To my surprise, the people in my village seemed to know that I was going to bring money back to build a house, and when they met me, they asked me if I was making a lot of money.

It made me cry and laugh, this is probably also what my father preached, rural people, as soon as the children in the family have some achievements, they can't wait for the world to know.

But I was happy to make my dad feel proud.

Soon I was back at the door, and in the house, in addition to my father, there were four craftsmen drinking with my father in the living room.

My dad watched me come back with Ai Tangtang, his eyes lit up, he looked at Ai Tangtang and asked, "Ah Xiu, who is this?" ”

I avoided my father's misunderstanding, for fear that he would be embarrassed when the time came, so I hurriedly said: "This is my friend, who knows feng shui, isn't this going to build a house, so I will bring her to help see." ”

"Uh-oh." My dad listened to my words, and his eyes flashed with a hint of disappointment, but he quickly introduced the four craftsmen with a smile.

These four craftsmen are well known to us.

There are many craftsmen who build houses, and now many people in the countryside work as bricklayers and the like, but there are not many carpenters who can build houses.

This so-called carpenter is not the so-called making some carpentry furniture, but building houses, repairing beams, and laying out patterns.

This is the most orthodox carpenter.

The carpenter's grandfather came from one, Lu Ban.

As I said before, there was a little problem with feng shui in our family before, that is, because someone moved a little bit in the feng shui pattern at home, and these carpenters wanted to harm people, which was really simple.

Nowadays, most of them are brick houses, not to mention, in the past, they were basically wooden houses.

Which family wants to repair a house, the carpenter is here, and he is definitely serving with good cigarettes and wine, for fear of losing money.

I saw that my dad invited these four to come over, so I asked, "Dad, I want to come back and build a villa." ”

"Build a villa, this house is warm in winter and cool in summer, how can that brick house be comfortable to live in, what I want is to renovate the whole house, and then build two slightly taller wooden houses." My dad said, "I don't know Feng Shui either, it's up to the four craftsmen." ”

Master craftsman is an honorific title for a carpenter.

One of them, a carpenter who looked to be in his fifties, wearing an old-fashioned camouflage uniform and a pair of liberation shoes, took a puff of cigarette, showed a pair of yellow teeth when he grinned, and said: "Don't worry, you can have a house, you can have feng shui, feng shui doesn't need to be changed, when you repair the house, just don't break the pattern of the house itself." ”

"I'm in trouble." As I spoke, I handed a cigarette to the four carpenters and said, "Tell my dad what you need. I'm good to go out and get the money. ”

"30,000 yuan for one person, you buy wood." This carpenter said.

I frowned, but Ai Tang Tang couldn't help but say: "Hey, it's too dark, the four of you will need 120,000 yuan, which is enough for a down payment for a house in Dianjiang County, or is it just your salary, not counting the material money?" ”

"Little girl, how do you speak, we are using the craftsmanship passed down by our ancestors to eat, not stealing or robbing, do you think that any person who comes can not destroy the original feng shui pattern, and then add buildings and tiles?" The carpenter said dissatisfied.

The other three also looked displeased.

I also feel in my heart that it is indeed a little too expensive, but I am not very good at saying it clearly, after all, it is to repair the house for my family, and when the time comes, these four carpenters will have some means, but the gains outweigh the losses.

But Ai Tangtang is not afraid to say it, after all, Ai Tangtang is not from our family, and if her identity is spoken, even if these carpenters are uncomfortable, they will not mess around.

"Cut, isn't it just a feng shui pattern, when who doesn't understand?" Ai Tang Tang said with a disdainful face.

"You think building a house is just a feng shui pattern? This involves more than just feng shui, there are a lot of things, what do you know about a little girl? The carpenter laughed.

"Cut, there are three volumes of the Luban book, the first volume teaches people to build houses and change the feng shui pattern of houses, the middle volume teaches people to use the house pattern to drive away evil spirits and cure evil, and the second volume teaches people to harm people and kill people, I don't know which volume you learned, sir?" Ai Tang Tang said.

"Hmph, naturally it's a volume." The carpenter snorted.

"Okay, scroll up, huh? How many have you learned? Ai Tang Tang said again.

The carpenter slapped the table and said to Ai Tang Tang: "Clever little girl, among them, except for the Door Light Star Ji Murder and the Cultivation of Talismans, the others have been lost for decades, are you deliberately playing tricks on me?" ”

When Ai Tang Tang heard this, he asked, "Did you bring a ruler?" ”

After hearing this, the carpenter made a color to the person next to him, and then handed Ai Tang Tang a wooden ruler.

Ai Tang Tang took the wooden ruler and put it on the ground, then took out my backpack, poured cinnabar on it, and then jumped around the ruler like a magic stick, muttering a lot of words that I didn't understand.

But when these four carpenters looked at Ai Tangtang's appearance, their eyes looked at her directly, and they looked incredible.

After finishing all this work, the ruler covered with cinnabar slowly stood up on the floor of the room.

"This is Lu Ban's real ruler, what a great thing?" Ai Tang Tang pouted.

Unexpectedly, the four carpenters suddenly knelt down for Ai Tang Tang in unison, which embarrassed me and my father.

These four guys actually said in unison: "Please ask the seniors to teach us the secret method of Luban's true ruler." ”

"Hey, no, I'm just showing you a hand." Ai Tangtang took a step back in embarrassment, but I asked Ai Tangtang curiously: "Isn't such a ruler just standing, is it possible that it can still have much effect?" ”

Ai Tang Tang said: "Don't underestimate this Luban real ruler, the ordinary Luban ruler is also known as the "door official ruler", which is the ruler used by ancient carpenters to measure doors and windows. It is one foot four inches and four minutes long, and it is divided into "eight inches", and each "inch" is divided into five squares, and each inch and each grid are written in red or black characters with the name of the astrological phase and the words that indicate good luck and evil. ”

When determining the size of doors and windows, carpenters choose appropriate red letters according to the use of the house, that is, the mantissa of the size of doors and windows falls on the red letters, in order to be "auspicious". ”

"But Lu Ban's real ruler is different, this ruler is placed on the beams after the house is built, not to mention ordinary lonely ghosts, even if it is an evil ghost, he will not dare to come in easily." Ai Tang Tang said with a sigh of relief.

I looked at Ai Tang Tang with a smile: "Then how did you know how to do this?" ”

As soon as Ai Tang Tang was about to speak, I helped her say what she was going to say: "Your master taught me again?" ”

"Ahem, yes, that's right, it's what Master taught." Ai Tang Tang smiled: "You are so powerful, you can guess this." ”