After traveling to ancient times, I became a superb shrew

Chapter 79 Upper beam (reward plus more)
"It's a pheasant." Gu Qing didn't intend to hide it, there was too much wild game in the house, and she couldn't hide it, "It was brought by the wild wolf, that is, the she-wolf who gave birth to Xiao Hei, who came every night , probably because he was worried that Xiao Hei had nothing to eat, so he sent me a bunch of pheasants and hares."

She picked up the pheasant in her hand, "I still have it at home, I can't finish it, I'm afraid it will be spoiled, this pheasant can be stewed and eaten."

A pheasant weighed three to four catties. It was not considered fat, but it was still a lot of meat. A group of children in the family began to swallow.

Gu Qing put down her things and left.

Mrs. Gu went in with the pheasant to clean 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 in one gulp, opened her eyes and continued to look at her mother.

Sun stared at her: "Call your sister in, and give your sister a bite too."

Gu Lu looked for Gu Tao in the yard, and didn't make a sound when she saw Gu Meng went out, but went back to the back room and said, "Eldest sister has gone out, I'll catch up with a piece of chicken and give it to elder sister."

Mrs. Sun nodded, took a piece of chicken and handed it to Gu Lu.

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 side.

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

"I've seen it all, you're eating meat, and you're stealing the meat that the elder sister gave your mother!" Gu Lin called out, "Second Aunt, Lulu is stealing chicken, and she swallowed a big piece of chicken! "

Mrs. Sun tasted the chicken soup carefully in the back room, and when she heard the cries outside, she immediately understood what was going on.

She grabbed a cane and came out, and smacked Gu Lu's ass: "I said it was for your sister, but you ate it again, what's wrong with your mouth, you want to eat everything, see if I don't beat you to death! "

Gu Lu was whipped and ran away.

Sun didn't dare to catch up, mainly because she had a child in her belly, and she was afraid that something would happen to her body.

The construction of the new house started quite quickly, one day a day, three days a big change.

Seeing that the new house was about to be built, Mr. Gu became more and more nervous. He took the initiative to contract the job of finding beams and logs. He searched for logs on the mountain every day for almost ten days, but he didn't find anything he liked.

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

It must be fir, but not a single tree. The trunk must be straight, with luxuriant branches and leaves, implying the prosperity of offspring, and the width of the tree should not vary too much...

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

Naturally, you don’t have to be so nervous if it’s a normal tree felling, but this is the middle beam, and felling is also particular. For example, when the cedar tree falls down, it must face south, and it must not damage any small cedar trees around it...

It took a lot of effort to cut down the tree, and the four men carefully carried the tree down the mountain.

When he reached the foot of the mountain, before Mr. Gu had time to show off his achievements, he saw Gu Hui beaming and talking in the middle of the village.

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

The crowd also gathered around to watch the excitement.

"This beam is a good one, and the middle beam is enough."

"Miss Gu, your house is almost finished, when will the beams be erected?"

Old man Gu took a puff of dry tobacco, and the old god said, "I've found someone to live with. Three days will be an auspicious day, so it's time to go to the beam."

Gu Qing smiled and said: "On the day of Shangliang, our family will arrange meals, and everyone who has time will come to join in the fun."

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

For this day, Gu Qing had already started preparations, and specially invited Li Zheng's eldest daughter, who is a good cook in the village, to cook the big pot of rice.

Gujia Village has a large population, but she doesn't have a good relationship with every household. A rough calculation shows that there will be people from fifty or sixty households coming to the banquet. Including workers and artisans, at least twenty or thirty tables will be prepared. This can be regarded as a big event in the Gu family village. The last time they had a banquet was last spring. In the past year or so, no one in the whole village has had a big event.

Gu Qing listed the menu, a table of six dishes, neither shabby nor extravagant, they were: Braised Meat Platter, Tofu Meatballs, Mushroom Chicken, Fungus Scrambled Eggs, Stir-fried Wild Vegetables, Pork Bone and Radish Soup, and Wine was prepared for the dozen or so tables of the craftsmen.

Looking at Gujia Village as a whole, such dishes are pretty good.

The day before the beam was erected, two temporary large earthen stoves were built in the yard, one for steaming rice and the other for frying big pot vegetables.

Mrs. Gu took Mrs. Song and Mrs. Sun to cut the meat, Jinhua Niang and Yinhua Niang were making tofu meatballs, Gu Qing was making stewed meat, and all the children in the family went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables. This is tomorrow's banquet The ingredients to be used.

Looking at the table of pork, Mrs. Sun couldn't help muttering: "The eldest niece is too generous. Why buy so much meat? It's fine to put two taels in a dish. Can't I leave the rest for my family?"

"You shallow-sighted thing." The old lady Gu scolded, "This is the wine for lifting beams. Don't let those craftsmen who are lifting beams eat and drink well. They don't care when they build beams and tiles, and they will eat it when the time comes. Bigger loss."

It’s fine to pick and search in other places, but you can’t be sloppy with the wine on the beam. This is closely related to the prosperity of the house, and you must be careful.

There is an old saying in the village: There are beams on the roof, and there is food in the house.There are no beams on the roof, and the animals are not prosperous.

The words passed down from generation to generation are naturally reasonable. Mrs. Gu hopes that the life of the Dafang family will prosper, and that the four grandchildren will be more and more promising. The better the Shangliang Wine is run, the better the future prospects of the children bigger.

That night a group of women went back to rest after being busy until very late.

Yang Pei and Zhu Tao didn't go home, but stayed at the new house to guard the ingredients in the yard, as well as the tile noodles that had just been brought back.

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

Mr. Gu directed people to set up a few large tables in the yard. The tables were covered with red cloth, and then sacrifices, pig head, rooster wine cup, etc. were placed on the table.

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

The joy is full of joy, and the spring is full of thousands of miles of spring.

After all the things that should be prepared were prepared, almost all the villagers came to watch. It was an auspicious time. The masons and carpenters stepped forward and began the beam sacrifice ceremony. A jug of wine was poured on the ground and they muttered: " Please Liang please go to the front of the hall...the first cup of wine to respect the ancestors...the fifth cup of wine is sprinkled high, there are three stars to shine..."

After sacrificing the beam, it is time to raise the beam. The custom in Gujia Village is to find eight lucky young people to climb on the roof to pull the beam. After pulling the beam, it is to stabilize the beam. With the slightest mistake, after the beams were put in place, it was the most lively beam throwing, which was the favorite part of the children in the village.

As the owner of this house, Gu Qing stood on the beam with the carpenters, and threw down the prepared wedding candy cakes, red date shortcakes and other things from a high place, and the whole village would come to grab them. , There was a sound of firecrackers at the gate of the house. It was not firecrackers, but burning bamboo. When the bamboo joints burned, they would make crackling noises.

Amidst the lively and joyful sound, Mr. Gu brought thirty tables and set them up in the courtyard of the new house.

Mrs. Gu led the women to serve dishes one by one. The tangy aroma made everyone's mouth water. Six dishes, each with a bowl of white rice, was enough to fill them up.

Of course, these people didn't come to eat free food, they all brought gifts.

(End of this chapter)