After explaining it to Erniu, Xiao Ding took a new piece of paper and began to draw a sketch of the house to be built.

This house is only intended to be used for transition, and when the planned house is built, this house can be used as a warehouse. So the house only needs to be built in the warehouse location of the plan.

The room of the house Xiao Ding calculated that a total of eight rooms need to be built. Tian Dabao and Li's one, Xiao'e and Xiaozhu one, Xiaofu himself, himself and Erniu, Tang Yunzhi one, and prepare one for Xiaoya and Zhao Laixi, plus a kitchen, and a livestock room.

The bathroom room is not only built for the time being, but only the area of the kitchen needs to be expanded, and a small room can be enclosed separately in it, anyway, now the family has a bath tub for bathing, and it is also very convenient to boil water in the kitchen.

For the materials used to build the house, Xiaoding is going to the town to buy finished bricks and tiles, which can save a lot of time. If you make your own adobe from molds, you will waste a lot of time.

As for the timber needed, don't worry, there are a lot of them in this wasteland, and there are countless in the mountains and forests to the west, all of which are borderless lands that can be used as you please. In this era, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there is no one to manage it, let alone know what indiscriminate logging is.

The clay needed, listening to Tian Dabao said, the people in the village generally go to the root of the mountain behind the village, choose a place with soft soil to dig down, and dig to the loess layer. The loess is relatively sticky, and it is good to use it to build houses. This little Ding can also do the same, so he doesn't have to worry about it.

As for the construction of doors and windows, Xiao Ding thought of Zhao Laixi, isn't he learning carpenter from his second uncle, he can let him do it, and it is okay to help him do it himself.

In this era, there was no glass, and the windows were covered with pasted window paper. Xiao Ding knows that the main ingredient of glass is silica, which is the same as the main ingredient of sand. In fact, after heating the sand to a certain temperature, it can be liquefied into glass, but it is not so pure. Unfortunately, there were no blast furnaces or crucibles in this era, and it was impossible to reach that temperature when heated with firewood.

This house was built mainly for this winter. The heating facilities in the house, Xiao Ding thought of the earthen kang used by people in the northern region in later generations, which was a very convenient and practical way to heat up. He decided that all these rooms could be built with ondols to keep warm in winter.

However, if six of the eight houses with ridges are inhabited, and if each of them is built with a firekang and a kitchen, will seven chimneys be built?

If you walk one chimney or two chimneys, it requires a high level of construction technology to make the smoke go smoothly and not smoke when the kang is burned. Xiao Ding believes that he does not have this technology. And the villagers here don't seem to have seen what kind of sacred thing the fire kang is, let alone know how to build it.

Xiao Ding pondered for a while, and decided to build a row of fire walls on the back wall of these seven rooms, so that all the smoke from the fire in the seven rooms could be gathered into the fire wall, and then build three chimneys outside the fire wall should be able to discharge all the smoke. At the same time, the fire wall can also be extended to the barn so that it is not too cold in the barn.

The second girl had finished washing up at this time and returned to the shack. I took a bronze mirror from the thatched hut and pulled out the rouge gouache and jewelry I had received yesterday......

The little wolf Gray also came to the mouth of the shack at this time, shaking his head and tail towards Xiao Ding. It didn't get drenched last night, because Ding had made a hole in the haystack and used it as a nest.

Seeing that the sketch was almost drawn, Xiao Ding also went out of the shack to the backyard to wash.

When I came to the backyard, I saw that the little red horse and the donkey were all wet. Xiao Ding hurriedly went back to the house to find a few dry rags to help the two animals wipe their wet hair.

After breakfast, Xiao Ding decided to go to the town to order bricks and tiles. By the way, I asked a mason to discuss the construction of a house.

Tian Dabao said that the second uncle Niu in the village is actually a mason, and the villagers generally go to the second uncle Niu to build a house or something.

There was no professional construction team in this era. When villagers build houses, they usually ask one or a few masons to take the lead and be the commander-in-chief, and the others can follow along. There is nothing too difficult about the work in the countryside, and after everyone has done it a few times, they can basically do it. Some villagers don't need to hire someone to build a house, and if they have more brothers in their family, their families can do all the work.

Although Xiao Ding knew Second Uncle Niu, he couldn't find his home. Tian Dabao said that he would leave the matter of finding Second Uncle Niu to him, and he personally went to Uncle Niu for help.

Xiao Ding looked at the muddy dirt road in the village after the rain, then looked at Tian Dabao's lameness, shook his head, and said, "Let Xiaofu take me to Uncle Niu's house to discuss." ”

Xiaofu took Xiaoding to Uncle Niu's house. Second Uncle Niu had just finished breakfast, and when he saw Xiaoding and Xiaofu coming over, he hurriedly let him into the house.

Second Uncle Niu's home is also an ordinary adobe house, and you can see from the simple and outdated furnishings in the house that his family's life is not rich.

Xiao Ding explained his intention to Second Uncle Niu, and Second Uncle Niu was naturally very happy to see that there was work to do.

Now is the slack season, the villagers plant all the thin fields in the south of the village, and can only plant one season a year, so they are idle after the autumn harvest. Some people went to the town to find work, and some went to Xue Landlord's house to do part-time work. It's just that Landlord Xue's family has hired a lot of long-term workers, and there are many people who have been bought, and there are usually not many short-term workers needed.

Xiao Ding asked about the price of hiring masons and ordinary laborers, and Second Uncle Niu replied truthfully: "To build a house in the village, the average mason is 25 yuan a day, and the average laborer is 20 yuan a day. ”

When Xiao Ding heard this, he thought that the labor force in this era is really cheap, and he can buy more than a pound of pork if he earns 20 yuan a day, no wonder there are so many poor people in this era.

"That's it, Second Uncle Niu, I'm not just building this house this time. After building this house, I still have a lot of houses to build, as well as fences, yards, paving roads, tidying up wasteland, barren mountains, etc., and there is still a lot of work to be done, and it is estimated that it will be enough for you to work for at least half a year......"

"Ah, it's easy to say, it's okay to pay less, I have a good relationship with your father......" Second Uncle Niu heard that there was so much work to do, and he was immediately happy.

"Second Uncle Niu, you misunderstood what I meant, I didn't mean that I wanted you to reduce your salary, you listen to me and continue to ......" Xiao Ding hurriedly explained.

"Ah, then you say ......" Second Uncle Niu looked at Xiao Ding in confusion.

"That's right, I have a lot of work on my side, and I need a lot of manpower. I mean I want you to take the lead, and also be an overseer, and help me find some masons and laborers, and try to find as many people as possible, and we are not afraid to spend money. I will give you fifty wen a day for your wages, forty wen a day for other masons, and thirty-five wen a day for ordinary laborers......

"So much? That's too high, isn't it? The hired workers in the county town are not as much as the wages you give! Second Uncle Niu looked at Xiao Ding in disbelief, and said in his heart, is this fool guilty of stupidity again?

"Not high, not high, they are all villagers in the village, help me work, I naturally will not treat everyone badly. However, there is a demand for me to pay more. Xiao Ding said.

"What kind of request, you just say ......," Second Uncle Niu said.

"One is to ensure quality, and the other is to ensure the construction period." Xiao Ding said.

"Don't worry, it's absolutely fine!" Second Uncle Niu patted his chest and reassured.