Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

After Mu Xi moved all the windows into the house, Zhao Yeqing finally escaped from Dahuang's clutches.

Mu Xi picked a few strands of dog hair from her hair and said, "I think it's still early today. Do you want to do the windows today or tomorrow?"

The weather was very humid and it was foggy again today. Zhao Yeqing was afraid that the remaining light today would not be enough to dry the cement that would be stuck on the wall for a while, so he said:

"Let's do it tomorrow. If it's still foggy tomorrow, we can find another time. When the weather gets better, we can do it. Don't worry about it for a day or two."

It’s really not easy to wait for continuous sunny days. The sun will shine every day, but it will also rain every day.

Zhao Yeqing was squatting in the house to change the straw mat on the floor. He didn't know whether it was because he had been squatting for a long time or something, but when he got up, he almost fell down on the ground.

Mu Xi was startled, and he quickly stretched out his hand to support her: "What's wrong? Are your feet numb or are your eyes going black?"

Zhao Yeqing moved his knees and ankles: "No, it's just that after squatting or sitting for a long time during this period, my ankles and knees always feel uncomfortable and sore."

Mu Xi helped her sit down next to the chair and raised his hands to gently knead her joints. Zhao Yeqing had never had this problem before, and it only appeared this year.

"Is it caused by too much humidity?"

"I can't say for sure, it's possible."

Mu Xi's brows furrowed in distress, and he kept kneading her with his hands for half an hour. "I'm going to see if there are any dehumidifying herbs that can be soaked in water to drink."

Zhao Yeqing recalled, "I don't remember anything that is better for removing dampness. There are also barley seeds in the seeds, but I have never planted them."

Mu Xi came back less than ten minutes after leaving the door, holding a cup of tea in his hand: "This is pepper tea with ginger and red dates. It is no worse than barley. Tangerine peel water can also remove dampness, but the effect is not as good as this. It can Let’s drink together.”

Zhao Yeqing took it and took a sip. It didn't taste good, so he held his nose and drank it in one breath.

Mu Xi walked to the bed and touched the quilt, "We can't continue like this. It's too damp. If we continue to live like this, we will get sick."

"But we can't light a fire in the house in this weather."

Mu Xi raised his head and looked at the ceiling, "How about we build a second floor? It's too humid to live on the first floor next to the ground. The second floor will probably be much better."

Zhao Yeqing took a glass of water and drank it down to wash away the aftertaste in his mouth, "It's not impossible. Anyway, this time is relatively free."

It's not a big deal to add a second floor, but it has to be well designed. The original roof has to be knocked off, but the fireplace chimney still needs to be avoided.

Mu Xi spread out a piece of paper and drew on it.

"I think we should leave the small section with the chimney empty and not build it. We can just empty that small area, or we can move the whole thing back half a meter."

Zhao Yeqing thought it would be good to move the whole house back half a meter so that there would be no recessed area on the second floor of the house. The spare half meter next to the chimney could also be used to build a balcony.

It’s not difficult to draw the picture, but the difficulty lies in starting to knead the red bricks again.

But there is nothing we can do. The current climate is like this, and there is no way to escape. You can't live in this environment forever. When you are young and have rheumatism, your waist and legs will be sore and you will be in trouble.

To dig red mud, you still have to go to the birch forest. Zhao Yeqing was worried about the danger, so he looked after the house and asked Mu Xi to take the four dogs.

After transporting three carts of red mud back in succession, Zhao Yeqing sat under the eaves of the courtyard and coded out the red bricks to be used piece by piece using molds.

Building the second floor is equivalent to rebuilding a house. It requires a lot of red bricks. It took the two of them more than ten days to get the materials together.

I woke up early in the morning and started smashing the roof with a wall-breaking sledgehammer.

There is also a layer of cement ceiling under the sloping roof. If the sloping roof is directly smashed, the house below will not be affected.

A cement ceiling can be used directly as a floor, but you need to apply an extra layer of cement and polish it again.

When polishing the cement floor, Zhao Yeqing missed the sander that the mason who built her house in Meishan had brought to her. The sanding and polishing could be done in one go, saving time and effort, and the effect was so good that she could look in the mirror.

Unlike today's cement floor, it is inevitable that there will be some rough and pitted areas that need to be smoothed with sandpaper.

Sand, wash, dry, build walls, apply cement, and dry again.

The rooms on the second floor no longer have wooden wall panels. In the current climate, mold is waiting for them, so they can simply be decorated with cement. They have to be left in the sun for a few days until they are completely dry before the two of them can move into this rough room. .

The windows that were originally planned to be placed on the first floor were too lazy to knock out and install them again, so they were all installed in the rooms on the second floor.

"Do you think those brick buildings in the tourist area will collapse over time? How about we try to pry back the floor tiles?"

When Mu Xi said this, Zhao Yeqing thought it made sense.

There are so many rooms in the tourist area with floor tiles. Even if they destroy one or two rooms, it won't hurt. What's more, this house has already been built on the second floor. I guess no new houses will be built in a short time. There is no need for anything now. When to use?

"Pry! At least the floor is not rough!"

Otherwise, I always feel like I'm in a prison.

The two drove to the tourist area and selected a restaurant floor tile. This floor tile was very large and light-colored. It was not that laborious to lay and the bright color would not depress the room.

However, it is not easy to pry out the floor tiles that have been used for such a long time. Zhao Yeqing never thought that he could pry out all the floor tiles intact. Even if the floor tiles are cracked and glued with cement, it doesn't matter if there are any unsightly gaps.

Just make it easy.

The two of them worked like this for two days, and finally got the number of floor tiles needed for the entire house.

Just lay the floor. The walls and ceiling must not be laid with tiles. In this humid weather, if the walls and ceiling are laid with tiles, it will be basically the same as a water curtain hole.

An air conditioner has also been reinstalled on the second floor. Zhao Yeqing is worried that if the weather gets cold again, he will have to move back to the first floor to live there, which will be more convenient if there are air conditioners on both floors.

In this way, you only need to wait for the cement of the floor tiles to dry before you can move in.