She mentioned to her mother-in-law, Teacher Wu, that she should find someone to build a firewall modeled after the Lin family's, but she still didn't mention that Jin Weiguo had drawn a blueprint for the firewall.
The two families immediately got to work. Mrs. Yuan went to find someone to help buy the materials and contacted the workers. Su He cleared out space in her home, and in two days, the house was open.
Four people came to work, and Sister Yuan asked them to work on the Jin family's house first. The Jin family had many children and people, so the sooner they finished, the sooner they could clean up the house. Since she was the only one working at the Yuan family, it wouldn't affect them much.
According to Soho's request, a wall was added to the south third of the west wing, which also served as a fire wall. The wall adjacent to the kitchen was demolished, leaving only a frame, which was used as a dining room.
The only room left was the west wing, and Su He planned to have wooden floors laid in it to make tatami mats for the three children to play on.
There are four main rooms, and the wall between the two main rooms has been converted into a fire wall.
After this was done, only Jin Weiguo's study was left without heating. However, Su He thought that when the man came back, she wanted him to build a barbecue grill in front of the east wing, and then build a chimney behind the barbecue grill into the wall of the study, so that the study would have a fire wall.
She believed that with a man's ability, he could still build a simple barbecue grill. However, it was not easy to let outsiders do this job. She was afraid that people would gossip about her living a petty-bourgeois life. Even if a doctorate could protect her, there was no need to cause trouble for herself.
After the four men finished their work at the Jin family, they went to build a bathroom at the Yuan family next door.
Su He thought of making a set of building blocks for the children to play with. Children of this age have too few toys, but building blocks can be carved by a carpenter in town, which should not be difficult. She can also buy two storage shelves in the restaurant, so that the house will be tidy.
When the house was almost cleaned up, Lin's wife Yang Xu came to the Jin family to take a look. Seeing how clean Su He had made the house and the outside look, she was full of envy: "Teacher Su, you really know how to clean up. I'm so envious of you!"
Su He: "I'm just learning this from you, big sister. Otherwise, where else would I have seen this wall of fire?"
In fact, she had seen in videos in her later life that not every household in the high-altitude and cold regions of Northeast China had kangs. After all, kangs only had one side for heat dissipation, and it would be too hot and uncomfortable for people to sleep on.
However, the firewall is placed between the two rooms, and has two heat dissipation surfaces, which is more effective. The temperature of the room rises, and people sleeping in bed are more comfortable.
There were no kangs or fire walls in my hometown of Liancheng. In winter, we had to rely on stoves. It was a damp and cold area, so people were so cold that they couldn't even stretch out their hands, and many people suffered from frostbite.
Originally, Su He wanted to use this method to keep warm, but she was afraid that she would attract too much attention. Fortunately, there was a precedent of the Lin family in the family compound. This was exactly the case of "someone gives you a pillow when you doze off", so she was quite willing to interact with the Lin family.
Yang Xu was chatting with the Jin family when her two children came over and called her home with serious faces: "Mom, come home quickly, Dad is home! Hurry!"
Su He smiled and said to the two children, "Is your dad so anxious? You two didn't even say hello to your teacher when you saw him!"
The two children of the Lin family are already in elementary school. Su He took care of them when they were in preschool, so it is normal for Su He to tease the two children.
Yang Xu had a sad look on his face. He apologized to Su He with a smile, then turned around and followed the two children home.
Teacher Wu looked at the two children and Yang Xu's performance, so he said to his daughter-in-law, "I think something's going on at home. Come, can you see if you can sew these snakeskin bags?"
The family has accumulated a lot of snakeskin bags for storing rice. The original purpose of these bags was to send packages back to my parents' home.
Su He found them all, took them apart one by one, and worked with Teacher Wu to sew them together with thick needles and large threads, preparing to build a simple greenhouse for the vegetable patch in the yard when the weather got colder.
Su He didn't even need to look to know that her mother-in-law did a good job, but she was too sensible. Even if she had finished, she would always ask her to take a look: "Mom, can you do anything bad?"
But she still checked the size with her mother-in-law and added two more bags to make it bigger.
Not long after the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law finished making the snakeskin bag, Mrs. Yuan came over and took a look.
She asked what the snakeskin bag was used for and was planning to go home and get one, but her original intention in coming over was to gossip: "Did Yang Xu just go back from your house?"
Su He nodded.
Mrs. Yuan: "What about Jianhua and Aihua? They have two more children. Lao Lin is such a piece of shit, he's clamoring for a divorce from Yang Xu. Lao Lin just came to my house and said Yang Xu isn't home and he suspects she's having an affair! Is this a joke? There are so many women soldiers in this family compound. No matter how capable Yang Xu is, where can she find a man for herself?"
This is really... I don't know what I'm talking about!
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