Chapter 201 Uncle Guan comes to the door, half for each person
"Brother, are you going to dig a cellar?" Li Daila asked.
Li Daila's family is from Beihe Province, and cellars are no stranger to him. He has been through many tunnels, not to mention cellars.
"That's right. When you go out, you should also take the soil you dig out later and dump it somewhere where there is no one around."
"Brother, what are you..."
"Shut up!" Before Gou Sheng could ask, Ma Feng interrupted him and said, "Don't ask what you shouldn't ask. We will do whatever Brother tells us to do."
"oh!"
Then a few people started working. They didn't know how to use some tools, so Li Le taught them.
After Ma Feng and the others started digging, Li Le went out and bought a ceiling fan, but there was nothing he could do because it was too hot to work.
To be honest, it is indeed a bit early to collect grain now, but there is nothing we can do! Food stamps started to be used in 1953. At that time, even if you want to buy them, you won’t be able to buy them.
Start stocking up now, but as the water flows slowly, you can buy more. Besides, it’s not all stored in the cellar. The most important thing is space.
Anyway, space is static, it will remain the same no matter how many years it is left, and it is not easy to fill up the space.
Li Le's space can hold more than 180 tons of rice alone, and more than 110 tons of white flour.
As for Li Le and the others, there are only five of them. Even if each person buys one hundred catties per day, it is only five hundred catties per day.
Five hundred kilograms a day, five thousand kilograms in ten days, fifty thousand kilograms in one hundred days, and now it is only a little more than two years since the implementation of food stamps in 2053.
More than two years, less than a thousand days, even if you can buy food every day, it will only be more than 400,000 catties.
It's basically impossible to buy food every day. It's not that there isn't any, but it's just that we can't do it so blatantly.
Otherwise, Li Le wouldn't let everyone buy it secretly. In this case, it would be good to be able to buy it half the time.
In this case, by the time food stamps are implemented, it is estimated that only more than 200,000 kilograms of grain will be purchased at most.
More than 200,000 kilograms, just over 100 tons, can't even be filled in the space, let alone the cellar.
The reason why you need to dig a cellar is not only to store food, but also to hide it.
If he didn't stock up on food, how would Li Le get it out then? It wouldn't matter if he was alone, but now there are seven people in the family!
So it's not too early to stock up on food now, it's even a little late. Of course, this is because Li Le secretly stocked up a little before, otherwise Li Le would have started it long ago.
Yes, the difficult period is still early, because the three-year difficult period started in 1959 and ended in 1962.
But don’t forget, it will be basically impossible to buy snacks after five or three years because there are no tickets!
Even if you have a ticket, you may not be able to buy it, because food will be tight and rationed at that time.
After working hard until lunch, I finally dug out a hole 60 centimeters in diameter and 1.5 meters deep.
You know, this is a job for four people! There is no other way. The place is small and there are simply no need for so many people. We can only take turns.
Just wait until a certain amount of space is dug out below. Then several people can work together, which will make it much faster.
"Brother Le, it's time to eat." Zhao Yanran came over and shouted.
"Okay, got it."
After Li Le agreed, he said to the brothers: "Okay, don't do it now. Go wash up and eat, and then do it after eating."
"Okay big brother."
After working all morning, the brothers were starving. They ate a few steamed buns and two large pots of vegetables.
Fortunately, Li Le asked Zhao Yanran to do more, otherwise it would not be enough.
After eating, I rested for about an hour and then resumed my work.
It didn't stop until four o'clock in the afternoon. Several people covered the excavated soil-mounted tricycle and transported it out.
Fortunately, there are many tricycles, and each tricycle has a few installed, so it is not conspicuous at all. "Remember, you can't buy food in one place. If you go to a place once, you can't go there again for at least ten days and a half."
"I know, brother."
"Okay, let's go!"
Li Le also went out, and the tricycle was also loaded with dirt.
I rode a tricycle around, found a small empty pit, dumped the soil, and left with my bag.
Continue to collect waste, no matter whether you collect more or less, and go home before seven o'clock in the evening.
Of course, before going home, Li Le also went to the grain store and bought fifty kilograms of rice.
He covered it with the bottle bag and went home directly. No one else knew he had bought rice.
What Li Le wants is this effect, just like moving ants, adding up a little makes a lot.
After coming back, ask Zhao Yanhan to open the door of the back room and put the rice in.
When the quantity increases, Li Le will secretly collect some into the space.
As time passed, Li Le also prepared a lot of wood. This was because Li Le wanted to dig a bigger cellar.
These logs will act as pillars, otherwise the area underneath will collapse if the area is too large.
At this time, more than ten square meters of ground had been dug in the direction of the courtyard.
The height is about two and a half meters, and the top and bottom are all made of square wood with a diameter of ten centimeters.
It was well laid out, and it didn't cost any money anyway. Li Le could get a lot of it just by going outside the city.
With this thing, not only will there be no landslides, but the grain will not come into contact with the ground.
Of course, this is only temporary. After all the digging is completed, moisture-proofing will be done.
It's just the beginning now, and it will take a long time before the digging is complete.
According to Li Le's idea, at least one hundred square meters must be dug underground, which refers to the actual area excluding the pillars.
At noon that day, Li Le and the others had just finished eating and were about to take a rest, when Uncle Guan found their home.
"Uncle Guan, what's wrong with you?" After Li Le opened the door, he saw Uncle Guan and stepped forward to ask.
"Li Le, come with me."
Although he didn't know what was going on, Li Le agreed and followed Uncle Guan out.
"Uncle Guan, where are we going?"
Looking at the direction he was going, Li Le asked doubtfully, because this direction was Uncle Guan's house.
"Follow me, and we'll find out when we get there."
After hearing what Uncle Guan said, Li Le stopped asking.
Sure enough, twenty minutes later, the two people arrived at the door of Uncle Guan's house.
Uncle Guan opened the door, waited for Li Le to enter, then closed it and bolted it.
When they came to the house, Uncle Guan said, "Sit down and wait for a while. I'll get something."
"Oh! Okay."
In about two minutes, Uncle Guan took out a box, placed it in front of Li Le and said, "Choose three items yourself."
Li Le opened the box in confusion. When he saw six antiques inside, he seemed to understand something.
"Uncle Guan, did you buy this from that person last time?"
(End of chapter)