Rebirth in the end times: The whole family keeps a low profile

The duplex house that the Su family needed to build had a high ceiling, so they needed to add a mezzanine floor. Wang Jie's design allowed the lower floor to be used as a living area, including a living and dining room, while the upper floor was a private space.

Everyone likes this kind of design. Although 100 people can live in 11 square meters, it always feels a bit cramped. With their rookie level, they want to build a two-story house, but they always feel that their level is limited and they don’t have the confidence. The middle floor of the duplex can be made of wooden floors to reduce some weight. The duplex ensures privacy and maximizes the use of space.

The advantages of duplex houses are obvious partitions, high space utilization, and personalized design. The disadvantages are also obvious, ventilation and lighting require special design.

Wang Jie designed a skylight on the top of the attic that can be opened from the inside. If the weather is good at night, you can watch the stars in the small living room in the attic.

After calling in my cousin and carefully studying the drawings and feasibility, they decided to move because their current parking space had been divided out.

The three cars moved to the side of the road in front of the future new home in the West District. The neighbors across the street were already preparing building materials. It was obvious that they had spent a lot of money to buy whole bricks, and there were even intact doors and windows piled up next to them.

People from other places were also busy moving things over.

Under the guidance of his young cousin, Dad Su and his family began to lay out the lines, dig trenches and lay the foundation. Fortunately, the tools at home were complete, so they worked faster than others.

The Flying Dragon Team also stopped accepting missions. They picked up discarded bricks during the day and borrowed the Su family's tools at night when they had run out of them, and then did it the Su family's way. Xiaojing's family had no extra money and no cement, so they simply planned to build a mud house. The eldest cousin and the younger cousin also expressed their willingness to live in the mud house and wait until they had enough bricks before repairing it.

When the foundation of the Su family's house was laid and they were ready to erect the pillars, the three families who built the mud house went to the river and picked up several piles of mud.

Shouldn't Su's father go and give some guidance? After all, he has an encyclopedia and knows everything about how to build a mud house.

Today, Father Su came to my great cousin's land again and took a look. He said: Bring back these mud bricks and dry them in the sun for two days. After drying, use wooden sticks to break them into pieces again. Mix them with some lime and dried grass, and mix them with water to make them soft and hard. Then call Wang Jie to help make a few wooden molds for you. When the time comes, pour the mud into them and take them out. They will become mud bricks. Even if it is a mud house, we have to make it beautiful.

Su Zhibang's family was also studying seriously on the side. He liked listening to his father Su's science lectures to them the most, and he benefited a lot every time.

After instructing the three families who were building mud houses, I went to the land of Lan's father and grandfather to inspect the progress. These two families used bricks on the bottom layer and mud on the upper layer, which saved money and was also waterproof on the bottom.

Both families had neatly stacked some bricks on the side, and there were also piles of mortar.

Everyone was making good progress, and the Su family was not lagging behind. Every time Su Yun, Wang Jie and Su Zhangming went out, they would take out the needed building materials from the space, sometimes cement, sometimes wood boards or tools. They also sold a batch of processed bricks to Brother Dao, because Su's father said that if the family used all new materials, it would be difficult to explain the source, and the materials in the space were best used in places where others could not see.

Those who sold land in the West District are busy collecting materials or digging foundations. The Su family is also digging a drainage ditch. The sewage from their home will be connected to the septic tank on the base by digging a large ditch together with other families.

So five families dug together, and the children came over to help when they saw it. Taking into account details such as width, height, and depth, it took another three days just to dig the drainage ditch.

The Su family used a lot of wood that they had searched for when setting up the formwork. All five families came to help that day. Su's mother stewed a large pot of dry-fried noodles and made a large pot of sour and sweet sea buckthorn fruit tea with some rock sugar to satisfy everyone's cravings. The sea buckthorn fruit is dried and then used to make tea, and the color and taste are very good. A group of people celebrated together in two side-by-side light trucks. Li Yimin and Zhao Min, who were passing by with their children, couldn't help but come over to drink a cup of sea buckthorn fruit tea and chatted for a while before leaving.

Li Yimin couldn't help but praise them as a group of people who never give up and are very united and friendly in doing anything. He was very happy to see this and thought how great it would be if there were more such self-help and self-reliant people in the base. He would then have less worries.

Seeing them carrying soil back every day, he went to the site to take a look. This kind of soil is very sticky, and the white lime is very hard after drying. They probably couldn't find wheat straw, so they used dry weeds to intersperse it. Those weeds are like steel bars, so the earth wall is very strong. Even if it is exposed to wind and rain, there will be no problem within three to five years.

This is the wisdom of the Dragon Nation's ancestors. Few young people today know this, because where are the mud walls now? Before the natural disaster, there were rows of buildings everywhere in the countryside, and the walls were all made of red bricks and cement, neat and uniform. But I didn't expect the Flying Dragon Team to build mud houses.

Think about it, there are many people in the parking lot outside who have found materials to build houses, but their bricks and tools are always stolen when they are sleeping at night. Such things happen one after another. Every day when he passes by the parking lot, he can hear the sounds of quarrels, which makes him very helpless.

Some teams were more united and left people to guard the houses every day. Many of those teams were about to finish building their houses. Their houses were relatively simple and did not require much technical skills. Many of them did not even have foundations or cement. They directly used mud as cement and bricks to build walls. They put wooden boards on the roof and covered them with waterproof tarpaulins and considered themselves completed.

Similar to refugee camps, some places do not build walls, but just fix a few pillars and nail wooden boards or pull up curtains and call it a home. The worst ones are those who are assigned a position but do nothing with it, use other people's walls to shelter from the wind and rain, and sleep on the floor with peace of mind. Li Yimin couldn't help sighing when he saw it. If it rained, the floor would be wet and there would be no place to sleep.

So every day when he passed by the Feilong Team, he felt that comparison was the thief of joy. The people of the Feilong Team were willing to prepare building materials for a month just to build a house, and everyone was in high spirits. It was enough to see that these people had a good mentality and were not defeated by the disaster. Instead, they became more and more courageous, which made him admire them a little.

However, his house is being worked on by an engineering team from the army, and with Zhao Min looking after it, he doesn't have to worry about it. The progress is very fast, and it will be topped off in half a month.

The main structure of the Su family's house has been completed today. What remains is bricklaying and wall building, which is mainly done by Wang Jie and Su Zhangming. Su Xiaogu and Zhang Lili are moving dough and mixing cement slurry. Su's mother has gotten much better and has just been able to get out of bed.

There are relatively few idle people in the West District, and the four children in the family also help carry things and mix mortar every day.

However, their favorite thing to do is to go to their little cousin's house to help out. Wang Jie specially made a few more mud brick molds, and every day when they had time, the children would go to their single cousin's house to play with mud. They treated mud bricks as Lego parts and enjoyed the process very much. However, sometimes too much water would make the bricks shapeless, and too little water would make it difficult to make. The children who could not control the humidity well were often driven back by their little cousin, yelling at them to stop making trouble.

Later, he had no choice but to go to the river, pick up some mud and let them imitate him to build houses. The children cooperated very well. The adults built big houses and they built small houses. Su Yun watched the children playing in the mud from a distance and did not interfere too much. Boys should do more hands-on work, play in the mud and climb trees.

The five families were busy building the wall. Their houses were close to each other, so Su Zhangming could often chat with Su Zhibang next to him on the wall of his house.

Su Zhibang: Once the house is built, we will go out and earn points. All the food my family eats now is exchanged for points. I always feel insecure without points.

Su Zhangming smiled and said, "Young girls in love need a sense of security, and you, a grown man, also need a sense of security. However, the weather has been good recently, with clear and crisp autumn weather. It has rained heavily for several months, and I heard that green buds are beginning to sprout on the mountain again. Let's go and see if the house is ready after it is built."

Little Grandpa: That’s right, what could be better than mountain products? You can exchange them for points and fill your stomach. If I were 10 years younger, I would definitely go up the mountain with you.

Grandma: Come on, the last time they encountered that big snake, it sounded scary. Our old bones can’t run anymore. Last month, we went out to the base to look for nails, but we didn’t go far. We came back at night feeling exhausted. I just hope we don’t get sick when we are old, otherwise there is no medicine to cure us.

Dad Su: Uncle, aunt is right, you just stay at home and watch the children cook. Zhibang is capable and filial. Don’t always think about going up the mountain. There are so many ferocious beasts on the mountain, we would just be a hindrance if we go.

Su Zhibang: Hehe, Zhang Ming and Xiaojie are the most capable. It feels so reassuring to work with them.

Wang Zhihui: Yes, yes, we are most motivated when we follow Brother Wang, and our team’s points are higher than other teams.

Su Zhangming winked and said: Hey, keep a low profile, can this be told to others, be careful there may be ears on the other side of the wall.

Everyone was laughing while working. Xiaojing boiled some water and let it cool down. She asked everyone to drink some. Su Xiaogu washed her hands and went back to the car to prepare dinner.

Although they now sleep separately and eat separately, the Su family still cannot be too ostentatious. They eat pancakes or porridge during the day, and only at night when everyone is asleep and no one is around, they close the door of the RV and quietly take out the prepared rice from the space. Sometimes they serve it with a pot of mapo tofu or twice-cooked pork with green peppers, which were all made by Su Xiaogu in the fast food restaurant kitchen.

They eat up a bowl of rice and a bowl of vegetables every day. Now they have to do hard labor every day. If they don’t eat more, they really don’t have the energy to work.

Zhang Lili likes to read her former student newspapers to the children after dinner, while Su Yun likes to clean up the RV with Su Xiaogu and put everything in place before resting.

A month later, everyone's houses were built one after another. More and more houses in the west district were also completed. The weather was also particularly comfortable. Everything seemed to be going well. Su Yun didn't know when the next disaster would come. She had lived in such a muddle in her previous life that her mind was like a mess now.

But she understood that such peaceful and beautiful days would not last long. All she could do now was to make the house more solid and take one step at a time in the future.

After the house was built, there was a shoe cabinet on the left side as soon as the Su family entered the door, and on the right side was Noda's living and dining room, which was furnished with a set of wooden sofas and several stools. These were specially made for them by Lan's father using old boards. Although they were not painted, they looked very comfortable.

There are 3 rooms on the left, and a bathroom and an open kitchen on the right. The dining table is directly next to the open kitchen.

The living room was empty, without any extra decorations. Su Yun would find an opportunity to slowly move things out of the space later.

In addition to two rooms, there is also a small living room in the attic where children can learn and practice shooting.

The structure of the roof is made of waterproof wood with a slope, so that rainwater can flow down the slope. A skylight glass window is also reserved. The glass is made of the windshield of the Huolala that they were about to throw away.

There are ventilation windows on both sides of the house, so the whole house is not only bright but also very breathable. The 6-meter high ceiling does not make people feel depressed, but rather feels grand.

The one who has the simplest house is my cousin. It only has one bedroom and one living room. He sleeps inside, and outside is the living room, kitchen and dining room. As a perennial bachelor, he doesn't need to think too much about it. He just doesn't want to always share a room with his brother.

She also found a few door panels and asked Lan's father to make some furniture for her, so that it seemed comfortable for her to live alone.

Dad Lan is the busiest among them. Not only does he have to build the house, but he also has to keep up with the progress of the furniture from time to time. He has made thirty regular benches in the past two months, and he has also made a lot of wooden boxes for clothes, long dining tables, and window frames and door frames.

When other people asked him to make furniture, they did not take advantage of him. They provided materials and nails and took care of him, giving him a handful of old rice or picked up pots, pans, etc. as a reward every time.

After two whole months, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The details of the house were left to be improved in the future. Su Yun suggested that everyone have a dinner together in the new house as a housewarming party.

That morning, the five families made an appointment to go to the newly built service hall at the base to exchange some food.

At night, they cooked together at Su's house. When they didn't get enough sleep, Su Zhibang and Wang Zhihui went to pick some. When there weren't enough tables and chairs, Grandpa and Lan's father went to move them from their own homes. The children were running around and making a lot of noise, so Zhang Lili led them to play chess in the living room, while Su's father played chess with Uncle Wang. Su Yun, Su Xiaogu and others washed and cleaned in the kitchen, and made a fire to cook.

I have to say, it was only after I moved into the new house that I realized what the problem was. The smoke exhaust system was not good. The house was filled with smoke after a while, and it made people cough.

Su's mother was cracking peanuts on the sofa in the living room and was choked to tears.

After finally preparing the meal, it was already dark. Su Yun stared at the pitch-black night outside the window in a daze. It seemed that she remembered that the polar night would soon come.

It seems like it’s getting dark faster and faster lately.