Siheyuan: Starting from Building a Village

It's not how much time you have, but how you use it.

A week passed quickly, the formula of the strengthening potion was researched and successfully manufactured, and it was named: Strengthening Capsules. However, there were only 9 capsules, and the effect was much weaker than the original strengthening potion. The main reason was the lack of some key elixir, and the alternative herbs were also scarce. Currently, only 9 capsules were produced.

According to the information obtained from the clone, the strengthening capsule can theoretically strengthen the human body three times, that is, comprehensive strengthening of the four dimensions of spirit, strength, agility and physique.

Liu Guozheng ate one right away, and first improved his own strength, after all, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu couldn't be by his side all the time. A good ironsmith must be strong himself, and his own strength is very important, no matter in which world.

In addition, water was successfully brought in from the deep mountains these days. With the help of his clone, Zhang Long dug a ditch halfway up the mountain, dividing it into two at the junction of West Mountain and North Mountain. One route goes along the hillside of North Mountain, serving as a source of drinking water and irrigation water to the north of the central street (it has not been opened yet); the other route goes south along West Mountain, and at the junction with South Mountain, it goes downstream, passes a 600-square-meter pool, and flows into a fish pond 300 meters east.

This 600 square meter pool is Liu Guozheng's private swimming pool. The pool is about two meters deep and is reinforced with stone bricks with smooth edges and corners.

The bottom of the pool is a layer of mud (the kind of sticky soil that is equivalent to a waterproof layer to prevent leakage), and the same treated stone bricks on the mud cover the entire swimming pool.

Liu Guozheng had already thought about it. He planned to plant fruit trees around the area, or other ornamental trees. Anyway, the entire area from Xishan to the 300-acre pond would be planted with fruit trees, apricot trees, peach trees, pomegranate trees, etc. This would be his private residence in the future.

Of course, during this week, there was one more person in the village, a man called Wang Erleng, who also fled from Henan Province. Like Liu Guozheng, he wanted to go into the mountains to make a living, but he fainted at the entrance of the village and was carried back by Zhao Hu.

The clothes Wang Erleng was wearing at that time could not be called clothes. They looked like rags and the color could not be seen. They could only barely cover his body and were slightly better than being naked.

He also shaved his head, which, as Wang Erleng said after he woke up, saved time and trouble, and most importantly, money.

After that, I fed him with millet porridge every day. After two days, I was lucky enough to survive.

This fellow was also a talented person. He knelt down and called him "big brother" and said that he would follow him for the rest of his life. As he was also a refugee from famine and a native of Henan Province, Liu Guozheng let him stay.

He is quite hardworking and does whatever he is asked to do. To use fashionable words, he has strong execution ability.

So, he wrapped a pig's head in rags and went to the nearby brick factory early in the morning. Now it's almost noon and he hasn't come back yet. I don't know if I can reach an agreement with the brick factory to exchange meat for bricks.

It shouldn't be a problem. In this year, it's a blessing for ordinary people to be able to eat meat. I think exchanging tens of thousands of bricks shouldn't be a problem.

House building planning has also been put on the agenda.

Now the nearby villages have basically completed this year's sowing work and entered the slack season.

Although it is the off-season, farmers do not have an idle life because they still have to go out to repair reservoirs and dig ditches. The rest of the family cannot be idle either, they find things to do and participate in collective learning of the leadership spirit and other activities.

Liu Guozheng was also a little worried about whether he could find enough people to build houses. After all, winter was still more than a month away. Although the weather was still a little hot, as long as it rained after the frost, the temperature would drop immediately.

In the winter of the 1950s and 1960s, the city was extremely cold, and it was said that the lowest temperature could reach minus 30 degrees Celsius. This was not a big deal for Liu Guozheng himself, but he was mainly worried about whether other people would be lucky enough to come to Hope Village. If there were few people, it would be fine, but if there were many, there would have to be enough houses.

At that time, most houses in rural areas were made of adobe, and those with better conditions were made of a mixture of earth and bricks. Liu Guozheng chose neither of these two types, and was prepared to build a brick and tile house in one go.

In fact, for Liu Guozheng, there is no shortage of resources in this world, but he needs to be careful not to attract too much attention. So bricks and tiles need to be purchased from brick factories. Unless the brick factory is out of supply, Liu Guozheng will not produce bricks and tiles in the second world.

I just don’t know if Wang Erleng can get things done this time.

There shouldn't be any problem. Nowadays, no one can resist meat. The only thing to consider is the amount.

I collected my thoughts and looked at the sky. It was almost time for Erlang to come back.

"Brother Zheng, Brother Zheng. I'm back."

Well, speak of the devil and he will appear.