Chapter 2 Renovation of Old Houses (1)

At six o'clock in the morning, Li Chen was woken up by the sound of chickens and dogs, which was simply a "good morning" song.

After getting up and getting dressed, and opening the door, I heard the sound of pots and pans clanging in the kitchen, apparently my mother was making breakfast.

In the rural areas of the south, although every household has a gas stove and an induction cooker, it is still customary to use firewood to make breakfast.

Because people in the countryside raise some chickens and ducks, they have to cook more rice in the morning.

Breakfast is also easy, just a few simple stepsβ€”β€”β€”

Wash the rice, pour it into a large pot, add water, and then cover the lid to make the fire boil.

When the water boils and the rice bubble lifts the lid of the pot, you can turn off the heat, and wait for about five minutes for the rice to be cooked thoroughly, and you can fish.

First, use a colander to take out a third of the rice, which is dry rice, and the rest of the rice is scooped into the pot with soup, which is porridge, that is, porridge. Breakfast and lunch are ready!

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Although the temperature difference between morning and evening is not big on Li Chen's side, he still likes to eat hot rice in the morning and cold porridge at noon.

Li Chen got up and brushed his teeth, and after washing his face, he called his sister up to brush her teeth and wash her face.

Seeing that after his sister heard his scream, she instead covered her head with the quilt and continued to sleep, Li Chen felt embarrassed, exactly the same as he was at the beginning!

After calling his sleepy-eyed sister up, Li Chen went out to feed the chickens and ducks, and the chickens and ducks were mixed with rice and rice bran that they couldn't eat yesterday, perfect!

People in the countryside basically raise some chickens and ducks by themselves, and they used to raise them to sell them for money. Now that life has changed for the better, they are all raised and kept for the New Year.

As for whether it can be used up or not, the answer is yes.

These are used to worship the ancestors during the New Year, and the ancestors are sacrificed with whole chickens, and in the past, when the conditions were not good, pork and garlic were used.

There are also relatives, a few days ago it was relatives who came, chicken, duck and fish meat must be indispensable, and it can't be yesterday, they are all killed. In the next few days, I went to visit relatives, and I also needed to bring chickens and ducks.

Some people in the village who have little and do not have enough will buy them in the village by themselves, and usually sell one or two to him.

Stir-fry greens in the morning, heat up yesterday's leftovers, and serve them with some pickles made at home, and a beautiful breakfast will be ready.

After eating breakfast, feeding the family's three earth dogs, and saying hello to his parents, Li Chen couldn't wait to run to the back mountains to test his ability.

The back mountain is a fruit forest, and there are some fruit trees in a mess. It was the task assigned by the village that proposed to open up the wasteland, and whoever cleared the land could plant it.

However, because of the poor geology, I can only plant some fruit trees on it, and I don't expect to bring a harvest, so I don't waste the land.

Due to neglect, they are all dying, and even some of the leaves are dry, and it is a miracle to be able to beat the fruit.

Li Chen chose a small peach tree for experiments, this is a small peach tree after the peach tree bears fruit, the fruit falls after it is ripe, and the seeds germinate and grow into a small peach tree.

The small peach tree I chose is only about 20 centimeters high, and the leaves are a little yellow, if it is allowed to grow like this, it will not grow much tall in this barren land for a few years!

After crossing the air flow in his mind into the small tree, he deliberately left a little bit of it, not daring to cross the light, for fear that his head would rise again when the time came.

When I came back to my senses, I found that the airflow in my mind had improved slightly compared to the one in the hospital, indicating that this ability can be expanded!

"Since this is an ability, it should be named, let's call it 'Alien Qi', Alien Flow!" Li Chen muttered to himself.

Li Chen waited for more than ten minutes, but he still didn't notice any changes in the little tree, and his stomach was "gurgling", so he had to go back first and come back tomorrow.

As for being hungry, this didn't make Li Chen panic, after all, there had been a guess that the existence of the law of conservation of energy was not soy sauce!

When I got home, there was no one at home, so I thought I had gone out to the fields.

But that's just right, and you don't have to eat sneaky!

After Li Chen was full, he walked towards the old house, packed up and moved over early.

With this ability, you definitely need to eat often, and moving to an old house also has this level of consideration.

Ten minutes later, we arrived at the old house.

The walls of the old house are made of three kinds of bricks, the lower floor is made of green bricks, the upper floor is made of red bricks, and the top beams and pillars are mud bricks! Li Chen has always wondered why it was built like this, is it beautiful!?

There are still some broken tiles on the side of the wall, and when I look up, the tiles on the edge of the original roof have been broken because I haven't picked them up for a long time, and even fell down, and some places have exposed small beams!

Li Chen walked quickly to the door, and he didn't know what kind of wood the door was made of, and he still couldn't see the slightest damage.

I took out the key and opened the door, and suddenly a smell of dust came to my face, which is the house will exist for a long time.

Hurriedly retreated, and after about a minute, Li Chen walked in, and the first thing he saw was a large wardrobe near the door!

The feet of the wardrobe had begun to be moth-eaten, and the drawers in the lower level had been rotten and skewed to the side.

Li Chen remembered that his toys when he was a child were placed inside, and even put a lot of stones in them, and every time Li's mother found out, she would take them out and throw them away, and then teach them a lesson. After a few days, he put it in again without learning his lesson......

Scanning other places, all he saw was a house full of stickers, Li Chen estimated that it should be some little stars in the eighties and nineties, some wearing uniforms that seemed to be trendy at the time, and more beautiful photos.

However, they all have a common characteristic, that is, they all have a sense of uniformity and temptation, and even some of them are a little 'leaky'! However, when you take a closer look, you feel that the whole person is very pure, which is really evil.

It's no worse than the current jade girl! Even in the corner of the door, there is a king-size naked upper body photo, blocking the peak with only his arms crossed.

Li Chen is puzzled when he thinks about it now, could it be that the 'high-level' people in the eighties and nineties have been so open!

There are also 'young people' of Li Chen's parents' generation who put these 'trendy' stickers to decorate the room, is it too simple or do they want to catch up with the trend?

Li Chen came to the wardrobe, opened the wardrobe, and saw several neatly folded quilts, which were packed in vacuum bags, two of which were big red quilts, embroidered with dragon and phoenix auspicious patterns, which were quilts when their parents got married before.

This kind of quilt Li Chen covered when he was a child, it was heavy, and it made the whole person uncomfortable!

In addition to the quilt, there was also a small bag of small clothes next to it, which he wore when he was a child, and all of them were in good condition. took out one, Li Chen flipped through the gestures, and was full of emotion!

Li Chen remembered that when he was eight years old, he also got a small black suit, but it seemed that he had only worn it once at that time, and he forgot who bought it.

After that, I never moved again, because in the countryside, children wore suits, and who did they show off! At that time, the rural people thought you were indecent!

Carefully open the two drawers on the lower level, which are full of Li Chen's gadgets from his childhood.

Like marbles, a few clumps of congealed nylon rope, pebbles, a toy duck cart, a wooden fork for a slingshot, a wooden spinning top made by my father, and even a small pile of various lighter parts 'wreckage'.

There is also a speargun made of wood that is not like a spear in the drawer on the right, which can shoot iron needles! The body of the gun is made of wood, and it is still very intact, but the leather rope is rotten, and there are two iron needles about 10 cm long lying next to it, and the needles are still as sharp as when they were first sharpened, and Li Chen took them out one by one and fiddled with them for a while.

When I came to the bedside, there was a large counter next to the bed, and I remembered that in the past, because of the inconvenient transportation, once someone got sick, it might not be too late to rush to the hospital, so every household began to stock up on some medicines for common diseases.

In the past, there were all kinds of bottles and jars on the counter, which were full of medicines, what cold medicines, oxytetracycline tablets, Lianpu Shuangqing tablets, roundworm medicines, antipyretic powder, and band-aids。。。。。。

Now there are only a few unused oil lamps and a mess of things that can't be used.

Open the main drawer, there are some needles and threads, presbyopia eyes, old-fashioned razors, two flashlights that amplify batteries, and the whole body is made of iron sheet, which can be used for self-defense............

The first thing that catches your eye in the secondary drawer are mobile phones and pagers of various eras.

There are two pagers in it, one is not broken, but it is useless now. The pager is also called a BB machine, and at that time, it just came out but a few thousand oceans, and it could only receive text messages, and there was a word limit. In those days, when information came, BBB. The sound is non-stop, but it is very majestic when there are many people!

There are also two black analog phones next to it, which are the evolution version of Big Brother, but they are still very large. There is a thin clamshell, covering the dial pad, there is a bulge similar to the antenna on it, when the signal is not good, you can pull the antenna up, when I was a child, I didn't play with this antenna secretly, pull it up and press it, and I didn't have a pleasant time. For this, he was beaten with a small wooden stick!

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The innermost ones are three digital mobile phones, two of which are clamshells, one is a sliding cover, and the color is not a single color, one of which was still damaged by Li Chen.

There are also two watches, but unfortunately they are not expensive watches, just ordinary couple's watches of that era. The whole body is silvery white, it looks simple and generous, and there is no decoration or anything like that, and the women's model is obviously smaller than the men's model.

After rummaging underneath, he climbed up to the attic, the wooden planks of the attic were rotten in some places, Li Chen had to walk on it carefully, and found that there was nothing left, just a pile of new tiles, the old rice iron bucket, some small wooden beams and some tools needed for farming.

Li Chen stopped rummaging, and began to clean up, and after noon, Li Chen's mother also came over to help.

After all, this is an old house that doesn't need to be used for a long time, and if you want to move in, you still have to renovate it.

But since it's going to live for a long time, it's better to renovate it thoroughly, and it's comfortable to live in!

Li Chen discussed it with his father, then went to find the eighth uncle and went to the town with him to buy materials.

Of course, he didn't tell his father how to decorate it, and Li's father just thought it would be repaired.

Li Chen's eighth uncle is the only one in the village who has a small truck, and he went out to work when he was young to save some money and bought it to pull goods home.

Although it is a little old, the quality of the previous car is still good. Up to now, except for the occasional minor problems, everything else is still very normal, and pulling three or four tons of things is not a problem.

When I came to the eighth uncle's house, I saw the eighth aunt teasing the child in the yard.

The eighth uncle's name is Li Yulong, the eighth aunt's name is Chen Hua, and the child's name is Li Manchang, who is a seven-year-old fat man.

"Aunt Eight, is Uncle at home?" Li Chen knocked on the door of the courtyard.

Chen Hua saw Li Chen and beckoned, "It's Xiao Chen, in the house, I know how to tinker with some broken electrical appliances all day long." ”

Li Chen's eighth uncle used to learn decoration from a master when he was working outside, and after returning to the village, whoever built a house nearby, renovated the circuit or something that broke the electrical appliances, he was allowed to ask him to help!

Sometimes, he helps to haul goods, but he is more well-connected than his peers in the village, and basically the shopkeepers and residents in the town can speak.

"Eighth aunt, I'll ask Eighth Uncle and I to go to the town to pull some decoration materials back and renovate the old house," Li Chen said while teasing the child.

"Repair the old house? Isn't it okay to find trouble, it's better to build a new house! With that, he got up and went in and called Eighth Uncle Li Yulong.

The eighth aunt spoke a little straight, and Li Chen also knew her temperament, but it was nothing. After all, there are many old people who have never been to a big city, and most women don't have so much scheming when they talk.

On the night Li Chen came back, he also used his mobile phone to check the decoration renderings of a house similar to the structure of an old house, and he already had a general approach!

This time I went to the town and pulled the network cable by the way, after all, I want to go home to live, people who are used to the Internet, there is no network for a day, but I am panicked, and I have no sense of security.

After a while, the eighth uncle came out and changed his clothes, according to what he said, what kind of clothes to wear, this is an attitude. Full of philosophers!

The eighth uncle is more talkative, except for the sound of the iron sheet of the truck colliding along the way, his ears are full of the eighth uncle's Tang monk-like chatter, and Li Chen can only answer helplessly.