Chapter 53: The Ondol
Here the Qi family is burning the fire under the stove, and Lin Yujuan is stir-frying on the pot. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info heard Lin Guilu come over and say that there would be a master to build a fire kang tomorrow, and the two of them suddenly reflexively felt that the kitchen was even more stuffy. Lin Yujuan has never seen what a kang looks like in her two lives, and the kang she understands is to build a kang with bricks or stones, and then burn a fire underneath to heat the entire kang. Later, when she saw people building a kang for her house, she realized that she was wrong, it was too outrageous.
In the early morning of the next day, not long after the Lin family finished breakfast, Lao Sun took a tall and strong northern man. Why is it obvious at a glance? On the one hand, this fire kang is used by northerners, so this master is a northerner. On the other hand, there is still a big difference between the appearance of the northerner and the southerner. Most of the southerners are slender and delicate, and the northern men are especially strong and rough.
"Brother Lin, I brought someone to you. This is the old brother Sha from the north, but he is a good hand at building a fire kang. Brother Sha, this is the Brother Lin I mentioned to you. Lao Sun introduced both sides.
"Old Sun, Brother Sha, have you had breakfast? Let's have breakfast at my house first. Lin Guilu was very polite and wanted to invite people to breakfast.
"Hey, Brother Lin, we've already eaten. Let's let Brother Sha see where your kang is going to be built. "Lao Sun is a very serious Chinese person, where would he skip breakfast and go to someone else's house to rub that bowl of porridge. Immediately brought the topic directly to the ondol.
"Hehe, this is what my girl wants to get, I called her to ask. Xiaojuan, come and tell me where this kang is going to be built. Lin Guilu shouted and secretly looked at the lively Lin Yujuan on the side.
"Oh, Uncle Sun, Uncle Sha is good. Dad, you sit down for a while, and I'll go back to the room and take a look at it and think about where to build it. Lin Yujuan hurriedly dragged her sister Xiujuan into the room to pack her clothes. How embarrassing it would be if there was something that could not be seen by outsiders. After a while, the two sisters put everything in the room into the closet and went to the drawers. Lin Yujuan looked around the room and made sure there was nothing missing. went out of the door of the room and called Lin Guilu and the others to come in.
Thinking about it, I still didn't think it through, in fact, I should have moved out of the room yesterday, otherwise I wouldn't be so passive. At the moment, Lin Yujuan couldn't take care of it so much, and after Lin Guilu accompanied Master Sha in, Lin Yujuan said:
"Master Sha, I think so, can you listen to it? Our wing room is separated from the kitchen by a wall, and the ondol is built in this wing, and the stove for the fire is built in the kitchen. Is it okay to separate the two? ”
"The little girl knows a lot, I know what you mean. In this way, the fumes from the kitchen will not enter the room. Alright, let's go out and talk. "This Sha master heard that this family has always lived in the south, how did he think of making a fire kang.
Because Lin Guilu's family has no concept of the fire kang, they can't ask any questions and requirements in the face of this master Sha, and they are fully entrusted to others. On the other hand, Lao Sun did not forget to advocate: "Brother Lin, you can put a hundred hearts, I know very well what this Sha brother is, as long as he says that he is capable, he will definitely do it properly for your family." ”
Lin Guilu believed this, and the reputation of craftsmen in these years has been passed on by word of mouth. There are good craftsmen who have continued for dozens or hundreds of years. As long as the craftsmanship is not bad, future generations will not have to worry about running out of work at all.
So, Lin Guilu asked what materials to prepare, and what Master Sha's salary was.
"I'm going to call a helper when I get there, and the salary is thirty-five dollars a day. This plate of kang is good for your family to buy green bricks, in fact, it is best to use stones on the top of the kang noodles. However, there is no stone produced here, and it is okay to replace it with green bricks. Let's prepare a brick for one or two thousand on a kang. I heard that your family is going to build two kangs, and where is the other one? Master Sha asked another question that he was concerned about, because until now the master had not said that another kang should be built on it.
"And the other one was built in my parents' house in the countryside." Lin Guilu said.
At this time, Old Man Lin and the Jiang family also understood what they were here for. "Guilu, what are you going to do in our house?" Jiang had never heard of this before.
"Mom, build a kang in your country house, so that it will be very warm in winter." Lin Guilu faced his mother's question and naturally answered it 1510.
"What do we do, we don't all live in town. Or do you want to get rid of the two of us? "Jiang's recent suspicion is very serious, and although he usually doesn't show it, it doesn't mean that he hasn't thought about it. Or maybe she trampled on her son's money and made her subconscious feel unwelcome all the time.
"How can it be, Mom, my dad knows about this, and I mentioned it in the spring. In this case, there is no need to build the countryside. Lin Guilu didn't want to do much, so as not to upset his own mother.
"Brother Lin, let's build one first, and then call me if you need to. Do you have bricks and slaked lime at home? "This sand master is also very eye-catching.
"Ah, this one still doesn't. I don't know if Master Sha, do you have a way? "Most people are ready to build houses, and some people have burned the slaked lime a year or two in advance, but this family is not prepared at all. But after the last time the partition was on the wall, Lin Guilu knew that these bricklayer masters had a little more way to these than ordinary people.
"Hehe, I guessed that you don't have it at home, don't worry, this package is on me, and I will calculate how much I use when I use it." Master Sha smiled very happily, which made Lin Guilu and the others feel cheerful when they saw it. "Okay, let's go first, Brother Lin, just let me know when you buy all the bricks." Saying that, Master Sha took his leave. Lao Sun also followed, Lin Guilu hurriedly grabbed Lao Sun's arm and wanted to give the Chinese Fei to others, and asked Lao Sun to excuse himself.
"I said, Brother Lin, I will introduce you to this job that does not pay a few hundred yuan before and after, what kind of fee do I charge? Brother, if you have any needs in the future, don't forget my brother, I will become. After speaking, he patted Lin Guilu's shoulder, and he also said goodbye.
After the outsiders left, Mrs. Jiang finally couldn't hold back and asked, "Guilu, what's going on with you?" How do you think about what kind of kang to build, that thing that is used by people in the north. Do we need it here? ”
"Mom, it's been cold for three or four months this winter. This winter, I will know if it will work well or not. Lin Guilu didn't say that it was his own girl's idea, but the old lady mistakenly thought that he came up with it.
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