Reborn in the 60s, starting with going to the mountains and countryside

Chapter 44Building a House

"Sun Chaoshu, go to the village and borrow two more axes or saws. These two axes are too slow to chop down trees." Ye Hao said to Sun Chaoshu.

Early this morning, Captain Li took Ye Hao, Sun Chaoshu, Lu Bingsheng, and Niu Jianwu to the mountains to chop wood.

Sun Chaoshu went down the mountain to borrow an axe. There were no bricks in the mountains, so houses could only be built with wood, stone and adobe.

Ye Hao and others came to the mountains today to cut down trees to make beams for the roof.

The three girls and weakling Wang Rong went to the fields to cut thatch. It is also a preparation for the future adobe house.

Soon Sun Chaoshu came carrying two axes and a saw and two young men about their age.

According to Sun Chaoshu's introduction, this is Li Xiuzhu and Li Xiucheng, the sons of the third uncle, a mason in the village, and the fourth uncle, the militia captain. Come and help.

With more people and greater strength, Ye Hao, Li Xiuzhu, and Li Xiucheng cut down the trees, while the others shaved off all the branches on the trees so that they could be dragged back when the time came.

After working hard for a day, everyone was very satisfied with the results on the ground. It was basically enough.

"Okay, that's it for today. Let's go back and eat. We have almost enough wood. We will bring the wood back to the village tomorrow." Captain Li also followed the others to cut down trees on the mountain today.

"Thank you. Come to our place for dinner tonight. I shot two pheasants yesterday and will eat chicken tonight." Ye Hao said to the two brothers Li Xiuzhu on the way back.

The two brothers were a little reserved. When Captain Li saw this scene, he said, "Xiuzhu, you two go to Xiaoye's place for dinner. You are both young people and have a common topic. You have also helped out today."

Not sure whether it was because they were unfamiliar or a little introverted, the two brothers smiled and said nothing. But he still followed a few people back to the warehouse.

"You are back. Thank you for your hard work today. Wait a minute, the food will be ready soon." Huang Susu was cooking outside and said when she saw Ye Hao and others coming back.

When he entered the room, he saw Wang Rong sitting on the bed rubbing his legs, "Wang Rong, you can't do this. Why are the girls fine? You are so tired." Sun Chaoshu joked.

"I don't. I just haven't done much work at home, so that's why." Wang Rong felt a little embarrassed by Sun Chaoshu.

"Okay, don't talk about Wang Rong, just pack up and get ready for dinner."

"Let me introduce to you, this is Li Xiuzhu, the son of the third uncle's family, and this is Li Xiucheng, the son of the fourth uncle's family. Thanks to them both today, otherwise we might not be able to cut down all the trees we need if we had another day tomorrow." Ye Hao introduced to everyone.

"Hello, my name is Tang Zilan."

"Hello, my name is Zuo Lei."

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Everyone introduced themselves one by one and got to know each other for the first time.

"Okay, the food is ready, let's all eat." Huang Susu just finished cooking the food.

Today's dishes are very rich. Everyone has been tired for a day. Huang Susu cooked the two pheasants that Ye Hao brought back yesterday, a dish of chicken nuggets with potato vermicelli and a dish of chicken stewed with mushrooms. They are all served in pots, with a pot of corn paste and a pot of corn steamed buns placed next to them.

They are all young people, and they have done so much work today. They are all so hungry that their chests are pressed to their backs, and it is a meal when they come to the table.

After a gust of wind and clouds passed by, there was only a mess on the table, only chicken bones, and everything else edible was eaten by everyone.

After eating, the two brothers Li Xiuzhu were ready to go back to rest. They would get up early to get rocks and soil tomorrow.

Everyone simply tidied up and went to rest. They were really tired today. Only Ye Hao secretly drank space spring water by himself, so he wasn't too tired at the moment.

Early the next morning, Ye Hao and others, along with Captain Li and several villagers in the village, pushed a wheelbarrow to dig soil on a nearby hillside. Uncle Li Bang took his son and several young and strong men to move the rocks.

After three days of hard work, the materials for building the house were finally ready. In the past three days and the next two days, Ye Hao would go into the mountains with a crossbow every evening. Pretending to go hunting, he was actually taking out prey from the space. If it weren't for the prey produced in Ye Hao's space that he had been eating these past few days, With these young bodies, I am afraid they would have collapsed long ago.

He often encountered real prey when he went into the mountains. Ye Hao naturally had no reason to let it go. He basically hunted everything he could. When he went back, he distributed it to the fellow villagers who helped him. Today there is a pheasant for this family and tomorrow there is a rabbit for that family. of. At first, the fellow villagers were quite reserved and deliberately refused, but after these two days of getting along, the fellow villagers' impression of Ye Hao skyrocketed.

In the past two days on the mountain, Ye Hao didn't see Aoxue once, and he didn't know how crazy this little guy was, but Ye Hao wasn't too worried.

After all the materials were prepared, we started making adobe bricks. Lijiagou did not have its own brick kiln, and all the houses were either adobe or wooden.

Chop the thatch and straw collected previously, mix it with the soil, add water, and stir it into a thick mud. Then pour the prepared mud into the prepared wooden adobe mold, smooth the top, and wait for the adobe to naturally Let it dry, remove the mold, and the simplest adobe brick is completed. This step took everyone three days, mainly because the village had limited molds and could not make too many bricks at one time.

While waiting for the adobe bricks to dry, everyone was not idle. They first leveled the foundation, then dug out the outline of the foundation, and used big stones to build the foundation of the house.

The two rooms planned at the beginning became the current four rooms after everyone's unanimous discussion. There are two large rooms for boys and girls to live in. A small kitchen was added to the boys' side, and an extra bathroom was added to the girls' side. It was originally intended to be two bathrooms, but Captain Li later said it was too wasteful, and one room was added. That's enough, take turns washing. In this way, we booked two large and two small rooms, a total of four rooms.

After ten days of hard work, with the help of all the educated youth and others from the village, the construction of the educated youth point was finally completed. Looking at this brand new house, everyone felt proud. They had done this with their own hands.

"Uncles, aunts, brothers, thank you for your help these days. If it weren't for you, we don't know when our house will be completed. Come to our place for dinner today, don't refuse, this is ours My heart goes out, firstly, to thank you all for your help during this time, and secondly, we have officially settled in our Lijiagou and have our own house. I hope that all the fellow villagers and elders can bear with me in the future. We have just come from the city. , I’m not very familiar with a lot of rural work, so I apologize for any mistakes I’ve made. It’s not dinner time yet. Let’s go home and have a rest. Let’s prepare dinner here. We must come then. If not, Come, I can only come and invite you fellow villagers."

After Ye Haogang finished speaking, Sun Chaoshu was the first to applaud, and the others also echoed: "Brother Hao said it well, I have troubled my fellow villagers during this time, thank you."