When he thought of this, Wan Feng felt a little proud. It was a pleasant thing to watch others return to the right path from the wrong path.

Why not just save the underworld in this lifetime?

This thought suddenly popped into my mind.

If I could turn these social scoundrels into decent people, it would be a huge contribution to the country. Not only would it save countless public security funds, but it would also eliminate many harmful factors in society. What a glorious mission this is...

"Hey! What are you thinking about?"

When Wan Feng was daydreaming, he heard a woman's voice in his ears. He looked up and saw Chen Wenxin standing in front of him, bending over with her hands on her knees and looking at him.

"I miss you."

"Bah! No one would believe that."

"Who's home in your house?"

"No one is home. My dad hasn't finished work, and I don't know where my brother went crazy."

"Where's your mother?"

"I went to do the laundry."

"Go to your house and take a look."

Chen Wenxin was a little flustered: "There's no one at home."

"You are not a human being. Take me to see your doghouse."

Chen Wenxin had a premonition that if she brought this fake gangster to her house, he might become a real gangster, so she cruelly refused.

Although deep down she really wanted Wan Feng to be a bit of a hooligan to her.

Since Chen Wenxin didn't give him the opportunity to act like a hooligan, Wan Feng just had to go down the mountain to Luan Feng's house to see if there was any chance for him to act like a hooligan.

It seems like it has been a long time since I last had an intimate relationship with Luan Feng, and some needs cannot be suppressed.

After a day and a night of hardening, the floor of Luan Feng's house could already bear the weight of people. Wan Feng walked around in the house, rubbing the wall with his hands from time to time, knocking on the glass, and pushing the door between the rooms.

Luan Feng followed Wan Feng with a red face, because the bad guy was secretly touching her butt while rubbing the wall, knocking on the glass and pushing the door.

This made her feel very angry.

But even though the fire was raging, the two could only pretend to keep their distance.

"We can move in tomorrow afternoon. I'll ask Zhang Hai for two more people. I estimate it will take an hour or two to finish moving."

"No need to find anyone, maybe. I have six or seven people here and can move it all by myself."

That's fine. The sewing machine is not a very heavy thing. It's just that the cloth is heavier. Luan Feng has eight people here, plus his own manpower, which is enough.

Now we are just waiting for the beam raising tomorrow, and I don’t know how the preparations are going at Jiang Li’s house.

No, I still have to communicate with Jiang Li.

Wan Feng hurriedly said that he was going to the brick factory and hurried out of Luan Feng's house and headed straight for the brick factory, which could be regarded as diverting the boiling fire in his heart.

"How's everything going at home? Don't forget to scavenge for something tomorrow and then have nowhere to buy anything."

The two of them compared them one by one, and when they came to firecrackers, Wan Feng raised a question.

"Gangtou? This is too small. I have to buy a medium whip at least."

In the 1980s, the whip was the biggest whip.

"There's a harbor in our brigade store."

This place is not far from Gushan, so we can save money on a few strings of firecrackers.

"Forget it, I'll arrange this tomorrow. Prepare a few more tables for tomorrow so that there won't be too many people and it will be embarrassing."

"The chef prepared seven extra tables, which should be enough."

Wan Feng calculated the number of households and population behind the depression and felt that it was about right.

Although Wan Feng was not very satisfied with the firecrackers, the rest of the Jiang family's preparations were pretty good.

Now we just have to wait for the auspicious day tomorrow.

The next morning, Wan Feng got up early and ran to the brick factory to give Xiao Jun ten yuan, asking him to buy eight plates of whips from the general store when he returned from the county town.

The length of a whip in one set is only about five meters, so if you hang it in front and back, it will take at least eight sets.

The tractor delivering bricks today set off more than half an hour earlier than usual in order to return early in time for the lunch drink.

Zhang Hai is the natural helper today, and he is currently holding an emergency meeting.

"Today is the beam-raising ceremony for Zhu Yan's new house, so we won't be working this morning. The men will go borrow tables. We need to borrow sixty tables, and Jiang En will help pull them to the yard. The women who have connections can help with some plate-playing or something, and those who don't have connections with the Jiang family can do whatever they need to do. Then we can disperse."

In the 1980s, there were no sets of chairs, plates, bowls, etc. for rent. If anyone wanted to have something to do, they had to go door to door in the village to borrow a table, the kind that kang tables are made for. This was a very critical procedure for getting things done. If there was no table, you would have to eat on the floor.

The person who led the team to borrow the tables was Zhu Ping, who went to borrow the tables with a group of young people in Wahou with high spirits.

As the assistant, Zhang Hai was supposed to be in charge of the yard, so after the arrangements were completed, he and Wan Feng walked towards Xiaonan Mountain.

"The commune has agreed to our request. The commune construction team will withdraw tomorrow. The rest is up to us."

"What about the labor cost?" This is the main problem. If I don't pay, I will lose my wife as well.

"After deducting the portion spent by the commune's construction team, there's still 12,000 yuan left for labor costs. The commune will give us the money in the next two days."

There are so many more!

At the time, the wages of skilled workers were one yuan a day and unskilled workers were sixty cents a day. Assuming a construction team of sixty people, with skilled and unskilled workers split equally, the team's daily wages would be forty-eight yuan, enough to last for more than two hundred days. No wonder Xue Jianguo and his team were slacking off.

Now that the money is in their hands, such things as slacking off will definitely not happen again.

"Can you find someone from the First Construction Company?"

"What are you talking about? Do you think I can pat my chest if I can't find it?"

As they were talking, they arrived at the yard on the top of South Mountain.

It was a little after seven in the morning, and quite a few people had already gathered in the yard. In addition to the carpenters and masons, the chef had also arrived and was building an open-air stove. A large horse-drawn carriage was unloading various cooking ingredients.

On the door of the new house, two women, one holding a small basin of paste and the other holding couplets, were pasting them.

I don’t know who wrote the couplet. The font doesn’t look very beautiful, but the literal meaning is very impressive.

The first line is: Stand tall like an iron-boned pillar;

The second line is: Build a long-lived steel beam.

Horizontal banner: Good luck in raising the beam.

This couplet is only suitable for modern times. If it were used in ancient times, the two words "Long live" would be enough to cause a five-minute beheading.

In the middle of the house, the main beam had been cleaned by Mr. Wang and painted with dragons and phoenixes.

At this time, a piece of green dragon cloth was placed in the middle of the main beam, and big red cloth was tied at both ends and was being hoisted under the command of Grandpa Wang. It was to be hoisted to one meter below the upper beam position. When the auspicious time arrived, the owner offered sacrifices to heaven and earth, the carpenter sang the beam-raising song, and then it was pulled to the designated position and fixed when firecrackers sounded.

A horizontal plaque was also posted at the location where the main beam was scheduled to be installed, with four large characters written on it: Taigong is here!

This is the basic procedure for raising beams in rural areas.