Chen Wenzhe knew that Chen Qinglin was definitely a rich man. Not to mention his salary during his years as a soldier, his wife's family could support his family for three generations.
How can such a rich guy be so picky? Labor is free and all materials are free?
What's the use of a house built like this?
It's not that people can't live in it, but it's just that it's not comfortable for modern people to live in this kind of ancient house.
When thinking of building a house, countless images naturally flashed through Chen Wenzhe's mind.
This is the method of using gold bricks that you get by the way when you receive the inheritance of gold bricks, including the skill of building a house.
In a flash, Chen Wenzhe knew all the details of building a house.
The Pearl of Sui Hou plus system is so awesome.
As long as he keeps accepting inheritance tasks, he can keep using it and learn countless knowledge.
This is Chen Wenzhe's most precious wealth. After all, only when he has mastered it can it be considered his own.
Knowing how to use existing materials to build a house, he felt even more wrong.
"Second brother, if you want to build a wall with mud, it's not impossible, but if you live like mud, you are unqualified. Forget it, let me do it!"
No matter what Chen Qinglin thinks, since he has done this, his brothers must help.
If he didn't know how to build a house, Chen Wenzhe wouldn't show off, but now he knows how.
"Will Wen Zhe still build a house?"
"Don't show off, building a house is no joke!"
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Seeing Chen Wenzhe's posture, all the uncles spoke up.
There was no way, Chen Wenzhe could only explain that after all, the people working here were all elders, and as for the young people, they had all gone out to work.
"Masters, I think Brother Qinglin is not joking. Since you want to build a good house, you must use good materials. Mud is also different. This kind of mature soil will not work. At least you must use yellow mud. You can't."
Carrying too much sand."
"Huh? Wenzhe really knows how to build a house? Qinglin brought your drawing and showed it to the college students. You are just messing around!" Chen Jianguo said.
After taking the drawings and taking a look, Chen Wenzhe's expression looked wrong.
This is a rendering of a small courtyard. The central hall is a two-story attic with a raised ridge.
The left and right wing rooms are complete, as well as the east room, west room and south room.
Coupled with the oversized door wall and the ridged gate tower, the ancient landowners would not have dared to think of such a house!
"Second brother, can't we spend more money to build a house like this?"
Chen Wenzhe pointed to the uncles, aunts and uncles who were helping him. How dare he live in these houses built by the old, weak, sick and disabled?
"What? Wen Zhe still looks down on us?" Chen Jianguo said with a smile.
"How dare you? You are already seventy, right?"
Chen Wenzhe rolled his eyes at his second brother. The youngest person he asked for help must be over fifty years old.
Chen Qinglin said helplessly: "We only work for six hours a day, divided into four time periods. Slow work will lead to careful work!"
"Why do you want to build an old-fashioned house?" Chen Wenzhe was still very surprised.
Chen Jianguo said: "Not the second daughter-in-law? She looked down on our rural areas and didn't want to come here to celebrate the New Year. Qinglin got angry and said that she would build a good house when she came back. She didn't know how to say it. She just said that it wouldn't cost much. Isn't that right?
Is it like this now?"
"Your second sister-in-law said that she is a lady, so I will build a compound for her, a compound where the landlord lives. Let's see what else she can say."
When Chen Qinglin said this, he was still a little angry.
Chen Wenzhe had met his second sister-in-law and knew that she was a well-educated and reasonable woman. Chen Qinglin's stubbornness must be at play here.
However, it’s too late to say anything now, let’s help build a house!
"In this case, let's build it. I think the foundation has been dug. These stones are all ready-made, and there is no need to modify them. Once the mud is mixed and some lime is added, the foundation can be built. If it can be done faster, we can build it today.
It can be completed and the wall can be built tomorrow."
There is no shortage of yellow mud in the village, but there is no sandy yellow mud, so it is very laborious to dig.
That kind of yellow mud is also called steel soil. There is no need to explain steel, it is strong.
What does "trip" mean? It means sticky. When you shovel, the soil will stick to the shovel, so it is very laborious to dig this kind of soil.
It was this kind of soil that Chen Wenzhe went looking for before.
However, you don’t have to be too picky when building a house. You can mix in some sand. After all, you also need to mix in lime to prevent moisture and strengthen it!
"We don't need cement. We need a lot of mud. I'll find someone to dig it!"
After saying that, Chen Jianguo glared at Chen Qinglin fiercely.
Needless to say, he was also unhappy with his son's decision.
Next, under the coordination of Chen Wenzhe, many stones were evenly distributed in front of the foundation pit.
While they were busy here, a tractor drove over.
This time the loess, or clay, is more suitable.
It is not difficult to build the foundation using living mud, but Chen Wenzhe added earth dragons to the house.
That is to say, the ancient method of heating is not difficult. Just design the flue so that the hot air in the chimney can be extracted.
A well-designed flue can circle around the entire house, and the stronger the suction power, the warmer the cave house will be.
In summer, if there is circulating water, you can even pump cool air from the groundwater to cool the house.
It can be said that if this flue is completed, the house will be warm in winter and cool in summer.
Although the workload increased, Chen Qinglin became happy as soon as Chen Wenzhe said it.
This time, he was not obsessed with building a house without spending money. He directly hired a small digger and dug the foundation again.
At first, no one believed that Chen Wenzhe could build a house, but when he started building it, everyone began to be convinced.
For example, right now, a group of two or three people are already filling the foundation quickly.
This is much more efficient than what they used to do.
In fact, there is no technical content in this, it is just a reasonable overall arrangement.
Three people cooperated, two people carried the stones, and one person loaded the mud. The work was divided into five or six sections and the construction was completed quickly.
The work was not tiring and the speed was quite fast. As expected, the entire foundation was filled in only half a day.
Next, it will be difficult because you need to build stones.
The voluntary workers here are all middle-aged and elderly people and cannot be used as livestock.
"The next speed can be slower."
It was not difficult to just throw the stone in front of him into the foundation pit, so Chen Wenzhe worked for a while and was freed.
"The speed of building the wall is very fast. After all, they are all good at it." Chen Qinglin said.
Chen Wenzhe naturally knew that most of the men in the village were masons and had no problem doing this kind of work. The main reason was that they were too old.
"If you want to build a good house, these red bricks you made are not good, the quality is too poor."
Chen Wenzhe naturally brought the topic to brick-burning. He needed to accumulate some experience in advance and at least get a brick kiln.