Chapter 789

In the afternoon, starting from the beginning of work, everyone started mixing cement and sand just like in the morning. A large group of people carried water, carried sand, and moved cement; it was another busy time.

Actually, the matter of casting the ring beam was very fast when pouring, because you only needed to pour the mixed concrete into the built brick grooves and then vent it.

And the slowest part was mixing the concrete; after all, there were no mixers at this time, and it was entirely dependent on people using iron shovels to mix the cement and sand.

And the job of mixing concrete was also the most tiring; even if a person had a good physique, they would feel sore in the waist and arms.

Fortunately, there were many helpers, and everyone took a shovel, so it wasn't too tiring; otherwise, mixing concrete for a day would be truly exhausting.

Everyone was casting the ring beam, while Wang An was driving the crawler tractor to push the foundation of the wing room. This thing didn't have any difficulty; it was just like pushing the foundation of the main house, pushing out four large rectangular trenches.

The group of helpers watched Wang An pushing the foundation and couldn't help but show happy smiles.

And the reason everyone was so happy was that only when Wang An's house had more work could they work for a longer time, and naturally, they could eat full meals for a longer period.

But it had to be said that providing three meals a day for a person to work for a day, and the people working were eager for it, was something that would soon become history.

Because after the autumn harvest, when the grain in the fields came down, people in the Northeast region would never be short of grain again.

Wang An clearly remembered that from the second year after the land was divided among households, every household had stored grain.

And the matter of wanting people to take the initiative to help work just for three full meals would completely cease to exist. If a large number of people were needed to help work, it would have to depend on real labor exchange or directly hiring people with money.

Of course, because of this, in many villages, one construction team after another was born, which were people who specifically built houses for others.

This kind of construction team would gather together when someone needed them, and when no one needed them, they would be busy with their own little plot of land.

However, if you wanted to use these people, you would need to spend money.

Near dusk, the house where Wang Dazhu and the others lived had the ring beam cast, and Wang An also successfully finished pushing and compacting the long foundation of the west wing room.

The reason it was so fast was that the shallower the trench a bulldozer pushed, the faster the speed.

Just like that, amidst everyone's busyness, another few days passed.

In these days, not only were the walls of the two main houses all built, but even the upper crossbeams of the two houses were all cast.

Of course, to be precise, it was no longer the upper crossbeams, but the upper ring beams.

Wang An's original plan was to cast crossbeams in the front and back of the house, and not cast beams on the left and right gable walls, because for a brick house, the beams on the left and right gable walls were useless.

However, thinking about it again, his original plan was to build a two-story small building. Even if he didn't plan to build it now, what if he had a brain cramp one day in the future and wanted to build it? Then the crossbeams on the left and right gable walls would be very important things.

Although without these two beams, the second floor could still be built, because the two houses Wang An built were completely made of concrete as mortar, not the ordinary black soil mud as mortar, and then pointed with cement.

Such a house could be said to be as solid as a rock, and it didn't make much difference whether there were left and right crossbeams or not.

But still, the same saying, for things you live in, you should still choose the safer option.

Therefore, when tying the steel bars, Wang An made a temporary change. This led to the fact that whether it was the house where Wang An and his wife were going to live, or the house where Wang Dazhu and the others were going to live, they were all made into a structure with two ring beams, top and bottom.

Also during these days, the main house frame on the carpenter's side was all made, and now they were making the wing room frame.

And the reason why the main house hadn't been framed yet after the frame was made, that is, the triangular beam hadn't been put on the house, was because the upper crossbeam cast with concrete was different from the ring beam below. This thing had to be completely dry before the big frame could be erected.

If the crossbeam wasn't dry yet and the frame was put on, it was very likely that the crossbeam would be crushed and scrapped directly.

And if the crossbeam was scrapped, the whole house would be useless.

Mainly, even if the crossbeam wasn't scrapped for the time being, no one would dare to live in such a house. If the big frame fell down one day, the people living inside would definitely not have a good end.

Therefore, in these last two days, everyone was building two wing rooms.

It had to be said, although the main house was built very fast, the wing room was built even faster, and it looked like the wing room was also about to cast the upper beam.

The reason it was so fast was that the wing room was built with a 24-wall, which was a wall as thick as the length of one brick, instead of the 50-wall like the main house, which was a wall as thick as the length of two bricks.

However, no matter if it was a 24-wall or a 50-wall, the method of building the house was exactly the same, except that the wing room didn't use concrete for bricklaying, but ordinary big black mud. When the house was finished, it still had to be pointed with cement.

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It was just that although the speed of building the house was very fast, the consumption of grain and meat was even faster.

The cornmeal that Wang An had newly processed was about to bottom out again, and the dried cabbage, dried potato slices, and various dried vegetables and dried mushrooms in Wang An's house had also been completely consumed.

Now, the dishes eaten at every meal in Wang An's house were tofu stewed with meat or bean sprouts stewed with meat, mainly eating whatever was available.

Fortunately, wild boars were rampant in this era, and Wang An and Wang Li, leading a group of dogs, were quite powerful. They went into the mountains twice and had quite a lot of harvest, barely managing to maintain the meat consumption of a large group of people.

To tell the truth, for things like building a house, as long as a person has organized it once, they definitely don't want to organize it a second time.

Mainly because the matter of building a house is truly both labor-intensive and money-consuming, and it also consumes a massive amount of grain.

However, there were also two happy things in these days.

The first thing was that of the little wild boars that Wang An and Wang Li caught, only 3 died, and a full 23 little wild boars successfully survived.

One had to know that a wild sow with only twelve or thirteen teats could raise 23 little wild boars, which was already a quite remarkable thing.

The second thing was that Wang An and Wang Li caught another 11 little wild boars and a healthy wild sow.

The process of catching the pigs was the same as the first time, with Hearing Da Hei and the other dogs pinning the pigs down, and Wang An and Wang Li responsible for tying them up.

Now, Wang An's house had a total of 34 little wild boars, and Wang An's plan to raise wild boars was completed in this inadvertent situation.

It had to be said, this was truly "planting a willow in an unintended way, and the willow grows into shade."

(End of chapter)