Chapter 804

As Shang Tianbao couldn't help but let out a muffled groan, he finally understood what Wang Shuai meant by "humiliation."

Although he understood the meaning of those words, at this moment, Shang Tianbao had completely fallen into deep despair.

The main thing is that for a proper, upright man, this kind of thing is absolutely a disgrace that can never be washed away in a lifetime!

Yet this kind of disgrace kept happening one after another.

Finally, after a very, very long time, everything was over!

And Comrade Shang Tianbao remained kneeling and slumped beside the squat toilet, his face pressed tightly against the cold cement floor.

Only now, there was no longer any color in Shang Tianbao's two large eyes; his whole person looked ashen, as if he no longer held any hope for his future life.

Even the smell of urine constantly wafting out from the toilet pit could no longer affect Shang Tianbao in the slightest; he just knelt there straight and stiff, not moving an inch.

Yet the people in the fenced-off area had no reaction to this scene at all; from beginning to end, there wasn't even anyone watching the spectacle.

The coldness of human nature in this room could be said to have been displayed to the fullest by this group of people.

In the blink of an eye, three days had passed.

However, these three days had caused a huge change in Shang Tianbao.

At this time, Shang Tianbao's hair was messy, his eyes were dull, his beard was stubbly, and he was unkempt; he looked just like a numb fool, lying blankly on the bed closest to the toilet.

As for why he was lying down instead of sitting, those who knew the inside story understood at a glance.

Because Shang Tianbao's clothes and pants were covered in dotted, wrinkled traces of some kind, looking like dried nasal mucus.

Not only that, but the bloodstains that had already solidified into black on his pants seemed to prove something as well.

In short, over these three days, the clean and neat Comrade Shang Tianbao had definitely experienced inhuman torture and blows, and it had truly ruined this originally spirited young man until he was no longer human!

It must be said that if a person loses restraint, they will definitely lose their humanity, and then they damn well can't be called human anymore; they are simply worse than beasts.

Shang Tianbao, who was originally a perfectly fine person, was completely ruined!!!

And during these three days, the Shang family had been sending people to DJ County, wanting to take Shang Tianbao back to Bingcheng, and the people who came were of higher rank each time.

However, there is a saying that goes well: "A strong dragon cannot suppress a local snake."

What's more, Wu Dong, Wang Shuai, and the others couldn't be considered snakes at all; accurately speaking, they should be considered tigers—and tigers with wings at that.

There is a phrase called "like a tiger with wings," which refers to the fact that if a king of beasts like a tiger grows wings, it is an invincible existence; therefore, one can imagine how these two groups of people must have fought.

So, all these people who came returned without success without exception.

And as these people returned empty-handed, the conflict between the two major local groups escalated directly; except for not using force, all kinds of overt and covert methods had been used.

This point could be seen from the frequent personnel changes in various departments.

As for Sun Xianghuo, he had already become the first batch of cannon fodder and returned to Bingcheng to accept investigation; a comeback was definitely unlikely, and as for whether he could remain in one piece, it all depended on God's will.

However, there was also one piece of good news: the person taking over for Sun Xianghuo was none other than Wang An's sworn elder sister, Comrade Zhang Shuya.

With the boss of Bingcheng, Zhang Siyuan, holding things down there, Zhang Shuya's position was very stable.

Another thing was that although Sun Xianghuo had been dismissed, as Sun Xianghuo's daughter, the great beauty Sun Nian, because she was protected by her good sister Zhang Shuya, did not suffer any involvement. However, to avoid being affected by the war again, Zhang Shuya still asked her father, Zhang Siyuan, to help transfer Sun Nian from Bingcheng to DJ County.

It could be seen that Sun Nian, the originally carefree beauty, had become much more haggard because of the sudden change in her father, and she even had a "sickly beauty" vibe about her.

Of course, no matter what changes were happening in the outside world, they could not affect Wang An, who was in the deep mountains and old forests.

After so many days of drying, the roof beam of Wang An's house could finally be raised.

Raising the beam means setting the triangular beam on the roof.

Therefore, Wang Dazhu also found a feng shui master to calculate an auspicious time for raising the beam, and this auspicious time was set for the Si hour of the morning, which is the time between 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM.

So, just past 9:00, Wang An, Wang Li, Mu Xueli, and others lit the "er-ti-jiao" (a type of firecracker) they had prepared in advance at the corners of every house.

In Heilongjiang, building a house is different from starting construction; when starting construction, both small firecrackers and er-ti-jiao are set off, and "ma-lei-zi" (large firecrackers) can also be set off.

But for raising the beam, no small firecrackers or ma-lei-zi are set off, only er-ti-jiao.

Because raising the beam itself means going up, setting off firecrackers on the ground has a bad connotation.

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Of course, these are all superstitious sayings, and many people don't think so.

Because setting off firecrackers is just to hear a sound and for good luck, and setting off firecrackers has no direct connection to building a house.

After the er-ti-jiao went off, a group of people lifted the large frame and walked toward the house.

When they reached the foot of the house wall, five or six people each used a pole about 3.5 meters long to lift one end of the triangular beam into the air.

Immediately after, the people standing on the wall used their hands to swap, helping to move the triangular beam upward.

After the triangular beam entered the wall, the people standing inside the wall also used poles about 3.5 meters long to relay it toward the north wall.

Soon, with the joint efforts of everyone, the two ends of this triangular beam were placed on the north and south crossbeams of the house.

And at this step, another thing that is very important relative to building a house had to be done: hanging large coins, chopsticks, and red cloth.

Locally, this means tying a string of copper coins together in a sheet-like shape with red rope, one overlapping the other; above the copper coins is a pair of brand-new chopsticks, but this pair of chopsticks is tied together in a cross shape, and above the chopsticks is a piece of red cloth.

Of course, tying it this way also has its reasons: this string of copper coins and chopsticks symbolizes the Taigong's coffin, and hanging it on the beam can drive away disasters and evil spirits, praying for peace.

It is worth noting that the large coins used also have their reasons; generally, large coins like "Qianlong" or "Jiaqing" that sound auspicious are used, and basically no one uses large coins like "Kangxi" or "Daoguang" that sound unlucky as soon as you hear them.

However, for Wang An and Mu Xueqing's house, these copper coins were not used because Wang An used "Kaiyuan Tongbao."

The main thing is that Wang An felt that his rebirth was a pioneering event, and as his wife, Mu Xueqing must follow her husband!

(End of chapter)