I am Fugui

Chapter 69 Building a Shower Shed
The next morning, before dawn, Xu Fugui woke up under the instinct of the biological clock.

As soon as he opened his eyes, a familiar fragrance came from his side, and all the remaining drowsiness disappeared immediately.

Compared to the previous one's quilt, the current quilt is unbelievably warm. Jiazhen is like a well-behaved bunny, sleeping peacefully in his arms, her crystal clear nose glowing slightly.

Fengxia and Youqing slept on the innermost side of the bamboo bed, they didn't stretch their feet to make sure there was someone beside them.

Xu Fugui didn't move, afraid of waking them up, and quietly felt the pure warmth in the morning.

He was refreshed, carefully recalling the details of last night, holding back for so long, finally got what he wanted.

"Well, you're awake." After a while, Jiazhen murmured, slightly opened her eyes, then closed them again, lazily hugging his neck, with a reassuring smile on her lips.

Xu Fugui hugged him with his back, and rubbed his big hands, Jiazhen stopped his dishonest hands, and complained quietly: "I'm still in pain."

There was tiredness in her eyes, she went to bed too late last night, and when she was about to go to bed, Youqing woke up again, picked it up and saw that the diaper wrapped around her butt was already dirty.

So I stayed up late last night.

Xu Fugui didn't make any other movements, he knew how tired Jiazhen was last night, so in order not to wake Fengxia up, he stood all the time.

"Is it cold last night?" Xu Fugui asked warmly.

Jiazhen shook her head, "It's not cold, you're so warm, I can't bear to get up."

"Then sleep a little longer."

"It makes people laugh, I have to get up, let's cook porridge in the morning."

"You'd better rest, I'll cook the porridge and steam some salted duck eggs."

Xu Fugui lifted the quilt, quickly put on the padded jacket and trousers, put the melon skin hat on his head, and signaled Jiazhen to sleep well.

After he went out, Jiazhen closed her eyes again, reminisced about last night, covered her head with the quilt, and smelled Fugui's remaining manly breath, with a reassuring smile on the corner of her mouth.

After three to five minutes, she reluctantly got up from the bed.

After all, she is a mother of two children, and she has been married for several years, so she can adapt very quickly.

Carefully put on her clothes and apron, glanced at the sleeping Fengxia and Youqing, and quietly walked out of the room.

"Are you up? Just poured hot water, wash your face and rinse your mouth." Xu Fugui had already started the stove, and the fire was reflected on the wall, making it a fiery red.

"Jiazhen, come light the fire, I'll peel two sweet potatoes."

He is going to cook sweet potato porridge.

Jiazhen nodded, and sat in front of the warm stove, Fugui's busy figure was reflected in the big almond eyes that flowed in the water.

"It's Chinese New Year, what are you doing up so early, you don't want to sleep more?" Xu's mother heard the movement outside, put on her clothes and came out, and said angrily.

"Especially you, Fugui, who don't know how to feel sorry for Jiazhen. She has just given birth. Are you willing to let her accompany you to get up so early?"

"Mom." Jiazhen called out, "I woke up by myself, and Fugui also wanted me to sleep longer."

Xu's mother still looked at Fugui reproachfully, but she didn't stop moving her hands, busy with him for breakfast in the morning.

"Fengxia still sleeping?" Mother Xu asked after the sweet potato porridge was cooked.

"Well, I'll go wake her up."

Mother Xu patted his hand, "Children need to sleep more to grow taller. Why did you ask Fengxia to wake up so early?"

Then she took out a white porcelain bowl, filled it with sweet potato porridge, took out half a salted duck egg, put it in an iron pot, and warmed it up for Fengxia.

While drinking porridge, Xu Fugui told Xu's father and Xu's mother about building a bathhouse.

Xu's father and Xu's mother immediately agreed, and they were not used to taking a bath in the sheep pen. After all, they were used to the life of a big family before, so they tried not to take a bath during this period of time.

It is difficult to change from extravagance to frugality. It would be better if there is a shower shed dedicated to bathing.

"By the way, Fugui, you have to find a way to cover the roof. If it rains heavily, no one can live in the house." Mother Xu said suddenly.

Xu Fugui recalled the situation of the roof leaking during the heavy rain last time, so he responded and agreed to come down.

He forgot about the rain leaking on the roof, mainly because he was busy during that time, busy in the county town in the morning and in the field in the afternoon, so he had no time to worry about other things.

Taking advantage of the time during the Chinese New Year, I have to patch up the roof one by one, at least there will be no more rain leakage.

So after breakfast, he and Lai picked up the saw and machete by the way, went to the mountain and started cutting trees.

Use thick tree trunks to build the overall frame of the shower shed, and replace the rest of the materials with bamboo, saving time and effort.

The felled trees are left on the mountain to bask in the wind and sun, and after drying, they can be taken home as firewood.

The two of them worked all morning, but only cut down two trees, sawed off the trunks of the two trees, polished them smooth, and then carried them home.

In the next few days, he and Laishun have been in the mountains preparing materials for the bath house, four straight trunks of sand trees, and some bamboos.

All these bamboos were processed into long and thin bamboo strips, and after they were brought back, Xu's father, Xu's mother, and Jiazhen Changgen wove them into mats with these long, thin and soft bamboo strips.

On the twelfth day of the Lunar New Year, on a sunny day, he and Laishun took off their heavy cotton clothes, and drove the stump into the hole dug beforehand, which was equivalent to the foundation.

As long as these four stumps do not fall, the shower shed will not fall.

The four tree stumps were driven in with great effort, and after confirming that they would not shake, the two of them took out the mats that Jiazhen and the others had woven, and surrounded the three tree stumps as if they were wearing clothes, leaving a door for entry and exit.

A row of sharpened bamboos are tightly inserted outside the bamboo mat to strengthen the wooden shed and reduce the time for the bamboo mat to be exposed to wind and sun.

After doing this, one day passed, and he and Laishun continued to work the next day.

Put the four stone slabs polished in the mountains into the wooden shed as the ground, and then install the bamboo door, and a wooden shed without a roof is built.

As for the roof, Xu Fugui also has a solution.

They cut a lot of thatch on the mountain, which has been dried in the sun in the past few days, and the straw borrowed from the village can play a rainproof effect.

Once the roof of the wooden shed is covered, the shower shed is complete!
The remaining thatch was not wasted. He borrowed a ladder and climbed to the roof of the thatched hut to check for leaks.

A lot of thatch has been rotting away from years of rain erosion.

Throw away the rotten thatch and replace it with a new layer of thick thatch, and the roof is just like that.

"Jiazhen, where did you buy that piece of canvas?" Xu Fugui asked casually, coming down from the roof.

If there is a canvas covering the thatch of the roof, there will be no more leaks.

Jiazhen shook her head, "I didn't buy it, I brought it from home. No one in the county sells canvas."

(End of this chapter)