After ten days of preparation, Yi Chuanzong visited the stone quarry, the brick factory, and found a carpenter, and finally got all the decoration materials.

Because he needed to renovate, Yi Chuanzong rented another house.

Yesterday, Auntie and Lou Xiaoe started to pack up. They put all the things in the rented house early this morning. Construction started here, and Yi Chuanzong also took two days off for this purpose.

Looking at a middle-aged man standing on the west side of the yard, Yi Chuanzong asked: "Master Hong, do you still need to lay a foundation here?"

"The foundation must have been laid, but the part against the courtyard wall should have been laid before. We'd better reinforce it."

"Okay, make it as strong as possible."

Master Hong nodded, and he also knew that the family doing the work this time was not short of money.

"The manure pit you mentioned is going to be dug to a depth of 1.5 meters? This is a big job. None of the trenches we dug are as difficult as this."

Yi Chuanzong grinned and said: "You draw the line first. After drawing the line, I will dig the trench first. I can help with this kind of laborious work."

Master Hong raised his eyelids. This employer wanted to start working, and they had no reason to stop him. However, he felt a little uncomfortable. How fast could an outsider work? He said it as if they were lazy.

"The work of building a house is different from that in a factory. You have to watch how we do it first."

"Sure! You have the final say."

After Yi Chuanzong finished speaking, he stood in the yard and looked around. The roads in his yard were also paved with bluestones. They looked very good in the past. Now that he has such advanced stone carving skills, the ground at home is somewhat unpleasant to look at.

, there is not even a bit of carving, it is too monotonous!

A master craftsman and five ordinary masons worked in the yard for a while and simply marked out the location of the foundation.

Master Hong greeted, "Come here, first pull down the bluestone slabs on the ground, and then dig out the loose soil. I don't need to say more. Let's start working."

Yi Chuanzong also hurriedly came over to help. With a tilt of his pickaxe, a floor tile was lifted.

Master Hong couldn't help but shake his head when he saw how anxious he was to act, "Brother Yi, please stop getting involved first. Let's go into the room and talk about this fireplace. I have never done anything like this before. Please explain it carefully."

I’ll try to figure out how to install it better.”

Yi Chuanzong was also a little anxious and wanted to decorate the house quickly. After all, he only took two days off and would have to go back to the factory to work. However, he still had a lot of work in the yard.

Just like the floor tiles on the ground, if he wants to carve a set, he has to calculate the size in advance so that he can do it.

"Okay, let me talk to you carefully."

The two walked in the door and came to the center of the west side of the room.

Yi Chuanzong stretched out his hand and gestured and said: "What I mean is to build a stove with almost a full opening here, and surround it with bricks and tiles, and the chimney is also covered with bricks and tiles..."

Yi Chuanzong made some gestures while Master Hong carefully took notes beside him. Fireplaces are rarely used here, and masons like them have never built one.

Yi Chuanzong went to Lao Mo and asked him about the structure of the Su people's fireplace. In fact, strictly speaking, it doesn't have to be that particular, as long as the smoke can escape smoothly.

The reason why he is so persistent in installing a fireplace is to make it more comfortable in winter. The smoke generated by this open fire will escape directly and there will be no smell in the house.

The fireplace heats up relatively quickly and is very easy to manage. Just throw two pieces of wood into it.

When the two walked out of the house again, the outer floor tiles had been removed and thrown aside. The masons were digging trenches with pickaxes.

Yi Chuanzong walked over excitedly and came to a man who was working hard. "Come on, give me the pickaxe and let me do the work."

The middle-aged man's eyes were a little dazed. They rarely helped others when they were working for others. So when they came here, they were rushing to do it? He still handed the pickaxe to Yi Chuanzong.

Yi Chuanzong grabbed the wooden stick and nodded with a smile. He just dug a trench. This job was very simple.

He grabbed the pickaxe with both hands and swung it, digging up a large clod of soil. In the blink of an eye, he had swung the pickaxe into the air again.

Pick after pick looks effortless.

The middle-aged man was a little stunned. Yi Chuanzong had already dug forward half a meter. When he saw this, he realized and quickly dug out the soil with a shovel.

After a while, Yi Chuanzong had dug the first circle at the foundation, and this circle was thirty centimeters into the soil.

Then he started digging the second circle. The masons who were working normally were now shoveling soil behind him.

Master Hong silently put down the shovel in his hand, and after checking Yi Chuanzong's progress, he found that the original morning's work didn't seem to last long. At such a fast pace, the foundation could be dug in at most an hour.

"Lao Zhang, Lao Li, you two come up with me and Zhi Zhan."

In less than an hour, Yi Chuanzong had finished digging the foundation, which was about 1.2 meters underground. The soil here was already relatively solid.

Master Hong led people to pour some reconciled cement slurry into the trench. There were some weeds, stones, soil, cement, ash and the like.

Yi Chuanzong ignored them. He carried a pickaxe to the toilet alone, and a deep hole had to be dug in the middle.

He really couldn't stand the public toilets here. The smell became more and more obvious in the summer. He had to walk a long way to go to the toilet. Now of course, he had to build a toilet together with the decoration.

Work was being carried out in full swing in the yard, and suddenly there was a commotion outside the yard.

“Give it all!”

"Everyone, pay attention, we are about to arrive!"

"What a big stone!"

"So beautiful!"

"How much does it weigh at such a big age?"

"Who bought two stones that big?"

Hearing the sound, Yi Chuanzong ran out quickly. When he walked to the door, he saw two strange-looking super-large carts pushing in the distance. They were six or seven meters long. Below them were four huge solid wood wheels and cart boards.

It is two thick layers of solid wood.

There is a huge stone on top of the wooden board. It looks as white and flawless as snow, and the light reflected in the sun is even dazzling.

It is not easy to pull this car. There are more than ten people in the front pulling hard, and eight people behind are holding on to the handlebars and pushing hard. Everyone's face is covered with sweat.

The car body made a squeaking sound when I moved it even slightly, which was a bit overwhelming.

Yi Chuanzong's eyes lit up when he saw it, and he waved his hand quickly, "Master Zheng, this way, this way."

This is the white marble marble he bought. It is two meters high, more than one meter long and nearly one meter wide.

The density of white marble is 2.7 tons per cubic meter.

One stone weighs seven and a half tons! Two stones weigh fifteen tons!

The red bricks he bought were just over five kilograms each, and the more than four thousand red bricks were only over ten tons, not even eleven tons.

The transport of this stone did not start today at all. The transporters started transporting it yesterday morning. It's just that it's seventy miles from Fangshan to here, and it's so heavy.

Nowadays, the load capacity of cars is only four or five tons. It is impossible to transport the car at all. He cannot apply for such a car, so he can only rely on people to push the car little by little.

Seeing the rightful owner coming out, the middle-aged man who was giving orders quickly ran over, "Mr. Yi, how do you plan to put these two stones?"

Yi Chuanzong did not point to both sides of his door, "Just zoom in on both sides of the door. I have drawn the positions for you in advance. Didn't I deal with two sides there that day? Let those two sides touch the ground.

Man, it’s hard to put it down and try to move it again, so you can just put it down for me.”

One stone weighs seven tons, and after being processed, it weighs four tons. This is not something that can be moved by one person.

Master Zheng patted his chest and promised: "Don't worry, we will definitely put it here for you."

Turning his head, he shouted loudly: "We've arrived at the place, let's put down the one in the back first, and let's put down the one in the front first."

Yi Chuanzong stood obediently. A weight of seven tons weighed fifteen thousand kilograms. Trying to carry it with your own strength was simply a fantasy.

A piece of marble is two meters high, more than one meter long, nearly one meter wide, and has a volume of nearly three cubic meters.

His carry-on space is 2×2×2, with a volume of eight cubic meters, which is enough to accommodate this big guy.

Three hundred kilograms can be carried fifty times at a time, and his physical strength is sufficient.

Only this surreal strength allows him to deal with this big guy.

At this moment, the super large cart has begun to turn. This thing is not as simple as turning an ordinary car. It moves forward and backward slightly and adjusts the angle bit by bit.

Master Hong and other craftsmen also came out after hearing the commotion. He looked at the huge stone and was amazed, "Brother Yi, did you buy these two pieces of white marble to carve two stone lions?"

Yi Chuanzong smiled and nodded, "Yes, I am not dividing the house. From now on, this house will be mine. I will get two stone lions to anchor the house."

Master Hong sighed in his heart and couldn't help but said: "I saw someone buy this white jade stone before. The stone was only over one meter high at first, and a pair cost hundreds of yuan. I'm afraid your pair will cost more."

Well, the bigger the stone, the more expensive it is. Just transporting it here costs a lot of money."

Yi Chuanzong was slightly surprised. He didn't expect Master Hong to understand this. He had only found a stonemason to find out the price before.

"This stone is indeed expensive. One ton costs twenty-two yuan. The two stones total fifteen tons and cost three hundred and thirty yuan. The forty people cost sixty to transport them. The total cost is three hundred and ninety yuan.

money."

Master Hong couldn't help but secretly marveled. The bricks used to build the house this time only cost more than 200 yuan. One stone is worth so much, but the white marble is really beautiful.

"Which master is Master Yi going to hire? This is the stone carving master who brings his apprentice to work. It takes three months to carve out the two stone lions."

Yi Chuanzong smiled mysteriously, "You will know in two days."

Master Hong didn't think much about it. He just thought that the stone carving master would come over in two days. He turned to look at the two big guys and hesitated to speak.

Yi Chuanzong glanced at him and noticed his strangeness, and asked directly: "Master Hong, do you have anything to say?"

Master Hong nodded and said: "Actually, the bigger the stone lions are, the better. Even the pair of stone lions at the entrance of the imperial city are only two meters high. Your ten pieces of white marble must also be two meters high, right?"

Yi Chuanzong nodded slightly, "I've thought about the problem you mentioned. It's okay to have such a big one in my house."
To be continued...