"It's a pheasant." Gu Qing didn't plan to hide it, there was too much game at home, so he couldn't hide it at all, "It was sent by a wild wolf, that is, the she-wolf who gave birth to Xiao Hei, who came every night, probably worried that Xiao Hei didn't eat, so he sent me a bunch of pheasants and hares or something." ”

She picked up the pheasant in her hand, "I still have it at home, I can't finish it, I'm afraid of spoiling it, this pheasant grandpa and grandma stew it and eat it." ”

A pheasant looks like three or four pounds, which is not fat, but it is also a lot of meat, and a group of children in the family began to swallow saliva.

Gu Qing put down his things and left.

Mrs. Gu carried the pheasant in to clean up.

Sun returned to his room with a bowl of chicken soup, called Gu Lu in, and took out a piece of meat and stuffed it into Gu Lu's mouth.

Gu Lu swallowed it in one gulp, and continued to look at her mother with her eyes open.

Sun glared at her: "Call your sister in and give your sister a bite to eat." ”

Gu Lu was looking for Gu Tao in the yard, and when she saw Gu Meng going out, she didn't scream, and said back to the back room: "Eldest sister went out, I'll take a piece of chicken and chase it up for eldest sister." ”

Sun nodded, took a piece of chicken and handed it to Gu Lu.

As soon as Gu Lu walked out, he opened his mouth and swallowed the chicken into his stomach.

"Lulu, what are you eating?"

Gu Lin jumped out from the side.

Gu Lu wiped her mouth: "I didn't eat anything." ”

"I saw it, you are eating meat, the eldest sister gave you your mother's meat, and you actually ate it secretly!" Gu Lin shouted, "Second aunt, Lulu stole the chicken, and a large piece of chicken was swallowed by her!" ”

Sun was carefully tasting the chicken soup in the back room, and when he heard the screaming outside the house, he immediately understood what was going on.

She picked up a rattan and walked out and pumped it on Gu Lu's buttocks: "I said it was for your sister, and you ate it secretly, what's the matter with your mouth, you have to eat everything, see if I don't kill you!" ”

Gu Lu was pumped, and ran away.

Sun didn't dare to catch up, mainly because he had a child in his belly, and he was afraid that something would happen to his body.

The construction of the new house started quite quickly, one day at a time, and three days with a big change.

Seeing that the new house was about to be built, Old Man Gu became more and more nervous, he took the initiative to contract the job of finding beams and wood, looking for wood on the mountain every day, and after looking for almost ten days, he didn't find anything he liked.

The building of the house in this dynasty, the most important thing is the link of the beam, the beam represents the role of the long pillar of the family in the house, and has a deep meaning, so the selection of the beam has become a very exquisite thing.

It must be a fir tree, but it cannot be a single tree, the trunk should be straight, and the branches should be luxuriant, implying the prosperity of the offspring, and the width of the tree body should not be too different......

Old Man Gu inspected the mountain for many days, and finally found a perfect fir tree, and hurriedly called someone to help cut down the tree.

If it is an ordinary tree, you don't have to be so nervous, but this is a middle beam, and the cutting is also particular, for example, when the cedar tree falls, it must face south, and it must not damage any small cedar trees in the surrounding area......

It took a lot of effort to cut down the tree perfectly, and the four of them carefully carried the tree down the mountain.

When he arrived at the bottom of the mountain, Old Man Gu didn't have time to show off his merits, so he saw Gu Huimei dancing in the middle of the village.

Gu Qing saw Old Man Gu coming back with Liang Mu from a distance, and immediately said, "Our house's beam has arrived, I'll go and take a look." ”

The crowd also gathered around to watch the excitement.

"This beam is good, and the middle beam is enough."

"Gu Niangzi, your house is almost built, when will it be put on the beam."

Old man Gu took a puff of dry tobacco, and the old god said: "I'm looking for someone to live by, and three days later will be the auspicious day of the zodiac, and it is advisable to go to the beam." ”

Gu Qing said with a smile: "On the day of Shangliang, our family will arrange food, and everyone who has time will come to join in the fun." ”

Gujia Village has always had such a custom, Shangliang arranged a banquet on this day, and invited craftsmen and relatives and friends to gather together, which was more lively than getting married.

For this day, Gu Qing had already started to prepare, and specially invited the eldest daughter of Lizheng, who had good cooking skills in the village, to cook a big pot of rice.

The population of Gujia Village is quite large, but she does not have a good relationship with every household, roughly calculated, there will be about fifty or sixty households to eat the banquet, plus the workers and craftsmen, at least twenty or thirty tables have to be prepared, this can be regarded as a big scene in Gujia Village, the last time to eat, or last spring, this year, no one in the village has done a big event.

Gu Qing listed the menu, six dishes on a table, not shabby, not too generous, namely: braised platter, tofu meatballs, mushroom chicken, fungus scrambled eggs, stir-fried wild vegetables, pork bone and radish soup, and prepared wine for the craftsman's dozen tables.

This kind of dish is very good when you look at it in Gujia Village as a whole.

The day before the beam, two temporary large earthen stoves were built in the courtyard, one for steaming rice and the other for frying big pot dishes.

Mrs. Gu took the Song family and the Sun family to be responsible for cutting the meat, Jin Hua Niang and Yin Hua Niang were making tofu meatballs, Gu Qing was making lo-mei, and all the children in the family went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables, which are all ingredients to be used for tomorrow's banquet.

Sun looked at a table of pork and couldn't help muttering: "The eldest niece is too generous, why buy so much jerky, just put two taels on a plate of dishes, and leave the rest for your own family to eat?" ”

"You're a shallow thing." Mrs. Gu scolded, "This is Shangliang wine, don't let those craftsmen on the beam eat and drink well, they don't care when they go up the beam and tiles, and they will suffer a greater loss when the time comes." ”

It's okay to pick and search in other places, but Shangliang wine must not be sloppy, this is closely related to the prosperity of the house, and you must be careful and careful.

There is an old saying in the village: there are beams on the roof, and there is food in the house. There are no beams on the roof, and the six animals are not prosperous.

A sentence passed down from generation to generation is naturally reasonable, Mrs. Gu hopes that the life of the Dafang family will be prosperous, and she hopes that the four eldest grandsons will become more and more promising.

That night, a group of women were busy until late before returning to rest.

Yang Pei and Zhu Tao didn't go home, they stayed in the new house to guard the ingredients in the yard, as well as the tiles that had just been brought back.

The genius shone slightly, and the men working in the village came.

Old Man Gu commanded people to set up several large tables in the courtyard, the tables were covered with red cloth, and then sacrifices, pig's heads, roosters, wine cups, etc. were placed.

Then, take out the red paper couplet that I asked Moli to write yesterday and paste it on both sides of the main house.

The joy is full of joy, and the spring is full of thousands of miles of spring.

When it was an auspicious time, the masons and carpenters stepped forward and began the ritual of sacrificing the beams, and a pot of wine was poured on the ground, and the words in their mouths were recited: "Please come to the front of the hall...... The first glass of wine is a tribute to the ancestors...... The fifth glass of wine was spilled high, and there were three stars on it......"

After the end of the beam, it is the upper beam, the custom of Gujia Village is to find eight blessed young people to climb on the roof to pull the beam, after pulling the beam is to stabilize the beam, this is a technical work, you need a professional carpenter to proofread the position, can not make the slightest mistake, after the beam is placed in the position, it is the most lively throwing beam, which is the favorite link of the children in the village.

Gu Qing, as the owner of this house, stood on the beams of the house with the carpenters, and threw the candy cakes that had been prepared long ago, as well as red date shortbread and other things from a high place, and the whole village would come to grab them, at the same time, the sound of firecrackers sounded at the door of the house, not firecrackers, but burning bamboo, and the bamboo would make a crackling sound after it burned, and it was extremely lively.

In a lively and joyful voice, Old Man Gu brought people to bring thirty tables and set them up in the courtyard of the new house.

Mrs. Gu took the women to table by table, the fragrant fragrance made everyone's mouths water, six dishes, one bowl of white rice per person, enough to be full.

Of course, these people didn't come to eat white food, they all brought congratulatory gifts.