He told him in sign language, Lu Xiangbei looked at him, nodded, gave a low "um", and rode away.

In addition to bricks and tiles for building a house in the village, other materials are easy to solve.

For example, wood, adobe, stone and wheat straw, sorghum stalks, etc.

As for manpower, as long as you are willing to spend money, masonry, carpentry, but everything that needs labor, some people do it.

However, even so, there are very few new houses built in rural areas.

The reason?

- Money, food.

No money, no food, don't say anything.

To put it bluntly, if you don't have the money, why should you hire a mason or carpenter...... If you have no food, the small workers of the village may not eat at your house, but the big workers and the strong laborers who build the walls will have to eat a few meals at the master's house during the construction of the house.

And in this era, how many people can't eat enough, and where do they get food for the workmen?

Anyway, money and food, no matter which one you have, are enough to make the big guy worried.

Therefore, there are many people who want to build a new house for their families to live in, but in fact, there are very few people who operate it.

Leaking roof? Try to patch it.

Cracks in the wall, not insulated from the wind? Paste with mud.

The walls are tilted, find something to support.

The number of people in the family increased, so they built a straw hut in the courtyard to make do with it.

If you really get to the point where you can't build a new house, then take out the family's savings, tighten your belt, save money on rations, ask someone to help you drop adobe, and prepare materials for covering.

In this way, a house with earthen walls and thatched roof also needs a lot of money.

If you choose bricks and tiles, there is nothing to say.

"Yu Zhishu ......" rode past the brigade headquarters, Lu Xiangbei saw the branch secretary of Yuyao Village, got off the car to hand out a cigarette to the other party and another village cadre, and told him about the house to be built by Second Brother Ye's family.

"Mingli is going to build a new house behind the old house, okay, I know about this." Yu Zhishu is a tall and approachable old man, he responded to Lu Xiangbei's sentence, and said: "Before Director Xia was alive, she did not see less people in our village, and later she only served as a women's director in our village for more than a year due to physical reasons, but our big guys remember her well, now Mingli Na Er is going to build a house, don't worry, I will say it then, the big guy will definitely be willing to help." ”

Lu Xiangbei thanked sincerely: "Then I will thank the big guy in advance for my brother-in-law." ”

"That kid is a capable one." When Lu rode away to the north, the village cadre standing next to Yu Zhishu looked at the direction he left and couldn't help but sigh.

Yu Zhishu nodded in agreement: "I heard two years ago that the baby is a character outside, and this time the Mingli family wants to build a new house, most of which the child paid for to build." ”

"It must be, Mingli and his family have lived a tight life in the past few years, and it is impossible for them to come up with money to build a new house."

"Alas! It's good to build a new house, otherwise, who knows that one day Mingli's family will be buried in those three dilapidated houses. ”

"That's what the branch secretary said."

……

Xia Meng is Ye Xia's mother's name, in 1943, she held her daughter who was babbling in her arms, led the young second brother Ye, and looked for her eldest son who left home all the way from Beijing.

At the age of thirteen, Ye Xia's eldest brother had just turned thirteen at that time, and he left a note to his family, saying that he was going to find his father, who had been missing for more than two years.

Wars are raging all over the country, worried that the eldest son will encounter an accident, Xia Meng, a weak mother, can only grit her teeth and scratch her face, and then dress herself and a pair of children into disgrace, trembling all the way to find her eldest son.