Back in the 1980s, hiking in the mountains was also a way of life

Chapter 787 Unintentional Intention

When work started in the afternoon, everyone began to mix cement and sand just like they did in the morning. A large group of people carried water, sand, and cement. It was another busy day.

In fact, the actual pouring of the ring beam is very quick, because you only need to pour the mixed concrete into the built brick groove and then exhaust the air.

The slowest process was mixing concrete. After all, there were no mixers at that time, and people had to use shovels to mix cement and sand.

Moreover, working with concrete is the most tiring. Even people with a strong physique will feel back and arm pain.

Fortunately, there were many people helping, and everyone was shoveling, so it wasn't too tiring. Otherwise, it would have been really hard to work after a day of mixing mud.

While everyone was making plans, Wang An was driving a track car to push the foundation of the wing room. This was not difficult at all. It was just like pushing the foundation of the main house. He just had to push out four large rectangular trenches.

A group of helpers couldn't help but smile happily when they saw Wang An pushing the foundation.

The reason why everyone was so happy was that the more work Wang An's family had to do, the longer they could work, and naturally, they could eat full meals for longer periods of time.

But it must be said that providing three meals a day can allow a person to do a day's work, and people still rush to do the work. This kind of thing will soon become history.

After the autumn harvest, the grain in the fields will be harvested and people in the Northeast will no longer lack food.

Wang An clearly remembers that starting from the second year after the land was distributed to households, every household began to store grain.

The idea of ​​getting people to help voluntarily just because they have three full meals a day is no longer a possibility. If a large number of people are needed to help with the work, they have to rely on actual labor exchange or directly spend money to hire people.

Of course, it is also for this reason that many villages have spawned groups of construction teams, that is, people who specialize in building houses for others.

This kind of construction team gathers together when someone needs them, and works on their own little piece of land when no one needs them.

But if you want to use these people, you need to spend money.

Towards evening, the ring beam of the house where Wang Dazhu and his family lived was completed, and Wang An also successfully pushed and compacted a long strip of foundation of the west wing.

The reason why it is so fast is that the shallower the ditch the bulldozer digs, the faster it goes.

In this way, a few more days passed amidst the busyness of everyone.

During these days, not only were the walls of the two main houses completed, but even the upper beams of the two houses were also poured.

Of course, to be precise, it is no longer the horizontal beam above, but the ring beam above.

Wang An's original plan was to cast horizontal beams at the front and back of the house, but not on the left and right gables, because for a brick and tile house, the beams on the left and right gables were useless.

But on second thought, my original plan was to build a two-story building. Even if I don't plan to build it now, if I suddenly want to build it again someday in the future, the beams on the left and right gables will be very important.

Although there were no two beams, the second floor could be built without any delay, because the two houses built by Wang An were made entirely of concrete, rather than ordinary black soil mud with cement grouting.

A house like this can be said to be like an eternal prison, and it doesn’t make much difference whether there are beams on the left or right.

But as I said, you should still pick out the things that are sure to belong to you when you live in the house.

Therefore, when tying the steel bars, Wang An made a temporary change, which resulted in both the house where Wang An and his wife were to live and the house where Wang Dazhu and his family were to live being built with two upper and lower ring beams.

Also during these days, the carpenters had completed the large frame of the main room, and were now making the large frame of the wing room.

The reason why the main house has not been put up with the frame after it is completed, that is, the triangular beam has not been put up on the house, is because the upper horizontal beam poured with concrete is different from the ring beam below. This thing must be completely dry before the large frame can be erected.

If the crossbeam is put on the shelf before it is completed, it is very likely that the crossbeam will be crushed and scrapped.

If the beam is broken, the whole house will be useless.

The main thing is that even if the beams are not scrapped for the time being, no one dares to live in such a house. If the big frame falls down one day, the people living inside will definitely be in trouble.

Therefore, in the past two days, everyone has been building two rooms.

I have to say that although the main house was built very quickly, the wing rooms were built even faster, and it seems that it is time to pour the beams above the wing rooms.

The reason why it was built so quickly was that the wing room had 24-meter walls, which were as thick as the length of one brick, instead of 50-meter walls like the main room, which were as thick as the length of two bricks.

However, no matter whether it is a 24-meter wall or a 50-meter wall, the method of building a house is exactly the same. The only difference is that the bricks used for the wing rooms are not concrete, but ordinary black mud. When the house is completed, cement must be used to grout the joints.

Although houses were built very quickly, food and meat were consumed even faster.

The cornmeal that Wang Anxin had processed was almost gone, and Wang An's family's dried cabbage, dried potato chips, and various dried vegetables and mushrooms had also been completely consumed.

Nowadays, the dishes for every meal in Wang An's family are stewed meat with tofu or stewed meat with bean sprouts, and the main theme is to eat whatever is available.

Fortunately, wild boars were rampant in this era, and Wang An and Wang Li led a group of dogs which were quite powerful. They went into the mountains twice and gained a lot, which was barely enough to sustain the meat consumption of a large group of people.

To be honest, when it comes to something like building a house, anyone who has done it once definitely doesn't want to do it a second time.

The main thing is building a house, which is very laborious, time-consuming, and costly, and it consumes a huge amount of food.

But there are two happy things these days.

The first thing was that among the small flowered carps caught by Wang An and Wang Li, only three died, and a total of 3 small flowered carps successfully survived.

You have to know that it is quite a remarkable thing for a sow wild boar with only twelve or thirteen nipples to feed 23 little wild boars.

The second thing was that Wang An and Wang Li caught 11 small wild boars and a healthy female wild boar.

The process of catching the pigs was the same as the first time. Dahei and other dogs pinned the pigs down, while Wang An and Wang Li were responsible for tying them up.

There are now 34 wild boars in Wang An's home, and Wang An's plan to raise wild boars was completed inadvertently.

I have to say, this is really the case of "an unexpected success".

(End of this chapter)