Crossing the green wheat ears

Organize the things that should be organized, and the work that should be done is done, and the autumn harvest will begin.The Xi family didn't have much land, and Xi Mingwu was there to help, so it was cleaned up faster than in previous years.

After the grain was collected in the warehouse, Xi Mingwu accompanied his eldest brother to Yansui City, and found the well-drilling master Sun Yezao had contacted. The master brought a few apprentices and special well-drilling equipment. A group of people came to Lotus Village.

In Lianhua Village, there is only one big well in the middle of the village, and people in the village use water from the big well.Carrying water is a laborious task. Two buckets of water weigh dozens of catties. Adding the weight of the wooden bucket, it is impossible for a person without a bit of strength to carry it.

Because they carry water to eat, every household saves water, and children will be scolded by adults if they waste a little.

Xiyuan thought that the family would always cook food, and when the second uncle's family came back, they would have to use water if they wanted to sell anything, so it would be more convenient to drill wells.

When the well-driller arrived at the west house, he first checked the water holes around the new house, and finally determined that the yard is better located slightly to the east.

After choosing the location, the master led his apprentices to set up a potter's wheel frame at the mouth of the well, and then use the potter's wheel frame to dig down with iron tools at the mouth of the well.When digging to a certain depth, it is necessary to reinforce while digging to prevent landslides.When the water layer is dug, the digging is basically finished, and the well wall should be completely reinforced at this time.The Xi family had agreed with the master in advance that they had a lot of water in their house and needed to dig a deep well, so when they reached the water layer nine feet deep (about 30 meters), they dug an additional six feet (20 meters) down. , but catch up with the drought year, you can guarantee that the well at home will not dry up. Since it took a lot of work, it can be done in one step.

After the well was dug, the walls of the well were reinforced, and the bottom of the well was paved with fine sand. Because it was in the yard, I was afraid that children would not know the depth, and it would be bad if they fell, so stones were built around the well. It is 50 centimeters high, and ordinary children cannot reach the mouth of the well, and then cover the mouth of the well with a thick board.

A shelf is set up on the well, and above the shelf is a potter's wheel. A thick rope is tied in the middle of the potter's wheel, and the thick rope is tied to a wooden bucket. Just come up, and then pour the water in the bucket into other buckets.

After the well is dug, the water in the well needs to be washed for two days to clean the dirty water.There is no need for adults to do it, and the teenagers in the village feel that it is new. You can give me a bucket, and those who can't get their turn are in a hurry.The grown-ups just watched from the sidelines, waiting for them to hit it up so they could take out the bucket and pour out the water.The child who shakes the head of the potter's wheel also has to be careful. If he misses shaking his hand, the weight of the potter's wheel and the falling bucket will not be light on his body.Small ones like Xi Wei and the others can’t be touched by them at all. They are too small, and if you hit them with a potter’s wheel, you can hit them somersaults, so the little guys gather together and watch the older kids fetching water enviously. In the eyes of children, everything can be linked to play.

Xi Wei and Wei Cheng also wanted to fetch water, but Xi Yuan didn't let them when there were too many people. When everyone else went home and only the family members were left, Xi Mingwen held the hands of the two little guys, Had two addictions.Xiyang and Xiyong refused to show weakness, Xi Mingwu was tortured and had no choice but to serve his son.

Most people in the village are busy with the autumn harvest now, but no matter they are men, women, old or young, they come to visit the Xi family to dig wells when they have nothing to do. Come and see.No one in the village has ever drilled a well at home, and they always go to the big well in the village to carry water. The age of the big well, the oldest old man in the village, only has a vague impression of digging a well back then, but because they were still young at that time , decades have passed, so it's just a vague blot.

Therefore, the Xi family dug a well by themselves, and they no longer need to go to the big well to fetch water to drink. Other families in the village are very envious.Needless to say, I can’t take out my hands that are frozen in winter, and I have to go to the well platform to fetch water. Sometimes when someone spills the water, the top will freeze, and it will slip if I am not careful.In winter, the windlass is icy cold when shaken, and the hands are numb from the ice, so no matter a man or a woman, it is very daunting to carry water.

When can I drill a well in my own home?It seems that the Xi family has indeed developed, not only built a brick house, but also dug a well.Everyone sat or stood watching and chatting a few words. Although they didn't say it clearly, the envy in everyone's eyes was obvious.

After the autumn harvest was over and the well was dug, a few days later, several craftsmen and Shuan Zi led the way down.After they returned home, those who had land at home were busy with work, so they could come to work at the Xi's family as soon as possible. They were afraid that if they were too late, the Xi's family would suffer if they couldn't wait to hire someone else.

It has been a month since the big frame of the house was completed, and the house has already been dried. In autumn, things are dry in autumn. When the wind blows and the tigers dry in autumn, it dries quickly.

The start of construction this time is equivalent to modern decoration. The ceiling is hung and the ceiling is paved; the walls are plastered and painted white. The old carpenter who made the door and window furniture also brought his son over, and together with several craftsmen, they installed the doors and windows and arranged the furniture.

There are five main rooms in the new house, and four east and west wing rooms were built on both sides of the main room.A courtyard wall was erected to surround the house and the courtyard, and a gatehouse was built with blue bricks at the gate, and tiles were laid on the gatehouse and the courtyard wall.

The five main rooms are 24 feet (eight meters) wide in the north-south direction, so they are separated from each other, but generally the south side is slightly wider, and the north side is slightly narrower. The main room is the main room when you enter the middle, which is equivalent to the current living room. It is a place for the family to do some work, eat or entertain guests. In the middle of the main room, there is an Eight Immortals table near the north wall, with two chairs on both sides, and four chairs on the east and west walls.The room on the north side of the main house is used as a kitchen, but because a separate room is used as a stove in the house, the kitchen of the main house is only built with two brick stoves on the east and west walls. In winter, the wok or rice is used When the pot is put up, the stove is ignited, which can play the role of both cooking and heating.

The big pot stove in the house has now been moved to the kitchen in the wing room. When cooking a lot of food, you can come here to cook, but the main thing is to cook the food that will be delivered to Jude Building in the future.

There are two rooms on the east side of the main room, the middle one belongs to grandparents, and the easternmost one belongs to Xi Mingwen and his wife.These two rooms have suites, and the south side is the usual sitting and sleeping place. The north kang is built. On the kang, there is a kang kitchen against the wall. The bottom layer can be used for clothes, and the upper layer can be used for bedding.There is a small table next to the door beside the Kang, on which you can put some small things, which is similar to the modern bedside table.

On the other side of the kang, there is a large wardrobe with two double doors. One door is opened and there is a compartment on the top, where clothes can be folded and placed on it. Rod to hang clothes on.The other double door is opened. In addition to making two compartments at the bottom for storing clothes, there are also two compartments at the top, but a drawer is added in the middle, which can be locked. If there is anything in the house that needs to be locked, it can be put in in.But the really valuable and precious things will definitely not be locked in such a blatant place.

In the small suite to the north, there is also a kang, which is prepared to be used as a guest room for guests at home, and can also put some things in normal times.There is a kang kitchen against the wall, but there is no wardrobe on the floor, but a small table.There are two chairs next to it.

Grandparents and parents' rooms have the same layout, even the furnishings inside are similar.

The two rooms on the west side of the main room belonged to the three younger brothers, and the one next to the main room lived in Xiyuan, but the small room on the north side was not used as a suite, but was separated as a bathing place.There are two large wooden barrels inside, and there is a small fireplace next to it. When you take a bath in winter, light the fireplace, and the whole room will be warm in a short while.

The westernmost room was given to Xi Wei and Wei Cheng. Wei Cheng lived in the south, and Xi Wei lived in the inner suite.

There are three rooms with suites. The three-foot-high place on the kang is decorated with partitions, and a piece of glass is installed in the middle. The wooden partitions on all sides are carved. The carvings are auspicious clouds, and the rooms of Wei Cheng and Xi Wei are carvings of magpies climbing branches.

What surprised everyone the most was that the West family installed a small piece of glass about [-] centimeters long and wide on the south-facing windows of the main room and in the partition.

You know, although there is glass now, it is extremely expensive. Except for the rich and the poor, the window paper is pasted on the windows of the poor. The room suddenly became much darker, and it took a while to get used to seeing things clearly.The safety glass of Xijia is just a small piece, and because the manufacturing process is still very outdated, the glass does not look transparent enough, a little blurry, and it is also very thick, but it is better than window paper, "Oh, this You don’t need to open the windows, and you can look outside from the house.” People in the village touched the windows in amazement, it’s so good, the sunlight from outside shines in through the glass, and the whole room is bright and warm.

It’s good, and the money is good, just these eight pieces of small glass cost dozens of taels of silver, okay?Xiyuan really couldn't bear the feeling of being in a mouse hole when the windows were closed in winter, so no matter whether the family supported it or opposed it, he quietly asked Sun Ye to help him buy a few yuan from Fucheng. The size of the glass was planned by Xiyuan when he designed the house, and he even mentioned it to the old carpenter when he was building the window frame.

Except for the windows, the walls inside the Xijia House are all painted white, the ceiling is set with a dark red ceiling, the same color as the doors and windows, and the floor is covered with blue bricks.

When the villagers secretly lamented the rare facilities in the Xi's house, the craftsmen lamented the wealth of the Xi's house.From the outside, the house of Xi’s house is not much different from other brick and tile houses, but the craftsmen who participated in the construction of the house knew that the house of Xi’s house was built with two and a half brick walls. It needs to be larger, so the wall of two and a half bricks is more than 70 centimeters thick. You must know that this thickness is also qualified in modern northern buildings.

What's more, the wood used to build the house and the doors and windows of the Xi family is pure red pine, which is the best wood in the Northland.Not only the main house is built in this way, but also the side rooms. If you live in such a house, it may be very warm in winter without burning charcoal.Moreover, plant ash was spread in the second-story shed of the west house, which was also a measure taken to prevent freezing.In this way, the roof and four walls of the house bear the wind, and the walls between the partitions of the house are made into fire walls. As long as the stove on the north side of the main room is lit, the fire walls in the whole room will be heated up. No matter how warm a house is like this Hell.

This is really catching up with the place where the gods live.In fact, everyone wanted to say that it would be good to catch up with the place where the emperor lived, but they were afraid of causing trouble, so they changed it to a god. It seems that the majesty of the gods in the world is indeed not as great as the emperor, and the so-called county magistrates are not as good as the current ones.

"Big sister, you are enjoying yourself." Grandma Wang San said enviously to her grandma. She and the old lady were standing in the yard talking, looking at the courtyard of the Xi family.

No matter the main house or the wing room of the Xi family, the walls of the house are paved with green bricks one meter away. From the main house to the gate, a two-meter-wide path is also paved with green bricks. There are two red lacquered gates under the gate , There is a small door on one door, usually people can open the small door when people come and go, and then open both doors when there is a car coming out and going in.

Why!Everyone has paved the yard with blue bricks, when will my house be built with a tiled house!Grandma Wang San looked at the tall gate tower of the Xijia and felt in her heart, this is not an ordinary farmhouse, it is clearly the same as the house of the landlord and rich family!

That's right, after the Xiyuan family's house was built, a total of 300 taels of money was handed over, which was enough to buy three houses in Yansui City.

But what Xiyuan meant was that his family couldn't just build a house all the time. After building this time, they might have to live in it for a lifetime. Of course, they should try their best to make the place they live in as comfortable as possible, so they can make it as good as possible.

At the beginning, grandpa and father, including the second uncle, looked at Xiyuan with disapproval, but they couldn't stop him. Xiyuan quietly took the money back and arranged everything quietly. Well, they just have to follow suit.

Now that the house has been built and the inside has been tidied up, although they still feel sorry for the money, they have to admit that the new house after completion is not on the same level as what they thought at the beginning. The first one is a farmyard, comparing the two, um, the house built by Xiaoyuan's idea is better, if you live in it, you can wake up with a smile when you sleep.

The author has something to say: Well, it feels like the current country house. If Jin Yao lives in it, he can sleep and wake up laughing!

Regarding the matter of digging wells and building houses, Jin Yao consulted an elder in his hometown. Because Jin Yao didn't understand, he wrote it down in a sketchy manner. It may be a bit jerky, so I can only say a few words Sorry!

The layout of the main house also refers to the house in my hometown. If you can’t understand it because of the geographical relationship, just imagine the interior design of the current building. It is somewhat similar, but not exactly the same.