Also at the end of last year, the city guard family began to prepare for this family business, the son in the countryside is going to get married, most of them have to build a new house first, on the beam, return to the house (housewarming) time, during the winter vacation, Mingcheng also called the three dogs to help with the work, eat and sleep in the city guard house, the three of them work together with the stone carpenter.

The city guard family has money, built a three-straight big tile house, the site is very good, at the bottom of the mountain not far from the courtyard of the city guard now, there is a river not far away, the back of the mountain and the river is good feng shui.

When the villagers build houses, they first level the ground, then dig a trench more than one meter deep around them, use large stones to make the foundation of the load-bearing wall in the trench, and build a stone wall with a meter at the bottom, with the stones facing outward and irregularly facing inward, with small stones and mortar (cemented soil) in the middle.

The stone wall is more than one meter rammed earth wall, the big wooden planks on both sides are stuck into a mold, the three dogs they go to dig the soil and pour the soil into the middle, the stonemason master goes up and uses the wooden pestle to tamp it tightly, and then continues to put the wooden plank mold up and continue to ram the earth.

Sometimes the fresh earthen wall will shake slightly, and the calves and stomachs of the three dogs on them will also tremble, for fear that the collapse will also fall, but basically it is fine.

Finally, the left and right walls are rammed into a triangular top, and the beam is enlarged in the middle of the top (generally the two ends are cut into a large trunk), and some people are invited on both sides to hang the girder and place it.

In addition to the girders, small beams should be erected every meter or so, that is, smaller wooden beams, and after they are erected, rafters are nailed vertically on each girder, and iron nails are nailed according to the width of the tile.

Finally, cover the tile on the rafters, the tile is the bottom layer facing up, the concave surface of the tile is facing up, the block and the block are stacked in turn, the row is close to each other, on the basis of the inverted tile laying, the two rows of seams are then the concave side of the tile is pressed down in a row.

The tiles are generally stacked by one-half to three-fifths, and the layers are pressed against each other, like fish scales, and the rainwater naturally flows down the tile scales; In order to unify the color and reduce the water absorption of the tile, the tile is soaked in white ash water mixed with black smoke before covering the tile.

The rich owner can use white ash (white lime mixed with fine sand, and the willing owner will use pure slaked lime and water) to paint the interior wall white, and the rich can also paint the exterior wall.

When everything is done, we will return to the house (housewarming) and prepare the furniture for moving the night before. Invite relatives and friends before 12 o'clock, the head of the house holds a bucket of rice (filled with eight points full of rice), the family holds a bucket (filled with three points full), bowls and chopsticks: even numbers are better, put them in a bucket, a stove (a charcoal fire on the inside), a wooden bucket (containing firewood, rice, oil, salt), a dustpan (filled with earth) and a pair of new brooms, which need to be tied with strips of red cloth, and put the above items in the kitchen first, and other things can be moved into the house.

Early the next morning, we should invite the stonemason and carpenter Mr. Taoist priest to come together to carry out the ceremony of "vertical house", set up the wine table for worship, vegetables, meat, soup, rice, wine, light red candles, incense sticks, Taoist priests began to chant scriptures, please the god of the stove, the land lord, etc.

The first is the "upper beam", that is, the middle beam of the hall, and the time of placement is arranged by Mr. Feng Shui according to the birth date of the owner, accurate to the minute; Whether the girder is placed properly or not is related to the fate and future of the owner.

Therefore, the upper beam is very important, before the upper beam to worship the yin and yang of heaven and earth and the first master of Luban, when the sacrifice is invited, the carpenter climbs up the beam with an axe, and a big golden-crowned rooster is tied to the beam, the carpenter begins to cheer, and everyone below follows and ......

The carpenter shouted: "Joy!

Everyone shouted in unison: Oh!

Carpenter raps loudly:

Heaven and earth are auspicious, the sun rises in the west; Please yin and yang first, and then Luban; Please go to yin and yang, and choose the day and time; Please go to Luban and build a 10,000-year-old tile hall. The Governor's Mansion was built in front, and the Prime Minister's Mansion was built in the back; On the left he made a gold and silver shop, and on the right he made a buttocks barn.

Happy!

Everyone shouted in unison: Oh!

Carpenter raps loudly:

The middle beam in the beam, where is it; Out of the Nine Dragons Mountain, the owner took me to see, there are thousands of leaves covered, and there are nine dragon roots; The proprietor asked me to cut it down and put it on the table; The little master picks the bark, and the master measures the size; The front is made of the lion's mouth, and the back is made of the four corners.

Happy!

Everyone shouted in unison: Oh!

Carpenter raps loudly:

The gods of heaven and earth, let me ask; Seeking blessing is blessed like the East China Sea, seeking longevity is better than Nanshan, seeking Lu is enjoying a thousand years, and seeking Ding is Ding to open all races.

Happy!

Everyone shouted in unison: Oh!

The carpenter carried the in his hand and used an axe to cut off a little red cockscomb and cut out the blood.

Then rap out loud:

Golden Rooster Golden Rooster, where is it; out of the Kunlun Mountains; Bao Golden Rooster, Raw Golden Eggs; One golden rooster lays golden eggs, and two golden roosters become phoenixes.

Happy!

Everyone shouted in unison: Oh!

The carpenter waved the and rapped loudly:

This chicken is not an extraordinary chicken, the queen mother reports the chicken, and the voice is auspicious;

The golden rooster wears a phoenix crown, wears a colorful phoenix coat, and proudly steps on the gossip map;

There is blood on the head of the golden rooster, first rub five liters of buckets, and then rub five grain buckets.

One rubbed the eastern A and B wood, then rubbed the southern propylene fire, and then rubbed the western Gengxin gold, and then rubbed the middle Wuji soil.

If the weather is gone, the weather will go to the sky; Rub the ground, bury the ground in the ground.

On the left, the vault of gold and silver, the vault is full; On the right, the barn is stacked, and the barn is full.

In the hall, Fu Lu Shou is full of high halls; After the hall, generations of children and grandchildren are full of halls.

The golden rooster landed, good luck!

Happy!

Everyone shouted in unison: Oh!

……

The family followed the worship and burned paper money. The carpenter carried the rooster, climbed the wooden ladder down, and sprinkled the chicken's blood all over the house (I heard that the rooster crows at dawn every day, and all the ghosts and gods who are active at night must go back immediately, otherwise it will be too late to leave when the day is light, so in the countryside, the rooster has a symbol of warding off evil spirits).

Then the father who was in charge of holding the long pole around the firecracker, lit the firecracker and walked behind the carpenter, using the sound of firecrackers to drive away evil spirits.

The carpenter holds a five-foot pole (a five-foot-long graduated square wooden stick ruler), which is a symbol of the old carpenter's trade, and many carpenters carry the five-foot pole when they walk at night.

I heard that when a carpenter passed by a mass grave in the middle of the night, he suddenly found a fresh scarlet coffin in the middle of the road, blocking the road, and the carpenter knew that this had met an evil spirit, so he took a five-foot pole in one hand and a carpenter's saw in the other, and when he measured it to five feet, he got down the saw and began to saw, and in two clicks, the coffin disappeared immediately.

The carpenter walked in front with a five-foot pole, and the corners of the house had to pass through, and then he went around the house, and finally the carpenter walked faster and faster, and rushed out of the gate to the front of the door, and the firecrackers kept following, and the beaters began to chase after the master carpenter when they went out of the gate, and it was best to whip the carpenter, and drive away the dirty evil that was not intentionally attached to the carpenter.

After the beating was over, the carpenter and stonemason took the girder on the steamed bun and raped while climbing the ladder:

Happy!

Everyone shouted in unison: Oh!

A good house foundation in front, left to the children and grandchildren to erect the archway, the archway seven big golden characters, the champion list eyes to explore the flowers.

Happy!

Everyone shouted in unison: Oh!

Step on the wooden ladder step by step, grasp the steamed bun on behalf of the generation, the first long life and wealth, the second gold and jade full hall, the third and third years of connectivity, the fourth and fourth products of the imperial hall, the fifth and fifth sons of Dengke, the sixth and sixth valley harvest, the seventh and seventh sisters go down to earth, the eighth and eighth immortals celebrate, the ninth good luck is long, and the tenth is complete.

When the craftsmen had finished singing, they had almost followed the ladder to the roof, when the owner of the house would send four men to spread out a sheet in the middle of the hall and pull it up. The roofers then applauded:

Happy!

Everyone shouted in unison: Oh!

Where is the wheat and the wheat? Out of the lake Guangzhou, the merchant bought it back and picked it up in the store to grind it into powder; The owner bought it back and made it into sweet steamed buns; Big steamed buns, one by one; Small steamed buns, paired in pairs.

While cheering, he threw the big steamed bun into the sheet below, the big steamed bun is about the size of a sea bowl, and the top is dyed with red dots, which is called "descendant steamed bun".

After throwing the big steamed buns, it's time to start throwing small steamed buns (only the size of xiaolongbao), and the craftsmen on the roof cheer while throwing small steamed buns around:

Happy!

Everyone shouted in unison: Oh!

The steamed buns fall in the east, and generations of descendants will be the fathers; The steamed buns fall in the west, and generations of descendants wear court clothes; The steamed buns fall in the north, and generations of descendants are officials and guests; The steamed buns fall in the south, and the generations of descendants will live a long life.

At this time, there was already a mess below, swarming for steamed buns, and it was very lively. Everyone in the village can grab it, regardless of whether they have quarreled or not, they can come to grab steamed buns to eat, and both sides have good intentions.

Looking at the surrounding children snatching the steamed buns on the ground like a swarm, Sangou remembered the experience of grabbing steamed buns when he was a child, which was the building of a house by Fuying and her family in the village.

Originally, Fuying's family was a poor mess, and even eating was a problem, how could they have the money to build a house, and the village legend said that Fuying's father dug up a litter of weasel cubs when digging the ground, and the small meat was a plush lump, which was strange and cute.

Seeing that her child was about to suffer, the weasel mother hurriedly knelt down and kept worshipping Fu Ying's father like a human, begging him to spare the family's life.

Fu Ying's father couldn't bear it, so he sat on the other side of the ground and smoked dry tobacco, and the weasel mother left with a litter of cubs, and the weasel mother knelt down again at the turn and bowed a few times.

Fu Ying's father thought that this weasel was quite human, but after a few days, he forgot about it, and he was too busy with farm work. But after a while, when I went to the field again to hoe the weeds, I found that the weasel mother had arrived.

This time, it didn't come empty-handed, and it had a few gold artifacts in its mouth, which were probably brought out of the grave to repay Fu Ying's father for not killing him.

Fu Ying's father must have been polite now, and took the gold utensils home with a smile, and then made a fortune and built a big tile house.