When Shi Zhen built a house for Fang Changming, he also thought about whether to find a few experienced workers to speed up the construction of the house.
Generally speaking, those who do engineering work must work fast. Only in this way can they make more money and get more money.
However, considering that the six people he brought out of the village needed to learn and practice, and he could teach them, he did not rush to hire someone.
After all, laying foundations and building walls are the most basic tasks that they all need to learn.
Later, when Fang Changming's younger brother started to build the exact same house as the one he had built for President Wang... Shi Zhen was even less anxious about building a house.
For example, if you want to build a roof today, he will teach it slowly and build it together with everyone.
Fang Changming was not short of money. After the two-story building was built, the floor was made, and then the roof was built on top of it. That is to say, there could be a small attic on the second floor.
Because of this, the danger of them tiling the house is greatly reduced.
Shi Zhen pulled a rope, hung a basket below, and the tiles piled next to him, after he and Shi Ting brought them over, put them in the basket, and then let the people above pull them up.
This tile is indeed very heavy. Shi Zhen was able to move five tiles at a time at first, but later failed. He moved four tiles each time. As for Shi Ting... She moved one tile at a time and walked slowly.
After moving for a while, she couldn't take it anymore: "Brother, I'm so tired..."
"Tingting, I'll give you the salary after moving!"
Shi Ting suddenly regained her strength!
Shi Zhen said again: "Look at me, look at your big brother and the others, they are doing more work than you."
This is indeed true. Shi Ting went back and forth and moved a total of ten tiles. Shi Zhen moved ten tiles in the first two trips.
And the others... Shi Ting looked at the people working on the roof and felt scared just by looking at them.
Around this roof, there is only a narrow circle of drainage ditch, and those people walking around on it are not weak at all!
Shi Ting admired her and continued to move the tiles. By the way, when Shi Zhen didn't pay much attention to her, she was lazy or something.
At the beginning, Shi Zhen accompanied Shi Ting to move the tiles. After moving for a while, he went upstairs to teach everyone how to build the tiles.
This kind of large tile is actually faster than the old-fashioned small tile, and it is very beautiful.
Its surface is as smooth and translucent as ceramic tiles. When the sun shines brightly, it is as beautiful as it is, and it is rare.
Of course, this refers to this era.
In the next ten years, rural houses will be full of such tiles.
"Azhen, how do you know everything!" Shi Daniu said with admiration.
He is a distant relative of Shi Zhen, and in terms of kinship, he is farther than Shi Zhiqiang and Shi Zhen.
He looks simple and honest, he is not tall but strong, and he is much older than Shi Zhen. Among the six people Shi Zhen called out this time, the four are married, all born in the 1960s. Around ten years old.
Men of this age have wives and children to support, and work the hardest.
"You can learn it," Shi Zhen laughed. "You practice more, and you will be able to do it in the future."
The people who followed Shi Zhenxue nodded.
They didn't build a brick house in the beginning and thought it was very difficult, but now a house is almost built... It seems to be quite easy to build a house
They all agreed with each other that in the future, their own house will be built by themselves!
"By the way, Ah Zhen, how old is Tingting? She's still a girl, why did you let her work with her?" Shi Daniu asked again.
Shi Daniu's house is right next to Shi Zhen's house. Shi Zhen and Shi Ting were both grown up by Shi Daniu.
"I just let her practice more and endure hardships," Shi Zhen thought of something, and added, "Children are too spoiled, easy to eat and lazy."
In his hometown, because the land is small and the population is large, if you don't work, you will starve. Most of the rural people born around the 1960s are hard-working, or at least willing to work.
Occasionally there are a few lazy ones, usually the young and the old in the family. The older brothers and sisters have finished their work, and they don't have to do anything when they are young, so they are lazy.
If this young man is still a boy, or even the only boy in the family, it will be even worse.
And now... Since the implementation of family planning, children have become more expensive, and more people are unwilling to work.
Most of these people are men.
Boys are always favored more than girls.
Shi Zhen remembered that Shi Daniu's precious son was "throwing money" as they often said in their dialect.
Shi Daniu is very industrious. After working with him for more than ten years, because his family was not willing to settle in Changxi City, he went back to his home county to buy a house and live there, and he has been working there since then.
At this moment, the county seat of his hometown looks a bit broken, but twenty years later... it will also be a place with a house price of 10,000 to 20,000 yuan.
Shi Daniu learned a lot of crafts from him, and he became an old master when he returned to the county. He is in his fifties and can still earn more than 10,000 a month.
But not enough to defeat his son.
Shi Daniu's parents have only one son, and only one grandson, who is called a pet. The family eats meat, and the children eat enough before giving others to eat. Any good things in the family are also the children's.
As for work? They are still doing it! How can a child do it
The most important thing is that after Shi Dalin made money outside, they didn't do much farm work, and they felt that their children would definitely not need to do farm work in the future, so they didn't ask that child to work in the fields like Shi Daniu did.
Shi Daniu's family has never read any books, and they don't know how to educate their children. They only know how to pamper them. If they are lucky enough to have a good child, it will be fine, but most of the children are ordinary children, and it is easy to be spoiled too much. Something went wrong.
Shi Daniu's son did not continue his studies after graduating from junior high school, but spent all day eating, drinking and having fun outside, asking for money from his family for various reasons.
Shi Daniu and his wife are actually very economical, but they love their children, and they give money when they want... The children naturally become more and more crooked, and they even start gambling.
At this time, their thinking turned out to be... marry a daughter-in-law for their son, have a grandson, and the son will learn.
There's a bit of truth to this theory, but it's mainly aimed at people who aren't broken from the bones.
For example, some young couples are lazy before marriage, want to give their children a good education when they get married, and think about buying a school district room before starting their careers... This is common.
In ancient rural poor families, there was no surplus food at home, and they could not get into bad habits such as gambling. The so-called "bad" was just being lazy and not working... When such people get married and have children, there is a high probability that they will get better - the child shouting at home If you are hungry, you can't stop feeding your child.
But Shi Daniu's son is not so "bad" at all.
After marriage, he should not work or not, should he gamble or gamble.
Anyway, the wife and children are supported by his parents and grandparents.
Shi Daniu and his wife were afraid that their daughter-in-law would run away, so they had already provided for their daughter-in-law, but they couldn't stand their son's inability.
When Shi Daniu's granddaughter was three years old, Shi Daniu's son owed $500,000 to $600,000 in loan sharks.
Being with such a rotten person will cause you to be dragged down if you are not careful. Shi Daniu's daughter-in-law immediately divorced and remarried with Shi Daniu's granddaughter.
Shi Daniu and his wife helped their son pay off the debt and begged his son to fix it, but their son did not fix it and continued to gamble. Within two years, they owed hundreds of thousands of dollars for online loans or something. .
Shi Zhen only found out about this when Shi Daniu came up and wanted to borrow money.
At this moment, Shi Daniu said: "Tingting is already very good, right? I still remember that when she could walk, she sat at the door with her bare buttocks, and grabbed the soy sauce bibimbap with her hands to eat it, but it's good... My family's Boy, he's five or six years old now, and he wants his grandmother to feed him."
Shi Zhen: "..." Shi Ting was greedy when she was a child. She could not hold the spoon firmly and then grabbed her food to eat. How could she be considered "good"
Shi Daniu said again: "That boy doesn't eat this or that. We have porridge in the morning, and we must make him an egg fried rice."
Shi Daniu seems to be complaining, but when he talks about his son, the smile on his face is much more sincere. Meat."
Just like Shi Daniu, telling him that his child is not good, he will definitely be anxious.
Shi Zhen said: "Have you thought about taking him out? How can the teaching quality of the school over there be better than that of the school here? The teachers in the school can't speak Mandarin well! What about the primary school here? The students here are in If you speak vernacular in school, you will be criticized. Your son is here, maybe he will be admitted to university in the future."
The most important thing is that if Shi Daniu's parents didn't come, the child wouldn't be so old, and he would be chased and fed.
Shi Daniu was thoughtful.
But some people said: "How much does it cost to send it here to study! Children can read as they please, finish reading early, and come out to work early! Back then, how could they have had a good life like they do now? They, Don't get used to it! Shi Daniel, if your son belongs to my family, I won't beat him to death."
Shi Zhen smiled and said nothing.
This man's name is Shi Duofu. He has a son and a daughter in the family. He is not very good to his sons and daughters. He is the kind of person who enjoys the money first.
His wife is obedient and does everything he wants.
Strange to say, his sons and daughters are very promising, especially his daughter, who is very capable. Not only did he go to university, but later he settled in a big city by himself.
His son is a little ordinary. After graduating from junior high school, he went out to work after reading a secondary school, but he also works diligently and does not worry about food and drink.
Even this pair of children doesn't like to marry Shi Duofu and his wife. It is useless for them to say that their children are not filial at home every day.
Shi Zhen can actually understand their children.
It was said that Shi Duofu's son, his wife was pregnant, Shi Duofu and his wife said they were going to help, but Shi Duofu lay on the sofa every day watching TV, and Shi Duofu's wife wanted his daughter-in-law to serve them...
If Shi Duofu's son had a good relationship with his parents, he might have trouble living with his wife with them, but he had a bad relationship with his parents.
Then he stopped letting his parents live in his house.
As for the other two married, the family is normal, and there is nothing messy at home.
Now, these people have been with Shi Zhen for a month. Shi Zhen is afraid that they will not have any money. The salary for the first month has been paid to them. Shi Dalin did not leave a penny for himself except for the food expenses. When I went back, as for Shi Duofu, he opened a small stove for himself to eat delicious food all day long, and he didn't send a penny to his home. The other two were considered to be in the middle.
The crowd continued to work until eleven o'clock in the afternoon, and then went to eat at the house of the old lady who cooked for them next door.
Shi Zhen asked the old lady to make him a chicken today and cut it for himself.
There were eight of them, and one chicken was a bit small, but there was a large plate of egg drop soup made with a few eggs and a large pot of fried vegetables, which was enough.
Shi Ting took a big bowl and filled it with a big bowl of rice. She ate a chicken leg in one hand and scrambled the rice in the other, looking like she was about to starve to death.
Shi Zhen felt that she looked so much cuter than her previous life when she shouted to lose weight and didn't eat anything.
Shi Ting almost choked after eating, and finally she finished eating, she showed Shi Zhen her hand: "Brother, look at my hand!"
Some parts of Shi Ting's palm were whitened. If she didn't continue to work, the skin on this side should fall off in a few days. If she kept working, she would grow calluses.
Shi Zhen stretched out his hand to show her his own: "Look at mine."
Shi Zhen's palm was almost covered with a layer of calluses.
Shi Ting took back her hand in embarrassment.
After lunch, everyone can rest for a while.
This time, when building a house for Fang Changming, Shi Zhen not only stared at him every day, but also had to do it himself.
Shi Ting didn't have the habit of taking a nap, so she went to pick up the pebbles they sifted out of the sand.
The sand used for building houses is basically river sand. After buying it, it must be screened with a special iron mesh before use.
There are often many beautiful pebbles sifted out, and children in the village will come to pick them up.
Unexpectedly, Shi Ting also likes it.
Shi Zhen woke up after a while, Shi Ting had picked out a bag of stones and planned to take them back.
He looked amused and went on with his work.
In the morning, all the tiles had been moved upstairs, so Shi Zhen asked Shi Ting to sift the sand beside him.
He sifted the sand, that is, using a shovel to shovel the sand onto the wire mesh - fine sand can pass through, but coarse sand and rocks can't pass through.
Shi Ting's strength was small, and the shovel could not be moved a bit, so it was extremely difficult to do it. In the end, she didn't use the shovel at all. She found a dustpan and "threw" sand on the wire net.
It will be quite inference.
It was enough to make Shi Daniu feel distressed: "Azhen, do you think Tingting is not pleasing to the eye? How can you do this!"
"Brother Daniel, at Tingting's age, have you already gone to the ground?"
"At that time, can we be the same as now? At that time, we had to earn work points." Shi Daniu said, at that time, it was not bad for them to finish elementary school, and they all went to work in the fields when they were teens.
"Brother Daniel, Tingting is my sister, I won't hurt her, she knows it's hard to earn money if she suffers a little." Shi Zhen said.
"Oh, it's okay for us to work hard, Tingting is still young." Shi Daniu said.
Shi Zhen: "..." He seemed to have thought this way in his last life.
Shi Ting was tired, but she would still be lazy. Every time she was lazy, she would keep looking at Shi Zhen. If Shi Zhen also looked at her... She immediately stood up to work.
Also... quite interesting.
After working for a while, Shi Zhen saw an acquaintance coming over from a distance.
He frowned and went downstairs.
When Shi Zhen got downstairs, the mason surnamed Zhang who had worked with him before was watching Shi Ting sifting sand.
Seeing Shi Zhen, Master Zhang said "tsk tsk" twice: "Xiao Shi, can't you hire someone to work for you? You are looking for child labor."
Shi Zhen said: "My sister can't come to play? It's you, what are you doing?" Although Shi Ting has been working, she is really here to play.
Junior high school girls, what can you do
Shi Zhen had a bad impression of this Master Zhang, after all, this person always caused him trouble back then.
Today, this person suddenly came, and most of them are not good.
"I just came to see your house. Didn't you keep saying that according to your method, the speed of building the house will be very fast? We have finished the construction of the three-story building, and then you are finished? After so long, it is only Build a two-story one... is it too impersonal?" Master Zhang looked at Shi Zhen triumphantly, a bit of a villain's triumphant look.
Seeing him like this, Shi Zhen was speechless.
Master Zhang was afraid of Shi Zhen: "When the time comes, your house will definitely not be as good as the house I built!"
He was suppressed by Shi Zhen before, and he has always held grudges. Now that he can turn over and compare Shi Zhen, he can't say how happy he is.
Shi Zhen said: "Well, come on."
If this person has real ability, it is normal to come to him to show his prestige.
Build a house and copy him, and come to him, what do you think
Shi Ting is smarter than him.
Shi Zhen went back upstairs and continued to work.
Master Zhang jumped on the spot and said loudly: "This broken house you built looks ugly, but I want to see what you can make in the end!"
Shi Zhen ignored him.
His house with only outlines is really ugly.
For example, he wanted to make a room with floor-to-ceiling windows, and the position of the window was a hole that was too big in the eyes of people at this time.
But the final effect... Just wait, it will come out soon.
Master Zhang still left, and when he left, Shi Ting said angrily at his back: "You are ugly, you are ugly!"
Alas, she didn't dare to say it just now.
After Shi Zhen worked for a while, someone came again.
It was a van that he had never seen before. Shi Zhen was a little strange, so he hurried downstairs and saw Guan Baiyu getting out of the car.
Forget it, Guan Baiyu still held a cake in his hand: "Brother, happy birthday!"
Guan Baiyu has always remembered Shi Zhen's birthday, and he has been thinking about Shi Zhen's birthday for a long time.
He also waited for Shi Zhen to tell him.
As a result... Shi Zhen didn't say anything at all, and the Shi family didn't even think of it when they looked at it.
Of course, even if Shi Zhen didn't say it, his birthday was still to come. Today, he asked Liang Qinxuan to pick him up because he wanted to go to Changxi City to get a cake for Shi Zhen and buy a birthday present.
A few days ago, Shi Zhen mentioned that he wanted to buy a bicycle... He couldn't afford a motorcycle yet, so he bought a bicycle for Shi Zhen first.
He has already earned money, and I believe that his brother will not refuse his gift.