On the tenth year of the natural disaster, I went to farm with me

Jiang's mother and Jiang Ying are both ordinary people with no previous farming experience. It would be too risky for them to go to other areas without iron fences to claim a piece of unfenced land, so they agreed to Yuan Rui's proposal.

Jiang Ying moved into territory No. 15, where she ate and worked with everyone else. When she gained experience, she reclaimed a piece of land and grew her own vegetables for herself.

Jiang Ying also agreed with Yuan Rui that she didn't need help from others to open up the land and could do it slowly on her own.

Although Tan Qi and Jiang Ying were not familiar with each other, they knew each other. Tan Qi was very happy to hear that Jiang Ying was coming to the territory to be her neighbor.

Aunt Yan, Dad and Xia Qing are all very busy, so with Jiang Ying coming she has company.

Tan Junjie had previously prepared building materials according to the needs of a two-story building. Now he wants to build three more rooms, and the building materials are not enough.

There are mainly two types of building materials that are in short supply: steel bars and cement.

Steel bars are the skeleton of the structural columns of a building, and cement is an indispensable raw material for making concrete.

Steel bars used in construction are not scarce and can be purchased in the safe zone of Huisan Base. What is more troublesome is cement.

If you want to build a sturdy house suitable for living in times of natural disasters, you need to use high-quality cement with special insect repellent ingredients and twice the corrosion resistance. This kind of cement is expensive to produce and is not sold to the public.

Since Tan Junjie couldn't get enough cement, he followed Xia Qing's advice and changed his approach.

He got a small bag of cement as a sample and asked Zhang San, the all-powerful boss of the Northern Territory, to test it and figured out the insect repellent composition of the cement. Then, he gathered the raw materials and asked the No. 8 Territory Fungus Powder Factory to help make insect repellent powder and add it to ordinary cement to improve the quality of the cement.

Now, there is no time to gather materials and ask Territory No. 3 and Territory No. 8 to make insect repellent powder. Tan Junjie also doesn't want to reduce the safety factor of his daughter's house by adding three rooms, which is why he invited Xia Qing and Qi Fu over together.

After painting the foundations of the two houses with white lime, Xia Qing gave Tan Junjie an idea, "The thickness of the outer wall remains 37 centimeters, and the partition wall between the living room and the east and west rooms is changed to 24 centimeters. Then..."

Xia Qing stood on the white lime line that divided the east room into two rooms, north and south. "For this wall, put two structural columns here and there. Don't build the partition wall yet. The cement saved can be used to build the outer walls of the three rooms next to it."

The structure of the house was quickly constructed in Zhao Ze's mind. "Sister Qing's idea is feasible. If you think it doesn't look good to be so open, the bedroom in the south and the storage room in the north can be separated by a wooden wall, and then replaced with a brick wall later."

After Qi Fu also approved the plan, construction of Tan Qi's house began.

There were quite a few people in Territory No. 15, and Territory No. 1 also sent people to help, but none of them knew how to build a house. Xia Qing and Qi Fu were needed to lead and guide the key steps of digging the foundation, tying steel bars, and mixing concrete. Zhu Li and Tan Qi followed and helped, and they were quite happy to be busy.

More people means more work, and on the first day they dug the foundations of the two houses and erected the steel structural columns. Tan Qi jumped back and forth between the squares of the house foundations like a happy antelope.

On the way back to their respective territories in the evening, Qi Fu mentioned something, "Someone in Tang Huaijian's lord group said that Lai Mingke, the 29th lord of the northern second district, fired a kiln of bricks to build a house."

"It's definitely cheaper to make bricks yourself, but he uses firewood to burn the kiln, so the bricks he makes may not be strong enough." Zhao Ze also saw the news and commented, "Compared with brick walls and concrete walls, concrete walls are stronger and more earthquake-resistant."

Although the points he has now are not enough to build a new house, Zhao Ze will definitely use concrete walls if he wants to build a house in the future.

Xia Qing also nodded. Her idea was the same as Zhao Ze's. The two-story building she lived in and the scaffolding next to it were built with reinforced concrete just before the disaster. So in the eleventh year after the disaster, the house was still habitable. Qi Fu explained, "The house needs concrete. I was thinking of burning a kiln of bricks to build the courtyard wall. The yellow clay we dug last year can be used."

Kuang Qingwei walked out of Territory No. 6 and said, "Brother Qi, making adobe bricks, building brick kilns, and firing kilns are all hard work and require technical skills. If you can't control the temperature well, the bricks you burn will only be used to fool people."

Zhu Li didn't quite understand, "How can a brick fool people?"

Kuang Qingwei explained, "It's the kind of bricks that people chopped with bare hands on TV and in live broadcasts on the Internet before natural disasters."

After Zhu Li understood, she was not optimistic about the brick-making idea. "Brother Qi, it's better to pick up stones on the hillside than to make bricks to build the courtyard wall."

Qi Fu smiled, "My parents built the house in my hometown with bricks. I know how to make bricks, so when I saw the No. 29 territory making bricks, I also felt itchy and wanted to try it."

Hearing that Qi Fu knew how to make bricks, Xia Qing decided to join in. "Bricks are more regular and easier to use than stones. I can't find any usable bricks from the dilapidated houses in my territory. When will Brother Qi start working?"

Hearing Xia Qing's interest, Qi Fu became even more interested. "I'll try to burn some leftover yellow clay from the greenhouse. If it works, I'll find a way to pull the yellow clay out from Hill No. 52."

Xia Qing nodded, "If it succeeds, I'll work with you, and give me some of the profit."

Kuang Qingwei was very tactful, "We two are not very strong, so we won't cause any more trouble."

Zhao Ze, who also has little strength, was very interested. "When I was in college, my professional course teacher talked about the traditional method of making bricks, and I was also one of them."

Zhu Li opened her mouth to speak when she heard a sound coming from Territory No. 14. She immediately grabbed her husband with one hand and Xia Qing with the other and retreated to Territory No. 6, signaling Zhao Ze and Qi Fu to follow.

The group had been on a mission together last winter, so they could understand basic communication gestures. The two immediately moved north and entered Territory No. 6.

When danger arose, Zhao Ze subconsciously wanted to hide behind Xia Qing, but Kuang Qingwei was one step faster than him and had already pushed Zhu Li behind Xia Qing.

"Shh, shh!"

This time, not only Zhu Li and Xia Qing, but Qi Fu and Zhao Ze also heard the sound of cutting grass in Territory No. 14. Zhu Li lowered her voice and asked, "Are you planning to farm seriously?"

Some time ago, the Territory Management Department verified the area of ​​farmland that had been reclaimed and cultivated normally in each territory, and only distributed 150 spinach seeds if it exceeded four acres.

Yan Meng of Territory No. 14 hired people from Territory No. 17 to urgently open up wasteland and cultivate the land because of insufficient arable land. Later, when Territory No. 6 hired people from Territory No. 17 to work, Zhu Li heard them whispering about the situation in Territory No. 14.

After finding out that only someone was mowing the grass, everyone walked out of Territory No. 6 and returned to their own territories.

Xia Qing continued to use her hearing to pay attention to Territory No. 14. The frequency and strength of the man mowing the grass in the territory was not something that a person with a long-term illness could achieve. Either Yan Meng, who had been ill for a long time, had recovered, or there was a new person in Territory No. 14.

No matter which one it is, it is not good news for Xia Qing. (End of this chapter)