It turns out that no matter how many people there are, there are only a few who can do the work.

Originally, Chen Fan thought that with so many people helping at the same time, the house could be built in two or three days at most.

But there are only so many masters who can build the wall by hand, even if you count a dozen or so apprentices to do it together, with the assistance of dozens of helpers, it still took 10 days to build the house preliminarily.

The reason why it is said to be preliminary is because the fermented soil that smeared the exterior wall is still fermenting in the pit, and there is naturally no shadow of the kitchen and dining room, and only the main house has been built at present.

In front of the semi-finished house, everyone stood on the floor in twos and threes, watching the master carpenter and his apprentices install doors and windows, and the bricklayers were laying the remaining pottery tiles.

The pottery shards were naturally burned by Chen Fan himself, and if there were no tiles, they were replaced by pottery shards.

Now there are only about 50 people left, and the team of more than 130 people was originally reduced to half after the completion of the foundation work, and then a few more left.

It's not that they have anything else, but to reduce the burden on Chen Fan.

Working here, 3 meals a day, breakfast is good to say, whether it is green vegetables and egg noodles, or gruel with buns, steamed buns, it doesn't cost much, mainly because two meals are a bit over-standard.

Other people's family cooks, half a chicken is used on a table, and a few taels of meat are added, and more vegetables are used to match, which is a good table.

Chen Fan asked Liu to make a fish and half a catty of meat according to the weight of the whole chicken.

The meat was bought from Master Zhu at the food station, and even the meat ticket was borrowed from him first, and then he would make up later. The chickens are easy to say, and they can be caught casually in this team, anyway, over the years, batches of chickens, ducks and geese have been sent over, and then raised. Fish can also be caught directly in the river at no cost.

The key is the price.

The purchase price of the chicken is 9 cents a catty, Chen Fan will give money according to the purchase price, a chicken weighs about 3 catties, which is two pieces of seven to 3 pieces, a fish and half a catty of meat are more than a piece, plus other dishes, rice, and cigarettes and wine for the masters, a table of meals costs more than 5 yuan, which is considered a serious excess.

The kind that can't get the gift money back when you open the table.

With so many people eating, there are 14 or 15 tables for each meal, which costs about 80 yuan, and 3 meals a day is nearly 200 yuan.

Two days of food can top a mud-walled house, how many people can afford it?

Safety and Captain Yang persuaded him together, but Chen Fan said that the masters of the construction team did not charge him wages, so he could only take out the wages and put more effort into the food, even if the masters invited them, they were speechless.

Everyone saw that this was not a solution, and in the end, it was decided to reduce the number of people according to the amount of work.

After digging pits, digging foundations, digging culverts and septic tanks on the first day, the number of people who came on the second day was less than half, and then there were more than a dozen fewer people one after another.

In addition to this, they came to work in the morning, and brought with them some timber and stone sent by their own team, all of which were piled up at the bottom of the slope, so that there was a bit too much building material.

It's probably the kind of weight that can barely build another brick house.

However, the master of the construction team said that when the main house is built, there will be enough to build a wine cellar, kitchen and restaurant, if there is more, he will build a cement yard in front of the house, if there is more cement yard after the construction is completed, use fermented soil mixed with pebbles to build a path down the mountain to ensure that it will not be wasted.

At this time, except for the construction team masters who were still working in the house, everyone else gathered in front of the house to watch the excitement.

With the windows and door frames being installed, it seems that the eyes can't use it.

He turned his head to look at Chen Fan, who was smiling, and said with emotion, "I didn't understand before, why did you make the windows so big, the room on the west side of the second floor is almost no different from the pavilion, the wall is only four feet high, and then it is empty to the top, and the three walls are almost only left with load-bearing columns, which look empty. ”

Zhang Wenliang also nodded again and again, "This house has been repaired, except for the mud exterior wall and thatched roof, nothing else has anything to do with the earthen wall house." ”

Captain Yang smoked a cigarette and smacked his lips and said, "The earthen wall house is very dark, you look at his room, the windows are bigger than the door, and it is ventilated and bright, but I am afraid that the buildings in the city are not as good as his house." ”

Accountant Liu's eyes were full of envy, "This is originally a building, okay." ”

At this time, he was already thinking in his heart, how much would it cost to build such a house, and how many years would it take to earn it back if he raised chickens, ducks and rabbits by himself? !

Chen Fan said with a smile, "In fact, it is a little flexibility in the design, the doors and windows of the previous earthen wall house were built small, and the room was also small, one is to save materials, and the other is to keep warm, if you don't consider the problem of materials and warmth, open the doors and windows widely, and the earthen wall house can be as comfortable as the brick house." ”

Hearing this, several people around him looked at him together.

Security blinked, "Then you're not winter, aren't you?" ”

Zhang Wenliang's eyes were full of confusion, "Just rely on that charcoal stove, how big of a room can you manage?" ”

Chen Fan said with a smile, "It's okay, I plan to get a kind of kang in the north on the first floor, it's very warm to sleep in winter." I also reserved a few fireplace openings on the second floor, and when the fireplace was installed, it would not be so cold as soon as the fire burned. ”

Security gave a thumbs up, speechless and envious, "Or you can play." ”

One of his classmates cut the queue in the northeast, and the letter mentioned the kang and said that he could spend the whole winter on the kang in winter, which was more comfortable than spending the winter in Shanghai. I didn't expect Chen Fan to also pan kang?!

While a few people were talking, a "convoy" slowly approached.

More than a dozen board cars were being pulled, and they were about to reach the Zhiqing Point.

Chen Fan looked over from afar, "What is that?" It seems to be pulling straw? ”

Captain Yang looked at it with his hand and said, "Oh, it should be the 4th team that sent you a thatched roof." ”

Chen Fan turned his head to look at him, his face full of consternation, "Huh? Do you want 4 teams to send thatch? ”

He looked at the backyard of the Educated Youth Academy, "There are a lot of straws in our yard, if it's not enough, won't it be enough for you to move a little more for me, captain?" ”

At this time, the bricklayer master walked out of the house under construction, and when he heard his words, he couldn't help laughing, "Mr. Chen, this thatch is not straw, the straw roof will be renovated in less than 3 years, or it will be all debris, and it won't be able to be managed for too long, this is white thatch, it is a real thatched roof, it's different." ”

White thatch?

Chen Fan thought about it, and suddenly suddenly, "Lan Zhi has changed but not fragrant, and Quan Hui has turned into a grass." ”

Security nodded and smiled, "Yes, it's this 'Mao'." ”

Nowadays, the thatched roof of many earthen wall houses is actually straw, that is, the bellflower of rice, which is easy to obtain, and has become the main choice for ordinary people to build houses.

And this time, what the 4th team sent to Chen Fan was the real "thatch", that is, white grass.

The motherland is vast and rich, but no matter the north and south, in the wild or in the countryside, you can often see a wild plant, slender leaves, but particularly tough, even if bent over, there is more than half a person high, sometimes there are white and reed-like small flowers, that is, thatch, also called white grass.

White grass is a very common weed, because the leaves resemble spears, the ears are white, so it got its name, in the pre-Qin period even as a magic weapon to remove filth and summon the gods, its smell can indeed expel bats, owls and other things that the ancients considered unclean.

The leaves of white grass can also replace the palm leaf woven lichen, which has a very good waterproof effect.

Hearing that it was this kind of thatch, Chen Fan knew that the "traditional craft" thatch that the bricklayer master said could be used for many years, and it was not empty words, and the thatched roof made of white thatched leaves, not to mention 20 years, was still normal to be used for a few more years than straw.

The bricklayer saw the thatching convoy upstairs just now, so he came down to greet him.

Chen Fan, as the "owner", naturally has to follow the past.

Not long after they descended, they met the convoy on the west side of Zhiqing Point.

Wang Dongping, the captain of the 4th team, personally "escorted the car", and was naturally enthusiastic when he saw Chen Fan.

After some greetings, more than 30 helpers who were still at the top of the slope just now also walked down and pushed the pallet up to the top of the slope with the delivery person.

The beams of the roof have been erected in the morning, and when the beams were put on, Chen Fan also had a good time, lit two firecrackers, and lost eight large firecrackers.

Next, it's time to lay the roof.

This roof is different from the roof of other earthen houses, and from a distance, it looks like a house that has been paved, but the material for laying the roof is a horizontal arrangement of bamboo pieces, and when you look closer, you will find that there is a finger-wide gap between each bamboo piece, and the bamboo pieces are padded underneath, which are vertical wooden strips.

Supporting the entire bamboo roof is the thick beams and timbers, laying the roof, that is, laying the thatch on the horizontal bamboo strips, this process structure, is much more complex than the ordinary roof.

At this time, both the master bricklayer and the apprentice went into battle together, climbing to the roof one by one, and the helpers carried the thatch up in bundles.

After all the thatch was moved into the house, Wang Dongping lit the cigarette handed by Chen Fan just now, spit out a puff of smoke and said,

"This thatched roof is not simple, first tie up a small handful, then tie it with six small handfuls, and then use six small handles to make a hanging, when laying the roof, just hang it up, and then fix it with a rope.

When fixed, there is also a special aspect, can not be directly paved, when the shop to layer by layer of plastering, with how much thin mud also has a quantitative, more pressure on the roof, less can not fix the thatch, easy to be blown away by the wind......"

Chen Fan looked at the busy figures on the roof, listened to Wang Dongping's explanation, and combined with the construction of masons and carpenters in the past few days, his understanding of traditional architecture deepened.

At this time, the two skills of bricklayer and carpenter on the skill board suddenly disappear, and they are replaced by "build", and as soon as they appear, they are LV4, which is about the state of being able to build a house or bridge out of pure wood.

Chen Fan noticed the change, and was immediately shocked, and immediately opened the skill board to check, but unfortunately, this skill board is still so foolish, and there is no improvement at all.

He didn't bother to care anymore, put away the skill board, and spoke with Wang Dongping, "That's too hard for you, it's mowing the grass again, and it has to be firm." ”

Wang Dongping waved his hand and said with a smile, "With so much thatch, it's not easy for our team to get it alone." ”

He said and pointed to Captain Yang next to him, "The other teams also helped, everyone helped to harvest together, and then selected the best thatch, while the sun was hot and dry these days, and then pulled to our team, under the guidance of my uncle, if it wasn't for their help, it would take ten days and half a month to make it up." ”

Chen Fan was a little stunned when he heard it, "It's so hard to move the people?!" ”

At this time, Zhang Wenliang smiled on the side, "You don't have a psychological burden, you have been busy building a house these days and have not gone to work at the brigade headquarters, so you don't know."

These thatches are bought by the brigade department, and the people who work are counted as workers, although there are not many, only a few jobs per person, but they are certainly not in vain. And then what about these points, a small half is part of the reward given to you by the team department for publishing articles, and more than half of them will be deducted from your points. ”

Chen Fan's smile froze suddenly, it turns out that I still pay for it myself?

Then he waved his hand freely, "Buckle it." ”

But I am muttering in my heart, livestock feed labor deduction, building materials labor deduction, and now the thatched roof is deducted, I don't know how much I have left in my two salaries?

Isn't it the end of the year that you still owe money to the production team?!

I want to think so, but he also knows that if there is no affection, the members of the production team will not work hard to do such a troublesome thing for a few jobs. Now is not the winter idle period, just do some other work, won't the work come?

Although the construction process was a bit complicated, after more than three hours, the masters completed all the thatching and came down from the skylight reserved on the north roof.

The bricklayers have also completed the laying of terracotta floor tiles on the upper and lower floors, and now the whole house is only about to install glass and furniture indoors, and only to apply exterior mud outside.

Even the balcony on the second floor and the wind and rain corridor on the first floor have been built, and the wind and rain corridor can be extended and connected as a whole when the kitchen and dining room are built.

Looking at the big house with a blue brick thatched roof and a log-colored doors and windows brushed with tung oil, Chen Fan couldn't help but feel relaxed.

It's not easy, I struggled for so many years before the crossing, and I couldn't buy a suite, I didn't expect that only 4 months after the crossing, a big house was successfully built, no wonder everyone wants to cross, it feels really different.

Zhang Wenliang walked over and patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "What are you looking at here, why don't you go in and have a look?" ”

Security waved his hand next to him and smiled, "Let's go." ”

Chen Fan smiled, didn't shirk, and walked to the house first.

Go up two steps first, there is a three-meter-wide wind and rain corridor, a water of blue brick paving, on both sides are thick log columns, on the top is a blue tile, simple and clumsy with a bit of antique.

The antique color can be seen, and as for the antique, well, it's the smell of tung oil.

Standing on the wind and rain corridor to look at the house, there are two large wooden doors in the middle, which is simple and unpretentious.

With a total width of two meters, it's hard not to be atmospheric.

On both sides of the wall are a long row of windows, the height of which accounts for almost half of the height of the wall, and there are enough of them to allow for plenty of light even if there is a wind and rain gallery to cover it.

After looking left and right, Chen Fan took a few steps forward and gently pushed open the door.

The first thing that catches your eye is a large wooden board that hits the ceiling from the ground to the ceiling, and there is a little hollow pattern on the board, which can not only ventilate, but also block the view, so that people can't see what is behind it.

There is no door in the west room on the left, and there is a large living room of nearly 80 square meters, with white lime walls and turquoise ceramic tiles.

It's a pity that some of the floor tiles inside have just been laid, and it will take at least two days to step on them, so Chen Fan didn't go in.

There is a door in the east room on the right, which is also open at this time, and you can see that inside is a smaller living room, and then there are three rooms.

In other words, the entire first floor is a three-bedroom and two-living room layout, that is, the living room is particularly large.

Bypassing the large wooden plank, there is a stairwell behind it, and there is a small door next to the staircase, which is the bathroom on the first floor.

The floor is made of solid wood panels brushed with tung oil, and you go up half a floor, and after a platform folds, you go up to the second floor.

The layout of the second floor is the same as that of the first floor, in order not to affect the newly laid floor tiles, Chen Fan just glanced at it twice and came down.

When he went out, he found that everyone didn't even enter the door, just standing on the wind and rain corridor and looking in through the window.

"It's big, it's big."

"It's not just the atmosphere, given such a big place, you will cultivate like this? If you want me to say that Mr. Chen has a level! ”

"As far as you can pat yourself on the back, who doesn't know that Teacher Chen's level is full of things in Nanhu Commune, and he still needs you to talk about it?!"

"What's wrong with just slapping on the back? I also want to build a house like Mr. Chen. ”

"Don't say it, it's okay. Alas, Master Wang, can you still build such a house? ”

The mason master said with a smile, "Yes, in Mr. Chen's words, many things are separated by a layer of window paper, as long as they are broken, in fact, it is not troublesome to do at all." ”

Just when everyone was full of interest, thinking that they would build a new house after raising chickens, ducks, geese and rabbits and making money, Master Wang said a sentence without saltiness, "But you have to be prepared for heavy bleeding, this house can be built is not cheap, I am afraid that the bricks and tiles alone will cost more than a thousand, and the floor tiles, except for Mr. Chen, even the brick and tile factory will not burn, but Mr. Chen can't burn much by himself, so he can only use cement floors." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone's hearts suddenly cooled half.

Chen Fan walked out of the door, just when he heard this paragraph, he was about to speak.

At this time, the security took two steps forward and said with a smile, "It doesn't matter, there are big construction methods, and small construction methods." It's not bad to have a cement floor without pottery, but if you can't build two floors, you can build one floor, and you can't build two large rooms,......"

He said and pointed to the three-bedroom apartment in the east house, "I think it's good to build such a suite." ”

Hearing the safe words, Master Wang nodded thoughtfully, "That's right." ”

Then he turned his head and smiled, and said, "If you only build this small suite, it is quite suitable, and it is estimated that you can take it down for one thousand five or six." ”

If in the past, 1,56 was an astronomical amount for the vast majority of Lujiawan people. A strong laborer can only earn a few dozen yuan in dividends a year, and even if there are two or three strong laborers in the family, it will take several years.

But now, almost everyone has heard their team leader settle accounts, as long as you join the breeding team, spend more effort to raise chickens, ducks and rabbits, more than 1,000 yuan, that is, the income of one or two years, naturally it is no longer out of reach.

Thinking of this, everyone became excited, fantasizing that one day they would be able to live in such a big house.

(End of chapter)