After the holiday, Liu Jun also completely returned to his previous lazy state.

In the morning, Professor Zhao moved the small table to the toon tree outside the courtyard, and the two played chess in the shade. Although the lotus leaves in the ditch are only sparse, they give people a different kind of dark fragrance. Drinking sweet honey water while playing chess, life passed happily.

In the past few days, the acacia tree has bloomed, and the front and back of the house of the two families have also become a sea of flowers. Naturally, those native bees do not miss the opportunity and are busy in the branches every day. The two of them are close to the water and get the moon first, and with this convenience, they naturally have a glass of honey water every day. The honey of the locust flower is slightly milky and smells much more fragrant than other honeys.

Last year, when the bees settled here, the locust flowers had basically failed, so this was the first time they had tasted this locust nectar.

While playing chess, Wukong ran back with a bird's nest. This guy is afraid that the owner will confiscate the two little starlings, so he has to take the bird's nest with him every day no matter where he goes. To Liu Junhao's surprise, the monkey has a talent for being a "bird mother", running out to catch grasshoppers and green insects at dawn every day, and holding the bird's nest in his arms to keep warm when it gets dark.

After a few days, the two little birds not only did not die, but lived very happily, more than twice as large as they had been at the beginning. The small mouth is tender and yellow, covered with fluff, and looks quite cute. What's even more eye-popping is that the little starling seems to have regarded Wukong as his biological parents. Even the cry smells of a monkey.

When he and Zhang Qian saw this, they completely gave up the idea of letting the monkey send the neem starling back. However, they were quite curious about what virtues these two little ones would have when they grew up under the care of the monkeys.

"By the way, Xiao Hao, come and help me tear down the fence wall, I don't need it at all now." After playing a game of chess, Professor Zhao remembered that he still had something to do.

"I said old man, you can toss enough, this fence wall has just been built for a year, what are you doing demolishing it now."

At this time last year, Chen Thorn was no taller than his knees, and he couldn't stop the animals from sneaking into the yard to steal vegetables to eat. In the end, Professor Zhao had no choice but to put a circle of reed fences around the speech, and this year, the thorns grew taller and could be used as a fence, so he planned to tear down the fence.

The fence is time-consuming to build, but it is incredibly easy to remove. The wire at the junction had already rusted after a year of wind and rain, and it broke immediately with a gentle hinge of the pliers.

He was busy in front with his tongs, and Professor Zhao followed behind to pick up wires. In less than ten minutes, all the fence walls were torn down, and the yard had a new look.

After the labor, the two stopped playing chess, and sat directly under the toon tree and closed their eyes to recuperate. When the breeze blows, it is particularly comfortable.

It was until 11 o'clock at noon, and the students were supposed to leave school immediately. Liu Junhao put the water cup on one end and went back to the house to start cooking lunch.

Wait until you make rice porridge, and it just so happens that there is a surplus of soil honey picked in the morning, and then wash some jujubes. The taste should be good. As for the dish, it's still a cool toon. During the May Day period, in order to entertain guests, there has been a big fish and meat, and now it is lighter, and you can scrape the oil.

As soon as the rice was put into the pot, Zhang Qian happened to return to the courtyard, and the first thing she did when she entered the yard was to take out the grasshoppers she had caught and feed them to the little swallows. Now these little birds have also developed a habit, and when they hear any movement, they immediately chirp non-stop with their small beaks.

After feeding the swallows, she took a few more pictures with her camera.

"Husband, how about we build a small bridge over the ditch?"

"Repair the bridge? What are you doing repairing the bridge, aren't there stone pedals over there? Liu Junhao asked in surprise. He now understands that his wife's way of thinking belongs to the kind of imagination, and sometimes it is very unrealistic. He had planned to build a hut on a poplar tree, but he tried to dissuade him.

"Let's build a wooden bridge by the lotus pond, and then connect a wooden pavilion at the head of the bridge, so that we can enjoy the shade there at night."

"You're just working hard and hurting money, and there is no sun at night, what do you want a pavilion for" Although there is wood at home, it doesn't cost a lot of money to build a pavilion. But he was too lazy to move, and he didn't want to do anything flashy.

"How is it a waste of money and labor. I'm here to provide a bird-watching place for tourists, and I've got the name in mind, it's called the Bird Watching Pavilion. This idea, but Zhang Qian thought of it on a whim during class in the morning, and now she is said to be worthless by her husband, and she is very angry.

"Have you thought about it, how should the bridge be repaired?" Seeing that his wife insisted, he had to ask patiently.

"Don't bother, just put a plank across the gutter. You see, I've drawn all the blueprints. Zhang Qian said and ran back to the courtyard and took out the record book. The painting on the top is very beautiful, the small bridge is clinging, the lotus is full of ponds, and a few big birds are stretching their wings outside the pavilion.

"Well, as long as there is a rainstorm in summer, this plank will definitely be washed away." Liu Junhao pointed out the drawbacks at a glance.

"Then raise it, at least a meter above the water, so it's all right, right?" Zhang Qian thought about it and made changes to the diagram.

"Well, then your bridge is too narrow, what if you walk on it and stumble and fall into the water? Especially children, they like to move around the most, and the water in our ditch is not shallow......"

"Widen it, get some more railings on it," she said, and finally she gave up herself. It's too complicated, and if you really want to do this, the amount of work is definitely not small.

"I used to see that the single-plank bridge painted by others was very beautiful, why didn't I adapt to it here." Zhang Qian patted the drawings very depressedly.

"The single-plank bridge looks beautiful, but it's not so easy to walk, but it's not impossible to ...... with guardrails," he said. Liu Junhao suddenly had an idea, and another design method came to mind. With such a calculation, my wife's idea became simpler.

"Speak quickly, every time you speak, you say half of it." Zhang Qian was waiting for the second half of his sentence, but after waiting for half a minute, she found that her husband was in a state of wandering at the moment.

"Plastic rope, we can use plastic rope to weave into a guardrail, bring the paper, I'll design it for you." Liu Junhao said as he snatched the notebook, then picked up a pencil and drew quickly on it. Speaking of which, his painting level is far worse than Zhang Qian's. Fortunately, Zhang Qian's comprehension ability is super strong, and she can recognize what he is painting after careful identification.

"Husband, you are so smart, how can you get along with this trick of using a plastic rope" Zhang Qian praised a sentence, and then her thoughts flowed, "In the middle of the connection, we can also weave two net pockets, put flower pots in the net pockets, and plant morning glories." Let the morning glory climb along the guardrail, and then it will become a flower bridge. ”

Planting flowers on the bridge, my wife's idea is really creative, with the help of spring water, I believe that the morning glory will definitely survive. Suddenly, he was also interested. Prepare to do it in the afternoon.

"Build a bridge over a ditch? You're idle. After eating, as soon as Liu Junhao told Professor Zhao about this idea, his old man immediately began to criticize it.

The old man criticized for a while, and finally nodded in agreement...... The main thing is that he is also idle and has nothing to do, and it is naturally good to have some fun to do.

So, the two of them braved the scorching sun and began to get busy by the ditch.

He had all the building materials at home, and the source of wood was the old gate of his house. When the house was renovated, Zhang Qian disliked the outdated wooden door, so she replaced it with a sliding door. This door panel is useless, and Zhang Qian wanted to chop it as firewood a few days ago. Liu Junhao hurriedly stopped it, saying that it was a pity to burn the good wood. It's better to save it in case it will be useful someday.

The door panel is used as a bridge deck, which can be regarded as making the best use of things. As for the bridge pier in the middle, it can be replaced by a stone stone, and it just so happens that there are two large stone stones outside the courtyard wall. This stone is different from ordinary people's homes, and it cannot be seen in ordinary places, it is more than one meter long and forty or fifty centimeters in diameter. It takes two big bullocks to pull at the same time to move, which is a unique product of the era of eating big pot rice. After the production was distributed to the household, ordinary people generally fed a cow, and that thing was useless, so it was completely abandoned. When Old Man Liu was in the grain depot, he protected the two big stones very well, and now they can be used to pad them in the water.

However, the wooden stake in the middle of the stone stone has been exposed to wind and rain for a long time, and it has long been decayed, and needs to be replaced.

This was difficult for Liu Junhao, so he found two pieces of wood on the pile of miscellaneous wood and cut them into squares, and then inserted them in the stone nest.

A stone weighs two or three hundred pounds, and Professor Zhao is afraid that Liu Junhao will often be too reluctant to put it in the water alone, so he also pulls up his trouser leg and goes down to take a hand.

The two carefully placed the stone stone stone in the middle of the ditch, connected the two stone stone stones together with horizontal wooden nails, and finally laid the door panel on the top to form a simple figure-eight wooden bridge.

The rest of the work was simple, with two wooden stakes planted at each head to secure the ropes.

Of course, there is a need to make preparations before planting the stake, that is, to carbonize the lower end of the stake, which can effectively prevent the wood from rotting when buried in the ground.

Liu Junhao just lit a fire in the middle of the road and roasted it violently, and in less than five minutes, Liu Laosan hurried over and asked: "Xiaohao, what are you doing here, I saw smoke here from a distance, and I thought it was on fire." ”

When he saw the plank bridge on the ditch, he also criticized it as nonsense. There is no road in the woods, so there is a need to build a bridge?

But since he came, Liu Laosan also picked up a sledgehammer to help drive piles.

"Xiao Hao, didn't you ask Zhao Guangming to send the rope, why hasn't he come yet?"

"Don't worry, it should be almost there." At the time of eating, Liu Junhao was too hot at noon. I was too lazy to call Zhao Guangming and asked Zhao Guangming to buy ropes and flower pots and send them to me. The man promised very brittlely, but seeing that the pile had been laid, the person who sent the rope did not even see a shadow.

In desperation, he had to go into the house again to make a call. Before he could dial up, Professor Zhao was already shouting at the top of his voice: "Xiao Hao, don't call, someone has already come." ”

"I'm X, do you have something wrong with your brain, this place needs to build bridges?" As soon as Zhao Guangming's motorcycle stopped, he immediately said this.

Ya, I can't repair this bridge, Liu Junhao really wants to give up now. Why is it that everyone who comes by is against building the bridge?

The deck and body of the bridge were each tied with two ropes as thick as a one-dollar coin, and the rest was a fence woven into a net with thin plastic ropes.

When the bridge was repaired, Liu Junhao was completely disappointed, no matter how this thing looked, it was not like a four. The bridge is too short and the guardrail is too high, and there is a feeling of bloat, especially the four half-human-high wooden piles in the middle of the bridge, which seem very abrupt and awkward.

"It's the first time I've seen such an ugly bridge" Zhao Guangming looked at it for a while, and finally hit mercilessly.

"You kid doesn't have an aesthetic vision, this is classical beauty, don't you understand" Liu Junhao is also a cooked duck now, and his mouth is not rotten.

"Wouldn't it be nice to have a gazebo in the middle of the bridge?" At this time, Professor Zhao put forward an opinion.

Add a wooden pavilion? This is very similar to my wife's original design. Liu Junhao stood at a distance and looked at it, and felt that if he added a gazebo, the visual effect would indeed be much better.

"I think it's feasible to add a gazebo, isn't there a pine rafter left over from your house, it's just right to use that." Liu Laosan also opened his mouth to suggest.

Adding a gazebo, the amount of work is a bit larger, and Liu Junhao didn't want to waste any more time. But everyone's opinion is the same, and he can only follow the advice.

Don't look at the matter of drilling a few holes in the rafters, it can be a headache for people who don't know how to carpenter. originally wanted Liu Laosan to do it, but that person was an ant with a strong mouth. When it comes to the production process, he is the first to say, and he really can't even hang the ink line.

In the end, Liu Junhao had to beg Er Mazi again and let him do it while he was free.

Afraid that people wouldn't understand, he also deliberately drew a few sketches. As a result, Er Mazi said: "What are you drawing, I know how to get it,"

Sweat...... The professional is different, and the words are full of confidence.

It should be said that in the past few years, carpenters, like masons, were all skilled jobs and were quite popular. Especially for carpenters, it takes at least a few days to make a set of furniture, and the main family usually has to be entertained with good food and drink. Because of this, when Er Mazi was young, he specially found someone to learn carpenter for a few years, but unfortunately he belonged to the kind of hero who was useless. Just two years after leaving the school, the three plywood slats became popular in ten miles and eight towns, and people bought complete sets directly from the street, and few of them made their own. So Ermazi, a carpenter, didn't work for a few days and stopped cooking completely.

After Liu Junhao finished explaining, he wanted to turn around and leave.

"Don't go, you give me a hand and help me polish the blade of the planer." Er Mazi said and took out a canvas bag from the corner. I slapped it with my hand, and suddenly there was smoke and dust. Further down, rat droppings, cotton balls, and so on were scattered all over the ground.

"I said Uncle Guangxi, how many years have you not used this thing?" The pungent smell almost didn't make Liu Junhao faint.

"Why don't you give it a hand" Er Mazi smiled, he had thrown this pile of furniture in the corner of the wall and hadn't touched it for several years, and now he finally caught free labor.

By the time the planer was sharpened, the sun was about to set.

Seeing that there was no chance to build a gazebo today, Liu Junhao could only say hello and go home to cook