Chapter 112 Building a New House
Zhao Yeqing held his hand and placed the stone carefully on the table.
"It's really beautiful, better than what I saw in the Geological Museum before."
Mu Xi helped her sit down before turning around and going out to take a shower.
"Do you still want to take a shower? Then you'll be sweating again after cooking."
"Wash it after it comes out."
Anyway, it won’t be more than the three or four times he washed yesterday.
After dinner, the two of them re-determined the final draft of the new house drawings.
The original draft of a picture of two beds next to each other was thrown into the fire pit by Zhao Yeqing.
Mu Xi snorted, "Then let's sleep in opposite corners, each making a bed."
Zhao Yeqing nodded desperately, "I drew this yesterday because I remembered what happened at home. I definitely didn't mean to take advantage of you."
Draw a blueprint of the house, which should be bigger than the current room, with two large cabinets, a table and two chairs, and it would be better if there is also a large cushion.
The winter in the mountains is quite cold, and it almost always snows. If it is too cold, the dog and the leopard will come into the house and sleep next to the fireplace.
There are also two beds that Zhao Yeqing requested.
In addition to building the house, the sheep pen also needed to be repaired. Her idea was to build an airtight house with bricks.
After all, in the current situation, it is difficult to deal with sick sheep. They can infect each other and you don’t want one to get sick and end up dying.
Mu Xi had no objection. She made the arrangements and he would be responsible for their implementation.
Tonight's dinner was a rabbit freshly caught from a trap. It was snow-white without any other color. He carefully peeled off its fur completely so that he could make a scarf when the weather got cold.
Mu Xi kept the fur of the rabbits killed during this period. His technique in nitreizing fur became better and better, and the fur he kept was complete and soft.
He planned to make a carpet for Zhao Yeqing using rabbit skin.
We can start making bricks tomorrow morning, and then we can build a new house.
This is much easier than buying a house in the city.
Zhao Yeqing urged Mu Xi to take a shower, go to bed early and get up early, as she couldn't wait until tomorrow.
But the development of things still exceeded her expectations.
In the middle of the night, both of them were awakened by the noise outside the door.
Zhao Yeqing was startled and sat up, thinking that something was trying to eat the sheep.
But Dahuang and the others didn't move at all.
Outside, one could clearly hear the sheep screaming and the sound of the sheep pen being rammed violently.
She was about to ask Mu Xi, who had also sat up but was motionless, something in confusion, when she suddenly realized something and hurriedly lay down and covered her head with the quilt.
Ahhhhh!
What should I do? What should I do!
This sheep is sick! Why is he so horny and not sleeping at night?
She twisted her whole body into the quilt in embarrassment.
"Ahem...watch your legs."
Zhao Yeqing buried his head in the pillow, muffling his voice. "Stop talking. Go to sleep."
Fortunately, the noise in the yard did not last long and it returned to calm.
But since that day, for three consecutive days, the sheep made this deadly noise every night for them.
She gradually became numb.
On the bright side, this means there's a chance of having a lamb.
Then you can also milk the goats.
Zhao Yeqing made bricks in the yard during the day and was tortured by the noise at night.
By the time the noise finally died down at night, her bricks were almost done.
In three days, she became more and more skilled, like a worker on an assembly line. Anyone who saw her would praise her as an expert in brick-making.
If you get into a factory, you will definitely get a bonus.
During these three days, Mu Xi found a limestone mine, carried it to the meadow, crushed it, and then transported it back.
The transportation was a bit difficult as the soil was not solid after the landslide. He only dared to take some from the edges for fear of a secondary collapse.
The finished bricks still need to be put into the brick kiln for firing, but the firing speed cannot keep up with her speed.
The bricks were ready, and now all she had to do was watch the fire in the brick kiln in the yard.
Mu Xi brought back the lime and mixed it with mud and sand to test the hardness of the cement.
The cement used is sand from the lake beach, and its hardness is much higher than that of cement made from wood ash.
The materials were almost ready. Mu Xi looked at the weather and felt that it would not rain in the short term, so he started work.
Now cement can not only be used to connect red bricks, but also to pave the floor, and then a layer of carpet can be laid on top.
Mu Xi added a porch at the entrance drawn in the original drawing, so that a floor mat could be laid inside and people could just take off their dirty shoes and socks at the porch and walk in barefoot.
He discovered this little habit of hers since she returned to Meishan to renovate the house and did not forget to lay tiles in the room.
At that time, you can lay the rabbit fur carpet next to the bed so that your feet won’t get cold when you step on it when you get out of bed.
It might not be feasible to cover the entire house with rabbit fur, so he planned to weave some straw mats and spread them out in other places except near the bed and tables and cabinets. Straw mats would not be cold and could be replaced at any time if they got dirty or damaged.
Zhao Yeqing calculated the number of red bricks. Apart from those needed for the house, the remaining ones would definitely not be enough to build a sheep pen.
They also planned to build a small room in the hut, separate it with a small door, and let the cubs live in it. Then they would open a door at the back of the small room so that if any animals came to steal the rabbits, they could rush out directly from the back door.
While Zhao Yeqing was building a house in Muxi, he also devoted himself to the intensive work of red brick production.
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It took a week to lay the foundation, build the house, and apply cement, and finally the house took shape.
The current house is built entirely of red bricks, the exterior walls are plastered with cement, the interior walls are also plastered with cement, and wooden boards are also pasted on them.
They didn't have varnish, and if they only applied cement on the interior walls, the dust would keep falling off, so they simply put up wooden boards, but this doubled the working hours.
Two weeks later, the house was basically completed.
That’s why they say the more you decorate a house, the more problems you’ll encounter. The small house that was originally expected to be completed in ten days took us half a month.
This does not include the time required for preparing materials in the early stages.
When the house was almost built, Mu Xi began to prepare to weave straw mats.
Previously, Zhao Yeqing picked rushes to use as candles on his birthday, which gave him the idea of weaving straw mats.
Rush is also called rush, and a lot of it is exported to a small country every year to make tatami mats.
It is perfect for weaving straw mats.
Rush grows in a humid environment and is not difficult to find under meadows with abundant groundwater. However, now is not the best season for harvesting rush, so it does not grow lushly. It took two days to collect enough.
I do carpentry work during the day, making cabinets and beds, and I weave straw mats after dinner and before going to bed at night.
By mid-February, the weather had become noticeably cooler and the house was finally ready for move-in.
The two of them specially looked through the original owner's perpetual calendar and chose a good day and time when everything was going well, then they packed up their things and moved in.
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