After dealing with Zhang Qi's affairs well, the next few days were almost calm and nothing happened.

With the help of nearly 200 men, women, young and old, Zhang Ran’s house was quickly formed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It took only five or six days to build main buildings such as houses and warehouses. Except for some corners that need to be repaired and sorted out, other places can basically be announced to be completed.

The newly completed courtyard has a main house facing south and north, occupying two rooms (one room is about 20 to 30 square meters) and two ear rooms on both sides. The total area is six rooms, which is much more spacious than the original three old thatched huts of Zhang Ran’s family.

Moreover, the main wood of the new house was all good wood purchased by Zhang Ran and Zhang Meng and Zhang Shan from Xinfeng. Most of them were elm and willow, which were very strong and durable, and were all good materials used to make beams and columns.

The building model of the house adopts the more common lifting beam structure in the Han Dynasty. This structural model is built with main components such as columns, beams, and purlins. The nodes between the components are matched by mortise and tenon to form an elastic frame.

Its characteristic is that the focus of the house is mostly columns. When building a house, multiple columns are first erected side by side, and beams are erected on the columns, and beams are lifted on the beams, so it is called "beam-lifting type".

Due to limited conditions, Zhang Ran’s house, like the houses of other villagers, are covered with a thick layer of dry thatch on the top, which plays a role in preventing rain, snow and sun protection.

The floor of the house is still ground, and there is no flooring or anything like that. However, although it is ground, it is still smooth and smooth after repeated compaction and watering of sticky rice. This kind of ground is very smooth and flat. Even if people roll on the ground, they will not get any soil. The effect is not much worse than that of the bluestone floor.

The only disadvantage may be that when it rains or snows, the ground is prone to tide... Fortunately, the Guanzhong Plain where Zhang Ran is located is located in the north, and there is not so much rain or snow. In addition, the houses are basically all-wooden and have good ventilation. Even if it rains occasionally, it will be done in a day or two, which is basically not a problem.

However, this wooden house also has its advantages and disadvantages. Although it has a good ventilation effect, the corresponding warmth effect is very poor. It is better in summer and is relatively cool and comfortable. However, if it comes to winter, it will be miserable. Not only does it leak everywhere, but it cannot retain warmth. The only little heat in the house is easy to astigmatize, which will definitely be very difficult to bear at that time.

In order to make up for this shortcoming, when building the kitchen, Zhang Ran planned to dig a flue between the four ear rooms and the kitchen and build a kang in each room. When it was winter and the weather was cold, he could burn the kang to keep warm.

Since Zhang Ran's idea of ​​repairing the kang was when he saw the stove when he was building the kitchen, he suddenly thought of it. In order to repair the flue leading to the main house, Zhang Ranke has a lot of quarreling and arguing with Zhang Meng, who was in charge of building the house.

Zhang Meng's idea is very simple. If he rebuilt the flue for the fire pit, he must dig a ditch again on the ground of the house that had been compacted and lay a layer of bluestone.

In this way, it is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also requires special purchase of bluestone slabs, which costs a lot, so he disagrees with Zhang Ran for his "sudden whim". Moreover, he has never seen the kang mentioned by Zhang Ran, and does not understand how effective the kang is. How could he spend so much effort to "dove" because Zhang Ran said nothing?

However, Zhang Ran obviously did not expect to be frozen every day in winter, so he insisted on repairing it, and even planned to do it in one step, laying the entire floor of the house with bluestone slabs.

One of the two people started by saving money and practicality, while the other was comfortable and beautiful. It was naturally difficult to talk about it together, and the differences became increasingly greater and eventually they almost started to quarrel.

Later, Zhang Ran's mother Zhang Li came out to smooth things over and let the two give in, so that they could barely comfort Zhang Ran and Zhang Meng.

Finally, after some bargaining, Zhang Ran's idea of ​​laying the bluestone floor failed, and Zhang Meng reluctantly agreed to dig a flue in the corner of the wall along the wall on the floor of the house, and only lay a layer of bluestone slabs on the flue.

According to Zhang Ran's design, the dug flue connects to the kitchen stove at one end, and the other end leads to the kangs in each ear room. There are special bluestone slabs as partitions at each connection of the flue.

In normal times, use partitions to block the flue to prevent hot air from entering the house. When it is necessary to burn the kang, just remove the partitions and the hot air will enter the kang in the room along the flue.

Except for Zhang Ran insisting on his own opinion and unwilling to compromise when he was repairing the kang, Zhang Ran honestly obediently obeyed Zhang Meng's opinions and built various buildings needed according to the most common method of building houses in the Han Dynasty. He did not make any mistakes, nor did he rashly move the architectural style of later generations to the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, the overall architectural layout of the new house is full of the original Dahan country style. The front yard is in front of the thatched house and the back yard is in the back yard. The front yard is not large in size, and there is only a set of stone tables and benches, which are mainly used to entertain guests and to daily activities.

The backyard is very large, with donkey sheds, pig pens (live pens), chicken coops, and warehouses on the right, large sheds and several stone mills, barely a small flour mill making.

Not far from the small mound, there is a toilet specially built by Zhang Ran for everyone to use for the cycle of reincarnation.

Further apart, there is a vegetable garden where you usually plant some vegetables such as onion, ginger, sunflower and leek for daily life.

In this way, Zhang Ran can feed chickens, raise pigs, and grow vegetables in daily life... no need to worry about eating and dressing.

If you are free, you can bask in the sun, read books, and enjoy the beautiful and leisurely moments of pastoral life, which is also a good choice.

Of course, Zhang Ran has also spent a lot of money to build a house these days. Lin Lin finally calculated that no less than 30,000 yuan (mainly the food expenses of the villagers and the wood money), which almost consumed Zhang Ran's savings.

Although it costs a lot, in Zhang Ran's opinion, the money is worth it. Because the current living environment is the rural pastoral life close to his ideal.

Because the green bricks and stone slabs needed for repairing the kang and flue were not available for purchase, although the house was built, Zhang Ran could not live in for the time being.
Chapter completed!