Chapter 239 Live your life with all your heart
Shui Qing is discussing personnel placement issues with Fan Jin and Bai Manshan.
Twenty-three people, four families, can now live in the house vacated by Jiang Hehu and others, but after a long time, it will not be appropriate. They still need to have their own residence, so that everyone can live and work conveniently.
Bai Manshan did not regard himself as an outsider, took a big sip of mung bean soup, and said bluntly: "My suggestion is not to use bricks, but to use adobe for the walls. This can reduce the number of trips out.
I calculated that I can make four or five more trips to Baijiazhuang to transport potatoes, and I have to finish it in about half a month. The risk of going out will become greater in half a month. It will be the end of July in half a month, and the bricks and tiles will be transported. The number of targets may be much smaller, but it’s not none.
Therefore, if we can separate two houses at once, there are four houses for four families and about thirty cars in your village. The gray tiles used for two trips a day are probably enough. "
If the wall is built with bricks, it will be a lot. It is estimated that it will take at least 20 or 30 trips for more than ten days.
In a disaster year, when other people can't eat, how can you not be jealous when you see someone who can still build a brick house?
But tiles are still needed. It’s rainy here. They don’t need to install tiles this year. They will still need to use them next year. Otherwise, they will have to replace the thatched roof endlessly, which is a waste of manpower.
You must know that Sister Shui Qing’s family is not without work now, but there is a lot of work waiting for people to do it. It is also good to use the saved manpower to do other things.
Fan Jin estimated the progress of the Ding family's wall. "If Aunt Ding's wall goes well, it can be completed in ten days. Then we can start digging adobe and digging drainage ditches."
"Yes, you can prepare these preliminary tasks when you have free time, but I figured your schedule is very full.
You see, if these men come back at the end of July, they will have to build their own houses. To build the houses, they need to dig adobe bricks, go out to transport gray tiles, dig drainage ditches, lay foundations and prepare beams... and again in August. The land was plowed to prepare for planting potatoes next season, and no one in the village had time to invite him.
You still have hundreds of acres of fields to plant, and in the meantime you have to take care of the medicinal materials on the mountain. I heard that you have discovered yam and Polygonum multiflorum that need cutting? Are you going to start sending people to Fucheng to sell rabbit meat next month? "Bai Manshan was chatting and thought about how much work their family had to do!
The main reason was that he wasted most of the time.
But he had no choice. If the potatoes were not transported, the food rations for the more than 200 people in Baijiazhuang would not be available. Fortunately, Sister Shui Qing and Brother Jin were considerate of him and let him use them without saying a word.
Shui Qing was afraid that Bai Manshan would have a psychological burden, so he said with relief: "The cuttings are almost done, and there are not that many vines to cut. The main thing in the future is to collect yam seeds and plant them. This work can be done by one person."
Fan Jin is the only one who can do it.
Not only did I 'collect' yam eggs, but I also had the task of sowing Polygonum multiflorum seeds - I bought dozens of kilograms of Polygonum multiflorum seeds from the shopping mall, and tried to sprinkle them on every corner of the two mountains.
Compared with cuttings, spreading seeds is much more efficient. They grow naturally among the trees in the mountains and forests. As long as you scatter more seeds, there will always be seeds that work hard to grow!
The people freed up can do other work.
As for selling rabbit meat, "There are not many meat rabbits for sale in the village now. In the beginning, I only went to Fucheng once every ten days and a half, and the round trip only took half a day, which was not bad."
Bai Manshan hummed, feeling relieved.
The men who came back were not idle in the afternoon after taking a nap.
Eighteen people did not stop all afternoon, doing a lot of ground stabbings and planting them all around the high ground where they lived.
Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the worst. An extra layer of protection will add a layer of security.
These ground thorns are not fatal, but if they pierce the shoes and penetrate into the soles of the feet, the person's attack power is basically useless.
These thorns are all on the outermost edge. My family has repeatedly warned me, and people in the village have also said hello. I am not afraid of accidental injuries. If I really don't listen to the advice and insist on going there, there is no way.
Qin Yilin looked envious.
The Ding family is at the very back of Shanshui Village. It is usually quiet. There are no other people in the front, rear or left. The space is spacious, and it is very convenient to dry medicinal materials.
But she gets worried when the world becomes unstable.
Especially since I have a little family and a daughter.
This is also the main reason why she actively responded to the proposal to build a wall and cooperated seriously.
With the protection of the wall, how many dangers can be blocked. At least evil people cannot break in batches. If they break in one by one, they can be killed one by one.
Qin Yilin was thinking about it, and suddenly she wondered if she had taken the time to get more poisonous and itchy medicinal powder during her time with the boss?
There is a way for fish and shrimp, and Shui Qing is looking for vacant land to build walls and traps to recruit people. She can definitely use her expertise to make a lot of medicinal powder!
Although Shui Qing and Yan Qiu both said that they would let Jiajia move in with them, if a bad person really attacks or breaks in, they have to be killed, right?
Otherwise, it would be a disaster to keep it.
Just do it if you want to. After sharing their ideas, Qin Yilin and Ding Heli hit it off immediately. During the day, they took dry food and went all over the mountains and fields in search of poisonous herbs.
Jiajia continued to make dried yam at Shuiqing's house, and when they came back in the evening, they took them back together.
Without the help of Qin Yilin and the other two, it would be okay if Mother Hu and Yan Qiuxing went back to recruit their younger brother and the others, who didn't need to go up the mountain to cut cuttings and have free time to do it.
The process of making dried yam is not complicated. It just involves washing, steaming, and cutting. Most of it is physical work, and Hu Mu is very good at it.
Yan Qiuxing's brother-in-law is also a person who is accustomed to doing the job. He learned quickly and was able to cut evenly thick slices in just a few times.
Ding Jiajia mostly looks at the heat, steaming time, etc.
The five people cooperated very well.
Shuiqing and Fan Jin were responsible for buying in the mall and working, respectively, and they were always harmonious.
In the following days, everyone was busy.
The men who went out had their first experience, and the road became drier and easier to walk on, so the round trip time was shortened a lot, and they basically returned to the village before noon on the fourth day.
After a nap, they could also help their family make adobe bricks in the afternoon to add to the progress of the wall. The more they saw, the more panicked they were. They wished they could build the wall of the whole village overnight!
Otherwise, even if they went out, they would not worry about their wives and children at home, for fear that some evil people would break in during their absence, and they would be worried every day.
The men from Zhulin Village were even more delighted to hear that they would build adobe houses for them.
Even if they only had half a day after returning, the eighteen men were reluctant to waste it, and seized every opportunity to dig ditches and make adobe bricks, hoping to build a small home.
The bricks and tiles of the landlord's high walls were indeed very comfortable to live in, but they still wanted to have their own home.
Li Dani and the other five women used their time in the morning and evening to open up a large vegetable garden in front and behind their house. Some of the vegetable seeds were given by the employer, and the other part was donated by the women in the village.
They had a good relationship with the employer, and he was very enthusiastic about them.
He also told them that they could also grow potatoes in the vegetable garden. Planting more potatoes can be used as vegetables and meals in winter. They are delicious and can fill their stomachs.
They planted a lot of vegetables, took good care of the vegetable garden, and lived their lives carefully.