At this time, the sun rose more than a foot above the top of the mountain, and a warm light shot down on the earth, on the former site of the Lotus Temple, and on the crowd watching the celebration of the construction of the Lotus Temple.

"What a nice day! Come and see! The glow is shining! Someone in the crowd said loudly.

"Yes! Yes! Guanyin Bodhisattva has appeared, and even God has come to help! Lotus Nunnery will flourish even more in the future. Chen Jiangwan's wife, Chen Yan, shouted even louder, as if she was afraid that others would not know that she was here. With such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to show her face, how could this parent wife, known as "Half a Gong", easily give it to others.

With the shouting, the crowd watching the celebration invariably looked up, the vast sky, clear blue, and the red glow of the sun like a fireball just now gradually faded; A colorful cloud, suddenly floated from the south, a moment long, a moment short, change constantly, the color cloud floated to the lotus nunnery above the water suddenly stopped, people take a closer look, this color cloud is like a statue of Guanyin Buddha, flickering, lifelike.

"Guanyin Bodhisattva has appeared, look! Guanyin Bodhisattva appeared...... "Chen Yanshi, the wife of the patriarch, seemed to have picked up a He Shou Wu, dancing and shouting. Suddenly, the construction site of the Lotus Nunnery was boiling, and people were excited. Master Hui Jing even knelt on the ground with a "touch" of her knees, and while bowing, she recited aloud: "Amitabha! Amitabha! Then, all the people followed the example of the master and knelt on the ground and bowed......

"The auspicious time has come, please prepare the carpentry master and the mason master." When Chen Jiangwan said this, he seemed to raise his voice to the limit, in order to show a certain majesty of his father-in-law.

"Ready." Carpenter Yi Wangding and mason Chen Zenger replied in unison.

"Light firecrackers, set up a hermitage gate, and open a wall pit!" Chen Jiangwan waved his hands as he gave the order.

Suddenly, "crackling...... Sound...... Syllable...... Smack, ......, knock...... Boom...... The sound of firecrackers ...... the big and small, the prayer of "Amitabha Buddha", and the sound of "Fu Yi!" "Good! Good" should be colored, resounding through the valley, resounding through the Tiangang.

Craftsmen build houses and temples are arranged in order, and there is generally a saying of "one wood, two mud and three dozen stones, and the sawymer pours wine and eats" in the Yuanzhou area, which means that among the four craftsmen, the carpenter is the first, the mason is second, and the sawyman ranks last. With such an order, most of the scenes such as shouting and seating are so on, and the carpenter sits on the big side, which is the position of the tiger's mouth, and is respected as the largest.

The first color was shouted by carpenter Yi Wangding, and the second color was shouted by Chen Zenger. According to common sense, after the two craftsmen each shouted a song, the ceremony of erecting the gate and opening the wall pit was over. But the carpenter Yi Wangding seems to be in the end, and there is no end to it. Continuing to shout the opening words of "Fu Yi", the people who set off the firecrackers saw this posture and knew that there was a "play" in today's shouting, and quickly set off the firecrackers.

I saw Yi Wangding, holding a big rooster with a black body and a bright red crown with both hands, facing the newly erected hermitage, bowing and kowtowing while shouting: Fu Yi:

The sun rises in the east, and the door of the lotus nunnery opens to the south;

The Sanskrit sound is around the pig-shaped mountain, and the talents are produced in Chenjiazhuang;

Guanyin's compassion is revealed, and all living beings are healthy and free from disasters;

All the people worship and kowtow, and a thousand candles will never fade.

After Yi Wangding finished shouting, he cast a challenging look at Chen Zenger. I thought, I heard that Chen Zenger's fist and foot kung fu is very good, and he has long been famous in the township, and his mason skills are also good, I don't know how his color shouting is? Let me try it today.

"Great luck! Great luck! The crowd exclaimed from the bottom of their hearts.

Chen Zenger also came prepared, although he didn't read any books and had no culture, but how could he show weakness on such an occasion, as soon as the firecrackers went off, he took the big rooster and let go of his voice, which had the potential to overshadow Yi Wangding. Shouted: Fu Yi:

The lotus nunnery is four-directional, with eight beams and four pillars in the skylight;

The front is low and the back is high, and the corners are danced, and the left hall and the right liao are high-spirited;

If you come to give alms in the peaceful year, Guanyin sends the champion;

Believe in men and women, and the heart is pious, and the gods are long.

"Master Chen, good luck! Master Yi, come again! Master Chen is back! "Everyone is adding fuel to the fire, I wish the two of them kept shouting, how lively! How pretty! In this way, Chen Zenger and Yi Wangding each shouted for a while, but everyone still did not give up. If you continue to compare, I don't know how many more paragraphs you have to shout to distinguish the high and low. At this time, I saw Master Hui Jing stand up and say loudly: "Amitabha, good. The two masters, who are high in art and only learn eight buckets, have shouted good luck, which is the blessing of my hermitage and the luck of my hermitage. Today's lottery, I think it's up to here! The next time you go on the beam, compare the height again, okay? ”

"I'm happy today, I shouted a few more paragraphs, Master Chen, let you laugh!" Yi Wangding said as he hugged his fist and arched.

"There, the afterlife is terrifying! It's the elder brother who is ugly, and I hope the younger brother will bear with me! Chen Zenger responded while making the same arch gesture.

Although the two were a little unhappy with each other about the competition just now, they admired each other very much in their hearts. In particular, Chen Zenger admired the carpentry master Yi Wangding even more and was impressed. He learned art at the age of fifteen, and became a teacher at the age of eighteen, and for more than 20 years, he has experienced countless such occasions and met many opponents, but a young opponent like Yi Wangding is still the first one, if he is not sophisticated, he must lose to him today. At this time, not only did he not resent this carpenter who almost made him look foreign, but he had a good impression of this carpenter, and suddenly had an idea of going deeper.

What is the origin of carpentry Yi Wangding? Who did you learn from? Why don't you know anything about him? Chen Zenger asked himself.

It turned out that the carpenter Yi Wangding lived in a small Zhuangzi called Taili at the southern end of Yijiaping Village, which was only separated by a port from Chenjiafang, and was only more than two miles away; In his early Chinese New Year's Eve, he learned art from a teacher at the age of fifteen, debuted at the age of eighteen, and said goodbye to his master at the age of twenty to do his craft alone, making cars and squeezing, carving dragon portraits, proficient in everything, and famous in the four towns and eight neighborhoods. Just because the two are engaged in different crafts, as the saying goes, "Interlacing is like separating mountains." In addition, the two are of different races and surnames, and they have little to do with each other, so it is natural that they do not understand each other.

Yi Wangding also had the same idea, he only knew that Chen Zeng'er was good at martial arts and masonry, but he didn't know that his inner talent was so good. Therefore, through the shouting just now, he couldn't help but be in awe of Chen Zenger.

Both of them have a good impression of each other, and then in the days of rebuilding the Lotus Nunnery, as soon as they have free time, the two of them chatted together, from carpentry to masonry, from Tiannan to the north, from family to family, from the past to the present, from the present to the future, from father and mother to children, from men to women, the more they talk, the more speculative, the more they talk, the more they talk, there is a feeling of being late at first sight, and they hate to see each other late, and after a few months, the two have become a pair of good friends who have nothing to talk about and nothing to say.

Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and in the blink of an eye, it is the 24th day of the lunar month in the winter of 1918. The twenty-fourth day of the lunar month is a traditional year for the countrymen. At noon, Master Hui Jing instructed his disciples to make some vegetarian dishes, leaving Chen Zenger and Yi Wangding and other craftsmen to have a light meal, and the dishes were naturally garlic, peppers, radishes and cabbage and other vegetarian dishes. After the meal, Yi Wangding pulled Chen Zenger and mysteriously came to the thousand-year-old camphor tree behind the nunnery and whispered.

"Hey! Dude! Tell you a secret. Yi Wangding put his mouth close to Chen Zenger's ear and whispered.

"Two big men, if there is an unsightly secret, they have to hide and say it like a thief." Chen Zenger saw that Yi Wangding was like a woman, sneaky, so he said loudly.

"I'm embarrassed to say."

"Say it! Go ahead! You are such a big man, what is there to be shy about? ”

"My wife has it again."

"What's up with your wife?"

"Oops! Why can't you understand what people are saying? With that...... That one...... Hello! ”

"Ahh My brother and sister are pregnant again, okay, good, good! Chen Zenger shouted three hello.

It turned out that Yi Wangding was in his early Chinese New Year's Eve this year, and he became a family as early as his twenties, but for some reason, his wife had a miscarriage soon after she became pregnant, and she miscarried again and again, and in a few years, a total of three children were lost, which is commonly known as habitual abortion in the countryside.

"I wonder if this can be born smoothly?" Yi Wangding said with some concern.

"Why can't I be born?" Chen Zenger didn't know how many miscarriages his wife had, so he said puzzled.

Seeing Chen Zenger's puzzled look, Yi Wangding told the truth one by one. Chen Zenger smiled after hearing this, then patted Yi Wangding's shoulder heavily with his right hand, and said in a completely brotherly tone: "It seems that you have to listen to me this time!" ”

"Why do you want to listen to you, do you think you are an immortal or a bodhisattva?"

"I am neither an immortal nor a bodhisattva! I'm from here, and I'm more experienced than you in this area. ”

"you! You're so much older than me! Isn't it eight or nine years older? I also boast of being a person who has come over, and I also talk about experience, and I don't need to pay for bragging about it, so you can blow it! ”

"I'm not talking nonsense with you, I'm serious." At this time, Chen Zenger put away his smile and looked very serious.

Yi Wangding saw that his face was serious, and he was not joking with him, so he put away his naughty appearance. "Okay, you can say it. I'll just listen to you. ”

"Do you still want the child in your wife's womb?"

"Don't you talk nonsense? I'm in my early thirties, don't I want children anymore? ”

"Then let me ask you, your wife is pregnant, are you still so intimate with your wife?"

"Of course, as the saying goes: Thirty is like a tiger, forty is like a wolf, and fifty is like an old calf on the field. For a man my age, I'm afraid it's hard to come back every night or two! ”

"Your wife can't keep the child in her belly, and she will die because you are too addicted to sex, and you are too good at 'that aspect', and you are embarrassed to say that you have to come back every one or two nights!"