Dahe Village.
Cheng Wanwan asked Cheng Zhao for a piece of rough paper with the worst texture, and sat at the table and started drawing.
She secretly bought the Tukang construction drawings in the mall half an hour ago, and studied them in the back room for a while before she dared to draw them. She just drew them according to the actual situation of her house. It was not really difficult.
The structure of the house is the simplest in the village. There is the main room in the middle, and several inner rooms spread out on the east and west sides. At the back is the kitchen and bathhouse, and then the toilet. Next to the toilet is a chicken coop and duck shed, and the manure pit is connected to the back room. Wasteland, after the wasteland is dug out, these retting fertilizers can be used directly.
The stove in the kitchen room is connected to the kang in the back room, so you can burn the kang directly when cooking, which is very convenient.
However, there were too many houses in the house, and it was impossible to build a clay kang in every room. She chose her room and Zhao Sidan's room to make a large kang. When the weather was cold, men and women would sleep on a kang separately, let alone How warm.
After drawing the drawing, Cheng Wanwan immediately went to find Zhao Anjiang. Zhao Anjiang directed the digging of the foundation on the wasteland. Generally, when building a house in a village, the foundation is dug one and a half feet deep. Cheng Wanwan asked for the foundation to be dug two feet deep. After the foundation was laid, the house will be stronger.
"Dad Tiezhu, come here." Cheng Wanwan called over, "Can you understand this picture?"
Zhao Anjiang carefully held the paper and read it carefully. He waited for a while and then said: "This means that when building a house, build an earthen bed in the house. I think a wooden bed is better. You My father-in-law, Uncle Zhao, knows how to make beds, so it’s not a big deal to ask him to help make a few beds..."
Cheng Wanwan explained it carefully, trying to make the principle of the earthen kang as easy to understand as possible: "...the passage in the middle of the earthen bed is used for burning. The smoke from the burning goes out from this passage. Sleeping on the kang in the winter It won’t be cold anymore…”
Zhao Anjiang said in surprise: "Dashan Niang, how do you have such a brain? How can you even think of this?"
Cheng Wanwan coughed and said, "Don't I often go to the city? I heard someone mention Tukang by chance. I heard that in the colder places in the north, every household has this thing. Although we are in the south, People can freeze to death in winter. If the earthen kang is really useful, we can have a warm winter this year."
Zhao Anjiang raised a practical question: "I'm afraid it's a bit useless."
"That's why we connect the earthen kang and the stove together, shovel the firewood burning in the stove into the kang passage, and scatter a handful of rice bark. By the time you go to bed at night, the kang will be hot. In fact, it doesn't cost much firewood. ." Cheng Wanwan asked, "Is this job difficult?"
"It's not difficult, not difficult at all." Zhao Anjiang put the drawings away properly, "Leave this matter to me, Dashan Niang, just don't worry!"
Cheng Wanwan was naturally relieved.
She looked at the people who were busy. There were already more than forty people working that day. There was great strength in numbers. In just one or two days, the foundation was almost completed. After backfilling, the construction officially started, and the green bricks were also needed. Transport it back as soon as possible. Then use blue bricks to lay the foundation, and use adobe walls to build the walls. Of course, the roof must not be thatched. She has already ordered the tiles from Li Zheng. The tiles cost a penny a piece. She has so many in her house. The tiles required for a house are about ten taels of silver.
After Cheng Wanwan finished talking to Zhao Anjiang, he transferred to Zhao Orion's home.
Halfway through, I met Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Zhang’s niece Li Xiuhong. Some half-grown girls in the village were wearing patched and shabby clothes to work in the fields. Only Li Xiuhong was wearing a rose-red double-breasted dress, which looked particularly different.
Mrs. Zhang was all smiles: "Hey, Dashan Niang, where are you going?"
Cheng Wanwan said calmly: "Just take a walk. My house is very busy and there is mud and loess everywhere. If you have nothing to do, don't go there."
Mrs. Zhang twitched her lips and said, "We are not going to your house. I will take Xiuhong to sit at Li Zheng's house for a while."
She pulled Li Xiuhong and left. As she walked, she said, "I really thought our Zhang family wanted Cheng Zhao as their son-in-law. Mrs. Cheng is a tough guy. I'm afraid she can't come up with even half a tael of silver as a gift. The Zhang family doesn't care at all." No! Huh, we Xiuhong are so beautiful and beautiful, even if we marry a rich member of the Communist Party of China, we must not suffer like a poor scholar..."
"Auntie, stop talking..."
Li Xiuhong's face turned red with embarrassment, fearing that Cheng Wanwan would hear her words.
She has lived in Dahe Village for a while and knows that Dashan Niang is very prestigious in the village. Her aunt said that the Cheng family is not good. Isn't this obviously against Dashan Niang? From now on, she will not see her when she looks up. How embarrassing.
Cheng Wanwan acted as if he hadn't heard anything and continued walking forward.
As long as it doesn't harm the children in her family, she really can't care about other things.
She went to Hunter Zhao's house to pick up the prey that Zhao Ergou had ordered. Hunter Zhao had set the trap the first day and went to the mountains to look for prey early the next morning. A deer fell into the trap last night. He brought the wild deer back in the morning. It has been cleaned up now, and the meat and offal are separated and neatly arranged.
The total is thirty-nine pounds, the meat costs fifteen cents, and the offal costs ten cents.
After paying the money, Cheng Wanwan was about to go out with the goods when he turned around and saw a little girl squatting on the ground in the yard feeding rabbits.
The rabbit's belly was bulging, obviously pregnant.
Hunter Zhao said with some embarrassment: "I caught a wild rabbit a while ago, and my daughter insisted on keeping it for raising. Didn't we just finish the autumn harvest? There was some food at home, so I let her go. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a pregnant rabbit." Female rabbits, I'm afraid this litter will give birth to five or six."
Cheng Wanwan remembered that she had read news in her previous life that an adult female rabbit could give birth to an average of six or seven times a year, and she could give birth to five to ten rabbits at a time. In other words, if you raise two rabbits, one male and one female, the rabbits will The rabbits that are born can also be paired and reproduced, and in one year there may be more than a hundred rabbits.
Braised rabbit meat tastes no worse than braised pig offal, and the meat is more tender. People of this era may find it difficult to resist.
Seeing Cheng Wanwan staring at the rabbit non-stop, Zhao Orion said tentatively: "How about when this litter of rabbits is born, I will give you this female rabbit to stew and eat?"
"Ah, no, no, no!" Cheng Wanwan hurriedly waved her hand, "The mother rabbit has to raise a baby rabbit, why are you in such a hurry to eat it? I just thought that when the baby rabbits grow up, can I give them a male and a female? Give me a little rabbit."
Zhao Orion agreed without any hesitation: "Of course it can be done!"
Cheng Wanwan thought for a moment and then said, "You know a lot of hunters. Can you help me find out who has a ewe that has given birth to a lamb?"
In another two or three months, the baby in the eldest daughter-in-law's belly will be born. The eldest daughter-in-law's health is very poor. If she doesn't have breast milk, she will have to buy milk powder. Feeding milk powder to the dog is okay. You don't need to explain to anyone. , she couldn't take her eldest daughter-in-law's child alone and secretly feed her milk powder during the day. If the child was hungry in the middle of the night, she would have to stay up all night, and she would collapse just thinking about it.
If there is a ewe that can produce milk, all this will not be a big problem, and some dairy products can be produced by then.
Hunter Zhao nodded in agreement without hesitation. Not long ago, a hunter he knew caught a wild goat. The wild goat had a round belly. It must be pregnant. But he didn’t know if it had been slaughtered more than a month later. Lose.
Cheng Wanwan returned home in a happy mood and saw two young masters, Zheng Wangfeng and Qian Hui, standing at the door and looking around.
The yard was full of people working. Every man was covered in mud and stinky sweat, and the ground was covered in mud. The two young masters did not want to get their brocade boots dirty, so they did not step in.
The men who were working didn't know how to deal with young masters from rich families, so they pretended not to notice.
Cheng Wanwan came in from outside and couldn't pretend not to see the two of them. She asked politely: "Master Zheng, Master Qian, what are you doing standing here?"
