Chapter 256 Building a house on the mountain
After going out, Zhou Tiantian was really tired and planned to sleep comfortably, but she was woken up at around 5:30 the next morning.
"Fourth brother, sixth brother, seventh brother, why are you all here?"
Zhou Tiantian heard a noise from the outer room and came out of the west room.
As a result, we met Zhou Yongjie, Zhou Yongmin, Zhou Yongcheng, and Zhou Yongxin, these four boys laughing and laughing in the outer room.
Zhou Anbang and his brothers, as well as Zhou Yongping, were chatting with Zhou Anhe in the yard.
Seeing his little cousin come out, Yongjie smiled and walked forward, "I heard yesterday that Uncle San was going to participate in the venue and build a house on the mountain, and he needed help.
We were just idle and had nothing to do, so we planned to go up and help with some work."
Zhou An and his wife planned to visit the mountain, so of course they had to have a place to live.
These days, the Zhou family's 100-meter-long ginseng soil has been graveled, and it takes more sun to burn before continuing to work.
Zhou Anhe said that it would be better to build a house that was watching the venue first, clean up and dry it up, otherwise you would be too busy to wait for autumn and have no time.
Building a house on the mountain is not like at home, with bricks, tiles, stones, and foundations, etc. Instead, it uses wooden piles to build large frames.
Use wooden boards to nail the wall, place loess in the middle to smash it into pieces, and then apply yellow mud inside and outside, which is much worse than the family conditions.
This work takes a lot of time. Yesterday at the Zhou family, the old man asked Zhou Anhe and said he was short of staff. As a result, Zhou Anbang's brothers and children came this morning.
"Brother Seven, brother, you went up the mountain not only to help build a house, right? Are you also thinking about going to my grandfather to see the little tiger?"
Zhou Tiantian glanced at Yongcheng and Yongxin and asked with a smile.
If Zhou Yongping and Zhou Yongjie went up the mountain to help build a house, Zhou Tiantian believed that Zhou Yongcheng and Zhou Yongxin were so old? What can they do when they went up the mountain?
When he heard what his little cousin said, Zhou Yongcheng and Zhou Yongxin were embarrassed. Yongcheng scratched his head and laughed.
"We heard that Grandpa Han raised a little tiger on the mountain, which was very interesting, so he thought that if he had time at noon, he could go over and take a look."
When Yongcheng and the others came back, they learned about the little tiger from the Zhou family. They were all curious about it as if they were caught by cats.
I happened to hear Mr. Zhou telling Zhou Yongping that he would come over to help, and these boys couldn't rest anymore and insisted on following him.
"Tiantian, do you want to go up the mountain too? Let's do some work together. When you have time, let's go and see how the little tiger is like?"
Zhou Yongcheng looked at Zhou Tiantian with anticipation. This is really not possible without Zhou Tiantian.
They were all the grandsons of the Zhou family. Is there any connection with the Han family? Without Zhou Tiantian, they were embarrassed to go to the Han family to participate.
Several brothers looked expectant. What could Zhou Tiantian say? She is also thinking about the little tiger, so let's go up the mountain?
"Okay, then let's go together. You guys wait for me, I'll clean up and have some food."
Zhou Tiantian quickly went to wash her face, and casually slap her mouth. After changing her clothes, she had to go up the mountain with her brothers and others of the Zhou family.
Before everyone could drive the car to leave, the Han Zhenyuan brothers, Chang Yanzhe, Jiang Juntao, Jiang Junqi and others also came.
Zhou Tiantian was very puzzled when she saw it, what was she doing?
"Don't you want to build a house on the mountain? When my uncle found out, he asked a few of us to help.
It just so happened that Zhenyuan and the others also said they were going, so we came together." Chang Yanzhe saw Zhou Tiantian's face full of confusion, so he leaned over Zhou Tiantian and explained softly.
"Anyway, there is nothing to do when the house is idle. Let's go up and help. The house will be built in a few days.
Otherwise, when will it be possible to finish your work just by pointing at Uncle Zhou and Aunt Zhou? Can you delay other work?"
The Zhou, Han and Jiang families get along very well. If the Zhou family has something to do, the other two naturally need help.
Even the adults at home couldn't make time, so all these half-aged and old men were used, so they naturally had to go up the mountain to help.
With so many people going up the mountain, Zhou Anhe's mule cart must not be able to drive, but fortunately there are still bicycles.
So there were a lot of people on the mule cart, and the one who couldn't squeeze out was riding a bicycle and landing one.
The group set out in a mighty manner and headed straight to the sect in the Chauzi River.
When they arrived at the Zhou family to participate, Chang Yanzhe and Han Zhenyuan did not go in, but rode their bikes to the other end of Mr. Han.
He took all the fishing nets, Yuwuzi and other things they used to catch fish, returned to the Zhou family's participation venue, and went to the riverside to get the net and Wuzi.
So many people come up the mountain to work, but most of them are half-aged, so lunch must not be missing.
I got off the net in advance to catch some fish, stewed it at noon, and then stewed a pot of rice. Everyone was eager to work when they were full.
To build a house in the field, of course, you must try to rely on the middle. Zhou Anhe has chosen the address long ago and prepared the wood and planks. Yesterday, he had already hung up the line and dug some pillars and foot pits.
The place to watch the ginseng land usually starts from March in spring until the heavy snow is closed at the end of November, and does not live on it in winter.
And it is usually only about three or four years old. The house does not need to be too strong, and there is no need to dig too deep foundations. It is almost as deep as a shallow foot.
Since there are so many people coming, it is easy to arrange your work. Zhou An and his brothers led these boys to start burying the foot of the pillars into the pit.
After burying the pillars' feet and smashing them into pieces, everyone separated, some nailed wooden boards upwards, and some went to the edge of the forest to dig loess.
Pour the loess into the nailed wooden board, smash it hard with a hammer, etc., and tamp the loess.
Just nail the wooden board and rammed the earth until the loess reaches a certain height, then the wooden board is removed for ventilation.
Waiting for the loess to finish, put on the beams and plaster on the roof, the house was built.
Of course, this is light, and it actually takes a lot of effort, and it cannot be completed in one or two days.
Fortunately, it has been sunny these days, and it has not rained at all, so it is quite satisfying for everyone.
In addition, with sufficient manpower, half-boys worked very hard, so five days later, the house was framed.
Just putting yellow mud inside and outside, and then putting on the kang to support the stove. Zhou Anhe just needs to clean up these jobs slowly, so there is no need to worry.
"I finally got it right. I'm almost exhausted these days." At noon that day, all the linoleum paper on the roof was covered with. Zhou Yongmin jumped down and said, pounding his shoulders and rubbing his neck.
The other kids were almost the same, and they were so tired that they groaned and grinned.
"Stop pretending here. Usually you jump up and down one by one and don't stay idle, and you didn't hear you screaming tired."
Zhou Anguo, Zhou Antai looked at his son's virtue and scolded others with a terrible face.
"Second brother, fourth brother, don't say that, how can children compare to working when they play?
They don’t work normally, so they will definitely have a sore waist and back pain when they stretched out their backs.” Zhou Anhe quickly said good things to the children to smooth things over.
"Hurry up, wash your hands quickly. Your third aunt and the others have made lunch. We will stew rabbits and rice at noon, so we can eat enough."
When the children were happy, they rushed to wash their hands with a scream.
Chapter completed!