Chapter 4: Sharpening the Axe
The picture on the beam is an auspicious celebration, which naturally needs a qiēshun lì, but now it ...... The upper beam is in trouble!
This is the best palm ink carpenter master in the Punal Valley and even on the east coast of North America!
In the past few decades, Qin carpenters have built houses on the east coast of North America for many Chinese, and it seems that everything is smooth, and people who get rich after living in it, those who become officials, the descendants of the house are prosperous, and everything is prosperous, how can it be my turn to be the old Chen family, and it will be dumb......
Chen Siye's wrinkled old face was uncertain, which was really not good-looking, and the onlookers began to chatter and gossip, which made the Chen family's faces even more unbearable.
The upper beam is just a ceremony, the size of the beam and the size of the frame slotted carpenter have been well prepared in advance, just to go through the motions, by the carpenter in front of the homeowner and relatives and friends of the beam, the beam is stuck in, it represents the "hardware" part of the house is built, only to be laid in the later stage, to make doors and windows furniture.
And Feng Tiao and Tongzi have been checked many times in advance according to the master's order, and they thought it was foolproof, but where would they have thought that at this juncture, the size of the beam and the size of the slotting are completely consistent, but they just can't get in!
"Second and third, what's wrong?" Qin Shaonan, who was standing on another purlin, shouted, as a palm ink master and an old carpenter, he was naturally still angry at this time.
"Master, there is no proper ...... on the beam," Kiriko replied to the master with a sad face.
"The second brother comes over and helps me hold the god seat!" Qin Shaonan shouted to Feng Tiao, Feng Tiao put down the beam, walked over to help the master hold the god seat, Qin Shaonan came over and looked at the Liang Mu card slot carefully, there was no problem.
The carpenter's things are carried with him, Qin Shaonan used a planer to plane on the frame for a while, and then played a three-line ink fountain on the beam, after a lot of busy work, he Tongzi lifted the beam upright, but still couldn't get stuck.
It's evil, and the beams that are perfectly matched by the slotted size just can't be put in!
It's as if there are a pair of hands in the dark, grabbing this beam hard, not letting it get stuck in place - not allowing this new house to complete the beam!
Qin Shaonan wiped the sweat from his forehead, put down the beams, stood up on the shelf, and carefully looked at the wooden frame of the entire new house.
Half a century has passed since he came to the United States in 1948 from the land of Bashu, China, and this old Chinese carpenter, who is second to none in the North American continent, realized that today he has encountered the "grinding axe beam" (also known as the "grinding axe beam").
"Master Qin, what's going on? Is this beam going to be done or what? You are the best carpenter in this area, how can you ......" Chen Siye, who spoke Shandong, shouted loudly under the frame.
"Sharpen the axe!" Qin Shaonan shouted at Fourth Master Chen.
"Touching my father?!"
Not only the Chen family, but even Li Ling in the crowd sounded very different.
"Third Senior Brother, you should be proficient in the Luban technique, haven't you seen that in this Luban Fa game you blessed, there is something strange in breaking the situation......" Li Ling chanted this sentence in his heart.
There are so many onlookers, and the third senior brother is far away on the shelf, Li Ling can only secretly cheer for the third senior brother at this time, in his opinion, the third senior brother should be able to think of a way to break the trouble.
"Fourth master, someone else helped you find this house foundation, and I have nothing to say. I'm going to put you on the beam today, and I've encountered the 'grinding axe'! Qin Shaonan said loudly to Chen Siye on the house frame, "You are looking for someone to take a look now, has the ancestral tomb of more than two generations of your family collapsed?" ”
"How is that possible? Our family went to my father's and my grandfather's grave in the morning to offer incense, and our ancestral grave is good! Chen Siye replied. Punal Valley is located in the mountains of northeastern New York State, more than 100 years ago, there were Chinese workers who died and were buried directly in the mountains, so the Chen family has an ancestral grave here.
After hearing this, Qin Shaonan thought for a while, and then asked: "Fourth master, let me ask again, can there be descendants in your family who are unfilial to you and even abuse your second elder——"
"Hey, Lao Qin, what did you say?!" Chen Siye's three sons roared under the room frame, "Dad is our most respected and beloved relative, what you said is a bit too much!" ”
"Master Qin, don't worry about this, my children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren are all very filial to me, and you don't have to say this." Chen Siye also replied.
Qin Shaonan immediately asked again: "So, think about it again, has your family ever bullied a fortune teller or called Hanako?" Fourth master, these words I asked are related to whether the beam is smooth or not, I build a house and the beam, and I pay attention to these!
"Fourth master, you know me, my old Qin has been in the United States for 50 years, so many years, how many Chinese villagers on the east coast have built houses, I went to palm the ink and put on the beam, and there has never been an accident, after the new house is built, they are all prosperous and prosperous, living and working in peace and contentment, but today, it is really evil!"
After hearing this, Chen Siye's family thought about it at the moment, and then shook their heads, his family has a big business, and he has always been keen on public welfare and charity, so he has bullied any fortune teller and even bullied some people who ask for food.
Seeing that they denied it, Qin Shaonan thought about it in his heart, and thought of the roof foundation again, but it was difficult to say, after all, the roof foundation was not found by himself.
The house frame has been erected, and it has come to the time when the beam is auspicious, and then come to people to say that the roof foundation is not good, and to change the roof foundation, this is not a curse to others, and people have bad luck for eight lifetimes!
Qin Shaonan's so-called "sharpening axe" is a kind of "big bad luck" that carpenters in the land of Bashu in China encountered when building houses.
The stinger is a kind of legendary ghost that often appears in pairs, and the stinger that appears near the folk house is said to be a house ghost and a wild ghost.
In the old days, when carpenters built houses for their families, carpenters with many rules would split wood three times with an axe in the south facing sunny place and sitting in the north facing yin place of the roof foundation to produce wood chips, which is the so-called "splitting chips", homonym "to ward off evil spirits".
Just because the carpenter's axe is a thing to ward off evil spirits, if the "crumbs" are followed, the house ghosts and wild ghosts wandering near the foundation of the house will escape, and the new house built by the carpenter will bring blessings and good luck to the owner, and people will live in it.
At this time, if it is a carpenter with a good way, he will insist on continuing to chop wood, and fight against yin and evil with his own ability and righteousness, so as to finally force away these ghosts;
But if the carpenter is not good enough to hold on, then he goes to the axe sharpening stone to sharpen the axe—if the carpenter sharpens the axe, it is a sign of bad luck, the so-called "axe sharpening".
It is said that the ghost was on the carpenter's body at this time, but it was actually the ghost who was sharpening the axe. It shows that the ghost near the foundation of the house does not allow the owner to build a new house, and if the owner insists on building a house, the beams of the new house will not be correct, or if the building is completed, people will live in it, everything will go wrong, or they will fall ill and suffer.
"Chipping" is the practice of some carpenters with strict teachers and many rules in the old days, but the unlucky sign of "grinding axes" does not only appear when carpenters chop chips, sometimes the crumbs are smooth, but in the later construction process, "grinding axes" will also appear.
For example, when digging the earthwork of the foundation of the house, there is an accident such as the collapse of the ground hole, or the upper beam is not smooth, or the roof truss collapses, etc., "grinding the axe" has gradually become synonymous with the carpenter's failure to build a new house, and does not specifically refer to superstitious sayings such as ghosts and evil blocking the way.
In the old carpenter's view, if the ancestral tomb of a family collapsed (such as being washed away by floods and mudslides), it would also produce "grinding axes", and the upper beams of the new house must be not correct, and the employer needs to repair the ancestral tomb immediately in order to smooth the upper beam - this is the saying of "Yin Mansion Ning, Yang Mansion Shun" in the carpenter's business.
In the old days, it was also said that if the owner of the house bullied the fortune teller, bullied the flower child, or abused the elderly, the beams of the new house would not go well, and the "grinding axe" would jump out to make trouble.
But the most taboo thing about building a new house is that the roof foundation is not right, such as choosing a yin house vein, or some places where feng shui is not conducive to yang houses, this kind of "grinding axe" is the most difficult, and it is said that it will definitely lead to the construction of the house on the beam is not correct.
The only solution is to need the employer to change the roof foundation - this is a test of the feng shui master's skills, if a half can of feng shui gentleman for the family to pick such a roof foundation so that the upper beam is not right, then the owner can only blame the big wrong.
But at the moment, the foundation of Chen Siye's family is not what Qin Shaonan is looking for, so Qin Shaonan is not good at saying anything to the house foundation, in his opinion, since it was found by Mr. Feng Shui himself, it will naturally not be a big problem.
In some places in Sichuan and Chongqing, "grinding axes" is also known as "Mofu Wei", Mofu is Mozi, who lives in the same era as the carpenter ancestor Lu Ban, and is said to be Lu Ban's number one enemy. Since he is the great enemy of the grandfather, he will naturally block the construction of the grandfather or the apprentices of the grandfather.
When some carpenters are in construction, if they encounter some unsatisfactory events (i.e., very mysterious and unpredictable emergencies) that they can't see clearly, think clearly, and can't figure out them, they will often think that it is the master of Mo who is doing the trick, and the enemy of the ancestor is haunting the ghost.
If what Chen Siye said is true, their family's ancestral tomb is intact, and his family has not abused the elderly, bullied fortune tellers, or called Huazi, of course, it is necessary to ensure that the feng shui of the house foundation is fine. Then, there should be no "grinding axes" to make trouble, and the beams of the new house should naturally be smooth and auspicious.
But the problem is that at the moment, the upper beam is not right!
Feng Tiao and Tongzi squatted next to the master, seeing that the master seemed to be in a rut, they couldn't help but be even more anxious, the carpenter was not on the beam, and the smashing was not his own signboard? If this affects the business of Lihua Wood Factory, it will be even more unworthy.
Eliminating the "grinding axe" one by one, Qin Shaonan looked at the crowd of onlookers again, and then took a closer look at the room frame, his heart jumped, and he quickly pulled out the axe from his waist and asked Tongzi to hand him a wooden wedge.
"Bang bang bang!" Qin Shaonan split the wooden wedge, and the sawdust splashed. Something strange happened, a piece of sawdust actually hovered over the beam, like a feather, floating around!
None of the onlookers under the frame seemed to notice the strange phenomenon caused by a small piece of sawdust. But in Li Ling's field of vision, in the Luban Law Bureau of the house frame, a scarlet air flow on that layer of Hongmeng Qi was holding that piece of sawdust, like flowing water carrying leaves, drifting things at will!
Qin Shaonan seemed to have a sudden realization, and immediately shouted at Fourth Master Chen: "Fourth Master, I explained to you in advance, I don't allow pregnant women to come to watch when I go to the beam, have you implemented this matter?" Keep your eyes sharp, and see if there are any women who are pregnant with dolls among these relatives and friends who come to watch the congratulations? ”
"That's right! Third Senior Brother, you will definitely find the roots! Li Ling clapped his hands in the crowd and said, "Stacked aura, it's a pregnant woman!" Among the onlookers at this scene, there must be pregnant women......"
In the old days, ordinary carpenters built houses and beams for others, and generally did not pay much attention to the rules. But for carpenters who know Lubanshu, they must strictly abide by some rules and pay attention to many taboos.
Otherwise, if something is wrong, it will break the Luban Law Bureau that he held on the wooden frame of the new house, which will not only make the beams of the new house unsmooth, but also cause a rush to the owner of the house, so that everything will not go well and suffer in trouble.
For example, when he was building the beams of the house, pregnant women were never allowed to come and watch.
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