To build a brick wall 1 square meter wide, approximately 64 red bricks are needed.
The new house planned by Luo Xuan is three houses lined up in a row, measuring 4 meters by 5 meters.
A little simple calculation, including the two sides of the house and the two walls where the purlins are set up, there are two more triangular parts in the meeting hall.
There are also building materials needed to build a small kitchen and toilet.
Luo Xuan finally calculated that he had to buy a total of 12,000 bricks, which cost him 288 yuan.
Including shipping costs, I spent almost 400 yuan just buying the red bricks!
During this period, everyone’s wages were very low, and the prices of agricultural and sideline products were also very cheap.
But the prices of industrial products are frighteningly high! It is said that this situation is caused by the implementation of some kind of "scissors x" strategy.
Just like this time, the freight charges for hauling bricks by yourself are incredibly high compared to the income of the members!
When Luo Xuan arrived at the machine-brick factory, he discovered that next door to the machine-brick factory was actually the county's "prefabricated panel factory."
It produces cement precast panels and some other products.
This makes it very convenient to buy some building materials and build a pig pen for the wild boar cubs in the space.
So Luo Xuan went to a prefabricated panel factory and spent money to buy a dozen scrap prefabricated panels.
Making cement into prefabricated panels was basically done manually during this period, and there was no "vibrator".
Because there are bubbles in the cement, sometimes it will break or cracks will appear on it.
This kind of prefabricated panels cannot be used as floor slabs.
But Luo Xuan happened to be able to buy it back and put it into the space to make a pigsty for those wild boars and goats.
After Luo Xuan bought the defective prefabricated boards, the brick factory dispatched a truck from the "County Auto Transport Service Cooperative" to help Luo Xuan pull back the bricks and cement boards.
The cart that pulls bricks is an old-fashioned "Gasi" cart made by Sulian.
This kind of car-breaking guy doesn't have much ability, but he has quite a temper.
The car can only pull 2,000 bricks at a time, but it is crunching on the road and has already stopped working three times!
The driver is a novice.
Because he was a technical secondary school student, well-educated, and his family came from a good background, he was assigned to work at the county automobile transportation service agency shortly after graduation.
So the driver only went through some simple driving training and got on the job in a hurry.
After several years of training, this driver's level has only remained at the stage of "being able to drive and stop the car."
But if he is asked to repair the car, his skills will not be superior to those of later generations who have driven "Rencontai Automobile" for three years.
When this driver used to drive, there were specialized technicians in the army who were responsible for repairing and maintaining the car.
Now within the county automobile transportation company, there is also a specialized automobile repair shop.
So he really doesn't understand mechanical principles very well.
this time,
After the car stalled on a hillside, the driver opened the hood and saw that the lid on the water tank had been blown away by the powerful water vapor!
The cooling water in the water tank was bubbling.
At this time, the sky was gradually getting dark.
The anxious driver ran back to the cab and turned on the ignition several times, but was still unable to restart the car.
In desperation, the driver pulled out a long rocker and tried to restart the car manually.
At this time, the driver was sweating profusely and was helpless.
Then he saw Luo Xuan carrying the simple water-fetching tool in the car, which was made from half a car inner tube, and came back carrying a bucket of water.
Luo Xuan walked to the car with water and said to the angry and anxious driver: "Master, please rest next to me while I cool down the engine."
Drivers know how to use water from ditches to cool down the boiling car engine.
But he has been driving this car for many years and knows that just cooling the engine is not enough.
The "Gas" truck has a weird temper, like a drunk old man.
When it can move forward or suddenly lie flat, it all depends on the mood of the car.
Seeing Luo Xuan working hard to carry a bucket of water back, the driver stepped aside and sat alone on a stone smoking a cigarette and sulking.
Anyway, watering the engine is one of the ways to please this classic car.
There was nothing wrong with it, and the driver was very relieved to let Luo Xuan do it.
Wait until the water is finished.
Luo Xuan asked the driver to go back to the cab and start the engine again, and then he lay on the hood to watch.
After several "chuuk chu chu" sounds, a large plume of thick smoke came out from behind the butt of the car...
But that's all.
Luo Xuan understood the problem, raised his head and said to the driver: "Master, please take a big wrench, go under the car and move the motor back a little."
In fact, the problem with the car this time was not serious. It was just because the belt on the motor was too worn, causing the belt to slip.
If the motor is not powerful, the engine will naturally not start.
The driver originally didn't trust Luo Xuan, and even looked down on Luo Xuan, a country boy.
Today’s driver profession is simply awesome!
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On weekdays, drivers always look up at the sky while walking. How can they look at others in the eye?
Now it was getting late, and I was helpless.
Moreover, it looked like the boy in front of him had read a book. The driver had no choice but to treat a dead horse as a living horse, and believed in Luo Xuan.
The driver thought to himself: Maybe he was deceived by this guy accidentally?
With the intention of giving it a try, the driver got under the car and moved the motor slightly to the back.
After fixing the motor, the driver started it again.
Unexpectedly, the car started smoothly this time!
This time,
The driver immediately looked at Luo Xuan with admiration.
On the rest of the way, the driver chatted with Luo Xuan enthusiastically, without the previous arrogance at all.
By the time the car squeaked and pulled a large cart of bricks back to the village entrance of the 6th Production Team of Zhengxing Brigade, it was already dark.
If you want to pull this cart of bricks to your home construction site, you need to travel a certain distance on the trail in the production team.
And the path in this village is really too narrow.
If it is not widened, cars will not be able to pass at all.
There was a lot of movement from the car, and a pair of large car lights were dazzling.
At this time, all the men, women, and children in the entire production team came out to watch the excitement and wonder.
Luo Xuan asked the eldest son of the Zhou family to go home and get a hoe to make this section of the road wider.
There are a total of five families living next to the trail.
The remaining four families all agreed that Luo Xuan could widen the road three feet outside the dam of their own courtyard.
But there was only one family who refused to let Luo Xuan touch even an inch of his family's land.
No matter Luo Xuan offered to compensate him with some money, or exchange it with him for the little bit of private land he got from dividing the family.
They even offered to compensate him with 100 kilograms of grain.
But this family just didn't firmly agree and refused to widen the road.
This family's surname is Dou, and it is unknown what the male owner's previous name was.
But now the owner of this family is named "Dou Baijun".
When you hear his name, it means he has a lot of stories to tell.
But what happened to this person at first was an accident; later it became a story.
After further development, it has become a capital that he is proud of.
Before liberation,
There are many warlords, large and small, in Bashu Province. They have been fighting each other for years, and they are all busy fighting for territory.
How can it be called a garbled word?
These warlords, big and small, have too many bullets and too little cannon fodder, so they all like to capture strong men in their respective territories.
Wait until the Sichuan army leaves Sichuan.
A warlord sent people to Dou Baijun's house, wanting to capture him and make him a soldier.
As a result, Dou Baijun was afraid that he would die in the melee.
then,
He hid in the kitchen, picked up the kitchen knife, pointed it at the index finger of his right hand, and chopped it off hard!
Wait until you cut off a finger.
Dou Baijun was still worried that it was not safe, so he changed the hand of the kitchen knife and slightly modified his left hand...
So much so that now, he has changed his name to Dou Baijun and has become a model in the entire Hongxing Township who is not afraid of warlord oppression.
Dou Baijun, who only has eight fingers, used to be timid and submissive in the village.
But after liberation, after he was appointed as a "supervisor" by the production team, he always wore an old green military uniform on his shoulders, with his hands on his hips, and patrolled the boundaries of the entire production team from time to time.
Like a big rooster belonging to the year of Ox.
In fact, among the eight members of the production team, the title "supervisor" is not actually included.
At the beginning, the cadres in Zhengxing Brigade and No. 6 Production Team had to put a lot of thought into placing Dou Baijun.
Among the eight members of the production team:
The custodian's backer is stronger than Dou Baijun, and he can't win.
Uncle Zhou, the breeder, is better than Dou Baijun, and he cannot take over this position;
An accountant must be able to do an abacus. Dou Baijun doesn't have this skill and can't do it;
Study counselors need to be educated. If you don’t know Dou Baijun in Chinese, it’s difficult!
The hygienist needed to be able to administer acupuncture, but Dou Baijun fainted from the injection and could not be cured;
The clerk needs to be able to write and count. Dou Baijun only has 8 fingers. He obviously suffers from a disadvantage and cannot do it;
Agricultural technician?
Well, currently the machinery of Production Team 6 only has one frame truck and two handcarts, so this position is currently vacant...
So in the end, the very innovative and creative production team cadres came together: Just tailor it to him and add a "supervisor"!
The production team gave him an extra 60 kilograms of grain a year as a job subsidy.
Eating 5 kilograms more grain than others in a month did not make Dou Baijun's belly round, but it inflated his momentum and prestige.
Today Luo Xuan was holding a hoe and was preparing to move his family's land.
Dou Baijun didn't even bother to go out to the fence gate, so he only asked his mother-in-law to come out and send a message: Anyone who dared to touch the land of his house would have to step over his body!
