Farmer's Struggle

Chapter 98 Style
Zhang Yongli thought about it all night, and finally decided to build a pigsty!

Bricks, tiles and cement can be bought with money, but stones and sand have to go out and find a place to pull them back.

Zhang Yongli first went to the elder sister's house to drive back the walking tractor left by Lin Wanmin, and then took Ju Linghe out to pull stones and sand.

Walking tractors are particularly difficult to drive. Looking at the whole town, there are no more than ten women who can drive walking tractors for meetings, and Zhang Yongli occupies one of them. They are all forced by life.

It's easier to load sand. If you can't shake a shovel, you can shovel half of the shovel, and you can load a car with more shovels.

The stone is more troublesome, because the stone is too heavy, and it is too laborious to move it on the car.

Afraid of tossing and running around while working, Zhang Yongli tied the toss to the side of the cart with a two-meter-long rope, and then worked together with Ju Ling to lift the stone.

At the end of the day, Ju Ling developed several blisters on his hands, and there was no place on his body that did not hurt.Zhang Yongli also felt sorry for her and asked her to rest for two days before helping out, but Ju Ling said nothing.

This bit of suffering is nothing, she could support it when it was more difficult before, but now of course it is no problem.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, Zhang Yongli had just turned on the tractor with the crank handle, when Feng Guangquan came over on his bicycle.

He wanted to help, but Zhang Yongli refused to agree.It is not possible to finish pulling sand and stones in a short while, so she has the nerve to waste so much working time.

Feng Guangquan said, "I'm not going to work today, I'm resting. If I'm free, I'm free. Why don't you come out and exercise your muscles. Don't be polite to me. We've known each other for a long time. Later, you pickled spicy cabbage and pickled cabbage. Just give me some garlic and eggplants, and I’m so proud that I have no place to do it.”

At this point, Zhang Yongli couldn't refuse, so she had to accept Feng Guangquan's help.

It is much more efficient to have someone help with the work, and Ju Ling's main task has also changed from working hard to looking after the children.

Feng Guangquan helped with the whole day's work, and got enough rocks and sand.The next day, the people did not arrive, but they collected all the bricks, tiles and cement, and asked them to deliver them to their door.

Regarding money, Zhang Yongli didn't want to take advantage of others, so she calculated how much the bricks, tiles and cement cost, and planned to return them all to Feng Guangquan.

Neither Zhang Yongli nor Ju Ling has ever built a pigsty, but they have seen others build houses. They are runners who have never eaten pork but have seen pig runners.

It was very slow at the beginning, and you had to fumble bit by bit, and after you got started, you got on a lot faster.

It was hot in July, and the sun started to get hot after ten o'clock. Ju Ling wanted to take advantage of the sunny weather to finish work earlier and refused to rest, so she worked in the sun.

But it was only one morning, and the exposed skin was reddened by the sun, especially the arms, which were hot and painful when touched, it must be sunburned.

Ju Ling didn't tell Zhang Yongli, but just kept working.

In the evening, Feng Guangquan got off work and came to help. At night, he pulled out a lamp from the house to light up and kept working until almost ten o'clock.

After four or five days of busy work, the big pigsty that can accommodate more than a dozen pigs has already taken shape.

The next step is to make the beams and doors. Zhang Yongli thinks that she can do it herself, but her eldest brother-in-law is a carpenter. Do the rest of the carpentry work.

Ju Wenqi came to help, and Zhang Yongmei stayed at home to watch the house, and nothing was delayed.

After the pigsty was built, Zhang Yongli happily set off a string of firecrackers, attracting many people to come and see what was new.

The big pigsty of her house is really grand, it looks like a tile-roofed house for people to live in from the front, only a little shorter.

Open the door to see another mystery.

Inside, there are four small circles separated by a wall more than one meter high, and each small circle has its own small door, which is convenient for people to enter and exit and to drive pigs out.The wooden pig troughs were also eliminated, and all of them were built with bricks and cement in the small circle, and there was a small partition in the middle of the trough. The big one feeds and the small one feeds water, and it looks upright.

The floor of the pigsty is covered with cement, which is much cleaner and easier to clean up than the mud floor.In the future, a water pipe will be connected, and after shoveling the pig manure, the ground will be flushed with water. It is clean and hygienic and can prevent pigs from getting sick.

Only half of the canopy with a slanted roof is open, and the other half is usually open for sunlight and ventilation.

There are not a few families raising pigs in four miles and eight towns, and there are quite a few houses that build brick and tile pigsties, but Zhang Yongli's family is the only one that builds such a grand, clean and practical house.

Of course, this style and practicality is also piled up with money.

There was not much money left for the land entitlement, and most of the money spent on building this pigsty was borrowed.

Zhang Yongli was able to lend the money thanks to her courage. The IOUs with people all said that they would pay off the debt with pigs if the money was not paid by the due date. .

Ju Ling feels a sense of accomplishment when the cement is not completely dry, and a few pigs can be moved into the new pigsty after a few days in the sun.

Bidding farewell to Zhang Yongli and Xiao Toss with a full sense of accomplishment, Ju Ling happily returned to her home.

That night, Ju Ling wentssip about Feng Guangquan with her parents.

She told Ju Wenqi and his wife that Feng Guangquan seemed to have a little interest in Zhang Yongli, but Ju Wenqi and his wife didn't find it strange at all, as if they had already known it.

Zhang Yongmei also said: "I see that Feng Guangquan is very good, he is honest and enthusiastic, and he is easy to talk to. Although he has no house or land, he has a salary. There is a drought and flood in the land, and his salary can't be paid even with a knife. Even if it’s a little bit wrong, it’s nothing.”

Ju Wenqi hissed and soaked his feet in the hot water and said: "No, it's not bad for me to look at others, and it would be great if I can really get along with Yongli. But it's useless for us to look at, Yongli She doesn't have that thought, isn't she still thinking about Wanmin now?"

He's got the point. It's useless for others to think it's good, but the person concerned has to think it's good.

Does Zhang Yongli really have no plans in this regard?Or did she also think about it, but she didn't dare to think about it because of the reality?

Just lived in a village of the forest farm for a few days, and hadn't had much contact with the people there, Ju Ling heard someone gossip about Zhang Yongli behind her back. I think this gossip must be very powerful. Can Zhang Yongli not be affected?
There is a lot of gossip in front of married women, especially young married women. It is too difficult to live a peaceful life. Some people will make irresponsible remarks whether they remarry or not. Zhang Yongli's life is really not easy.

Ju Ling had been listening by the side, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh. Zhang Yongmei heard the joke and said: "You little brat will worry about it, and you want to take care of everyone's affairs. You just study hard, you Auntie has her own plans, so you don’t need to worry about them. Oh, look, I’ve dried them for you these past few days, and you can’t find them on the ground. Before school starts, don’t run around and let them sit in the house.”

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