The train driver in the courtyard

Chapter 176

Li Aiguo decided to take advantage of the two-day vacation.

Finalize the repair of the house.

Breakfast is a pot of cornmeal porridge, with a dish of pickles, two boiled eggs, and three fried eggs.

All high protein.

After eating and drinking enough, he rode his bicycle and went straight to the bridge workshop of the locomotive depot.

The bridge workshop of the locomotive depot is responsible for the maintenance and repair of bridges, tunnels and culverts, and has more than a dozen professional construction teams under it.

When there is a big project, the whole team is dispatched, and they are responsible for helping the locomotive depot to repair the house on weekdays.

The workers will also ask the bridge workshop for help when decorating their houses.

First of all, they are all in the same segment, and the price is preferential.

Secondly, the skills of the masters in the bridge workshop are top-notch.

Tunnels of hundreds of meters can be repaired, buildings with seven or eight floors can be built, can't you fix a tile-roofed house?

"Director Zhang."

Li Aiguo went up to the second floor of the office building and knocked on the office door at the end of the corridor.

"Shouting, it's Comrade Railway Workers Advanced Workers, please come in quickly."

Director Zhang of the bridge workshop met Li Aiguo at the commendation meeting, and even shook hands with Li Aiguo.

"Didn't drive today? Why don't you take a good rest at home." Director Zhang asked warmly.

Li Aiguo took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it over, then took out a lighter and lit one himself.

"I want to renovate the house. I wonder if the construction team of our locomotive depot is free?"

"There are relatively few projects recently, and two teams are idle." Director Zhang smoked a cigarette and looked up at Li Aiguo: "Are you going to make a major repair? Or simply tidy up."

"Great repairs, the inside and outside of the house have to be tidied up again. You also know that my house is an old house in a courtyard. It has a history of a hundred years, and it is dilapidated everywhere."

"Yeah, the conditions there are not good. Back then, your father gave up the house to someone else, otherwise you could live in Tongzilou." Director Zhang pondered for a moment, and said, "Well, this time the house will be repaired, and the labor fee will be halved. "

"Don't bro, we can't do things that take advantage of the collective, and you can't let me make mistakes."

Li Aiguo sat up straight and supported the table with both hands: "I live alone now, and I have saved a little money, which is enough to repair the house."

"The ideological consciousness of our advanced railway workers is high. I will help you contact the captain of the construction team."

Director Zhang nodded in admiration, and shook the intercom phone: "Dashan, come alive."

After a moment.

A burly, dark-skinned middle-aged man in his 40s walked in.

Li Aiguo noticed that his finger that opened the door was covered with calluses.

It should be an old comrade who has been working on the front line all year round.

"Director, are you looking for me?"

"This is Comrade Li Aiguo, who is also an advanced railway worker in our locomotive depot. His family needs to renovate the house."

"This is Captain Liu Dashan of the Fifth Construction Team."

Hearing the title of advanced railway worker, Liu Dashan's expression became serious with the naked eye.

He stretched out his hand excitedly, held Li Aiguo's hand tightly, and shook it vigorously: "Comrade Aiguo, leave the renovation work to us, please rest assured, we will guarantee your satisfaction."

In later generations, the so-called title is just a title, at most two words of praise, and will take care of you more when you are promoted.

In this era, a glorious title can often be respected by others, and it is an invincible passport.

Li Aiguo smiled and said, "Then I will trouble you."

Siheyuan.

In front of Li's house.

"Captain Liu, this is my house. My idea is to paint the inside of the house white-gray, and then separate two rooms with single-layer bricks in the middle."

Li Aiguo pointed to the room and introduced.

In the past, there were partitions in Li's house, but they were separated by cotton curtains.

It is neither soundproof nor aesthetically pleasing.

"Wait, let's go in and take a turn first."

Since Liu Dashan knew that Li Aiguo was an advanced railway worker, he has been concerned about this matter.

All the workers who can get this title have made great contributions to national construction and railway construction.

Into the house, turned around.

Liu Dashan frowned: "It's too simple."

He pointed to the wall and said: "The bricks on the wall have been pulverized, so they must be covered with cement and then plastered, so that they will be strong.

If paint can be obtained, a layer of sanitary skirts will be even better. "

"I've got the cement, and the paint can be found in the material department." Li Aiguo nodded.

"Our materials department has everything, and the coating is definitely not a problem."

Liu Dashan nodded, pointed to the corner of the wall and said, "There is a mouse hole there, and it has penetrated deep into the ground. All the bricks in the ground must be uncovered, re-paved, and replaced with new green bricks."

He hesitated for a moment, then looked at Li Aiguo: "There is also terrazzo in the material department, which is much more high-end than blue bricks."

"Forget about the terrazzo, it's too eye-catching." Li Aiguo shook his head.

To be a worker is to look like a worker.

To maintain the true nature of labor, not ostentatiously.

It will be windy in a few years.

When the wind blows, those who break away from the masses will reap the consequences.

"Green bricks are also fine, and a layer of cement is placed underneath, which is also very strong."

Liu Dashan walked around the room with his hands behind his back, and suddenly asked: "Comrade Patriotic, do you want to build a separate kitchen and bathroom in the house according to the layout of the expert building?"

"Can it be done?" Li Aiguo was overjoyed.

To say that in this era, the most uncomfortable thing is that there is no separate kitchen and bathroom.

There is no kitchen.

As long as cooking, the house smells of oily smoke, and the quilt and wall are soon covered with a thick layer of oil.

There are no toilets.

Every day, I have to trot all the way to the toilet in the courtyard.

It's summer and it stinks inside.

Whenever it rains, the water in the latrine overflows, and there are gadgets of mantis pupae everywhere.

Although I know that stuff is high protein.

It can be made into a famous dish, and the price is quite high.

But after all, it's annoying.

When winter came, it was freezing cold.

The bird shrank its neck from the cold.

Every time I go to the latrine, I have to muster up my courage.

In the year of severe cold, the dripping water outside becomes ice, and going to the hut will be risky.

The three stewards deliberately leaned against a wooden stick against the wall of the hut.

Used to hit frozen water sticks.

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"Siheyuan is a hundred-year-old house, and there is no drainage under the house."

Li Aiguo took out a cigarette and handed it to Liu Dashan, "We need to re-drain the drainage and lead the waste water into the sewer."

Liu Dashan took the cigarette and said with a silly smile:

"It can be done, why can't it be done? The construction team of our locomotive depot can even drill through mountains. Just this small job, we can finish it in three days."

"Okay, let's do that." Li Aiguo nodded.

"I'll bring you the tap water so that you can flush the toilet in the house." Liu Dashan squinted his eyes while smoking a cigarette: "In the bathroom, do you install a squatting pit or a toilet? There are toilets in the expert building. The abandoned ones in the warehouse of our engineering team can get one for you.”

"Squat." Li Aiguo declined Liu Dashan's kindness.

There is only one toilet in the house.

If there are guests on weekdays, you must use the toilet. It is inconvenient to install a toilet.

"That's fine, I'll go back and calculate the drawings and materials used, and come back tomorrow."

Liu Dashan walked around the room again, picked up a pen and wrote down the data in a small notebook.

(End of this chapter)