Chapter 1099: Does koi bring blessing or disaster (51)
On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, which was the day set for the start of construction, Zhou Hua and Luo Genshan took some villagers from Weishan Village to the top of the mountain temple early in the morning.
The first step in reconstruction is to obtain materials.
Wood is not difficult to find. There are many suitable trees around the mountain temple. However, freshly cut wood cannot be used directly and needs to be dried and treated with anti-corrosion and moth-proofing.
Today we are here to harvest wood.
We built it together, spent money and effort together, and people from every village came to work.
It is not necessary to pass through Weishan Village to get to the Shanshen Temple from each village, so it is decided that all people will go directly to the Shanshen Temple and will not meet at Weishan Village.
Not long after the people from Weishan Village arrived, people from other villages came one after another.
People from other villages came up and saw Yuhua walking around in the mountain temple, and they all stared at her a few more times.
"Why is there a woman here? Can a woman chop wood?"
"I'm here to be a cook, right?"
"Why don't you bring your own dry food? If you don't cook, why would you need a cook?"
"Why don't you need it? You have to give me hot water to drink. It's a woman's job to boil hot water."
The people in Weishan Village heard this and quickly interrupted these people, "What are you talking about? This is Huali Zheng in our Weishan Village."
"Tie Zhu, is she really the girl in your village?" Some people have heard that Weishan Village selected a girl, but Zihua is too young to be sure.
Liu Tiezhu's loud voice lit up, "That's not true. Didn't your village send people to learn Kaiyun Boxing? Kaiyun Boxing was passed down to us by Hua Lizheng."
"It's really amazing. I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to be a female general in the previous dynasty."
Some people were amazed, while others were indignant, "Isn't this nonsense? Why did you choose a woman to be the official in Weishan Village?"
"This makes sense. As the old saying goes, the man is the master of the house and the woman is the master of the house. How can a woman be the right one?"
"What I'm saying is that if a woman can't even enter the ancestral hall, how can she be an official? The rules left by our ancestors cannot be broken."
When Liu Tiezhu took a look, the leader said that it was Ma Erping from Shangpo Village who was doing this. He got angry and said, "Who do I think it is? It turns out to be the Ma family from Shangpo Village who are 'respectable'. If you are not convinced, don't come. Mountain God is not like everyone."
bless."
As soon as these words came out, the people Ying and Ma Erping fell silent.
The surname Ma in Shangpo Village is a popular surname.
The surname Ma was not originally Ma. More than two hundred years ago, a group of people wearing foreign clothes settled in Shangpo Village from the north and changed their surname to Ma.
Eight years ago, bandits burned and killed people in Shangpo Village. Most of the men with the surname Ma escaped, not because they were strong, but because people with other surnames looked after their wives and children first when they ran away, while people with the surname Ma escaped.
He immediately abandoned his wife and daughter and ran into the depths to hide.
Their wives, daughters, and their wives were all captured alive by bandits.
People from ten miles and eight villages looked down upon these people with the surname Ma. When they mentioned this, they always mocked them for being "proper" Ma family members.
After a man named Ma survived, the first thing he did was to get another wife.
No one in the surrounding villages was willing to marry their daughter to them, and no serious matchmaker wanted to see them.
"Why are the Ma family here too? Don't they not believe in the mountain god?"
"Isn't this obvious? I want to learn boxing and carpentry skills in vain."
Why are these people willing to bring their own dry food to build mountain temples? In addition to worshiping the mountain god, they also want to learn some carpentry skills.
The carpentry craftsmanship of Mount Logan is famously good. If you can learn two or three points from it and make ordinary household items, you will benefit from it for the rest of your life.
These discussions and quarrels about her were all within Zihua's expectation.
At a time when people's wisdom was still unclear, Zihua had no intention of arguing with these people. She used the most direct method and chopped them down with an axe.
"Bang!"
A loud sound of chopping wood attracted everyone's attention.
It was a man in front of the mountain temple who was chopping down a thick tree with an axe.
The person who cut down the tree was none other than Nv Lizheng from Weishan Village.
The big tree then made a cracking sound, and the tree fell to one side.
"Hiss!" Many people gasped.
Living in the mountains, no one has ever cut down wood, not only big trees, but also branches used for firewood. It is difficult for them to chop down a tree as thick as a bowl with an axe. They cannot chop down a tree as thick as the arms.
arrive.
"Bang!" The big tree fell down suddenly.
Zihua dropped the ax, stepped forward, grabbed the trunk of the fallen tree, and lifted the trunk up.
"Hiss—" Everyone gasped.
This, this, how can a human being do this!
Although the crown of this big tree is not very big, it is ten meters high and weighs at least a thousand kilograms. To be honest, it can weigh up to two thousand kilograms. It was just like this that Nuli was lifted up and carried.
Unless they saw it with their own eyes, they wouldn't believe it.
It wasn't over yet, I saw Nuli carrying a big tree towards the half-collapsed side hall, her steps were relaxed, as if there was nothing on her shoulders.
When they arrived at the side hall, Nuli was lifting the big tree she was carrying and throwing it up. The tree was thrown to the wall of the side hall that had not fallen down, and it stood leaning against the wall.
This, this, this, only divine power can make sense.
Everyone looked at Yuhua again with awe.
No one says that women can't be upright anymore.
The people in Weishan Village became more proud and told the people in other villages, "We, Huali Zheng, are disciples of the Mountain God, otherwise where would her magical power come from."
The power that Yuhua displayed was so powerful that people couldn't help but believe it.
"Everyone needs to register first and make a list. Every time they come here, they will be recorded in the book. After the temple is built, each person's contribution will be engraved on the merit monument," said Yuhua.
Just now it was power, now it is grace.
People in this era attach great importance to their posthumous reputation, sometimes even more than their lives.
The construction project of the mountain temple was her master's lifelong wish, and she didn't want anyone to hinder it. Well, prestige was necessary.
On the other hand, she made a very interesting new discovery. As a "disciple of the mountain god", she confirmed that the mountain god existed, which helped her to observe the development of this discovery.
Everyone's faces were full of surprise. They didn't expect that their names would have the opportunity to be engraved on the merit monument.
A good reputation will spread to future generations to some extent.
"Masa Hanari, are you telling the truth?"
Zihua nodded slightly, "The merit monument will be erected in the side hall. The names of those who donated money and participated in the construction will be engraved on the monument."
There was instant joy.
"However." Zi Hua glanced at everyone, "If anyone disobeys Master Luo's arrangements and delays the construction, his or her name will be crossed out."
Everyone responded, "We will definitely listen to Master Luo's arrangements and will never hold back."
A man walked out of the mountain temple and called to everyone, "Anyone who comes to build a temple should first go to the mountain god and bow three times. After bowing, come to me to register."
"Yes, you have to pay homage to the mountain god first."
"Of course those who don't believe in the mountain god can't put up a monument."
Some people looked at Ma Erping and four people named Ma.