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Chapter 107 Breaking ground to build a new house 2
Half a month later, the foundations were all laid, and Mr. Yin Yang was optimistic about the day to erect the beams.

Erecting beams is the biggest project in building a house. Because the house at this time is a wooden skeleton, brick walls or earth walls only serve as spacers between the logs and cannot support the house. There is a saying called "a house with walls down." don't collapse".

Liu Sanping and Father Liu worked hard for two and a half months, and every tenon and tenon joint was made fine and strong. On the right day, the chicken was killed and prayed, and the blood of the chicken was sprinkled on the middle beam, and another red paper was tied. Then he ordered everyone to erect the beams.

The main structure of the beams has been completed, and it doesn’t feel good when they are placed on the ground. The scene of slowly standing up with thick hemp ropes is very spectacular. Lily and Lamei stared blankly:
There were five hemp ropes as thick as wrists attached to the girder. Dozens of young and strong men wearing only tight-fitting unlined clothing hung the girder several feet high from the ground by shouting in five directions!

There are still some people under the beam to support the beam so that it will not fall halfway down.

Then, these people directly lifted the beams that had already taken shape, and placed them in the post holes left in advance on the foundation.

As the pillars are placed in proper positions, the rickety beams become more and more stable. The wooden pillars divide the space and look more and more like a house.

The last pillar fell into the pillar hole and it fit perfectly. The mason and Father Liu said to each other, "This old bone is still useful."

Someone set up several high ladders, and several people who knew carpentry climbed up the ladders, and inlaid couplet boards between the pillars, so that the pillars would be more stable and would not shake around.

Liu Sanping followed the tallest ladder, climbed to the side of the girder, and knocked down the last wedge. So far, the girder erection has been completed. Even if it takes decades in the future, as long as the wood is immortal, the girder will not collapse.

Everything went well, nothing happened, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Lily hurriedly greeted everyone for dinner.

During the period when their house was under construction, they borrowed tables, benches, dishes, and even chopsticks from their neighbors for a long time. This kind of thing often happened to the neighbor’s sister-in-law. Lily of Human Love also remembers clearly.

The matter of erecting beams was easy to say, but it took most of the day to complete the erection perfectly, and dinner was about to be had in sight.

As usual, there are meat and vegetables for dinner. Some people don't like rice and prefer pasta. Lily also fried a lot of noodles.

For the noodles, stir a pot of batter that is neither thin nor thick, and sprinkle some chopped green onions into it.Heat the rapeseed oil to [-]% heat, take a pair of bamboo chopsticks and twist up a ball of batter, make it the size of a fist, drop it into the oil and fry.

You can put five or six gnocchi in one pot, fry until the whole body is browned, and then remove it. The gnocchi swells to the size of one and a half fists. The outer skin is golden and crisp, and the inner is not porous and soft. Soak in soup.

After dinner, some of the family members still have work to do and will go back, and the rest of them will have a charcoal fire in the yard, not afraid of the cold wind, roast some sweet potatoes and gossip.

Eating sweet potatoes was boring, Lily cooked some eggs and fermented glutinous rice to send, and heard the mason happily telling the story of when he went to a neighboring county when he was young, stayed at a family's house, and saw the hairy god raised by that family in the middle of the night...

Lamei followed Lily with a stack of bowls. When she heard the ghost story, her hairs stood on end in fright, and she almost dropped all the bowls on the ground!Fortunately, Wang Xiaofu was close, and he quickly caught it.

"Put the bowl on the table, you go back to the kitchen first." Lily recalled that the girl was particularly afraid of these things, so she hurriedly told her to go back.

Lamei was ashamed and a little scared, and hurried back to the kitchen to find Li Caifeng and others.Wang Xiaofu smiled and helped Lily serve the fermented glutinous rice and distributed it to everyone: "I didn't help much, so I will toast you."

Father Liu squinted his eyes and smiled: "In the future, you will have more time to toast."

The blue bricks fired in batches had already arrived, and everyone began to break the wall the next day.The main house is built with blue bricks, and other people's houses are built with two bricks thick enough. Song Haonian built four bricks for one floor to keep warm and strong.

The blue bricks need to be glued together with specially prepared mortar. Lily went to see it once, and only knew that there was a lot of glutinous rice flour mixed in it.It is said that this glutinous rice flour plaster is no worse than cement concrete.

The wing room does not use brick walls. A space is sandwiched between two wooden boards on the foundation, and loess is filled inside. A few hardcover guys go up and tamp it with wooden sticks. It is a thick rammed earth wall.

There is no need for carpenters to build the walls these days, Liu Laopai and Liu Sanping went home to make furniture, because Song Haonian's family doesn't have much eye-catching furniture now, they almost have to build a whole new set of furniture.

Father Liu put in extra effort to build a canopy bed. The wood used is all pear wood, which is strong and fine in texture, and carved with Eight Immortals crossing the sea and various auspicious flowers and plants.

Someone wanted to buy this bed, but Father Liu didn't want to sell it, so he knew it was for Song Haonian.Father Liu said to Liu Sanping: "Da Nian is an honest man. That year when you went up the mountain to cut wood and fell your leg, he carried you back. Afterwards, he just pretended it was nothing and never asked us to repay you. He didn't Mention, I will repay you even more!"

Liu Sanping said: "Our brothers will not be heretics in the future, dad just treats this bed as my own brother."

Twenty days later, the brick and earthen walls have been completed, and a neat and beautiful big tile-roofed house has begun to take shape, but the roof has not yet been covered with tiles.

Liu Sanping first led people to build smaller square columns on the beams of the house, on which solid rafters were laid, and the rafters were laid from the center of the ridge to the eaves on both sides.Then use iron nails to nail the planks to the rafters, and the house has a roof.

After that, Liu Sanping built a roof for the wing room. Because the wing room has a flat roof, it is much simpler than the main room to just lay rafters and nail wooden boards.

The mason takes the roof of the main house, first pastes a layer of mud on the thin wooden boards, and then places the tiles densely on it.One row of tiles is upright and one row is reversed, and the tiles are interlocked in pairs. The masons have rich experience, and the repaired roof is material-saving and strong, and it will not easily leak rain.

The roof of the wing room is covered with layers of yellow mud and blue plaster mud to prevent future rain leakage, and the top is plastered with plaster. After the plaster dries, it forms a smooth piece, which can dry a lot of grain.

Now that the roof has been repaired, only the floor is left to be used. The tile-roofed house is so high that if the upper space is not used, it will be wasted.

The room in the middle of the main house has a ceiling to prevent dust from falling from the rafters, and it looks better.There are floor slabs built on the two side rooms in the east and west. The floor slabs are framed on square logs and inlaid with wooden boards one by one. They are tightly connected, and several adults can walk and jump on them.

Two wooden ladders can lead directly to the upstairs. The upstairs is dry and cool, and it is very convenient to store some commonly used objects, such as grain cabinets and rice cabinets.

The two floor slabs each lead to the roof of the wing room, and several wooden boards are used to separate the inside and the outside. If food, melons and vegetables are dried on the roof of the wing room in the future, they can be received on the floor nearby.

The mason thought he would no longer have his own work, and didn't want Song Haonian to find him and beg him to build a kang in the east wing.

"Kang?" This place in Taiping County is located in Nanzhili. Few people repair kangs. When a mason went to the north with his master when he was young, he saw kangs in local people's houses, but he didn't understand why Song Haonian wanted to repair them.

Song Haonian said: "I heard that this kang is very warm in winter, so I want to try a kang."

His daughter-in-law is afraid of the cold. Don't look at her being busy inside and out every day recently. He knows best that she will hold the brazier whenever she has a chance. Even at night, her hands and feet are cold, and she keeps shrinking into his arms.

If there is a kang, even if he is not at home, the daughter-in-law will not be frozen.

The mason thought about it for a while, "If you are not afraid of my repairing it, try it."

Song Haonian was overjoyed: "I still don't know Uncle's craftsmanship? Just let it go and repair it, at worst, rework it a few times, just use the materials, I know the benefits that Uncle treats me."

They went north to sell goods this time, and they saw some big kangs of northerners. Song Haonian fell in love with them at that time, and asked them to ask questions, and asked them a lot of secrets.

There are two east chambers, the outer one is the kitchen, with a firepit next to the window, and a chimney on the four-eye stove leading to the roof. If you cook in the future, you won’t be afraid that the room will be full of smoky smell.

The mason added a ventilation hole on the top of the four-eye stove, leading to the inner room in the east chamber, and built a large kang in the south of the room.The masons showed their life skills, and the adobe and mortar were neatly built and built firmly.

Try it on the fire, it is warm but not scalding, and it also has a good heat preservation effect, which can keep you warm in the middle of the night.

The mason turned around and said to Song Haonian: "I think this heated kang is good, and I will build one for myself later. In the future, whoever sees your heated kang wants to build it, just ask him to come to me."

"I know!" It's rare that the mason is willing to help him, and Song Haonian will also introduce some business to the mason.

Now the house has a big shape. Two solid wooden doors are opened in the southeast corner. There is a green brick screen wall at the entrance, carved with the pattern of five blessings. There is a small house on the west side of the screen wall, where some farm tools are placed.

Bypassing the screen wall are three large tile-roofed houses, and four flat-roofed wing rooms on both sides. The materials and labor are all good, and it also looks like a grand family.

The inside of the house was still rough walls. At this time, Song Haonian dispersed most of his brothers, leaving only a few people who were very close to help. First, he wiped the walls with grass-mixed mud, and then smoothed them with yellow mud.

For an ordinary farmhouse, such a wall is enough.

But the mason remembered something again, and said: "Plastering the walls with white ash will make the walls whiter, and the room will be brighter, but it will cost more. If you are willing, I will find someone to burn a kiln of white ash for you."

As soon as he heard it was lime, Lily urged Song Haonian to agree, and Song Haonian asked his wife amusedly: "You know again?"

Lily raised her head triumphantly: "I just know it!"

She looks very delicate, Song Haonian's heart felt hot, and he quietly touched Lily's hand and said, "Daughter-in-law, after the house is repaired, let's give birth to a fat baby?"

Lily returned a smiley look, Song Haonian got a hint, picked up Lily and walked into the house.

(End of this chapter)