The team is not busy, but the Chen family is very busy.
Father Chen and his two sons quickly built the main structure of the house. When the adobe walls were dry,
The courtyard wall is about two meters high.
Su Xia's family is not very good overall.
The area of the homestead is small. If the house is still the same as before, with bedrooms on both sides and a dining room and kitchen in the middle, the bedrooms on both sides are fine, but the middle will appear crowded.
Su Xia thought of the housing layout of rural areas in later generations. The kitchen was built at the back, with a door connected to the living room, now called the main room, with two bedrooms on both sides.
First, let Chen's father and others raise the foundation 10 centimeters higher than before, and extend the house back three meters, so that Su Xia's house will be like a square.
Considering the heating problem in winter, the bedroom space is not considered.
First of all, there is a kang in the master bedroom that is 2 meters by 3 meters long, which is definitely enough for two people to sleep in. The distance from the kang to the window is two meters.
Next to the master bedroom is the main room, which is 4 meters wide by 4 meters long, which is large enough to be used as a living room.
The bedroom on the east side of the main hall was built to the east wall of the courtyard. To go to the backyard, there was only a one-meter corridor between the wall of the master bedroom on Su Xia's side and the wall of the Chen family's courtyard.
A 5-meter-long and 2-meter-wide kang was built in the bedroom on the east side, and Chen's father built a fire wall in the middle to connect it to the ground, leaving a space for a door.
In this way, the east side was converted into two bedrooms. Each bedroom has a kang of 2 meters by 2.5 meters. There is a fire wall in the middle that goes directly to the roof. The distance from the two kangs to the windows is 2 meters.
A door is installed in the middle so that it has concealment.
Su Xia felt that she couldn't have just one child, Niuniu. If there was another child, if it was a boy, two rooms would be enough.
There is a door on one side of the main room, connecting to the kitchen at the back, a stove position connected to the kang in the master bedroom, a stove position connected to the kang in the east bedroom, and a stove position connected to the fire wall in the middle.
In this way, the overall framework of Su Xia's house is divided into two parts. The front is a space of 4 meters wide and 12 meters long, which are, from west to east, the master bedroom, the living room and the east bedroom.
At the back is a kitchen that is three meters wide and ten meters long, with two stoves on both sides. The stove is on the east side. Su Xia thought the kitchen was too long, so she built a wall two meters from the east wall to the stove, which was just right for a bathroom.
Wait until the walls are almost dry.
Father Chen went to the county town to pull tiles.
Su Xia followed and bought 10 business coupons for the iron pot plus 20 yuan, and Chen Jianguo sent 30 coupons.
Su Xia could understand that in this era, the family was inseparable. This iron pot was really a problem!
Su Xia bought 5 more window glasses, saw some bricks, and bought two bags of cement and lime... Unfortunately, she didn't buy any tiles, so she had no business coupons left. Fortunately, Chen Jianguo sent a lot, otherwise she wouldn't be able to buy these things!
After all the materials were gathered, on the day of putting up the beams and tiles, Su's father, mother, and elder and second brothers came to help.
Together with the help of the Chen family, the beams were put up quickly. They first placed the first batch of beams, then laid a layer of woven bamboo mats on them, connecting them one by one, and then laid a thick layer of thatch on top. With the bamboo mats blocking it, the thatch would not fall off easily.
A layer of bamboo mat is placed on the thatch, and a layer of felt cloth is placed on top of the bamboo mat to protect against heat, sun and rain. Finally, white tiles are placed on top, and the main body of the house is completed.
For lunch after the beam raising ceremony, Su Xia cooked a pot of steamed buns with white flour, a pot of braised pork with white beans, a pot of stir-fried cabbage with vinegar, and a tomato egg drop soup.
After eating a lot of food, there was no soup left, which saved me from having to wash it.
Seeing her daughter's prodigal appearance, Su's mother wanted to say something, but she felt embarrassed because everyone in Old Chen's family was there.
Su's father and the first and second elder brothers of the Su family did not think much about it. They were just happy that their daughter and sister were living well.
The Chen family is used to it.
Mother Chen wanted to complain about it, but Su Xia would pout at her. After a few times, Mother Chen stopped talking.
After dinner, a group of people helped build a firewood shed near the back wall of the backyard, leaving a door in the middle for easy access to the back mountain, and built a toilet on the east side.
There was a wall in the middle of the toilet, with two squat pits on either side. A slope was built under the toilet to connect to a wide and deep manure pit at the back. The bottom and sides of the pit, as well as the slopes of the two squat pits, were all made of cement. It looked beautiful, clean and safe, unlike the cool wooden board at Chen's house. Every time I stood on it, it wobbled and I was afraid I would fall down.
It took a long time to finish this toilet. Su Xia watched the whole process and was finally satisfied.
Su's mother felt even more embarrassed. After she was done, she took Su's father and his two sons back home.
It's really because my daughter is such a spendthrift.
Su Xiaxiao didn't stay and just said she would come back on the day of moving.
The courtyard wall, house and toilet have all been built.
Only indoors.
Su Xia built the stove behind the master bedroom in the kitchen with bricks, and then built a platform connected to it, and covered the outside with cement. It looks clean and beautiful, and is used to place a chopping board for cutting and preparing vegetables.
The pot was installed.
The stove and the hearth on the east side are made of bricks and covered with cement. We won't use them for now.
I bought some glass and installed them all, one in each room, one in the bedroom and living room, and one in the kitchen. This way, the house looks bright and tidy during the day.
There are bricks, cement, and glass. Chen's mother is already breathing out more than breathing in. If she adds an iron pot, she's afraid that she'll pass out.
Father Chen didn't care, and his daughter-in-law told him to fix it as she pleased.
The remaining cement was spread on the floor of the main room, making it smooth and clean as soon as you entered the door.
It has been almost half a month since the house was built. 500 yuan was given to Chen's father, 50 yuan to his second brother Chen Jiandang, and 50 yuan to his third brother Chen Jianjun. The rest was the homestead, wood, beams for the upper part of the house, and tiles. Chen's father still had 30 yuan left in his pocket, but he didn't give it to his daughter-in-law, so he kept it for himself.
Su Xia bought cement, bricks, and a pot by herself... It cost 100 yuan, and now it has increased to 600 yuan...
There are also furniture and courtyard gates...
The next day, Su Xia went to the team's carpenter Li's house and ordered the courtyard door, bedroom door... tables, chairs, cabinets... 50 yuan to get it done.
While waiting for the furniture to be put in place, Su Xia went to the county town again.
First, I went to the post office and wrote a letter to the “cash machine”: telling them that the house had been built, how hard my parents worked, how tired my second and third brothers were, how my parents and brother helped, and finally concluded that the house was great and my family was very tired… I wrote several pages…
Su Xia looked at the county town, walked around, saw an alley, went in to take a look, and really was a lucky stunt.
A half-tied boy with a torn hat grabbed Su Xia, pulled her to the corner, and asked her if she wanted to exchange things.
After Su Xia nodded, she was taken to the entrance of the alley. The boy pointed inside, took fifty cents and left.
Su Xia then realized that the boy was in charge of following her. He watched her go into alley after alley, as if she was looking for something, and then he would pull her over and tell her about it, earning some money at the same time.
The black market was inside the alley, with a watchman nearby. Su Xia walked around and saw a lot of varieties of goods, but little grain and meat.
As Su Xia observed, she noticed a middle-aged man squatting with nothing in sight.
At this time, the man noticed that Su Xia was looking at him, and then walked aside.
Su Xia understood as soon as she saw it, and walked over.
The man looked to the right and whispered, "What are you changing? Hurry up."
"How much is the business ticket?" Su Xia asked quickly.
"One yuan per piece, how much do you want?" The man's eyes lit up, this is a customer.
Su Xia took out 20 yuan from his pocket and exchanged them all. By the way, he asked about the prices of other tickets. Food tickets and meat tickets were all 1 yuan each, and cloth tickets... were cheaper.
Su Xia asked casually, "Do you have a bicycle and a watch?"
The man was even happier and pointed with one finger.
Su Xiaxiao understood and told him to make an appointment for next time.
After buying cement with the business ticket, I had it delivered to nowhere, put it in the space and went home.
Next time I'll process a few of the tickets in my pocket, so that I can get the money back when I build my own house.
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