Early the next morning, Sanbao got Li Yun up and walked out the door, where they saw many villagers coming to help.

Raising the beam is a big day. Manager Cui prepared the necessary things early in the morning. The time for raising the beam is Chenshi, which is eight o'clock in the morning.

The process of raising a beam is divided into the house beam, the time of raising the beam, the ceremony of raising the beam and the blessing speech for raising the beam.

The beams of the house are very important and locust wood cannot be used because locust wood without the “tree” in it means ghost.

You cannot use catalpa wood because it carries fire.

Generally, Chinese toon wood is used, and the Chinese toon tree is known as the "king of trees".

Li Yun used Chinese toon wood.

Li Yun followed his family to the new house.

Manager Cui set up the altar early in the morning, and placed pigs, chickens, goose eggs, tofu, incense sticks, etc. on it.

The time for raising the beam had arrived, and Manager Cui ordered people to set off firecrackers.

After setting off the firecrackers, he had Xu Kun and Lu Shao carry the Chinese toon wood onto the roof. While laying it flat, he shouted, "Go! Good luck!"

After putting the Chinese toon wood in place, Li Yun asked An Yi and An Er to move the "colorful bags of grains" given by Ma Youcai and Shangguan Feiyun to the roof and place them in the middle of the beam, symbolizing a good harvest, and hang red cloth on the beam.

Lu Shao wrapped the fruits and food in red cloth, and threw the red envelope into his master's basket while saying nice things.

Li Yun took the red envelope, and Lu Shao scattered candies, peanuts, and copper coins around, implying that money would roll in.

In the final segment, Liang Zhu's lyrics were performed.

Li Yun and his family listened to the village chief's blessing speech: "Today is a sunny day, let's put up the beam. The master is building a beautiful hall in the east, and the hall is built on the dragon's mouth. Let's all work together to put up the beam. One step up, you will become a prime minister; two steps up, two phoenixes will face the sun; three steps up, you will pass the imperial examination; four steps up, you will make a fortune in all four seasons; five steps up, you will have a good harvest..." The village chief recited the blessing speech fluently. Li Yun didn't understand it, but he knew that he was praying for the foundation to be stable and the owner's family to be safe and prosperous.

After the beam raising was completed, Manager Cui greeted the villagers and Ma Youcai, and Shangguan Feiyun went to have a banquet. Since Ouyang Mingxuan did not come back, he did not come to raise the beam.

Yes, a banquet should be set up when the beam is raised.

After the villagers have eaten and drunk their fill, they leave.

Li Yun took his family to see the house. It will be completed in a few days. Tomorrow he will ask An Yi and others to install the water pipes and electrical wires.

The next day, the village chief notified the villagers to hold a meeting in the ancestral hall.

Outside the ancestral hall, many women were discussing the Shangliang wine they had yesterday.

In the ancestral hall, the villagers were also waiting for the village chief to come and announce the purpose of today's meeting.

"The village chief is here, the clan leaders are here!" The village chief's eldest son saw his father and the clan leaders coming and reminded everyone loudly.

The ancestral hall suddenly fell silent, waiting for the village chief to come.

The village chief and clan leaders entered the ancestral hall, stood under the gods, and looked at the villagers opposite.

"Dear villagers, I called you here today to announce a good news.

This news will be good news for the children of our Qingshan Village. It will give them the opportunity to leave the countryside in the future. It will also be an opportunity for our Qingshan Village to become famous and make people from all over the country envy us for being villagers of Qingshan Village. It will also affect future generations, making girls from other villages scramble to marry into our village, and boys from other villages scramble to marry girls from our village. Are you excited to hear this news?

"Do you want to know what good news it is?" the village chief said to the villagers opposite him incoherently with joy.

"Village Chief, what's the good news?

Stop being so mysterious and tell us.

"We already have the curved pear, the hoe, the rice-throwing tray, and the waterwheel in our village. Could it be that Chen Ye's family has come up with some amazing farm tools that we need to buy?" Aunt Hong's son asked the village chief anxiously.

Early this morning, I was going to the town to sell bean sprouts, but was stopped by the village chief's eldest son. He said that there would be a village meeting today to announce a good news, so he had no choice but to let his wife, mother, and father go to sell bean sprouts.

He wanted to finish the meeting early and go to town to help.

Buy one of Li Yun's curved plows and give one to Qingshan Village for free. The same goes for harrows. Buy two water wheels and give one for free. Each rice seedling tray is two cents cheaper.

"It's not about buying farm tools, this news is really inseparable from Li Yatou.

Here's what happened. The day before yesterday, Miss Li came to me and told me that she wanted to build two academies in Qingshan Village.

One is a boys' academy for those preparing for the imperial examinations.

The other is a girls' academy where students learn music, chess, calligraphy, painting, etiquette and some basic math.

Guess what the girl said? "The village chief simply told the villagers what Li Yun had said to her, but left out the most important thing, leaving the villagers to guess.

"Village Chief, what did Chen Ye's family say?

Are we supposed to donate money to build it?" When the villagers heard that they were going to build an academy, some were happy and some were worried.

What makes me happy is knowing that my son (grandson) can read and write, and maybe he will be able to pass the imperial examination in the future.

What worried them was that building the academy would cost a lot of money, and they were all farmers, so they had basically no extra money.

The village chief shook his head.

"Do you want us to help build the academy? If so, I agree. For the sake of the children's future, we should contribute a little."

Lin Chang shook his head again.

"Do we need to pay tuition? How much should we pay? We can't afford it if it's too much."

The village chief still shook his head.

“This is not it, that is not it, what is it?

"Village chief, please hurry up and stop keeping us in suspense. We are so anxious!"

"Yes, yes, Village Chief, please speak quickly."

“Is that so?

Besides, why waste time here? We still have work to do."

"Yes, we are not your worms, how would we know? If you don't tell us, we will leave."

"Dear villagers, please be quiet. Since you asked me to speak, I will tell you all." The village chief stopped here, looked at the nervous expressions of the villagers opposite him, and spoke again.

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