Starting from the next day, Sheng Xian and Sheng Xikang got up as soon as the rooster crowed in the morning, fetched water, chopped firewood, and tidied the garden.
During the day, the two of them went to work in the family team, and by the way, they could also collect some trees and other things for firewood.
In summer, you don't need a heated kang to light a fire, just cook.
In contrast, the trees can be chopped into two-foot lengths, and when they are completely dry, they can be used to make a fire for cooking, which is faster than chopping firewood.
It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you are willing to work and don't go out to play nonsense, that's fine.
Sheng Liancheng and his wife don't have many demands. When their children are older, it's not easy for their parents to understand that they can just help share the burden with the family.
Coincidentally, within two days, the forest farm allocated rooms.
Qianchuan Forestry Farm was built in 1964. Initially, workers used their spare time to build wood-carved mud houses.
Winters in Northeast China are extremely cold, and the frozen soil layer can reach nearly two meters.
Wooden houses have shallow foundations and are prone to frost damage.
In the winter, the ground freezes up, and in spring it gets warmer and then falls again.
During this time, the structure of the house was damaged.
No matter how solid they were built at that time, even if they were repaired every year, those houses would deteriorate at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Therefore, the forest farm built another batch of public houses this year and distributed them to the employees of the unit according to their seniority and other conditions.
Sheng Liancheng has been working in the forestry system since the 1950s, and has been working in the forestry system for more than 20 years now, both in terms of length of service and rating.
Therefore, the forestry farm made a decision to allocate a public house to the Sheng family.
The Sheng family was allocated two public houses, and after drawing lots, the location was determined.
To the east of the forest farm, it happens to be the house at the end of the line. There is a large open space to the east.
“When the house came down, it only had two rooms, and it was too small for our whole family to move in.
I'm thinking about how we can arrange it after we discuss it."
In the evening of this day, Sheng Liancheng and his son arrived home. Before the food was put away, the family discussed the house first.
The new house is made of bricks and tiles, which is a hundred times stronger than the mud and thatched houses here.
Normally, after the house is divided, the whole family should be packed up and moved in. It doesn’t matter if we don’t want the mud-thatched house here.
But the house there is too small, with only two rooms. There is not enough room for the eight members of the Sheng family, no matter how much they plan.
Not to mention, Sheng Xiping already has a partner and will get married next year if he can't guarantee it.
In the future, if an imported child is added to the family, two houses will not be enough to live in.
"What I mean is, otherwise, we can go to the east end of the house and connect another one to one and a half rooms by ourselves.
When it is opened, the house will be big and almost enough to live in.
If not, then we can only leave the public house to the eldest brother for his wedding, and our family will still live here. What do you think is reasonable?"
Sheng Liancheng took a puff of cigarette, looked up at his wife and children, and asked.
"My father, with this policy, can we build it ourselves?"
Didn’t the superiors send a document two years ago saying that cadres and employees were not allowed to build their own houses?
If we build a house, can the superiors deny it and give you a punishment or something like that? It’s not worth it.”
Zhang Shuzhen is more worried about this. If her husband is implicated, he will be punished or something, and it will not be worth it.
"Let's just put it this way. In recent years, where have you seen less houses being built?
Needless to say, in our forest farm, every household in Songjianghe Town has built a house and a warehouse. Can the superiors take care of it?"
Sheng Liancheng shook his head and said nonchalantly.
"Then the house in the house is not enough to live in, so can people sleep on the street?"
The Songjiang River Forestry Bureau selected a site to build the bureau in 1957, and it was officially completed in 1958. It has only been 16 or 17 years now.
In the early days of the founding of the bureau, there was a shortage of labor.
But at that time, there were only 50,000 to 60,000 people in Fusong County, and most of them suffered from water vapor and Kashin-Beck disease, so the local government had no spare capacity to support the construction of the Forestry Bureau.
Therefore, the Forestry Bureau can only recruit workers from Qilu and other places to support forestry construction in Northeast China.
At the beginning, the conditions were difficult, and many young people from Qilu could not bear the hardship and went back again.
Most of those who can stay are because their families are really poor and can't survive, so they have to go out and find a way out.
How many of these people have wives and children at home?
A single errand boy came to the Northeast, and after a few years he got settled, returned to his hometown, married a beautiful and well-versed wife, and then had children and lived a happy life.
Nowadays, no one pays much attention to plans. Every family has four or five children, and some have seven or eight more children.
Those two small shabby houses were not enough to live in. Who didn't try their best to add a house and a half? Otherwise, how could they live in an open space?
This kind of thing cannot be prohibited at all. So what? Once it is covered, can it be removed?
"I think we should play it safe. This house is not bad. We repair it every year, so it's not too dilapidated.
Let's live here for now, and we'll clean up the other side and leave it for the boss to get married."
Zhang Shuzhen still feels that it is not safe. Anyway, the house here is still there, so let's stay here and don't cause unnecessary trouble.
"Mom, how can any parent live in an old house while their son goes to live in a new house?"
After hearing what her mother said, Sheng Xiping hurriedly expressed his position.
"I think what my dad said is reasonable. If it doesn't work, we can connect a two-bedroom house and move in together when the time comes.
Otherwise, we move to a new house and leave this old house for my wedding."
In my previous life, I had a house and a half built next to the public house allocated by my work unit.
It was changed to two beds in the north and south. The south bed was made up of Sheng Liancheng and his two daughters, and the north bed was left to Sheng Xi'an and his three brothers.
It was originally planned that Westinghouse would be left for Sheng Xiping to get married, but unexpectedly something happened before Sheng Xiping could get engaged.
When the house was built, no one said anything. It seems that the policy was later changed to allow each family to build a house.
Sheng Liancheng and his son agreed that they could take over the house. What else could Zhang Shuzhen say?
"Then just listen to you two. Anyway, you do the work, and I can do the cooking and stuff. I can't do anything else."
In this way, the family decided to build an additional room to one and a half rooms at the east end of the new house.
“Anyway, we have enough wood saved at home, and we can go to Qianshan and cut stones and other things ourselves.
Sand is also simple, just dig it in the river.
There are bricks and tiles left, and I plan to go to the field tomorrow to ask if they can be evened out."
There are plenty of bricks, tiles, cement and white ash to build public buildings and clubs in the field. It will be enough to spread some and bring them back.
"The small repair shop is not busy. I go there every day to do some work. If there is no work, I will break rocks and dig sand to prepare materials.
It just so happens that the second and third sons are on summer vacation, so don’t do the family team work and come with me."
Sheng Liancheng is the head of the family, so of course he has to make arrangements.
"Boss, is your educated youth team's silviculture and production speeding up?
Waiting for the forestry work to be finished, you can take a leave of absence for the time being, and the four of us will build the house after spending some time."
The family is full of male laborers, so they are not afraid of work.
It's just a house and a half. I can definitely build it during the summer vacation.