Rebirth 78, marry Qingmei as my wife

"It's not expensive. My brother is from a forest farm. They have internal discounts for buying wood. It's not much more expensive than going to the mountains to cut wood ourselves.

Moreover, the wood purchased from the forest farm has been naturally dried for about two years, so it can be used without drying. "Liu Hongjun explained with a smile.

"Oh! That's the same reason!" The uncle nodded slightly awkwardly.

This brother-in-law is too good, which is not a good thing. The pressure of being an uncle is too great, and he can't pretend even if he wants to.

After a few more words, everyone started to work. The main task today was to lay the foundation.

In this era, when building houses in rural areas, the foundations were all built with stones. However, most of the stone foundations were built not with cement mortar, but with glutinous rice water mixed with mud, or lime mortar.

There are still very few houses built with cement.

Moreover, although most houses have stone foundations at the bottom, they still have mud brick walls above.

Even in the 1980s, many people still built houses with mud bricks and mud walls.

One is that the earth wall saves money, and you can build the bricks yourself during the off-season. The other is that the earth wall has good thermal insulation properties. A fifty centimeter thick earth wall is really warm in winter.

The foundation of Liu Hongjun's house was dug one and a half meters deep, directly under the permafrost.

Then all the stone foundations are built with cement mortar, and the thickness of the foundation is also one meter.

Such a deep and thick stone foundation ensures that the house will be solid enough in the future, even an eight-magnitude earthquake will not shake the house.

The reason Liu Hongjun dared to do this was because he really had no shortage of stones.

Where is his house built?

The rocky beach below the northern hillside is full of large and small rocks.

These stones usually look weird and useless, but as long as they are slightly trimmed with a hammer, they can be good materials for building foundations.

People in Yushutun are familiar with trimming stones!

It can be said that everyone in Yushutun who is over thirty years old has done this job.

Back then, when the Taiping Lake Reservoir was being built, all the villagers, old, young, women, and children, came together. If they needed stones, they used hammers and chisels to trim the rocks into square bits.

If you need concrete, use a hammer to knock big rocks into small rocks, and then knock small rocks into small pebbles.

Because the Taiping Lake Reservoir was built in the 1950s, it is said that everyone over the age of thirty has experienced it, and those of Liu Hongjun's age have not caught up.

When building a house on a rocky beach, the first step is to clear the rocks and put them aside for later use.

Then level it, the rocky beach is uneven.

Then there is the digging of the foundation. When digging the foundation, all that is dug out are stones.

There are not only stones on the surface of the rocky beach, but also stones underground.

Not to mention building a one-and-a-half-meter-deep and one-meter-thick foundation, it would be enough to build the entire house with stone.

The location here is very good, it is the only way in and out of the village.

The reason why no one wanted such a good location in the past few decades.

It's because it's all made of stone and the cost of building a house is too high.

However, does this matter to Liu Hongjun?

Picking up the stones on the surface of the rocky beach and putting them aside for later use is only the first step.

Liu Hongjun planned to dig out all the stones in the house and yard after the foundation was laid. At least it would be dug down about one and a half meters like the foundation, and then filled with soil.

The house is filled with lime soil and the yard is filled with plain soil.

In this way, you can plant some flowers and plants in the yard.

The advantage of a stone foundation that is one and a half meters deep and one meter thick is that for the underground part, the stones do not need to be trimmed too well, as long as they are not too big.

Everyone joked a bit, and after Liu Hongjun gave up a circle of cigarettes, he started to work.

Under the assignment of the brother-in-law, some of the workers started making cement mortar, and some helped the masons carry the stones. The masons began to use hammers to knock out at least a flat surface from the large and small stones.

Suddenly, there was a clanging sound on the construction site, and work was in full swing.

Liu Hongjun also found a hammer and acted as a mason.

He is not a professional mason, but in his last life, he did all kinds of work in the military camp.

At that time, soldiers like them had to do it themselves when building camps and repairing defense lines.

Liu Hongjun did not go down to lay the foundation. He was only responsible for trimming the stones. For stones that were too large, he used a sledgehammer to break them. For irregular stones, he used a small hammer to slowly create one or two flat surfaces.

Hammering also requires skill. To break open a large stone, an experienced mason can break it open with just two hammers as long as he finds the texture of the stone.

Inexperienced people may hit dozens of hammers, but they will only make the stone chips fly, but they will not be able to break the stone.

As time goes by, everyone works very hard. It can be said that Liu Hongjun's house looks different every day.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, Liu Hongjun was knocking stones on the northern hillside.

Because of the high intensity of labor, Liu Hongjun took off all his outer clothes, revealing his muscular body full of lines.

As Liu Hongjun swung the sledgehammer, the muscles on his body trembled, and beads of sweat fell down his body.

"Red Army, good guy, your muscles are really strong!" Yang Guangfu came over, saw Liu Hongjun's muscles, was stunned for a moment, and praised him.

Liu Hongjun lowered his head and glanced at the muscles on his body. He always felt that he had grown again after his rebirth. He had forgotten what it was like in his previous life, but when he was first reborn, he didn't have so many muscles on his body.

It seems that until he was selected by the Southern Sword, he did not have such muscles. It was only after a long period of devil training at the Southern Sword that he developed such muscles.

To say it's muscles is actually just a relative term. Liu Hongjun has a big frame and is tall, so he has just the right amount of muscle on his body.

It belongs to looking thin when wearing clothes, and looking fat when taking off clothes.

"Uncle Yang, what's wrong?" Liu Hongjun stood up and said.

"Your brother called and said that at three o'clock in the afternoon, the bricks and wood would be delivered." Yang Guangfu said.

"Okay, Uncle Yang, we will go to the train station and wait on time at three o'clock in the afternoon." Liu Hongjun raised his hand to look at the time and replied with a smile.

"Yeah! It worked pretty fast!

I think in two days, the foundation will be completed. Yang Guangfu glanced at the construction site and said with a smile.

"It's not bad, everyone works hard." Liu Hongjun took out his cigarettes, first gave one to his father-in-law, and then gave a circle of cigarettes to the others.

There is a saying that the more diligent the boss is, the faster the work will be done.

"Red Army, have you invited the carpenter?" Yang Guangfu waited for Liu Hongjun to come back with a circle of cigarettes before asking.

"Please! I have made an agreement with Old Uncle Wang and Bu Guangkun from Liushutun. When my wood comes in, they will come over and help me work." Liu Hongjun said.