Don't underestimate it.

Xu Jiaojiao vaguely remembered which book she had read before, saying that the Great Wall was built in this way, and it was very strong.

Glutinous rice is not grown by ordinary people, and the old Xu family is not enough for themselves, or borrowing or buying, and they got more than 200 catties, all of which have to be boiled into a paste.

Building walls, don't look at it is a touch of paste, a yard of green bricks, it seems to be very simple. But it is a test of technology, and it needs to be done by real bricklayers, which ordinary people can't do. Like the Luo brothers, they can only run back and forth from the mixing place to the wall, commonly known as the ash bucket.

The wall was built for seven days, and then the beams were to be put up.

There is a saying in the countryside: "There are beams on the roof, there is grain at home, there are no beams on the roof, and the six animals are not prosperous." Therefore, a grand ceremony must be held every time the beam is raised. Liang is very important in the minds of the common people, and it is in the highest position in the whole process of building houses.

Most of the beams are straight fir trees from the previous year, and it is best to be the kind with lush foliage, which means that there are many children and grandchildren. Lao Yeshan is very big, and this kind of fir is not difficult to find, and the old Xu family has long been ready.

The beams are placed horizontally on the ground, wrapped with red silk, and the five blessings of blessing, Lu, longevity, happiness, and wealth written on red paper are hung on it. Xu Zhang's found a big basket, which was filled with rice cakes, zongzi, rice balls, meat balls, nest heads, melons and fruits, refreshments, sesame stalks, weighing rods, bamboo buckets, rice, firewood, and other various things, which were also hung on the beams.

At the beginning of the beam, the new house was full of people, not only the workers, but also the nearby neighbors.

Xu Youde lit a long firecracker, and in the crackling sound, one of the most famous carpenters was in the east and a bricklayer was in the west, each carrying one end of the beam and wood up the ladder.

At the same time, the carpenter chanted aloud:

Stepping on the golden ladder step by step, the zodiac auspicious day is auspicious;

The boss is the most beautiful on the beam, and the children and grandchildren are happy for thousands of years.

The bricklayer continued:

Pillars of the Pillars, listen to me auspicious.

Born in the treasure land of feng shui, it is located in wealth and health.

The top is the crape myrtle high light, and the bottom is full of blessings.

Children and grandchildren are all over the land, and they are famous all over the world......

The two of them shouted and sang, and everyone was smiling, watching the beams rise higher and higher, and finally placed them on the roof.

Xu Jiaojiao was also very interested in watching it, she had never seen it like this before.

When he reached the roof, the carpenter sang again, and at the same time grabbed the contents of the basket and threw them at Xu Youde.

The auspicious day of the zodiac is opened, and the eight immortals send treasures;

I asked where this treasure would be sent to the door of your house.

The owner received the first treasure, and he couldn't use it to buy land and land.

The owner received two treasures, and there were many children and grandchildren early.

The owner received three treasures, and there was plenty of food and clothing every year......

This is all specially thrown to the owner, Xu Youde has been waiting below for a long time, with a smiling face full of folds, holding a burden, and catching them one by one.

Then the bricklayer continued to chant:

The word blessing is born in the four corners, a product when the dynasty comes to the house, the gods give the blessing of the ancestors, and the lucky stars shine auspiciously......

While singing, he also threw the contents of the basket down. These are thrown to other relatives and friends, carrying full blessings, and the people below are rushing to pick them up.

Xu Jiaojiao and Liao Qing didn't grab it, they stood aside and watched the excitement happily.

After a long while, the carpenter and the bricklayer came down the ladder, and at the same time continued to sing:

The gold ladder rises step by step, the cornucopia of the feet, the cash tree in the cornucopia, the gold shakes the gold day and the silver shakes the night......

Xu Jiaojiao's eyes were sharp, looking at the basket in their hands, there was still a lot left in it, and she couldn't help but say, "The things in this basket haven't been spilled yet?" ”

Liao Qing glanced at it, "Don't you allow people to take some for themselves?" ”

Xu Jiaojiao: ...... All right.

"There's two of them." Xu Youde greeted the two and sealed a red envelope for each of them, of course, this is also the rule.

At this point, the upper beam is over.

In Liao Qing's words, this is a relatively simple approach, if you really have to do every link, there will be many more famous halls.

There are many more things to follow, mainly focused on the roof, laying purlins, meadows, yellow mud, tiles, all of which require skill and a lot of time.

If you do it quickly, it's not a good thing.

Especially the tiles, the green tiles are fired in the earthen kiln, and some are not so regular, and they cannot be tightly fitted together, which increases the possibility of rain leakage, which depends on the careful selection of the bricklayer. It is said that a well-fitting tile cannot be broken with a hammer, and it will not leak rain for decades.

At this time, the proprietor should try to make as much delicious food as possible to satisfy the master bricklayer, and even open a small stove for him alone.

In short, Xu Jiaojiao has seen a lot of things in the process of building a house this time.

It took eleven days to build the roof, add some finishing touches such as painting the walls and plastering the floor.

Lao Xu's family built this new house, and it took a total of nineteen days before and after, which is not a long time. The main reason is that the house is a bit big, two into it, bigger than other people's houses in Xujia Village, almost everyone in the old Xu family wants to live in a new house, even if there is more labor to be hired, the construction time is not short.

After the house is built, there is one more thing, that is, fireworks.

This is also customary.

On the selected good day, the old Xu family set up a banquet on the dojo again, this time setting up six tables, but it was a flowing water seat, and after a table of people finished eating, a table was filled again, and the banquet was held again.

Because there are limited pots and pans in the countryside, most of the time it is done.

Acquaintances and neighbors all came, carrying rice, noodles, cakes and the like in their hands, and some people directly sent money, dozens or hundreds of dollars.

Shiro moved a table, sat at the door, and recorded these congratulatory gifts one by one in the favor account, which he would pay back in the future.

In the past two years, driven by the Xu family, the neighbors have become much more prosperous in their hands, and the congratulatory gifts have also been enriched a lot. Unlike before, someone came to eat with a small salted fish.

Xiao Shilang bookkeeping, this is Xu Jiaojiao's proposal, apply what you have learned, bookkeeping is also a skill, look at those half-sized children, don't they all look at it with wide eyes on the side, full of envy?

Xu Darong also came back a day early with Da Lang and Da Ya. At this moment, he was standing at the intersection as the boss of the Xu family, warmly greeting visitors.

Xu Youde lit a long whip again, and Xu Zhang took a fire basket converted from a clay pot, took out the fire from the stove in the old house, and put it in the fire basket.

The fire basket was filled with coarse chaff and grass residue in advance, and after a short time the fire was placed, smoke billowed from it.

Luo took out the steaming rice retort from the pot and put it into the basket, Xu Lao Er took a few firewood from the door of the stove and put it into the clamp, Erlang carried a wooden ladder, and Xu Jiaojiao also grabbed two big green bamboos that had been dug up with soil and leaves that had been dug up.