Chapter 1292 Frequent Events36

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The luncheon at the spring family officially ended at two o'clock in the afternoon, although it seemed that everyone drank a lot, but everyone did not drink too much, and everyone had a scale in their hearts, after all, there were still a lot of bits and pieces to do in the afternoon.

After drinking tea for a while after the banquet, Chef Liu began to assign work to everyone. Master Liu has made a detailed division of work for the big guys according to each person's strengths and abilities. Chun and Xu Jiang are still responsible for sieving sand and cement and supply, Chun Shujia is responsible for sealing the steamer in the operation room and tiling the pot stove, Chun Shuli is responsible for helping Chun Shujia, Chun Shuwu is responsible for demolishing the wooden shelves of the chimney outside the courtyard wall, and Master Liu himself is responsible for building a simple fire room outside the courtyard wall.

There is a saying in the Toyama area that "there are many chaotic people, there are many droughts, there are many dragons that do not control the water, there are many chickens that do not lay eggs, and the wives have a lot of dinner", which means that there are many people and no one does things. In fact, it is not difficult to solve this problem, just like Master Liu, with a unified plan and command, this problem can be easily solved.

After Master Liu finished assigning the work, everyone dispersed and began to get busy. If you really want to talk about it, the heaviest work belongs to Spring and Xu Jiang, because the two of them have to supply materials to the two groups of Chun Shujia and Master Liu at the same time, and moving bricks and cement is a hard work, fortunately, Spring and Xu Jiang are both young and strong, plus everyone still has seven or eight taels of wine in their stomachs, but they don't feel any fatigue.

In this way, I was busy until half past four in the afternoon, and with the full cooperation of everyone, all the work had been completed.

Surrounded by everyone, Master Liu solemnly lit the first fire for the pot stove. Having the master of the pot stove light the first fire on the new pot stove is a long-standing ritual in the Toyama area, also known as the "ignition ceremony". In previous years, when the "lighting ceremony" was held for the pot stove, the main family also had to prepare three animal offerings and incense candles and other things, and folklore said that it was to sacrifice to the "stove king". In fact, let the master of the pot stove hold a "ignition ceremony" for the new pot stove, one is to show the respect of the master of the pot stove, and the other is to let the master of the pot stove try whether the new pot stove is good or not, if the smoke or nest fire is reversed, the master of the pot stove can also be corrected immediately. Although this tradition has a long history, with the change of society and the continuous progress of the people's thinking, although the new pot stove is still lit by the master of the pot stove, the tradition of offering sacrifices to the "stove king" is rarely done anymore, at most some exquisite people will set off a firecracker when lighting the fire. In order to celebrate the opening of the steamed bun shop, the spring has already bought two hangers of "earth red", but the two hangers of "earth red" bought in spring are to be set off on the day of the official opening, not at the "ignition ceremony" of the pot stove, because spring does not want the sound of firecrackers to alarm the teachers in the school's family yard too early. Although a few teachers or residents of the family home came to inquire about the news during the process of building the chimney and pot stove today, Spring still did not want to alarm the teachers in the school too early before the official opening.

Because I haven't bought pulverized coal yet, I used firewood to light the fire, and I dismantled two discarded desks in the spring to make firewood and grass. Speaking of which, Master Liu's craftsmanship is really not covered, although there is no wind today, but the wisp of white green smoke still emerges from the top of the high chimney and goes up crookedly for a long time, and the firewood in the stove also makes a whirring burning sound, and the flame keeps crawling towards the mouth of the chimney. This is still in the absence of wind, if there is wind, the burning of firewood and grass will definitely be more vigorous, which also shows that the pot stove of Xinlei is absolutely fine.

Master Liu clapped his hands with satisfaction, and said to Spring and Xu Dan: "You guys are okay!"

Spring and Xu Dan hurriedly expressed their gratitude to Master Liu, and the onlookers Chun Shuwu and others also praised Master Liu, and then Master Liu entered the hall to drink tea surrounded by everyone.

According to the rules of the mason's business, after the completion of the pot stove, the host has to take care of a finished wine, and the wine and food have already been booked, and the scheduled delivery time is six o'clock.

At this time, there was still an hour before the food delivery time agreed with Cheng Bing, and in the spring, he discussed with Xu Dan to go to the coal station on the street to pull some pulverized coal, and it happened that Chun Shuwu's motorized tricycle could come in handy.

Spring and Chun Shuwu drove a tricycle to the town's coal station, and many and Xu Jiang were not idle, and the two of them took advantage of this free time to go home and pull a cart of firewood and grass for ignition. Many of the fires that have just been lit are broken desks that have been dismantled in the spring, and it is not a long-term solution to go on like this, how many broken desks can you tear down in the school? Anyway, there is too much firewood and grass at home to burn out, so go home and pull a cart. Moreover, many and Xu Jiang also have a task, that is, by the way, they also have to invite the old Yang Tou, who sells equipment, to come over. Now that the preparations for the opening of the steamed bun shop have been completed, it is time to invite Lao Yang Tou to have a drink.

So, many and Xu Jiang drove a walk-behind tractor and left. In the living room, only Chun Shuli and Chun Shujia were left to accompany Master Liu to drink tea and gossip.

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There is no need to go into detail about the situation of the dinner, it is naturally a situation where the guests and hosts are happy and happy.

It was eight o'clock in the evening after the dinner, and many people and Xu Jiang drove a walk-behind tractor to send Master Liu and Lao Yang Tou home first. Xu Dan hurriedly took out a salary of 100 yuan to Master Liu, but Master Liu said that he didn't want anything, and said that the reason why he took this job was because of his friendship with many people for so many years, otherwise he wouldn't have done it with much money. Xu Dan thought about it, and then slowly returned it after Master Liu's favor.

After Master Liu, Duo and Xu Jiang left, Chun Shuwu also drove a tricycle to pull Chun Shuli and Chun Shujia back to Shimengouzi Village.

After everyone left, Spring and Xu Dan were busy cleaning up the leftovers of the banquet. By the time I had packed it all up, it was nine o'clock in the evening.

After washing, Spring and Xu Dan were lying on the bed with their exhaustion, and the two of them discussed the official opening of the steamed bun shop. Xu Dan said that it was better to choose a day than to hit the day, so he would just make a pot of steamed buns and scones tomorrow to try, and he agreed after thinking about it in the spring.