"Pull, pull, pull." Several strong men stood on a shelf next to the house and lifted up a main beam, to which a red rope was tied.

The main beam was put away, and Lu Meng's mother stood on the table with some steamed cakes and preserved fruits and sprinkled them down, for a while, everyone fought for me, not because there was nothing to eat at home, the more fierce the grabbing, the more prosperous the main family in the coming year, and secondly, it also added color to themselves and added joy.

Although Chu Yingren couldn't grab it, he also grabbed two steamed cakes.

"Chu Ying, here you go." Chu Ying took the hand full of preserved fruits that Brother Wang snatched, these preserved fruits were made because Lu Meng's own orchard couldn't eat them and couldn't sell them, and they could be put into next year.

"Brother Wang, you are so amazing, I just grabbed two steamed cakes." Brother Wang was by Chu Ying's side, and the people who were afraid of robbing her pushed her down.

Originally, Shangliang didn't need to kill pigs and slaughter sheep, but after a month or two, it would be the New Year, and Lu Meng's family held Shangliang wine and pig killing banquet together. When the time comes, every family will kill a pig during the New Year, and Han Da, who is afraid of killing pigs, will not be busy.

Therefore, a pig only eats the internal organs and a few pieces of meat inside, and the others are marinated to be eaten during the New Year, but such a delicacy is already rare for Chu Ying.

And since there is no stir-fry here, the offal is boiled and fishy, then cut and added ginger and garlic, and mustard greens to make a big bowl of soup. Everyone was holding cakes in their hands, drinking soup, eating meat, chatting and laughing, Chu Ying thought that such an activity was also very interesting.

"Chu Ying, you take this piece of meat back, my mother has already marinated it. Thank you for your help today, you don't know when you'll be able to eat it if it's gone. Chu Ying pushed away the meat handed over by Lu Meng.

"No need, I'm just cutting meat, this pig was killed by Han Da." Lu Meng still put the meat in Chu Ying's back basket.

"Han Da's money has been given, you must take this meat, before your family cut grass and cut bamboo in the city, you introduced, and there is nothing to thank you, you can take this meat today."

"Okay." Chu Ying didn't shirk when she heard Lu Meng say this, and she had to get along for a long time.

After the meal, Chu Ying and Brother Wang walked home together, "Brother Wang, have you been free lately?" I want to hoe the burned bushes over there and plant bamboo. ”

"Tomorrow, there are still some vegetables to be pickled at home, and my mother said that I must make them, and my sister will spoil them if she does them." Chu Ying wasn't surprised when she heard it, some things were said by the older generation that if men did it, women would break it if they did it, this was the patriarchal era.

"Okay." Chu Ying returned home, picked up the stone axe and prepared to cut down the tree, but she couldn't bear to do it when she looked at it, so she could only pick a medium tree.

But the stone axe is stone after all, and it is not as sharp as iron, Chu Ying only cut 10 trees in one afternoon, and by the time she moved the 10 trees home one by one, it was already almost dark.

Chu Ying piled them all together first, and continued to cut down the trees tomorrow, it would be nice if there was a saw, I don't know if Brother Wang's family has it.

When Brother Wang came, Chu Ying hadn't woken up yet, because she was so tired from cutting trees yesterday that her arms were so sore when she got up.

"Brother Wang, you're here." Chu Ying ate yesterday's steamed cake with bamboo shoots, and took the stone axe to Brother Wang, who was hoeing.

"I've been here for a while, did you cut down these trees? What are you going to do? "

"I want to build a house. The four sides are stacked with layers of wood. Wang Naiyuan watched Chu Ying walk through the bushes with a stone axe.

"Your little arms and legs, I'll come, how many are missing? You can't do it with an axe, so I'll go home and get an axe and a saw. Chu Ying originally wanted to build it herself and let Brother Wang hoe the ground, but Brother Wang was right, he would slow down the progress by doing so.

Chu Ying found a good place, put the position of the four pieces of wood on the first layer first, sawed them into two by two with a saw, and then chiseled off a third of the wood 3 inches thick at the end of the wood to retract 2 inches, and did the same with one end of the other wood, and then put the wood that was long and wide on the ground, and crossed the part that was chiseled, and the yin and yang were combined so that the feet were fixed.

When the four sides are fixed, the wood added to the top is also chiseled, and then the original fixed wood is also chiseled out of the upper part, so that the wood superimposed on top is also fixed.

This is the most basic mortise and tenon joint, Chu Ying will not be anything else, this is also very practical. Wang Naiyuan cut down the trees on the side, and Chu Ying stacked the wood layer by layer.

"Chu Ying, what should you do with this roof? And the windows, you'll have to ask the carpenter to come and you're not going to. "Indeed, Chu Ying will only build the walls of the wooden house, and Chu Ying can erect pillars, erect beams, and then lay straw and leaves, but that will not be strong and durable.

Chu Ying sat on the wooden wall on the side, hanging her feet, chiseling the wood, looking almost two meters tall, maybe she should find a carpenter, "Then Brother Wang, you can help me find one." "

Even if Brother Wang goes to find it, he will have to come tomorrow, and he has to prepare the rest. I didn't have the money to buy tiles, but fortunately, Grandpa Li had brought back some of the useless bamboo. Chu Ying used a stone axe to divide the bamboos one by one, and then cut off the partition in the middle of the bamboo.

When the chop was almost done, it looked like it should be enough, Chu Ying didn't split it again, and he didn't know if he could use bamboo instead of tiles, and the split bamboo could be used as a roof to protect it from rain, but Chu Ying, the house he had lived in for a long time, hoped that it would be stronger.

By the time Brother Wang came back, it was almost dark. "Chu Ying, it's been discussed, tomorrow the carpenter from the next village will come to help, he said that your walls have been built, and it won't cost much to build a roof and a window."

"Okay." After Chu Ying waited for Brother Wang to go back, he used the saw he left behind to saw the thinner branches that could not be used to make wooden walls into wooden segments of the same length.

The ground is still a little damp on rainy days here, and Chu Ying wants to raise the ground and lay it with wooden planks. Because there is no spare money, it can't be raised as a whole like Brother Wang's house, so you can only use these wooden sections to support the ground and then lay wooden boards.

By the time Carpenter Qi came the next day, Chu Ying had already sawed the required pieces of wood, and Brother Wang had cut down enough trees. "It's good, it's warmer than a layer of planks in winter, but you need to stuff some mud in these crevices. The hole is not stable enough. "

Chu Ying looked at the door hole she had cut out earlier was indeed not stable enough, "I brought the window, you cut down these woods here." Chu Ying and Brother Wang cut out the middle part of the south-facing side out of a rectangle the size of a window according to what Carpenter Qi said. After being installed, the carpenter fixed the windows and door openings with wooden strips.

Qi carpenters chisel the tenon groove on the top of each wood in the door opening, and then chisel the corresponding number of tenons on a piece of wood, and use the wooden hammer to knock the tenon into the tenon groove. This is the dovetail tenon, which is said to be the "mother of ten thousand tenons" invented by Luban.

"You can use a planer to cut off the bark, just cut off these three roots, and then sawn the rest into boards. Dig a deep hole here and there first. "Fortunately, Carpenter Qi has brought all the tools.

Carpenter Qi first looked at the wooden wall made by Chu Ying completely, "You have a good connection, it would be better to change the tenon, but this is already good." By the time Wang Naiyuan dug a deep hole, Chu Ying had already cut a tree clean.

Waiting for the carpenter to saw the length of the wood and make the mortise and tenon joint, the three of them worked together to drag the wood to the hole, Wang Naiyuan straightened the wood, and the Qi carpenter filled in the surrounding soil, and the other one was the same.

The general process is similar to what Chu Ying thought, that is, the left and right pillars are used as supports, beams are placed in the middle, and wooden strips are placed on both sides.

"Uncle Qi, there is really no money at home, do you think the tiles can be replaced by these bamboos?" Carpenter Qi looked at the bamboo that had been split by Chu Ying.

"I haven't done it before, I can give it a try. But the mason had to be found for this tiling. I'll see if I can press it without mud and tenon. "

"Thank you, Uncle Qi, can you put a wooden board on this side of the house, I think I can put something at that time." Chu Ying had to say all the functions she wanted in advance, otherwise it would be difficult to fill in something at that time.

"Well, I'll try it." Carpenter Qi has also done several floors of wooden construction, and he can understand what Chu Ying said, but what Chu Ying proposed is indeed the first time he has encountered it, but looking at Chu Ying's small house that is 10 steps long and 8 steps wide, he can also understand.