Chapter 210 Throwing the blame

After making an agreement with the village chief, Jiang Yan arranged for Xie Sanniang to prepare it. Xie Sanniang was good at cooking, so she took the spoon and took the women in the village to cook it together.

There are about two hundred and seventy households in Linjia Village, which is considered a big village. If she only manages Shangliang Wine by herself, she doesn't need to invite the whole village. But since it is organized together with the private school in the village, it is estimated that the whole village will come to have a feast.

Some families in the village have multiple generations living under the same roof. It is common for a family to have more than a dozen people. However, there are also many single-family households. There are not a few children like the eldest child and the second child living alone. A rough calculation suggests that there are thousands of people.

Coupled with the dozens of people from the construction team, at least a hundred tables must be prepared.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yan planned to follow the same process as the big pot meal last time in the village. The place was still in the threshing floor of the village, and then went from house to house to collect tables, chairs and benches.

As for the menu, Jiang Yan listed it separately. Big pot dishes are stewed in one pot. Since it is a banquet, it cannot be like this. There are still meat and vegetables that should be stir-fried.

She made a menu for Xie Sanniang, and then Song Tao took the young and middle-aged people in the village to the town to purchase. The staple food was brown rice and miscellaneous grains. These are all ready-made grains in the village and can be purchased directly in the village.

As for the dishes, there are five vegetables and one soup, pickled fish, braised pork chowder, mapo tofu, pork stewed cabbage, stir-fried vegetables, and big bone radish soup.

These dishes are commonly eaten by the Lin family. They are delicious and suitable for all ages. The main reason is that they are simple to make and the dishes are rich. For the Lin family village, they are quite rich.

On the day of the banquet, all the dishes had been prepared in the threshing floor early, and all the tables, chairs and benches were set up. The threshing floor in the village was not big enough, so there were only forty tables set up. According to the flowing banquet method, one round was eaten and another was changed.

The women were busy with the banquet, while most of the men gathered in the private school. The time for the beaming was set in the morning. As soon as it got light, the village chief and Li Zheng led the men in the village to start setting up the ceremony.

Because it was a private school hanging beam, the whole village paid special attention to it. For them, raising the beam itself was a very important event, especially where the children studied, so they had to be careful.

The village chief even prepared two jars of "Zhuangyuanhong" at his own expense to entertain the singers and singers. The village chief is not a good drinker. Because the village is poor, he has never drunk rice wine a few times, so he doesn't know much about wine.

I just heard the word "number one scholar" and bought it, hoping that the private school in the village would also produce a number one scholar in the future.

Today, the soap factory and the base material factory are on holiday, and the construction team also has a day off. Everyone comes to have wine, and even the Lin family brothers gather not far away to watch.

An old man placed the sacrifices that had been prepared on the table one by one. Jiang Yan had never seen this scene before, and she followed her sons and stood not far away to watch.

In addition to the village chief and Li Zheng, Linjia Village also has an old patriarch, who is diligently placing the sacrifices in front of him. The patriarch must be a respected old man named Lin. Sometimes, he is in the village.

His status is higher than that of the village chief and Li Zheng.

Jiang Yan didn't have much impression of this old man. She didn't see him in the village on weekdays. She only saw him in the memory of the original person. When the original person was kicked out of the Lin family's old house, it was because of the old man's decision that he was not kicked out of the Lin family village.

He was not removed from the ancestral family tree.

The process of raising beams is similar in every place, but there is one step that is the same, that is, sacrifices must be made before mounting beams. The wooden table is covered with a big red cloth. On the red cloth, the old patriarch has placed rich sacrifices, including pig heads.

Pig tails, chicken heads and buttocks, meat dishes and two bottles of Zhuangyuan wine specially bought by the village chief.

There is also a couplet written by the village chief Qiao Le in advance, "The beam meets the zodiac day by chance, and the pillar meets the purple star by chance." Red silk is hung at both ends of the beam, and a Qing Shunzhi copper coin hangs down from the red silk, which means "peace and harmony"

Meaning.

Because the front door, back door, and house door have not yet been installed, the couplets must be affixed to the pillars, and the number of couplets to be affixed must be determined based on the amount of fallen wood in the house.

The village chief took out the "profitable money" prepared in advance, which was the lucky money, and distributed it to the leaders, Lao Fangtou and Lao Chu.

After everything was ready, with the whole village watching, when the auspicious time came, the ceremony of worshiping the beam began. Lao Chu and Lao Fangtou hugged the old patriarch and began to burn incense and candles. A bowl of Zhuangyuan wine was spilled on the floor, and several people began to

There are words to read.

"Take a piece of damask from the master's house in your hand, and there are still zeros for one foot and three feet. Twist the left pin three times to increase wealth, and tap the right pin three times to enhance the Imperial Academy..."

Lao Fangtou and Lao Chu were obviously both veterans. They sang the words while performing familiar movements. After singing the words quickly, the two of them called on a few young and strong youths to carry the beams and began to raise the beams.

These young people were all found in advance. In addition to a few people from the construction team, several people from the village had to be arranged to build beams, because the Lin family's house was also decorated with wine. As the head of the family, Lin Dong, the Lin family's

The pillars of support naturally also joined the team of pulling beams.

Old Fangtou took a symbolic sip of Zhuangyuan wine, which means "drink Shangliang wine and live to ninety-nine", then poured the wine on the mortise and tenon holes of the column, and shouted: "Shangliang!"

Several young men began to pull the beams hard, and followed the professional construction team to start the operation. They began to erect the beams in a lively manner. After the beams were stuck in place, some treasures were placed on the beams. The treasures mentioned here are not

Specifically refers to gold and silver jewelry, which can be copper coins or grain bags. Private schools put copper coins, which means that the property at home is safe and will not attract outside thieves.

At this point, the process of raising the beam is over. Next, the old patriarch will come forward on behalf of the village, and Lin Dong will come forward on behalf of the Lin family to start the next process.

The two brought the red paint dustpan that they had prepared early, which was filled with wedding candies and cakes, and even some copper plates tied with red ropes. This was the most anticipated part of the "throwing the beam" that the whole village was looking forward to.

When the firecrackers go off, Lin Dong, the old patriarch and the workers in Shangliang will start throwing things into the crowd, and then everyone will grab them.

"Set off firecrackers and grab profits!"

The old patriarch raised his hoarse voice and threw a handful of profits into the crowd with excitement and joy. Lin Dong followed suit and threw a handful in the direction of the Lin Bei people who were eager to try.

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The children and adults in the village were so happy that they howled loudly. Everyone swarmed on the ground to grab wedding cakes and candies. If you were lucky, you could pick up wedding coins. Jiang Yan looked at Lin Bei and others and joined in the fun. In the fun,

She also stole a lot of things secretly.

With the sound of firecrackers, as the contents of the dustpan were scattered, the lively crowd slowly dispersed. Everyone excitedly counted their trophies, and then walked quickly towards the threshing floor. Today, except for the beam throwing part

, what they are looking forward to even more is today’s banquet.
Chapter completed!