As the saying goes, I would rather be a man than a woman. The wife is older, and when she was young, she didn't feel that there was anything wrong, and the couple loved and loved each other every day, you, you, me, and me. But after Chen Yan's fiftieth birthday, he seemed to have changed as a person, his original gentle temper suddenly became hot, and he always liked to compete with others when he spoke and did things, especially in front of Chen Jiangwan, he was even more unreasonable, the black was white, and the wrong was right, and he felt justified in everything. What's even more disdainful is the matter between husband and wife, Chen Jiangwan is two years younger than her after all, his body is strong and strong, and his energy is even stronger. He wanted to have such a round with his wife every once in a while. However, Chen Yan's just didn't cooperate, always prevaricating and resigning for reasons such as catching a cold and feeling unwell, making Chen Jiangwan's eyes angry, if it weren't for his age, and he was a father-in-law, he was worried that making things bigger would damage his reputation, he really wanted to scold her fiercely, or beat her a few times, but he never did this, he always endured it, and sometimes he was so angry that he couldn't help but yell at her twice: "How did you become like this now?" You...... You...... It's unbelievable! Sometimes he put Chen Yan's side aside, ignored and didn't answer, and even didn't say a word to her for ten and a half months.

When Chen Yanshi saw her husband answer herself in such a tone, her anger suddenly jumped up, "Yo, what's wrong today?" Got the wrong medicine? Lost his temper......"

In the face of his wife's rhetorical questions and agitation, Chen Jiangwan just kept silent. He knows that he has a fire in his belly today, and if he talks to his wife, he will definitely quarrel again if he can't say a few words, and he is worried that he will not be able to control his emotions and will make reckless moves to his wife, which will not only not solve the problem, but will add fuel to the fire and make matters worse. He knew that this seemingly honest and virtuous wife was actually very stubborn, and every time there was a conflict, he raised his hand first to surrender.

Chen Yanshi saw that her provocation was not resisted by her husband, it was like a heavy punch hitting cotton, and she couldn't bounce back silently, so she had to withdraw her troops.

Chen Jiangwan went to Chenjiashan after lunch, and he went to urge the cutting down of the big wooden pillars of the main hall used for the construction of the Lotus Nunnery. Last year, when it was decided to rebuild the Lotus Nunnery, he and Chen Xiangyi, the parent of Chen Jiashan, signed an agreement on behalf of their respective clansmen. The agreement stipulates that the method of donation for the rebuilding of the Lotus Nunnery is that each man will donate half a silver yuan, and every two women will donate half a silver yuan. The two villages of Chenjiafang and Chenjiashan each donated half of the timber needed, and the insufficient part was solved by the nunnery itself, or bought with the rent of Tiantushan, or removed the fate. But as soon as he entered the door today, before the tea was finished and he hadn't said a few words, this Chen Xiangyi said with a straight face: "Uncle Jiang Wan, the people in Chenjia Villa do not agree to donate money according to the method set last year. ”

The surnames of Chenjiafang and Chenjiashan are arranged in a cycle according to the five characters of gold, water, wood, fire and earth. Chen Tongchang, the grandfather of Chenjiashan, is the eldest in rank, and he is three years older than Chen Tongsheng, the grandfather of Chenjiafang. The elder brother Chen Tongchang married a wife and had children several years before his younger brother Chen Tongsheng. So when Chen Jiangwan's generation became parents, the people of Chenjiafang were a whole generation different from the people of Chenjiashan. Therefore, Chen Jiangwan, the parent of Chen Jiafang, stood in front of Chen Jiashan's parents, and naturally ranked one round higher than the other party. Therefore, Chen Xiangyi is called Uncle Chen Jiangwan.

"Xiangyi Xian nephew, didn't he say it well at the beginning, why did he suddenly change his hexagram again? You have to say a reason for A, B, C, and D, and the ugly one! ”

"There must be a reason!" Chen Xiangyi said slowly.

"What's the reason for that?" Chen Jiangwan asked anxiously.

"We people in Chenjiashan say that the Lotus Nunnery is three or four miles away from the village, and the benefits are naturally not as many as those in Chenjiafang. For example, the fields, soil, and mountains rented in the nunnery, only two or three families in our Chenjiashan rented and planted, and the rest were rented by your Chenjiafang people. Everyone knows that most of the grain and oil rents in the fields, soil, and mountains in the Lotus Nunnery are lower than those in the fields, soil, and mountains in the big Chen Jiangquan's family. Therefore, this time to donate money to build a nunnery, our people in Chenjiashan Village said that we can't donate the same amount as your people in Chenjiafang Village. As soon as Chen Xiangyi finished speaking, his eyes stared at Chen Jiangwan to see what Chen Jiangwan's reaction was.

"No! No way! Absolutely not! It is untenable and absurd to propose to donate less money and goods to build the nunnery on the grounds that there are few fields, soil, and mountains in the nunnery. As far as I know, the lease of fields, soil, and mountains in the Lotus Nunnery has always been open and transparent, on a first-come, first-served basis, until the lease is completed, and the lease period is five years. Never look at people to make rents, look at money to pay rents".

The public said that the public was reasonable, and the mother-in-law was reasonable and strong, so the two parents quarreled. Chen Xiangyi is as stubborn as a donkey! Always adhere to the view that Chen Jiashan people should donate less by half, and there is no room for compromise. Chen Jiangwan was so angry that his eyes were red and his ears were red.

Chen Jiangwan had a fire in his heart, and after dinner, he wanted to calm down and come up with a foolproof plan, but he met his wife again and asked him a lot of questions, in such a situation, he would have good words to answer his wife. However, in order not to further escalate the contradictions, this "war of words" between husband and wife that was about to break out ended with Chen Jiangwan's surrender. Whenever he surrendered and surrendered in front of his wife, Chen Jiangwan often admonished himself and comforted himself, man? They are all people who want to do big things and do big things, and they don't play prestige in front of their wives, so why not be polite to their wives for some small things!

On the afternoon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the third clan meeting to rebuild the Lotus Nunnery temple was held in the side hall of the Lotus Nunnery, and the parents of the two villages of Chenjiafang and Chenjiashan participated in this meeting, Huijing Shitai, the fourth room on the Chenjiashan Villa, and the elders with the highest seniority in the five rooms of the Chenjiafang Village, a total of 12 people. The meeting lasted all day, and in the evening, an agreement was finally reached with the concession of the Chen Jiashan people to reduce the donation by half.

September 19, 1918 was a special day for the Lotus Temple. Because of this day, the Chen clan of Chenjiafang and Chenjiashan decided to start construction for the reconstruction of the Lotus Nunnery.

September 19, 1918 was also an extraordinary day for Chen Zenger, because on this day, the Chen clan decided that he would be responsible for the masonry work to rebuild the temple of Lotus Nunnery.

Chen Zenger has been engaged in masonry work for more than 20 years and has done many houses, but building a temple alone is still "the first time that a monk is a groom official!" ”。

The night before, Chen Zenger was a little excited, lying on the bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, full of thoughts about how to build a lotus nunnery and live up to the hopes of the whole clan. The next day, just after midnight, he got up and dressed himself up deliberately. A half-new white shirt with a blue coat and a pair of black cloth trousers, worn on the body, looks particularly decent; A long cotton scarf dyed with a chaihu watermark is tied horizontally on the burly waist, conveying a man's unique stability and confidence.

The protagonists of the opening ceremony of the Lotus Temple are undoubtedly carpentry and masonry. Needless to say, everyone naturally knows that it is Chen Zenger. Where's the carpenter? The carpenter's name is Yi Wangding, a native of Yijiaping. Oh, the slightly larger Chenjiafang and Chenjiashan, how can they still invite a carpenter with a foreign surname to build a nunnery? Doesn't this make people say that we Chen clan people have no one? Isn't that a disdainful joke? The tribesmen were puzzled.

It turned out that Yi Wangding was invited to do carpentry, which was the meaning of Mrs. Huijing of Lotus Nunnery. Master Hui Jing felt that although the Lotus Nunnery was built on the land of the people of Chenjiafang, and the jurisdiction also belonged to the people surnamed Chen, it was too close to Yijiaping, and the nunnery was only a few zhang away from the house of the Yijiaping people, separated by a field. Although the people of Yijiaping did not share the donations according to the head like the people surnamed Chen, the money they voluntarily donated was not less than that of the people of Chenjiashan. Master Hui Jing took into account that the lotus nunnery and Yijiaping, the fields were connected to the fields, and the soil was next to the soil, and the water from the eaves on both sides was even about to flow into a ditch. So, Mrs. Hui Jing proposed that this carpentry work be done by the people of Yijiaping. At first, the people of Chen Jiafang and Chen Jiashan strongly opposed it and refused to live or die, but only after Mrs. Hui Jing said this truth, the surname Chen accepted Mrs. Huijing's proposal.

On the morning of autumn, the sky was blue, the cool breeze was refreshing, and a round of red sun rose from the back mountain of Yijiaping. Suddenly, the glow was shining and the ground was golden. The men and women on the three villages of Chenjiafang, Chenjiashan, and Yijiaping, three in groups, and four in groups flocked to the Lotus Nunnery. At this time, they have only one wish, which is to witness the groundbreaking ceremony of this once-in-a-century construction of the nunnery.

The most enjoyable scene of the groundbreaking ceremony is the "Doucai" of carpentry and mason masters. The color shouted by the carpenter master is called "Limen Cai", and the color shouted by the mason master is called "Moving Earth Color". Under normal circumstances, the two craftsmen each shout one or two color segments even if it is over, but once it is on this occasion, in order to show that their shouting level is higher than that of each other, there will often be a scene of secret competition, shouting one by one, and they have to distinguish a high and low, and the scene is very lively.

"Amitabha, Master Chen is early, Master Yi is early." Master Hui Jing saw Chen Zenger and Yi Wangding, the two masters, came to the scene early, and hurriedly greeted: "Come, come, come, all the masters go to the liao hall to sit and have a cup of tea first." He turned around and asked, "Huh!" Did you meet the family Jiang Wangong? ”

"Nope! No! I haven't seen his old man's figure all along! The fifth sister-in-law rushed to answer.

Only then did everyone turn their eyes to the crowd and try to search for Chen Jiangwan's figure.

"He can't help but come to such a big thing!" Master Hui Jing couldn't help but say with some concern.

"Here we go! Come on! Chen Jiangwan seemed to hear everyone talking about him, but before anyone arrived, the voice rushed to the door.

"Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive, Chen Gong! Fortunately, everyone didn't scold you, or else, you would have heard everything. Chen Yanliu's wife, nicknamed "Sister-in-law Kuaizui", Chen Zhangshi rushed to say.

"It's late, it's late! It should be scolded. Chen Jiangwan said as he squeezed through the crowd.

"Amitabha, the holy land of Buddhism, how can there be any reason to scold people, not to mention that Chen Gong is not too late!" Master Hui Jing hurriedly greeted him and said.

"Age is not forgiving, I am old, I got up very early, and after I got up, I was delayed. Is everything ready? ”

"It's all ready, just wait for Chen Gong to come and say some firecrackers." Master Hui Jing replied with a smile.

Chen Jiangwan turned his head and looked at Chen Xiangyi, who was standing beside him, and said, "Xiangyi Xian, can you start?" ”

"Uncle Jiang Wan, yes, it's not too early!" When Chen Xiang saw Chen Jiangwan, he turned his head and asked him, which showed that he had some respect for the people of Chen Jiashan, and quickly replied.

"Good! When the hour came, the carpenter and the mason master were in place. Burn four, and Chan three is ready to light firecrackers. Chen Jiangwan said as he walked out of the dormitory. Others swarmed out after him.