Jiang’s mother and Jiang Ying are both ordinary people and have no experience in farming before. Going to other areas without iron net walls to get a piece of land without walls is too risky for them, so they agreed to Yuan Rui’s proposal.


    Jiang Ying lived in the territory of 15, and first ate and worked with everyone. When she had experience, she would then reclaim a piece of land and grow vegetables and eat by herself.


    Jiang Ying also agreed with Yuan Rui that she would not need other people’s help in opening up the land, and she could do it slowly by herself.


    Although Tan Qi and Jiang Ying are not familiar with each other, they also know each other. Tan Qi was still very happy to hear that Jiang Ying was coming to the territory to be her neighbor.


    Aunt Yan, dad and Xia Qing are all very busy, and she will be with her when Jiang Ying comes.


    Tan Junjie used to prepare building materials according to the materials used in a two-story building. Now he needs to build three more rooms, so the building materials are not enough.


    There are mainly two types of building materials that are insufficient: steel bars and cement.


    Rebar is the skeleton of the building structural columns, and cement is an indispensable raw material for the production of concrete.


    Rebars used for construction are not scarce, and can be bought in the safety area of ??Huisan Base. The more troublesome one is cement.


    If you want to build a solid house suitable for living during the natural disaster period, you need to use high-quality cement with special insect repellent ingredients and double the corrosion resistance. This kind of cement is expensive to produce and is not sold to the public.


    Tan Junjie couldn''t get enough cement, so he followed Xia Qing''s advice and changed his mind.


    He got a small bag of cement as a sample and asked Zhang San, a universal tycoon in the northern region to test it and figured out the deworming ingredients of cement. Then, he gathered enough raw materials and asked Territory No. 8 to help make insect repellent powder and add it to ordinary cement to improve the quality of cement.


    Now, there is no time to collect materials and ask Territories No. 3 and No. 8 to make deworming powder. Tan Junjie doesn''t want to reduce the safety factor of his daughter''s house just because he built three rooms. This is the reason why he invited Xia Qing and Qi Fu over.


    After drawing the foundations of the two houses with white gray, Xia Qing gave Tan Jun a brilliant idea, "The thickness of the exterior wall is still 37 cm, and the partition between the living room and the east and west house is changed to 24 cm. Then..."


    Xia Qing stood on the white gray line that divided the east house into two north and south houses. "This wall is made of two structural columns here and here, and the partition wall is not built for now. The cement saved can build the exterior walls of the three rooms next to it."


    The structure of the house was quickly built in Zhao Ze''s mind. "Sister Qing''s method is feasible. If you think it''s so open and not good-looking, the bedroom in the south and the storage room in the north can be separated by wooden walls, and then replaced with brick walls later."


    After Qi Fu also recognized this plan, construction of Tan Qi''s house began.


    There are many people in the territory No. 15, and the territory No. 1 also sent people to help, but they don’t know how to build a house. The key steps of digging foundations, tying steel bars and mixing concrete require Xia Qing and Qi Fu to lead and guide. Zhu Li and Tan Qi followed suit and were very busy.


    There were so many people who worked hard. On the first day, they dug up the foundations of the two houses and erected steel columns. Tan Qi jumped back and forth between the squares on the foundation of the house, like a happy antelope.


    On the way back to their respective territories in the evening, Qi Fu talked about one thing, "Someone in Tang Huaijian''s lord group said that Lai Mingke, the lord of the No. 29th district in the northern second district, burned a kiln of bricks to build a house."


    "It will definitely save money by burning bricks by himself, but he used firewood to burn the kiln, and the hardness of the bricks burned is probably not enough." Zhao Ze also saw the news and commented, "Compared with brick walls and concrete walls, concrete walls are more sturdy and shock-proof."


    Although his current points are not enough to build a new house, if he wants to build a house in the future, Zhao Ze will definitely use concrete walls.


    Xia Qing also nodded, her thoughts were the same as Zhao Ze. The two-story building she lives in now and the shelf building next to her was built with reinforced concrete before the natural disaster, so in the eleventh year of the natural disaster, the house could still be lived in. Qi Fu explained, "The house needs to be made of concrete. I am thinking of burning a kiln of bricks to build the courtyard wall. The yellow clay we dug last year can be used."


    Kuang Qingwei walked out of the territory No. 6, "Brother Qi, you can work hard and technically. If you can''t control the temperature well, the bricks burned can only be used to fool people."


    Zhu Li doesn’t quite understand, “How can brick fool people?”


    Kuang Qingwei explained, "It''s the kind of brick that was chopped with bare hands on TV and live broadcasts before the natural disaster."


    After Zhu Li understood, she was not optimistic about burning bricks. "Brother Qi, it would be better to pick up stones on the hillside than burning bricks to build the courtyard wall."


    Qi Fu smiled silly, "My hometown was built by my parents who burned bricks by themselves. I know how to burn bricks, so when I saw the burning bricks on Territory No. 29, I felt a little itchy and wanted to give it a try."


    Hearing that Qi Fu knew how to burn bricks, Xia Qing decided to buy a piece of bricks, "Bricks are more regular and easier to use than stones. The broken houses in my territory cannot be used. When will Brother Qi start working?"


    Hearing that Xia Qing was interested, Qi Fu became more interested. "I will try to use the remaining yellow clay in the greenhouse to burn some. If it succeeds, I will find a way to pull yellow clay out from Mount No. 52."


    Xia Qing nodded, "If it succeeds, I will do it with you and I will burn it to divide me."


    Kuang Qingwei was very tactful, "We are weak, so we won''t cause trouble."


    Zhao Ze, who was also not very strong, was very interested, "When I was in college, the professional teacher taught the traditional method of burning bricks, and I was also considered one of them."


    Zhu Li opened her mouth and was about to speak when she heard a sound in the territory No. 14. She immediately grabbed her husband with one hand and Xia Qing with the other, and retreated to the territory No. 6, and signaled Zhao Ze and Qi Fu to follow.


    Everyone had a task together last winter, and they could understand the basic communication gestures. The two immediately moved north and entered the territory No. 6.


    There was danger, and Zhao Ze subconsciously wanted to hide behind Xia Qing, but Kuang Qingwei was one step faster than him and had already pushed Zhu Li behind Xia Qing.


    “Swish, swish!”


    This time, not only Zhu Li and Xia Qing, but also Qi Fu and Zhao Ze heard the sound of using a knife to cut grass in the territory No. 14. Zhu Li lowered her voice, "Is this planning to farm seriously?"


    Some time ago, the Territory Management Department verified that the area of ??farmland that each territory had been reclaimed and cultivated normally, and only 150 spinach seeds were distributed for more than four acres.


    Yan Meng of the No. 14 territory had insufficient cultivation area, so he hired people from the No. 17 territory to urgently open up land and cultivate. Later, when Territory No. 6 hired people from Territory No. 17 to work, Zhu Li heard them whispering to the situation in Territory No. 14.


    After discovering that someone was mowing the grass, everyone walked out of Territory No. 6 and rushed back to their respective territories.


    Xia Qing continued to focus on Territory No. 14 with his hearing. The frequency and strength of the person in the territory''s mowing grass is not something that people who have been sick for a long time can achieve. Either Yan Meng, who had been sick for a long time, had improved his health, or a new person was added to the territory of No. 14.


    No matter which one it is, it is not good news for Xia Qing. (End of this chapter)