Back To Qiqi Farming To Raise Children

The real estate that Xu Chenghou and his wife had their eyes on was not small.

I also want to know that Xu Shixian built three rooms there in his previous life, and later Xu Shiyan built three rooms next to each other. Can the place be small?

Therefore, what Xu Shiyan meant was that the left and right sides were busy working once, and there was no difference between the one and a half rooms, so he simply built five rooms and occupied the space.

Xu Chenghou and his wife were hesitant at first. If they built five brick and tile houses, all of them would cost seven to eight hundred yuan, which was not enough money for the family.

Xu Shiyan said, if it doesn't work, he will help the mat first, and when the four brothers come back, let them pay a share.

Xu Chenghou thought about it, and felt that since he was busy, he might as well build a bigger one.

The parents over there wanted to build five houses, and Xu Shiyan also planned to build five brick houses on the west side of the house.

Calculated in this way, the two ends add up to ten houses, and a lot of various materials are required, and the labor is also quite worrying.

Now it’s not like in the big house before, when the five brothers are all together, they can do a lot of work by themselves, and find helpers for the rest.

If these ten houses are all directed to helpers, it will be overwhelmed.

So Xu Shiyan was cruel, and found Guo Shouye, and asked him to help find the construction team of the Forestry Bureau, that is, Lin Jian.

The ten houses of Xu's family were directly contracted to Lin Jian Construction. They are professional and their work is much better than that of helpers who are found casually.

Anyway, the wages are a bit more expensive, but there is a reason why you are expensive. A professional construction team can guarantee the quality of the houses built.

It's impossible for someone else to do this.

Lin Jian is a public unit, and he only does business for the public, so how can he build a house for an individual?

But if it was Guo Shouye, there would be no problem. A few cigarettes, plus a few bottles of deer antler blood wine, once the relationship that should be left, it will be done.

On the other side, Lin Jian took over the Xu family's private work by taking the opportunity to build a public house for a certain forest farm.

Anyway, Lin Jian has plenty of workers, so it's right to be a big guy to earn extra money.

The leaders at the top turned a blind eye and closed their eyes, and the workers at the bottom got benefits, so why not be happy?

Bricklayers and carpenters are all included, as well as pans, stoves, and inner and outer walls. It’s just that the wages are a bit more expensive, but it’s worry-free.

After the materials are ready, Xu Shiyan doesn't need to worry about it. Only on the day of the beam-raising, he has to find some helpers to take care of the meal, and Xu Shiyan doesn't need to take care of the rest.

Xu Shiyan really had no choice, his father was watching ginseng on the mountain, and the two elder brothers were too busy to spare time.

Not to mention the two younger brothers, one teaches and the other goes to school, who can come to work?

Not to mention working, there were not even people following Zhang Luo, all of them had to point to Xu Shiyan alone.

He didn't have eight hands, how could he do it?

It's the best way to get everything out. As long as the work is handed over before autumn, the old couple can move in this year, and I really can't care about the rest.

In this way, on June 6th, the twelfth day of the fifth lunar month, two houses broke ground and began to dig the foundation.

At the same time, carpenters also began to make beams, doors and windows.

Part of the carpentry materials were brought in from the big house.

After all, the Xu family has been in the Northeast for so many years, and they have not saved anything else, but they still have a lot of wood. When they moved, they even added wood and firewood, and pulled a cart.

The other part is the wood that Xu Shiyan put on the mountain last autumn and winter.

The wood was skinned at that time, and after a winter and a spring, it was almost dry.

A few days ago, I found a car to pull it down, and it was just right to save it for beams, purlins, shed poles and so on.

After working for many days, I finally settled the matter of the house. All the materials were prepared, and the carpenters and bricklayers arranged by themselves.

At home, Zhou Guilan and Su Anying are responsible for boiling water and hot meals for the workers, trying to take care of them as much as possible.

In this way, the Xu family's house was gradually built up in an orderly manner.

Xu Shiyan was busy with composting and fertilizing in the team, as well as building a house at home. Whether it was Niu Mao Guang or Gastrodia elata this year, he didn't have that time.

Fortunately, Xu Shiyan took the time to go to the county and sold the twenty or so dried velvet antlers.

The best velvet antler costs 38 yuan a tael, and each piece of dried velvet antler is about two and a half to three taels, and you can buy about a hundred.

In the end, I got more than 2,400 yuan, which was more than enough to build a house.

After busy work, it was late July, when Xu Shixiang came back from Tonghua.

With the helper of the fifth child, Xu Shiyan was immediately relieved, at least someone was watching at the other end of the house, so he could free up his hands and work on the ground.

On July 26th, the third day of the sixth lunar month, Xu's house was erected.

Xu Shixian and Xu Shi'an both asked for leave to come here, and Xu Shide came here after the summer vacation and has been helping here.

Not only the Xu family brothers, but also Zhou Guilan's natal nephews, nephews, and Su Weizhong, Su Weicheng and other relatives living in Daying also came to help.

Xu Shiyan's job in the Donggang Commune was not bad, and he had a lot of people. The apprentices he brought, when they learned that Xu's house was going to be erected, they all came to help.

Even Han Limin, who didn't know how he heard about it, came here specially.

Fortunately, there are a lot of people. There are ten houses on both sides, all of which have to be erected. If there are fewer people, it is really not enough.

So, the manpower was divided into two groups, each led by carpenters and bricklayers, and began to work.

Liang Tuo had already made it, and the main beam in the middle was tied with red cloth strips and copper coins.

Xu Shide wrote two couplets of Shangliang Daji in advance and pasted them on the brick walls.

Someone was standing on top of the shelf with a bunch of firecrackers in his hand, and another was holding a small basket with candy in his hand.

The carpenter directed the people to hoist the main beam in the middle to the roof, and then used various tools to correct the direction and fix the position.

At the same time, someone lit firecrackers.

There was a crackling sound, accompanied by red confetti flying all over the sky, and the air was full of the smell of burning sulfur.

The person carrying the basket sprinkled candy down one by one, and a group of children below came to grab it.

Building a house and erecting beams is also a major event. The picture shows a festive and lively scene. No one would think that the children are making trouble, and they all laugh and watch them grab candy.

Others will go to the basket to grab another handful and distribute it to the children who didn't grab it.

The main girder is fixed, and then the other girders are also lifted up to find the correct direction and position, and then nailed obliquely with wooden poles or boards, also called dalazi.

The beams are all fixed, and then the purlins, eight boards, shed poles, and shed boards are nailed.

The Xu family built a brick-and-tiled house with a new structure, with tiles on the top and white ash sheds on the bottom.

In order to keep warm, a mixture of yellow mud and sawdust is pasted on the shed board, and then covered with a thick layer of sawdust.

In this way, the workload will be much larger, and fortunately there are so many people to help.

Everyone divided labor and cooperated according to the requirements of the foreman, each doing their own work, in an orderly manner, without any chaos, and the progress was very fast.

By one o'clock at noon, all the tiles were hung, and the shed mud and sawdust were all pressed.

According to the rules, on the day of raising the beam, the host will prepare a sumptuous feast for the helpers.

For today's meal, Xu Shiyan also spent a lot of thought.

The meat tickets that Xu Shiqin had saved up for several months, plus the tickets from Guo Shouye, were all given to Xu Shixiang.

One day in advance, I searched for meat in Songjianghe and various non-staple food stores in the county, and I bought a lot of people who didn't need a ticket.

In addition, there is everything in the vegetable garden this season, so this meal is very hearty.