Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 294 Building Bridges
After the holiday, Liu Junhao's courtyard returned to calm, and he also completely returned to his previous lazy state.

In the morning, Professor Zhao moved the small table to the toon tree outside the courtyard, and the two played chess in the shade.Although the lotus leaves in the ditch are only sparse, they give people a different kind of fragrance.While playing chess and drinking sweet honey water, life is not pleasant.

In the past few days, the acacia tree has bloomed, and the front and back of their house has also turned into a sea of ​​flowers.Naturally, those bumble bees will not miss the opportunity, they are busy on the branches every day.The two of them have the advantage of being close to the water, and with this convenience, they naturally have a glass of honey water every day.Sophora japonica honey is slightly milky white, and it smells much more fragrant than other honeys.

The Sophora japonica was basically in bloom when the Scolia settled here last year, so this is the first time they have tasted this Sophora japonica honey.

While playing chess, Wukong ran back holding the bird's nest.This guy is afraid that the master will confiscate the two little starlings, so he takes the bird's nest with him no matter where he goes every day.To Liu Junhao's surprise, the monkey has the talent of being a "mother bird". Every day at dawn, he runs out to catch grasshoppers and caterpillars, and when it gets dark, he hugs the bird's nest in his arms to keep warm.

After a few days, the two little birds not only survived, but also lived happily, more than twice their original size.The small mouth is bright yellow, and the whole body is covered with fluff, which looks quite cute.What's even more surprising is that the little starling seems to have regarded Wukong as his biological parent, and even his cry has a monkey smell.

Seeing this situation, he and Zhang Qian completely gave up the idea of ​​letting the monkey send mynah back.However, they are quite curious in their hearts, what kind of virtue these two little guys will grow up under the care of monkeys.

"By the way, Xiaohao, come and help me tear down the fence, it's useless now." After playing a game of chess, Professor Zhao remembered that he still had work to do.

"I said, old man, you are too troublesome. This fence has only been built for a year, so what are you doing tearing it down now?"

At this time last year, Chen Ting was no higher than his knees, and he couldn't stop the animals from sneaking into the yard to steal food.In the end, Professor Zhao had no choice but to tie a reed fence around the statement. This year, the thorns grew tall and could be used as a fence, so he planned to tear down the fence.

It takes time to build the fence, but it is very easy to dismantle it.After a year of wind and rain, the iron wire at the connection has already been rusted, and it was snapped lightly with pliers, and it immediately broke.

He was busy in front with pliers, and Professor Zhao followed behind to pick up the wire.In less than 10 minutes, all the fences were demolished, and the yard has a new look.

After working, the two stopped playing chess, and sat directly under the toon tree with closed eyes to rest their minds.When the wind blows, it is very comfortable.

This sits until eleven o'clock at noon, and the students should leave school immediately.Liu Junhao took one end of the water glass and went back to the house to start making lunch.

The rice porridge will be ready later, and it happens that there is still some honey collected in the morning, and then wash some jujubes, the taste should be good.As for the dishes, it is still cold toon.In order to entertain guests during May Day, there has been a lot of fish and meat, but now it is lighter and can be scraped off.

As soon as the rice was put into the pot, Zhang Qian happened to come back to the yard. The first thing she did when she entered the yard was to take out the grasshoppers she had caught and feed them to the little swallows.Now these little birds have also developed a habit. When they hear any movement, they will immediately chirp with their small beaks.

After feeding the swallows, she took a few more photos with the camera before it was over.

"Husband, how about we build a small bridge over the ditch?"

"Building a bridge? Why are you building a bridge? Isn't there a stone pedal over there?" Liu Junhao asked slightly surprised.He now fully understands that his wife's way of thinking belongs to the unconstrained style, which is sometimes very unrealistic.He also planned to build a hut on the poplar tree before, but he tried his best to dissuade him.

"Let's build a wooden bridge beside the lotus pond, and then connect a wooden pavilion at the end of the bridge, so that we can enjoy the shade there at night."

"This is a waste of money and people, and there is no sun at night, so why do you need a pavilion?" Although the family has a lot of wood, it doesn't cost much to build a pavilion.But he was really too lazy to move, and didn't want to do something flashy.

"Why is it a waste of time and money? I am providing a place for tourists to watch birds. I have already thought of the name. It is called the Bird Watching Pavilion." This idea came to Zhang Qian in a brainstorm during class in the morning, and now it is said by her husband. Not worth it, she was very upset.

"Then have you thought about how to repair the bridge?" Seeing his wife's insistence, he had to ask patiently.

"It doesn't need to be so troublesome, just put a wooden plank on the side of the ditch. Look, I have drawn all the design drawings." Zhang Qian ran back to the courtyard and took out the notebook.The painting on it is very beautiful, the small bridge is Yiyi, the pond is full of lotus flowers, and a few big birds are spreading their wings outside the pavilion.

"Okay, as long as there is a heavy rain in summer, this plank will be washed away." Liu Junhao pointed out the disadvantages at a glance.

"Then increase the height, at least one meter above the water surface, so it's okay?" Zhang Qian thought about it and made changes on the picture.

"Well, the deck of your bridge is a bit too narrow. What if someone walks on it and falls into the water? Especially children, they like to move around. The water in our ditch is not shallow... ..."

"Wide it, and put some railings on it for protection," she said at the end, and she gave up by herself.It's too complicated. If you really want to do this, the amount of work is definitely not small.

"I used to see that the single-plank bridge drawn by others was very beautiful, why didn't it suit us here." Zhang Qian patted the drawing very depressed.

"The single-plank bridge looks beautiful, but it's not so easy to walk on, but it's not impossible to add guardrails..." At this point, Liu Junhao suddenly had an idea, and another design method came to mind.With such a calculation, the wife's idea became simpler.

"Speak quickly, every time you speak, you speak in half." Zhang Qian was waiting for the second half of his sentence, but after waiting for half a minute, she found that her husband was in a state of being distracted at the moment.

"Plastic rope, we can use plastic rope to weave it into a guardrail. Bring the paper and I'll design it for you." Liu Junhao said as he snatched the notebook, and then picked up a pencil to quickly draw on it.Speaking of which, his painting level is far worse than that of Zhang Qian.Anyway, Zhang Qian's comprehension ability is super strong, and she can recognize what he painted after careful identification.

"Husband, you are so smart, how can you get along with the trick of using plastic rope?" Zhang Qian praised nastyly, and then she was full of creativity, "We can also weave two net pockets at the connecting place in the middle, and put flowers in the net pockets." pot, plant morning glory. Let the morning glory climb along the guardrail, and then it will become a flower bridge."

Planting flowers on the bridge, my wife's idea is really creative, with the help of spring water, I believe the morning glory will definitely survive.All of a sudden, he also became interested and planned to do it in the afternoon.

"Building a bridge on the ditch? You are free, kid." After eating, Liu Junhao just told Professor Zhao this idea, and the old man immediately began to criticize him.

The old man criticized it for a while, and finally nodded in agreement... The main reason is that he has nothing to do, so it's good to have some fun.

Ever since, the two braved the scorching sun and began to get busy by the ditch.

The house has all the building materials, and the source of the wood is the old gate of his house.When renovating the house, Zhang Qian thought the wooden door was outdated, so she hurriedly replaced it with a sliding door.This door panel is useless, Zhang Qian wanted to chop it up and use it as firewood a few days ago.Liu Junhao hurriedly stopped, saying that it would be a pity to burn such a good wood, and it would be better to keep it in case it would be useful someday.

When the door panel is used as a bridge deck, it can be regarded as making the best use of everything.As for the piers standing in the middle, they can be replaced by stone rollers. It just so happens that there are two large stone rollers outside the courtyard wall.This stone roller is different from those used by ordinary people. It is not seen in ordinary places. It is more than one meter long and forty to fifty centimeters in diameter.The movement that requires two big steers to pull at the same time is a unique product of the era of eating from big pots.After the distribution of production to households, ordinary people usually feed a cow, which is useless at all, so it is completely abandoned.When old man Liu was in storage in the grain depot, he protected the two big stone rollers very well, and now they can be used as cushions in the water.

However, the wooden stake in the middle of the stone roller has been exposed to wind and rain for a long time, and it has long been rotten and needs to be replaced.

Liu Junhao couldn't be bothered, he found two pieces of wood on the miscellaneous wood pile, cut them into squares, and then inserted them into the stone nest.

A stone roller weighs two to three hundred catties. Professor Zhao was afraid that Liu Junhao would be too reluctant to put it in the water by himself, so he rolled up his trouser legs and went down to help.

The two carefully placed the stone rollers in the middle of the ditch, connected the two stone rollers with horizontal wooden nails, and finally laid the door panels on top to form a simple figure-eight wooden bridge.

The rest of the work is simple. Two wooden stakes are planted at each bridge head to fix the rope.

Of course, there is a preparatory work to be done before planting wooden piles, which is to carbonize the lower ends of the wooden piles, which can effectively prevent the wood from rotting when buried in the ground.

Liu Junhao just built a fire in the middle of the road and roasted it fiercely. Within 5 minutes, Liu Laosan hurried over and asked: "Xiaohao, what are you doing? I saw smoke from here from a long distance away. I thought it was on fire."

When he saw the wooden bridge over the ditch, he criticized it as nonsense.There is no road in the woods, so is it necessary to build a special bridge?

But since he came, Liu Laosan also took up the sledgehammer to help drive the pile.

"Xiaohao, didn't you ask Zhao Guangming to send the rope, why hasn't he come yet?"

"Don't worry, it should be here soon." During the meal, Liu Junhao was too hot at noon, so he called Zhao Guangming and asked Zhao Guangming to buy a rope and a flowerpot for him.The person agreed at the time very easily, but seeing that the pile had been laid, the person who gave the rope didn't even see a shadow.

Helpless, he had to go into the house again to make a phone call.Before dialing, Professor Zhao yelled at the top of his voice, "Xiaohao, don't call, he's already here."

"My X, are you out of your mind? Does this place need to build bridges?" Zhao Guangming immediately said this as soon as his motorcycle stopped.

Damn, can I stop building this bridge? Liu Junhao really wants to give up now.Why does everyone who comes here oppose the construction of the bridge?

The bridge deck and the bridge body are each tied with two ropes as thick as a one-yuan coin, and the rest is to use thin plastic ropes to weave into a net-like guardrail.

When the bridge was repaired, Liu Junhao was completely disappointed. No matter how he looked at it, it looked completely different.The bridge is too short and the guardrails are too high, giving it a bloated feeling, especially the four half-person-high wooden piles in the middle of the bridge, which are extremely awkward and awkward.

"It's the first time I've seen such an ugly bridge." Zhao Guangming looked at it for a while, and finally hit him mercilessly.

"You don't have an aesthetic vision, don't you understand that this is classical beauty?" Liu Junhao is now a well-cooked duck with rotten mouth.

"Would it be better to add a gazebo in the middle of the bridge?" At this time, Professor Zhao put forward an opinion.

Add a wooden pavilion?This is very similar to the wife's original design.Liu Junhao looked at it from a distance, and felt that the visual effect would be much better if a gazebo was added.

"I think it's okay to add a gazebo. There are pine rafters left over from the demolition of your house. It's just right to use that." Liu Laosan also suggested.

Adding a gazebo would take a lot of work, and Liu Junhao didn't want to waste any more time.But everyone's opinions are the same, he can only follow advice.

Don't think it's just a matter of drilling a few holes in the rafters. For those who don't know carpenters, that can be a headache.Originally, I wanted Liu Laosan to do it, but that person was an ant with a stone roller in his mouth - he had a strong mouth.Speaking of the production process, he is so clear that he can't even hang the ink line well.

In the end, Liu Junhao had no choice but to beg Ermazi to do it while he was free.

Fearing that people might not understand it, he even drew a few sketches on purpose.As a result, Er Mazi said: "What do you draw, I know how to do it myself,"

Khan... Professionals are different, and there is confidence in their words.

It should be said that in the past few years, carpenters, like masons, were technical jobs, and they were quite popular.Especially for carpenters, it takes at least a few days to make a set of furniture. Generally, the host needs to entertain them with delicious food and drink.Because of this, when Er Mazi was young, he specially found someone to study carpentry for several years, but it is a pity that he is the kind of hero who is useless.Just two years after I started my teacher, three-ply slats became popular in ten miles and eight towns. People bought complete sets directly from the street, and few made them themselves.So Er Mazi, a carpenter, stopped working completely within a few days.

After Liu Junhao explained, he wanted to turn around and leave.

"Don't go, you help me and help me polish the blade of the plane." Er Mazi said and took out a canvas bag from the corner.I patted it with my hand, and suddenly smoke and dust rose up.Falling down again, mouse feces, cotton balls, etc. were scattered all over the ground.

"I said Uncle Guangxi, how many years have you not used this thing?" The pungent smell almost made Liu Junhao faint.

"Why don't I let you do it?" Er Mazi chuckled. He threw the pile of furniture in the corner and hadn't touched it for several years. Now he finally got free labor.

By the time the plane is sharpened, the sun will soon be setting.

Seeing that there is no chance to build a gazebo today, Liu Junhao can only say hello and go home to cook.

(End of this chapter)