Reborn in 1977

Chapter 293: An Uninvited Guest

It was time to build a house.

Thieves actually dared to steal from his home, which meant they definitely knew his family had money.

That's right, the news of Teacher Chen's versatility had already spread throughout the nearby communes.

He had made a fortune from selling turtle meat earlier, and then he sold pottery at the market, earning several hundred yuan the first time.

The second time, several girls pulled a large cart of tableware to sell, barely managing to sell it all, which was also several hundred yuan.

Could a dual-income family earn that much in a year? Not to mention in cash.

This was a wealthy household!

The people of Lujiawan knew that Teacher Chen had a lot of expenses, a little here and a little there, and that he raised so many livestock at home, wasting a lot of money, but outsiders didn't know.

With such a large sum of money at home, wouldn't interested people be thinking about it?!

That's right, tonight, some people took advantage of the whole village going to see a movie and seized the opportunity to take action.

So even if Captain Yang didn't mention it, Chen Fan had already decided to "start large-scale construction" and even "borrow money" to spend the money, so that no one would think about his money anymore, right?!

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The next day was a good day, sunny and clear.

The news that Teacher Chen was going to build a house spread through Lujiawan at a strange speed.

It was unknown what advanced communication equipment they used, but before 7:00 in the morning, more than a hundred people came in a flurry.

In addition to the thirty strong laborers from Team 6, the rest were all representatives sent by the other 11 teams.

One night, no, half a night, how did they know the news?

Chen Fan, who had just finished his morning exercise in the room, walked to the back when he heard the noise and felt his scalp tingle when he saw this scene.

The large number of people wasn't the key, the key was that he hadn't prepared that much food, how would he entertain them later?

It was unknown who saw Chen Fan first, but suddenly there was a loud shout, "Good morning, Teacher Chen."

Then there were voices greeting him one after another.

Chen Fan could only raise his hands, grinning and waving from side to side, busy responding.

Walking all the way to the top of the slope, he finally saw someone he knew.

Captain Yang, Accountant Liu, Warehouse Keeper Huang, An Quan, Zhang Wenliang, and the captains of the other 10 teams were all here, pointing at the building site.

Zhang Wenliang was considered the representative of Team 5, his father, the captain, didn't come.

When they saw Chen Fan, everyone greeted him one after another, and Chen Fan also cupped his hands with a smile and thanked them.

Zhang Wenliang stepped forward quickly and said with a soft smile, "You're building a house, why didn't you tell us in advance?"

"It was decided temporarily last night, it's enough to have people from our own team, I didn't want to disturb everyone."

Chen Fan pulled him and asked in a low voice, "How did you know?"

Zhang Wenliang chuckled, "Didn't you say last night that you wanted the veterinarians from each team to come here to learn first aid knowledge? They came early in the morning and saw Lao Yang and the others coming with shovels and hoes, then they knew you were going to build a house, and then borrowed Team 6's phone to notify their own team.

Each team wanted to contribute, so each team sent 10 people over, and the construction team masters from Team 4 also came. With so many people, it should be enough, right?"

More than enough? Chen Fan clearly saw the bricklayers and carpenters from the commune's construction team in the crowd, holding notebooks and writing and drawing, probably making construction designs.

With them, plus more than a hundred strong laborers, as long as there were enough materials, the house could probably be built in two days.

He had been thinking that he would start digging these days, do the preliminary groundwork, and then slowly do it himself, and then ask people to build the house after the double抢 (harvesting and planting season) was over.

Wouldn't he have to do it in one step now?

Chen Fan breathed a sigh of relief, pulled Zhang Wenliang and said in a low voice, "The key is that I haven't prepared enough wine and dishes for so many people, you have to help me think of a way."

Zhang Wenliang narrowed his eyes and thought for a while, "That's easy, side dishes are easy to say, I'll tell Lao Yang later, each family can pick a little and send it over, the main thing is meat dishes, I still have a few turtles there, I'll have someone get them later, and then get a few chickens and a few fish, that should be enough."

After a pause, he said again, "But you probably don't have any cigarettes for the guests here, right?"

Chen Fan shook his head, "No."

He still had a lot of Donghai cigarettes and Peony cigarettes that he bought before, but with so many people, one cigarette per person would be enough, one pack per person, that would be at least 15 cartons, who would keep so many cigarettes at home?

At this time, Captain Yang and An Quan also came over and heard a little of the conversation, and Captain Yang said, "I've already sent someone to fish in the river, and I'll get a few more chickens later, so we'll have the main dishes. You don't have to worry about the cooks, Liu Jujiang will bring people to take care of it."

An Quan nodded and smiled at him, "Teacher Chen has enough face, you don't even have to call people, and they take the initiative to come and help, but the necessary etiquette can't be missing.

I'll go to town to buy you cigarettes later, the grade doesn't have to be too good, 8 cents a pack of economy cigarettes will do. Everyone building a house is this standard, economy cigarettes don't need cigarette coupons, just prepare the money. It's easy to get wine too, just get two jars of bulk wine. I just asked someone to get it from Lao Tang in Team 7, and they'll be back later."

Chen Fan finally breathed a sigh of relief, raised his hand and wiped a handful of cold sweat, and said with a smile, "It's good that you're here to help, this is too hasty."

An Quan said sternly, "Thieves broke into your house last night, you have to build the house as soon as possible, as long as you turn the money into a house, no one will think about you, otherwise, someone will steal in sooner or later."

Chen Fan smiled awkwardly, "You all know about this?"

An Quan snorted twice, "If you had come later, we would have been talking about how your animals caught the thief."

He had just seen the thief, kicked by a horse, bitten by a dog, bitten by a snake, scratched by a bird, who would believe this if he said it?

Even if he saw the injuries with his own eyes, he couldn't believe it!

Captain Yang shook his head and smiled, gestured to Chen Fan, "Since you're here, then double-check with the masters to see how to divide the work. After that, you can teach the veterinarians and teach them first aid knowledge."

Chen Fan cheered up and walked forward, "Okay."

Walking to the bricklayers and carpenters, they were all acquaintances he had met, so there was less polite small talk.

After greeting them, he explained his design arrangements to them.

"This is the location of the kitchen, and a deep pit needs to be dug here to ferment the soil."

The bricklayer was a little puzzled, "Does the fermented soil have to be buried in the ground pit? Can't we build a shed on the ground? That would save a lot of work?"

Chen Fan explained, "The main thing is that I want to make a cellar here to use as a wine cellar. Dig the pit deeper and bigger, and when the fermented soil is used up, directly lay pebbles underneath and apply concrete, and then build beams to build the kitchen and restaurant on top."

At this time, rural house building, the main room is the main room, and the kitchen and toilet are outside the building site, which is also a default unspoken rule, which can indirectly occupy a little more space.

Although Chen Fan's residential area has reached 180 square meters, if he can occupy a little more without hindering others, why not occupy more?

Several masters immediately understood when they heard that he wanted to build a wine cellar.

The bricklayer nodded and said, "Okay, I know how to dig this pit."

He recorded it, and then smiled at Chen Fan, "It's rare to have so many people today. We didn't have so many small workers to help when we were building office buildings and unit dormitories in town. Why don't we walk around here and see what needs to be dug and tidied up, and do it all at once."

Chen Fan naturally couldn't ask for more, so he took several masters around the top of the slope.

"This is the location of the building site. I want to build a two-story building. The wall core is made of blue bricks, and the box wall is built. The outer wall is made of fermented soil. Fermented soil is..."

Before he could explain, the bricklayer nodded and said, "I know fermented soil, but although the recipe is still there, there are not many people who can do it. I didn't expect Teacher Chen to understand this, no wonder everyone says that Teacher Chen is versatile."

After a pause, he said again, "The box wall is good, but the wall will be relatively thick. If you apply another layer of fermented soil on the outside, and you definitely have to apply lime on the inside, I'm afraid the entire wall can be more than half a foot thick, that is, it will occupy more land."

The box wall is a way of building walls by crossing bricks horizontally and vertically. The middle of such walls will have many hollows, which are more insulated and soundproof than the commonly used thin brick masonry method, but it will also consume more bricks.

Chen Fan chuckled and said, "It's okay, it's more comfortable to live in with a box wall."

The bricklayer looked at the large building site, a few smiles flashed in his eyes, nodded and recorded, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

Then Chen Fan pointed to the location of the toilet he had reserved, "I want to build a toilet here. In addition to the first floor, there must also be a toilet on the second floor. The culvert can take this slope, which is a natural drainage ditch formed by rainwater erosion. A little modification will do. There are still a few such ditches, which will not affect the drainage. The septic tank will be built under the slope, which is close to the farmland, and it is also convenient for composting and fertilizing."

Hearing this, the bricklayer chuckled and said, "You have to find your team's 'toilet construction team' for this, they are more familiar with this."

He then asked curiously, "If you build a toilet upstairs, how do you solve the water seepage?"

Chen Fan gestured and explained, "Reserve a deep pit, and seal it with asphalt inside the pit, and then it will be no different from building on the ground."

Rebar and cement were difficult to buy, but asphalt wasn't as hard to find, and specialized building materials stores sold it.

Of course, buying in large quantities was a different matter altogether.

Chen Fan was only building a waterproof toilet, so he didn't need a large amount; he could just buy it when the time came.

He took the master craftsmen around for a thorough look, which took up the better part of half an hour.

Combined with what he had told Team Leader Yang the night before, and what Team Leader Yang had relayed to these craftsmen, the construction team now had a good idea of how to build the house.

At this point, Chen Fan wasn't needed here, so Zhang Wenliang, representing the team leaders, urged him to go and give a lecture to the veterinarians.

He wasn't needed for the manual labor, so was he supposed to stay and be a supervisor?

Chen Fan didn't decline, but he still asked one last question.

He pulled Zhang Wenliang aside and said quietly, "I know the apprentices don't need to be paid, but how are the master craftsmen's wages calculated?"

Zhang Wenliang smiled and explained, "Generally, there are two methods: for regular-sized areas, a mud-walled house is 60 yuan for the whole job, and a brick house is 80 yuan.

Or, it can be calculated by the day: a stonemason gets 2 yuan a day, and a bricklayer or carpenter gets 1.8 yuan a day.

You just count how many people come and how many days they work, and that's how you calculate the bill.

As for your place, first of all, the area is large, more than double the size of others, and it's also a two-story building.

The contracting fee alone would be at least 400 yuan, plus the craftsmanship is more complex, with a cellar to dig, a kitchen and dining room to build, and some kind of covered corridor to create."

Here, he couldn't help but complain, "I don't know what you're thinking.

You clearly know how to fire bricks, but you don't use them, insisting on a thatched roof.

Do you know how much trouble a genuine thatched roof is?

In addition to tying knots and bundling grass, you also have to use mortise and tenon joints and fix it with ropes.

Even the roof beams have to be carefully laid.

I just heard Master Wang, the carpentry team leader, say that only his uncle in the entire Nanhu Commune still knows this craft, and we'll have to invite him over to provide technical guidance.

A well-laid thatched roof can last for 20 years without damage, and after 20 years, you can just re-thatch it.

That's why, after bricks became available, no one used genuine thatched roofs anymore.

The rich use bricks, and the poor use ordinary thatched roofs.

Only you are being so eccentric; are you trying to look poor?"

Chen Fan opened his mouth wide, then swallowed and couldn't say a word.

The book *Construction Technology* didn't say that installing a thatched roof was so troublesome!

He just thought thatched roofs looked good and wanted to experience a "traditional village dwelling."

Maybe one day he'll get tired of living in it and switch to old-fashioned blue tiles.

After Zhang Wenliang finished speaking, he suddenly smiled at Chen Fan, "I'm telling you all this not to say that you have to spend more money.

Do you believe me? If you dare to talk to them about money, they'll dare to give you a dark look."

Chen Fan closed his mouth, grinned, and said, "It can't be that bad, can it?

Aren't they supposed to be doing public work for the construction team, so how can they not take money?"

He really wasn't short of money right now.

He fired the bricks himself, the wood and stone had already been arranged with Team Leader Zhang to buy from the team using work points, and the rebar and cement were being sourced by An Quan, who was helping him find someone to buy them at an internal price, which was much cheaper than the market price and didn't require applying for approval.

In addition, the glass was just waiting for the house to be built, and An Quan would find someone to bring it back, which wouldn't cost much either.

And he still had over 1,000 yuan on hand.

The money from selling soft-shelled turtles had long been spent, but he still had 280 yuan left over from the first sale of charcoal stoves and pottery.

He had already sold over 40 squat toilets, and that was just the first batch.

The customers were all from the village, and at a price of 10 yuan each, that was over 400 yuan.

A few days ago, Yang Ju and the others took another 100 sets of pottery tableware to the market, and thanks to the popularity of Teacher Chen's article in the provincial magazine, they barely sold out, and Chen Fan didn't even show his face, earning another 600 yuan.

That was over 1,300 yuan.

So, the biggest expense in building this house was nothing more than the construction team's labor costs, which would be at most 500 or 600 yuan, and he wasn't worried at all.

But now Zhang Wenliang was telling him that the construction team wouldn't charge him?

Was his plan to "go bankrupt" building a house going to fall through?

Zhang Wenliang pulled him down the slope, hummed twice, and said, "Don't you think about it?

Once you teach the veterinarians in each team emergency knowledge, if they ever encounter an emergency like last night, even if they can use it just once, that's saving a life.

Maybe the person they save will be a family member of one of the master craftsmen.

You yourself don't take this skill seriously, teaching it just because you were asked, but we can't underestimate it; this is a matter of life and death.

Now that you've shared this skill, how dare they charge you money?

Aren't they afraid of being criticized by the villagers?"

Chen Fan said with a wry smile, "It can't be that bad."

"How can it not be that bad?

You don't think so, but we do!"

Zhang Wenliang said to him, "You can save people for free, so they can also help out for free.

Moreover, they're not really doing it for free; they're just turning from master craftsmen into apprentices, eating what they should eat, and taking the cigarettes they should take, but they just can't take money."

At this point, they had already reached the back yard entrance, where 12 veterinarians were standing in a row, with Zhang Juemin next to them.

Chen Fan looked at him, "Dr. Zhang, you're here too?"

Zhang Juemin didn't feel embarrassed, and laughed, "I also learned emergency knowledge at the health center, but I heard them say that the method you used last night was something I've never heard of, so I wanted to come and listen."

Chen Fan nodded with a smile, "Sure, no problem."

Zhang Wenliang then called out "Brother" first, and then said to the other 12 teenage veterinarians, "You all follow Teacher Chen and learn well.

If you don't learn well, and you encounter an emergency and can't rescue someone, then it's your fault for not learning well, and don't blame people for criticizing you.

Do you hear me?"

The 12 adolescents were all startled and quickly perked up, shouting in unison, "We hear you!"

Chen Fan quickly waved his hand to the side, "Learn it, use it, we are doctors, not Yama.

As long as we do our best, we can't blame the doctor if we can't save someone."

Zhang Wenliang laughed, "Anyway, just learn well, learn it all well."

After giving his instructions, he turned and went to the construction site, while Chen Fan took these "students" to the comprehensive office to teach.

In the front yard, Liu Jujiang was already leading several women in their busy work, and Jiang Lili and the others were also following instructions, running back and forth between the kitchen, the yard, and the storage room, busy and happy.

Chen Fan greeted everyone and then led the people into the comprehensive office.

Except for Zhang Juemin, the others were all veteran students from the previous veterinary class, so Chen Fan didn't waste any time on formalities, asking them to take out their notebooks, and then activating his teaching skills to start the lesson.

"There are three common first aid methods: CPR, artificial respiration, and airway obstruction removal.

We'll talk about them one by one, starting with CPR…"

Chen Fan didn't use the blackboard; instead, he directly asked someone to come over to act as a patient and demonstrate, while explaining the key points of the movements.

However, when it came to artificial respiration, he asked Dr. Zhang Juemin to do the demonstration, while he explained from the side.

Mainly because he couldn't bring himself to do it with a man.

The last one, airway obstruction removal, is actually the Heimlich maneuver, which is known as the most life-saving first aid method in the world.

He didn't know if this first aid method had been introduced to China yet.

Chen Fan naturally didn't dare to say the name, only saying that it was a method he had figured out himself, specifically to remove foreign objects from the airway.

In fact, this first aid method was still in the verification stage in the United States.

It had just started to be promoted, and it wouldn't be introduced to Europe for another year or two, and it wouldn't be introduced to China until the mid-1980s.

If he said the name Heimlich now, that would be a ghost story; it would be better to say that he had researched it himself.

He continued to lecture.

Airway obstruction removal is divided into three methods according to the target of use: abdominal thrusts, chest thrusts, and infant rescue.

In addition, he also tried hard to recall the various first aid methods he had seen online before, some from TV public service advertisements, some from short videos made by doctors.

Anyway, regardless of the source, as long as he could remember it and it was suitable for this era, he would talk about it all.

Otherwise, he would feel sorry for so many people coming uninvited today!

Anyway, he had studied in the health center for a few days, and most of these first aid methods were actually available in the health center, but the techniques were not refined enough.

He was just summarizing them now, and he wasn't afraid of being exposed.

So one by one, the first aid methods were recorded by them: muscle injuries, sprains, dislocations, fractures, electrical shock response, traumatic bleeding, febrile seizures in children, swallowing foreign objects, sudden hemoptysis, cat and dog bites, drowning rescue, gas poisoning, pesticide poisoning, food poisoning, snake bite first aid, infant suffocation, sudden syncope, burns…

All morning, Chen Fan was giving them lectures and demonstrations.

In total, he talked about twenty or thirty kinds, most of which even Zhang Juemin had not learned.

Unknowingly, they had recorded most of a notebook.

There's only one chapter today, I'll make up the other one tomorrow o(╥﹏╥)o