Chapter 157 housewarming
Because I thought about too many problems the night before, I had poor sleep. When I woke up the next day, I was holding two dark panda eyes.
Leizi looked at me: "Damn! You didn't sleep last night, did you go stealing the cow?"
I nodded: "I've also gone to steal someone!"
Lei Zi let out a yo-sounding voice: "Which widow did you steal?"
"Stealing a widow? Can't I fucking stealing a girl?" I said angrily.
It was originally a joke I told Lei Zi, but my father didn't want it to be heard by my father.
While having breakfast, my father was drinking porridge and saying to me: "Jiu Lizi, you are not young anymore. Find a serious girl to fall in love. Stealing people is not a long-term thing!"
Puff!
Lei Zi squirted out of his mouth with a mouthful of porridge and laughed and fell to the ground.
After figuring out the matter of Yin and Yang House, after breakfast, I came to find Foreman Zhao personally and asked him to bring someone to start work.
Foreman Zhao asked me: "Jiu Lizi, the coffin under your foundation...is no problem?"
I said to Foreman Zhao: "Don't worry, we had already opened the coffin last night and confirmed that the person in the coffin was my grandfather, so you don't have to worry!"
Foreman Zhao: "Oh, it turns out it's your grandfather. That's good. As long as it's not an evil thing, I'll be relieved!"
Before Foreman Zhao led his men to start work, I asked Lei Zi to inform Lao Huang and brought two coffin carryers.
I need to rest assured that Leizi and the others are professional coffin carryrs to carry the coffin. This is also a kind of respect for grandpa!
My mother cooked a pot of glutinous rice juice, and I used glutinous rice juice to seal the coffin again.
Since it is a Feng Shui bureau of Yin-Yang House, we must not move the coffin at will, otherwise it will destroy the Yin-Yang House and make the Feng Shui bureau invalid. So I decided to put the stone coffin back to its original position, strengthen the foundation, and finally build a new house on it, because only by burying the stone coffin under the foundation is the safest, and except for demolishing the house, it will never be dug out. What is important is that only by doing this can it be in line with the attributes of "Yang House".
Of course, before putting the coffin back into the original pit, the bottom of the pit needs to be refilled to ensure that the groundwater does not penetrate, so as not to form puddles at the bottom of the pit. This will affect the Feng Shui situation of Yin and Yang House. At that time, grandpa will ask his father to dream of it, saying it is wet and cold.
Foreman Zhao said that this matter was easy to deal with. He directed three or four workers to go down to the bottom of the pit, dug a few times with a hoe, and soon found the leaking place. There was a hole under the bottom of the pit, and the groundwater penetrated out of the hole bit by bit.
The workers filled the hole with soil again, thickened the bottom of the pit, and trimmed the entire pit square and beautiful to ensure that there was no water leakage.
Foreman Zhao said to me: "Jiujizi, see how it is, there will be no more leaks now!"
I jumped into the pit and checked it myself, and then crawled out of the pit after confirming that everything was right.
I looked up at the sun and calculated the time.
"The time is here, let's start falling into the coffin. Please leave the yard temporarily if you are present!" I sprinkled a handful of yellow paper into the pit and said loudly.
Several workers immediately retreated, walked out of the yard, and stood outside the yard. Their zodiac sign was in conflict today and was not suitable to stand near the coffin.
"Fallen coffin!"
Lei Zi raised his voice and shouted.
Four coffin carryrs stood in four corners of the stone coffin, tied the dragon coffin with dragon tendons, then carried it with keel bones, and walked carefully into the pit.
In fact, it was only a few meters away, so I didn’t call more coffin holders. However, since the stone coffin was heavier than ordinary coffins, even if it was a few meters away, Lei Zi and the others were tired and sweaty. They could clearly see the muscles on their arms bulging, thick blue veins popping up on their necks, and the vest was instantly wet with sweat, and their clothes were wet against their backs.
When the coffin holder put the coffin down, I placed incense and candles by the pit and gave my grandfather a stick of incense.
"Closed the coffin!" I stood up and patted the dust on my knees, and said to Leizi.
Lei Zi nodded, and the four coffin holders also stood on the four corners of the pit, swung their shovels, and kept filling the pit with soil.
Within half an hour, the stone coffin was buried underground again.
"Foreman Zhao, I'll ask you for the next thing!" I said to Foreman Zhao.
Foreman Zhao patted his chest: "Don't worry, I'll cover it with me! Brothers, work!"
Ping Ping Pong, the workers began to strengthen the foundation under the autumn sun.
I sent a red envelope to Leizi and the others, but Lao Huang and the others refused to ask for it: "If you do a little favor to Master Jiu, why are we so embarrassed to collect money?"
After giving in, Lao Huang said, "Master Jiu, we won't accept this red envelope. When you move to a new house, just ask our brothers to have a drink!"
I nodded: "Okay! This is a must! I will definitely ask everyone to have a good drink at that time!"
In the following period, the new house was built very smoothly and there was no more trouble.
A month passed, and a brand new small building rose up, replacing the dilapidated old house, indicating a prosperous new atmosphere.
Looking at the new house on the second floor and bottom of the second floor in front of me, I feel joy from the bottom of my heart. I believe that with my own efforts, our lives will definitely get better and better and happier.
It has always been my greatest wish to build a new house for my family.
Now, I am also very happy to see the wish fulfilled and the smiles on my father and mother's faces.
My mother held my hand and said proudly: "My Jiuyazi is just promising!"
I paid Foreman Zhao's wages, spent more than 10,000 yuan to equip the complete set of household appliances.
Sleeping in the spacious and bright bedroom, Lei Zi said enviously: "Jiujizi, I really envy you. How long has it been since I made money to build a new house! When my brother gets rich one day, he will go back to the countryside and build a small villa for my mother!"
I patted Leizi on the shoulder: "Come on, brother, it's only a matter of time before you get rich, I'm optimistic about you!"
Lei Zi smiled and said to me: "Can you get rich? It depends on whether Master Jiu covers me?"
Moving a new house is naturally a treat. This is a custom, and it is actually to celebrate the joy and make the new house more joyful. The locals call it "Congratulations".
I looked through the old calendar, chose an auspicious day for migration, and specially invited a team of chefs to serve as a village banquet. In my own yard, I set up eight tables and invited neighbors from all villages to visit. There were Leizi and Lao Huang's coffin maker, the workers who helped me repair the house, the neighbor next door, the village chief Ma and others. Everyone gathered together to celebrate the joy of moving in.
When relocating a new house, you naturally need to do some rituals, which is considered a blessing.
I got up early and placed a long table at the gate, with a bright red cloth spread on the table to make a simple desk.
An incense burner was placed in the center of the desk. There was a plate on the left and right sides of the incense burner. On the left was a fat roast chicken, on the right was a shiny braised pig head. Candles were lit on both sides of the desk, and two strings of "earth red" firecrackers were hung at the gate.
My father, mother, and a family of three lit three incense sticks, inserted them into the incense burner, and then faced the new house, folded his hands together and bowed three times.
This is about three reasons. The first is to pray for blessings. After moving into a new house, the weather will be good, everyone will be healthy and life will get better and better; the second is to say hello to the Landlord and tell him that we are moving into a new house. Just like when demolishing the house before, we also need to inform the Landlord that we are going to demolish the house; the third is to say hello to some invisible dirty things. We are going to enter the new house. If you should take a detour, don't cause trouble for our family.
I don’t know if there are so many customs and customs in other places. Anyway, due to geographical reasons and the number of ethnic groups in Xiangxi, various customs have been left since ancient times to the present. At the same time, people here also believe in ghosts and gods. Therefore, no matter what they do, they have to worship, worship mountains, water, and other things.
If you come to Xiangxi, even if you see someone worshiping stones on the roadside, don’t think it’s strange. This has become a living habit of locals.
"The time is here, fire the fire! Let's fire!"
Leizi took out his lighter and lit the firecrackers hanging at the gate.
Accompanied by the crackling sound of firecrackers, the guests raised their glasses to congratulate.
The drink was drunk until the afternoon, and the visitors were almost gone, leaving only the hard-core buddies such as Lei Zi and Lao Huang. There was almost a table of people left, and everyone was still drinking.
Leizi met me and asked me in a low voice: "Jiujizi, today is your joy of moving forward. Why do I feel that you are not very happy?"
"Happy, why aren't you?" I smiled and took a sip of wine.
Lei Zi patted my shoulder: "Stop pretending, everyone is brother. Don't I understand you yet? If you have any worries, why not tell me!"
I sighed: "It's nothing! It's just that while I was drinking just now, I suddenly remembered Master! Today's lively days are lacking Master. My heart is a little sour!"
When she mentioned Chen Xiucai, Lei Zi also sighed: "Yes! Master loves drinking so much. If Master is here, he will definitely be able to take us to drink until evening!"
I looked back at the new house and said with emotion: "If I had no Master, I would not be able to build this new house! But now, the new house has been built, but the master can't see it!"
Lei Zi comforted me and said, "Don't think like this. Master can see it, you will definitely see it! He will be happy for you when he learned that you have moved to a new home in the nine springs!"
It was already evening when I saw the guests off. I went upstairs to sleep with Leizi.
Before going to bed, I turned on the TV and happened to see the evening news of the local TV station. The news was reported about the matter of Liu Moumou, the director of the county public security bureau, being punished. In the picture, Zhangguan Tong appeared in the picture, with a black cloth bag covering his head and being taken into a police car.
I was so happy that I didn't expect that Ku Junwei was really capable that he actually brought down Director Liu's cancer.
The next morning, I was still in bed, and Village Chief Ma woke me up from my sleep and asked me to go to the village committee to answer the phone, saying that a man who claimed to be Ku Junwei called me and asked me to find me.
Chapter completed!