After the beams are installed on the house, it is time to build the walls, set up the kang, set up the stove, fasten the shed, plaster the interior and exterior walls, and lay the floor.
Lin Jian's people helped draw the house design drawings, and the construction team worked according to the drawings.
The five houses of the Xu family have a large span, eight meters wide and fifteen meters long, and there is enough space.
The east and west rooms are all suites. The second room on the east side is larger, with a large kang bed and is directly connected to the kitchen stove.
The east room is a normal room. There is a stove in front of the kang, and the stove is used to burn the kang.
The two rooms at the west end separate the north side, and the north side of the west end room is temporarily used as a storage room. When heating is available later, a boiler will be installed as a boiler room.
There is also a pot stove on the north side of the west room, which is used for cooking and cooking.
The kitchen is on the north side, occupying half of the west house and half of the outhouse, with two pots and stoves.
In addition, there are cupboards, a sink for washing vegetables, a work table, rice and grain racks, etc., and sewer pipes have also been dug.
There is a pipe under the vegetable sink that leads directly to the outside.
Anyway, there is a ditch and pond to the west of Xu Shiyan's house, and the water flows directly out into the woods behind it, without affecting other people's homes.
The two rooms on the west side also have kangs, but the rooms are smaller, and can be reserved for the children to live in when they grow up, or for guests to come to the house.
The east room is large, and Xu Shiyan plans to buy a set of sofas and coffee tables to put under the south window.
When guests come to the house, there must be a place to sit and talk.
But the house was too big and it was not warm in winter, so the wall between the kitchen and the east room was built into a fire wall.
There is a stove outside. In winter, when the stove is turned on, the fire wall will be hot. When the kang is burned, the house will be warm.
Anyway, the house is big, so firewood will be wasted in winter.
But there is no way. When the children grow up, they can't all sleep together, right?
The partition walls were built, the kang and the stove were set up, and the pot top, wash basin, and operating table were all plastered with cement.
This way it is easy to take care of, it is also clean, and it is a hundred times better than the previous mud stove.
Then comes the shed.
In the old house, both gables were built with brickwork, and there were no poles or boards nailed to the roof beams.
Just put up a few boards and you can put things on the roof. When you look up, you can see the beams and tiles above.
Afterwards, the shed poles and boards are nailed up, and then the shed is papered with paper so that there is a gap between the paper and the shed.
At night, the rat makes a noise, and the rat runs back and forth on the paper shed, and the people below can hear the loud noise.
Sometimes there is a hole in the paper shed, and the mice can fall through the hole, or else the soil will fall out of the hole.
When the Xu family builds a new house, naturally they cannot afford this kind of house. Xu Shiyan has made an agreement with others to detain the shed.
Saw the softwood into wooden slats three fingers wide and less than one centimeter thick. The slats are covered with hair, which is the fiber of the wood. These are called gray slivers.
Nail the gray strips about one centimeter apart on the shed board so that they are flush with the wall.
Then use white ash and a hemp knife to form a paste, and smooth the entire roof of the shed. This will make the shed strong, durable, warm and beautiful.
The doors and windows were already inlaid during the bricklaying process, so after plastering the shed, the interior walls were completely plastered with the same material.
The white plaster wall is clean and tidy, so there is no need to put newspapers on the wall every year.
After the interior walls are plastered and the floor is laid, a brick house will definitely need a cement floor.
Pave stones and sand at the bottom and tamp them down, then mix the sand and cement in proportion, smooth the ground, and press it several times to make the ground smooth and flat.
Everything is finished inside the house, only the exterior walls are left. In Songjianghe, water-washed stone walls have become popular. They look good, but they cost a lot of work and materials.
Xu Shiyan thought about it for a moment and decided to forget it. That thing was good but not useful. It would be quite troublesome if he wanted to insulate exterior walls in the future.
It's better than the plain cement surface, and it looks quite pleasing to the eye.
In this way, the two houses were finished with plain cement surfaces, which saved time and effort, and the exterior walls were soon completed.
At this point, the brickwork is all done, and all that remains is the window and door fittings and carpentry work.
For the two houses, the construction teams took turns working on both sides, and it took them a long time to finish the work.
As for Xu Shiyan, he can come back every now and then to take a look during the day.
Normally, he has to be busy with the team's ginseng fields, fertilizing, etc., and he has to go back to the mountain to take care of it at night, which is really quite busy for him.
At the beginning of August, Xu Shiyan used the same method as last time to attract a group of deer and cut off the second crop of deer antlers.
Otherwise, this beast simply has no memory.
After the deer's antlers were cut off for the first time, Xu Shiyan put out bait blocks and blew the horn a few times before, but the deer did not appear.
I went to see it on the second or third day and found that the bait pieces had been eaten away.
Xu Shiyan didn't care, and continued to blow the horn as before, and gradually, the deer would come when the horn sounded.
So Xu Shiyan repeated his old trick and cut another crop of deer antlers.
Maybe the deer thought there was no danger to his life, and he was just exchanging the antlers for food.
The quality of the second crop of velvet velvet is not as good as that of the first crop, and the price is not as high. The antler of a dozen stags sold for less than 2,000 yuan.
Anyway, it's pretty good. It's all earned through hard work. At most, it can be supplemented by some grain and salt.
How much is that stuff worth? The cost is not much.
Now, Xu Chenghou also knew how his son made money, and he was so impressed.
How can this third son be so thoughtful? Others have to kill deer and cut off the antlers, but he feeds the deer and saws the antlers.
That deer is almost catching up with the ones raised by the family. It’s really good.
Being so busy, Honglangtou City was unable to enter the mountain, but Xu Shiyan did not feel it was a pity.
Even if you go into the mountains, you may not encounter wild ginseng. If you do, you have to share it with everyone.
If you can get it, you can get it for 1,800 yuan, but if you don’t, it only costs 100 or 200 yuan. How can you make as much money as these two deer antlers?
Moreover, he made money quietly, and no one else knew about it. How great is that?
At the end of August, when the construction team handed over the work, Xu Shiyan paid all the wages to others and gave the foreman some cigarettes and alcohol.
He coaxed the foreman into a happy mood and told him that if he had any work in the future, he could just come to him privately, and he would take his people to do it for him, so he didn't have to look for the boss anymore.
It stands to reason that when the construction team comes to work, the Xu family pays wages, and no one owes anything to anyone. Once the work is done and the work is accepted, it will be done.
But Zhou Guilan boiled water to make tea every day, and had enough persimmons, cucumbers, plums, and sage fruits in the vegetable garden.
Nowadays, most people in this era are still very simple. The Xu family is so enthusiastic that the workers feel embarrassed.
Therefore, I work very carefully and conscientiously, and I never waste what I can save.
You know, these people can waste a lot of materials just by shaking their hands.
When installing door and window glass, I crooked my hand and broke several pieces of glass. What else could the Xu family say?
But these people were surprised that not a single piece of glass was broken, and the panels were properly installed. These are all benefits.
In comparison, those fruits and vegetables are nothing.
Favor is actually accumulated bit by bit through things.
After the house is completed and ventilated and dried for a while, it will be ready for move-in.
However, Zhou Guilan was not in a hurry to move.
Now Xu Chenghou is looking at ginseng on the mountain, and Su Anying here is about to give birth to a child, and she can't live without people.
Zhou Guilan is an old woman, why is she moving to a new house by herself?
It's better to live here, with my daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law, because there are more people and it's more lively.