The embankment restoration project is almost completed, Ge Bagen is almost finished, and the migrant workers are waiting for the headquarters to pay their wages. At lunch on the seventh day of the new year, my uncle and grandfather came.

"Now that most of the migrant workers are idle, let's take advantage of the large number of people and the tools at hand, and put up the foundation of your homestead first.

The children are too old to live in the team's house all the time. I have money in my hand, let's pay them according to the price of the engineering department, I estimate that it can be cushioned in two days. ”

Grandpa listened and nodded yes: "It's time to build a house, your sister has earned some money during this time, and the foundation of the house should be enough, I don't understand this aspect, so you can worry about it." ”

"Brother, where am I, have you discussed it with everyone?" asked Grandma.

Uncle and grandfather said: "I total, just on the north side of the west street of the village, this vacant land has more than one acre, you occupy it first." There is no one behind, the west side is against the road, we still have two boys, and there is a place to build a house in the future, and then put it back. ”

"Brother, this place is good, but you have to discuss it with the big guys, don't let people have opinions about you. ”

"Don't worry, even if your brother is not the branch secretary, because of our Weihua's popularity, it is no problem for your family to build a house there. I'll have a meeting with you in a moment. "Uncle and grandfather are still in the style of the army, and they are resolute and resolute, and they will go to the bell for a meeting after speaking.

None of Yoyo's family went, and Yoyo followed behind to listen to the news. Uncle and grandfather saw that people were almost here, so he brought up the matter of the Yoyo family's homestead foundation and asked the big guy to discuss.

Everyone listened and agreed. Then several people asked for leave, saying that they wanted to help the Yoyo family build the homestead. My uncle didn't agree and told everyone to ask migrant workers for help.

The second master took over the words: "The migrant workers will pad the house foundation for them, let's pad the street ourselves, I also put forward an idea, I Baojing is also big, I still want to live by Xiuqin's house, I want to build a house on the south side of the street, the big guy has to pad the street for us." ”

"Then you have to pad, who dares not to listen to our second master's words, captain doesn't count what you said this time. Everyone followed.

Uncle and grandfather had no choice but to follow everyone's wishes: "Okay, let's not go to the ground for the next two days, just pad the street." Second master, put up the foundation of the house in your house, and I'll go find someone. ”

"I don't pad it first, and then pad it after autumn, the four pigs I fed this year are growing really well, and I will talk about selling the pigs. ”

Seeing that everyone was talking about it, accountant Han Daowei proposed: "Then let's clear out the land in the afternoon, remove the trees (cut down), and build a house for Dr. Wu's family as purlins." ”

"Okay, go home and get your belongings. "Everybody's up for action.

When you run home to study, the whole family is very moved. Grandpa said: "Although our life here is hard, the friendship of the big guys is rare, and life is comfortable." Even my old problems for many years have been almost better in the past few years. ”

Grandma went to the kitchen to boil a big pot of boiling water, took out a packet of jasmine tea, and asked Yoyo's father to send it to the big guy.

In the second half of the morning, my uncle and grandfather came over and told Grandma Yoyo that they had said that more than 200 people would come tomorrow. There is one thing, they say that they don't take any money. said that he had nothing to do when he was idle, and he troubled his grandmother and father all day long, and he had no face to receive money.

Yoyo gave his grandmother an idea, and everyone who came gave a pair of nylon socks, a piece of six or seven things, which was about the same as working on the construction site for two days.

Listening to the small talk of the migrant workers, they worked for two months, and after a good calculation, each person could earn about 40 yuan, less than 8 cents a day.

When my uncle and grandfather heard this, they hurriedly said, "That's okay, I'm worried that I can't count that, this method looks good in both ways." Sister, do you have enough socks at home?"

Grandma hurriedly said: "Enough, I went to Linshui this time, and it happened that the wholesale department dealt with the socks in the season, and I wanted a lot, I thought I would sell them, but I didn't want to use them now." ”

Jokes, backed by a yoyo mall, not to mention 200 pairs of socks, 20,000 pairs of socks is not a problem.

In one afternoon, the homestead was cleared, next to the westernmost Sanjingjia in the village. It is 20 meters wide and 35 meters long from north to south, and there is a distance of 10 meters from the north-south road in the west, which is not enough for a housestay.

Early the next morning, the migrant workers began work. You went out to take a look, where are 200 people, at least more than 300, and it is estimated that the completed migrant labor team has come. Fortunately, the Yoyo family's homestead is on the south and west sides of the road, otherwise it would not have been possible to turn away.

People from the village also came, and they were mainly pad streets. Everyone pulled and flat, and the patriotic uncle used a tractor to carry a big stone and rolled it in a circle.

My uncle and grandfather's family were all busy, and several families in the village came to help. Those who boiled water, those who delivered water, and the tables and benches alone were set up. Grandma brought over two packets of jasmine tea, ten red light cigarettes, and two large packets of sugar cubes for each of the surrounding children.

It took more than two meters to pad in one day, which is less than one meter worse than the foundation of the village house. My uncle and grandfather said that the mat was four meters high, and the new soil was softer, and after two rains in the summer, it had to go down more than a foot, and when building a house, it had to be used as mud.

The strength of the people is great, and the two days are really padd, and the four sides of the homestead are more than a foot higher than the middle, which is convenient for storing rainwater in the summer.

The four-meter-high homestead is connected to the village, and even the street with the well platform is cushioned. The villagers are very satisfied with the lifting of the well, which used to be very difficult to climb a three-meter-high slope to fetch water, but now it is finally a smooth road.

In the evening, my father took a big bag of nylon socks and followed my uncle and grandfather to deliver them from tent to tent, and each tent also gave a big Admiralty cigarette.