Chapter 16: The Nest of the Earth
Jiang Yifan smiled and pointed to the mounds behind him.
"This is the nest of the earth, and it will be your dormitory from now on.
Two people can live in one nest. You assign a place to live with the people you want to live in.
That's right.
One person can't occupy a nest, so I'll explain to you in advance, we have a limited place to live, and that's the condition.
Everyone moves a little faster, and they can clean up and go to the cafeteria to eat in a while.
Tonight, I will take care of the food in the cafeteria, but I can't take care of it in the future, I have to cook by myself. ”
Jiang Yifan threw down these words and left directly, obviously not giving them any chance to resist and refute at all.
Everyone stood in front of these low mounds and realized that this was the house they were going to move into tonight - Diwozi.
Look at everyone's expressions as if they were being struck by lightning.
Xia Zhi pursed her lips, no wonder they couldn't accept it.
The so-called Diwozi is the most humble kind of house in the frontier, and it is obvious that the brigade they came to should be a newly developed farm in the agricultural reclamation area.
If it had been a farm in the former construction corps, it would have been possible to build an adobe house.
This place is supposed to be responsible for clearing the wasteland, so it still lives in the nest.
Most people don't know what Diwozi looks like, and the so-called Diwozi is a very simple house, and the overall style is a bit like a vegetable cellar in the north.
In these years, the conditions are difficult everywhere you go, and there is a lack of materials, so if you want to build an adobe house, how many people do you have to do adobe?
But there is no need for the nest.
Adapt measures to local conditions, and save raw materials, and spend some manpower at most.
In fact, there are also many benefits to the nest, which is cool in winter and warm in summer.
The materials are economical, and it is very convenient to build, and to put it bluntly, it is two words - save money.
Xia Zhi directly found the ground nest in front of him and walked directly inside, and saw Xia Solstice going inside.
Liu Zhiyan didn't say a word, holding her hanging arm and holding her suitcase with one hand.
And he followed.
Liu Qianjin also stupidly carried his bag and followed.
Who would have thought that Xia Zhi turned around and turned back, pointed to the nest next door, and told Liu Qianqian.
"Liu Qianqian, you can live next to me."
Liu Qianjin immediately scratched his head obediently and nodded.
"Xiao Xia, I listen to you."
I really got into the nest next door.
Xia Zhi turned around and helped Liu Zhiyan carry her suitcase into the nest.
Liu Zhiyan fanned her nose and walked in here with a disgusted face.
When I saw the situation inside, I was almost not dumbfounded.
"Summer solstice, how can anyone let us live in such a house?"
"Is this called a house? It's just called a pigsty, and I think we were kept in a pen like pigs. ”
Obviously, Liu Zhiyan, who was born in a small cadre family, has never seen such a house.
The dimple is actually quite wide, 6m long and 3m wide, and the height of this dimple is okay, 1m8.
Otherwise, they would have to bend their waists when they walked in.
The bed he slept on was an earthen platform more than 30 cm above the ground, with a layer of straw on it.
But on the whole, the nest faces north and south, and the only humble door is open inward.
Several pieces of wood were nailed to one piece, and several sack pieces were covered with them.
There is a thick poplar tree in the house that serves as a beam for the whole house.
Centered on the poplar tree, the beam is spread out on both sides, and there is a rafter the thickness of a small arm every few tens of centimeters, like a human rib.
On top of these rafters, a layer of hay is first laid, and then a mat made of reeds is spread on top of the hay.
Of course, a layer of mats will continue to be spread on top of the mat, on the one hand, for waterproofing, and on the other hand, for cold protection.
Finally, it is topped with earth.
And this kind of house has a small window of about 50cm in the middle of the roof.
Usually no one makes a window frame, that is, a piece of glass is pressed on top of that hole.
When the sun rises, it shines through the windows of the roof, and there is light in the dim nest.
This is still very different from the ordinary sense of the house, it looks not only dim and simple, but also depressing.
There is a stove next to the door, and the stove is connected to a two-meter-high adobe wall, which is called the fire wall.
There is no one to build a kang here.
In winter, dead leaves or thatch are burned in the hearth, and the flame conducts heat from the flue of the stove through the flue of the fire wall.
This rudimentary method keeps warm and protects against wind chill.
Xia Solstice touched the wall of fire with his hand, it was cold now, and it was obvious that they needed to find a way to find fuel on their own.
Definitely not tonight.
But apparently in order to welcome them, the intellectual youth
A slot was dug into the wall next to the earthen platform to hold an oil lamp.
A glass can filled with a small half-bottle of kerosene, which was used to illuminate them at night.
There are no electric lights here.
Liu Zhiyan exclaimed, only to see a mouse come out of the straw pile on the platform, wipe her shoes and run out of the door.
"Ahh Mouse! ”
Xia Zhi looked at it and threw the burden in his hand, as well as Liu Zhiyan's suitcase and baggage, on the ground covered with wheat straw.
He went out again.
Liu Zhiyan was frightened when she saw it, and followed behind Xia Zhi with her arms hanged.
"Summer Solstice, where are you going? Wait for me, don't leave me behind, I don't dare to stay here alone. ”
God knows that the thought of staying in the same room with the rat made Liu Zhiyan wish to grow two wings and fly back.
When I first came, everyone just enthusiastically said that they would support the construction of the frontier, and they would fight with the sky, the earth, and nature.
Dedicate their youth to the construction of the motherland, who would have thought that dedicating their youth would be with mice.
"Don't follow me, I'll go out and find something, we have to clean up the house quickly, or it will be dark for a while."
Two lesbians came out, and the rest of the people all came out of the den.
The main thing is that no one thought that the living conditions here were like this, they were all from the city, and even if they were poor, at least they had an adobe house to live in.
This house is simply unheard of and unseen.
Many people were already red-eyed, and they were about to shed tears when they looked at it.
"We're going back!"
"We're not here!"
"Is this a place for people?"
"How can you give us a house like this?"
Many people were indignant, and Xia Zhi glanced at these people.
No one cares about them today.
When the young intellectuals saw the current poor conditions, they immediately turned their faces.
Even if they want to go back now, they can't go back now, they can't go out of these hundreds of miles just by walking by people, and there will be wolves on the road.
To put it bluntly, they deliberately threw them here in order to kill their prestige, and these intellectual youths in the province fell out.
She had seen this kind of method in her previous life, and at least today she wanted someone to take care of them.