Chapter 18: Construction
Last year passed like this, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and today is generally not able to do things, nor can you sweep the floor and wash clothes. Say that if you do something today, you will be very busy for the next year, and you can't stop, and sweeping the floor will sweep away the blessings of the family. In short, I can't do anything today, this is what my mother said in my previous life.
Somehow, it's been almost two years since I've been here, and it's the first time I've thought of my parents in my previous life, and it's so clear. Later, she attributed it to being too busy to think or have the energy to think about it. Because she started to be busy again after the first year of junior high school, and she didn't think about it again after the second year of junior high school.
After the first day of the new year, she began her construction plan again. The place to repair the house was on both sides of the cave entrance, on the left she was going to build three rooms on the right and one on the right, all of which were about a meter away from the mountain.
Dig the pit of the foundation pillar first, it didn't take a few days to dig the hole, and the original ground was all tidied up, so the digging was fast. After digging, I went to get back the wood that had been cut in the woods, and it took a lot of time to get the wood. It's been the end of the New Year, and it's almost her birthday after burying all the pillars, and she's been busy since she rested for a day on her birthday.
She is growing vegetables and repairing the house at the same time, and the house she is building now is a little higher than the previous one, about three meters. It was too tall for her, and she took the time to make a ladder herself.
I was so busy until September, when I finally repaired the house. Three of the four rooms are connected to a single room, each of which is one or twenty square meters in size, and they are all about the same size. It's just that the material of the wall is different, two rooms are made of wood, and two rooms are made of bamboo, in fact, it's not that she doesn't want to use bamboo, but the bamboo forest she found is not enough, and she can't cut them all, so she looked at some long straight wood to make the wall.
One of the firewood rooms and a utility room is made of wood, and the kitchen and bedroom are made of bamboo. Each room has a door in the middle in the direction of the river, and the material of the door is the same as that of the wall.
Now there are still a lot of vegetables in the field, and this year she has planted some mung beans, although last year's planting did not yield much, but there is still a little, and she also found that planting beans can indeed fertilize the ground a little. So this year, she planted mung beans and soybeans in the rest of the place, and this year she also planted two loofahs, which she bought in the town last year, because there were two older ones, she put them at home to see if they could take root and sprout, and later found that they really grew, so she planted them. But I won't pick it up this year, and I should have to eat it next year or the year after next. I don't know why, she used to like to eat vegetables such as melons, and now she still likes to eat melons after a little condition here.
She also planted the grass that she said she wanted to plant last year, which is a plant called dog poop beans, also called wild cassia grass, which is a particularly powerful grass that repells snakes. She planted four trees around the ground, one on the hill above the cave, and some on the roadside up the hill and by the river where water was drawn.
In the meantime, she continued to go to town twice a month to buy food and other things, and she wanted to store more food. Now that autumn is coming, it is harvest time, and she also wants to buy more food to keep at home, especially the ones that have not been processed, such as wheat, rice and corn. Unprocessed grain is far easier to store and less susceptible to spoilage than processed grain.
For this reason, she also went to the village to buy some grain that had just been recovered, and it was cheaper to buy it in the village. However, she didn't dare to buy too much, first, because she couldn't carry it back, and secondly, she was afraid of offending people. Because the grain in those villages is mainly collected by grain stores, and there are some agreed rules, she is afraid that she will buy too much and break the rules and offend people and be calculated and retaliated against. She bought two or three hundred catties, mainly wheat and corn, in fact, she also wanted to buy rice, but it was too troublesome for rice to be produced. Wheat and corn can be ground out with a stone mill, and she only needs to buy a small stone mill.
After harvesting the vegetable patch and grain, she carefully cleared all the things at home and repaired the house. Then he made the dry firewood that had been cut on the side of the road and brought it back and put it in the firewood room, and it took a whole room to make firewood before it stopped. There is also the need to put all the miscellaneous items in the utility room, such as hoes, axes, saws, etc., as well as ladders and baskets. In addition, she made two stoves in the newly repaired kitchen, the stoves were made about a meter near the wall, and she didn't dare to do it too close to the wall for fear of causing a fire, after all, they were all flammable materials such as bamboo and wood. But the other pots and pans are still in the cave and haven't moved in, and she plans to move them again next year.
As for the bedroom, she didn't care about it for the time being, now it's winter, so it's better to live in a cave to get warmer. In the future, it is good to make a bed and a few seat shelves and put them in it, and then the house can only be lived in in late spring and early winter, and it will be too cold in winter. However, if you decorate it again in the future, maybe you can live in it all year round.
This year, she repaired the house and cut a lot of bamboo, and she wanted to plant some more, in case she needed to use something in the future. In winter, she spent half a month planting more than 10 bamboos, and she used to see people planting bamboo, digging up the bamboo, then cutting down the top and burying it in the soil. She used the same method, but she didn't know if she would live. She planted Cizhu and Yellow Bamboo, and she also found these two kinds of bamboo in the mountains, but there is another one she called Jinzhu, but she generally doesn't use it, and the commonly used ones are Cizhu and Yellow Bamboo, so she planted these two.
In fact, what she wants to plant most is moso bamboo, mainly because the bamboo has large joints, thick bamboo walls and hard walls, no matter what it is used for, it is very good. And the bamboo shoots are also thick and delicious. She hadn't found it on the mountain, though, but it wasn't clear if she would find it in the future.
This year has passed like this again, but this year's changes are also obvious, let's just say that the house at the door is the biggest change. I didn't have any more money this year, so I spent the money I used to sell Shou Wu last year, but the money was almost spent, and she must have to make more money next year she thought.