During the summer vacation of the first year, the Leaf family renovated the house.
All eight main rooms were picked up, and the yard was a mess. Mom and Dad Yang Hui moved and carried the courtyard again and again.
The job of distributing leaves is to scrape bricks. The bricks ripped off from the old house were covered with thick white ash. The leaves should be scraped clean of the white ash on the bricks with a machete. Only a few pieces were scraped, and the leaves were ground on the hands; a few more pieces came down, and the bubbles were worn out. The leaf was so angry that he fell a brick and almost hit his foot. I haven't worked for a year, how can I be so delicate.
"Oh, my stupid leaf, don't wear a pair of gloves, and aren't afraid to grind your hands!" Lee Bright, give the gloves to the leaves! I saw that Lady Quanfu was wearing a towel on her head, holding a small stool in one hand and a small machete in the other, and walked over, followed by Li Liangming and Er Liang.
Li Liangming threw his gloves on the brick in front of the leaf, took two steps across a pile of something, and went looking for Yang Hui.
Lady Quanfu put down the stool next to the leaves, sat down with her back, and began to scrape the bricks sharply.
The leaf picked up the gloves and put them on, scraped them again, and sure enough, they didn't grind their hands.
Li Mingming's family renovated the house two years ago. Uncle Quanfu also organized several people who built houses for his family to set up a work team to build houses for people. Ye Zi Dad invited Uncle Quanfu's work team, and Ye Zi Dad said to Uncle Quanfu, "Just build exactly the same as your family." ”
After digging the foundation, tamping the soil, beating the beams with stones, and pouring it out with reinforced concrete, Uncle Quanfu confidently said: "This bottom building is more than enough!" Yang Hui didn't have to move in his hand. ”
Within a few days, the eight-room red-brick house had begun to take shape.
People in the village always like to build more bricks than neighbors when building houses, and they can't see more on their faces, and they will feel that they are tall.
At night, Ye Zi's mother muttered that she wanted to cover one more brick. Ye Zi's father scolded: "Lard is blindfolded!" Can't see quan fu brother to build our house than his family are more careful, when I said exactly the same cover on the line! ”
Ye Zi's mother said nothing more, and went to fold the yellow paper that she would use to use tomorrow's beam.
In the village, the upper beam is a more solemn thing than the groundbreaking.
In the morning, Ye Zi ma put the table in the center of the yard, on which was placed an incense burner, five fruits and steamed noodles of pork noodles and sheep. Under the table was an old enamel basin. When the workers and the relatives and friends who helped them almost arrived, Lady Quanfu asked Yang Hui and Li Mingliang to put firecrackers on the street and wait.
Ye Zi's mother put a red turban on her head, knelt reverently at the table, folded her hands, recited the words in her mouth, and then prayed three times. Light three sticks of incense, hold them high, bow them three times, and insert them into the incense burner. He took out the yellow paper pressed under the incense burner, lit it, lit it, and put it in the basin under the table. With both hands, Ye Zi Dad took the wine cup and handed it over, Ye Zi Dad steadily poured the wine, Ye Zi Mom poured it on the yellow paper that was about to burn out, and the basin immediately burst into a light blue flame. Three cups of wine went down, and Ye Zi's mother prostrated herself deeply.
Quanfu Da Niang made a gesture, and the deafening sound of firecrackers "crackled". Uncle Quanfu roared "Shangliang ~~~", and a pine beam with a red cloth thicker than the waist was slowly lifted by people...
Mother YeZi and the aunts began to prepare lunch methodically. After going to the beam, I want to invite all the workers and the relatives and friends who helped to have a friendly and delicious meal. Last night, Ye Zi's mother broke her hand and counted, estimating that she had to set up four tables.
Leaf is responsible for running errands, what is missing, or buying or borrowing, it is all her business.
The men went out of the room, and the leaves were dried in two large basins of water for people to wash their hands and face.
Ye Zi's father took people to the doorway of Uncle Quanfu's house to rest. There were four sets of tables and stools, each with a plate of peanut and fruit candy and a plate of cigarettes. Ye Zi's father lit it to people one by one.
Ye Zi ran over to her father and asked, "Mom asks, set the table, right?" ”
Ye Zi Dad took a deep breath of the cigarette and spat it out again: "Let people finish this cigarette." ”
Leaf ran over to tell her mother.
Lady Quanfu said, "Swing it, when it's set, they'll be done." ”
Leaves and Erliang transported vegetables over a plate in one hand. Four meats and four vegetarians, staggered into a circle. Ye Zi set up a pair of chopsticks on a table, Erliang put a wine cup on the side of each pair of chopsticks, and the wine bottle was placed in the middle of the table.
Ye Zi's father saw that the table was laid out, stood up, made an invitation with one hand, and supported the people around him with the other: "Third uncle, Quanfu brother, Brother Wang, brother, brother, brother, come and come, eat first!" ”
After a while, Ye Zi's mother personally brought hot dishes to greet people to eat well, and Ye Zi's father toasted one by one.
Large pots of stew were served, and large bowls of noodles were served. The kitchen bowls were not enough, and the leaves quickly removed the unused bowls on the table and washed them for later.
People who were full of food began to get off the table and crouched to the side to smoke. Ye Zi's mother rushed to the table again to greet people: "Things are simple, but they have to be full." ”
Yang Hui and Li Liangming had just eaten at the table, and they did not dare to blatantly smoke in front of their parents and help Ye Zi and Er Liang clean up the table together.
The leaves will feed the dogs by putting what they can still eat in a basin, and pouring them into a bucket where they can no longer eat. The bowls in the plate are stacked and the chopsticks are placed together.
Li Mingliang pulled out a wooden tray from his home and transported it back to the kitchen twice.
In the kitchen, the small wooden table was cleaned up, and several plates of dishes were laid out, and the aunts and ladies each carried a bowl of noodles and ate while talking.
Lady Quanfu asked, "Who wants to face it?" ”
Ye Zi's mother snatched the fence from her hand: "Eat quickly and go, I am alone." ”
Lady Quanfu said, "Quick, Ye Zi also quickly sat down and took a bite." The windmill turned like a day, without a break. ”
Ye Zi wanted to help her mother cook noodles, and her mother waved her hand to let her eat, and asked: "Erliang, is there a meal?" ”
The third lady smiled and said, "Erliang still eats with greetings?" I'm full while holding it. ”
Erliang was not annoyed, and said with a smile: "I am not full, I can still slip and sew again." ”
It made everyone laugh.