Chapter 46: Building a New Home
After coming here, our old and small families adapted very well and had a very pleasant life.
However, Jiang Zhi and I can't be so leisurely. We still have a lot of plans to complete.
We planned to build a high brick wall and add another layer of bungalows to our home. Secondly, a greenhouse should be built in the backyard, a kitchen should be built next to the warehouse, and a new type of stove should be built in the kitchen; Finally, under the vegetable cellar, we also wanted to dig a larger ice cellar.
We have made some preparations for this. Jiang Zhi went to the brick factory in the county to bring back a lot of bricks, and asked his sister-in-law to buy some good quality wood, found acquaintances to contact the county's professional construction team, and finally invited his cousin Lu Fang, a professional talent who was idle at home.
The first thing to be completed was to build a fence, which was not too technical. In order to make the villagers accept us as outsiders more quickly, I plan to find a few villagers who can be masons in the village. It was now August, and it was the time of the farm, so we asked my sister-in-law to find a few people for us to help build the courtyard wall.
Among these villagers who worked was the young man who came to her aunt's house to sell millet and stretched out her head to say that millet was not a mountain product. His name is Chen Ming, he is a cheerful and down-to-earth young man, he is not married yet, Jiang Zhi and I like him very much.
When I worked for us, I worked very hard, but I loved to talk a little bit, and there were more problems.
"Brother Jiang, why did you, a city person, come to our mountain to buy a house."
"Brother Jiang, my sister-in-law is really good, beautiful and virtuous."
"Brother Jiang, your family is really strange, you came out to play and brought the two old people, you are not afraid of fighting."
"Brother Jiang......"
Jiang Zhi would come back to his question at first, but later he saw that he didn't play anymore, so he ignored him, and he himself could say that he was quite happy.
After I finished practicing with Jiang Zhi in the evening, I talked to Jiang Zhi about Chen Ming.
"Is this young man good, he observes things very nuancedly, and discovers a beauty that I don't know." I heard Chen Ming praise me for being beautiful today, and I have been beautiful for a day. Finally, someone complimented me on my beauty.
"Are you glad he complimented you?" Jiang Zhi said in a deep voice under me.
I had no idea at all that danger was approaching me. "That's right, Chen Ming is good, let him come to our house one day, and we'll invite him to a meal alone."
"You're going to have to treat him to dinner alone." Jiang Zhi exuded a dangerous aura on his body.
I finally figured something was wrong. "I... I think he is very good, but your husband is better than him, you are handsome and powerful, extraordinary, filial piety to the elders, love for the young, hey~hey~hey~ stop. ”
"I also find out now that I am a little better than him, and I love my wife as much as my life." After Jiang Zhi finished speaking, he used force to suppress my resistance. He also repaired me to "love my husband as life".
When I woke up the next day, I vowed never to praise another man in front of him again.
Seeing that Chen Ming was also expressionless and did not squint, Jiang Zhi was very satisfied with my reflection, was last night's education very successful.
When the wall was completed, we set up a table in the courtyard in the evening, of course, we did not forget to invite the more respectable people in the village. It is the first time that our family has set up a banquet to entertain guests, and we will worship the mountain.
No matter what, the strong dragon can't suppress the ground snake, for our future happiness and comfortable days, we still have some etiquette to enter.
After that, we built a greenhouse, this time we didn't look for people from the village, we were looking for professionals from the county to do it. Lu Fang asked us what we wanted, Jiang Zhi thought for a while and said, "Our requirements are very simple, we want the strongest and the cheapest." "Lu Fang and the head of the engineering team are going to faint after hearing this, this requirement is still simple, can it be cheap to be strong?
Later, Lu Fang gave us several plans with different prices. We consider that the winter will be too cold in the future, and there will always be heavy snow, so the skeleton of the greenhouse should be made of the strongest steel and covered material made of glass. They also added a floor to our house by the way, and then built a small house next to the house as a kitchen.
This time, I put forward a request to Lu Fang: "The kitchen flue should go through every room in the house, and the stove should be practical, beautiful and generous, and occupy a small area." ”
Lu Fang couldn't stand it and said to me: "Sister-in-law, why is your family like this, is your request still simple?" It's good to just reach one, and it's so hard to combine all these advantages in one. ”
"Look, don't I see that you are a professional, and I don't mention these requirements that he can't meet for others."
Lu Fang rolled her eyes at me very unladylikely, but she still took the task.
She discussed with the masons of the engineering team how to build the stove. The mason pondered for a long time and then gave up, saying that it was too difficult, and Lu Fang could only do it himself.
She spent the whole day behind closed doors and built me an ingenious stove. The stove is one meter two high, two stoves, there are three eyes on the countertop, respectively, shakuhachi, two feet, two feet three, two big eyes can be used to enlarge the black pot for cooking, and the other small eye is in the middle of the two large pots, you can put a clay pot, usually fill the crockpot with water. When cooking, the flame will boil the water in the crockpot next to it. The hot water here can be used to brush the pots and dishes.
In order to make it easier to wipe the cooktop, the cooktop is paved with black marble. The walls next to the stove are also tiled. Well, Lu Fang's skills are really good, the stove built up is not only good-looking, but also very practical, and the stove for burning the fire is very good. The chimney was raised higher, so that there was no need for bellows on the stove. I asked Jiang Zhi to experiment with it, and a dish was cooked in a few minutes, much faster than liquefied gas.
After this stove was built, it became popular in Tashan Village for a while, and basically every villager came to visit it. A few followed suit and built an identical stove. It turned out that there were people who came back from working outside and always said that Lu Fang was a senior bricklayer after going to college, so many old people in the village were not very proud of Lu Fang, thinking that she was unproductive, but this time she was very popular in our village.
Finally, digging ice cellars. This is what I proposed, and I thought that if there could be an ice cellar like the ancient people, the ice could be stored in the winter and taken out in the summer and put at home in the summer, which would have a cooling effect. If there is a drought and lack of water in the summer, you can drink it or water the ground when the ice melts into water.
But when it came to actually digging the ice cellar, we had a hard time, there were no professionals in the county who would dig the ice cellar, they would only dig the cellar.
But it's okay, isn't there still a high-achieving student Lu Fang? But Lu Fang can say this time, she has no practical experience, she has only read it in books.
I don't care about that, as long as someone can dig it.
Lu Fang and the person digging the cellar talked about the method of digging the ice cellar and the things to pay attention to, but they had never done it, and they had not seen the technique that Lu Fang said, so they didn't understand. A few days later, I finally dug a 100-square-meter ice cellar under the cellar, and I asked the workers to do double waterproofing and insulation.
I asked Lu Fang to always follow me as a supervisor for all the projects, and I must ensure the quality of the projects. Lu Fang once protested against my cousin-in-law, who can only exploit people, saying that everyone else has a salary, why should she, a senior technician, have to do day labor, I said shamelessly: "Little comrade, take a long-term view, I have provided you with a once-in-a-lifetime internship opportunity, you see, which internship unit introduced to you by your school can allow you rookies to take the lead alone and complete a project by yourself." So you have such an opportunity to reflect your own ability and value, and you have to thank me. When it comes to talking about money, you're too vulgar. ”
Lu Fang chased after me and said, "Cousin-in-law, I'm just a layman, you just let me be vulgar." ”
In the last days, I really said that Lu Fang dug ice cellars for many families because of his knowledge of ice cellar digging skills, and earned a lot of food.