jiao Shun to participate in the god-sacrificing ceremony for breaking ground.

By the way, Jiao led Liu Changyou to the back garden and introduced him to everyone in the mansion.

After exchanging pleasantries, I saw the time of Chen Shi [seven o'clock in the morning], and with Lai Da's voice of "the auspicious time has come", the garden immediately rang with drums and zithers.

Jia Zheng first dug a few shovels of soil from the east, then Jia Zhen went south, Jia Lian went west, and Baoyu went north, each took half a basket of soil, personally mentioned the place where the god was worshiped in the middle, and assembled a small altar. .

Lai Sheng and Lin Zhixiao set up the altar in front of the altar.

In the end, Jia She took out three bright yellow sandalwood incense sticks that were as thick as an arm and about 1 meters long, inserted them on the altar and lit them.

Some high-ranking men in the mansion, including Jiao Shun, all respectfully saluted in front of the altar.

Lai Da immediately gave another order, and 99 firecrackers with 36 rings were lit at the same time, and immediately exploded into red pieces all over the ground.

Immediately afterwards, the back door opened, and dozens of carts poured things in like flowing water.

Another one or two hundred laborers gathered in the most conspicuous pavilions and pavilions, or used rams or ropes. After a while, the building suddenly collapsed, and the ruins and walls rolled up the sky with smoke and dust, which even covered the sun. Drowsy and miserable.

…………

But said it was early in the morning.

There were more than [-] carts set up inside and outside Lixiangyuan, but it was Aunt Xue's family who were moving house.

Gein, the Pear Fragrance Courtyard is about to be expanded into the Grand View Garden, and after a few days the partition wall will be demolished, and the courtyard will be surrounded by sweaty coolies, so it will be difficult for people to live there, especially Aunt Xue. widow.

For such a big matter, Li Wan, who is temporarily in charge of the family, has to come and support him.

And because Youshi had laid an ambush earlier, he also brought her to Lixiangyuan as a companion.

After hearing the firecrackers going off in the back garden, Aunt Xue apologized, "I want to join in the fun on this big day of breaking ground to worship the gods, so please be distracted..."

"What did my aunt say?"

Li Wan hurriedly said: "It's clear that our family was too eager and didn't even have time to move around, so we rushed the matter to one place - I reported to the old lady when I came, and the old lady even entrusted me to my aunt. Forgive me, let you not blame our mansion for being rude."

Seeing that the two of them wanted to be courteous, Youshi covered his mouth and smiled and said, "We are all one family, but how can we talk about two families?"

Everyone laughed.

You Shi pretended to be curious again: "But I don't know what the rules are for breaking the ground to worship the gods. Has any of you ever seen it with your own eyes? Hearing that the next door is so lively, I am very curious."

"This……"

Aunt Xue and Li Wan looked at each other, then shook their heads and said: "The fault is not caused by a small family, it is really unavoidable, otherwise how can we women see these scenes?"

Youshi then suggested: "I just saw a small hill outside the courtyard, which is next to the partition wall of the back garden. Why don't you climb up and look far away to broaden your horizons?"

Almost all of what she thinks about day and night these days has become demonic.

Originally, he wanted to take advantage of breaking the earth to sacrifice to the gods and soldiers, so he had a private exchange with Jiao Shun in this West Mansion.

She never thought about it but was dragged to Lixiangyuan by Li Wan. Now that she has no chance to hang out, she thought it would be good if she could catch a glimpse from a distance.

"This……"

Li Wan showed distress, but Aunt Xue smiled and said, "I'm afraid I can't stand the wind—if you want to see it, let the people below clean it up, and let Baochai accompany you."

Li Wan also hurriedly said: "Then I won't go, I just stay here with my aunt."

But Youshi still insisted on going to see "rare", so Baochai had to accompany him.

The two of them rushed out of the Pear Fragrance Courtyard, and the old woman had already swept the pavilion on the top of the mountain to be spotless, and set up spring benches, foot stoves, and a table of dried fruits and candied fruit.

When he reached the top of the mountain, Youshi looked far away and saw crowds of people everywhere in the courtyard, but there were two places that were the most conspicuous among the hustle and bustle.

One is on a certain rockery in the garden. Jia She, Jia Zheng, Jia Zhen, Jia Lian, Baoyu and others are all standing on the top of the mountain as a wall to watch and point.

One is in front of the altar in the middle, Jiao Shun lays out the big case alone, with Liu Changyou and Shan Ziye on the left, Lai Da, Lai Sheng and Lin Zhixiao on the right, and the servants below come forward to report the matter like a revolving lantern.

Youshi couldn't help muttering: "It is said that it is the supervisor, but why do you appoint him for everything?"

Xue Baochai said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, don't you know the truth that 'those who work hard will rule others, and those who work hard will rule others'?"

If it were before, Youshi might agree with her words.

But now that she has an external heart, she naturally looks at the problem from a different perspective, thinking to herself which of the young and old in this mansion is bothering?All of them are nothing more than hands-off shopkeepers!

Just at this time, a warm pavilion suddenly collapsed not far away.

Countless smoke and dust rolled up Zhang Xu high, and they came here directly!
"Hurry up, take the girl and grandma away!"

Ying'er exclaimed, and ran down the mountain to protect Baochai first.

Youshi and Yindie next to him were only one step behind.

When the four of them descended the mountain in a panic, the smoke and dust had already arrived, and it would be too late to escape back to Lixiangyuan.

Seeing that he was about to end in disgrace, he heard a servant woman yelling: "There is a cave behind here, grandma and girl hurry in and hide!"

Youshi and Baochai seemed to have been pardoned, so they hurriedly went to the cave again.

This cave is not big, but it is surprisingly clean and tidy, as if it has been taken care of by someone.

Xue Baochai looked around, and suddenly saw that there seemed to be something engraved on the mountain wall, and subconsciously leaned over to take a closer look, but it was the word "Zheng Ding", and wondered: "What kind of allusion is this?"

Youshi also stepped forward to look at it, but just like her, he couldn't figure it out.

In the end, it was Yindie who said it right: "I don't think it's a Zhengding, but the second orthography is half written."

Inspired by her, Xue Baochai suddenly said: "That's right, I heard that some people used the word 'positive' to count. Could it mean 'seven', but I don't know what it is? Who is counting in this remote place?"

Everyone's random guesses, whether absurd or bizarre, are just for jokes.

Only Ying'er was touched by the scene, frowning thoughtfully.

She didn't know there was a cave behind the rockery before, but now that she thinks about it, didn't Xiangling see something in this cave last year?
　It's the end of the month soon, everyone donate two tickets.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)