Chapter 472 Helping to Renovate the House
In the last few days of June, although the heavy rain stopped its raging, it still continued to rain.
However, this haze only lasted until the end of June. After July entered, the rain subsided and the sky began to clear up.
Early in the morning, Zhang An was lying on the bed, still intoxicated in his dream.
In the past half month, he has been eating and sleeping every day. He has completely forgotten his previous self-discipline and has developed the habit of sleeping in.
"Xiao An, get up quickly. Mingsong's family has to pick out the roof today, and he has already come to call you and your dad."
It's just that today is different from the past. The sweet dream has not been finished yet. He He was woken up by Wang Fang.
“Ah, Brother Mingsong’s house is about to pick tiles. Isn’t it raining outside?”
Zhang Ancai just woke up, looking bleary-eyed, and unconsciously stretched out his hand to rub it Eye.
"It stopped at midnight last night. Now the sun outside has climbed so high that it is almost scorching my buttocks. Mingsong finally came to see me, so I got up quickly to help others."
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Zhang Mingsong is the father of the second child, Zhang Jiahao. Their family is the same family as Zhang An's family, and they have a relatively close relationship.
Since people come to your door, if there is nothing special at home, they must go to help.
That’s why Wang Fang came over to wake Zhang An up. If nothing happened, she wouldn’t care what time Zhang An slept.
"Okay, okay, I'll get up soon."
People nowadays go to bed very early, and the quality of sleep is also very good, so Zhang An was awake when he woke up, without much trouble at all. Lai's thoughts for a few minutes.
When we came to the yard, just as Wang Fang said, the sun had risen very high in the sky.
And at a glance, the sky is cloudless and completely blue.
Long-lost smiles appeared on the faces of everyone on the road, because in the past half month, everyone has been living in the rain and has not seen the sun for a day. It would be unreasonable to say that one day without seeing it is like three autumns. Pass.
After all, the sun represents warmth to everyone, and it also means that you can go out to work.
Wang Fang is the only one at home now, because Zhang Jianguo has gone to Zhang Mingsong's house to help.
As for Su Ying, she had already gone to school before Zhang An got up.
Originally, there were final exams and holidays in the past few days, but because I was delayed for half a month, I must make up for it now, otherwise it will delay the students' courses.
In the yard, Zhang An's big dogs all climbed out of their pens and lay neatly in the yard, lazily basking in the sun with their eyes closed.
After all, they have been lying in the nest for half a month and have long been bored.
The Huatou family living on the roof of the building also flew out of their nest at this time. They are now standing on the tree in the yard, stretching out their bodies and letting the sun dry their feathers.
Especially the leaves of the trees in the yard have been beaten clean by the heavy rains of the past few days, and now only the bare branches are left, which are suitable for the flowers to be used as clothes hangers.
For the animals in the pen, when Wang Fang saw the sun rise in the morning, he had already opened the pen door and let them go to the back mountain to let them out.
The two fish ponds and the fish in the fish pond are also floating on the water and swimming around. Although they are aquatic animals, they also need to bask in the sun.
When it rained heavily a few days ago, they stayed at the bottom of the water, waiting for Zhang An to feed them every day.
After washing up, Zhang An changed into coarse cloth clothes for working. After saying something to Wang Fang, he went to see Zhang Ming at home.
This year, their family has been in quite a bad situation. There are more than a dozen families in the village whose houses have been completely damaged, and their family is one of them.
Their house is quite old, and the roof is covered with stone slabs that Erwa’s grandfather carried back from the mountains.
After so many years of wind and rain, the slate, which was not very thick to begin with, has become thinner due to weathering.
Their family originally planned to buy the tiles later and replace everything except the girders.
But it is a pity that the rainstorm came very suddenly and became the last straw that broke the camel's back. The stone slabs on the roof of their house only survived the first few days. God, a lot of them were broken.
During the following period, their family all moved in with Erwa and his uncle’s house.
I guess I saw that it was sunny after the rain today, so I quickly found someone to come over and renovate the roof first, so that I could move back to my home as soon as possible.
When Zhang An came to the yard, many people were already there. Some people were cleaning the broken slates off the roof so that they could be re-tiled later. After all, the slate slopes were already very steep. It is difficult to get good slates, so everyone naturally has to spend money to buy tiles.
The remaining people were sawing wooden boards with saws in the yard. They were sawing rafter strips that would be nailed to the roof beams to support the tiles.
Since the slate house was converted to tiles, the number of rafters required was several times more than before. No wonder a lot of wooden boards have been moved to the yard.
Seeing this, Zhang An knew that everyone had been here long ago and had been working for a long time, and he was the last to arrive.
There is no ink at the moment, and I am going to climb the stairs to the roof to help clean the slates together.
"Xiao An is here, don't go to the roof, help cut the rafters below."
We need a lot of rafters today, so naturally the more people, the better.
Moreover, Zhang An is Carpenter Lin’s apprentice. Although he has just followed the apprentice for a short time, he is now a carpenter. Zhang Mingsong does not want to waste his talents.
It was only then that Zhang An realized that he was already a carpenter, and his role below was greater than on the roof.
I stopped going to the roof now. I set up the shelf, found the tools, and started sawing the rafters together with everyone else.
Such a lively occasion is not limited to Zhang Mingsong’s family. There are at least seven or eight families in the village who are busy, because there are many families who have to renovate their roofs today.
“Don’t mention it, it’s good when the sun comes out. I’ve been staying at home a few days ago and I feel uncomfortable everywhere on my body every day. Today, as soon as I get the sun, all the discomfort is gone.”
When people in the village work, they not only work with their hands, but also with their mouths. They always make a big move while working.
The topics are not fixed, everyone just talks about whatever comes to mind. By the time the Dragon Gate Array is over, the work in hand will basically be done.
"It's indeed good. Farmers just can't live without the sun. Being exposed to the sun like this makes people feel different. It's just that it's sunny today, but I don't know when the water in the fields will disappear. I’m afraid this year’s rice crop won’t be ready.”
Some people talked about the sunny weather, while others talked about the still flooded fields. They didn’t seem to be on the same topic, but it didn’t seem to matter if they were linked together. No, we can all talk.
In fact, the water in the river has receded a bit, and the water level has dropped quite a bit.
It’s just that too much is flowing down the upper reaches, and this decline is not obvious.
As long as the seedlings soaked in water in the field are not exposed, everyone feels that the water has not subsided. "Don't count on this year's rice seedlings. I went to see them on the first day after it rained. They were not flooded at that time, but they were all beaten to the ground by the rain. Even if the water receded, these rice seedlings were almost useless. This year I’m afraid it’s difficult to get millet.”
When it came to millet, many people joined in the chat.
After all, millet is a vital crop to everyone in the village.
Because in addition to the family's food and clothing problem, selling the excess millet is also a part of the family's financial source.
"If it's gone, it's gone. We farmers only rely on the sky for food. If God doesn't give us face, we can't do anything about it. At worst, it will be a little harder this year, but there is still hope next year."
Some people are sad, but others want to He was very open-minded and knew that since he couldn't resist, he could only stay close to her.
“Fortunately, I listened to Zhang An’s words and didn’t sell the old millet at home, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to survive this year. But I heard that the price of food has increased a lot in the past two days. "
When it comes to the harvest of millet, someone said very happily.
At the beginning of this year, the purchase price of millet rose sharply. At that time, many people planned to sell all the millet they could sell at home.
Many people here have this idea. If it had been sold at that time, the consequences would be really unimaginable now.
The rice seedlings in the fields are still bathing in the water. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this year's harvest is hopeless.
If all the food at home was sold before, I am afraid that I will have to buy food this year and next.
The floods this time are so serious, other places will definitely not be as easy as Changqing. From this look, the price increase of millet this year will definitely become a fact.
And everyone has had famines before. In this situation, the food outside will not only increase a little, but at least it will increase greatly and become high-priced food.
Rural people don't have much money to begin with. When the time comes, they will have to spend money to buy high-priced grain, and they won't be able to buy much at all.
The little money I spent to buy millet in the past is not even worth buying grain now.
So many families who did not sell food are very lucky now. Fortunately, they listened to Zhang An's advice.
If you had a hot head before, got carried away by money, and sold all the grain, then the whole family would be ready to starve.
“Yes, yes, fortunately, Zhang An reminded me that my family only sold more than a thousand kilograms, and now the leftovers are enough for this year and two years. Speaking of Anzi, how did you know this year’s food at that time? The price is going to increase.”
At this time everyone looked at Zhang An, because everyone knew that Zhang An’s previous words really saved many people in the village.
“Actually, I don’t know, but the prices charged by grain dealers at that time were so high, and the sales must be higher. Otherwise, how could they be so active? Since the price of grain has increased, it proves There is not enough food in some places, so rising prices is an inevitable result. "
Of course Zhang An knows that food prices will rise, and they will rise sharply. After all, in his previous life, he only had enough money to save. Buy rations for a family.
Despite the state's regulation, farmers' production capacity is still small, and the domestic population is extremely large. No matter how we regulate it, when supply exceeds demand, prices will definitely not be suppressed.
Of course, since there are those who listen to the advice, there are also those who don't. As far as Zhang An knows, there are several families in the village who only keep a little bit of food and sell everything else.
At that time, they were so happy with the money from selling food, their faces were beaming with joy.
I just don’t know what they are thinking now, and whether they are still that happy.
As we talked, the time came to noon. Although the sun was scorching above our heads, no one seemed to be afraid of the sun at all. Maybe it was because they were moldy at home during this period and wanted to be exposed to the sun more. .
"Okay, it's getting late, let's go eat and take a rest first."
At this time, Zhang An's sister-in-law, Erwa's mother, came over to inform everyone to go back Have a meal.
Everyone was not polite. They had to work and eat. They all came down from the roof to finish their work and go back to eat.
The place to eat is still at Erwa's uncle's house. After all, their house has been flooded, and it is still very damp now.
And everyone was cleaning the slates on the roof, and all the dust, gravel and sand fell into the house, making it impossible to live in.
Even after the roof is renovated, a major cleaning is required before it can be occupied.
"The tiles for Zhang Mingsong's house have been delivered. Come and unload the truck quickly. We have to rush to deliver them to the next house."
However, this meal was a little uneasy, because halfway through the meal, the tile seller in the town brought over tiles.
"Okay, okay, you drive the car to the yard next to it, we will come right away."
At this time, everyone could only stop eating half of the meal and go to clean the tiles first The film was removed.
Zhang Mingsong ordered the tiles in the morning, but because there were many people buying tiles today, they only delivered them now.
Fortunately, Zhang Mingsong arrived early. If it had been later, it might not have been delivered until tomorrow, and it might even be out of stock.
After all, there are many villages in the nearby area, and many houses have been damaged by heavy rains. The tiles are now in hot demand.
According to Zhang Mingsong, the tiles this time are much more expensive than before, but there are still many people who want to buy them but can’t.
For example, some stores in Changqing didn’t have any. They had to wait until tomorrow because they were late.
“I’m really sorry for everyone, I made you get up and fuss in the middle of the meal.”
After unloading the car, everyone came back to continue eating. Zhang Mingsong was very embarrassed and said to everyone with a smile. .
"Hey, this is such a big deal. We are here to work. Of course, we should work hard first, and eating comes second."
Everyone didn't care about this. The farmers were just working on it. It is common to eat while living.
After dinner, Zhang Mingsong was ready to let everyone rest for a while, but everyone just drank a cup of tea and went straight to work.
Their house is a large house with three rooms, and the amount of work is not small. In addition, all the rafters need to be replaced, which makes the work even bigger.
If everyone doesn’t hurry up, they may not be able to finish until dark today, so no one wants to take a rest.
Rural people are like this. No matter who they are working for, they always look at it with eyes. If they work less, they will have more rest, and if they work more, they will waste less time.
Try not to let others delay the work that can be done in one day until the next day, so that it will be more convenient for the owner.
In the end, with everyone's persistence, they worked until seven o'clock in the evening, and finally built the roof of their house before dark.
(End of this chapter)