People rely on the aid money to live in the courtyard

Chapter 242 Two Giant White Marble Stones

After ten days of preparation, Yi Chuanzong went to the quarry, the brick factory, and the carpenter, and finally got all the decoration materials.

Because of renovation, Yi Chuanzong rented another house.

Da Ma and Lou Xiaoe started to clean up yesterday, and put all the things in the rented house early this morning, and construction started here, so Yi Chuanzong took two days off for this.

Looking at a middle-aged man standing on the west side of the yard, Yi Chuanzong asked: "Master Hong, do you still need to lay the foundation here?"

"The foundation must have been laid, but the part against the courtyard wall should have been laid before. We'd better reinforce it."

"Okay, how strong it is."

Master Hong nodded. He also knew that the family working this time was not short of money.

"The cesspit you mentioned is going to be dug to a depth of 1.5 meters? This is a big job. The few trenches we dug are not as difficult as this job."

Yi Chuanzong grinned and said, "You can draw the line first. After drawing the line, I will dig the trench first. I can help with this kind of laborious work."

Master Hong raised his eyelids. The employer wanted to start working, and they had no reason to stop him, but he felt a little awkward. How fast could this outsider work?It's like they're being lazy.

"The work of building a house is different from that in the factory. You can watch how we do it first."

"Success! You have the final say."

After Yi Chuanzong finished speaking, he stood in the yard and looked at it. The road in his yard was also paved with bluestones. It looked good in the past. Now that he has advanced stone carving skills, the land at home is somewhat unpleasant to the eye. , there is not even a little carving, it is too monotonous!

A master craftsman and five ordinary masons worked in the yard for a while, and simply marked the location of the foundation.

Master Hong greeted, "Come on, first buckle down the bluestone slabs on the ground, and then dig out the loose soil. I don't need to say more, let's start working."

Yi Chuanzong also quickly came over to help, holding the pickaxe, and a floor tile was lifted off.

Master Hong couldn't help shaking his head when he saw his anxious look, "Brother Yi, don't meddle in it for now, let's go into the room and talk about this fireplace, I have never done this before, please explain it carefully, I’d better design how to install it.”

Yi Chuanzong was also a little impatient and wanted to finish the renovation of the house quickly. After all, he only took two days off, and then he had to go back to work in the factory, but he still had a lot of work in this yard.

Just like the floor tiles on the ground, if he wants to carve a set, he has to calculate the size in advance, and then he can do it.

"Okay, let me tell you well."

The two walked in the door and came to the center of the west side of the room.

Yi Chuanzong stretched out his hand and gestured: "I mean to build a fire stove with a nearly full opening in it, build it around with bricks and tiles, and wrap the chimney with bricks and tiles..."

Yi Chuanzong gestured for a while, while Master Hong carefully recorded it beside him.Fireplaces are rarely used here, and the masons never built them.

Yi Chuanzong still went to Lao Mo and asked about the structure of the Su people's fireplace. Strictly speaking, it is not so particular, as long as it can escape the smoke smoothly.

The reason why he is so persistent in installing a fireplace is to make it more comfortable in winter. The smoke generated by this kind of open fire will run away directly, and there will be no smell in the house.

The fireplace heats up faster and is very easy to manage, just throw two pieces of wood into it.

When the two walked out of the house again, the outer layer of floor tiles had been removed and thrown aside, and the masons were digging trenches with iron picks.

Yi Chuanzong walked over excitedly, and came to a man who was working hard, "Come on, give me the pickaxe, and let me do this job."

The middle-aged man's eyes were a little dazed. They rarely help others when they work for others. When they get here, they rush to do it?He still passed the pickaxe to Yi Chuanzong.

Yi Chuanzong nodded with a smile while holding the wooden stick, just digging a trench, this job is very simple.

He grabbed the pickaxe with both hands and swung it down, directly digging up a large clod of soil. In the blink of an eye, he swung the pickaxe into the air again.

Pickaxe after pickaxe seems effortless.

The middle-aged man was a little dazed, Yi Chuanzong had already dug forward a little less than half a meter, and when he saw this, he reacted and quickly dug out the soil with a shovel.

After a while, Yi Chuanzong had already dug the first circle around the foundation, and this circle was [-] centimeters deep into the soil.

Immediately afterwards, he began to dig the second circle. The masons who were working normally were now shoveling the soil behind him.

Master Hong silently put down the shovel in his hand, and after watching Yi Chuanzong's progress, he realized that the morning's work didn't seem to last long, and the foundation was dug in an hour at most at such a fast speed.

"Lao Zhang, Lao Li, you two, come up and have a meal with me."

In less than an hour, Yi Chuanzong had finished digging the foundation, about 1.2 meters underground, and the soil here was relatively firm.

Master Hong took some people to pour some reconciled cement slurry into the ditch, and there were some weeds, stones, soil, cement, and ash in it.

Yi Chuanzong didn't care about them, he carried the pickaxe to the toilet by himself, and a deep pit had to be dug in the middle.

He really can't stand the public toilets here, the smell becomes more pronounced in summer, and he has to walk a long way to go to the toilet, so of course the renovation now requires a toilet together.

Work was going on in the yard in full swing, and suddenly there was a commotion outside the yard.

"Give way!"

"Pay attention, we'll be there soon!"

"What a big rock!"

"So beautiful!"

"How heavy at this age!"

"Who bought such a big two stones?"

Hearing the sound, Yi Chuanzong ran out quickly, and when he reached the door, he saw two super-large carts with strange shapes pushing from a distance. It is two thick solid wood boards.

On top of the plank is a huge stone block.It looks as white and flawless as snow, and the light reflected in the sun is even a little dazzling.

It is not easy to pull this car. There are more than a dozen people in the front who are pulling desperately, and there are eight people in the back who are grabbing the handlebars and pushing hard. Everyone's face is dripping with sweat.

There is a creaking sound when the body is moved a little, which is a bit overwhelming.

Yi Chuanzong's eyes lit up when he saw it, and he quickly waved his hands, "Master Zheng, this way, this way."

This is the white marble he bought. A piece is 1.3 meters high, more than [-] meters long, and nearly one meter wide.

The density of white marble is 2.7 tons per cubic meter.

One stone weighs seven and a half tons!Two fifteen tons!

The red bricks he bought were a little over five catties, and the more than 4000 red bricks were only more than ten tons, less than eleven tons.

The stone was not transported today at all, the transporter started transporting it yesterday morning, but it is seventy miles from Fangshan to here, and it is so heavy.

Now the load of the car is only four to five tons, and the car can't be transported at all, and he can't apply for this kind of car, so he can only rely on people to push the car.

Seeing the rightful lord come out, the middle-aged man who was giving orders over there hastily ran over, "Mr. Yi, how do you plan to put these two stones?"

Yi Chuanzong didn't point at the two sides of his gate, "Just zoom in on both sides of the gate. I have drawn the positions for you in advance. Didn't I deal with two sides there that day? Let those two sides touch the ground, everyone Dude, it’s hard to move it after putting it down, you can put it away for me.”

A rock weighs seven tons, and it weighs four tons after it is processed. This is simply not something that one person can move.

Master Zheng patted his chest and assured: "Don't worry, we will definitely put it here for you."

Turning his head, he shouted loudly: "We've reached the place, put down the one behind first, let's put down the one in front first."

Yi Chuanzong stood obediently. One weighed seven tons, which was [-] jin. It was just a dream to carry it with his own strength.

A piece of marble is two meters high, more than 1.3 meters long, nearly one meter wide, and nearly three cubic meters in volume.

His portable space is 2 x 2 x 2, with a volume of eight cubic meters, which is enough to accommodate this big guy.

Three hundred catties at a time can be carried fifty times, and he has enough physical strength.

Only this surreal power allows him to deal with this big guy.

At this moment, the super big cart has begun to turn. This thing is not as simple as turning a corner with an ordinary cart. It moves forward and backward by a small amount, and adjusts the angle bit by bit.

Master Hong and other craftsmen also came out after hearing the commotion. He was amazed at the huge stone, "Brother Yi, did you buy these two pieces of white marble to carve two stone lions?"

Yi Chuanzong nodded with a smile, "Yes, it's not that I've divided the house. This house will be mine from now on. I'll build two Shishizi town houses."

Master Hong sighed in his heart, and couldn't help but said: "I saw someone bought this white marble before. Back then, the stone was only one meter high, and a pair cost hundreds of yuan. I'm afraid you bought more for this pair." Well, the bigger the stone, the more expensive it is, and it costs a lot of money just to transport it."

Yi Chuanzong was a little surprised, he didn't expect that Master Hong knew this, and he asked a stonemason for the price before.

"This stone is really expensive. It costs 22 yuan per ton. These two stones total 330 tons and cost 390 yuan. It costs [-] yuan to transport these [-] people, and the total cost is [-] yuan."

Master Hong couldn't help being dumbfounded. The bricks used to build the house this time only cost more than 200 yuan. One stone is worth so much, but this white marble marble is also really beautiful.

"Master Yi, which master is going to invite to do it? This is the stone carving master bringing his apprentices to work. It will take three months to carve the two stone lions."

Yi Chuanzong smiled mysteriously, "You will know in two days."

Master Hong didn't think much about it, he just thought that the stone carving master would come over in two days, he turned his head and looked at the two big guys, hesitant to speak.

Yi Chuanzong noticed his strangeness in a blink of an eye, and asked directly, "Does Master Hong have anything to say?"

Master Hong nodded and said, "Actually, the bigger the stone lion, the better. The pair of stone lions at the gate of the imperial city are only two meters high. Your ten pieces of white marble must be two meters high, right?"

Yi Chuanzong nodded slightly, "I've thought about the question you mentioned, it's fine to put such a big one in my house."

Regarding Feng Shui, he asked his master about it.

What Huang Jingyi said was that he didn't need to deal with these messes at all, as far as his fate was concerned, he would be able to hold anything if he lived here.

Ordinary feng shui bureaus are useless to him at all, just follow his own preferences.

Yi Chuanzong pondered for a while, and finally chose the big one, he likes the big one.

Master Hong saw that he didn't care, so he didn't say anything more, and directly brought the mason into the house to work.

Yi Chuanzong stayed outside and watched those people unload the stones. At this moment, one end of the car had landed, and the corner of the stone was also stuck on the ground.

These men pushed ten logs to the corner of the wall at the other end, and then placed a vertical log on one end of the log. The top of these vertical logs was a modern device-a jack.

The base of the jack fell on the vertical log, and the other end was supported by a log with a white marble block.

On the top of the white marble stone, some ropes were tied, and five people on one side pulled the ropes to prevent them from wandering, and there were ropes tied to the boulders to fall down, making the wood and stones eat their strength.

The ten jacks are divided into groups of five, and with the rotation of the two groups, the white marble marbles stand up little by little.

Yi Chuanzong was a little worried when he saw this, if this one was wrong, the wooden cart below would definitely be smashed to pieces.

When the seven-ton boulder falls to the ground, the effect will be similar to that of an earthquake, and the wall of his house may not be able to hold.

Fortunately, there were still a few of these masons, who were able to subdue these two big guys. With the exclamation of the spectators, the first stone had already been placed.

At this time, Master Zheng came over, "Mr. Yi, what do you think of this position? Do you need to adjust it?"

Yi Chuanzong looked at the ground, and there was a mark on the stones on the ground, but the stones did not deviate, and these people controlled it very well.

"I don't need this piece. Pay attention to the second piece. The two sides must be symmetrical, and the distance must be the same. It takes a lot of effort to move such a big stone."

Master Zheng said confidently: "No problem, just look after it!"

Yi Chuanzong nodded, that's enough, anyway, he will have to tidy up at night when no one is around.

Another half an hour passed, and more than 20 people finally erected two huge white marble stones.

In front of the gate, there are white and flawless stones on the left and right. Even if there is no carving, there is an invisible power. After the carving, it will be more majestic.

Yi Chuanzong is looking forward to the effect after carving.

Master Zheng came over again, "Mr. Yi, do you think the stone is placed okay? Do you need to adjust it?"

Yi Chuanzong shook his head and said, "No need, it's already very good." Even if he didn't move behind, he couldn't tell why.

After speaking, Yi Chuanzong began to take out money in his pocket, and took out a thick stack. He ordered 29 cards from the inside and handed them over.

"At the beginning, I gave a deposit of 100 yuan. This is the remaining balance of 280 yuan, including your transportation fee of 60 yuan. Would you like to order the amount?"

"Hey, good!"

Master Zheng took the money to start counting, carefully counted twice, he also took out a piece of kraft paper from his arms, and after opening it, there were two receipts with stamped stamps on it.

"Here is your receipt. The amount on the first sheet is 330 yuan. This is the receipt for your stone. The last one is the transportation fee of 60 yuan. They are all issued by our Fangshan stone field."

Yi Chuanzong looked at it once, raised his head and smiled and said, "No problem, in this case we will get both money and goods. When will the batch of stone slabs be delivered?"

Master Zheng smiled and said, "We will pull it for you after we go back today, and we will be able to pull it around tomorrow afternoon. Those small stones will not be so laborious. This wooden wheeled cart is really hard to push."

Yi Chuanzong praised: "It's really hard work for you, such a big stone can't be pulled by ordinary methods."

Master Zheng smiled confidently, "It was the Royal Mine back then, and my master was quarrying in it at that time. I could move this thing before, but now it's even easier with the jack."

Yi Chuanzong laughed, "Maybe I can use the car directly in the future."

(End of this chapter)