Chapter 417: Building Sheds and Chicken Coops
In mid-March, Gao Mingcheng went to Yangcheng to buy a batch of high-end clothing. After returning from Yangcheng, he rented a truck and went to the provincial capital twice, this time to buy decoration materials.
Once the decoration materials are removed, the rest will be taken care of by professionals.
Gao Mingcheng is only responsible for drawing the drawings, stating the requirements, and finally inspecting the products. Only after acceptance will the final payment be made.
At the end of the month, he was not idle, but returned to Gaojia Village.
In the spring, there is a lot of work to do in the fields, and people are needed everywhere. This year, he plans to build a large shed at the foot of Xiaofu Mountain, and then build a chicken coop. Finally, he has to buy a lot of wire mesh to surround the entire Xiaofu Mountain.
It's easy to say, but it's very laborious and time-consuming to do one thing at a time.
After all these are done, you have to go buy some chicks.
When he returned to his home in Niuweiling, the beehives had been moved out.
During the Chinese New Year, due to the cold weather, the beehives were still kept at home. Fortunately, he was a junior and lived in a remote area, so not many people came to pay New Year's greetings. Only Gao Zhuang came with He Xiuman and Xiao Yuanyuan.
So when he left, he found Chen Duofu and asked him to pay more attention to the weather. Once the weather got warmer, he should move the beehives to the foot of the mountain in the evening.
The activities of bees are affected by light. Once the light is dim, they will return to the hive. At this time, they can be moved completely.
It was already late March, and the weather was naturally warmer. The rape flowers in the fields and the wild flowers in the mountains were gradually blooming, so Chen Duofu called his father and brother to move the beehives out together.
Without the beehives, Gao Mingcheng felt that the room was much more spacious. He saw the used soda bottles in the corner and decided to throw them away.
This type of plastic bottle gets old very easily. After about a month of use, it no longer looks very good. Then when spring comes and flowers bloom, the bees will no longer need to be fed with sugar water. Even if they need it in winter, they can use new bottles.
He tidied up the house a little and called a few of his employees over.
He brought Zhang Chengyuan and others to Xiaofu Mountain, but did not climb the mountain. He just stood at the foot of the mountain.
He pointed to an empty lot and said to them, "I plan to build a shed here to store farm tools and fruits temporarily. I have saved some wood, and I will build it after I buy some bricks, cement and asbestos tiles. You see, I have marked the places where pillars are needed with branches. You guys, dig out these foundations, and I will go buy bricks and cement."
After that, he pointed to another empty lot and said, "We're going to build a chicken coop there. I'm going to raise about a hundred chickens this year. I've marked the places where the foundation needs to be dug. After you finish digging here, go dig there. I'll have to make several trips to buy bricks and cement."
"Okay, Mingcheng, don't worry, just leave it to us." Chen Dasong was the first to speak. He was much more proactive than Zhang Chengyuan.
However, Zhang Chengyuan's personality is a problem, and he is still very down-to-earth in his work.
After explaining everything, Gao Mingcheng drove his tractor to buy bricks and cement. It took him six trips to buy all the necessary building materials.
This time he deliberately bought some more asbestos tiles.
In 1984 and 1985, a family named Pan went to various parts of the country to make tiles. After that, asbestos tiles became popular all over the country.
The reason why it has become popular all over the country is naturally because it is easy to use. A single asbestos tile has a large area and has the advantages of fire resistance, moisture resistance, corrosion resistance, heat resistance, cold resistance, and light weight.
If you use traditional small tiles to build a house, it will take more manpower and material resources. But if you use asbestos tiles, a roof can be built quickly.
Gao Mingcheng plans to cover his shed and chicken coop with asbestos tiles, which will be much more convenient.
As for the extra asbestos tiles, he planned to use them on the beehives, which would effectively protect the beehives from rain and prevent the hives from getting wet during rainy weather. Once the hives are wet, the bees inside will easily get sick.
It took a total of five days to build the shed and the chicken coop. Gao Mingcheng originally wanted to hire a few more people to do the work, but Chen Dasong said it was unnecessary as it was not a lot of work and would only take one or two more days. He also called his youngest son to help.
Since the employees are working actively, Gao Mingcheng can be forgiven.
The main thing is that the technical difficulty of building sheds and chicken coops is small. For example, for a shed, you only need to build a few pillars, and then use wood to build beams, and finally cover them with asbestos tiles.
As for the chicken coop, if you want to cut corners, you can just build it one meter high. After all, chickens are not big, and it will be inconvenient for people to go in and take care of it.
Gao Mingcheng naturally didn't want to go through so much trouble, so he built it according to two and a half meters. Although it was not too high, at least people could stand up straight when working inside.
What surprised Chen Dasong and others was that Gao Mingcheng dug a fire channel in the chicken coop, similar to the kang in the north. In this way, when a fire was burned underneath, the temperature inside the chicken coop would rise. The flue was at the end of the fire channel.
Chen Dasong was surprised by this and asked the reason.
Gao Mingcheng said: "The newly bought chicks are afraid of the cold, so we need to light a fire for a few days to maintain the temperature in the chicken coop. After they get used to it, can eat and start to grow more feathers, we can stop burning the fire."
Normally when we hatch chicks at home, there are only about ten at a time, and sometimes there are only a few, so we have never taken good care of them. Anyway, when the chicks are cold, they can hide beside the hen to keep warm.
But Gao Mingcheng raised a hundred chicks, all of them were chicks, with no hens, so he had to consider the heating problem, otherwise all the chicks would freeze to death or get sick overnight, and all his work would be in vain.
Under his guidance, the sheds and chicken coops were completed one after another.
"You guys take a day off. I'll go buy some barbed wire tomorrow and then surround Xiaofushan." Gao Mingcheng said to them. They were indeed tired, so they walked back home under the setting sun in the evening.
Gao Mingcheng did not rush home, but continued to go up the mountain to check the flowering of the fruit trees.
Peach blossoms bloom first and then grow leaves. At this time, the trees are full of brilliant peach blossoms, and the scenery is unique.
However, Gao Mingcheng's attention was not on the beautiful peach blossoms, but on the peach trees. He was checking whether there was peach gum on the trees.
Peach gum is not a good thing. Once peach gum appears, it means that the peach tree must be sick with insects. Such a peach tree naturally cannot grow good fruit.
Sometimes, newly harvested peaches look good and have a beautiful size, but when they are about to mature, worms begin to grow inside the peaches or peach gum begins to ooze out.
Peaches like this have a bad taste and look, so they are basically ruined.
Gao Mingcheng found a small amount of peach gum on some peach branches during the inspection. He looked carefully and broke off the small branches that secreted peach gum. If it was on the main stem, he would dig along the place where peach gum was secreted, dig out the dirt inside, and then spray pesticides.
Because there is a high possibility that there are insects, and after spraying pesticides, the insects will be poisoned to death.
In addition to peach blossoms, pear trees are also in bloom. The peach blossoms are pink, and the pear blossoms are snow-white. The two complement each other and are exceptionally beautiful.
As for other fruit trees, their flowers are different. For example, loquat trees bloom in winter, so they are also called honeysuckle flowers. Now the flowers have already withered, and small fruits are hanging on the treetops. In two months, these small fruits will gradually swell and turn yellow, and then they can be picked and tasted.
(End of this chapter)
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