There's a garbage bin in my head

Chapter 264 Ancient and Exquisite Craftsmanship
From the village road to the courtyard, there used to be a cement road of about three meters, which was built by people in the courtyard at that time. However, after everyone moved out, no one maintained this road, and it has long become It was tattered.

Moreover, no new houses have been built on both sides of this road in recent years. Everyone has built houses on both sides of the main road in the village. Under the operation of two excavators, the previous small road less than 3 meters, Soon it became a road more than four meters wide.

In fact, the courtyard is not very far from the main road in the village, and the winding road is only a little more than one kilometer.

However, the courtyard and the main road of the village are almost separated by Huashan Reservoir. The main road of the village passes over the embankment of Huashan Reservoir, but the courtyard is just opposite the embankment of the reservoir.

Standing in front of the courtyard and looking beyond the Huashan Reservoir, you can see most of the newly built houses in the village.

The new road that had just been built was just a dirt road, and Luo Jiu arranged for people to pull in slag and gravel to pave it, so that it looked better, but there was no problem at all when driving a pickup truck on it.

Because the roads above Chashan are all newly built dirt roads, Luo Jiu bought a pickup truck for more than 20 yuan after returning to the village, just for the convenience of running up and down the mountain.

After the road to the courtyard was repaired, Luo Jiu arranged for an excavator to remove all kinds of pig pens and cow pens behind the courtyard, and then filled up the cesspit, finally looking a little cleaner.

The mess before was really unbearable. When it rained heavily, the water in the cesspit overflowed and flowed into the ground behind the yard.

After cleaning up the things at the back, the later buildings in the courtyard were not so easy to clean, and they had to be cleared slowly and slowly.

In fact, after so many years, the old houses in the courtyard have become dilapidated in many places, but the main structure of the house is still well protected.

Now Luo Jiu has to admire the people in the past. At that time, when there was no crane, the big pillar that could only be hugged by one or two people did not know how it was erected at that time.

Although most of the courtyard houses are only built with two floors, the materials used are very solid. All the main pillars are difficult for one person to hold. There are also a few pillars that require two people to work together. hold on.

Luo Jiu has only seen such pillars in Taoist temples, except in courtyards.

The buildings in the courtyard house, if you observe carefully, you can see many differences from the current buildings.

Just talking about a window is very different from the current ones, all of which are made of wood, but the structure and shape cannot be seen on the current buildings.

It is a bit similar to the window grilles cut out in the handicraft class when I was a child, but it is much more delicate than that. Even a wooden strip as thick as a thumb is engraved with exquisite patterns.

When the courtyard house was built, there were no machines. All these patterns were carved out one by one by the carpenter at that time with a file, and I don't know how much thought was spent.

Luo Jiu took a look. Except for the windows of a few rooms, most of the windows have this structure, with various structures and patterns.

As far as Luo Jiu could tell, there were several patterns on the windows, such as plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, and various small animals.

It was only then that Luo Jiu realized that the carpenters were so good in the past, and now it would be a troublesome thing to restore the courtyard house, especially if it had to be restored according to the previous style.

There are several carpentry masters in Qingshan Village, but except for their father, it seems that no one who can do manual carpentry has this skill.

Luo Jiu took out his mobile phone and took pictures of some of the better-preserved windows. It seems that he needs to spend some effort to restore the original courtyard.

In fact, there are not many well-preserved windows like this. Over the years, many houses in the courtyard have been modified. Many windows have the same look of opening two years ago and have been changed to glass windows.

In addition to these, there are many other changes, not to mention large and small damage.

Luo Jiu actually saw the traces of being cut by a knife on a big pillar. Counting it carefully, the pillar was cut by at least ten knives, and there was a deep mark there.

I don't know what happened at that time, so that I should hit such a cruel hand on an innocent pillar.

If it weren't for the huge pillar, it might have been cut off at that time.

Luo Jiu also saw many densely packed small pits on a wall, and upon closer inspection, there was obvious rust inside.

At this time, Luo Jiu remembered a major event that happened in the courtyard at that time.

At that time, two families living in the courtyard had a conflict, and the other family directly took out the bird gun at home, and fired a gun at the wall of the other family.

The mung bean-sized iron sand inside hit the wall directly, but fortunately, it seemed that no one was hurt at the time.

Unexpectedly, so many years have passed, and the bird guns have been confiscated for an unknown number of years, and Luo Jiu can still see the traces of that time on the wall.

But why should we say that the materials used when building the house were solid? Even if it was hit by a cannon, there would only be dense holes on the wall, and the wall panels would not be penetrated.

In addition to these scars everywhere, the most serious damage is actually the roof of the courtyard house.

This courtyard is a mixed structure of bricks and wood, but the roof is all made of clear-colored tiles. In recent years, it has been rare to see people building houses with this kind of tiles.

When people lived in this house before, as long as there was a leak, everyone would replace the leaking tiles with good ones, and usually replace the broken tiles with new ones every other year, and then Add some new tile to it.

But since everyone moved out of the courtyard, each of these tasks has been done.

Luo Jiu went to have a look inside, and found that there were obvious water leaks in several places, and the wood in some places had rotted away.

Before carrying out the maintenance and renovation of the courtyard, the most important thing at present is to overhaul all the tiles on the roof of the courtyard.

Because it is about to enter the rainy season of the year, Luo Jiu doesn't want to see the phenomenon of heavy rain outside and light rain in the house.

After all, there are a lot of things, and after they are broken, it is very difficult to restore them. It is always easier to destroy than to build.

Just do what you want, Luo Jiu quickly found out where to buy blue tiles, a tile the size of a book actually costs [-] cents, no wonder few people use this kind of tiles to build houses now.

After the tiles were settled, Luo Jiu invited the old masters from the surrounding villages who could repair the roof tiles. After several days of work, they always finished the work of repairing and replacing the roof tiles.

The main reason is luck. It didn't rain for several days, so the maintenance work was completed in one go.

(End of this chapter)