Chapter 250 A Month of Brisk Speed
It was already noon when he returned to the village. Lin Heng put the peach blossoms he had picked into a green narrow-necked bottle. Xiulan had already prepared the meal and was waiting for him.
The skilled workers that my father was waiting for to come to work were all waiting.
"Lin Heng is back, so let's serve the dishes."
Mother Lin said this, and she and Xiulan brought out the food.
"You can eat first, no need to wait for me." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"We just came back too." Father Lin said with a smile.
Liu Haigui beside him also smiled and said, "Boss Lin, have you found a carpenter?"
After getting to know each other for a few days, he admired Lin Heng even more and spoke to him more politely than before. It was amazing that he became a millionaire at the age of 21.
"I've already found someone. I'll come to your house tomorrow." Lin Heng nodded and said, "Let's eat."
"good."
Everyone was already hungry, and they were salivating over the food at Lin Heng's house. Not only was there white rice every meal, but there was also meat every meal, which gave them a deep understanding of what it meant to be a millionaire.
Lin Heng took a look at the fat on the table and had no interest at all. He only picked up some pickled radish shreds and cold-mixed shepherd's purse.
He knew that Xiulan did it on purpose. She copied the fat and gave it to the worker. Her family usually ate pork belly, which was not so fatty.
For most people of this era, as long as they have meat, they don’t care whether it is fat or thin.
After eating, I rested for half an hour and then went back to work at one o'clock.
Lin Heng is not a devil. Even if there is no such thing as an eight-hour work system now, he would generally only let people work eight hours, and occasionally half an hour more.
"Li Shiwei Lin Hai, come and do the measurement with me this afternoon."
After the gathering, Lin Heng looked at the two of them and said.
"Okay, let's go get the ruler and white lime."
The two nodded and turned to get the ruler and white lime.
After taking it, I measured it with Lin Heng and then spread the line.
After spending half an afternoon, the three of them finally laid out all the water pipes. Then they hired people to dig pipes, and when the water pipes arrived, they could just bury them directly.
The next morning, Carpenter Liang came up early and was surprised to see that Hongfeng Mountain had been built like this.
"Lin Heng, my job is to fix the beams and rafters?"
Liang Gui looked at Lin Heng and asked.
Lin Heng nodded: "Yes, a lot of wood for the rafters has been shipped in, and I bought the big wood for the beams in the past two days."
"Here." Carpenter Liang put down his things, looked at the half-meter-high wall that had been built, walked over to look at the wood, and started his work.
Lin Heng looked at their work progress for a while, said something, and drove away on his three-wheeler, preparing to go to the suburban factory to buy plastic pipes.
There is a small workshop in the suburbs that specializes in producing plastic pipes, producing various types of plastic pipes. Lin Heng went into the factory and took a look. Without exception, all the machines were old ones that he had just bought.
However, the craftsmanship of the plastic pipes produced is very good. What Lin Heng wants to buy is a plastic pipe with a diameter of ten centimeters. The price here is fifty cents per pipe, four meters in length, and five millimeters in wall thickness.
Lin Heng first bought 200 10cm diameter ones, which cost him 100 yuan. He also bought 50 5cm diameter ones, which cost 30 yuan each. He also bought a bunch of accessories such as elbows and tees, which cost him 202 yuan in total.
After confirmation, we will call a truck for shipment and the goods can be delivered directly to your door within the city.
The pipes were delivered that afternoon, but the channel for burying the pipes had not yet been dug.
In the blink of an eye, it is already the fifth day of the third month in the Gregorian calendar and the third day of the second month in the lunar calendar. Today happens to be the Waking of Insects, and the construction site has been in operation for eleven days.
As the saying goes, when spring thunder sounds, all things come to life. On this day, the weather was gloomy and the dew was heavy in the morning, but there was no so-called spring thunder. However, if you look closely at the branches, you will find that the spores have become very full.
Lin Heng and Xiulan got up early in the morning to exercise. Xiulan practiced Tai Chi and Eight-part Vajra Exercise every morning. Although she was just following the same routine, her limbs became more coordinated after so many days, and her body lines looked smoother and softer.
Lin Heng's exercise is more intense. He not only practices Vajra Kung Fu, but also does other exercises such as push-ups, frog jumps, pull-ups, etc.
He started exercising when he was old in his previous life, and it has become a habit of his.
"Honey, the grape buds you planted have grown a lot and turned green. It looks like they are alive."
Xiulan's voice rang out under the grape vines.
After Lin Heng finished his exercise, he came over to take a look. The spores of the Kyoho grapes were clearly visible, and they were definitely alive. The wild grapes next to them were even more so, as if they couldn't wait to release their vitality.
"Wait for me to get some red grapes for grafting."
Lin Heng said this and went out. There were red grape seedlings planted in the yard of his father's house. When he came over to take a look, he saw that they had indeed survived.
After cutting a five-centimeter-long piece of paper with buds on it, he turned around and went back into the house.
Cut the wild grapes from the bottom and split them in the middle. Then use a knife to cut the scion into a flat shape and insert it into the split main stem of the wild grapes. Then wrap it with film paper and leave the buds exposed.
Grapes are very easy to grow, and now it is the Jingzhe season, so a simple cleft grafting method will do. You just need to pay attention to the alignment of the grafting layers.
"I think we'll be able to break off the Chinese toon buds by the end of the month." Xiulan said after watching Lin Heng's grafting.
"If we go to the town, it will be ready in the middle of the month. I'll take you there then." Lin Heng said with a smile. He had already started drooling. Fried pork with Chinese toon and fried eggs with Chinese toon were both delicious.
"Okay." Xiulan nodded in agreement and picked up the bucket to go milk the cows.
Lin Heng followed him out and took a look at the seedlings planted in the back mountain. Only two of them had no buds, while the others all had green buds.
He planted the seedlings in a hurry because this time point was very important, and sure enough, most of them have sprouted now.
After drinking the milk, playing at home for a while and eating some sauerkraut soup, Lin Heng went to the Hongfeng Mountain construction site at 8:30.
After eleven days of construction, Lin Heng had connected the water supply and drainage pipes of all the ponds, and they had already been buried underground.
The water inlet pipe of the pond extends out one meter and is connected to an upward elbow, which can effectively prevent the water flow from impacting the pond.
The water flows out first toward the sky and then spreads out in all directions, which can also increase the dissolved oxygen in the water.
Now the only thing left to be dug is the top aeration pool of 400 square meters. There are not enough workers these days, so the construction has not started.
The warehouse has two walls completed. The warehouse is three meters high, with a two-meter-high triangular roof on top. Today, the beam carpenters are putting up the beams and fixing the rafters, and then the roof can be laid.
He bought the wood for the beams in the town. He spent one hundred dollars to buy fifty pieces of asphalt-treated pine wood, which were transported up by a tractor.
Now that the foundations have been completed, five master workers plus twelve unskilled workers can build a house in one day. In ten days at most, these houses will be completely completed.
After finishing here, Lin Heng went to the mountain to take a look. The fence in the forest had been built and the land reclamation was nearing the end. The remaining work could be completed in five days at most.
However, there is no sign of germination from the ginseng seeds, so it will take some time before sowing.
Lin Heng ran up and down before he saw his father walking slowly to the construction site.
Seeing Lin Heng, his father immediately said excitedly: "Son, I went to the field to check, and most of the fruit trees we planted have sprouted."
He had been keeping an eye on the seedlings, fearing that something might go wrong with the seedlings he had spent so much money on. Now that he saw them sprout, he was finally relieved.
"That's for sure." Lin Heng nodded and smiled. He asked why he didn't see his father in the morning.
"Have you finished reclaiming the land on the mountain?" Father Lin asked again.
"It will be completed in another four or five days." Lin Heng nodded.
"That's fine." Father Lin nodded and went over to start working.
Lin Heng didn't go home either, he stayed to help with the work. He was too lazy to lay bricks, so he helped to move things.
In the blink of an eye, five days have passed. The cherry blossoms, apricot blossoms in the village and the wild peach blossoms on the mountain are all in full bloom, white, pink, in clusters. You can smell the faint fragrance when you get close.
Spring has arrived and everything is beginning to revive.
At ten o'clock in the morning, Lin Hai ran down the mountain and looked at Lin Heng and said, "Brother Lin Heng, the work on the mountain is done, do you want to come up and take a look?"
"good."
Lin Heng nodded and followed him up the mountain to take a look.
The fence on the mountain was tied to live trees and made of vines collected locally, so it was not very strong. However, there were two or three meters wide thorns piled outside the fence, making it difficult for both livestock and people to break in.
Inside the fence, the leaves that hadn't rotted away last year were piled up at the base of the trees, waiting to rot naturally, and the rocks were picked up and piled together. The soil was all renovated, the black humus soil looked pleasing to the eye, and the small tree roots were all dug out and thrown over to the cabin as firewood.
The whole forest looks neat and orderly, no longer as messy as before, and walking in it feels different.
After checking around, Lin Heng smiled and nodded, "Everyone did a good job. Thank you for your hard work."
"Lin Heng, is there any other work? Does the construction site downstairs still need us?" Yang Zhaotao asked with a smile in the crowd.
"Yeah, is there any work left, Boss Lin?"
This is also what other people want to ask. I am not afraid of hard work or fatigue, but I am afraid of having no work and not making money.
Lin Heng smiled and nodded, "Of course there is more. There is also an aeration pool to be dug below, and fences need to be built around the pond. There is a lot of work to do."
"It's good to have work."
"Take your tools and go get to work."
When everyone heard that there was still work to do, they immediately became excited and headed towards the pond at the foot of the mountain.
"Let's repair the fence first today. I have already prepared the fence pit for the pond. You just need to help dig it." Lin Heng said to everyone.
The pond fence must be built to separate people and animals. On a small scale, it is to prevent cattle, sheep and children from falling into the pond; on a larger scale, it is to prevent jealous people from secretly adding drugs and causing damage.
So he had already designed it before, and spent fifty dollars to buy a square railing casting mold and some thin steel wires.
They were asked to dig a pit every five meters around the 20-acre pond, install the casting mold, pour cement, and then surround it with railings with steel wire.
A large amount of thorns and branches are piled outside the railings to completely isolate the area and prevent livestock and people from breaking in.
After some instructions, everyone quickly started working.
In a blink of an eye, another five days passed, and it was already ten days since the Waking of Insects. All the cement pillars were erected, the steel wires were also stretched, and there were more than two meters wide thorns and branches blocking the four sides. Now if you want to come in, you can only go through the main gate.
After finishing these tasks, the workers have started digging the oxygenation pool. On the construction site, whether it is the warehouse, the incubator, or the house where they live, they have all been built and completed.
All the tiles on the roof have been installed, so there is no need to worry about rain. The workers are now plastering the walls.
During this period, bricks, tiles, and cement were not enough. A few days ago, Lin Heng spent another 1,500 yuan to bring back bricks, tiles, cement, and sand and gravel.
Since the start of construction this year, he has already spent 2,000 yuan on materials. In fact, the materials used to build four warehouses, three incubators, and a house for people to live in are enough.
The extra money was spent on hardening the roads and the surroundings of the pond. This could have been saved, but Lin Heng really hated the feeling of being unable to lift his feet in the mud on rainy days.
Moreover, it will be convenient to do anything after hardening, so after thinking about it, I decided to harden it.
Two days later, the cement on the walls of the house was finished. The 400-square-meter, two-meter-deep aeration pool had also been dug out and needed to be hardened.
First, cement was laid on the bottom of the pool, and then bricks were laid and cement was applied to the surrounding walls. It took three days to harden the pool.
"Now all that's left is to harden the internal roads, right?"
It was almost time to get off work after hardening the aeration pool, Liu Haigui said to Lin Heng.
Lin Heng nodded: "Yes, I led people to level the road and the bank of the pond these two days. Later, we just need to use wooden boards to support the mold and lay the concrete."
Today is March 20th in the Gregorian calendar. The construction site has been in operation for 28 days and will be completed in two days. At that time, the only work left is shrimp farming.
"Lin Heng, does that mean I'm dead?" Yang Zhaotao asked again.
These days, in addition to digging an oxygenation pool and leveling the land above the house, they have reclaimed more than three acres of land halfway up Hongfeng Mountain.
And the final work of hardening the road obviously does not require so many people, especially after electricity was available, Lin Heng rented a mixer, and so many people and cement were no longer needed.
The people in the village were both happy and disappointed. They were happy because they would get their wages soon, and they were disappointed because they had no work to do.
"Yes, five people will stay here tomorrow, and the others will be divided into three groups to plant forsythia, astragalus, and turmeric for me."
Lin Heng looked at everyone and said with a smile that the weather had warmed up in the past two days, and he had grown seedlings of Forsythia suspensa and Astragalus membranaceus. When he checked this morning, white roots had already emerged and they could be planted in the ground.
The ginseng seeds have also begun to take root. After planting forsythia, astragalus and turmeric, it is almost time to plant ginseng.
The last time I planted trees, I was exhausted. Now I have workers to help. The labor fee is nothing as long as the Chinese medicinal materials survive.
"That's great, at least there's work to do!"
When they heard there was still work to do, everyone immediately became happy.
(End of this chapter)
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