Back To Qiqi Farming To Raise Children

After the beams were put on the house, it was time to build the walls, pan the kang, set up the stove, build the shed, plaster the interior and exterior walls, and dig the ground.

The house design drawings were drawn by Lin Jian's people, and the construction team worked according to the drawings.

The five houses of the Xu family have a large span, eight meters wide and fifteen meters long, with enough space.

The east and west houses are all suites, and the second room on the east side is larger, with a large kang, directly connected to the kitchen stove.

The room on the east side is the normal size. There is a stove in front of the kang, and the stove is connected with the kang.

The two rooms at the west end separate the north side, and the north side of the west room is temporarily used as a storage room. When there is heating in the future, a boiler will be installed as a boiler room.

There is also a pot and stove on the north side of the Xici Room, and it happens that the kang is used for cooking and cooking.

The kitchen is on the north side, occupying half of the west room and half of the outhouse, with two pots and stoves.

In addition, there are cupboards, sinks for washing vegetables, operating tables, rice grain shelves, etc., and sewer pipes have also been dug.

There is a pipe connected to the bottom of the vegetable sink, which leads directly to the outside.

Anyway, to the west of Xu Shiyan's house is the ditch pond, and the water flows directly into the back forest without affecting other people's homes.

The two rooms on the west side are also kangs, but the rooms are smaller, and they will be reserved for the children to live in when they grow up, or for guests to live in.

The east room is big, and Xu Shiyan plans to buy a set of sofas and tea tables in the future and put them under the south window.

When guests come to the house, there must be a place to sit and talk.

But the house is too big, and it is not warm in winter, so the partition wall between the kitchen and the east side was built as a fire wall.

There is a stove outside, and if the stove is turned on in winter, the wall with a flue will be warmed up, and with the addition of a kang, the house will also be warm.

Anyway, the house is big, and it will definitely waste firewood in winter.

But there is no way, the children will grow up in the future, so they can't all sleep together, can they?

The partition walls were built, the kang and pots and stoves were also set up, and the pots, sinks, and operating tables were all smoothed with cement.

It is easy to take care of and clean, and it is a hundred times better than the previous mud stove.

Then there is the shed.

In the past, the two gable walls of the house were built with bricks, and there were no shed poles or shed boards on the beams.

Just build a few boards, you can put things on the roof, and you can see the beams and tiles on it when you look up.

After that, the shed poles and boards are nailed, and then the shed is pasted with paper, and there is a gap between the paper and the shed.

At night, there was a rat attack, and the rat ran back and forth on the paper shed, and the people below could hear a lot of noise.

Sometimes, if there is a hole in the paper shed, the mouse will fall out of the hole, or else it will also fall out of the hole.

The Xu family built a new house, so naturally they couldn't do this kind of thing again. Xu Shiyan had agreed with others to shut down the shed.

Saw the soft wood into three fingers wide and less than one centimeter thick wooden planks, the planks are covered with hairs, that is, the fibers of the wood, which are called gray strips.

The gray strips should be spaced about one centimeter apart, nailed to the shed board, and the surroundings should be flush with the wall.

Then use white ash and a hemp knife to make it into a paste, and smooth the entire roof of the shed. This kind of shed is durable, warm and beautiful.

The doors and windows were inlaid when the bricks were laid, so after the shed was plastered, the interior walls were also plastered with the same material.

The white and gray walls are clean and tidy, so there is no need to put newspapers on the walls every year in the future.

After the interior walls are plastered and the ground is laid, a brick building must have a cement floor.

Lay stones and sand on the bottom and tamp it flat, then sand and cement in proportion, smooth the ground, and press it several times to make the ground smooth and flat.

The house is completely finished, only the outer walls are left. Songjianghe began to popularize the water-washed stone walls. It looks good, but it takes a lot of work and materials.

Xu Shiyan thought about it for a while, and let it go, that thing looks good and is not suitable for use, and it will be troublesome if he wants to make an external wall insulation in the future.

It's not as good as cement plain noodles, and it looks pleasing to the eye.

In this way, the two houses are finished with plain cement surface, which saves time and effort, and the outer walls are finished soon.

Here, the bricklayers are all done, and the rest is window and door paneling and carpentry.

The construction team took turns working on the two houses, and it took a long time to finish them.

As for Xu Shiyan, he can come back every now and then during the day to take a look.

Usually, he has to be busy with the team's ginseng, fertilization, etc., and he has to go back to the mountain to take care of him at night, which is really too busy for him.

At the beginning of August, Xu Shiyan used the same method as last time to attract a group of deer and cut off two crops of antler.

Or else the beast just has no memory.

After the deer antler was cut for the first time, Xu Shiyan threw bait and blew the horn a few times before, but the deer did not appear at that time.

Going to see it on the second or third day, the bait block has been gnawed away.

Xu Shiyan didn't care, and continued to blow the horn as before, and gradually, the herd of deer would come when the horn sounded.

So Xu Shiyan repeated his old trick and cut off another crop of velvet antlers.

Maybe the deer also thinks that there is no danger to their lives, anyway, they exchange velvet for food.

The quality of the second velvet antler was not as good as the first velvet, and the price was not that high. The velvet antlers of a dozen bucks were sold for less than 2,000 yuan.

Anyway, it's pretty good, it's all for nothing, at most some food and salt.

How much is that thing worth? The cost is not much.

Now, Xu Chenghou also knew how his son made money, and he couldn't help but admire him.

How can these three sons think so well? Others have to kill the deer and cut the antler, but he feeds the deer and saws the antler.

The deer is almost catching up with the one raised by the family, which is really good.

With such a busy schedule, Honghamut City couldn't enter the mountain, but Xu Shiyan didn't feel it was a pity.

Even if you enter the mountains, you may not be able to meet wild ginseng, and if you do, you have to share it together.

Well, if you get one thousand or eight hundred, if not, it’s only one or two hundred yuan. How can you catch up with these two velvet antlers and earn as much?

And he made money without saying a word, no one else knew, how good?

At the end of August, when the construction team handed over their work, Xu Shiyan paid all the wages to others, and gave the foreman some cigarettes and alcohol.

He was very happy to coax the foreman, and he said that if there is any work in the future, he can just find him in private, and he will bring people to do it, and there is no need to find a leader.

It stands to reason that when people from the construction team come to work, the Xu family will pay the wages, and no one owes anyone, and the work will be over after passing the acceptance inspection.

But Zhou Guilan boiled water to make tea every day, and there were enough persimmons, cucumbers, plums, and sand fruits in the vegetable garden to eat.

Most of the people in this day and age are still very simple, and the Xu family is so sincere, those workers feel embarrassed.

Therefore, I work very carefully and carefully, and never waste what can be saved.

You know, if these people shake their hands, they can waste a lot of material.

When installing door and window glass, if you tilt your hand and break a few pieces of glass, what else can the Xu family say?

But these people were stunned that not a single piece of glass was broken, and the boards were installed properly, these are all good things.

In contrast, those vegetables and fruits are nothing.

Human feelings are actually accumulated bit by bit through things.

The house is handed over, ventilated and dried for a while, and then you can move in.

But Zhou Guilan was not in a hurry to move.

Now Xu Chenghou is looking at ginseng on the mountain, and here Su Anying has not been away from having a baby for a long time, and she cannot do without people.

Zhou Guilan is an old woman, why move to a new house by herself?

It's better to live here, with daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law, and it will be lively when there are many people.