Chapter 37: Build a New Home for the Little Tiger Brothers
Chapter 37: Build a new home for the little tiger brothers (please collect and recommend)
Author: Han Ming
Chapter 37: Build a new home for the little tiger brothers (please collect and recommend)
"Dad, the kennel outside can no longer accommodate the three of them. We need to give them a whole new kennel."
After dinner, the family was sitting by the fire. Although it is spring, the temperature is still a little low at night. This is called spring cold.
In just half a year, the three Xiaohu brothers have grown into big dogs. They are all majestic, even if they are a bit big, they are as high as Zhang An's knees.
When we made the nest before, they were still small, each weighing only one or two kilograms, but now they are no longer able to fit in the small wooden house.
"Forget it, don't waste any time. We still have sand at home. Just go to town tomorrow and bring back a few bags of cement, and ask your second uncle to come over and help build a small side house for them to live in."
Zhang Jianguo thought for a while, and it would take a lot of area to make wooden houses, so he should just build new houses for them.
Early the next morning, Zhang An took the family's big black horse and went out to the town.
When they reached the entrance of the village, Zhang Anfei got on his horse.
Now that the horse was carrying nothing, there was room for people to sit on the horse frame, so Zhang An rode directly on it.
It's just that the iron frame under the buttocks is a bit hard and irritates the buttocks.
So Zhang An didn't let the big dark horse run, otherwise Zhang An's ass would suffer today.
Just like that, Zhang An rode down the mountain road and entered the asphalt road.
You can see cars coming and going on the road along the way, but not too many.
The cement seller is right at the entrance of the town, so Zhang An doesn't need to go into the town.
If many people here are doing business, they will build at least two floors, with people living on the top and a front room for loading goods below.
For example, those who sell coal, steel bars and cement.
After asking the boss, the current cement price is 210 tons, and a pack costs ten yuan. Zhang An didn't know how much to buy, but in the end Zhang Jianjun said that three or four packs would be enough.
On the wide asphalt road, one person and one horse walked leisurely.
For a big black horse, these bags of cement are not very heavy on his back.
When we reached the fork of Panshan Road, we met several people who came up to ask for directions.
"Brother, please ask me how to get to the Changqing River in Hongyan Town. We took several forked roads and couldn't get in..."
There was a group of four people on the opposite side, and they also drove a minivan.
In recent years, the price of such a van has not become very expensive.
"You are going to Changqing River. You have to go up this winding mountain road. Then at the fourth fork in the road there is an earth and stone fork. After you turn in there, follow it straight down and you will be able to see it. How about you?
What are you doing there?"
Zhang An enthusiastically gave directions to several passers-by.
"We all come here to fish. We don't have any hobbies at ordinary times, but we just like this addiction. I heard that there is a big river here, so we came to take a look."
Zhang An chatted with a few people, and the other party handed Zhang An a cigarette.
Zhang An smiled and refused. He has never smoked in his life.
Through conversations with several people, Zhang An knew that these were extremely addicted fishing guys.
Sure enough, all fishermen are rich, and the equipment is not cheap, and if you want to go fishing far away, you need a car.
Of course, this may be a small number of people, most people take trains or shuttle buses.
The next few people knew that Zhang An's family was from Changqing Village, so they discussed with Zhang An to see if Zhang An's family could arrange lunch for them.
Zhang An smiled and agreed, this is nothing. Anyway, his mother has to cook today, so she will cook more. Of course, she doesn't eat for free, she pays for it.
In this era, most people's living conditions are not good, so how can someone let someone you don't know come to your house to eat and drink for free?
So people are also very understanding of the world. If I give you money and you help make something hot, we will be very grateful.
This has become a daily routine for them. They often go fishing in the mountains and then spend money to eat at nearby households.
There is something even more outrageous in later generations. There is news on the Internet that a fisherman went fishing in the mountains, and then someone held a banquet in a nearby village. He went and took a gift and ate there for three days.
This is convenient and cost-effective for them. A table of hot dishes only costs 200 yuan for three days.
Every time you hear the village horn sounding during meal time, you can go there.
Until the end of the meal, the host didn't even recognize this person.
When Zhang An came down from the stone pass, he looked from a distance and found the location of several people.
They parked the car on the village's grain field and were fishing in the reed swamp where Zhang An had collected duck eggs.
After carrying the cement to the yard, my second uncle and my father had already dug the foundation for the new kennel.
Although there are only three dogs to live in, we still can’t save this, otherwise what will happen if the house collapses?
Then I told Wang Fang what happened today. If I heard that I could make money, I would definitely not refuse.
When building the wall at home, we still use the leftover stones from the last time we built the fence. There is still a pile in the yard, so there is no need to go to the stone yard to pull it again.
In this way, Zhang An worked as a laborer mixing dust, and Zhang Jianguo brother was responsible for building walls.
Building walls with stones requires a lot of skill, unlike using bricks, which just need to be aligned.
The stones also have to be chipped and leveled in some places with a hand hammer, and then they need to be looked at when they are being laid, so that the edges and corners of the stones cannot be everywhere on the wall.
But this is not a problem for my second uncle, after all, he has been doing this business for so many years.
Dad Zhang Jianguo was a little slower, but he still built the work neatly.
Since the building didn’t need to be built too high, it was half finished by noon.
Just as Wang Fang in the house called for dinner, Zhang An went to the river and called some fishing brothers to have dinner.
Zhang An saw that there were goods in several households, and it seemed that everyone had gained something.
"The food at home is ready. Let me go eat first."
After Zhang An said a few words, he stopped holding the rod in his hand. Before he knew it, it was noon and he was really hungry.
For lunch, Wang Fang was quite willing and prepared a table of dishes, including three meat and four vegetables and a soup.
The look of the few people just eating was the same as when Li Hongbin came over to eat.
"Brother, these are fine scales, darling, are they also found in this big river?"
Several people looked at the steamed fish cooked by Wang Fang on the table and were conquered after taking one bite.
"Yes, even the fine-scaled fish in our mountains, there are a few in this big river. They are basically washed down from the mountains, not many."
The few people were even happier now, but they had fished for several hours and still didn't see any fish with fine scales, and they didn't bring any bait for this mouth.
Originally, they wanted to ask how Zhang An caught it, but in the end Zhang An said he caught it with a net, so they gave up.
After one meal, I didn't eat much meat, but I ate almost enough vegetables.
Mainly, the vegetables at home are grown by Zhang An using space spring water, and they are delicious.
This was their first time eating such delicious food. They had eaten in big restaurants in the city before, but they didn't taste like this.
In the end, everyone looked at each other and each person paid Wang Fang ten yuan in meal tickets.
Wang Fang felt that it was a bit too much and glanced at Zhang An. After Zhang An gave him a look, he accepted it.
The food at home is not bad, so ten yuan per person is not expensive.
After the meal, everyone sat in the courtyard to rest, and several people also chatted with the Zhang Jianguo brothers. Everyone got to know each other as they went back and forth.
The leader was called Wang Zhi, and he was considered the leader of the group. He was the one who asked Zhang An for directions.
Several people's families are engaged in business, so they have some money and have time to travel here and there.
After a short break, a few people went back to continue their fun, and Zhang An also started to work.
By the end of the afternoon, the new home of the Xiaohu brothers was almost complete.
Zhang An found the remaining wood at home and cut it into appropriate lengths by gesticulating.
The roof was put up before dark.
While waiting for the sun to go down, Wang Zhi and others also called it a day and brought some of the fish they had caught to Zhang An's house, intending to give some to their family.
They must take the big fish away, because the big river is not a fish pond specially raised by someone, and the fish can be exchanged for money.
They can only take them to town and sell them to restaurants or other places.
Zhang An naturally did not accept the fish they gave him, and even showed them the fish in his small fish pond.
These people couldn't open their eyes.
There were a lot of fine-scaled fish wandering inside, and what puzzled them the most was that the fine-scaled fish that should have been in the turbulent rivers in the mountains actually looked a little leisurely in this small pond.
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