After lunch, Xiang Jin took out the calendar and flipped through it, but the calendar only marked the solar calendar and the lunar calendar, and did not say what days were suitable or inappropriate for doing. So Xiang Jin went to Aunt Liao and asked her where
There is no almanac.
Aunt Liao shook her head, "It's okay. I only have one calendar in my house. It was at the beginning of the year. Your Bingchong dad gave me one, saying it was given to the village cadres from the countryside. He
There were several of them, so I asked him for one, what, why do you want an old almanac?"
Xiang Jin said, "Isn't our house about to be built? I want to check which day this month is suitable for building the beams."
Aunt Liao thought about it and then nodded suddenly, "Hey, yes, yes, yes, pick a good day, but you go ask your grandpa Zeng and others. Last year, I saw that he had an old man there.
Huang Li, your sixth uncle and his family asked him to check their dates last year, maybe they will have them this year too."
Xiang Jin nodded and immediately left the door.
Just after leaving the yard and turning the corner, Xiang Jin saw Han Che and Yan Chen squatting in an open space on the side of the road, burning the clothes they wore yesterday. Han Che greeted her when he saw her, "
Xiang Jin, have your clothes been burned? If not, can you bring them with you?"
Xiang Jin said, "I burned it. I burned it yesterday afternoon."
Han Che said, "We forgot about it yesterday, so we just remembered it and took it out to burn."
Xiang Jin nodded. Yan Chen dropped the stick in his hand and stood up. He looked at Xiang Jin and asked, "Is something wrong?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "A little bit, but it's not that important. Is Grandpa Zeng at home?"
Yan Chen nodded slightly and said, "At home."
Xiang Jin pointed in the direction of their home, "Then you burn slowly, I'll go in first."
"Okay," Yan Chen knelt down again, picked up the stick he had just thrown away, and fiddled with the clothes that had not yet been burned out twice to make them burn more thoroughly.
As soon as Xiang Jin arrived at their place, Grandpa Zeng stood on the street eaves, looked at her and asked with a smile, "Girl Jin, what do you want to see me for?"
"Grandpa Zeng, did you hear that?" Xiang Jin was startled and then asked.
Mr. Zeng nodded, "I heard you when you were talking to Mr. Yan and the others just now."
Xiang Jin nodded and asked, "Grandpa Zeng, does your family have an almanac?"
"Is it because the house needs to be roofed?" Grandpa Zeng asked.
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, my grandma said that our house has about a week left, so the bricks should be put in place, and then it's time to put up the beams and roof tiles. She said that we have to choose an auspicious day for the beams.
But our family doesn’t have the old almanac, so Aunt Liao asked me to ask if your family has it.”
Grandpa Zeng nodded, "This is a very particular thing in rural areas. You come in first and I will check it out for you."
Then the two of them entered the house. Grandma Mo poured a glass of water for Xiang Jin. Xiang Jin thanked her and took a sip. Grandma Mo sat next to her and looked at her and asked with a smile, "Is the house going to be built? I just said
I heard you talking to your grandpa Zeng in the house."
The corners of Xiang Jin's lips raised, "It seems so."
Grandma Mo nodded, "It's a good thing," she followed with some reluctance, "But when you move to Huangye Bay, it will be deserted here."
"Yes, we really can't bear to leave you and Aunt Liao, but it's okay, we will come here often to visit you," Xiang Jin sighed immediately, and also comforted her.
"Oh, we are all in the same bay. It's just that we are a little far away when we visit each other. It's not like we can't meet each other. What's there to sigh about?" Grandpa Zeng took out an old almanac from the back room and happened to listen.
When it comes to talking to her mother, just say.
Grandma Mo said, "You bad old man, you speak so harshly. The thing I was most uncomfortable with when I saw you was you. You are such a treacherous person. If you can't eat the delicious food cooked by Jin Yatou every now and then, you won't be allowed to come here."
Are you complaining in front of me?"
Grandpa Zeng was stunned immediately, and then smiled helplessly, "Okay, okay, I'm not used to it, and I'm not used to it either."
Seeing the two of them bickering, Xiang Jin couldn't help but laugh, and then said, "Thanks to Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo, you don't mind, but if you have anything you want to eat in the future, you can tell me and I'll make it."
Okay, I’ll deliver it to you, it’s not that far anyway, it’s only a few minutes or ten minutes at most.”
Grandpa Zeng said, "This is good, this is good."
Grandma Mo slapped Grandpa Zeng and said, "Hurry up and watch the day, are you really rude?"
"Oh, okay, okay," Grandpa Zeng quickly picked up the old almanac and started reading it carefully.
After a while, he said, "There are still several days in August that are suitable for Liang Liang." After that, he turned the book to Xiang Jin to read.
Xiang Jin saw that the days on the 2nd, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 22nd, 24th, 25th, and 28th were suitable for going to the Liang.
Grandma Mo also saw it and said, "But the 2nd, 5th, and 6th numbers have all passed, leaving only the 9th, 10th, 22nd, 24th, 25th, and 2nd numbers."
How many days has it been since the 18th?
But today is the 8th, and it will take about a week for the brick in their house to be put away, so the 9th and 10th will definitely not work, so don’t they mean that there are only the last few days left?"
Grandpa Zeng nodded, "Yes, there are only four days left: the 22nd, the 24th, the 25th, and the 28th, but the 28th happens to be the day of China."
The Lantern Festival falls on the half of the seventh month, so this day cannot be used and must be removed."
Xiang Jin decided directly, "Then just pick one of the three days: the 22nd, the 24th, and the 25th."
Then at this moment, Han Che and Yan Chen came in one after another after burning their clothes. Han Che said, "Xiang Jin, just choose number 22. I also want to eat yours."
I'm going back after the wedding ceremony. If it's too late, I probably won't be able to make it."
Yan Chen turned to look at him with a frown, "Are you still going back that late?"
Han Che said, "Of course, Xiang Jin is my friend after all. I will definitely congratulate them when they build a house. Why, aren't you happy if I stay here for a few more days?"
Yan Chen said, "That's not true."
Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng also denied it respectively. Grandma Mo said, "You live in my grandparents' house for a long time, and my grandparents are very happy."
Han Che immediately raised his brows, his eyes narrowed into slits with a smile, "I knew my grandpa and grandma liked me," after saying that, he raised his eyebrows provocatively at Yan Chen.
Yan Chen glanced at him angrily.
Han Che quickly turned his attention to Xiang Jin. When he saw Xiang Jin, he smiled at him and said, "Thank you, thank you! Okay, let's make it on the 22nd."
"Yeah!" Han Che immediately gestured with scissors happily.
But before he was overjoyed, he heard Yan Chen say, "You just set the date so hastily?"
Xiang Jin heard what he meant, so he asked, "Is there anything more important?"
Yan Chen nodded, "It's really important, why don't you know?"
Xiang Jin shook his head, "I don't know."
Yan Chen said, "I thought you should know some of the customs in the countryside?"
Xiang Jin was stunned.
Then Yan Chen said, "I have read in a book before that the choice of auspicious days for building houses in rural areas not only depends on whether the day itself is auspicious or not, but also whether your family members' birth dates fall on that day.
Offense.
It may be that the day itself is indeed a good day, but it may not be a suitable day for your family to do things, so you have to choose a day that is suitable for everyone in your family.
Moreover, the choice of this beam loading time point is also very particular. It is not suitable for all times of the day, it is only suitable for a specific time point of that day.
For example, some are suitable at eleven or twelve o'clock in the morning, some are suitable at one or two o'clock in the afternoon, some are suitable at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and some may be at five or six o'clock."
"Ah? There are so many details?" Xiang Jin looked at Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng with a surprised expression.
Han Che also said, "I'll go, it's so complicated."
The two old men nodded, "There are indeed such things to pay attention to."
Xiang Jin said to himself there, "Then which day and time is suitable for our family? If it doesn't work on these days, it should be postponed to September, right?"
Grandma Mo said, "At that time, you can go to the town to find that blind man Wang to help you calculate."
"Blind Wang?" Xiang Jin asked thoughtfully.
Grandma Mo nodded, "Well, Blind Man Wang, he is a famous divine fortune teller here. As long as you tell him your birth date, he can calculate your fortune and fortune in this life. It is very effective."
, many people here come to him to calculate their dates.
The money he charges isn't much, and it's up to the customers to give it to them. A few cents is fine, a few yuan is fine, it all depends on what they want, but many people give one yuan, two yuan, and some give three or four yuan.
Yes, but this is rare."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Oh, is he in town every day?"
Grandma Mo shook her head, "I don't know much about this."
Grandpa Zeng said, "Usually we go to the street on the spot. Just over Heping Road, his stall is next to a shop called 'Liaoji Chaoshou'. Go check it out. It's easy to find. There's about
He is about the same age as us, an old man with a white beard, wearing sunglasses, and a long navy blue coat all year round."
"Oh, okay," Xiang Jin nodded, then thanked him and got up to go home.
But while she was walking on the road, she was thinking about another thing, that is, hearing how much Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng praised him, it seems that Blind Wang is still a very powerful person, but she doesn't know if she goes to find him, what will happen to him?
Will we realize that she is a migrant by then? What should we do if she then says she has left?
Xiang Jin was a little confused and a little guilty.