Chapter 160: Shangliang
Early the next morning, Lin Ruan went up the mountain before dawn to get vegetables and sent them to the county, and when he came back, he brought two cooks and cooks to prepare the dishes for the banquet.
This is the person Lin Ruan ordered Lin Fu to find yesterday, including the cook, who brought the ingredients, a total of two taels of silver.
As soon as the two cooks arrived at the place, they took their men and began to busily build the stove.
Aunt Zhou's family and other people in the village who were interested in making friends with Lin Ruan also came over early to help, and the yard was busy, and the laughter spread far and wide.
The children also knew that Lin Ruan's house was on the beam today, and they ran over together, waiting for the start of the beam ceremony for a while.
The neighbors in the village also brought congratulatory gifts and waited for a while to watch the ceremony and sit at the table.
Halfway through the day, Master Zhou led a group of craftsmen to fix the beams covered with red paper with ropes, and Master Zhou took the lead, and seven other craftsmen lifted the beams to the roof.
Master Zhou sang auspicious words in his mouth, gestured towards Lin Ruan, and motioned to the master's family to go up and scatter red envelopes.
Lin Ruan handed the big bag full of red envelopes to Lin Zhong, "Dad, go up quickly." ”
Lin Zhong waved his hand and refused to go up at all: "This is your house, it's not appropriate for me to go up." ”
This courtyard was built by Lin Ruan himself from beginning to end, what is the matter with him going up? What's more, now that Lin Ruan has an independent household, he is even less qualified to go up. However, he was still very happy in his heart, Lin Ruan could think of letting him go up. This shows that the child values him in his heart.
The child has him in his heart, and he has to be worthy of the child's attention.
At this time, someone in the village joked and said: "Ah Ruan's father, the child asked you to hurry up, what are you still rubbing?" Could it be that you are afraid of heights? ”
This made many people laugh, and everyone laughed.
Lin Zhong straightened his chest and said to the villagers who came to watch the ceremony and join in the fun: "This house was built by Ah Ruan herself, brick by brick, and it is her own private property. So this matter has to be done by herself. ”
When he said this, the villagers nodded their heads again and again.
Everyone knows that the Lin family's three rooms can have today, all because of Lin Ruan's ability. Otherwise, their family would still be living a hard life of eating chaff vegetables, how could it be as beautiful as it is today.
Master Zhou urged on the roof: "Owner, don't miss the auspicious time, come up quickly." ”
Everyone else followed: "Ah Ruan, go up quickly, the children are waiting to grab the red envelope." ”
The children also looked at her with blank eyes: "Sister Ruan, hurry up." ”
Xiuxiu pulled Liu Ya and mixed in with the children, beckoning to her.
Lin Zhong also nodded at her.
Seeing this, Lin Ruan generously carried the bag, stepped on the ladder that had been built, and climbed to the roof neatly and steadily.
Master Zhou began to sing auspicious words again, directing the craftsmen to place the beams in the slots set up, while Lin Ruan began to grab handfuls of red envelopes from the bag and sprinkle them underneath.
The red envelope is wrapped in things like yesterday's candy cubes, peanuts, dates, etc., as well as copper coins.
The children screamed excitedly and rushed over, frantically scrambling on the ground.
"Wow, I've found a copper coin! Two pennies! ”
One child screamed excitedly, causing the other children to look at him with envy.
Lin Ruan stood on the roof and said with a smile: "I have prepared two taels of silver copper coins, the copper coins in each red envelope are different, the most one has ten wen, how much you can grab depends on your luck." ”
As soon as he said this, even some adults joined in the ranks of robbery, and suddenly, the old house was full of laughter.
The time for scattering the red envelopes lasted for a while, and when it was over, the people who came to watch the ceremony were more or less holding the red envelopes in their hands.
The children were smiling happily, holding a bunch of red envelopes, running to the road outside the yard, squatting in a long row, and began to open the red envelopes.
"Wow, I have three cents in this red envelope!"
"I have five texts!"
"I'm here, I have ten articles!"
"Wow! That's amazing! ”
Lin Ruan didn't worry about Xiuxiu, and when he came out to watch, he heard the exclamations of these children, and couldn't help laughing.
Children's happiness is so simple, a few pennies can make them happy for a long time.
After a while, the smell began to come from the yard, causing the children's saliva to flow.
Halfway through noon, the banquet officially opened.
Lin Ruan made up his mind to do a good job this time, so all the dishes prepared were hard dishes, four cool, four fried, four fried, four steamed, four stewed, a total of 20 dishes, fish, duck and fish, everything was complete.
Where have the villagers eaten such a high-level banquet, who has a red and white wedding event on weekdays, usually only twelve dishes, just this, or half meat, half vegetarian.
Considering the large amount of food in the village, Lin Ruan specially explained to the chef that each dish must be enough. The chef is also a real person, and he fills every plate to the brim.
Today, Lin Ruan's table, except for two vegetarian dishes as decorations, is full of meat dishes, and the taste is also exceptionally good.
The feast was eaten until half past the hour (two o'clock in the afternoon).
Lin Ruan generously asked the villagers to divide the rest of the dishes.
She was impatient to eat leftovers, and it happened that the people in the village were short of oil and water, so she took these leftovers to make a favor, which was also good.
There's no shame in eating what's left on the table. Generally, you can get leftovers from the host's family, which means that the two families are close. So the villagers happily thanked Lin Ruan, helped Lin Ruan clean up the mess, and left with the leftovers.
After sending the villagers away and settling accounts with the cook, the matter of Shangliang is over.
When the others were finished, Lin Ruan looked at the beam covered with red paper on the roof, and a smile appeared on his lips.
The house is almost finished.
After the beams were put on the house, the tiling began.
Master Zhou and their actions were very fast, and it only took a few days to put all the tiles of several main houses in place, and since then, the main part of the house has been completed. All that's left is to polish the details of the house.
And Lin Ruan was busy going back and forth between Linjia Village and the county every day.
The business of the roast duck restaurant and the hot pot restaurant is gradually on the right track, and there is an endless stream of guests who come to eat every day, which can bring Lin Ruan income of nearly forty taels every day.
The fruit on the side of the Drunken Immortal Building, Lin Ruan didn't stop it.
Now that it's cold, the price given by the Drunken Immortal Building is quite high, and after a day of conversion, you can also have two or three taels of silver. In a month, there can be dozens of taels of silver, which is enough for the family's expenses for two or three months.
No matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are still meat, and Lin Ruan will never underestimate a penny.
The business over there of Zuixian Building, because of Lin Ruan's fruits, has been very stable, and there are many old customers who go to the market every day.