1849.Why should life always be the same as before?
A driver parked his car here, so he had to do it by himself. He found a big bunk in the row of bungalows on the west side to sleep in. When he woke up, he could use the kitchen stove to cook some hot food.
There are hill-like piles of coal here, all brought by trains. They are used to add fuel to cars and trains. These coal piles are on the highway, and you have to pay for them, but they are not expensive and there is no one to supervise them.
, there are jams at both ends of the road, they are included in the toll.
After all, the amount of water and fuel used depends on how many kilometers you run. It is easy to calculate clearly and just pay it directly in the toll. The toll on Yang's road is not high, and it will take at least thirty years to recover the cost.
Mo Zui has his own wooden house, which is not the building on the highway in the highway rest area. The building on the highway is on the west side, and his private wooden house is on the east end.
He first lived in a bungalow in the west, and later he ordered a two-story villa with a basement in the Vladivostok Wood House Factory. A small yard was surrounded by barbed wire because there were many wild animals here.
In addition to the house and partially hardened land, the yard also has ten acres of land where some vegetables can be grown.
Although this is a desert and Gobi, it is not a desert after all. The soil is still quite fertile, but there is no water and it is very dusty.
Fortunately, there are steam engines, wells, houses, and water towers here. Groundwater can be extracted for irrigation. There is no problem in small plots of land. Fertilizing is not difficult. Just pull the ashes of the sheep dung bricks burned by my father-in-law and spread them on the ground.
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Along both sides of the road, there are many desert water collectors.
There is one on each side of every 50 meters, and each can collect more than ten kilograms of water a day. When the water is full, it is used to water trees. There are more than 100 meters of green belts on both sides of the road to resist wind and sand.
This water is prepared for steam trucks and drivers, and they will only water the trees when it is not used up. This kind of ghost place is basically no man's land, and nothing will happen if there is no water. Now the roads and railways are like a pearl necklace.
Shanhe connects countless small oases and settlements in eastern Xinjiang.
Chu Chunni's big eyes were full of curiosity. Is this their home? Almost everything was full of novelty. She looked here and there with interest. Mo Zuo smiled helplessly. This silly girl was in the wilderness.
Growing up, I never saw anything.
In the wilderness, she developed a good body. She can carry a 200-pound sack, and she is also very accurate in archery. She dares to hold a knife and fight against wild wolves that jump into the sheep in the middle of the night. She is also able to herd sheep on horseback.
The horse club can whip the nose of a two-meter-long gray wolf until its bones are exposed.
The girls on the grassland like a strong man like Mo Zhu, who has gnarled muscles and can pull a gray wolf's legs apart with his hands. Women are born to be strong, and girls here don't like pretty boys.
After entering the house, Chunni looked around curiously. She had only lived in a yurt and had never seen a wooden building. The house was very high, more than three meters tall, and was entirely made of cedar wood from Vladivostok.
The cedar wood grain is very beautiful, painted with varnish, and soaked in fire-proof and flame-proof chemical liquids. The interior of the house looks very beautiful. It does not need decoration, and it also has the unique fragrance of wood.
"Master, is this our house? Why is it so good?" Chu Chunni asked in disbelief.
"Yes, it is our house. But it was only a month after it was built, and I got married to you. I haven't lived in it much. There is no furniture, and there are a lot of kitchen utensils and other things. It is just an empty house. Let's go to town tomorrow.
I went on a big shopping spree and bought everything."
Chuni looked at the bright glass window and was a little crazy. This is the legendary colored glaze, it's so beautiful.
It's not cheap to make a table. When I booked the house, I asked for the option of installing glass windows. The villa was also purchased with high-end features, and it cost more than 200 taels.
This house has two floors above ground and a roof attic. The first floor is about 100 square meters. It has a full basement used as a warehouse. There is also a semi-basement with windows exposed to the ground. It has five floors and more than 500 square meters.
The underground part is dug into pits and then built with stones and cement. It is very dry here and there is no moisture in the basement. It is very suitable for use as a warehouse.
Most of the supplies Huang Daya sent were stored on the second underground floor. There was a locked iron door at the bottom of the stairs.
Mo Zui needed to provide food and water to the drivers in the rest area, so he put the dry food on the shelf in the hotel kitchen opposite and asked them to help themselves and boil water to drink.
All other cereals, cans, etc. are in the kitchen.
Mo Zui also accumulated a large vat of sauerkraut, which he learned in the Northeast.
When cabbages are harvested in Vladivostok in the fall, they are pickled in large tanks. There is even a sauerkraut factory, which uses cement to build large pools similar to swimming pools for pickling sauerkraut.
One pond can pickle half a million kilograms of cabbage. Winter sauerkraut, potatoes, radishes, cellared Chinese cabbage, pickles and various dried vegetables, dried mushrooms, bacon, dried fish and frozen fish can be eaten throughout the winter.
Although he comes from a small landowner or a large family of rich farmers, he has worked in the fields since he was a child, and farming is not a manly thing for him. There is a steam engine well house and a high-pressure water tower.
, it would be no problem to pull a water pipe over and irrigate his ten acres of land.
However, he has no shortage of food, and farming is just to pass the time.
He planted flue-cured tobacco, grapes, potatoes, corn, millet and some beans and other miscellaneous grains. He left three acres of land to grow radishes and Chinese cabbage. On the small piece of land in front of and behind the house, he planted rapeseed in every possible way.
In summer, the rapeseed flowers bloom, and the whole small yard is very beautiful with yellow flowers.
He built a tobacco-curing house by himself, and the cured tobacco leaves were made into dry tobacco. He carved an old pipe from the roots of an extremely hard shrub found in the desert and gave it to his father-in-law.
The father-in-law smoked dry cigarettes, which relieved his fatigue and made him feel comfortable. He kept saying yes.
Nowadays, flue-cured tobacco is a good thing, and ordinary people can't buy it at all. Xinghe Tobacco Company's cigarettes are sold throughout the Ming Dynasty. They are the chickens that lay golden eggs in the hands of the lady, and they are now an important part of supporting the government's finances.
These passing drivers are all trying to get along with the grinders just to smoke some dry cigarettes.
There are seeds in Mo table to grow dry tobacco, and you can smoke it yourself because no one cares about it. Tobacco is exclusively sold by the Yang family, and no one dares to grow it privately.
Mo Shui imitated his master, enjoying the coolness under the grape trellis in autumn, lying half on a rocking chair. Next to him, on the small table he made from tree roots, there was a teapot and tea brewing, which was very comfortable.
It took him half a month to dig out this old tree root, and he worked on it with chisels and carving knives for a long time before finally polishing it and making it into a tea table, which became his favorite thing after he came here.
Gradually, he got used to this kind of life. He felt that there was nothing wrong with living here for the rest of his life.
Now that he has a mother-in-law, if he has a few more children, his life will be worth it. As the old man said, if you are content with what you have, you don't need a bicycle.
Bicycles are rare things. Only four ladies each have a scooter. It was a birthday gift from the master. The ladies treasure it.