Chapter 395 Obtaining Building Materials
With a pickup truck, the three-wheeled vehicle is no longer a problem. You can just move it into the back bed and transport it back.
Mu Xi brought the tools with him, including a tire changer and an air pump, as well as adhesive for repairing tires, in case there were no suitable tires to replace and the damaged parts had to be filled.
But the actual situation was worse than expected. After all, it had been left there for seven years without being moved. Not only were the wheels of the pickup truck weathered to the point of being broken into pieces, but it also wouldn't start after being refueled.
Mu Xi opened the car to repair it, and Zhao Yeqing went to each house with a garage to look for usable tires.
The two had consciously driven the intact car to a sheltered place, fearing that they would need these parts one day, but the tire size of the car they had moved before did not match that of the pickup truck.
As he was searching everywhere, the ground suddenly shook, and Zhao Yeqing quickly walked out of the house and went to the open space.
With just this slight shake, the second floor of a wooden building collapsed. While the shaking was still continuing, Mu Xi had already run to her side.
"How was it? Did you get hit?"
Zhao Yeqing shook his head. "I'm fine, but if the houses in this tourist area are to be destroyed in a few years, even if the brick houses don't decay and collapse like the wooden houses, I'm afraid they will become dangerous buildings."
Everything else is fine, but what Zhao Yeqing is most reluctant to part with are the building materials, especially the tiles. She had thought that once her bricklayer skills were upgraded to the next level, she could replace the walls of the bathroom and toilet in her home with tiles.
Why not pry down all the tiles and transport them back as soon as possible?
But it’s okay to ignore the crops in the fields at home for two or three days, but it won’t work for a long time. It will definitely take a month to finish the tiles in a few days, and the crops at home need to be taken care of every few days.
Mu Xi: "Then you can do it at home. There is nothing to do recently, and I am bored. I will come here during the day and go back at night."
"Alright."
When the vibration subsided, many walls were found to be falling off in pieces. Mu Xi went back to repair the car. In addition to finding the wheels, Zhao Yeqing now had to count which room's tiles met the standards.
They had never experienced an earthquake before, and the buildings did not have very high earthquake resistance requirements. After the earthquake, they were always worried that the house would collapse when they walked in.
The walls were affected more severely, but because the earthquake was not strong, there were only some cracks on the surface. The floor was the least affected, and the tiles were basically intact as long as they were not damaged by the collapsed objects.
The tourist area has only been developed for a few years, and the tiles are still relatively new, without many signs of use, so it is not difficult to pry them out.
The number of rows and buildings and the number of tiles of different colors and sizes were all counted, and then Mu Xi only needed to pry them out one by one according to the records in the notebook.
The planting basement and breeding basement in the house are no longer in use, only the cellar in the breeding basement is still used to store sweet potatoes.
The materials brought back can be put directly into the basement. It has been cleaned and can be used as a storage room.
When the pickup truck was repaired and had no problems with ignition, Mu Xi took out the walkie-talkie and called Zhao Yeqing to come over and get on the off-road vehicle, then moved the tricycle to the back truck bed before driving back.
When I returned to the lake, I shoveled half a bucket of sand and soil back. I will have to plant sweet potatoes in the second half of the autumn. The pigs at home eat a lot, and more than half of the crops planted in the second half of last year have been consumed. After the green stalks of beans, sesame, and corn are harvested, I can plant the sweet potatoes.
Sweet potato is one of the crops that likes sandy soil the most. If it can be mixed with more sandy soil, it should grow better.
After the sand was brought back, the two men carefully shoveled up the asparagus with shovels, put the sand underneath and mixed it with the soil underneath before moving the asparagus back.
The soil under the asparagus that has been moved back needs to be compacted again and watered again to help it take root. Digging up the asparagus and planting it back today is equivalent to transplanting it again, so watering it again to help it take root is of course essential.
In the following time, Mu Xi went to the tourist area every day. Zhao Yeqing recorded the crops at home and carried out daily weeding. Then he calculated that it was time to harvest the corn stalks.
After harvesting, it has to be chopped up and put into the silo.
It has rained a lot recently, and the grass on the meadow is very moist, so cattle and sheep are prone to diarrhea after eating it. If Zhao Yeqing finds signs of diarrhea in the cattle and sheep, he will not let them out to graze. Even if he lets them out, he will not let them out until they are full.
It can reduce the intake of grass containing rainwater, which can cause diarrhea.
The cattle and sheep eat a meal of silage at home in the morning before going out, so the feed consumption has increased a lot. Fortunately, the climate is warm and humid now, the fermentation process of silage is relatively smooth and the time is shortened.
While cutting straw, Zhao Yeqing sighed that this silage pit was really practical. It was a correct decision not to be lazy and directly build a cement silage pit. If he had still used the original owner's method of sealing and fermenting with plastic bags, it would probably not be enough now.
The corn stalks harvested this time were pulled directly from the ground. It is easier to pull out the green stalks directly than to pull them out after the fruits have grown.
You can also use a harvester to harvest directly, which is faster, but if you harvest it that way, you still have to use a hoe to dig out the corn rhizomes in the ground.
Bending down to dig the ground is very tiring, it is more convenient to just pull it out.
As usual, the last two rows of corn are left to bear fruit, so that we can eat fresh corn when the soybeans are harvested in more than a month.
It took ten days to cut a whole field of corn stalks, load them into the silo, and compact and seal them.
In the meantime, we also have to weed and keep records in the grain and vegetable fields.
Mu Xi's work efficiency is getting higher and higher. It used to take him two days to finish tiling a room, but now he can finish one room in one day, and it is less likely to damage the tiles.
When Zhao Yeqing was free, he would go with them for a day and pick up the broken tiles and take them home. When he had time to pour cement in the backyard, he could embed the broken tiles into the ground and use them together to make a path passing under the wisteria trellis.
During the past ten days, there have been constant small earthquakes, almost one every day, sometimes lasting only a dozen seconds, and sometimes lasting ten minutes.
The wall of a brick house in the tourist area cracked and collapsed two days later, revealing the steel bars inside.
This house was right at the intersection leading into the tourist area. Mu Xi was worried about a secondary collapse, so he took a sledgehammer and knocked down the wall.
Got a lot of steel bars and iron pipes.
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