Golden Fishing Village

Unconsciously, it was the end of August. These days, the general had been dealing with the head of state. The head of state became obedient because he couldn't beat him. He stopped bullying other dogs outside.

At this time, his new building was completed.

In fact, the building was basically completed a week ago. During this period, the workers also laid water and electricity lines for him, paved a front yard for him, and installed doors and windows. In this way, the building was basically completed and could be delivered.

Accompanied by the contractor Sun Fuhua, Ao Muyang carefully inspected the building. There was no problem with the construction quality, water and electricity circuits, doors and windows, and it could be directly decorated later.

After the inspection, he nodded and said, "Okay, this house is well built and the speed is very fast."

Sun Fuhua smiled while holding a cigarette in his mouth, "Not too fast. Large-area concrete and anti-seepage and slow-setting concrete can be completed in 14 days. Concrete with ordinary silicate cement and ordinary silicate cement only takes 7 days. Moreover, many people from your village came to help. If it weren't for the village's house repair, this building would have been built half a month ago."

Ao Muyang was very satisfied with the speed. He would spend two months to decorate it later, and he would be able to move into the new house before winter.

After the new house is delivered, the next step is to celebrate, which is called beam raising.

In the past, fishermen built houses with mud and bricks, with only one floor, and the roof was pointed. The whole house was supported by a beam. For a house, the most important thing is this beam.

So, when it comes to the beam raising stage of building a house, the owner will hold a more grand ceremony and invite the villagers to celebrate together.

However, what is being built now is a building, and in order to make use of space, the top floor of modern rural buildings is flat, so that it can be used as a drying ground to dry grain and seafood.

In this kind of building, the role of the beam is not so great, but the custom has been passed down for hundreds and thousands of years, and it is not something that can be thrown away. Therefore, to this day, there is still a saying of raising the beam when building a new house in Qiantan Town.

In the past, it was celebrated when the beam was actually raised, but now it is mostly celebrated when the house is delivered, which is a bit like the tradition of burning kangs in northern cities.

In addition, calling the villagers together at this time also has other purposes, that is, to let everyone come together to check the house and see if there are any problems, so that the engineering team can make corrections in time.

Raising the beam is a big event and must be treated solemnly. In the past, people would ask Feng Shui masters to calculate the day to raise the beam. Ao Muyang also joined in the fun. He found Fu Jizi, an old Taoist priest who helped him when repairing the tomb, and calculated a good day at the end of the month.

Ao Muyang checked the house and found nothing wrong. Then he prepared to raise the beam to celebrate. He told a few people the time, and then the whole village quickly spread the news. At noon, the door of his small building was bustling.

The old men and women who had nothing to do, the children who had finished their cram school, and the women all rushed to his door to wait for the raising of the beam.

According to local customs, when raising the beam, the host family has to scatter grains. In the past, it was serious grain, but now it is scattering snacks, candies, and even small red envelopes to attract everyone to scramble and add joy to the host family.

Ao Muyang has spread the word that he will definitely scatter red envelopes when raising the beam today, so many people came.

Ao Fugui and his son helped him borrow a wooden beam. This is the village's festive beam. If there is no real beam raising link in building a building, this festive beam will be used instead.

This festive beam is straight and thick. It uses solid fir wood. The two ends are slightly smaller and the middle is slightly thicker. The whole is in the shape of a loach belly, and a flying dragon is painted on it with five colors.

Good wood indicates that the owner's family will have a pillar of talent. Feilong hopes that the owner's descendants will become successful and prosperous for generations. Every detail is taken into consideration.

Lu Zhizi also came to join in the fun. Ao Muyang waved happily when he saw her. She came over and smiled, "It's very lively."

"It will be more lively later." Ao Xiaoniu said excitedly.

Lu Zhizi watched him take off his clothes and said, "It's too hot to wear clothes this day? Why are you shirtless again?"

Ao Xiaoniu said, "No, teacher, later..."

"You'll know later." Ao Muyang smiled, "Keep it a secret for now, don't be too surprised later, we have a custom here, it's quite funny."

The old Taoist Fu Jizi was invited over. He calculated the time and shouted when the time was right, "Guests, please don't make noise. Host, serve the wine!"

Ao Muyang brought three cups of wine up. The old Taoist walked to the happy beam and took a cup and sprinkled it on one end of the beam, shouting, "The first cup of wine is offered to the top of the beam, and the descendants will be dukes and marquises for generations!"

He took another cup of wine and sprinkled it in the middle of the beam, and then shouted, "The second cup of wine is offered to the middle of the beam, and the descendants will be rich for generations!"

The last cup of wine was poured on the other end of the beam, saying, "The third cup of wine is offered to the top of the beam, and the descendants will be blessed with good fortune for generations! Someone, light the firecrackers!"

'Crackle! ''Crackle! ’

The strings of firecrackers hanging at the door of the house were lit, and as the smoke filled the air, a festive atmosphere suddenly appeared.

Song Qiumin and several women were busy placing tributes in front of the wooden beams, and then the old Taoist handed a piece of red paper to Ao Muyang and said, "Go, post the wedding invitation."

Ao Fugui laughed and said, "Yangzi, look carefully, don't say it's "Liu Hu Xing Wang!"

After hearing this, the people around him burst into laughter.

Ao Muyang was confused: "What? How can there be a post of "Liu Hu Xing Wang" on the beam?"

Song Qiumin explained: "It's a joke in Wangjia Village. The year before last, Wang Heizi's family built a new house. When they put up the beam, they put the wrong wedding invitation. They put a post of "Liu Hu Xing Wang", which became a joke."

Ao Muyang laughed and said, "It's not a joke. They have a lot of livestock in Wangjia Village, so they have to put a post of "Liu Hu Xing Wang."

The villagers laughed even more. Ao Fugui said, "Yangzi, you are so mean."

Ao Muyang was innocent: "Why am I mean? I mean, there are many pigs, chickens and ducks in their village. There is a breeding farm in their village, so it's okay to post the words "Livestock is prosperous."

As he said, he posted the wedding invitation on the wooden beam, with three serious words: Chinese Dream.

Seeing the words on the wedding invitation, the villagers laughed: "Damn, Brother Yang, you have a high political awareness."

Most people didn't care about the wedding invitation. They all went to occupy the dominant position, because at this time, the highlight began. The old Taoist shouted: "The host goes up to the house and scatters grains!"

Ao Muyang scattered candies and snacks from the second-floor balcony, mixed with small red envelopes.

He threw it down, and people rushed to grab it. Ao Xiaoniu and other shirtless children were the most active, rolling and crawling, turning all over the place.

Lu Zhizi was stunned: "Oh my god, what are you doing? Why are you rolling around?"

A handsome young man next to him said: "This is our tradition here. Boys rolling around means money is rolling in."

Ao Muyang scattered a bag of candy and snacks, scattered hundreds of red envelopes, and then came down to give big red envelopes to the rolling children.

After doing all this, he invited neighbors and relatives and friends to have dinner together.

Seeing the handsome young man next to Lu Zhizi, he laughed: "Wenchang, you are here too? Let's go drink and chat together."

The handsome young man smiled reluctantly: "I can't, I came here to say congratulations to my old classmates and then I will go back..."

A woman next to him said: "Hey, Wenchang, you finally got out, why are you in a hurry to go home? Have a good chat with Yangzi. Look how good Yangzi is now. How can you, a college student, be so much worse than him? There must be a reason. Talk to Yangzi more, won't you find the reason?"

The handsome young man smiled more reluctantly, waved his hand and said: "Second Aunt, I have something to do at home, well, Brother Yang, I'm leaving first..."

The woman wanted to say something, Ao Muyang frowned and said: "Second Aunt, don't say anything, go on, go in and eat!"