Chapter 776

Not bothering with the group of women cutting and weighing the meat, under Liu Guilan's direction, Wang An and Wang Li went to arrange the two pigs with broken front legs.

There was really no need to put these two pigs into the pigsty; mainly because without any special circumstances, even if you let these two pigs run, they couldn't run away.

So, these two pigs were simply tied in the courtyard with iron chains.

After finishing with these two pigs, Wang An and Wang Li strolled toward the new house foundation.

Seeing Wang An for the first time, the mason Sun Xiangyang asked anxiously:

"Xiao An, I see you specifically marked on this blueprint that a hole should be left in the foundation; what does that mean? And you have to leave two."

Wang An heard this and also asked anxiously:

"Uncle Sun, you didn't forget, did you?"

Sun Xiangyang nodded and said: "Didn't forget, definitely didn't forget, I was just puzzled, thinking of asking you what this thing is for."

Wang An heard this and couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

In fact, the reason Wang An wanted to build a hole in the foundation with bricks was because Wang An had a plan, which was that when conditions allowed, Wang An wanted to install a toilet in the house, along with a shower.

And the function of these two holes was actually to reserve space for installing sewage pipes.

Although when conditions allowed, installing and digging holes then would also work, but wanting to dig holes in the stone wall underground would be too strenuous.

You have to know that in this place in Heilongjiang, if you want the sewage pipes to work normally in winter, the pipes need to be at a depth of 2 meters or more.

Otherwise, the pipes would soon freeze solid and be blocked directly.

And this foundation of Wang An's, the foundation below one meter, is a stone wall a full 1 meter wide, and the part above one meter is also 70 centimeters wide.

Wanting to dig a hole in a 1-meter-wide stone wall 2 meters underground, on the premise of not damaging the foundation, is genuinely not a simple matter.

So leaving this hole in advance was a very necessary thing.

Hearing Sun Xiangyang say this, Wang An didn't intend to hide it and explained casually:

"In the future, I'm thinking of researching a sewage pipe or something; when winter comes, the dirty water from washing clothes will flow outside along the pipe."

Sun Xiangyang was stunned upon hearing this, clearly shocked by Wang An's idea, and after a while, he nodded repeatedly and said:

"This thing you're thinking of is quite good, saving the trouble of running outside in the middle of winter; if it could be like in the city, saying the toilet is installed in the house and there's no smell, that would be awesome, right? Hahahaha."

After speaking, Sun Xiangyang laughed to himself.

But Wang An was a bit speechless upon hearing this, because Wang An himself wanted to do exactly that, which is to install the toilet in the house.

Unfortunately, many building materials were unavailable at this time, and flush toilets were definitely high-end items; even in big cities, the vast majority of water toilets were squat toilets.

However, Wang An didn't discuss this matter with Sun Xiangyang, but continued to look at the construction progress.

It must be admitted that having more people working is fast; in less than a day, the foundation of the house where Wang Dazhu and the others lived, which was 1 meter deep and 1 meter wide, was all finished.

It is estimated that by this time tomorrow, the 1-meter-deep foundation of Wang An's house will also be completely finished.

This progress is not slow at all.

Compared to the speed of building the foundation, the progress of the carpentry side was much slower. Not only were the materials for the triangular beams not fully cut, but the boards hadn't been sawed out either.

Locally, the act of sawing timber into boards is called "breaking boards," which is actually breaking the wood into boards.

However, it is well known that the slowest part of a carpenter's work is actually preparing materials and making various parts; once it gets to the assembly stage, the speed will take a leap.

Moreover, the triangular beams aren't needed urgently; they have to wait until the walls are all built and the beams are all poured and dried before they are used.

So in terms of the current progress, there's no need to worry at all.

Finally, when the group of female comrades finished cutting and weighing all 80-plus half-jin pieces of meat, it was time for dinner.

After all the hired hands entered the courtyard, Wang An announced the matter of not putting meat in the dishes and distributing half a jin of meat to each person to take home.

Unexpectedly, everyone almost unanimously approved of Wang An's approach, with phrases like "Xiao An is righteous," "The proprietor is thoughtful," "This work is comfortable," etc., all coming out of these people's mouths.

After dinner, when everyone went home, their faces were full of joy, a state that was almost comparable to the New Year.

After all, many families could only truly eat a meal of meat during the New Year.

In this era, the attraction of meat to people was absolutely unparalleled.

Reading the original text!

Time flew by, and it was the fifth day after work started.

After breakfast, Wang An used a walking tractor to replace the four-wheeled vehicle that drove the circular saw, hooked up the four-wheeled vehicle's trailer, and drove straight to the county town.

There was no other way; because of the continuous increase in the number of hired hands, the 3,000 jin of corn flour at home might only last for today and tomorrow before being completely consumed.

So, Wang An's main purpose for going to the county town this time was to buy grain, and to buy a large amount of grain.

Small amounts of grain could be bought at the supply and marketing cooperative, but for large quantities, one had to go to the grain station.

And going to the grain station to buy grain, especially in large quantities, could not bypass a very important thing—grain coupons.

For ten or eight jin, or even thirty or fifty jin, you could buy them at a high price without grain coupons now.

But for large quantities, you had to use grain coupons.

In this era, as a war reserve material, how could grain be sold to others in large batches so easily?

Fortunately, Wang An had grain coupons, and quite a lot of them; speaking of these grain coupons, they were left for Wang An by Ninth Brother back then.

It must be said that on this point, Ninth Brother had to be considered quite thoughtful.

You have to know that those were 8 bundles of a full 8,000 jin of grain coupons; although 150 jin were distributed to Shen Wei back then, Wang An's pockets had also received quite a few grain coupons later on.

Of course, besides buying grain, he also had to find Fang Xiue and ask about the scar removal medicine.

The scar removal medicine was also a top priority; the profit of this thing made one feel terrified just thinking about it.

Besides that, it was also very necessary to take the opportunity to do some things that both men and women like to do with Fang Xiue.

Not lying at all, so many days had passed, and little Wang An had long been unable to hold back.

(End of chapter)