1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 344 I am very good at tying steel bars

 In this era without mobile phones or telephones, even if the power is out for a month, it will have almost no impact.

 The lives of the villagers are still going well.

 The big loudspeakers in the village are not working. If you want to announce some news, you can only rely on the loudspeaker to shout, or post important information on the pier.

Without electricity, the few TVs in the village would not be able to turn on, and everyone would not be able to watch TV dramas.

 If there is a real influence, it should be Lao Yang who runs a restaurant. His freezer has a lot of wild boar, deer, hedgehog, muntjac and pangolin meat.

Without electricity, things would definitely be impossible to hide. However, after learning that the generator was broken, the restaurant’s owner, Yang, took the frozen delicacies to the town overnight and sold them to his colleagues.

the next morning.

Li Duoyu gave Wang Xianghong a purchase note and took 50 yuan from the village collective account to him to purchase broken diesel engine parts.

But Li Duoyu guessed that this matter might not go well. After all, the generator in the village was given by the "Big Brother" at that time.

The bilateral relationship is very tense now, and accessories are not necessarily available, and Li Duoyu remembers that the power outage on Dandan Island lasted for a very long time.

 After he was released from prison in his previous life, the power supply on the island was never restored.

 This is also the tragedy of offshore islands. The power grid cannot be laid to them at all.

　In this era, nine out of ten offshore islands use thermal power generation. To put it bluntly, they all use diesel engines.

 The situation in Xiasha Village is pretty good, at least there is a large diesel generator.

 This diesel generator was obtained because the fishing team performed very well and won many honors.

 Chenjiacun next door seems to have never had electricity since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and all they use now are kerosene lamps.

In the village committee office, Li Duoyu found that he had not had an office for more than ten days and had not cleaned it very well, but Wang Dapao's tea table came to his office.

“Uncle Liao, what’s wrong with this table? Why did Party Secretary Wang’s tea table end up in my office?”

After hearing the sound, Lao Liao came to Li Duoyu's office: "Director Li, you are here."

“I moved the tea table to your office. Party Secretary Wang is not coming back anyway. This tea table was originally bought with collective money. Instead of leaving it there to gather dust, it is better for you, the director, to use it.”

"Isn't this good? If Party Secretary Wang comes back and asks, how can I reply to him?"

"You can use it first. It won't be of any use if you leave it there. If you leave it here, if guests come, you can at least receive it once or twice."

Old Liao remembers clearly that when the secretary of the big leader came last time, Director Li wanted to ask him to make tea, but it turned out that there was no tea table in his office.

 As for Wang Dapao.

They village cadres have already discussed it. If they don't come back, everyone will pretend that nothing happened.

 Let him continue to hold a false position.

After all, if he is still in office, then everyone will not need to elect a village party secretary. In this case, Li Duoyu alone has the final say on Dandan Island.

 If he dares to come back.

 We then sent the materials about his inaction to the town committee and prepared to jointly remove him.

Li Duoyu glanced at Wang Dapao's tea table, and then thought about it: "Okay, I'll use it first."

Old Liao smiled and said: "Director Li, if any guests come to our village committee to make tea, remember to ask me and I will boil water for you."

 Li Duoyu nodded.

 After leaving the village committee, he came to his new homestead, where his father and the stonemason Cao were both busy.

A small shed was built on one side of the foundation, with a lot of cement inside, as well as a large amount of steel bars, iron wires and wooden boards. On the other side, there were piles of river sand, gravel and bricks.

These building materials alone cost Li Duoyu more than 2,000 yuan.

 In this day and age, it is not an easy task to build a decent frame cement house on an island.

 First of all, the sand cannot be fine sand from the seaside, but river sand from freshwater rivers.

Sea sand contains shells, mud, chlorine salts, sulfates, magnesium and other chemical substances. If sea sand is mixed with concrete, the strength of the concrete will become lower.

 There may be no problem for a few years, but over time, sea sand will not only corrode the steel bars, but may also cause large areas of the wall to fall off.

 In short, sea sand is not suitable for use as building materials, even washed sea sand is not very good.

River sand was brought back from the Wujiang River by Uncle San's trawler. Sand is very cheap. A boatload of sand costs less than ten yuan, but the fuel and freight cost fifty yuan.

 The broken stones were knocked out one by one by the stonemason Cao Cao and his two apprentices with hammers, and a lot of money was spent on labor.

 Of all building materials, the most troublesome is steel bars.

This stuff is a strategic material and a material in short supply. It is sold uniformly by the country and is generally given priority to those units.

  If ordinary people want to buy, in addition to having overseas remittance coupons, they also need to find connections.

Since it was really difficult to buy, Li Duoyu had to go to Rongcheng in person some time ago and find Zhao Jialu, a "connected person".

Just then, he got the steel bars from the steel factory. Of course, Chen Jiao and Chen Yuan Yuan could certainly help him solve these problems, but Li Duoyu didn't want to have too in-depth communication with the parents and just kept the relationship of pure interests.

It can be said that in this era, it is not easy for a household with ten thousand yuan to build a decent brick house.

However, in his previous life, Li Duoyu also heard that bamboo slices were used as steel bars in many mountainous areas, and it was said that they were quite strong and durable.

 Li Duoyu glanced at the homestead.

 The foundation trench and foundation were dug and compacted according to the original design drawings, and a concrete cushion was laid in the foundation trench.

Nearly ten days have passed now.

 The concrete cushion has dried, and the next step is to start tying the foundation steel bars.

Seeing Lao Li and Lao Cao tying steel bars in the foundation, Li Duoyu, who happened to have nothing to do, also helped.

 Lao Cao and the others actually used vise-nose pliers and needle-nose pliers to tie the steel bars, which was very inefficient and they were tied diagonally.

Although there is nothing wrong with this kind of workmanship, the efficiency is really too low. In the previous life, not only would I have been scolded by the foreman, but I would also have been scolded.

Li Duoyu is not used to using pliers and other tools to tie steel bars. The speed of tying them is very slow and difficult to use.

 Li Duoyu suddenly thought of something, and then he went home and found a small L-shaped iron hook used to pry barnacles. The hook was very similar to the iron hook used to tie steel bars in his previous life.

 After using this artifact, Li Duoyu's efficiency in tying steel bars has been significantly improved. It feels like one person can catch up with the four of them.

Lao Cao also noticed something was wrong with Li Duoyu. He came over to take a look and found that the tools and techniques used by Li Duoyu to tie the steel bars were completely different from his.

Looking at how fast he tied it up, Lao Cao thought that it might not be very secure. After checking it with his hands, he frowned.

 They only tied them diagonally, but Li Duoyu’s tying method seemed to tie the steel bars together from top to bottom, left and right.

Mason Cao couldn't help but asked: "Duoyu, where did you learn this technique of tying steel bars?"

 “Ah, this.”

Li Duoyu thought for a moment and said: "I studied it myself when tying fishing rafts before. I feel that tying steel bars is the same as tying fishing rafts, so I tied it like this. If it is tied wrong, I will tie it again."

Lao Li, who was still tying up the wire, frowned and said, "Duoyu, don't make any more trouble. Go and do your business. I'll just tie it up with Master Cao and the others here." As soon as Lao Li finished speaking, Lao Cao said awkwardly: "Lao Li, you misunderstood. I'm not saying that Duoyu's tying is not good, but I think Duoyu's tying is great. I'm planning to learn from him."

"Impossible, he has never done this before, how could he be **** better than you?"

The stonemason Cao smiled bitterly and said, "It's true. If you don't believe it, come and see for yourself."

 Lao Li put down the pliers and walked over doubtfully. After shaking the steel bar his son was tied to with his hand, he showed a puzzled expression.

It is exactly what Lao Cao said, the steel bars tied to Duoyu are much stronger than theirs.

The steel bars they **** can still be pulled apart after two hard pulls, but the ones tied by Duoyu are very secure.

 Lao Li frowned. Over the past year or so, Lao Si has changed so much that he seems to know a little bit about everything.

 He was very puzzled at first, and he couldn't help but ask Chen Huiying several times.

 But the woman didn’t try to reason at all. When she encountered something she couldn’t understand, she just said it was Mazu’s blessing.

From then on, he got used to it and didn't bother to think too much. Anyway, the better the fourth child was, the happier he would be.

To be honest, Li Duoyu really didn’t expect that tying steel bars would attract the attention of Lao Cao and his father.

 But for a person living in a rural area, there seems to be nothing wrong with being able to tie steel bars.

 In the previous life, because all the young people had gone out, once someone built a villa here, they could never find workers.

As long as they have free time, they will be asked to help build houses, and they will be paid a lot of wages a day. Even for small jobs, it will cost at least 300 yuan a day.

 If it is the peak season for fishermen, the daily wages will be at least 500 yuan.

 When he had free time in his previous life, Li Duoyu liked to work as a construction worker. After all, he was paid daily and the money came in very quickly.

Although Lao Cao was not convinced, he still said: "Duoyu, can you tie two more and let me learn how to do it?"

"Sure, No problem."

Li Duoyu demonstrated it directly in front of him, but after watching it, Master Cao was still a little confused.

 “How to use this to twist the wire.”

Li Duoyu said: "Pay attention. If you want to hook from here and then make two turns, you must use a hook with this shape."

Master Cao called the two apprentices over to learn together. After about half an hour, everyone was already proficient in using this tool and binding method.

 After using this new binding method, the original six hours of work was reduced to two hours.

 The entire progress is three times faster.

 After tying the steel bars, Lao Cao smoked a cigarette and looked at the base in front of him. He couldn't help but sigh. He found that Li Duoyu really knew how to build a house better than he did.

The foundation in front of him is really better than what he studied in Rongcheng. It is very neat and clear.

 From the beginning of the drawings, excavation of the foundation trench, including the current method of tying steel bars, almost all were directed by Li Duoyu.

In the process of building a house for Duoyu, Lao Cao himself learned a lot of construction knowledge from Duoyu, and also understood from him what pile foundation and strip foundation are.

To be honest, if Duoyu wasn't the village director and was so busy with farming, he might have been able to build his own house.

Lao Cao said to himself: "It seems that I can't stay on the island all the time. If I have the opportunity in the future, I should learn from Duo Yu and go out to see the outside world."

It took Li Duoyu more than a day to complete the homestead with Lao Cao and pour cement again.

 Next, you have to wait for the cement to dry before proceeding to the next step. This is also the most troublesome part of the cement house.

If it had been a stone house, Lao Cao would have built it in more than a month, and maybe Li Duoyu would be able to install it now.

 The day of Grain Rain in the lunar calendar.

 On the first day of March, Li Duoyu made Zhou Xiaoying a bowl of Taiping early in the morning.

 It is their local custom to eat Taiping noodles on their birthdays. Taiping noodles are a kind of thread noodles, usually made into soup noodles, and normally there are two duck eggs in it.

 The homophonic pronunciation of duck egg here is "pressing the waves", which means wishing relatives smooth sailing and safe sailing.

 After Zhou Xiaoying woke up, she found that the bowl on the table was too flat, and she had a look of astonishment on her face.

 “You actually remember my birthday.”

 Li Duoyu smiled and said, "My mother told me."

Zhou Xiaoying snorted: "If I didn't tell you, would I have forgotten my birthday?"

 “Then do you remember me?”

"I am on the first day of March and you are on the 19th of April. I am one month and eighteen days older than you, so you have to call me sister."

Li Duoyu smiled with a malicious look on his face: "Don't worry, I'll call you sister when we get to bed."

Zhou Xiaoying’s pretty face turned red.

But when looking at the two big duck eggs in the bowl, Zhou Xiaoying frowned: "These two eggs are too big, I can't finish them. Let me share one with you."

Li Duoyu said seriously: "That won't work. These are Taiping eggs and you must eat them all."

 Zhou Xiaoying curled her lips: "You can't find two smaller ones for me."

“Eggs, of course, the bigger the better.”

 “Then you come and eat.”

“Comrade Xiaoying, if you eat all these eggs, I will give you a surprise after class in the afternoon.”

Zhou Xiaoying blinked and grinned: "What a surprise, can you tell me first?"

 “You’ll know when you come back.”

“You tell me quickly, otherwise I won’t be in the mood to go to class.”

“If you’re not in the mood, just let the students study by themselves.”

“How can that be done? The principal will tell me.”

Li Duoyu looked at his watch and said: "Comrade Xiaoying, it's almost time. Go to class quickly, otherwise it will be too late."

 Before class, Zhou Xiaoying put her finger on Li Duoyu's waist and threatened: "You really won't tell me, will you?"

“It would be pointless to tell you something like this in advance. What you want as a birthday gift is a surprise.”

Zhou Xiaoying rolled her eyes at him:

 “Just don’t be frightened.”

 (End of this chapter)