Chapter 194: Paving the Concrete Floor
Gao Shouwang bought cement and river sand, and the tractor unloaded the goods directly at the factory site in Xing'anling, so Gao Mingcheng pushed the flatbed truck there to load the goods.
He asked Gao Shouwang to help buy cement and river sand. Firstly, it was convenient, and secondly, the price would be cheaper if they bought them together.
He pushed a cart full of things and returned to Gaojia Village easily. When passing by the old village, he first carried a few bags of cement and river sand to his parents' house, asking them to pave the area from the kitchen to the toilet with cement.
It was in this place that his grandmother fell down the next winter.
He couldn't stay with his grandmother all the time, but he was willing to do some of the things that needed to be done.
If fate had destined Grandma Gao to die from falling, then she would have fallen even on flat ground.
But Gao Mingcheng has different feelings in his heart about doing and not doing. Sometimes we do something not to pursue a certain result, but simply because of some need in our heart.
For example, helping others, showing off one's virtue in front of others, and being a teacher to others, all of these have gained some emotional value.
Gao Mingcheng knew that Grandma Gao would die from a fall next year, so if he didn't do it, he would feel guilty, but if he did it, he would have a clear conscience.
"Why pave the floor at this time? Your father said that after saving a few more years of money, he plans to tear down this house and rebuild a two-story building!" Luo Xiaohua said, sounding reluctant to spend time on paving the cement floor.
If you lay the cement floor now, when the time comes to tear it down and rebuild the house, the cement floor will be wasted!
It was for this reason in the previous life that even though the road from the kitchen to the toilet was very bad and slippery and difficult to walk on when it rained, the family still did not pave the floor.
A two-story building was built in the back, but so what? Grandma Gao, who had suffered all her life, never lived there for a single day.
She suffered all her life, and before she died she was in agony and pain for a long time because of a broken bone.
Gao Mingcheng knew he couldn't win the argument with his mother, so he looked at his father Gao Yuanjian and said, "That stretch of road is usually fine, but when it rains, not to mention grandma, even we can easily slip and fall when we walk on it. Older people are most afraid of falling, so we should pave it with cement first."
"I've brought all the cement and river sand here. Dad, you only spent two days paving that section of road."
Gao Yuanjian didn't want to make such a hassle at first, and thought he could do it all in one go when he rebuilt the house a few years later.
But when Gao Mingcheng mentioned Grandma Gao, he was somewhat moved since he was Grandma Gao's biological son.
"Okay, this is also a show of filial piety on your part. I will spread gravel on the uneven ground to level it. It just so happens that I have some gravel piled up at home that can be used." Gao Yuanjian said. Now that he had decided to do it, he went to find a shovel, shoveled the gravel to level the uneven ground.
Luo Xiaohua curled his lips, disapproving, but didn't say anything else.
Grandma Gao was sitting under the eaves, watching the whole scene, a daisy-like smile appeared on her weather-beaten face.
She waved Gao Mingcheng over and asked gently, "Mingcheng, it's been a while since you got married. Is there any news about Duomei's pregnancy?"
Gao Mingcheng was embarrassed for a few seconds. He didn't expect that he would encounter the labor-inducing skill performed by Grandma Gao.
His mother is now taking care of her eldest grandson wholeheartedly and has no time to care about him. Of course, he is happy about it.
"Duomei and I are still young, so we can wait two years and have another child," said Gao Mingcheng.
But Grandma Gao disagreed and gave an example: "What do you mean you are young? You are half a year older than Gao Zhuang, but he got married later than you and got pregnant first!"
Gao Mingcheng complained in his heart, Gao Zhuang was not pregnant, it was his wife who was pregnant!
It can be seen that marrying a wife who is older than yourself has certain advantages.
Gao Mingcheng chatted with Grandma Gao for a while, and then said that he would go back to pave the yard with cement so that there would be a place to dry the rice after the harvest.
This was a serious matter, so Grandma Gao didn't keep him for long and let him go about his business.
Gao Mingcheng pushed the remaining cement and river sand back to his home. Instead of rushing to work, he gave the flatbed truck to someone else.
This car is borrowed, but Gao Mingcheng has already planned to make a flatbed truck himself.
Almost half of the people in their village have flatbed carts, and some have wheelbarrows. Wheelbarrows can carry less things, but they can be used on relatively narrow ridges.
When the harvest season comes, some families whose rice fields are far away from their homes will transport the harvested rice back home on wheelbarrows and then thresh it.
The traditional way of threshing is to beat the rice in a deep wooden basin. Some people also thresh the rice by swinging it against a concrete wall.
But with the advancement of technology, threshers are now available. When you step on the pedal of the thresher, a large drum embedded with iron rings will rotate, and then these semicircular iron rings will be used to beat the rice down.
However, a thresher is a large piece of farm equipment and not every household has one. So you need to borrow one, or you can borrow it from the production team. The production team has several threshers that can be lent to the villagers.
The topic has gone too far. Gao Mingcheng, who only has one acre of land, has no intention of making a wheelbarrow or spending money to buy a thresher. How much rice can one acre of land produce? With his ability, he can easily harvest and thresh the rice, and there is no need to borrow a thresher.
His yard is relatively large. When the house was built, the ground was leveled and covered with a layer of gravel. There is no problem walking there normally. However, it would definitely be inconvenient to dry the grain there.
Now he found a vacant space and began to mix cement and river sand together. He knew the ratio well because he had worked in real estate in his previous life, and he had also observed and helped when people were building houses in this life.
First, mix the cement. After the cement is mixed, it can be used. You need to use tools to transport the mixed cement to a certain place, then use a shovel to spread it, spread it flat, and finally make some shallow patterns to play an anti-slip role.
When paving cement floors, you cannot pave the entire floor. You have to divide it into small pieces. There needs to be a gap of about one centimeter between each piece. This is because cement will expand when heated and contract when cooled, and needs some gaps to prevent it from cracking easily.
In the past, some people would pave the road as a whole, and then after the cement had dried, they would use a cutting machine to cut the road surface at certain distances.
Gao Mingcheng didn’t have a cutting machine, nor did he intend to go to such trouble. He just considered all the problems that might arise later when he was laying the tiles.
It took Gao Mingcheng a whole day to finally pave the entire yard with cement. Standing under the eaves, he looked at the wet cement yard with a satisfied smile.
The previous gravel yard had a cheap, unfinished feel, but now the smooth concrete floor looks so classy!
Today, the kindergarten held a Children's Day performance in advance. The children were very busy and tired, and the adults were also busy. My daughter had three performances, and my two-year-old son also had a dance performance. Surprisingly, my son was the best dancer in the audience! !
——This is not blind praise, it is true. There are ten children in the nursery class, all under three years old, and many of them are silly. My son's dance is the best! Without him, the whole nursery class would collapse!
There are a lot of monthly tickets today. Thank you friends for your support and love. Unfortunately, I have been busy with other things recently and I am not in good shape. I will update as soon as I recover!
I am too tired today, I have to go to sleep. After waking up, I will send my kid to kindergarten and then start writing!
(End of this chapter)
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