Chapter 55: Winter's Dish
Due to the large number of people and the fact that the foundation was not very deep, it only took them one day to dig the trench, and then Liu Guangju came forward to contact the quarry in Dawangzhuang to send several large truckloads of rubble over.
The stone around Daqing Mountain is abundant, and it is difficult to transport cement from outside the mountain in the past, so rough stone is generally used when laying the foundation. Although this rough stone looks rough, it is very strong, and if the foundation is laid, it is not uncommon for the house to not fall for decades. Take the warehouses where Liu Junhao lives for example, they have a history of twenty or thirty years, but there is not even a crack in them until now.
Professor Zhao originally wanted to use cement as the foundation, but after hearing that the cement was too humid in summer, he switched to rubble.
The rough stones I got this time are all large, relatively square, and the foundation is just right. Of course, a ceremony was held when the foundation was laid, so that the house would be solid and life would be peaceful.
After the foundation is laid, the walls are built, these red bricks are pulled in from outside the town, the price is relatively expensive, but the masonry is beautiful, and it is much stronger than the green bricks burned in the town.
Although the masons in the village are not of high grade, they are still capable of building a wall, and it only took two days to build the wall, and then Professor Zhao entrusted Liu Guangju to buy a few good timbers in the town, and as soon as the beam was put on, he began to fan the tiles.
Of course, Shangliang is a big deal in the countryside, and it is necessary to see a good day, which is generally selected on the third, sixth or ninth day of the lunar calendar, which is recognized as a good day.
Although Professor Zhao didn't believe it, he followed the local customs and prepared everything under the guidance of Liu Junhao. This thing is actually not superstitious, just a festive picture, and on that day, Zhang Qian deliberately waited with her mobile phone early, ready to film the whole process.
The time to put on the beam should be before 12 noon, which is also the rule.
In a burst of crackling firecrackers, the foreman used a big basket to hold some coins, gross tickets, peanuts, walnuts, etc., stood on the girder and threw them down, while sprinkling, his mouth kept shouting, "East and west, mules and horses in front of and behind the house," "East and west, children and wives ...... a small nest"
This is also the time when children are happiest, constantly picking up coins, peanuts, and walnuts around the house. At this time, Professor Zhao was busy handing out red envelopes to those who came to help, and handing out joy candy to those who joined in the fun.
It took a total of eight days, five large houses stood at the head of the village, and the newly built houses were festive no matter how they looked good, but at this time they were still uninhabitable, and they needed to be roasted in it with firewood every few days to dry the moisture in the house.
Seeing that the people in the village began to grow vegetables for winter food, Liu Junhao also sorted out a large piece of land in the backyard, and then went to the village to ask for some garlic cloves and Shanghai green seeds to plant on the ground.
Professor Zhao saw that he planted only one vegetable, so he went to the town to buy some potatoes, radish seeds, etc., anyway, as long as he could grow vegetables in winter, he bought some.
Although it is said that the planting time is a little late, but the spring water is watering, and the vegetables seem to be growing well. In particular, the potato seedlings have grown to more than 20 centimeters tall in a blink of an eye, and they are very green and strong. When Liu Junhao saw them, he was already thinking about braised pork and stewed potatoes, which tasted absolutely good in winter.
"Well, what's wrong with these garlic sprouts?" When his eyes moved to the garlic seedling field, he saw that all of them were drooping their heads, and they were scarred. When I looked to the side again, I found the culprit, and it turned out to be the large flock of hens I raised.
Now at this time, there are no insects to eat in the field, so this group of chickens is not running into the wild, all of them pecked garlic seedlings in the yard to eat, although Liu Junhao deliberately made a fence, but the chickens will fly if they can't bear it.
Seeing that a large piece of garlic seedlings being pecked into a different way, he was a little worried, whether to get these little hens into the cage, and wait for the beginning of spring to scatter out, otherwise, let them be so scourge, I am afraid that he will be busy for a long time, and in the end he will not even be able to eat a garlic seedling.
Liu Junhao was pondering on the edge of the vegetable patch, but he heard someone shouting at the gate. He thought it was the bear kids coming again, so he didn't care.
These bear children have nothing else to do now, without exception, they are playing with the computer. Since the computer was moved to Liu Junhao's house, he hasn't played a few times, but these children stay in the courtyard almost every day, and every time they arrive at the meal, the adults of each family drag them back with their ears.
In fact, not only children, even adults also run over every now and then to see the strange, although it is said that it is not possible to access the Internet, but this thing is still relatively attractive to the people in the village, many people have personally gone up to practice, pretending to pat the chassis, listen to the fan turning, and then let out a few sighs.
The funniest thing is the old cow head, he took a dry cigarette and knocked a few times on the screen and said: "Foreigners just can, I heard that this thing can also plow the land, and we won't need oxen next spring."
This made Liu Junhao frightened when he watched from the sidelines, for fear that he would break the monitor, but he was embarrassed to step forward to stop it.
Over the past month, the meter readings have risen "whoosh", but for Liu Junhao, this is all small money. The electricity bill in the countryside is cheap, and the electricity is only more than five cents per kilowatt-hour, and it is only thirty or forty yuan a month, and it is enough to sell two catties of yellow eel, so he doesn't care, and lets these bear children play.
This computer is not so attractive to Liu Junhao, and he spends his leisure time typing, playing games, and watching.
To say that Zhao Weidong's consideration was relatively comprehensive at the beginning, he downloaded a lot of things and stored them in the computer, especially the hard disk games, which made more than a dozen of them, which is also the reason why the bear children are interested, for children, games are greater than everything.
Sometimes Zhang Qian also comes to play, but she doesn't play for a long time every time, she usually uploads the pictures on her mobile phone to the computer and saves them, and then just copies some to her mobile phone to read.
Who knew that the people in the courtyard waited for two minutes and didn't see the owner come out, and shouted at the top of their throats, and Liu Junhao heard clearly that it was Zheng Jianxue, a frequent visitor to the village in recent times, and his girlfriend.
Zheng Jianxue works as a technician in a company in the city, and after following a group of friends to Liujiagou to play once on the eleventh day, he liked it here, and personally rented a piece of land on the river beach to grow vegetables, and passed the vegetables he grew to his own space to entertain himself.
Coincidentally, he had a kiss under the auspices of his parents that day, and he himself was very satisfied with the girl, and he deliberately left his mobile phone number and QQ when he left. But after waiting for a few days, no one contacted him, and when Zheng Jianxue thought that there was no drama, the girl suddenly sent him a message on QQ and asked about the photos in his space.
Zheng Jianxue continued along this topic, and the more the two talked, the more speculative they became. When she learned that he still had a vegetable plot of her own in the countryside, the girl was even more curious, saying that she didn't know how the vegetables were grown, and she also wanted to be a weekend farmer in the countryside.
Such a good opportunity, Zheng Jianxue didn't know that he would be a fool to seize it, so he vigorously encouraged the girl to go to the vegetable field with him on the weekend and live a healthy and relaxed pastoral life.
The girl thought about it for a while, and finally agreed, when she came to Zheng Jianxue's vegetable field, she felt very novel, and wanted to try everything, so Zheng Jianxue taught her to ditch, water, and seal the soil hand in hand.
As a result, after half a day's work, I didn't expect the girl to have a good impression of him, and discussed going to his field to plant vegetables next weekend.
So after a few times, the two confirmed their relationship, and this became the place for their weekend dates.
Both of them are grateful to the vegetable field as a "matchmaker", and deliberately put a sign on the edge of their plot called "Lovers' Field", during this time on weekends, you can often see their little couple in the field leisurely duet "You farm and I weave, I carry water and you water the garden......