ordinary people, ordinary things
Author: Wang by Qing
forty-six
Wang Wong See ultimately did not Yoshina donors announced out, those donors did not say in the matter, all as Jia Qi might be expected, donors continue to donate money For donations, even Wang Guanhuan's brothers finally participated in the donation process. Although the donation was not much, although it was far from being generous, it was a donation after all. With the joint efforts of all the villagers, the construction of the new school finally officially started half a year later, on the Wushen Day in the fall.
Wushen Day in autumn is the day of pardon. As the saying goes: "Spring is in Wuyin and Xia Jiawu, autumn is in Wushen day. The winter moon is the best, and Blockbuster has a lot of good help." Building a school is a major event for Changxing villagers and one of all villagers in Changxing Village. A good thing, a happy event. Of course, you have to choose an auspicious day when you are doing civil engineering and wedding events. Amnesty Day is a rare auspicious day of the year. The groundbreaking ceremony of
is very simple. There is neither a scene of loud gongs and drums, nor a scene of firecrackers. At a quarter past eight, with Wang Zuohuang’s "good start", Wang Huang saw and other elders wave their hoes. , Bury a cornerstone, and the ceremony is over. Although the
ceremony was simple, it was quite lively. Almost all the villagers and villagers came to the scene to witness this historical moment. After
's simple groundbreaking ceremony, busy labor scenes immediately appeared on the construction site: some were wielding a hoe to excavate the foundation of the wall, some were carrying the soil and running fast, and some were lifting stones with others with a wooden stick...
Wang Jiaqi brought it every day Come to the construction site with his pregnant wife Zhong, and her underage sister Shuzhen. Wang Jiaqi carried nearly two hundred catties of soil around the construction site, sweating profusely, covered with mud, not a bit like in the past, gentle appearance; although his daughter-in-law Zhong is a little bloated, she has no actions. It was so convenient in the past, but she wielded the hoe hard and desperately digs the foundation of the wall; the little Wang Shuzhen used her immature hands to pick up the stones and help the adults send this and the other, without a moment idle. The
project is progressing very fast. After ten days, the foundation works were fully completed; forty days passed, the walls on the first floor were built; on the first day of the new year, all the walls were built.
is a young year, the people of Changxing Village call it "entering the new year frame". From this day on, it’s the New Year. Everyone can’t say bad things. Adults have to be busy frying nuts, steaming glutinous rice dumplings, making rice cakes, grinding tofu, killing new year pigs, and going to Wei town to buy new year. material. In short, the adults in the village will have endless work and unfinished business, which is the busiest period of the busy year. Because they are busy preparing for the New Year, the villagers who go out to make money will go home before this day, no matter how good the money outside is or whether they make money in the year.
Tomorrow will be a small year, and it is also time to "enter the New Year's shelf". People who have been busy building the school for several months have packed up the construction tools they brought and hurried home after building the last mud brick.
Watching the people involved in the construction of the school hurriedly pack their tools and go home, watching the mud brick walls that have not been covered with tiles, Wang Jiaqi's face is clouded with gloom.
According to the Hakka people’s habit of building houses, almost all civil structures are made of stone below the windows on the first floor, or mixed with lime pebbles and sand to ram the walls. After the windows are placed, they start to build. Bricks made of clay. The newly built school is built according to the civil structure, that is to say, the walls above the windows on the first floor are all made of mud bricks. The
mud bricks are made of mud, and after air-drying, they are directly laid on the wall without firing. Because it has not been fired, the mud bricks will slowly melt when exposed to rain, and finally return to their original shape and become mud.
After a small year, the rain will gradually increase. If the newly built school hall is not covered with a tile, the masonry wall may collapse due to rain soaking.
"What to do? What to do?!" Seeing the exposed mud brick wall and seeing people rushing away after packing tools, Wang Huang, who is always paying attention to the progress of the project, shook his head and sighed.
"Dad, the construction of the school has reached the point where it is today. You must not stop, you must work overtime to protect the walls!" Seeing his sad-faced father lamenting, Wang Jiaqi walked to his side and said.
"Look, one by one is busy going home and preparing for the New Year's meal. How can they still have the mind to stay on the construction site! In order to build a school, people in the village hardly have timePrepare for the Lunar New Year. It’s almost the New Year. You can’t let everyone celebrate the ‘La New Year’, right? Ask them to continue to complete the rest of the project, I really can't open this mouth, I really can't open this mouth! Wang Huangjian shook his head and continued to sigh.
Wang Huangjian said that "La Nian" was a common saying of Changxing people. Whether this word is written as "La Nian" or not, no one knows, but everyone Everyone knows that "the twelfth year" means the year when there is no money or enough goods for the new year. When
heard his father's sigh and saw his father shaking his head helplessly, Wang Jiaqi said: "Dad, do you think this will work, our family will postpone A few days to prepare the Chinese New Year's oil fruit and gray water stew, the tofu is delayed until the morning of New Year's Eve to grind. If it doesn’t work, let’s do our family’s New Year goods at night. After all, building a school is much more important than building a home, right? There are still six or seven days before New Year’s Eve. In these limited days, I led a group of young people to work overtime and try to cover all the walls with tiles. "
" There is no problem in our family. The key is whether other young people agree? After all, it's time for the ‘new year’s three nights four’, people are not idle! Wang Huang sighed again when he saw it.
"Three nights and four years" is also the saying of Changxing Village people, meaning that there is not much time left before the New Year.
Wang Huang just landed when he saw it, and Wang Jiaqi immediately responded: "Dad, we You can't ask others what to do, but you can ask what you should do. I will continue to the construction site tomorrow. "
heard his son's words, Wang Huang saw tears in his eyes, and his tone became choked: "So much work, how can you be a man who has never worked as a mason before?" Think of another way! "
" Then I will mobilize Uncle Achang. He is a mason. If he participates, I think it should be possible to protect the wall. "When
said this, Wang Jiaqi's confidence was not very strong. Although Wang Jiaqi's Uncle Achang is a helpful and willing person, after all, he also has his own home and needs to be busy preparing for the new year.
"It's not easy for the Achanggu family, so don't let it happen. "
" Try it, I believe there will always be a way. The people in the village will never let the spring rain in the coming year turn the house that has been working hard for months into a puddle of mud! I'm going to find Uncle Achang, Dad, it's late, so go back! "
Wang Jiaqi comforted the worried old father. After speaking, he immediately left the construction site and walked towards Achanggu's house.
looked at his son who was going away, and Wang Huangjian's face showed a complicated expression.
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