Chapter 186, doing carpentry

"That's just the right time to organize, build a pig farm first, and it just so happens that carpenters and stonemasons can use it. Li Yuanshan said. Pigs are not better than chickens, and the chicken pen can be stopped with wooden planks at will, but the pigs have great strength and powerful mouths, and the planks can not be stopped, and the foundation and the lower half of the wall must be built with stones, otherwise they will not be able to withstand their tossing.

The pig farm, like the chicken farm, was built 400 meters southeast of the village, just blocked by the remnants of the low mountain, so that the air in the village did not smell. In fact, according to Li Yuanshan's idea, chicken and pig farms, including sheep farms in the future, should be built in the back mountain, which is very wide, and the village can be farther away, so that it will not affect the air quality of the village. However, although the trees in the back mountain have been almost cut down, they do not belong to the production team.

Quarrying, burning lime, digging footings, making pillars, doors and windows, building walls, there is a lot of strength, especially this kind of pen built to raise pigs, that is, the lower half of the laborious, just build a thatched roof on the top. After half a month, the pigsty was formed, and the production team drove over more than 20 pigs, large and small, and Li Yuanshan said with a smile: "The village will not be so stinky in the future." ”

"That's what you said?" Yang Guangxin said with a smile, "Now that chicken and pig raising is liberalized, everyone will increase it themselves next year." Let's just say that your family, won't you raise two pigs and a dozen chickens next year?"

"Are rural people still afraid of the smell of dung?" Yang Guangsheng also laughed, "I'm not afraid of the smell of dung, I'm afraid that there is not, and I have to go up the mountain to pick it up in previous years." "If there is a lot of manure, even if you don't have to go to your own land, you can send it to the field where the production team is planted, which is also counted as a share of work.

"Who says rural people aren't afraid of smelling? That's because you haven't felt it. In our village, the dung pits are dug large, and some dung pits are small, and when it rains heavily, the dung pits are full, and they flow everywhere on the road, and then the sun comes out to shine, hahaha......" Li Yuanshan replied to Yang Guangsheng with a smile, and then replied to Yang Guangxin, "My family is over." Raise one pig, do not increase, at most raise a few more chickens. If you raise too many pigs, you have to cut pigweed and cook pig food, which is very troublesome. Just raise a pig and feed some bran grain, no need to cut pigweed. "The production team is the production team, and the self-care is home-raised, and there is no conflict, and it is okay to raise more if you want to, as long as you are not afraid of trouble.

"Well, I think my family should be like this, as soon as we get busy at work, we don't have time to mow pigweed. Yang Mingdong also agreed with Li Yuanshan's idea and said, "Xiaoguo and Xiaoyu want to study, so let them spend all this time cutting pigweed, it is better to use it for studying." ”

"Yes. And the pigs raised in the pig farm are not our production team in the end, so there is no difference!" Li Yuanshan said with a smile, "For the younger children, let them study hard, this is the right thing." ”

The next day, the carpentry student came to Li Yuanshan's house, who told Li Yuanshan to do a good job in carpentry. Song Mei on the left was listening to Jiang Mingyue's lecture, so that the room on the right side of the hall became a place for carpentry.

"Carpentry is generally simple to make some furniture, what tables, chairs, cabinets, these, as long as the size is right, it is generally not easy to make mistakes, even if the back is a little bit worse, you can also change. Li Yuanshan said, "It's not like building a tiled house, there are so many pillars, so many mortises, the pillars are heavier, and it is difficult to modify the tenons and tenons when they are erected, and the master is very taboo about this." Let's go upstairs and move a few squares (rough squares or rectangular pieces of wood), and you can try to make a chair first. ”

Yang Mingyi climbed upstairs first, saw several piles upstairs at a glance, and asked, "Brother Yuanshan, which pile do you take?"

Li Yuanshan followed, pointed to a pile of fir trees, and said, "Take this pile, that pile is green oka trees, this material is used by you." ”

"Isn't the green oka tree just a miscellaneous tree? It's not very useful, but it's okay to burn the charcoal (green oka tree charcoal). Yang Mingyi said.

"That's because the green oka tree generally doesn't grow straight, so it's hard to come by. Li Yuanshan said with a smile, "However, its wood is heavy and hard, not easy to damage, it is very suitable for small pieces of furniture, and it takes a long time to be shiny and shiny, which is much better than fir and pine." ”

"Your table and bench are made of green oka trees, right? Yang Mingyi said.

"yes. Li Yuanshan said, "If you like it too, then learn to do it yourself." ”

"Even if I could do it, I wouldn't be able to make those carvings. Yang Mingyi smiled, "And those wood carvings, Brother Yuanshan, why don't you send me to make one?"

"Okay," Li Yuanshan said with a smile, "but I can only pick a small one, and I won't give you a big one." When you get married in the future, I will carve another one for you. ”

After taking down the materials, let them measure the size first, and then discuss how to use the materials, and Li Yuanshan also mentioned it a little beside him. After the discussion, the work began, and the saw, planer, and chisel were replaced.

Seeing that a few people are doing a good job, it seems that everyone has learned to use these tools during this period of time to build a pig farm, Li Yuanshan said: "Well, you guys do it first, I'll go cook." ”

"Haha, learning carpentry also provides food, it's very good!" Yang Mingdong said with a smile.

"Well, isn't this just dividing the grain?" Li Yuanshan said with a smile, "There are no others, the yam (sweet potato) is full of boiled batter!"

"Do you want to pick it like this!" Yang Mingyi shouted, "At least you have to cook bread and rice, otherwise you won't be hungry." ”

"Ha, what you said does make sense, the question is, more than ten people, you are all pot-bellied, you don't have such a big retort, how do you let me cook it?" Li Yuanshan said with a smile, "So boiling batter is really the best choice now." ”

"Who said that?" Zhai Fangping said with a smile, "It's okay to cook rice porridge." ”

"What kind of rice porridge, you can also cook rice in a pot. Put the right amount of water, cook a little bit over the fire, and mix it several times at the beginning, and the cooked rice will be more fragrant than steaming it with a retort. Song Yu smiled, "I do this a lot." ”

"Okay, I'll try it later. Li Yuanshan said with a smile, "But there are many people, and the bottom of the pot is easy to paste, and you will have to eat it when the time comes." ”

"As long as it's not a raw rice, it's better than batter. Yang Mingyi said with a smile.

"Don't laugh. Yang Mingren said, "Every family has a little food a year, especially Brother Yuanshan's family, who eats by themselves, so we still go home to eat." "Now the method adopted is five people and five labors, that is, when the production team distributes food to the members, the grain is divided into two parts, one part is divided according to the work, and the other part is divided equally according to the population. And the children eat less, and their rations are still a little surplus for the year. This has already been calculated, a few years ago, when it was counted according to the eight labors and two labors per person, the family with more children could support it without much work, and the people who also worked, the life of the family with fewer children was not as good as that of the family with many children. As a result, the motivation to work was discouraged, food production fell, and people struggled to have children, which led to more and more poverty in the countryside.

"I'm relieved. Li Yuanshan said with a smile, "Otherwise, my family will not be eaten by you! The landlord's family has no surplus grain......!

Everyone is joking, this year, you really can't go to other people's houses to eat, because the food is too small, you eat a little, he eats a little, and the final result may be that the master's family will be hungry. Yang Mingju and Song Xiang studied here during this time, and they came back to the same place after going home for dinner.

Li Yuanshan scooped up the rice and put it in the casserole, and then brought it to the fire to boil. Yang Mingzhu said with a smile, "Every time you cook rice, I can't learn it as soon as the fragrance comes out." ”

"It's normal, it's normal, it's that this rice is so fragrant. Li Yuanshan smiled, "If you want to replace me, I won't be able to learn." ”

Cook the rice, go to the vegetable garden to pick the vegetables and come back to wash them, and after getting ready, Li Yuanshan went to see how everyone was doing.

At a glance, Li Yuanshan found the problem and said with a smile: "These two hind feet (the chair legs connected to the back of the chair) are different." ”

Yang Mingdong and Song Yu stopped listening and compared it, it was indeed different, and the degree of curvature was different. Yang Mingdong said: "You can't change it, let's do it again." I think I'm doing a better job, brother-in-law, why don't you do another one?"

"It's because you didn't follow the drawings. Song Yu said.

"But I think I'm better at making this one, and the chair that comes out of it is more comfortable to lean on. Yang Mingdong said with a smile.

"Comfortable fart. Li Yuanshan said with a smile, "You just can't go up or down, the back of the chair made is too backward, people can't find a place to lean when they sit, and the speed of leaning back is fast, and it is easy to roll over." And these are pine, the pine material is not good, the bending amplitude is large, and it is easy to break. ”

It was more difficult for several people to work together to make a chair than one person, and it was only by breakfast that they could barely make a chair. Li Yuan let them sit and feel it, and said: "The chair is barely made, but the craftsmanship is too poor, so dismantle the fire." ”

"It's not going to work, it's the first thing we've made, it's so memorable! Song Yu said.

"Then take it back yourselves. Li Yuanshan said with a smile.

"Ming Dong, why don't you take it back?" Song Yu said.

"I'll forget it. Yang Mingdong shook his head and said, "There is no shortage of chairs in my house." ”

"Akihito?"

"Well, I think it's better to dismantle the fire. Yang Mingren said.

"Xiaoping?"

"I think the same as my old cousin. "Yang Mingren Yang Mingyi's mother is his aunt.

In the end, this chair still can't escape the fate of being burned as firewood.

After going home and having dinner, he came back and continued to work, and Li Yuanshan also took a piece of green oka wood and carved it on the side.

"What are you carving?" asked Song Yu.

"Carved a finch. Li Yuanshan said.

"Hmm...... Carve one for me. Song Yu said.

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