Chapter 12: Upper Beam

"Storm!"

Lu Chen gently spit out three words in his mouth, and then continued: "Those who live in the mouth of the wind are fierce, the wind is fast and the qi does not gather, the birds do not build nests, and people cannot live." Even aside from Feng Shui itself, the wind itself is not good for people. According to feng shui, the wind neither hides the wind nor gathers qi, even if the feng shui of the house is good, it must be blown away by the wind. ”

"As the saying goes, 'the wind sweeps the house, the family loses and the wealth dies', this is the truth. ”

"Is it so serious?"

Ye Qingling's eyebrows furrowed deeper and deeper, she couldn't be sure whether what Lu Chen said was true or false, but she would rather believe it than believe it. However, she still had a doubt in her heart, so she asked out loud: "Lu Chen, that Mr. Jiang is a famous disciple of Master Su, why didn't he see these things?"

"If he hadn't seen it, he could still say that he wasn't good at it, but if he had seen it earlier......"

Speaking of this, Lu Chen paused slightly, sneered and said, "That is harboring evil intentions and deliberately trying to harm the Ye family." ”

"This ......"

When Ye Qingling heard this, his expression couldn't help but change slightly, and after hesitating for a while, he asked again: "Then do you have any way to dissolve this evil wind?" I remember that in Feng Shui, there are many ways to dissolve evil qi?"

"Generally speaking, there are only two kinds of dissolving evil spirits. ”

Lu Chen smiled slightly and said: "One is called 'Suppression Method', which uses special magic weapons, such as talismans, peach wood, Taishan stone dare, etc., to suppress the evil qi with their special aura, and slowly wear it away. On the other hand, the other is 'reforming', which fundamentally removes the source of evil qi by changing the terrain, buildings, etc. ”

"However, now that the renovation project of the old house has been completed, it is obviously unrealistic to want to get rid of the evil spirit through 'reforming the law'. Therefore, for today's method, the only way to do this is to use the 'suppression method' to slowly dissolve the evil qi, but this is not an overnight thing. ”

Just when Ye Qingling was about to continue asking, her sister Ye Qingyun walked over through the moon gate, and said expressionlessly: "Sister, grandpa is going to preside over the beam ceremony today, and he wants us all to go over and ask some things." ”

After speaking, Ye Qingyun turned around and left directly, without looking at Lu Chen from beginning to end.

"Let's go over first, and I'll tell you the solution when I have time. ”

Lu Chen didn't go back and get angry with a little girl, he wanted to see now whether Jiang Fengxiao was not good at learning or harboring evil intentions.

Ye Qingling had no choice but to nod and follow Lu Chen to the old mansion owner's hall.

Old Man Ye summoned everyone over, in fact, there was no big deal, but his old man looked at the old mansion that had been restored as before, and he was full of emotion for a while, so he summoned everyone to reminisce about the bittersweet and reminisce about the past.

From the old man's grandfather's generation moving to Beihai, to saving money to buy the old house, and then struggling all the way to the present. This series of stories, the juniors of the Ye family don't know how many times they have heard it, and they are drowsy when they hear it one by one, but Lu Chen heard it for the first time, and it can be regarded as relish.

The old man talked about this from the afternoon to the evening, and after everyone finished dinner, the highlight of tonight, the beam ceremony, was ready to begin.

The upper beam is the most important part of building a house, and the time will be selected as the "full moon" or "high tide" time to carry out, taking the meaning of family reunion and money pouring in like a tide.

Tonight is just in time for the fifteenth full moon, and Old Man Ye can't wait to prepare for the beam ceremony, and everyone in the Ye family also divides their labor, going out to buy all kinds of sacrificial supplies and so on.

Before the beam, the god must be sacrificed, and the sacrifice has "the whole pig", that is, with a pig's head and a pig's tail, which means the whole pig, commonly known as "Li City". In addition, fish, goose, tofu, eggs, salt and soy sauce are used in five or seven colors, a wooden red lacquer altar plate is placed at the top of the offering table, twenty-four bowls of other dishes and twelve pots of fruits from the north and south.

At the same time, it is also necessary to paste a congratulatory couplet such as "Shangliang is happy to meet the Zodiac Day, and the column coincides with the purple microstar", which must be made of yellow or green paper, and red paper must not be used. At both ends of the main beam, the red silk must be hung, and the red silk droops down to clear the Shunzhi Tongdian, which takes the meaning of "peace and shun".

This whole set of preparations can be regarded as busy enough for everyone.

After everything was ready, the expressionless Jiang Fengxiao appeared in front of everyone again, he took a pen and paper, asked the date of birth of everyone present, and then began to calculate the eight characters of the birthday. According to traditional customs, Shangliang can not clash with any one of the owner's family on this day, otherwise it will have adverse effects. In addition, other people's zodiac signs should also be avoided if they clash with the hour of the upper beam.

According to the previous communication and arrangement between Old Man Ye and Jiang Fengxiao, tonight's beam ceremony must go through a full set and not miss a single step.

The group of carpentry masters who were responsible for repairing the old mansion had to get together and start reciting the steps and lines that Jiang Fengxiao had told them before. If it were someone else's house, I'm afraid they wouldn't have so much patience to carry things here, but who would let the old man make a generous move? For the sake of money, everyone had to endure it.

At midnight, the moon is full, and it is the hour of the upper beam.

In accordance with Jiang Fengxiao's previous instructions, the carpentry masters completed the ceremonies such as sacrificing the beams, putting the beams, and throwing the beams step by step, and in the end, it was time to post a congratulatory message.

This congratulatory message was written by the old man himself, written on a piece of red paper, with eight big characters written on it: "The prince is here, the gods abdicate", and it was to be pasted under the main beam by a master carpenter.

Master Zhang has been a carpenter for 50 years, and compared with other young people, he has long been familiar with this kind of beam ceremony. He respectfully accepted the congratulatory message handed by the old man, and asked his little apprentices to bring a brand-new wooden ladder.

Lu Chen stood with his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and when he looked at Master Zhang preparing to climb the stairs sticker, he couldn't help frowning slightly, and secretly slandered: "It seems that this Jiang Fengxiao is completely unskilled in learning and arts, and he didn't notice the existence of this storm." ”

"Shangliang itself seeks the peace of the house, and can be prosperous, and Ze is born. However, this storm is to ruin the family and wealth, and the two will inevitably conflict, so it's no wonder that this congratulatory message can be pasted!"

Master Zhang instructed the apprentices to hold up the wooden ladder, and then held the red paper of the congratulatory message and climbed up step by step. In a short time, he had already climbed to the top of the wooden ladder, found the side where the red paper was smeared with paste, and prepared to paste it under the pillars.

"I hope that the descendants of my Ye family can be rich and healthy......"

Old Man Ye had a smile on his face, although he didn't like his daughter's self-assertions, but he had to say that his daughter's approach was in response to his wishes. Since he moved out of the old house due to the earthquake, he wanted to renovate the old house and move back again, but he has never found a suitable feng shui master, either he can't like it, or he can't move.

His daughter Ye Jianhui not only renovated the old mansion, but also invited Jiang Fengxiao, a disciple of Master Su, to personally survey feng shui, which was also a wish of his.