Escape from the desert

Chapter 210
After agreeing with the village head, Jiang Yan arranged for Xie Sanniang to prepare. Xie Sanniang is good at cooking, and she will be in charge of cooking with the women in the village.

There are about 270 households in Linjia Village, which is considered a big village. If she is the only one who runs Shangliang Wine, then the whole village does not need to clean it up. But since it is run together with the private school in the village, it is estimated that the whole village will come to eat.

Some families in the village are multi-generational. It is common to have more than a dozen members in a family, but there are also many single-family households. There are not a few children living alone like Dawa and Erwa. A rough calculation shows that there are thousands of people. , plus dozens of people from the construction team, at least a hundred tables must be prepared.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yan planned to follow the same process as last time when the village was in a big pot, and the place would still be in the village's threshing ground, and then go door to door to collect tables, chairs and benches.

As for the menu, Jiang Yan listed it separately. The big pot of dishes is stewed in one pot. Since it is a banquet, it can't be like this. The stir-fried vegetables and vegetables are still required.

She listed a menu for Xie Sanniang, and then Song Tao took the young and middle-aged people in the village to the town to purchase. The staple food was brown rice and miscellaneous corn buns.

The dishes are five vegetables and one soup, pickled fish, stewed pork stew, mapo tofu, pork stewed cabbage, stir-fried seasonal vegetables, and big bone radish soup.

These dishes are commonly eaten by the Lin family, and they are delicious. The main reason is that the recipes are simple and the dishes are rich. For the Lin family village, they are quite rich.

On the day of the banquet, all the dishes were prepared early in the threshing floor, and all the tables, chairs and benches were set up. The threshing floor in the village was not big enough, so only forty tables were set up. According to the way of flowing water banquets, one round was changed after eating.

The women were busy with the banquet, while most of the men gathered in the private school. The time for raising the beam was set in the morning. As soon as it was dawn, the village chief and Li Zheng took the men in the village to start making arrangements.

Because it is a private school hanging the beam, the whole village attaches great importance to it. For them, the lifting of the beam itself is a very important matter, especially the place where the children study, they must be more careful.

At his own expense, the village head specially prepared two jars of "Zhuangyuanhong" to entertain Mr. Shang Liang and Mr. Chen Lianci. The village head is not a good drinker, because the village is poor, and he has never drunk rice wine a few times, so he doesn't know much about wine. , Just heard the word "No. [-]", so I bought it back, hoping that the private school in the village will also produce a No. [-] student in the future.

Both the soap factory and the base material factory were on holiday today, and the construction team also had a day off. Everyone came to eat and eat. Even the brothers of the Lin family gathered not far away to watch.

An old man put the sacrifices that had been prepared on the table one by one. Jiang Yan had never seen this scene before, and she followed her sons to stand not far away to watch.

In addition to the village head and Li Zheng, the Lin family village also has an old patriarch, who is diligently placing sacrifices in front of him. The patriarch must be a respectable old man surnamed Lin. His status is even higher than that of the village chief and Li Zheng.

Jiang Yan didn't have much impression of the old man, and she didn't see him in the village on weekdays. She only saw it in Yuanshen's memory, that is, when Yuanshen was kicked out of the old house of the Lin family, it was because of the old man's decision that he was not kicked out of the Lin family village. Not removed from the family tree of the ancestral hall.

The process of raising the beams in each place is similar, but there is one step that is the same, that is, sacrifices must be made before the beams are raised. The wooden table is covered with a big red cloth, but the old patriarch placed rich sacrifices on it. Tails, chicken heads and buttocks, meat dishes, and two bottles of No. [-] wine specially bought by the village head.

There is also a couplet written by the village chief Tuo Qiaole in advance, "Shangliang is on the day of the zodiac, and the pillar meets Ziweixing by chance." Red silk is hung on both ends of the beam, and a Qing Shunzhi copper ingot hangs down from the red silk, which means "peace and harmony". meaning.

Because the gate, back door, and house door have not yet been installed, the couplets should be pasted on the pillars, and how many couplets should be pasted according to the number of fallen logs in the house.

The village head took out the "profit market" prepared in advance, that is, happy money, and distributed them to the leaders, Lao Fangtou and Lao Chu.

When everything was ready, under the watchful eyes of the whole village, when the auspicious time came, the beam sacrifice ceremony began. Lao Chu and Lao Fangtou hugged the old patriarch and began to burn incense and candles.

"Hold a piece of silk from the master's house in your hand, one foot and three feet and zero, three strokes on the left to increase wealth, three strokes to the right to decorate the Hanlin..."

Old Fangtou and Lao Chu were obviously veterans, and after singing the lyrics again and again with familiar movements, they quickly finished singing. They greeted these young and strong young people, and started to lift the beams.

These young people were all found in advance. In addition to sending a few people from the construction team, Shangliang had to arrange a few people from the village, because the Lin family’s house Shangliang wine was also run together. As the head of the family, Lin Dong, the Lin family’s The pillars of the pillars naturally joined the team of pulling the beams.

The old Fangtou took a symbolic sip of the number one scholar wine, implying that "drinking the Shangliang wine, you can live to 99", then poured the wine into the tenon holes of the column, and yelled: "Shangliang!"

A few big and small guys pulled the beams, followed the professional construction team to start the operation, and started to erect the beams lively. After the beams were locked in place, some treasures were also placed on the beams. The treasures mentioned here do not specifically refer to gold. Silver jewelry can be copper coins or grain bags, and copper coins are placed in private schools, which means that the property at home is safe and will not provoke foreign thieves.

At this point, the link to the beam is over. Next, the old patriarch will represent the village and Lin Dong will represent the Lin family to start the next link.

The two of them brought the red lacquer dustpan they had prepared earlier, which was full of wedding candies and cakes, and even some copper plates tied with red strings. When the firecrackers go off, Lin Dong and the old patriarch and the workers on the same beam will start throwing things into the crowd, and then everyone will loot them.

"Set off firecrackers, grab the profit!"

The old patriarch raised a hoarse voice, and with excitement and joy, he held a handful of profit and threw it into the crowd. Lin Dong followed closely and threw it in the direction of Lin Bei and the others who were eager to try.

The children and adults in the village screamed with joy in an instant. Everyone rushed to grab wedding cakes and wedding candies on the ground. If you are lucky, you will find wedding money. Jiang Yan watched Lin Bei and the others join in the fun. She also secretly stole a lot of things.

With the sound of firecrackers, as the contents of the dustpan were scattered, the lively crowd slowly dispersed. Everyone excitedly counted their trophies, and then quickly walked towards the threshing ground. Today, except for the part of throwing beams What made them look forward even more was today's banquet.

(End of this chapter)