Chapter 361 Second Floor
It was not until Mu Xi moved all the windows into the house that Zhao Yeqing was finally able to escape from Da Huang's clutches.
Mu Xi plucked a few tufts of dog hair from her hair and said, "It's still early today. Do you want to fix the windows today or tomorrow?"
The weather is very humid and foggy today. Zhao Yeqing was afraid that the remaining sunlight today would not be enough to dry the cement pasted on the wall later, so he said:
"Let's do it tomorrow. If it's still foggy tomorrow, we can find another time when the weather is better. There's no need to rush for one or two days."
It is really not easy to wait for continuous sunny days. The sun comes out every day, but it also rains every day.
Zhao Yeqing was squatting in the room changing the straw mat on the floor. He didn't know if it was because he squatted for too long or what, but when he stood up, he almost fell to the ground.
Mu Xi was shocked and quickly reached out to support her: "What's wrong? Is your foot numb or is your vision black?"
Zhao Yeqing moved his knees and ankles and said, "No, it's just that after squatting or sitting for a long time recently, I always feel that my ankles and knees are not very comfortable and sore."
Mu Xi helped her sit down on the chair and raised his hand to gently massage her joints. Zhao Yeqing had never had this problem before, and it only appeared this year.
"Is it because of the excessive humidity?"
"It's hard to say, maybe."
Mu Xi frowned with distress, and kept kneading her hair for half an hour. "I'll go see if there are any herbs that can remove dampness and make tea with it."
Zhao Yeqing recalled, "I don't remember anything that is good for removing dampness. There are also coix seeds in the seeds, but I have never planted them."
Less than ten minutes after Mu Xi left the door, he came back with a cup of tea in his hand: "This is pepper tea with ginger and red dates. It is no less effective than coix seed. Tangerine peel water can also remove dampness, but the effect is not as good as this. You can mix the two and drink them together."
Zhao Yeqing took it and took a sip. It didn't taste good, so he pinched his nose and drank it all in one breath.
Mu Xi walked to the bed and touched the quilt. "We can't go on like this. It's too damp. If we continue living like this, we'll get sick."
"But we can't light a fire in the house in this weather."
Mu Xi looked up at the ceiling and said, "Why don't we build a second floor? Living on the first floor is too humid, and the second floor will probably be much better."
Zhao Yeqing took a glass of water and drank it down, washing away the aftertaste in his mouth. "It's not impossible. I'm relatively free during this period anyway."
Adding an additional floor is not difficult, but it requires careful design. The original roof has to be knocked down, but the chimney pipe of the fireplace also needs to be avoided.
Mu Xi spread out a piece of paper and drew on it with a pen.
"I think we should just leave the small section with the chimney empty, or we can move the whole thing back half a meter."
Zhao Yeqing thought it would be a good idea to move the house back half a meter as a whole, so that there would not be a recessed area on the second floor of the house, and the remaining half a meter next to the chimney could also be used to build a balcony.
Drawing the picture is not difficult, but the difficulty lies in starting to make the red bricks again.
But there is no way. The climate is like this now and there is no way to avoid it. We cannot live in this environment forever. It will be troublesome if we get rheumatism at a young age and suffer from back pain and weak legs all the time.
To dig the red mud, one had to go to the birch forest. Zhao Yeqing was worried about the danger, so he stayed at home and asked Mu Xi to take the four dogs.
After transporting back three truckloads of red mud, Zhao Yeqing sat under the eaves of the yard and used molds to arrange the red bricks to be used one by one.
Building the second floor is equivalent to rebuilding a house, and a lot of red bricks are needed. The two worked together for more than ten days to get all the materials.
He got up early and started smashing the roof with a sledgehammer.
There is a layer of cement ceiling under the sloping roof. Even if the sloping roof is directly demolished, the house underneath will not be affected.
The cement ceiling can be used directly as the floor, but you still need to apply an extra layer of cement and re-polish it.
When polishing the cement floor, Zhao Yeqing missed the grinder brought by the bricklayer who built her house in Meishan. Grinding and polishing were done in one go, saving time and effort, and the effect was so good that she could look like a mirror.
Unlike the current cement floor, there are inevitably some rough and bumpy areas that have to be smoothed out with sandpaper.
Sanding, washing, drying, building walls, applying cement, and drying again.
The room on the second floor no longer had wooden wall panels, as they would just get moldy in today's climate. So they simply decorated the entire room with cement, which had to be exposed to the sun for a few days until it was completely dry before the two of them could move into this unfinished room.
I was too lazy to knock down and reinstall the windows that I had originally planned to put on the first floor, so I just installed them all in the rooms on the second floor.
"Do you think those brick buildings in the tourist area will collapse after a while? How about we try to pry that floor tile back?"
After hearing what Mu Xi said, Zhao Yeqing thought about it and felt that it made a lot of sense.
There are floor tiles in so many rooms in the tourist area. Even if they pry and destroy one or two rooms, it is not a big deal. What's more, the house now has a second floor and they will probably not build a new house in the short term. If they don't use it now, when will they use it?
"Pry! At least the floor isn't rough!"
Otherwise I always feel like I'm in prison.
The two drove to the tourist area again and selected the floor tiles of a restaurant. The tiles were super large and light-colored, so laying them was not difficult and the bright color would not make the room depressing.
However, it was not easy to pry out the floor tiles that had been used for such a long time. Zhao Yeqing had never thought that he could pry out all the floor tiles intact. Even if the tiles were cracked, he could paste them with cement and it didn't matter if there were gaps that looked ugly.
As long as it works, it's fine.
The two of them prying together the tiles for two days, and finally gathered the required number of floor tiles for the entire house.
You only need to lay the floor. You must not lay tiles on the walls and ceiling. In this humid weather, if you lay tiles on the walls and ceiling, it will be basically no different from a water curtain cave.
A new air conditioner was also installed on the second floor. Zhao Yeqing was worried that if the weather got cold again, he would have to move back to the first floor where it would be more convenient to have air conditioners on both floors.
In this way, you can move in as long as you wait for the cement on the floor tiles to dry.
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