Building a house is definitely a major life event in the countryside, and it is far more important than getting married, and the preparation time is also very long. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info first had to determine the homestead, then level the footsteps to build the foundation, during which it was necessary to fire bricks, cut wood, make door and window rafters, and everything was ready before the construction could begin.

The construction of a house requires the use of masons, potters, stonemasons, sawmills, carpenters, masons, stucco painters and other craftsmen, and requires a large number of strong laborers, the shortest of which can take several months, and the longest to prepare for several years. And the cost of money and rice in the middle is definitely a big number, and if you don't have a little family background, you don't even think about it, and many villagers have not been able to build a new house in their lifetime, and this is the reason.

Of course, it is not too difficult for the Liu family to build a house.

The family is big, and there are three or four people who get salaries (including the sons and daughters-in-law who are officers). Liu Yingguo is the secretary of the brigade, and he can easily handle the approval documents of homesteads and timber, which are extremely difficult for ordinary people.

It takes more than one or two hundred loads of firewood to burn bricks and tiles. It is quite difficult for others, and as long as all the younger generations of their family are dispatched, it can be solved in ten days. Now it is only after the summer solstice, the weather is sunny, just to make bricks and tiles, and the finished product can be fired in more than a month.

As for the timber, the family has a batch of storage, enough to make the door frames and windows of several houses, and it is not a problem to cut the poor rafters and beams, and there are several carpenters in his own family, so there is no need to hire people to do these things.

The main thing now is to get the homestead right, and then plan how to build it and what scale to build.

The homestead was set by Liu Shengtang a long time ago, and it is next to the old mansion next to the oil extraction? The vacant lot of the factory. He said that it was a good place to build a house, and that the feng shui was even better than their compound, and that building a house there would definitely be prosperous in the future.

But that clearing is a little small. Liu Yingguo wants to build a small courtyard with three wings on the left and right, plus a kitchen house, covering an area of more than half an acre. As a result, there was not enough vacant land, so the two miscellaneous houses of the oil mill had to be demolished.

The oil mill is the collective property of the brigade, and it is no problem for him to spend some money to buy the two miscellaneous houses, but the problem is that there are still five guarantees in the miscellaneous houses, Gui Xinliang, the five guarantee households of the team, and if you want to move the miscellaneous houses, you must first settle the old man.

Xinghua Village has five miscellaneous surnames. More than 150 households, 656 people. The canteen was disbanded and a people's commune was formed, called the Xinghua Village Brigade. There are eight production teams under the brigade, from the first team to the eighth team are arranged from the bottom to the top according to the river water, the most populous four teams have more than 130 people from 25 households, and the smallest population is less than 50 people from 10 households in the 8th team of Zhangmuling. However, there are more than twenty surnames of the head of the household. The three surnames Liu, Li, and Zeng, who have the most population, account for more than two-thirds of the population of the village, and the surname Gui, who has the least population, now has only one person left in one household, and he is Gui Xinliang, the fifth guarantee household of the fourth team.

Gui Xingliang is an old oiler in the village. More than 50 years ago, when he was only twelve or thirteen years old, he fled from other places and came to Xinghua Village, where Gui Qi, an old oiler in the village, adopted him. At that time, it was the season of new grain, and he was named Gui Xinliang, and he became a person from Xinghua Village.

In 1958, when Gui Qi had died, his descendants and nephews had all emigrated to the outside of the mountain. Gui Xinliang was in his fifties at the time, because he was ugly and had never married in his life, so he did not want to move with the Gui brothers and nephews, so he stayed alone in Xinghua Village to work as an oiler. Now he is in his early seventies and is the fifth guarantor on the team.

The oil mill in the village was originally the property of the big landlord Zeng Xianbei's family, and the oiler Gui Qi was his family's long-term worker. On the eve of liberation, Zeng Xianbei fled to Hong Kong, and his houses, fields, mountains, forests, and other properties were collectively owned by the locality, and the oil factory naturally belonged to the Xinghua Village Brigade. The old house of the Gui family was in the storage area of the reservoir, and Gui Xinliang moved to the oil factory alone and packed up two miscellaneous houses to live in.

The sun at noon was bright and vicious, the black dog was lying in the shade of the tree in front of the door and sticking out its tongue, and when Liu Yingguo, the secretary of the brigade, came with square steps, it only looked at it, and it didn't even bother to get up. Gui Xinliang, who was taking a nap, went out and saw Liu Yingguo with a sweaty face, and he didn't say hello, turned around and walked into the house. Liu Yingguo didn't think it was upset, and followed him into the house.

Speaking of which, the two of them have a bit of a grudge, and Gui Xinliang has not been able to let go. It's a long story, and it has to start from the past.

More than 50 years ago, Gui Xinliang fled from the north to Xinghua Village, and was still a young boy when he was adopted by Gui Qi, short and thin but not bad, and a few years later he became a handsome and tall offspring. He is enthusiastic and eye-catching, diligent and willing to help, and is quite popular in the village. In a blink of an eye, it was time to say that he was a family, but because the children of the Gui family were too poor, he couldn't say it for a while.

At that time, the outside world was very chaotic, since the death of Yuan Shikai, the warlords fought each other, and then the Northern Expedition, during which the Communist Party of China launched the Nanchang Uprising and the Autumn Harvest Uprising. But in this corner of the mountain where the emperor is far away, the smoke of war has not permeated, but it is relatively calm.

Gui Xinliang followed Gui Qi in addition to squeezing oil in the oil factory, and helping long-term workers to do short-term jobs in his spare time, and he also had some savings at every penny. Later, he got along with Liu Chen, a young widow in the village, and Gui Qi asked the owner Zeng Xianbei for an accurate word, and was about to build two thatched houses on the edge of the oil mill to help him marry Liu Chen and start a family, but unexpectedly, the disaster suddenly fell.

The widow Liu Chen is the wife of Liu Dapeng, a mountain catcher (hunter) in the village, who is in her twenties and quite beautiful. That year, Liu Dapeng was hit off a cliff by an injured wild boar while driving the mountain, leaving behind a young wife and two young daughters. Kind-hearted villagers are indispensable to help, and Gui Xinliang is also one of them.

At that time, there were more than one or two people who beat Liu Chen's idea. Who is not impressed by the old bachelor in the village? But the youngest is only Gui Xinliang, and the strongest is Liu Liyang, who is in his forties.

At that time, Liu Liyang and Liu Shengtang, father and son, worked together to build a three-entry compound, Liu Shengtang has also married and given birth to a pair of children, Liu Liyang, who has been single for more than ten years, feels that his house has been built, and his son has become a family, and it is not a problem to support the family with the craftsmanship of the father and son.

As long as a person's mind goes wild, it is a wild horse, and it cannot be controlled for a while. Liu Liyang also took aim at Liu Chen.

Liu Dapeng came in from outside the mountain, and although he belonged to the same generation, he was not the same as him. At that time, although he knew that several bachelors in the village coveted Liu Chen's family, he didn't care at all, and those people couldn't compare with him. With his family's newly built compound and excellent carpentry skills, how could those poor bachelors be opponents?

He went out of the mountain to find the patriarch of the Liu clan, put forward the idea, the patriarch made a decision on the spot, because Liu Dapeng's parents died, he sent someone to find Liu Dapeng's brother, wrote the transaction documents in person, and sold Liu Chen's family to Liu Liyang to fill the house, and the two young girls were raised by him together. Liu Liyang paid Liu Dapeng's brother five silver dollars as a dowry, and he could not renege on the basis of the letter. Both sides signed and the Chinese drew the charge, and the matter was completed.

But when he returned to Xinghua Village, he was stunned. Liu Chen refused to marry him, saying that he promised Gui Xinliang first. Liu Liyang regretted that he didn't pay attention earlier, and now he is embarrassed and makes a joke. Speaking of which, Liu Liyang was quite upright, and he didn't say anything at the time.

The next day, he went out of the mountain to find Liu Dapeng's brother to explain the situation, returned the paperwork and asked for the five silver dollars as a dowry. Brother Liu Dapeng was furious, and said that the words spilled out of the water, resolutely refused to return the money, and scolded Liu Chen's cheating and ruining the door, what she said didn't count, without the permission of his brother Liu Dapeng, how could she Liu Chen remarry casually? In the end, he promised to ensure that Liu Liyang would marry Liu Chen smoothly.

Tragedy arose. The next day, Brother Liu Dapeng took a few clansmen into Xinghua Village to persuade and insult Liu Chen's and even do it, Liu Chen's death did not let go, Brother Liu Dapeng finally dropped his cruel words, saying that he asked her to think carefully for a night, and come back tomorrow. This is not to scare people, in those days, such things happened from time to time.

It just so happened that in those days, Gui Xinliang and Gui Qi, father and son, were working on paper in Bantangchong, a helper in the mountains, and they were not in the village. Liu Chen cried all night, and committed suicide by hanging a beam at dawn. When the villagers helped her to collect the funeral, they found that she had been pregnant for several months, which is a corpse with two lives! Everyone is embarrassed.

When Gui Xinliang returned to Xinghua Village five days later, Liu Chen had already been buried. It was Liu Liyang who paid for the villagers to help deal with the aftermath. He didn't feel that he was at fault in this matter, but after all, it was because of him, and Liu Dapeng's brother didn't care about it at all, so he paid for the aftermath and brought the two little girls back to his home for Liu Shengtang's wife to take care of.

After Gui Xinliang learned what happened, he was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot, and cried hoarsely on Liu Chen's grave. That night, he carried a long axe for chopping wood and went to Liu Liyang to fight hard. Although he was young and strong, the big oil hammer of the oil factory allowed him to practice a lot of strength, but he was still beaten out of the courtyard by Liu Liyang and his son.

Dragging the scars all over his body, Gui Xinliang left Xinghua Village overnight, and when he came back a year later, he was already grimly broken, with a piece of meat missing from his left face, and even his left eye was gone. It was many years later that the villagers learned from Gui Qi that he had been attacked outside, and that the wound on his face had been cut out by shrapnel from the shell.

Gui Xinliang, who was handsome and cheerful in the past, has since cherished his words like gold, and he has become an enemy with Liu Liyang.

Half a year later, Gui Xinliang invited a Taoist from nowhere to do a ritual at Liu Chen's grave, and two days later, Liu Liyang, who was in good health, suddenly fell ill and died of a violent illness. Liu Shengtang was so grieved that he buried his father in the main hall and prepared for a funeral three days later.

A miracle happened the next night. After midnight, when the Liu clan was about to nail the coffin and move the spirit, they suddenly heard a snapping sound from the coffin, as if someone was slapping it with their hands inside. The clansmen were so frightened that they thought they were "cheating corpses" and coaxed them out of the house. Liu Shengtang went over and lifted the lid of the coffin with the courage to see his father Liu Liyang slowly sit up from the coffin, and said in a weak voice: "You disobedient son, are you going to bury me before I die?" “

Liu Liyang came back from the dead on the eve of the funeral, which shocked the four towns for a while, and it was rumored to be a strange story. That's not all, a few years later, he once again staged the "dead and resurrected" stunt, which made the neighbors not only surprised but also weird!

The depressed Gui Xinliang fell ill in bed half a month later, Gui Qi sought medical treatment in many ways to save his life, and after he recovered from his illness, he left Xinghua Village again.

At that time, some people in the village privately discussed that Liu Liyang's sudden "violent death" was caused by the Taoist people invited by Gui Xinliang. But after all, Liu Liyang carpenter is a disciple of Luban's lineage, and his ancestral kung fu must be not shallow, so he has to come back from the dead. Gui Xinliang harmed him and couldn't eat himself, so he almost died of illness, it's really a report and a report. Therefore, Gui Xinliang has to go, and if he doesn't avoid Liu Liyang, he may not have a good death.

No one has studied the truth of the matter, but Gui Xinliang has been gone for more than ten years. He didn't return until after he "went to Japan," when he was in his early forties. The orphaned daughter of Liu Chen, who was adopted by Liu Liyang, was seventeen years old, and was promised by Liu Liyang to Gui Qi's grandson Gui Qiusheng.

Note: "Go to Japan", although our hometown has always been fierce and bandits, but when the war disaster comes, it can only "go" to avoid, both to hide in the deep mountains and old forests, and to return home after the war disaster, so the Tainian army crossing is called "walking long hair", Guangxi Bai Chongxi's soldiers came to call "walking grain", when the Japanese devils entered Hunan? It's called "Go to Japan".