When it was late in the evening, the phone at home rang "beep~beep~beep~".
When the phone rang at first, Zhang An's family was not used to it. After the phone in Zhang An's room rang for a long time, Zhang An realized that his family had installed a phone.
The main reason is that there was no telephone installed in the house in the past, and it was not installed in the house of later generations. It was not until mobile phones became popular that I bought a PHS.
Zhang An mentioned the phone and asked. It turned out that it was Deng Kuan who had just installed the phone. The main purpose was to tell Zhang An that the phone was connected and could be used normally. He also reported Zhang An's home number again. The service was not good.
It's not thoughtful.
It happened that the newly installed telephone at home could be used, so Zhang An took out the number book and called Chen Ze.
I originally wanted to call him earlier, but he thought I would call him in broad daylight and Chen Ze might not be at home, so Zhang An didn't go to the canteen to make a call.
After the phone beeped a few times, someone on the other side answered.
"Old Chen, this is Zhang An."
"Hey, is the phone at home ready?"
Chen Ze asked on the other end of the phone that he knew someone at the telecommunications bureau, so when he went there, he asked help to arrange it as soon as possible. Otherwise, Zhang An went by himself and it would take several days to pay and queue up.
The penetration rate of telephone installation in coastal areas is now very high, so the business there will be relatively mature.
But in this mountainous area, especially in small counties and villages and towns, this business has just started, so there are more people installing it.
"Someone came to install it at noon. The line was just opened. Didn't I call you? By the way, didn't I say that I would go to the county to find someone to install it when I find time in the past few days? What did you do?
Just help me do it."
"I'm not afraid that you will have to queue up a number, so I've done it for you in advance. It just so happens that I have a friend at the telecommunications office who needs to make a call."
For Chen Ze, it might be just a matter of making a phone call, but for ordinary people like Zhang An, just wait patiently.
"Then I have to thank you. I will give you the money when you come next time."
For Zhang An, this money had to be given, because it was money to help advance. Chen Ze was usually generous, but every time Zhang An made up for it elsewhere, the two were not the same thing.
"Next time, don't worry about it. It's inconvenient for you to run around. I'll have to go to your place after a while."
Chen Ze didn't say that he didn't need to give it to me. This was not in line with how friends should get along.
He knew that Zhang An, although he usually wanted to take care of this little brother's family when he went there by himself, in the end every time he ended up going to other people's houses by himself, even taking food from him.
I really agree with that sentence, I can’t eat it and just walk around.
The crops at home have been planted recently, and I originally wanted to use this time to fertilize and weed the crops in the field.
But Zhang An has recently been instilling the concept of green food into his parents.
Why use chemical fertilizers? It is to make the crops in the fields grow better and have more harvests.
The seeds planted by Zhang An's family this year were all brought to the space by Zhang An and treated with spring water. Although they are not too abnormal, they are still very helpful.
Originally, Zhang Jianguo wanted to go to town to buy compound fertilizer, but Zhang An persuaded his father not to spend the money.
"Xiao An, will this crop grow well without fertilizer?"
Zhang Jianguo and his wife were somewhat doubtful about what Zhang An said.
"Dad, if nothing else, didn't we just remove the weeds yesterday? It's not like you haven't seen with your own eyes what the crops in our field look like now. Even though they spread a lot of fertilizer, they are not as good as ours.
He looks good."
Zhang An has not forced his parents to accept it now, but he can use facts to compare.
"We also know that they are growing well now, but we are afraid that if we don't apply fertilizer, they will be nothing but empty shells."
"Dad, when we were in a collective, there was no fertilizer, so the crops didn't grow the same. Besides, how much fertilizer did our family put on the fields today? You just carried manure for several days, and that's enough.
Oh, that chemical compound fertilizer is not fairy water, it doesn’t have such a big effect."
In the end, Zhang Jianguo accepted it. He had seen it before in the collective. At that time, the brigade had no money to buy fertilizer, so it relied on everyone to collect dung water from the pen and retting farmyard manure.
In the end, the grain also grew very well. Besides, he personally carried all the farmyard manure at home this year, so he felt relieved now.
Seeing that the crops are growing so well, the old couple is also very happy. The fertilizer costs several hundred. It is definitely best to save this money now that they don't have to worry about the crops not growing well.
It sounds nice to say it in the village. What do rural people compare with each other? Whose crops are better than others?
Now when Zhang Jianguo goes out, every person he meets will ask him what kind of fertilizer he bought and why his crops are growing so well. At this time, Zhang Jianguo is very proud.
He proudly told people that he had used no fertilizer, but now everyone didn't believe him even more. They all said that Zhang Jianguo refused to tell the truth and that if there was any useful fertilizer, he would definitely tell everyone about it so that everyone could use it.
In the end, even the old village chief came to ask why, because the rice seedlings in Zhang An's field were so tall that they stood out from the crowd.
After several days of explanation, everyone believed that Zhang An's family did not spread fertilizer, but only used fertilizer that had been soaked in the livestock pen.
Now everyone is thinking that when plowing the fields tomorrow, they must not be lazy and put more farmyard manure on the fields.
The crops are grown, fertilizer money is saved, people no longer have to work in the fields, and life suddenly becomes easier.
So the family decided to build a new house now that they have time and some money at home, otherwise they would not be able to wait until the money on hand is used up elsewhere.
Because building a new house was a top priority, especially seeing that people came to the house frequently and there was no place for them to stay, Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang became even more determined to build it.
There are only three major things that people in the village think about in their lives: finding a good wife, building a new house, and having several children.
He immediately decided to do it, and the next day Zhang Jianguo asked a well-known Feng Shui master nearby to come and inspect the land.
In rural areas, building a new house is a very careful matter. When to break the ground and which direction the house faces are all very important, so the elderly people in the family usually ask someone to come and check it out.
Although Zhang An was a little hesitant, he let his parents do it because it didn't cost much anyway.
I have returned to this era, how can I still have the right to doubt this or that? I would rather believe that it exists than that it does not exist. The end of science is unexplainable metaphysics.
In this way, Mr. Feng Shui took a compass and other tools and walked around in the gravel field by the river all morning, then wrote a piece of deed paper and handed it to Zhang Jianguo.
Zhang An took a look and saw that this gentleman's calligraphy was quite good. He seemed to be more trustworthy than those who deceived and deceived people in later generations. Just by virtue of his good handwriting, he was qualified to have this job.
Finally, the husband left with a big red envelope of thirty-six yuan from Wang Fang and a big rooster.
Of course, the big rooster has already been killed and used as a sacrifice to the gods while looking at the ground.
When the day came that the husband was optimistic about, Zhang An's family invited many people from the village, because breaking ground requires everyone to join in the fun, which means it is popular.
Zhang An also told Chen Ze, but he didn't expect him to come today.
Li Hongbin is indispensable. After the ground-breaking ceremony is over, it will be the turn of the construction team he brought to work.
Because Zhang An wanted to build a three-story courtyard in the village, Li Hongbin happened to be engaged in this field, so he took care of the whole project.
Professional people do professional things. Although Zhang An's second uncle is also a stonemason, they can only build three large tile houses in the countryside now, so Zhang An didn't find people from the village to build them.
It just so happened that Li Hongbin had already taken over many such rural projects, so he was very proficient in this set of projects, and he still had many drawings in hand.
Now he took them out and asked Zhang An to see which one he liked, and then he would build it accordingly.
Finally, Zhang An chose a three-story building with two large courtyards at the front and back. The rural and clean style was in line with the temperament of a small mountain village.
Soon, the time came for the groundbreaking. Zhang Jianguo invited the oldest village elder of the Zhang family in the village to preside over the blessing ceremony before the groundbreaking.
Finally, amid a burst of crackling firecrackers, the ground-breaking ceremony was held.
Usually at times like this, relatives at home need to buy firecrackers to set off. The more relatives there are, the longer the firecrackers will be set off.
Zhang An's uncles' families will definitely not come, and Zhang An's family doesn't expect them to come, so it would be best not to come.
They are all uncles from Second Grandpa’s family, Fourth Grandpa’s family, and then Zhang An’s two uncles’ families.
I bought a small pile of firecrackers, and that's not all. Li Hongbin and Chen Ze directly brought a small cart of cannons and fireworks over.
I have never seen fireworks in the village. Nowadays, fireworks are very expensive and no one in the village buys them during the New Year.
These scenes were even more lively, with firecrackers and fireworks set off for more than half an hour.
It was the most lively event in Changqing Village. The sound of fireworks could be heard in several nearby villages. They all thought something big was happening in Changqing Village, and many people came here to watch.
Unexpectedly, it was the ground-breaking ceremony for Zhang An's new house, but there were always guests at the door. Wang Fang took several of Zhang An's aunts to serve tea and water to everyone, including melon seeds, peanuts and fruit candies.
Then other people in the village began to break the ground with hoes and shovels. Chen Ze was very interested and joined the construction team with a shovel.
After the groundbreaking was completed, everyone stopped and it was the turn of the excavator brought by Li Hongbin to start work.
The excavator dug the foundation very quickly, which made the people in the village sigh that this big thing is so powerful.
Because before this, no matter who built a new house, the foundation was dug by hand, bit by bit with a hoe and a dungeon, and it took at least a day to dig.
Zhang An's house is large and it would have taken two days to dig the foundation manually, but this excavator was able to do it quickly.
Everyone is envious, it is great to have money.
Because it was all done by Li Hongbin, no one else needed help in the future. After the foundation was dug, his construction team started construction.
There is no need for Zhang An's family to be responsible for anything, because there are many people in the construction team and they have people who specialize in cooking, so there is no need for Zhang An's family to be responsible for the food. Otherwise, Wang Fang would not be able to cook for so many people every day.
When negotiating the price, Li Hongbin originally planned to charge only the material cost and labor cost. He did not intend to make any money from Zhang An's family, so he calculated that the fee he had charged Zhang An was more than 10,000 to 20,000 yuan.
However, Zhang An made a rough calculation and concluded that this would definitely not work. People were not doing the work in the city, so they came to work for themselves first. This would not be justified without making some money for them.
Anyway, the two of them were arguing back and forth like this. Bargaining was normal at first, but I had never seen the host arguing for more money. In the end, Zhang An said that if he didn't accept it, he wouldn't build it, so Li Hongbin had no choice but to accept it.
But in his heart, he planned to wait until Zhang An's house was built and then send a batch of furniture to Zhang An.
There are many people in the engineering team and the speed is very fast. As soon as the foundation was laid, they started to build the wall. In a few days, the wall on this floor has been built. They are preparing to erect the frame and tie the steel bars to start building the cover.
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This amazed all the masons in the village, and even Uncle Zhang An ran there every day to learn from it.
The master of the construction team thought he was the master's supervisor, so he answered Uncle Zhang's questions one by one.
The masons in the village used to use stones to build walls. The stones were irregular in shape. When building the wall, they had to carve it slowly with a stone knife and hand hammer to make the wall look good, so it took a lot of time.
As red bricks and cement bricks were used more and more in the future, stone walls were gradually abandoned.
Because it is faster to build a wall with bricks, it saves a lot of time on hammering and carving, so the wall can be built faster.
Moreover, the masons in the village did not just come to learn how to build walls, they also wanted to see how to build bungalows, because as everyone's conditions get better and better, more and more people will build bungalows in a few years.
For them, if they want to eat this bowl of rice, they must keep following social progress.
If everyone wants to build bungalows and small buildings when they have money, but they can only build rural tile-roofed houses, they will definitely be unemployed in the future.
Everyone must attach great importance to the art of eating, so I just have some free time during this period and come over to learn.
But I didn’t ask too much, because others were busy with the progress of the project, so I just wanted to see it myself, but I couldn’t disturb others.
Especially during the period of building the scaffolding and tying the steel bars, everyone came here basically every day, and sometimes even helped.
The masters of the construction team were frightened and thought these people were here to steal their jobs.
Later, Zhang An's second uncle went to the city to work on a construction site for two years. When he came back, he bought a set of things and led people in the village to build houses for others.
It happened that the country was advancing the new rural construction project at that time, and they took on a lot of work. Basically, they worked all year round. After finishing this village, they moved to another village and made a lot of money.
At that time, every house in the village had a small two-story courtyard, painted with the same paint and covered with the same blue tiles. The whole village looked pretty good.
Compared with the apartment buildings in the city, it is much better.
In the past, everyone envied people who bought houses in the city. Now, the reverse is true. People in the city envy those who build yards in the village.