Author: Lian Chuanhao. Finishing and editing: Lian Zhongwei.
The coal is almost ready, but there is still some way to go before the bricks are burned.
The debt to buy a house has not been paid off, and it is bought with borrowed money.
And it costs a lot of money to make bricks and kilns, mainly for living expenses. If you have the money to make a house, you can hire more people, and a house with three rooms can be successful in a few days.
If you don't have a lot of money, you can invite a few fewer people, and you can borrow money while doing it. When it rains, the problem of stopping work is not too big.
It is completely different to make bricks, and the amount of labor is much more tiring than making a house. Although the labor is sent by the team, and the work is recorded by the team, but the labor is sent by the house, and people rush to go; Being a brick laborer is not a certain relationship with a certain family, and some people really don't want to go. In this way, the people who make bricks really can't treat others badly in life.
Making bricks is a matter of grabbing sunny days and hot days. If it rains halfway, the bricks are lost, and the living expenses are wasted, then it will be unlucky.
Therefore, to make bricks to prepare enough money, willing to spend living expenses, the people who help are willing to spend effort, in the event of a period of sunny days, everyone will help you grab tens of thousands of bricks at once.
I first had to pay off the debt for buying coal, and then accumulate money to make bricks, so that I could have the courage to spend money.
Accumulate money to make bricks, and that will be a few years later. But my hometown is Lianjiagang, and my uncle's family has already started to build houses, which greatly exceeds the speed of my housemaking.
My uncle's house is a house, and the prerequisites are better than mine. Because it is an old house, there is almost no need to add materials, bricks, and adobe bricks milled in the field.
Uncle, Brother Fu, father and son, are all craftsmen, so you don't need to ask a master. Just ask for a few people on the team who can help.
Since Brother Chuanwen was not at home, Brother Chuan'an was still a child, so Brother Fu asked me to go home and help build the house. Even the post is a house, and the team also sends labor, and the work is recorded.
When I came back, I saw that the people in the temple were very welcoming. The old house was rebuilt and moved to the top of the mountain, and my uncle's house was the first one.
As soon as I got home, my aunt said, "Hao, you are also a person in the same room, and you also have a share of the ancestral business." When your mother was at home, she said that when you become a person in the future, the house will have a share. Your uncle and I have both told you this to Brother Fu. How to make a house, how many materials...... It's all arranged by your brother Fu. The materials given to you, Brother Fu also counts, you can rest assured. He is now going to Qijiawan to buy something, and there is nothing to do at home for the time being, you can go to Qijiawan to help him get things, and I will cook at home. ”
I went to Qijiawan and found Brother Fu. As soon as we met, Brother Fu generously told me to tear down the wing house and go back to Zuojiagang. I was very moved when I heard this, but immediately said, "I will demolish the wing house first, so what if you don't have enough materials and tiles to make the house?" It's better to wait for the work of your house to be completed, and give as much as you want. "Brother Fu also agreed to my suggestion.
At noon, the people sent by the team to pick bricks all came back for lunch, and there were two tables of people.
In the afternoon, I also went with everyone to pick bricks, and some people used red carts to push them. Push with a red cart, and there is a cart pull in front, the efficiency is still much faster.
I picked for a while, and Brother Chuansheng said to me: "Brother Hao, you come to push the cart, don't pass on the wealth." I said, "I don't push a red cart." Didn't you do quite well with Chuanfu? ”
Chuanfu winked at me, meaning to tell me not to push the cart, or let him push it. Chuansheng said: "Chuanfu cart is completely blind, obviously saw the bricks falling on the road, he had to follow the bricks to see how it could be pulled, I pulled the fiber off." ”
At the end of the evening, when I finished work and drank, I, Chuanfu, and Chuansheng sat at a table again. Chuanfu and Chuansheng sit on a bench, and one side drinks from a bowl.
Chuanfu smiled and said: "Sheng Mazi, today is working at night to push bricks, your fiber will be broken, see how strong you are tonight?" ”
"I'm not going to pull with you again."
"Whichever one you pull with, the fiber will be broken."
"What is that for?"
"Why, you don't know? You tell everyone to see, one side of the wine has a bowl, after people take a sip, they hand the bowl to others to drink, after you take a sip, you always have to put the bowl in front of yourself, you are not polite to others, when doing things, people are not polite to you. ”
"That's the case, so why don't you make a noise when you drink at noon?"
"This still wants people to say, you don't see things when you drink, you are a sloppy person, let you suffer a few losses, and you won't be sloppy."
I said, "It makes sense, it makes sense, it's just a joke with you, drink well, don't get drunk, and work at night." ”
In the evening, there are more people who come to pick bricks. Families, men and women came. It is said that all the bricks will be picked up tonight, and tomorrow they will tear down the house and make a house, so as not to hang on both ends.
The next morning, all the team came to assault, lowered the tiles, dismantled the shelves and purlins, and after a while, a house that had been erected for nearly a hundred years lay down.
I thought it would be nice if I had so many people to help me make bricks and houses in the future! It's a pity that I don't have such good conditions.
The work done by everyone was done, because it was still the winter sowing period, and several families such as Chuansheng also had to send laborers to make houses, so the team sent seven or eight people to help make houses at their uncle's house every day.
After breakfast that day, my aunt asked my uncle to go to the fourth uncle's house to buy some meat, and as soon as my uncle went, he came back with half of the pork on his back with a smile, saying that he always had to eat, so as not to delay time every day.
Uncle and a few skilled hands sent by the team built the wall, and Brother Fu did the carpentry. Brother Fu said to me, "Don't you know how to make bricks?" You go and make me hundreds of bricks by yourself. ”
I asked rhetorically, "Isn't this a big brick?" What's the use of that little brick? ”
"I want to replace the old leather boards in the old house, and after the new house is completed, the place where the ancient leather should be used, I will use bricks. The surplus ancient leather board, you take it back, you can use it when making a house in the future, and the doors and windows are very good and thick, which are all good cedar boards that have been set. ”
Brother Fu got a new brick box out of nowhere in advance. It seems that he was prepared. If the hall house is according to the old house Angupi, it will look much better.
Now it's made of bricks, so I can get a little more material. Compared with those who quarrel and even fight over the ancestral business, Brother Fu did his best to help me.
After the bricks were made and dried, I picked them back to the new house next door to the central hall. The sky is also married, until the roof beam is successful is good weather, less than ten days, you can move into a new house.
I said that the inside and outside of the wall should be pasted with mud and then go home, Brother Fu said: "That's a matter of light outside, it doesn't matter if you do it or not, you come back and delay these days, and then go back to work, I'll find a few people in the mound to help you send the materials to Zuojiagang." ”
I hurriedly said, "Then there is no need, extra things, it's not good to use people in the team." I went to Yao Yuan to find my brother and asked him to call me seven or eight people. ”
After the materials were picked back to Zuojiagang, everyone in our team said, "Your uncle is not bad to you!" ”
Yes, flesh and blood affection, this is not just something that can be measured with the materials used to make the house.