flstandardbreds Chapter 158: Talking About It
Chapter 158: Talking About It
Unexpectedly, Foreman Luo actually had a good friend who was also a foreman, but he was from another town and had twenty or thirty people under him. After Foreman Luo brought a letter to call his friend over, the foreman listened to the requests of Zhao Jin and Zhang Dashan and took over the construction of the new houses for the two families.
The foreman divided his men into two groups, one for Zhao Jin's family and the other for Zhang Dashan's family, and then recruited helpers from the village, which was enough. After all, the houses built by the two families were not big.
Now three families in the village are building new houses. Originally, almost every family in the village had one person working in the workshop.
This time, I heard that Zhao Jin and Zhang Dashan's families are also going to build new houses, and the houses must be completed before winter officially arrives.
So when they heard that every family was going to recruit twenty or thirty men, which meant almost one man per family, every family in the village was happy, and each family could save one or two taels of silver in these two months.
The walls of the two new houses are now being built, and it will take about five or six days before the beams are ready.
The wall of the Zhang family's new house has been built, and they started preparing to put up the beams of the house earlier than the other two families. After all, the Zhang family has more manpower, so they started building the house earlier than the other two families.
Foreman Luo had also asked a Feng Shui master to calculate the day for raising the beam in advance.
The time is today.
The Zhang family bought the things needed for the beam raising in the town one day in advance.
After dinner yesterday, Mrs. Zhu, Grandma Zhang and three women from the kitchen steamed hundreds of buns overnight, ready for use on the day of raising the beams today.
He also specifically asked the three women in the kitchen to prepare a more sumptuous meal today and invited the workers to have a meal together.
The villagers all knew that today was the day for raising the beam of the Zhang family's new house, so after breakfast, they came to the new house early to join in the fun.
During the Chen hour, the auspicious time arrives.
At the shout of Foreman Luo, the workers at the construction site began to move the main beams hand in hand.
After the main beam was placed in the middle, Foreman Luo said some festive words.
The people sitting on the beams began to scatter steamed buns, fruits, snacks, copper coins, etc.
No matter which one the people standing on the ground got, they all looked excited and happy.
The ceremony ends when the people on the beam have scattered everything.
The villagers took the things they had snatched and walked home in groups of three or four, comparing who had snatched more.
As soon as the villagers left, the workers began to lift the remaining secondary beams up.
It's mid-noon.
Zhang Cheng asked everyone to stop what they were doing and prepare to eat.
Originally, the three women were to be asked to cook, but then Zhu thought that she might as well make braised pork for everyone today to make it festive.
So when the new house was still undergoing beam raising, Zhu went to the kitchen and made the braised pork herself. After all, the other three did not know how to cook this dish, but they were still responsible for making the other dishes.
The Zhang family did not cook at home today. As soon as noon came, they went to the kitchen to eat.
Because the dishes made today are quite rich, we didn't put a bowl of dishes and a bowl of steamed buns in each person's bowl.
Instead, they borrowed some tables and stools from several households at the end of the village, set them up directly on the table, and let everyone sit at the table to eat.
Before everyone got off work, Zhu and his colleagues put all the dishes in bowls and brought them to the table, and also put the steamed buns in basins and brought them to the table.
Wait until everyone arrives.
There were several dishes on the table, but the most eye-catching one was the braised pork cooked by the Zhu family. There was a large soup bowl full of it on each table.
The red color and greasy smell make people's appetite whetted just by looking at it.
Zhang Cheng greeted everyone: "Everyone, don't just stand there, find a seat and have your meal. Thank you for your hard work during this period."
When everyone heard this, they all found a place to sit down and started eating.
"What kind of dish is this? The meat is so delicious."
"Brother Zhang, what kind of dish is this? It smells so good. Whoever made this dish has great cooking skills."
Zhang Cheng smiled and said, "This is called Red Braised Pork. It was made by your sister-in-law. If it tastes good, you can eat more. You can always have more after you finish eating. Don't be polite, everyone."
Foreman Luo agreed, "I know this. It's available at the Four Seasons Food Store in town. I've eaten there several times."
"Sister-in-law's cooking skills are really good, Brother Zhang, you are so lucky!"
Everyone was already hungry after working all morning, and now there was such delicious braised pork, so the workers stopped talking and just buried their heads in eating seriously.
From the place where they put their chopsticks, I knew that everyone was very satisfied with today's braised pork.
After the meal, the workers took a short break and then started to put up the beams again.
The entire three-courtyard structure requires a lot of beams, so they will be put up in the next few days.
However, not long after the construction of the house, Zhang Cheng found carpenters from several neighboring villages, including Carpenter Li and his two sons in the village, and gave them all the carpentry work for the Zhang family's new house.
So they had already started making the beds, windows, doors, and tables needed for the new house according to the progress of the construction.
Zhang Yunyue also drew a sofa blueprint for them and asked them to make a few more sofas. They could put two sofas in the main room and one in each person's bedroom, and cover them with cotton. Sitting on them would be much more comfortable than sitting on the chairs.
When the beams of the Zhang family's new house were put in place and they were ready to cover the tiles, Zhao Jin's and Zhang Dashan's families also began to prepare for putting up the beams.
What Zhangjia Village talked about most this month was that three families were building blue brick and tile houses at the same time, and all of them were two-story houses.
Zhang Yunyue thought that the new house had started to be tiled, so she discussed with Zhang Cheng to assign three people from the tile-laying department to finish the toilet first, so as not to wait until the front house was built before the toilet was completed.
Old Zhang's family also built two thatched huts with blue bricks.
Next to it is the bathroom, which is divided into three small rooms.
A stove was built in the middle, which can be used to boil water. The chimney connected to the stove passes through the bathrooms separated on both sides, so that the compartments can be warmer in winter. If only one side takes a bath, the chimney on the other side can be blocked with an iron plate.
The design has bathrooms on both sides, so that it can save time when many people want to take a shower.
Zhang Yunyue asked the people who were assigned to build the outhouse to dig a hole on the ground inside the outhouse, connecting it to the newly dug big hole outside the courtyard wall of the new house. A ditch was dug in the middle to connect them. The ditch was paved with blue bricks to form a slope to facilitate water flow.
It was also covered with blue bricks, and then covered with soil to make it level with the ground.
Then the squat toilet carved by Old Sun was installed on the floor inside the toilet, and the ground was paved with blue bricks to ensure that they were at the same height.
The people who came to build the toilet didn't know the reason why Zhang Yunyue asked them to do this at first, but when the toilet was completed, they understood it instantly.