Chapter 55 Winter Vegetables
Due to the large number of people and the foundation was not very deep, they dug the trench in just one day. Then Liu Guangju came out to contact the quarry in Dawangzhuang and sent several large trucks of stones over.
The rich stones around Daqing Mountain, and the cement outside the mountain was difficult to transport in the past, so when laying the foundation, the stones were usually used. Although the stones looked rough, they were particularly strong. If the foundation was laid, it would be common for the house to not fall for decades. Take the several warehouses where Liu Junhao lived, which have been around for twenty or thirty years, but now they have not even cracks.
Professor Zhao originally wanted to use cement as the foundation, but after hearing that the cement was too strong in summer, he switched to Maoshi.
The stones I got this time were all large, square, and just right to make the foundation. Of course, a ceremony was held when laying the foundation to ensure a solid house and a peaceful life.
After the foundation is laid, the walls are built. These red bricks are pulled in from outside the town. They are relatively expensive, but they are beautifully built and are much stronger than the blue bricks burned in the town.
Although the bricklayers in the village were not of high quality, they were still capable of building a wall. They only took two days to build the wall. Then Professor Zhao entrusted Liu Guangju to buy a few good wood in the town, and as soon as they put the beams on, they started fanning the tiles.
Of course, it is a big deal in the countryside. It depends on a good day. It is usually chosen on the third, sixth or ninth day of the lunar calendar. This is a recognized good day.
Although Professor Zhao didn't believe it, he followed the local customs and prepared everything with Liu Junhao's guidance. This thing was actually not superstitious, just for the sake of festiveness. On that day, Zhang Qian deliberately waited with her mobile phone early, preparing to take a picture of the whole process.
The time to put the beam on is before 12 o'clock at noon, which is also a rule.
Amid the crackling sound of firecrackers, the squad leader used a large basket to hold some coins, peanuts and walnuts, etc., and stood on the beam and threw them down. While scattering, he kept shouting, "Scatter east, sprinkling west, mules and horses running in front and behind the house," "Scatter east, sprinkling west, sprinkling west, children and wives a small nest..."
At this time, it was also the happiest time for children to pick up coins, peanuts, and walnuts around the house. Professor Zhao was busy sending red envelopes to those who came to help and handing wedding candies to those who joined in the fun.
It took eight days in total, and five large houses stood at the entrance of the village. The newly built house was festive no matter how you looked at it, but it was still impossible to live in this time. You need to roast it in the firewood every few days to dry the moisture in the house.
Seeing that the villagers began to grow vegetables for winter, Liu Junhao also arranged to sort out the large area of the backyard, and then went to the village to order some garlic cloves and Shanghai green seeds to plant them on the ground.
When Professor Zhao saw that the vegetables he grew were just one, he went to the town to buy some potatoes, radish seeds, etc. Anyway, he bought some vegetables that could be grown in winter.
Although the planting time was a little late, these dishes looked very good under the watering of spring water. Especially the potato seedlings, which had grown to more than 20 centimeters in a blink of an eye, and were very green and strong. When Liu Junhao saw them, he was already thinking about stewed potatoes with braised pork. This thing tasted better in winter.
"Well, what's wrong with these garlic sprouts?" When his eyes moved to the garlic sprouts, he saw that one by one was drooping his head, covered with scars. When he looked at the side, he found the culprit. It turned out that it was the large group of hens he raised.
At this time, there are no insects to eat in the field, so the group of chickens are no longer running to the wild, and they all pecked garlic seedlings in the yard to eat. Although Liu Junhao specially built a fence, he couldn't stand the chickens and could fly.
Seeing that the large garlic sprouts were pecked so hard that they were pecked, he was a little worried about whether he would put all the little hens in the cage and sprinkle them out when spring began. Otherwise, if he let them get so bad, he would probably have been busy for a long time, and in the end he couldn't even eat the garlic sprouts.
Liu Junhao was thinking about the vegetable field, but heard someone shouting at the gate. He thought that the naughty kids were coming again, so he didn't care.
These naughty kids have nothing else to do now, and they are playing with computers without exception. Since they moved this computer to Liu Junhao's house, he hasn't played it a few times, but these kids are almost stuck in the yard every day. Every time it is time for dinner, adults from each family will pull them back with their ears.
In fact, it is not only children, but also adults come over to watch every now and then. Although they cannot access the Internet, this thing is still very attractive to the villagers. Many people go up and practice it themselves, pretend to pat the chassis, listen to the fan turning, and then sigh a few times.
The funnyest thing is the old cow head. He knocked on the screen with a dry tobacco a few times and said, "Foreigners can do it. I heard that this thing can plow the land. We won't need cows in the spring next year."
This made Liu Junhao look terrified, afraid that he would break the monitor, but he was embarrassed to step forward to stop it.
After a month, the reading of the meter increased "swoosh", but for Liu Junhao, it was a small amount of money. The electricity bill in the countryside was cheap, and the electricity was only more than 50 cents at one kilowatt-hour, and it was only 30 to 40 yuan a month. It was enough to sell two kilograms of eels, so he didn't care and let these naughty kids play.
This computer is not that attractive to Liu Junhao. In his spare time, he just typed, played games, and read novels.
To be honest, Zhao Weidong's consideration was quite comprehensive at the beginning. He downloaded a lot of things and stored them in the computer, especially hard drive games. This is also the reason why the group of naughty children are interested. For children, games are more than anything else.
Sometimes Zhang Qian also comes to play, but she doesn't play for a long time every time. She usually passes the pictures on her phone to the computer to save them, or just copy some novels to watch on her phone.
Who knew that the person in the yard had waited for two minutes but didn't see the owner coming out, and then started screaming at the top of his voice. Only then did Liu Junhao hear clearly that he was Zheng Jianxue and his girlfriend, a regular visitor in the village for a while.
Zheng Jianxue worked as a technician in a company in the city. On the 11th, he came to Liujiagou with a group of friends to play. He fell in love with it and rented a piece of land on the river beach to grow vegetables, and passed the vegetables he grew to his own space to entertain himself.
It was a coincidence that he kissed him on the auspicious day under the auspices of his parents. He was quite satisfied with the girl. When he left, he left his mobile phone number and QQ. However, after waiting for a few days, no one contacted him. When Zheng Jianxue thought there was no chance, the girl suddenly sent him a message on QQ and asked about the photos in his space.
Zheng Jianxue followed this topic and the more they talked, the more they became more and more speculative. When he learned that he still owned his own vegetable field in the countryside, the girl became even more curious and said that she didn't know how the vegetables were planted, and she also wanted to be a weekend farmer in the countryside.
Zheng Jianxue didn't know that he would be a fool when he seized such a good opportunity, so he kept encouraging the girl to go to the vegetable field with him on weekends and live a healthy and relaxed pastoral life.
The girl thought about it for a while, but finally agreed. When she came to Zheng Jianxue's vegetable field, she felt very strange and wanted to try everything, so Zheng Jianxue taught her step by step, water and seal the soil.
As a result, after half a day, the girl didn't expect that the girl's affection for him increased greatly, and she discussed going to his field to grow vegetables next weekend.
So the two of them decided to have a romantic relationship several times in a row, and this place became the place for their weekend dates.
Both of them are grateful to the "matchmaker" of vegetable fields, and they even deliberately call it "Couple Field" next to their plot. During this weekend, you can often see their young couple singing leisurely in the fields, "If you farm, I will weave cloth, I will carry water to water the garden..."
Chapter completed!