When people were talking about it, he just smiled, without even looking up, and kept hammering away: "This is all I know how to do. I've been doing it my whole life!"
There aren't that many people mending clothes around here. Only when the clothes are extremely torn will they be mended again.
Qiao Xuejun and Kuang Qianli quickly found the stall that said "Building a Firebed".
There was a cardboard sign in front of the stall: Zhang Laoer specializes in building fire beds.
There was no one here, only a woman sitting on a small stool in the stall, holding a notebook in her hand and her hands tucked into her cotton-padded jacket.
The two of them looked at the sign and saw that it did say "fire bed", so they asked, "Can we build a fire bed here?"
The woman stood up to greet them and said with a warm smile, "Yes, you are here to look for my husband? He went out to build a kang today. If you need anything, just tell me and leave your address. My husband will come to see if we can provide it later."
She opened the notebook: "Where do you live?"
Kuang Qianli gave the address and asked, "Will you pick me up tomorrow?"
"You can't take a ride tomorrow. You have to wait in line!" The woman handed the notebook to the two men and said, "Look, there are six families waiting in front of you. But if you want to come and see the door, go tonight or tomorrow night if you have time. Tomorrow night!"
Qiao Xuejun took a look and found that there were indeed several companies named in her notebook.
Qiao Xuejun: "Do I need to prepare anything to build a kang?"
The woman took back the notebook and said, "That's right! We are only responsible for the craftsmanship of building the kang, and you have to prepare the materials yourself."
She tore off a page from the back of the notebook and handed it to Qiao Xuejun: "Prepare the materials here according to the quantity, and you can use them directly when you come to my house."
Qiao Xuejun took it and saw some handwritten information on the building materials that would be needed, as well as several building plans, including an advanced version, an ordinary version, and a low-end version.
They are bricks, stone slabs, and dugouts, but they all require mainly soil.
The woman said, "Nowadays, almost no one is building bricks, and there are not so many bricks... If the water went down, my husband could go down there and knock down some broken houses to get some bricks, but now there is no way. The water is so high now, there is no way to get bricks."
Woman: "Usually it's a brick bed with some stones. You need to prepare more yellow mud, two cubic meters of mud for one brick bed. And wheat straw. If you don't have this, you can go to the mountains and get some dead grass roots. It's mainly to prevent cracking and make it tougher. Anyway, if you want to make it, just prepare it according to this."
Qiao Xuejun looked at the materials and found them not difficult to make.
"Okay, let's reserve four kangs first."
The woman's eyes widened. "Four? Do you have too many people?"
These days, outsiders sleep on a kang with their whole family, and the dormitories in the base are all four-person rooms. Those who come to order a kang usually sleep for one, or two at most.
This is the first time to have four kangs.
This price is not cheap, can you afford it?
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