Chapter 423 The house is built!
The people in the village kept looking at the tractor, and even let Li Long drive it for a while, and then slowly dispersed.
They were not only shocked by the first tractor, but also by the price of the tractor.
Four thousand five hundred yuan, almost half a ten thousand yuan household!
Some people also asked with a sour taste, what are you doing with this tractor? The team uses Dongfanghong 75 for plowing. This tractor is definitely not good at plowing. It cannot pull such a big plow.
Pull something? The Li family has a horse-drawn carriage, and the tractor is just for moving faster.
That position is a bit embarrassing.
Of course, I just talked about it in private. After all, if you really want to talk about it, you are an iron ox after all, and it is better than a horse-drawn carriage and a donkey-cart.
Then the team members knew the role of the tractor.
The day after he bought the tractor, Li Long drove it to the lower reaches of the Mohe Canal with a few of his family's best laborers.
Thirty years later, the county built a new Mohe Canal, the type with cement slabs on the sides and an inverted trapezoid shape. The old Mo Hequ only occasionally played a role. It was different at this time. There was only this old canal - the locals preferred to call it a river dam.
Most of the canal sections of Lao Mohe Canal are very high on both sides, especially in places relatively close to the county seat, where they go straight up and down, with the embankment being three to four meters high.
But in a section downstream, the water in the canal is only half a meter lower than the ground. Here you can dig out river sand and pebbles.
Now the snow here has melted, and although the river water is cold, it cannot stop the enthusiasm of the workers.
River sand is easy to dig, as is Gobi stone. This time Li Long did not call Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang, but only the men in his own family. Li Anguo and Chen Xingbang on the Heba side, and Li Qingxia and Li Jianguo on the other side of the family. The river sand and small Gobi stones he pulled were laid directly in the Li family's yard.
Li Jianguo's yard was not small. The family worked for three days and hauled twelve loads of river sand to cover the entire yard.
From the moment the first load of sand was pulled, the rest of the team knew. Then Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang joined in. In their words, it is idle now anyway, and it is a waste of effort if it is not used. It is better to just follow along.
Some people in the team were looking at the joke at first. The entire village and even the entire township’s households’ yards were paved with loess, and no one used sand. Is this a dumpling?
But some people feel that Li Long naturally has his own ideas and reasons for doing this.
Xu Chengjun also asked Li Long, and Li Long said:
"Isn't that just thinking about raining and not getting mud on my feet? I've had enough of the rain. My shoes are covered in mud wherever I go. It's so uncomfortable."
Xu Chengjun believes it Li Long’s explanation. Now that I have bought a tractor, it is necessary to make my life better, and spreading river sand in the yard is one of them.
The effect soon appeared. It rained a few times in early spring, and more and more people came to visit Li’s house, especially those who came to watch TV at night. They could clearly feel the presence in Li’s yard. Here, at least there is no mud on my feet. Unlike other places where I have to stop and find a place or a branch to scrape the mud off my shoes after taking a few steps, otherwise I won’t be able to walk.
It would be great to have a tractor.
Just when the people in the team lamented that the Li family yard had become more advanced, Li Long and the Li family, including Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang, had already started another job.
Build a house and lay a foundation.
On the Dongfanghong 75 tractor, Wang Caimin pushed and pulled the joystick to remove the mounds of dirt on the homestead designated by the team for Li Long, where he planned to build a house.
A bulldozer is hung on the front of the tractor. The hydraulic device raises the bulldozer, then shovels it down deeply, piling up the thick layer of salt-alkali soil on the surface of the earth and rolling it forward. go.
For more than an hour, the saline-alkali soil on the homestead has been pushed away to a depth of thirty to forty centimeters, exposing the loess below.
Wang Caimi drove the tractor aside and stopped. After coming over, Li Long took out a box of cigarettes, pulled out one and handed it over.
Wang Caimi took it and clamped it on his ear, and said with a smile:
"This is... white snow lotus? Good smoke, good smoke."
Li Long simply stuffed the box of cigarettes into him He held his hand in his hand and said with a smile:
"The work was done very neatly today."
Although Wang Caimi has some small shortcomings, to be honest, driving a tractor is nothing to say.
"Haha, this is my profession, how can I do it if I don't do it well?" Wang Caimi took the cigarette and played with it in his hand.
Li Long gave up the opportunity to drive the tractor and push it for him, which cost him 20 yuan. Wang Caimi made a lot of money from it. Ordinary people would definitely not be happy, but Li Long felt that if he dug the soil by himself, it would only take two or three days to finish digging just the soil above, even if he called all the people close to him.
It is better to pay for the tractor to work happily.
After Wang Caimi left, Li Long had already started planning the foundation.
The design of the homestead is based on the house that Li Long built in a concentrated residential area in his previous life. It is a three-and-a-half-room house, and each large room is almost forty square meters. There are three doors in total. The west side is a spare room for storing things, the middle room is the master bedroom, and a small room is separated at the back. The third door from west to east opens a second door, and the entrance is the living room. It is not like the mainstream nowadays. The house has a guest bedroom in one, which is inconvenient. The living room occupies half of the third largest room, which is almost twenty-five square meters. There is a corridor at the back, connected to the small rooms, and the kitchen and storage room leading in - this is the last half of the room. The storage room should also have an outer door to make it easier to get things in and out.
This is the main room. Li Long naturally wants to build a small room later, but that's another story. There's no rush now.
Although Li Qingxia and Li Jianguo both thought it was a bit complicated, Li Long made up his mind and they had no choice but to support them. The next step was to pull stones, get sand, buy cement and build the wall foundation. The only way to do this was to build the wall foundation. Finally, the loess was poured and compacted into the grid of the room.
Of course, these two steps can be carried out simultaneously. Li Junshan is responsible for building the wall foundation, while Li Long, Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang are responsible for pulling out the loess.
Li Jianguo went to Xu Chengjun’s house and shouted on the loudspeaker, saying that Li Long needed a lot of soil to build his new house. He was now hiring people to expand the land, and the price was three cents a piece. Tail, strong, etc., the money is settled now.
This news was shouted three times on the loudspeaker, and then the young men and young workers in the team took action!
This is a real opportunity for people to make money!
That afternoon, someone had already soaked the mud. The wheat tails left on the wheat field became a hot commodity. Some old wheat tails piled in their own yards also exerted their residual heat, and the soil Block molds have also become the object of competition. There are even two brothers sharing one, and they have agreed to use one in the morning and the other in the afternoon.
After all, young men know very well at this time that if they want to get married, they must have a partner. If they want the partner to agree to get married, they must have several necessary items, and they must be bought with money.
There are brothers in the family, and they are all of marriageable age. It is simply impossible for my father to collect two sets of wedding items in a short period of time.
Then work hard on your own.
Tao Daqiang last year set an example for them. It is really not difficult to make money. The three brothers of the Liang family caught fish one winter and each earned enough money for a bicycle, so why couldn't they do the same?
This is the first opportunity for the young people and strong laborers in the team to make money this spring.
Li Junshan arranged the stones one by one and laid them, while Li Qingxia and Du Chunfang helped him. Originally, the three brothers Li Jianguo didn't want Li Qingxia and Du Chunfang to work together, but the old couple made it very clear:
"We haven't taken care of Xiaolong until he has grown up. Now he wants to get married and build a house. We when If my parents can’t contribute money, why can’t they contribute?”
To be honest, I feel proud to tell this in my hometown, but Li Qingxia, Du Chunfang and I are also quite guilty. Now they can contribute a little bit. They also feel better. So Du Chunfang, who never worked much, also joined in moving the rocks.
These stones are large stones picked out when pulling out sand. Paving the yard is wasteful and will make the yard uneven. So we might as well just pile them together to form the foundation of the wall.
The house originally built by the team also used stones for the wall foundations, but the stones were mixed with mud and solidified. Now that Li Long has bought cement, the solidity is naturally different.
There have been no major earthquakes in northern Xinjiang for decades. By the time there was one, all the villagers had moved to new residential areas and lived in brick houses. This house could withstand at least An earthquake of magnitude 6 or above. As for magnitude 8 and above - the area where Li Long and the others are located has never had an earthquake above magnitude 6 in history, it is not an earthquake zone, and there are no earthquake-resistant housing subsidies. According to expert research, it will not be that big here. Earthquake.
So this is fine for now.
Carloads of loess poured into the base of the wall built by Li Junshan, and the pile was finally more than one meter high. Li Junshan and the others then bulldozed the soil and compacted it with rollers.
When the foundation was ready, truckloads of adobe were also delivered. Li Long counted the money in person, and on the sixth day, he had to go to the villagers to dig out the soil and say to each one that the soil was enough.
Everyone is so enthusiastic about making money.
When Li Long went to talk, someone else wanted him to postpone the time for a day or two.
Li Long smiled bitterly and said:
"The clods I have collected now are enough to build the walls of the courtyard, not to mention the house. There are too many. I can't use so much."
In view of this, Li Long ran to Xu Chengjun again that night At home, I shouted three times with a loudspeaker:
"I am Li Long, I am Li Long! I have enough clods in my house. I will accept the clods delivered before tomorrow night, and I will not want the clods after tomorrow night."
True No need, after all, building a house not only uses soil blocks, but also bricks. It’s hard to say whether to lay a cement floor in the house at this time, but laying a brick floor is no problem. However, it still needs to be cleaned regularly, otherwise, if it is not occupied for a long time, it will still become alkaline.
Next, the most important work of building a house begins, erecting walls.
Li Junshan, a great worker, was not enough. There were also people in the team who could build walls. This time Li Long directly brought a wild boar from Lao Ma and killed it. He called someone with whom he had a better relationship. Tao Daqiang, his father, and his wife; Yang Yongqiang and his parents, the three Liang brothers, captain Xu Chengjun, must be called, plus Lu Yingming, his wife, and Tietou.
Gu Boyuan also came, as did Lao Luotou and several other family members in the team who had good relations with Li Jianguo.
These people, plus the Li family’s own people, are a family of more than 20 people. The woman was preparing meals in Li Jianguo's yard, while the man was building a wall at Li Long's homestead.
Although Li Long is an expert in hunting and driving, at this time he can only work as a small laborer. He is responsible for shoveling mud and delivering clods to Li Junshan. In order to facilitate the construction of the wall, the soil blocks are piled on both sides of the wall base, which will be much easier to access. Whether it is Li Junshan or other big workers in the team, they still have basic skills such as lifting hammers and wires. The walls are also two thick. With such a thick wall, there is no problem in keeping warm in the winter, and it will also be very cool in the summer. After all, houses are usually built with a thickness of one and a half blocks.
Nothing, just a lot of dirt!
The thicker the wall, the greater the workload and the greater physical exertion, and you can eat at noon. The Li family also has sauerkraut, hot steamed buns and pork butchered vegetables, sour cabbage and fried pork for lunch. These days, it is normal for one person to eat two or three bowls of steamed buns. With oil and water, recovery is quick and work can be done quickly.
In one day, half the wall of the entire house was raised, it was really fast!
Of course, the further back you go, the slower it becomes. After all, as the height increases, it will be slower to remove the clods and pass the mud.
Fortunately, there were many people and the work was done quickly. The next day was the same as before, with some more people coming to help. Li Long didn't refuse, he welcomed everyone since he came, and then the speed picked up again.
In less than four days, the walls of the house were built. It was cloudy for three days. In time for the good weather, after drying, the beams were installed and reeds were laid. These reeds were left over from last year's sale. It used to be piled up at Lao Ma's place, but now it's just in time to use it.
The reeds are spread densely to avoid leakage, and then the house is covered with mud. Li Long still missed the iron roof of the house behind him in his previous life. At least he didn't have to worry about rain and water leakage, and he didn't have to worry about snow sweeping the roof.
Of course, this kind of technology does not exist at this time, so wait. Nowadays, this kind of reed roof is more likely to attract rats, and once rats dig holes in the roof, it is easy for rain to leak.
There is a chimney with three fire walls on the roof, which is a must-have these days. Leave a flue in the middle of the wall and a hole in the house for the stove pipe. Whichever house needs a stove, just poke the hole covered with mud.
Once the roof is plastered, the large structure of the house will be intact. The rest of the doors, windows and brickwork on the floor are just trivial matters. However, these major workers did not leave, and the courtyard wall was erected again. This is more convenient. After all, the courtyard wall at this time is basically one and a half meters high. There is no need for a shelf, just a circle.
After the courtyard wall was built, all the people who helped in the village left, leaving only my own family busy.
Li Long did not participate. After he pulled back the doors and windows made by the carpenter, he then drove the tractor to Shicheng again. When he came back, there was a small three-share plow behind the tractor.
The small four-wheel tractor can also carry a plow, which really opened the eyes of the people in the village. The question is what can this plow do?
Li Long showed the villagers the power of a small plow. He drove a tractor and plowed the vegetable plot in the yard that was half the size of other homes in less than an hour.
This land was originally planted with safflowers. It was not plowed after the planting last year, and then it was designated as a homestead for Li Long. Other people's vegetable plots need to be plowed after planting in autumn, but Li Long's has not plowed it yet, so now it's time to plow it again.
After plowing, the four-wheel tractor brought a small level rake to rake the ground again. Next, we only need to fertilize and divide the fields into pieces before planting.
Of course, it's still a little early to plant. In his house, Li Anguo, Chen Xingbang and Li Junshan were busy laying floor tiles, installing doors and windows. Li Long himself, Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang, drove a tractor into the mountains and came to Harimu's place.
Halimu was startled when he heard the sudden sound of the tractor, but when he saw that the driver was Li Long, a surprised smile suddenly appeared on his face.
He is sincerely happy that his friend is living a good life, unlike the kind of people in later generations who are "afraid that their friends will suffer, and they are also afraid that their friends will drive a Land Rover".
"I'm here to pull sheep manure." Li Long expressed his intention, "The house in my yard has been built, and then I need to grow vegetables in the yard, which requires a lot of manure."
This year Li Long The family has more land, and Li Qingxia and Du Chunfang's land has also been divided. The manure here is not enough to go to the big fields, so let's stick to the vegetable patch at home first.
"Okay, I'll help you install it." Harimu said, "Let's go inside first to drink milk tea, take a rest, and let's do it together."
Li Long found that the two children Nathan and Susken were no longer in winter. The nest was empty, and Harimu's mother was not there either, so he asked:
"Have your mother and children already gone to the animal husbandry team? I originally said that I would help, but I didn't expect They left so fast!"
"The house over there is ready, although it is not big, but it is suitable for living now." Harimu said directly, "We will leave when the grass grows. Yes, you will need to visit them often."
"No problem," Li Long said, "I will go over after finishing the house in the next two days."
Harimu smiled. Now that Li Long said it, he was really relieved.
He believed that Li Long would take good care of his mother and children. I also believe that if his family has any difficulties, Li Long will never stand idly by.
After pulling a cart full of dung back to the team and spreading the dung into the vegetable field, Li Long pulled another cart. Most of this cart was to be distributed to Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang.
When the feces matter is settled, the doors and windows of Li Long’s house have been installed, and the floor tiles have been laid. All that is left is to sort out the details and tidy up some things in the kitchen, such as the stove. Something like that.
Not only this, when Li Long was laying the foundation, he also dug a sewer channel in the kitchen. He bought a thick pipe from the supply and marketing cooperative and buried it, and then dug a large sewer channel on the east side of the homestead. Pit, the dirty water in the kitchen is led here through the pipe.
When new houses were built in later residential areas in the previous life, each family dug out the sewage pipes from the defunct tanneries. The sewage pipe is fifteen centimeters in diameter and is very hard and thick. It is very good for household sewage pipes.
But now the sewage pipes in the tannery are still in use and cannot be dug, so just buy them.
Finally, after half a month, Li Long's new home was basically completed.
Although there are still some details to be completed, such as building a small house, paving sand and gravel in the yard, and not yet erected the waist wall of the yard and vegetable patch, these are all small things.
The new home is basically done.
(End of this chapter)