Agriculture Idol

Chapter 10 The Unity of the Villagers

No longer in the mood to continue reading the system manual, Li Chengxin returned to the third uncle's house. Seeing that the third uncle was not there, he put down the basket containing the incense candle offerings, went to the third uncle's kitchen, and asked the third uncle to feed the rice and dishes that were bored on the stove. .

After eating, he tidied up the belongings that his relatives in the village helped him take from the collapsed old house and put them in the third uncle's yard, and found an old T-shirt with "XX Agricultural United Bank" printed on it. put on.Go and move your bed and carry-on luggage into third uncle's woodshed and put them away. This is where he lives at night.

In order to be able to sleep in the new house as soon as possible, Li Chengxin went to move the bricks resignedly after packing up.Brother Xiaoyong said in advance that he wanted to film the process of building the houseboat from beginning to end, so he asked Li Chengxin to also film his brick-moving content.For Brother Xiaoyong's request, Li Chengxin thought that there was no need to play with his mobile phone while working, and under normal circumstances, no one would go to him through this new mobile phone number, so he found a suitable place to charge his mobile phone. Turn on the power and place it facing the ruins of his old house.

Although Brother Xiaoyong plans to build a houseboat for Li Chengxin to live alone, there must be a structure that the house should have.

In the plan, since the houseboat is near the sea, the foundation of the houseboat is closer to the seaside than Li Chengxin’s old house. In fact, there is a large distance between the new house and the old house. To be honest, There is no need to demolish old houses.Brother Xiaoyong also specially asked Lin Yiyi to help check the land information in the village, confirming the land ownership of Li Chengxin's old house, and confirming that the land near the sea can also be used, and finally decided on the plan to build a houseboat.After confirming the location, Brother Xiaoyong also selected four pieces of hard wood from the third uncle's firewood house, sharpened one end with a hatchet, measured the four corners of the foundation of the new boat house, and then piled them with stones, and found a bundle of hemp rope Circled it, and asked Uncle Zhengwen to confirm the stability of the foundation.

These tasks sound simple, but they actually took a lot of time. After Li Chengxin came back from worshiping at the new ancestral hall, Uncle Zhengwen, who finally came to confirm the foundation, left.

According to Xiao Yongge, the houseboat will be built starting from the bottom foundation stone on the beach.There was no need to worry about the materials for the foundation stone. Li Chengxin was basically sure that he could find enough foundation stone materials in the ruins of his collapsed house. In addition to those collected from the old ancestral hall, it only took time and effort to transport them to the new location where he was going to build the house.

The stone walls formed by stacking foundation stones should be filled with relatively small broken stones, which can also be found from the old ancestral hall.If you are more lazy, even the original pebbles on the beach can be used, but the pebbles washed too smooth by the waves may create large gaps when filling, which may endanger the service life of the house.Li Chengxin can naturally choose to add cement between the pebbles, but for him who has to go back to his hometown due to poverty, this will be an extra cost.

The foundation of the pile of stones is a wooden skeleton. At present, it is speculated that more than ten logs at least five meters long are needed as pillars, and more than ten square logs about six meters long are used as beams.In addition to the skeleton, it is necessary to use many wooden boards as the walls of the house, plus tiles and the like.

Uncle Zhengwu estimates that it will take 4 to 6 months to complete the house by relying on Li Chengxin and Xiaoyong to collect materials while starting to build.If Li Chengxin can afford the wages, it may only take 1 to 2 months to find workers from the town to help with the construction.But for the time being, Li Chengxin chose to do it himself.

The area where the house is booked to be built is on a sandy beach near the sea. In addition to bringing in various materials, Li Chengxin also needs to smooth out the original space on this sandy beach. Some unevenness is not a problem, but it is also It needs to be paved with small gravel.After the area was finally cleaned up, Li Chengxin discovered that there was a huge stone with a diameter of about one meter in the middle of the field.He leaned against the edge of the stone and pushed with all his strength, but the stone only moved slightly.

Li Chengxin took the sketch drawn by Brother Xiaoyong and measured and studied it near the building area for a while, and found that he only needed to move the stone by three meters to make it one of the cornerstones.

However, these three meters become a natural chasm.

This is not a rock that can be moved by Li Chengxin and Brother Xiaoyong. It seems that no matter what, we have to go to the town to rent an excavator or a crane to solve this problem.

I told Brother Xiaoyong about this plan on WeChat, but Li Chengxin didn't receive a reply for a while, so he continued to clean up the bits and pieces beside the boulder by himself.

At this time, a man walked over from the other direction of the stone beach. He was wearing a hat and a chest-length waterproof jumpsuit. He was carrying two baskets on a pole. A smell of seawater came as the man approached.Li Chengxin looked up. The man's bamboo hat covered his face, but judging from his attire, it was obvious that the man had just collected some fish from the shallow beach.

Seeing Li Chengxin busy in the area circled by his hemp rope, the man came up and said hello:

"Xin Wa'er! I'm working! Do you want any help?"

As the person approached, Li Chengxin's system popped up the person's information at the right time, alleviating Li Chengxin's embarrassing situation of not recognizing the person: "It's Uncle Donghai!"

With this title, Li Chengxin also gradually recalled the impression of this uncle in the village.He lives by the pond in the middle of the village, and is of the same generation as Li Chengxin's father.

When she was a child, Li Chengxin liked to chase ducks by the pond. Coaxing the ducks basking in the pond into the water in various postures has always been one of the entertainment projects for the children in the village.One time, Li Chengxin kicked an iron plate, and among the ducks by the pond, a large goose raised by an unknown family mixed in.The big goose stood up and raised its neck. It was actually a little taller than Li Chengxin. After being disturbed by Li Chengxin's wonderful rest time, it fought back and chased and pecked Li Chengxin into the pond. This was also Li Chengxin's fault. The current world that used to chase ducks has paid off.At that time, it was Uncle Donghai in front of him who picked up Li Chengxin who was drowning due to fright and took him home.After this incident, Li Chengxin was beaten up by his father, and he did not dare to play by the pond for a long time.

Seeing that Li Chengxin still remembered him, Uncle Donghai was a little happier. He chatted with Li Chengxin a little more about the difficulties encountered in building the house, and said in a big way: "Just wrap this stone on me, just for It’s not worth renting an excavator in the town for this stone!”

After saying that, Uncle Donghai continued to pick up the pole and went home to the village.

At first, Li Chengxin thought that Uncle Donghai was just talking. After working for a while, he saw Uncle Donghai came back in a farm work attire.Followed by uncles and grandparents from seven or eight villages, some of them participated in the demolition of Li Chengxin's old house yesterday.

Li Chengxin took a look and saw that each of these people was carrying wooden sticks, chains, pulleys and other tools. It was obvious that they were really here to help with the work.

Uncle Donghai appealed: "Just this one stone, we old guys have lifted their muscles and bones, let Xin Wa'er save some money to rent a crane in the town, and everyone come to my house to eat fish at night!"

Several old people waved their hands one after another: "Xin Wa'er is from my own village, so why not be so polite."

After speaking, regardless of Li Chengxin, the protagonist, they each divided the work.One person builds a tripod with the logs he brought, and another person fixes the top of the tripod with hemp rope; one person digs some gaps under the stone so that the iron chain can pass through the stone, and then hangs the stone on the tripod with an iron hook Someone else confirmed with Li Chengxin where the stone was going to be moved, and dug a small hole at that place.

The small hole for the stones has been dug, and the pulleys on the tripod are also set up here.A couple of older folks started pulling rocks hard with this simple pulley block.

A few people chanted several times, and they tried their best, but they couldn't lift the stone up.

Uncle Donghai weighed it for a while, and said to himself: "This stone probably weighs more than a ton. If there is such a big stone in the south of Burma, jade should be produced in it."

At this time, the old man who was not planning to step forward and watched the excitement also took action.Some joined the team pulling the pulley, and some took long wooden poles and began to pry stones.

Li Chengxin looked at his thin arms and legs, and he was not in the same style as the villagers, so he went back to the third uncle's yard silently and started to boil water to make tea.

On the foundation of the houseboat, there were already six people pulling the stones, and four people were using levers to support it underneath.

The villagers who were attracted by the previous chants to see the excitement saw that someone was also ready to roll up their sleeves and come forward.Of course, there are also aunts who are idle and have nothing to do. They gathered together and turned on the mocking mode.

The men working in the middle of the field also want to save face!Listening to the taunts from the aunts, a hard effort actually turned the stone over.One step closer to where it will eventually go.

"It's turned over, ah, it's finally turned over!"

"Although it is feasible, it is too strenuous!"

"If it was bigger, I wouldn't be able to handle it."

"What the hell, it takes so much effort to turn over!?"

"Hey, this stone is really powerful, it made us all look like this."

The staged success was achieved, and everyone expressed their opinions one after another.Li Chengxin also handed tea at the right time to quench the thirst of the villagers who came to help.When the villagers helped demolish the house yesterday, he was not mentally prepared at all. In the end, even if he bought cigarettes from Uncle Zhengwen and gave them to the villagers, it would be considered appropriate to pass tea this time.

After mastering the method of turning the stone, the few people who worked hard at physical work continued to repeat the operation.

After more than half an hour, the stone was finally rolled into the small pit where it should go, with the flat side facing upwards as expected.

Uncle Donghai and Li Chengxin shoveled up the gravel next to it, and filled the cracks in the small hole where the stone was.

Uncle Donghai said loudly while working: "Every time we see this stone in the future, we will think of it. This cornerstone is really good. It is a symbol of the unity of the village!"

The whole afternoon was basically spent on the big move of this stone. When the place was finally tidied up, it was almost time for dinner. Everyone greeted each other and went to Uncle Donghai's house.Uncle Donghai said to go to his house to eat fish before. Although the villagers said that you are welcome, they are still very honest.

Li Chengxin, the main beneficiary, naturally had to keep up. Anyway, the villagers got together to help, so of course he had to show something.Walking around in the kitchen of the third uncle's house, he took out a piece of pork that had been marinated before the Spring Festival and hung it on the pork belt under the floor. He planned to go over to see the situation and cook a delicious meal for everyone.

On the other side, Brother Xiaoyong followed Uncle Zhengwen Zhengwu back home from work in Lincunshang, cooked pot noodles, and planned to add three eggs and a handful of leftover vegetables to himself.He opened the refrigerator, only to find that there was a small bowl of shellfish and seafood broth left over from the live broadcast, which was something that he, a slovenly bachelor, didn't usually see in his home.

"Noodles in high soup, enjoy, enjoy!" Brother Xiaoyong poured all of it into the noodles unceremoniously, and Li Chengxin probably couldn't remember the existence of this high soup for a while.

After eating the noodles, Brother Xiaoyong took a shower, and the live video downloaded from the background of the website has also been downloaded.Next, he needs to roughly edit the live video, make a video and put it on the website for other netizens who have not seen the live broadcast to watch.

Brother Xiaoyong charged up his phone, which had been dead for a long time, and turned it on. He saw Li Chengxin sent him an inquiry about renting a crane, and was about to reply when the next message popped up, which was a video.

The title of the video is "United Villagers", and the content is actually a video of Uncle Donghai and others helping Li Chengxin move stones in the afternoon.

"Xin Wa'er is really good at this. If this video is released, the first episode of building a house will be available."

Thinking about this, Brother Xiaoyong randomly cut the video of cutting leeks from the previous live broadcast according to his habits, saved about 30 minutes of content, posted it on the video website, and posted the sharing link on the village and his own Weibo .

After finishing all these things, Brother Xiaoyong fell asleep without even washing the pot and bowl.

　I finally continued to build the house... In the next chapter, the information of the protagonist Li Chengxin will be updated.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)