Chapter Twenty-Seven: Building a House

"Yes, the eldest sister has grown up? It's been hard work for everyone this time, as long as our family survives this time, the days will get better and better in the future. Now we are going to get rid of and pick up the weeds and rocks from the foundation.

Second, you bring a firewood knife and go to see if the trees on the mountain are suitable for the beams of the house, you feel the situation and cut it down, and after cutting it down, ask us to resist it together.

The second family, you take Qilang and the sixth sister to the mountains to pick wild vegetables, and the excess is dried for winter eating, and you are also responsible for our food. Huang Li also praised Huang Liu's words, nodded his head, and directly ordered everyone to do things.

"Grandma, have you ever thought about whether there is anything planted in our field?

There is no fertilizer in the paddy field, and there is no seedling yet, so it is too late to plant rice, but in the dry field, we just need to trim it and sprinkle some fertilizer, and we can plant seedlings and reload sweet potatoes or potatoes, even if the ground is not so fat, but it can also grow into half a size, which is more hungry than wild vegetables or something, and we can survive the winter. Huang Yiyun thought about it and said to Huang Li.

"How did Grandma forget about this stubble? Now let's hurry up and get rid of the stones and weeds on the foundation, and the whole family will go to the dry land to break up the soil, carry water, and then go to the villages to borrow some fertilizer, borrow some grown seedlings, and plant them, and plant those two pieces of dry land in the next few days. Building a house and farming are the right thing. Huang Li patted his forehead and said.

The days have rushed and hopeful, and the Huang family is full of energy.

It only took an afternoon to remove all the rocks and weeds from the foundation.

Huang Li saw that the sun had not yet set, and there was still afterglow.

First of all, he instructed Huang Jiang to take Qilang and the sixth sister back to the house at the head of the village to cook dinner and clean it up, and today Huang Jiang also picked up stones on the foundation for most of the day, his face was pale, he was out of breath, and his body was a little unbearable, Huang Li hurriedly asked Huang Jiang to go back.

"It seems that the Huang family is an honest family." Now that the sun has set, only the afterglow is left, Village Chief Zhang is in his yard, looking at the dry land, the Huang family is big and small, and after several shadows are working in their dry land, Village Chief Zhang sighed imperceptibly.

"No, their family spent an afternoon sorting out the weeds and stones on the foundation of their house, and now they are still working on the dry fields, and they are all able to endure hardship. It's not easy for their family, isn't it? Village Chief Zhang's daughter-in-law, Zhang Lin also nodded.

"Ming'er, if the Huang family wants to borrow something, just borrow it from their family, it is not easy to escape from the desert to Qingshan Village, more fate, it is said that their family also met a rogue on the way, the two pillars in order to lead away the rogue and they got lost, so far I haven't found it, I'm afraid it's also a lot of luck, it's not easy for everyone, if you can help, you can help."

"Well, I know that." Zhang Lin nodded, signaling that he knew.

Now in early summer, before the end of the day, the sky is just beginning to lighten.

Huang Li led the Huang family to the foundation of his house, and Huang Conghe still went up the mountain to cut down trees suitable for the beams of the house.

Huang Li's, Huang Liu's and from one, two, three, four, five, five small ones to dig yellow soil.

After digging it down, it is synthesized with water and then put into a mold to participate in this certain proportion of straw straw.

After it is slightly dry, the mold is taken out, and after the finished adobe is exposed to the sun for a few days, it is piled together in pieces, smoothed with lime cement mortar, and then put on the beams of the house, and spread straw to build the house.

After Village Chief Zhang took Zhang Dalang, Zhang Erlang, Zhang Sanlang, and Zhang Shilang to the foundation of the Huang family, they saw that the Huang family had already started work, and after saying hello to the Huang family, they brought the hoe from the house, and rolled up their sleeves with a dustpan.

Several sons of the village chief's family helped the Huang family build a house, and all the adobe blocks were made in one day.

After two days of exposure, you can build together, then use lime cement slurry to smooth the links together, and then put on the beams made in advance, pave straw, and then expose the house to the sun for two or three days, and you can live in it.

It is worth mentioning that the Liu family, which is closest to the foundation of the Huang family, saw that after their family built a house, when they were idle farmers again, the head of the Liu family led his two sons to help the Huang family build a house.

On the first day, after the adobe was made, on the second day the houses to be built were planned with lime along the foundation.

After that, the foundation was laid and cast from stones.

Huang Li had already thought about it, there were two rooms on the left and right in the hall, and one room on the left and right outside the house.

The kitchen, firewood room, etc., are all built at the back of the house.

In front of the house, it is fenced with bamboo or wooden blocks to make a small fence yard, and you can open a vegetable field to grow vegetables for your own family.

After the lime plan was made, Village Chief Zhang separated a group of people and began to dig the underground passage for burning the kang.

Another group went up the hill to cut down trees to make beams and lay straw.

The Huang family was busy building houses during the day, and at night they were busy sowing seeds in the dry fields.

Their family has already agreed with the village chief's family about borrowing fertilizer and seedlings.

After finishing the construction of the house during the day, at night call a few small ones at home, carry torches, turn over the soil of the two dry fields, and then break the larger soil, and then put them together piece by piece, outlining the ditch for walking.

The fertilizer borrowed from the village chief's house was poured into the dry land.

After raising them for three days, they pick the sweet potato seedlings directly from the sweet potato field of the village chief's house and insert them in the dry land of his house.

There are two types of sweet potato sowing.

One is to cut the sweet potato into pieces and bury them directly in the soil, waiting for them to sprout and grow seedlings naturally.

The other is to choose the sweet potato seedlings that have grown, and after picking them, they will be planted directly.

Both types of sowing have their own good and bad qualities.

It's just that now the Huang family has nothing, so they can only choose the second way of sowing.

Whether it can be done or not, whether it will grow or not, depends on God's will and the maintenance of the Huang family.

The Huang family had so many people to help build the house, although it was only a simple adobe house, it took ten days of hard work to build the house.

After waiting for the new house to be exposed to the sun for a few days, the Liu family began to move to the new house.

Although the new house was built, it only cost 200 taels of square meters to build the house.

The foundation approved by the county government for each household is the size of one acre of land, and if you want to build a bigger house, you have to take money to buy it from the village.

Now the head of the village Zhang and the father and son of the Liu family are just building a house for the Huang family, and the things that are fenced in the front yard and backyard need to be done by the Huang family themselves, and they can arrange it bit by bit.

After all, people have built houses for their own houses with free labor, and they don't even care about food if they don't get paid, so they are embarrassed to ask others to help them get the backyard and front yard for their own homes.