Chapter 698: There Is a Change in Territory No. 14
Jiang's mother and Jiang Ying were ordinary people with no previous farming experience. It was too risky for them to go to other areas without iron fences to get a piece of land without fences, so they agreed to Yuan Rui's proposal.
Jiang Ying moved to Territory No. 15, where she would eat and work with everyone first. After she gained experience, she would open up a piece of land and grow vegetables for herself.
Jiang Ying also made an agreement with Yuan Rui that she does not need help from others to open up wasteland and can do it slowly by herself.
Although Tan Qi and Jiang Ying are not close friends, they know each other. Tan Qi was very happy to hear that Jiang Ying was coming to the territory to be her neighbor.
Aunt Yan, Dad and Xia Qing are all busy, so she will have company when Jiang Ying comes.
Tan Junjie previously prepared building materials according to the material requirements of a two-story building. Now he has to build three more rooms, and the building materials are not enough.
There are mainly two types of building materials that are insufficient: steel bars and cement.
Rebar is the skeleton of the structural columns of the house, and cement is an indispensable raw material for making concrete.
Steel bars for construction are not scarce and can be purchased in the safety zone of Huisan Base. What is more troublesome is cement.
If you want to build a strong house suitable for living during natural disasters, you need to use high-quality cement with special insect repellent ingredients and doubled corrosion resistance. This kind of cement is expensive to produce and not sold externally.
Tan Junjie couldn't get enough cement, so he followed Xia Qing's suggestion and changed his mind.
He got a small bag of cement as a sample and asked Zhang San, the all-powerful boss of the northern district, to test it and find out the composition of the cement's insect repellent ingredients. Then, he gathered together the raw materials and asked the No. 8 Territory Bacteria Powder Factory to help make insect repellent powder and add it to ordinary cement to improve the quality of the cement.
Now, it was too late to collect materials and ask Territory No. 3 and No. 8 to make insect repellent powder. Tan Junjie didn't want to reduce the safety of his daughter's house just because he built three more rooms. So he invited Xia Qing and Qi Fu to come together. reason.
After painting the foundations of the two houses with white ash, Xia Qing gave Tan Jun some suggestions, "The thickness of the exterior wall is still 37 centimeters, and the partition wall between the living room and the east-west room is changed to 24 centimeters. Then..."
Xia Qing stood on the white gray line that divided the east room into two rooms in the north and south. "For this wall, build two structural columns here and here. If we don't build the partition wall yet, the saved cement can be used to build the three rooms next to it." Build up the outer walls of the house.”
The structure of the house was quickly built in Zhao Ze's mind, "Sister Qing's method is feasible. If you feel that it doesn't look good if it is so open, the bedroom in the south and the storage room in the north can be separated by a wooden wall, and then replaced with bricks in the future. wall."
After Qi Fu also approved the plan, construction of Tan Qi's house began.
There are many people in Territory No. 15, and Territory No. 1 has also sent people to help, but none of them know how to build a house. The key steps of digging foundations, tying steel bars, and mixing concrete require Xia Qing and Qi Fu to lead and guide them. Zhu Li and Tan Qi followed suit and were very busy.
There are many people to work with, and on the first day they dug the foundations of the two houses and erected steel structural columns. Tan Qi jumped back and forth between the squares of the house foundation, like a happy antelope.
On the way back to their respective territories in the evening, Qi Fu mentioned something, "Someone in Tang Huaijian's group of lords said that Lai Mingke, the 29th lord of the northern second district, burned a kiln of bricks to build a house."
"Burning bricks by yourself will definitely save money, but he uses wood to burn the kiln, and the bricks produced are probably not hard enough." Zhao Ze also saw the news and commented, "Compared with brick walls and concrete walls, concrete walls are stronger and earthquake-proof. ”
Although he doesn't have enough points to build a new house now, if he wants to build a house in the future, Zhao Ze will definitely use concrete walls.
Xia Qing also nodded, her thoughts were the same as Zhao Ze's. The two-story small building she lives in now and the frame building next to it were constructed with reinforced concrete just before the natural disaster, so in the eleventh year of the natural disaster, the house can still be lived in.
Qi Fu explained, "The house needs to be made of concrete. I want to burn a kiln of bricks to build the courtyard wall. The yellow clay we dug last year can be used."
Kuang Qingwei walked out of Territory No. 6, "Brother Qi, buckling adobe, building brick kilns, and firing kilns are all hard work and technical work. If the temperature is not controlled well, the bricks produced can only be used to fool people."
Zhu Li didn't quite understand, "How can Brick fool people?"
Kuang Qingwei explained, “It’s the kind of bricks that were chopped with bare hands on TV and online live broadcasts before natural disasters.”
After Zhu Li understood, she was not optimistic about burning bricks, "Brother Qi, burning bricks to build a courtyard wall is worse than picking up stones on the hillside."
Qi Fu smiled naively, "My parents made bricks to build the house in my hometown. I know how to bake bricks, so when I saw bricks being made in Territory No. 29, I was a little itchy and wanted to try it."
Hearing that Qi Fu knew how to bake bricks, Xia Qing decided to join in. "Bricks are more regular and easier to use than stones. There are no usable bricks from the dilapidated houses in my territory. When will Brother Qi start working on it?"
Hearing Xia Qing's interest, Qi Fu became even more interested, "I'll try burning some leftover yellow clay from the greenhouse first. If it succeeds, I'll find a way to pull the yellow clay out from Fifty-Two Good Mountains."
Xia Qing nodded, "If it succeeds, I will work with you and share some of it with you."
Kuang Qingwei was very sensible, "We are both weak, so we won't cause trouble."
Zhao Ze, who was also weak, was very interested. "When I was in college, my professional teacher taught me how to bake bricks using traditional methods. I was one of them."
Zhu Li opened her mouth to speak when she heard a sound in Territory No. 14. She immediately held her husband with one hand and Xia Qing with the other and retreated to Territory No. 6, and signaled Zhao Ze and Qi Fu to follow.
They had been on a mission together last winter, so they could still understand basic communication gestures. The two immediately moved north and entered Territory No. 6.
There was danger, and Zhao Ze subconsciously wanted to hide behind Xia Qing, but Kuang Qingwei was one step faster than him and had already pushed Zhu Li behind Xia Qing.
"Shua, shua!"
This time, not only Zhu Li and Xia Qing, but Qi Fu and Zhao Ze also heard the sound of cutting grass with a knife from Territory No. 14. Zhu Li lowered her voice, "Are you planning to farm properly?"
Some time ago, the Territory Management Department verified the area of farmland that had been reclaimed and cultivated normally in each territory, and only 150 spinach seeds were distributed if it exceeded four acres.
Yan Meng of Territory No. 14 hired people from Territory No. 17 to urgently open up wasteland and cultivate land because of insufficient cultivated land. Later, when Territory No. 6 hired people from Territory No. 17 to work, Zhu Li heard them whispering about the situation in Territory No. 14.
After discovering that only one person was mowing the grass, everyone left Territory No. 6 and rushed back to their respective territories.
Xia Qing continued to use her hearing to pay attention to Territory No. 14. The frequency and strength of the person mowing the grass in the territory were not something that a person with a long-term illness could achieve. Either Yan Meng, who had been ill for a long time, had recovered, or there was a new person in Territory No. 14.
Either way, it was not good news for Xia Qing. (End of this chapter)