Tomorrow is 515, the anniversary of the starting point, and the day with the most benefits. In addition to the gift bag and school bag, this time's "515 Red Envelope Flip" must be seen, how can there be a reason not to grab the red envelope, set the alarm clock high~

On the thirteenth day of the lunar month, it is advisable to marry and set up a bed beam.

Wang Fu, a farmer in Liangxiang, had already asked someone to count the auspicious days and good days of Shangliang. The thirteenth day of the lunar month, that is, an auspicious day on the beam of the month of the previous year, the auspicious day has been selected, it can not be changed, even if it is windy and rainy on this day, it must be on the beam according to the selected auspicious time.

If this day is a sunny day, then it will be a good omen. Of course, if it is windy and rainy, everyone will also say that the wind is coming, and the rain is coming, which is really smooth and rainy.

However, Wang Fu is still very much looking forward to a sunny day on the thirteenth day.

The days are approaching day by day, Wang Fu's three brick houses are gradually approaching completion, and the courtyard wall outside has been almost built.

On the thirteenth day, Wang Futian had already gotten up before dawn, in the courtyard of the old house, he brought a load of well water from the well at the entrance of the village, washed his face carefully with a towel, and took the tooth powder toothbrush that his daughter bought from Beijing when she came back, and carefully brushed her teeth several times, until she brushed it into her mouth, cool and fragrant.

After washing, and when he returned to the house, he put on the lapel sheepskin jacket that his daughter had bought for him, and a pair of lambskin low-top boots.

Before going out, he put the smoking pot and tobacco bag into his arms, and after thinking about it, he turned around and walked to the wardrobe again, and pulled out a paper bag from it, which was a large front door that his son, who was a soldier in the field, brought back when he went home for vacation last time, and said that it was for him to smoke. However, Wang Fu felt that cigarettes were much more expensive than cigarette pouches, and he was reluctant to smoke them. Today is a great day. Wang Fu opened the cigarette, took a pack and put it on his body, thought about it, and finally put on another pack.

The upper beam is the traditional building custom of the Han family, and the houses of the Han family are basically made of wood, earth or bricks, and no matter whether the roof is covered with tiles or grass or bark, he always has beams.

Building a house has always been a big deal, and it may take ten years to save money to buy a house in later generations, and in this era, for the common people who lack cash in their hands. It's the same life-long event, building a house, maybe even having to live for generations, tinkering with it for generations to live.

In the past, if you had to build a house, you would have to have all your relatives and friends help you, and you might even have to borrow a lot of money.

Therefore, there can be no accident when building a house, and the slightest leakage will leave an indelible shadow in the owner's heart. Especially in this era when superstition is still common. Therefore, before building a house and laying the foundation, there must be a ritual, and the big rooster must be killed, burned incense and sacrificed. Firecrackers and gifts have to be prepared.

And when the house is almost built, when the main beam is to be placed, a grand ceremony must also be carried out.

Wang Fu's wife, Zhang, had already prepared the three animal gifts for the sacrifice early in the morning. A pig's head, a goose, three carps. There are also bowls of spiky white rice, and a jug of wine.

Wang Fu carefully inspected the gifts, and then asked his wife.

"Is the big ready?"

"Okay, I've told my little sister to tie up the biggest red."

The ceremony is very important, and today's auspicious time is in the morning.

When the auspicious time comes, the palm ink master should burn incense and sacrifice wine, worship the gods of heaven and earth, and respectfully invite the ancestor Luban to come, support the pillar and the beam, so that the pillar is the end of the beam, and it will be eternal. In this ceremony, the blood of the big red rooster is used.

Wang Fu's own brothers also came to help, and this morning, they were going to kill a big fat pig. Today's Shangliang, as usual, is to set up wine, thanks to the craftsmen who built the house and the relatives and friends of the helpers. The aunts, aunts, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, etc., have already set up a posture in the yard, picking and washing vegetables, cutting vegetables for fire, and stir-frying.

The person in charge of the spoon is an uncle of Wang Fu, an old man in his sixties, who is not a chef in a hotel restaurant, but he is also a famous country wine banquet master in ten miles and eight townships. Uncle Wang Fu can cook big pot dishes, and the best record is that he once took charge of the wedding banquet of more than 30 tables for the family, and he got such a big field down by himself. Moreover, the dishes he makes are more in line with the tastes of the villagers, and he is very good at controlling the ingredients, not wasting, and can make the dishes decent and atmospheric.

Today, my nephew went to the beam to set up wine, and of course Mr. Wang went out in person. He is the commander of the kitchen today, and the women and girls are his soldiers, and they want to make a sumptuous and decent meal with these few simple ingredients.

Before the beam, the beam must be sacrificed.

The master and their apprentices, who had been busy in Wang Fu's new house for three months, also changed into clean new clothes today.

"Da Liang, carry the offering table to the new house with your brother." Wang Fu shouted to his son.

Wang Daliang is the son of Wang Fu, an army infantry stationed on the Great Wall, and just half a month ago, Wang Daliang, who had served in the army for three years, was transferred to serve in the local garrison.

According to his son's words, the army is now divided into field troops and garrison troops, and the main task of the garrison troops is to guard cities, fortresses, and ports.

However, Wang Daliang transferred to the garrison and left the main force, but he was also promoted to corporal and became a non-commissioned officer, and his future is still good. Wang Fu didn't know much about this, and he didn't know that this was actually a disarmament of the imperial court.

Previously, the army maintained a scale of more than 1 million and had an establishment of more than 100 towns, including the main forces such as A and B, as well as shelf towns, mobilization towns, and supplementary town establishments such as reserve armies and township armies. Anyway, the scale of the army is very large, at least how many troops there are, this is a secret of the imperial court, except for those senior generals in the military aircraft department, those prime ministers who participate in politics may not be clear.

But since the Mongols surrendered, the Jurchens perished, annexed Japan and merged Korea, and even the northwest was temporarily stable, the Han army of the empire seemed to have some force left.

Therefore, now the emperor has begun to adjust the army again, in addition to many experienced army soldiers transferred to the navy to become land units, the army towns have also begun to be more refined.

Now the entire army system is redivided into three major parts, the field army, the garrison army, and the reserve army. Among them, the field army is also the main force of the Imperial Army, and it is planned to be organized into eighteen towns after adjustment, and then many other armies will be converted into garrison armies. The garrison is stationed in various cities and is responsible for guarding and patrolling the city, and assisting local law and order in cracking down on crime and smuggling.

The field army and the garrison army will have different responsibilities in the future, and the field army will maintain a strong combat effectiveness and be a dozen iron fists that have always been accumulated.

The garrison was relatively scattered and stationed in various places.

As for the original mobilization army and reserve army, they were all adjusted to reserve forces, and they were no longer included in active service, and they were only the reserve forces of the imperial court.

Under these axes, the number of active army forces in the empire plummeted from more than one million to eight hundred thousand. Of these, the field army was 360,000 and the garrison was 440,000.

The navy will also be readjusted in terms of the scale of active service, and will further retire some armed merchant ships and small warships, and the various fleets will develop in the direction of being smaller and more capable of fighting, and the navy will have a total of 200,000 active troops, including 120,000 sailors and 80,000 marines.

As for the Japanese Imperial Cooperative Army, the Foreign Legion, and the Mongolian princes, they were all included in the reserve and were not directly included in the active service.

Army field units are paid higher salaries than garrison units. However, Wang Daliang has now been promoted to non-commissioned officer, and his salary has increased a lot. This time he was promoted to corporal, and Wang Daliang also got a vacation, just in time for the family house to be built.

Wang Daliang and his uncle's brother carried the family's big eight immortal table to the front of the new house. Wang Fu put the three animal gifts on the offering table.

The master craftsman waited for him to come and offer incense, and then walked to the main beam.

This beam is very straight, it is a fine cedar wood, and the master craftsman first took out five yellow and clear Longhan copper yuan and placed them in the middle of the beam. Then put a pair of chopsticks on top of it.

At this time, Wang Fu hurriedly handed over a brand new red silk cloth.

The master craftsman used this piece of red silk cloth to wrap the copper yuan and chopsticks and nail it tightly.

At this time, there is also a very important ritual of the sacrifice beam, which is the dripping of blood. The master craftsman cut off the head of the big red rooster. Drip the chicken blood on the beam, while still chanting, "This chicken is not an extraordinary chicken, the queen mother reports the chicken, wears a phoenix crown and green ears, wears a five-colored dress, the queen mother gave Lu Ban, Lu Ban gave the disciple a short evil qi, the heaven returns to the sky, the earth returns to the earth, the year and the moon are evil, the sun is evil, the evil is stopped, the blood is turned back, there are disciples here, each returns to its original position." ”

After reciting the mantra, Wang Fu immediately ordered his son Daliang to set off firecrackers.

In the sound of firecrackers, the main beam was lifted up to the roof and placed in a preset position at the top of the central column.

After careful and painstaking efforts, the main beam was finally placed.

Wang Fu wiped the sweat from his forehead, and there was an uncontrollable smile on his face, "Da Liang, go up and scatter money!" ”

According to the custom here, copper coins must be sprinkled when the beam is put on.

Many children had gathered in front of the new house, waiting for the rain to fall from the sky. The richer the person, the more money they sprinkle, the more people come to grab the money, and the more lively it is, especially if there are more children, then it indicates that the family will be prosperous in the future.

The school has already had a winter vacation, so there are a lot of children coming today, and Wang Fu is very happy.

He prepared a lot of copper coins for today's Shangliang, and specially went to the credit union to change them, most of them were copper dollars for one penny, and occasionally there were five or ten coins, and a large basket of copper coins, adding up to 1,688 copper coins, and begging for the lottery heads issued all the way.

Wang Daliang climbed up with several catties of copper yuan on his back and shouted.

"Money is falling from the sky!"

Handfuls of copper coins fell from the sky, and the children rushed up, laughing and scrambling around, laughing and laughing.

1,688 copper coins were spilled, and even many onlookers joined in the ranks of picking up money on the ground with a smile.

Soon, the money was spilled, but there were still many people on the ground looking for it.

The children grabbed a handful of the money they had picked up, their faces full of joy.

After picking up the money, the children were not in a hurry to leave, because according to custom, after sprinkling copper coins, they had to throw buns.

Shangliang copper coins are prepared by the main family, but the buns cannot be prepared by themselves, they have to be sent by relatives, and they must be sent by the sisters and brothers of the main family, such as Wang Daliang's aunts and uncles.

There are no rules, but the more buns the host can receive in the end, the more he can throw away, and the more face he will naturally have.

In the early years, everyone was not wealthy, and sending buns may be ten or twenty families.

But today, Wang Fu's close relatives. But it was agreed that each family would send a hundred buns.

When a basket of white buns was brought up, the onlookers were all exclaiming.

Wang Fu is the first ordinary people in the village to build a brick house, looking at Wang Fu, who was the same as everyone in the past, has now built a big brick house, and has such a big dignity, everyone is envious, and even many people have secretly made up their minds to start building a new house next year.

The buns were personally picked up by Wang Fu's brothers and sisters, and each basket was covered with a piece of red paper. Pick up each load of buns. There will be craftsmen shouting their names and shouting out the number of buns they give.

"Sister Wang Cai's brother-in-law Jinhua, congratulations to Liang Daji, send a hundred buns!"

Wang Fu and his wife had many brothers and sisters, and in the end they received 1,800 buns.

The father and son kept throwing buns into the crowd below, and everyone laughed one after another. The buns sent by Shangliang will not be kept, and they will be thrown away as much as they send, and they will all be given to the villagers who came to congratulate. Almost everyone who came received several buns.

Although now everyone's hands are much better than before. A bun is nothing, but this kind of festive and lively really makes everyone happy.

After the buns were thrown away, Wang Daliang took out another bag of sugar.

He stood on the roof beam. Throwing a lot of candy down there, to the delight of the children.

And the adults sighed that these candies are also sold in good towns, but they are very expensive. It is much more expensive than white sugar in bulk.

"Wang Fu's family is really developed, building a brick house, and his son is an official again. Shangliang has received 1,800 buns, which is really amazing. ”

"A non-commissioned officer is not an officer yet."

"Why aren't you an official? I heard Wang Fu say, isn't Da Liang already a squad leader? ”

Humane, "The squad leader is only in charge of ten people, and he has to be a platoon commander and company commander before he can be promoted to the sergeant major, and being a sergeant major is the real officer, and the sergeant is not an official, at most he is an officer." ”

"Why isn't the squad leader an officer, isn't ten people also an officer?" There are copper coins just sprinkled by the Wang family in their pockets, a bun thrown by the Wang family in their left hand, and a candy thrown by the Wang family in their right hand.

Besides, even if they are only equivalent to officials, in the eyes of ordinary rural people, officials and officials are what they have to look up to.

"I heard that a lot of matchmakers have come to Wang Fu's house to propose marriage recently, and my family has no daughter, otherwise I will definitely ask a matchmaker to kiss me. Look at the Wang family's house, three big brick houses with such a big yard. There is also Da Liang, this child, young and tall, and he eats public food in the army, and now he has become a squad leader, maybe he will become a platoon commander and company commander in two years, promoted to sergeant major, and become a master of nine and eight grades, if he can marry into the Wang family, it will not be immediately a fragrant and spicy meal, and he will be a wife in the future. ”

"Wang Shan, the third child of your family said last time that the family didn't work out? If you want me to say, you can also follow Wang Fu's example, build a three-room big tiled house, and this matchmaker will come to your house immediately to say goodbye. With a new brick house, why do you need to beg others, those women have to beg your family in turn! ”

Wang Shan's heart was moved when he said this.

"But it costs a lot of money to build three brick houses, and I heard that Wang Fu's new house cost more than 100 yuan before and after."

"It's just a hundred yuan, and it's not enough to earn enough for two years at most, your two eldest sons have been married and separated, but don't you still have three eldest sons and four unmarried daughters, and now they are all in the factory to earn money, your family doesn't earn less than Wang Fu's family, build a house for more than 100 yuan, and the money your family saves a year is enough to build five or six big tile houses."

Wang Shan sucked at the big front door that Wang Fu had just given him, and said, "It's like this now, but who knows if this scene can last long, and you can't spend all the money at once." ”

"You just pick, the price of everything has risen in the past two years, and it will definitely rise in the future, bricks, tiles, craftsman labor, you can build it cheaper now, and in a few years, you will definitely have to spend more money."

Wang Shan's family has a large population, and because of the large number of people in the past, they are well-known poor families in the village, and they often have to borrow money and grain to live. But in the past two years, Liangxiang has also built a lot of workshops, and the children of Wang Shan's family are now all older, in addition to the two sons who have separated from the family, he also has three sons and four daughters who have lived together, and they have all become teenagers and girls, and now they are all in the factory, and seven of the family make money in the factory.

Wang Shan has not only paid off his debts long ago, but also has a lot of money in the bank.

Everyone even said that if you don't count the rich landlords in the village in the past, the Wang Shan family should have the most deposits in the village now. However, this Wang Shan may be poor and afraid, even if he has two money, he is also picking, usually reluctant to eat and wear, but during the New Year's Festival, he will never cut a catty and a half catty of meat.

He was reluctant to even tear some cloth to make new clothes, just because he was too picky, so he asked someone to say goodbye to the third child of his family, and people were reluctant to look at his family's clothes and food.

Now that everyone's life is not as good as before, who still can't eat?

But Wang Shan's family still insists on two meals a day, and even when it is not busy farming, there is still one meal that is thin.

"I think building a house is not as promising as being a soldier, if the third child of my family can enter the army as a soldier like Da Liang to eat food, then it must be easy to find a daughter-in-law." Wang Shan took a deep puff of his cigarette and said. This cigarette tastes very good, but unfortunately he is reluctant to buy it himself.

"It's not as easy to become a soldier now as it was two years earlier, and I heard that literacy is a priority. A lot of them only recruit those eleven or twelve-year-olds, and if they are recruited, they have to study while training, but if these little babies are lucky enough to be recruited, they will have a bright future, and when they are about twenty years old, they can directly become officers. ”

"Do you know where to recruit such dolls?" Wang Shan asked hurriedly.

"Uncle Yo, the third child in your family is in his twenties, and he has already passed his age."

"The third year old is over, but my fifth is only fifteen years old."

"Fifteen years old is also older, people only recruit eleven or twelve year olds, and they have to have read books, and there are few recruits, and there are limits on the number."

"Oh, hey!"

Wang Shan sighed with pity on his face.

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