Chapter 268 Ancient Books
The demolition of several houses did not take much time. It only took one morning and half an afternoon to complete.
After all, it is an adobe house, and because it was built relatively early, it is not troublesome at all to dismantle the cracked walls.
Everyone, you take a sledgehammer and I take a steel drill. I can make a hole in the earth wall and lift it up at will.
Originally, when Zhang An was dismantling, he was still paying attention everywhere.
He was thinking that since this house was built early, some old objects from the 1950s and 1960s would be demolished.
For example, there is a stone mound in the yard carved with a carp leaping over a dragon gate, which Zhang An has moved to his home.
But after the surrounding area was razed to the ground, a lot of copper coins were found under the foundation.
Besides a rusty sword hanging on the roof, there is nothing else.
There are a lot of these copper coins, but they are all rusty on the surface, and it is impossible to tell what age they are.
Seeing those patinas, Zhang An's idea of collecting them had to go bankrupt halfway.
Copper coins that even have lost their surface cannot be repaired and have no collection value at all.
The condition of the sword that had just been taken off was much better than Zhang An imagined.
When I hung it on the roof, I saw it was stained with rust. Now I take it off and look at it. It seems that the rust is not very serious.
This sword probably has a bit of history. It is said that when the Taoist temple was first built, it was hung up to guard the house.
It is estimated that when the main hall is completed, it will continue to be hung up and stabilized.
After demolishing the house the next evening, Uncle Zhang An went to the town to contact the building materials dealer and prepare to buy goods.
The next day we have to prepare for digging the foundation. Since it is an old house that is newly built, there is no need to prepare for any ground-breaking ceremony.
Choose a good time in the morning, then perform some sacrifices and then the construction can begin.
Because all the work of building the house was outsourced to Zhang Jianjun and his group, they were also responsible for digging the foundation.
In the morning, when they started working, the roar of tractors could be heard at the entrance of the village.
This is the building materials dealer that Zhang Jianjun contacted last night. Now he is dragging over the materials they ordered.
Originally, Zhang An thought that after bringing it here, he would put it at the bridge at the entrance of the village. Zhang An even cleared out the place the night before.
But many people in the village knew that Zhang and his party wanted to renovate the Taoist temple.
Several families came over at this moment and asked the tractor master to drive further inside.
Although there is not such a wide road, they said that they can drive in from the fields of several of their families.
It is now the end of autumn, the rice harvest has been completed, and the original paddy fields have been turned into dry fields, and tractors can be driven directly in.
If you were an ordinary person, no one would agree to let others drive in their fields.
After all, if a good farmland is run over by a tractor pulling something, it will be difficult to grow crops later.
But when everyone knew that Zhang and his party were going to build a house, everyone took the initiative to speak up.
Because there is almost no one in Changqing Village who has not been helped by Zhang and his party.
In those days, everyone in the village who had suffered from illness was helped by Zhang and his party.
Because at that time, the hospital was too far away, and the transportation was not good, and everyone had little money, so no one would spend what they could save.
Even though there was a health clinic in Changqing at that time, there was also a barefoot doctor on duty.
But when most people get a minor illness, they go to Zhang Yixing and take some herbs back to eat.
The reason why many people don’t go to a health center is very simple. One is because it costs money.
The second reason is that the health center has little medicine reserves all year round.
In Western medicine, even minor illnesses and pains must be treated with pills.
Anyone who has experienced that era knows that, especially the health clinic in the village, there is really no medicine reserve.
On the one hand, there are not so many medicines to distribute, and secondly, because everyone gets the medicine on credit.
At the end of the year, everyone will go to the health center to settle their accounts.
But even so, not many people paid back the money, and most people used food to pay off the debt.
When the health center was first established, it was actually not bad. After all, there were not so many bad debts.
But after a long time, because everyone was procrastinating, the health center had no money to buy medicines.
And the situation at that time was that among the nearby villages, only two villages, Changqing and Hongyan, had health clinics.
After going back and forth like this, Chang Qing’s own health clinic became a public clinic for everyone in the surrounding areas.
Every time the barefoot doctor just went to the county to prescribe medicine, everyone had already used it on credit within a few days.
Most of these medicines have not yet reached the hands of the people in Changqing Village themselves, and more of them have fallen into the hands of other villagers.
So after many visits, everyone in the village did not go to the health center, but went to see Zhang Yixing.
Zhang and his party never charge money for medical treatment. This is a rule passed down by his master. Even if they use the herbs they dug themselves, there is no charge.
But there is one requirement, that is, after he recovers, he needs to help him dig out the corresponding herbs.
After all, he alone, even if he goes to the mountains to dig medicine every day, cannot afford so many people to come to see a doctor.
So we can only work together and spread this task among everyone.
In this way, Zhang Yixing’s herbal reserves are guaranteed, and everyone is guaranteed to be able to catch them when they go to see a doctor.
Of course, if he encounters something he cannot treat, he can only go to the big hospital in the county.
So over time, even if people are not sick or in pain, every time they go to work in the mountains, they will dig up some herbs when they encounter them.
When I come back, I will give it to Zhang Yixing. After all, no one can guarantee that I will never get sick.
Therefore, a good herbal foundation was laid for that generation in the village.
As a result, many people in the village now have a clear understanding of most common herbal medicines.
Although the effects of many medical herbs are slow to take effect, they are very popular with everyone.
Because this thing doesn’t cost money, this is more important to everyone than anything else.
So, since a long time ago, the people in the village have been favored by Zhang and his disciples.
Therefore, after everyone knew that Zhang and his party were going to rebuild the Taoist temple, everyone took the initiative to help.
This is why Zhang Jianjun took the initiative to waive his own wages when he was calculating expenses yesterday.
At this moment, in addition to letting the tractor go directly to the few houses in their fields.
Most of the people in the village who have free time basically have one person come over to help.
At this moment, they are all carrying bamboo poles on their backs and carrying baskets. This posture is to help carry materials.
The master who transported the materials saw that the owners of the field were talking, so he drove the tractor directly from the field.
We kept pulling the materials to the edge of the bamboo forest until we could no longer go in, and then we started unloading them.
In this way, the distance required to transport materials was directly reduced by three-quarters because a path was opened from the field.
Now everyone who comes to help can just carry the materials from the foot of the bamboo forest through the bamboo forest to the Taoist temple.
Seeing this situation, Zhang An asked his mother and two aunts to go home to prepare meals.
Everyone has taken the initiative to help, and lunch must be taken care of. Zhang Yi Xing was alone, and now he was living in Zhang An's house.
Zhang An took over this matter without even thinking about it. It was okay for the family to provide everyone with a meal at noon.
Just think that you have some free time and treat everyone in the village to a simple flowing meal.
Zhang An has proven it countless times that there is strength in numbers.
Today refreshed his knowledge again. Three tractors were transporting materials on the road.
But not long after each delivery, before the next delivery came, everyone had already finished moving the previous car.
In the end, Zhang Jianjun discussed with the supplier boss and asked him to send a few more tractors to help deliver the goods while there were many people.
In this way, the work that originally required at least two or three days was completed in less than one day.
Materials have arrived, the foundation has been dug, and the Taoist temple reconstruction project has officially started.
If it weren’t for the fact that it was all contracted out to the village’s engineering team, many people would have wanted to come over and help with small jobs.
Although I don’t know how to build walls, I can still mix cement and sand and pass bricks.
In a blink of an eye, for more than half a month, before the rapeseed transplants were transplanted, the three rooms in the Taoist temple had been built.
Zhang An originally thought it would take a lot of time, but he didn't expect everyone to be so fast.
But it’s understandable, because these three houses were not built as bungalows, but as tile-roofed houses.
So wall building accounts for most of the project progress. In addition, red bricks are used, so the wall building speed is many times faster than the previous stone wall.
During this period, Zhang An’s family was not idle either.
With Zhang Jianwen's promise, Zhang An took his people directly to the brigade's forest farm to cut wood.
A lot of wood is used in a tile-roofed house. In addition to the beams and overhangs, there are also rafters and overhangs.
And the pillars and floor slabs in the house require wood from beams.
It happens to be this time, the weather has not yet entered winter, and there is still a bright sun in the sky.
The chopped wood could be dried in just a few days. Zhang An went directly to the town and called a tractor.
I pulled some of the wood to the sawmill and directly changed it into square boards that would be needed to assemble the floor slabs later.
Taking this opportunity, Zhang An also took out the Davidia wood that had been prepared in the space and sawed a batch of square timber.
Finally, before winter, the reconstruction work of the Taoist temple was completed.
However, Zhang and his party did not move in immediately, because Zhang Anrang said that it was already the end of the year and he would wait until the end of the year.
And there is no water or electricity in the Taoist temple, so it is not convenient to live in it.
The power supply bureau called people to plant the wire poles some time ago and the wires have been connected to the bamboo forest.
However, the wiring into the home has not been completed yet, because the people at the power supply bureau seem to be very busy these days.
So I can’t find time to come over, I have to wait until some time has passed.
After all, they were not in a hurry, so Zhang and his party did not rush them and waited until they were free.
If this changes to the future, someone will explain it to you at some time. They will just push it two or three miles and let you wait slowly.
After winter, Zhang An didn’t go anywhere and just sat at home.
During this period, Zhang An also learned physical skills and medical knowledge from Zhang and his party.
"Xiao An, these books are the medical books passed down by my master. Take them and study them first."
This morning, after the two of them finished their morning exercises in the yard, Zhang Yi Xing took out He handed several old ancient books to Zhang An and said.
Although these books are very old, they seem to be very well preserved, with no obvious damage.
There are only some natural wear and tear, and it can be seen that Zhang Yixing has preserved them very well.
Zhang An took it over and saw that it turned out to be the "Huangdi Neijing", "Su Wen Lun", "Qian Jin Prescription" and "Compendium of Materia Medica".
Looking inside again, Zhang An felt no peace at all.
He has never seen ancient books, but looking through these books, he can tell that they must have been circulating for a long time.
And it is not the printing type currently on the market, but a very ancient printing method.
"Godfather, this book is too precious, I..."
If these books were taken out, they could be put directly in the museum.
So their value can be known by just thinking about it. Zhang An was a little hesitant as to whether he should proceed.
"What is this? This is what my master passed on to me. I have no apprentices or children. It is destined to be passed on to you in the future, but it is just a little earlier now."
< br>Zhang Yixing said with a smile and motioned for Zhang An to accept it.
Zhang An had grown up beside him since he was a child, and he wanted to teach him from an early age.
But at that time, Zhang An was uncertain, so he never said this.
After all, most people don’t like traditional things in the new era, especially now when the old and the new are changing.
But for the past two months, Zhang An has been studying with him every day.
Zhang Yixing could clearly feel that Zhang An sincerely liked these things.
And not only that, he found that Zhang An learned very quickly, and Zhang An could understand many things after he explained them a little bit.
Especially his "Tai Su Nine Needles", it only took Zhang An more than a month to study it systematically.
Although if you want to master it in depth, Zhang An needs to spend time on it himself.
But even so, the speed is already very fast.
You must know that when he was studying with his master, he could read at the age of three and started to learn boxing at the age of five.
When he was eight years old, his master began to teach him these things.
When he was thirteen years old, he began to be exposed to acupuncture, also known as "Tai Su Nine Acupuncture".
But it took him several years to understand what was inside.
Looking back now, his speed at that time was not at the same level as Zhang An's now.
Actually, Zhang Yixing didn’t know that Zhang An didn’t figure it out on his own.
But this guy is a loser and has a ridiculously strong memory.
Especially after the space mutated this time, his memory became even more powerful.
Everything Zhang Yixing told him, Zhang An remembered it all in his mind like a camera.
When you need to take it out for use, you only need to think about it for a while, and it will play out in your mind like a movie.
Now Zhang An is feeling annoyed. It would be great if he could be in his second year of high school when he travels back in time.
With this memory, he can't get into any school.
In view of Zhang An's learning ability, Zhang and his party thought about it for a few days before deciding to hand all these things to Zhang An.
(End of this chapter)