evening light

Chapter 13 Gutters
Guo Hongjing's house was bought by his father with bricks and built by himself brick by brick.

When I was young, I worked as a bricklayer for others, but I seriously built a red brick house by myself, which is where the family started to make a living.

Although this house is simple, it also embodies a lot of hard work of the parents.

Bricks are closely connected one by one, and each brick must be measured with a level, and a triangular cone, to measure whether the bricks are placed correctly.Is it crooked.

Use a brick knife to dip in the mixed cement little by little, and stick it on the previous brick.

There is only this house left in the world, this brick, is it finished?My mother began to fill it with two buckets specially designed for cement, which were only a little bigger than the kettle.

In order to make it easier to build bricks in high places, they set up a wooden frame. He would not fall down because there was too much cement in the bucket. At that time, there were no safety measures when building a house, and he would just accidentally slip on the frame. fall down.

The two walls on the left and right of the house will be built into a triangular outline, and the front and back walls will be repaired flat, with some necessary beams and columns interspersed inside, and then paved with wooden boards, and the last upper layer Lay the tiles and the house is done.

The house seldom leaks. Sometimes, when the rain is too heavy, the drainage system above fails, and the house leaks.

Sometimes the wind was so strong that the roof tiles were hung up, so my father had to find some posters that others used for stage promotion. They were actually plastic, and they could be used to cover the house to withstand the heavy rain.

After a few minutes, the whole body was soaked, and the sight was not good at night, so I had to spread it in a hurry, then took the tiles that my wife and daughter lifted up together, covered it, and pressed it with stones around it, or covered it again. watt.Tonight is finally going to be a little easier.

In this way, there will always be water after it rains. A ditch was dug behind the house, called the gutter. On the other side of the gutter, there is a small fertile field where more than a dozen blood-skin vegetables are planted. , can be used to boil water and mix directly.

Put various seasonings on it. The back of the blood-skin vegetable is purple, and the front is green. It tastes sticky and crunchy, which is due to the seasoning.

The leaves also have a unique taste, but for all leafy vegetables, the leaves were the favorite to eat when I was a child.Except for lettuce, the stalks of lettuce taste best when fried.

Lettuce is also comparable to touch melon, both of which taste very good when fried, and there is a very magical creature behind the gutter.

In the dry land under the tiles, it is protected by tiles all the year round so that it will not get wet. There are insects digging small pits. The soil in the pits is very fine, like a desert, but it is quicksand. That type, the sand in it is constantly flowing.

Sometimes Guo Hongjing was naughty and would use a small stick smaller than a toothpick left over from knocking firewood in the sandpit to stir up the mess inside. Find the initiator of this little desert.

Doing this kind of thing can make her stay alone for an entire afternoon in silence, while the little bugs inside are constantly struggling, playing hide-and-seek with her in the sand.

Sometimes after playing for a long time, her parents thought she had run away again, and began to call her home for dinner with a loud voice, but she hadn't played enough yet, so why did she go back.

Her little friends also looked for her everywhere, but she ignored them. These people today are not as fun as little bugs.

She started to use that little stick to make waves again, and when she got tired of playing, she went to look at the little purple flowers and some small gray fruits next to her.

The seeds are only a quarter of the size of a tooth, some are lighter in color, and the taste is okay when stuffed into the mouth, and the darker ones are too old, not sweet, so I don’t want to eat them.Time to go home and eat.

Only then did he slowly emerge from the grass.

(End of this chapter)