Chapter 64: Moving Bricks
Zhang Xiushan chiseled two long cracks perpendicular to the door, and made two wooden boards equal to the length of the ground seam, he closed the door, and then stuffed the planks vertically, so that one side of the plank stood stuck in the crack, and an edge was exposed on the ground, just enough to withstand the door.
Dong Yuan also nailed the previous door latch again, playing a double reinforcement role.
Hua Bong verified the strength again, this time he hit the door, and the door only shook a little, and the strength was greatly strengthened.
"Well, the strength is okay this time!" Zhang Xiushan asked Hua Feng proudly.
"It's still almost, this door is still shaking, can you let him not even shake it?"
Zhang Xiushan didn't have a trick at all, pretended to think about it, and went back to find Ye Ran.
"Oh, that's easy, it's because the lower part of the door is fixed, but the upper half is not fixed. Then dig two long pits diagonally, and insert two wooden strips diagonally against the door, and it will be even stronger. But that's a lot of work. Ye Ran gestured to Lao Zhang.
Lao Zhang was very happy, praised Ye Ran a few words, and went downstairs to direct Hua Feng.
"Brother Hua Kung Fu, come and chisel, my old bones can't be chiseled."
Li Yu instructed Jin Yue and others to sort the food and place it in the cellar. Just in case, Li Yu divided out about a quarter of the food and stored it on the third floor. In this way, even if the first floor is besieged, it is still possible for them to hold on to the third floor.
He asked Qian Mu to go to the top floor to watch the wind, and replaced Li Yimeng to help put the food. Li Yimeng is the chef in charge, so it's just right for him to clean up.
Fang Xinping's body regained stability, his abdomen no longer hurt, Wang Yueshan stayed up all night and didn't dare to sleep, finally put his mind at ease, came out of the house, and went down to the hall.
"You're down? How is Fang Xinping? Jin Yue came up from the cellar and was transporting food with Qi Xian and the others one by one, while Li Yimeng was in the cellar according to the class.
"Slept. Who has smoke? Wang Yueshan replied weakly, and the dark circles under his eyes were like wearing smoky makeup.
Hua Feng found a box of cigarettes from the side pocket of his backpack, Zhongzhou brand, in an iron box, this kind of cigarette box only has nine cigarettes.
"Scared the hell out of me, I thought she was going to give birth last night." Wang Yueshan's voice was a little hoarse, "I really shouldn't have been so impulsive to slam the door open, if she happened to be behind the door, I would wipe my neck to death!" Oh? Thanks, who are you? ”
Hua Feng gave one to Wang Yueshan, and he held one in his own hand and helped Wang Yueshan light it. Hua Feng and Wang Yueshan hadn't seen each other before, and they had just met.
"Reckless, ahem!" Jin Yue couldn't smell the smoke, and she didn't even want to smell anywhere in the house. In normal times, she would directly order others to extinguish the cigarettes, but this time he saw that Wang Yueshan was tired all night, so he endured it and didn't say anything.
"Let's go to the kitchen and smoke." Hua Feng could see that Jin Yue couldn't stand the smell of smoke.
"No, I'm too tired to do it, let me sit on the sofa for a while, Sister Jin Yue will forgive me." Wang Yueshan took a deep puff of cigarette, walked to the edge of the sofa, and sat down. The whole person sank into the sofa, as if floating on the water with a swimming ring.
He fell asleep almost as soon as he was on the couch, snoring loudly. Jin Yue wanted to pull him up, but Hua Feng stopped him, "Let him sleep." He took care of it all night, and he must have been overdrawn. He took the cigarette that Wang Yueshan had only smoked two puffs from his hand, extinguished it, put it back in the box, and continued to dig the ground.
The sound of digging the ground also couldn't wake up Wang Yueshan at all, Hua Feng and Zhang Xiushan put the wooden strip on the door, this time the door was quite stable, and the two high-fived each other.
The food in the cellar and the third floor were all stacked, and the tools had been moved to the tool room on the second floor, and it took everyone a full morning.
"There's a lot of meat today, do you have to have a good meal?" Zhang Xiushan's chest was pressed against his back when he was already hungry, and he stopped working for a while, sitting on the ground, rubbing his belly with his hands.
"We have a chef here, so this meal should be delicious today." Jin Yue looked at Li Yimeng expectantly.
"It's all packaged things, and the cooking skills don't help, and the kitchen can't be used. We'll have to get a stove. Li Yimeng scratched his head, obviously bothered by the current cooking environment.
"Cooking produces smoke and heat, don't attract zombies, or let's eat instant noodles." Qi said first, everyone had black lines on their faces, and they shouldn't stubble, pretending not to hear or see. Qi Xian felt like a transparent person at this time.
"It's okay to use an iron filing cabinet, just like Dong Yuan did last time." Zheng Jieming looked at Dong Yuan and made a suggestion.
Li Yimeng shook his head, "The heat loss is too great, and we don't have many materials for living and cooking now, so we can use a little less." ”
"Then dig a pit at the door and install a passage to vent the air as a stove." Dong Yuan suggested, this product attaches great importance to eating, and he can't wait to bury the stove and make a fire immediately, and he will dig a pit outside when he gets up.
"Wait a minute, what Qi Xian just said is right, lighting a fire to cook may indeed attract zombies. And... It can also attract enemies. Li Yu stopped Dong Yuan, and everyone looked at Li Yu, thinking that he was also going to suggest that everyone eat instant noodles, "Can you set the stove on the third floor, or even the top floor?" ”
Installed on a high floor, it is obviously from the perspective of precaution, and it will inevitably be more troublesome to carry fuel and ash up and down. But from a security standpoint, it seems to be worth the hassle.
"The roof is not suitable, and if it rains, you can't cook." Li Yimeng said.
"That's on the third floor, but what about the smoke?" Jin Yue put forward an idea.
"You can pick a room with good ventilation at the front and back, and open the window when you are cooking, just let the wind convection. It would be better to choose the house on the south side. Li Yu continued, "Moreover, the biggest advantage of the south side is that our small buildings are facing the street on the north and west sides, and only the east and south sides are facing other houses. But to the east there is our sewer entrance, where there is a fire at night, which is easy to be discovered. ”
Zheng Jieming also weighed Li Yu's statement, and felt that what he said was quite comprehensive, so he echoed him, "What Li Yu said is quite good, I support Li Yu's idea." ”
Li Yu looked at Zheng Jieming and nodded.
"Okay, let's get started. How do you build a stove? Ye Ran rubbed his hands and was eager to try.
"It doesn't have to be too complicated, just build a hollow platform with bricks or dirt. Well, let's move the bricks and dirt first, and I'll just yard upstairs when we get back. Li Yimeng said, "Brother Li, you can take me up and pick a room first!" Brother Zheng, you can take everyone to help me find some bricks or soil. By the way, there is also that kind of very large pot in the restaurant, and I can get everyone's food in one pot. ”
The thought that there might be cooked hot food to eat in the future made everyone look forward to it and cheer up. But the origin of the bricks became a problem.
"With a bag, a weapon and a hammer, Dong Yuan, Qi Xian, Ye Ran, the three of you follow me, just look around. Hua Feng, Jin Yue, and Xiao Han, you stay at home and answer us. ”
"How can I find bricks?" Ye Ran looked dazed.
"Bungalow area! There are a lot of houses built of red bricks, so just tear down a wall and each person can carry some bricks back. "Zheng Jieming is quite sure.
"Push another shopping cart, and move bricks to what year and month?" Qi first suggested, "The noise of the cart is loud, but you can see zombies during the day, and now it is still quiet outside, and we are not afraid that we will not win." ”
"Did you find the clear glue before?" Zheng Jieming thought about it and asked Jin Yue.
"Yes! It's on the third floor, and it's in the tool room on the second floor! Ye Ran took over the conversation and ran up to take off the transparent glue.
Zheng Jieming wrapped the transparent glue around the wheel and pushed it, making the noise much smaller.
"You can push two more." Zheng Jieming smiled first.
The four of them walked out, and by the way, each dragged two zombie corpses at the door and threw them on the road, so as not to stink after being piled up at the door for a long time. While clearing the road, walk towards the bungalow area.
"Watch out for the hunters." Zheng Jieming vigilantly watched the surroundings. Everyone has repeatedly suffered the losses of the hunters, and although they have saved the day every time, the surprise attack of this thing is really unbearable.
Zheng Jieming has a pistol pinned to his waist, ready to deal with a sudden attack.
He had a foreboding feeling that sooner or later someone would die at the hands of the hunters.
There are some zombies in the bungalow area, like shells left on the shore after the flood passes.
The four of them found a bungalow yard, and in this yard there was a flower stand stacked with red bricks, and everyone divided the flower stand by two, dismantling the flower stand, and stacking the red bricks into the car as neatly as possible.
"This wall can be torn down!" Zheng Jieming knocked on the wall next to him, and he felt that the wall seemed to be stacked directly, with very little cement used and the wall was not neat. He picked out a red brick with his hand.
The four of them quickly dismantled the wall and filled two shopping carts with bricks, and Zheng Jieming found three black plastic bags and filled them with three bags of soil.
"What are you doing with dirt?" Ye Ran was puzzled.
"The stove should be used."
"Then why don't you dig at the door of the small building?"
"When I dig in front of my house in an emergency, some of the soil is used in the place. I dismantled the tables, chairs and benches in the room and brought them back to make a fire! ”
The crowd found enough bricks, dirt and wood to retreat.
"Let's go to the yard next door, maybe there will be other good things." Zheng Jieming, Qi Xian, and Dong Yuan each pushed a car and carried a backpack, while Ye Ran was responsible for exploring the way.
"There's a shovel here, is it useful?" Ye Ran poked his head into the courtyard and saw that the family had opened up the yard into a small garden.
"It's useful, and when you encounter this kind of tool, you have it all. There are also empty beer bottles, which are also put away. ”
Ye Ran didn't think about the role of the empty beer bottle, he picked up the shovel and picked it up, feeling that if this thing was used as a weapon, it was really not a good idea.
"Let's go back. I have to go to Qian Mu's restaurant to find a cauldron and see if there is any other food by the way. Zheng Jieming suddenly felt a strange uneasiness in his heart.
He thinks something bad might happen, but he can't say why.