Chapter 42: Preparing for Winter [Happy Mid-Autumn Festival]
Gao Gonggong and Su Jinyan didn't run slowly, and in the blink of an eye, they had already arrived at the courtyard of the concubines and ladies who were located behind the Tingtao Palace.
However, at this time, the courtyard no longer exists!
During the storm, most of the courtyard walls collapsed to the ground, and the figures standing inside and outside the walls in the smoke were blurred, and it was impossible to see who they were.
Ahem! After a few coughs, Yue Xi covered his nose and walked out of the dust quickly, like a monster with a demonic wind flying sand and rocks: In this place where we live, a fart can collapse! No, the bricks are there, so let's get ready to start construction......
The palace has been abandoned for a long time, and many houses and palaces are somewhat damaged.
And the courtyard where the concubine lives is a temporary courtyard wall, and the mud used to build the courtyard wall is all taken from local materials and shaved a little loess on the mountain, and even the straw and lime are not mixed......
Gao Gonggong can't understand the temperament of the queen mother at all, although he feels that she has done things unexpectedly, but after thinking about it, it seems that it is all for the good of everyone, so he only bowed his head to Yue Xi, and put on a posture of 'you are the master, naturally what you say is what'.
And Su Jinyan on the side first nervously looked for Jiang Lan's shadow in the smoke, and when he saw the figure who also walked out of the ruins with a dirty face, he finally let go.
Who can fart so much? Phew! Stepping on the big green bricks and staggering out of the courtyard that had no courtyard gate, Jiang Lan was covered in dust before he could say a word.
She took a few sips, but she still felt like she had eaten sand, and as soon as she opened her mouth, she squeaked and grinded her teeth, but she couldn't open her mouth when the words came to her mouth.
Yue Xi approached her with a smile, stretched out his arm to wrap his arm around her shoulder, and deliberately patted her arm a few times, until a puff of smoke and dust came out, Yue Xi smiled even less like a good person: Hey, if you miss me, how convenient it is to go to the front to listen to the Tao Palace, go out of the door of your house, enter the door of my house, enter the door and take off your shoes and go to the kang, nothing can hinder us......
Fart! Jiang Lan was so angry that she didn't know what to say, and blurted out rough words.
Yue Xi listened, and pointed to the collapsed courtyard wall with his hand: Lan Lan, you hold it back first, and if this brick is not enough, I will look for you again.
…… Jiang Lan stared at the unobtrusive queen mother hanging on her, and wanted to scold a few more words, but after opening her mouth a few times, she was angry and angry, and finally laughed angrily!
She smiled with her mouth, and several other concubines who were still trapped in the courtyard also covered their mouths and laughed together, but Yue Xi, who had been smiling hippie, stopped laughing: I have seen several places in the palace, only this courtyard wall is the least strong, in order to avoid it accidentally hurting people, I did it first, and then we are a few women in this backyard, what does it matter if you have a courtyard wall here?
It's cold when you see it, you have to be quick with your hands and feet, and now you can set up a few rooms, just use these bricks, build a big kang, if it's not enough, let's tear down the wall and tear down the house! You can't let people sleep on the floor anymore......
This is for everyone's good, so after Yue Xi explained it, the concubines and ladies had no opinions.
Everyone worked together to stretch out their hands to work, and under the instruction of Yue Xi, she took people to the bottom of the mountain to buy lime and wooden planks, and carried the two spatulas in the shop...... In this way, after three or four days, the big kang is well built, and people can sleep when it is dry in a few days.
With the big kang sleeping flowers, they are all smiling, now they are full of food and warm clothes, and they can still have a house to live in and sleep on the kang, what is there to be dissatisfied with such a day?
Yue Xi looked at the brick kang built against the wall, and touched the humidity of the mud in the brick cracks with her hand, she frowned and muttered: What lifetime does this have to be dry?
It's nothing if it doesn't dry thoroughly. Aunt Wang was sweeping the floor with a bare broom: spread more grass, and then spread the newly made mattress......
You can't sleep on it until it's dry. Su Jinyan said in a low voice: Winter is cold, and sleeping on such a kang is to suffer from illness.
Well...... Yue Xi nodded, and his voice was lengthened. When she opened her mouth again, her people were already out of the house: the women were looking after the house, and the other half followed me up the hill.
People are divided into men and women, and the women are looking after the house, so the men in the palace follow her with their heads bored.
Gao Gonggong was stunned for a moment, but he still stepped up and followed. He thinks that although he is a little less than a man, he is still a man at heart.
Bring a few axes and machetes. Yue Xi, who was walking in front, commanded.! Grandpa Gao's eyebrows skipped a beat when he heard this, and he faintly guessed her thoughts in his heart. He hurriedly walked to Yue Xi's side and stretched out his arm to stop her: Master, all the trees on Huagai Mountain have been sealed by the emperor, and they are all Qingliang Generals!
I know that. Yue Xi stopped, stood with his hands in his hands, looked up at the lush mountains and sighed: I don't know where His Majesty Xià, who opened the golden mouth and sealed these tree generals back then, is now?
The mausoleum of the first emperor is in the blessed land of Xingping. Gao Gonggong bowed and replied.
The old emperor who came with his mouth open his mouth had already died, and the queen's question was not easy to answer, so Gao Gonggong had to tell the place where the old emperor was buried.
Yes, in the blink of an eye, the first emperor has also collapsed for hundreds of years, right? Yue Xi's eyes were still fixed on the mostly bald trees on the top of the mountain.
This one...... The old slave didn't know ...... said that it was the first emperor, but there were three or four generations of separation from the current emperor, how did Gao Wen know what year and month that emperor died?
So, these tree generals who were in their prime back then are also old, and even many of them have passed away......
Let's go up the hill and collect their bodies...... Let them be buried in the ground.
The queen mother said a serious and strict word, and Gawain couldn't say anything.
As a result, the trees on the mountain that were easy to cut down and of moderate thickness were all said to be 'dead generals' under Yue Xi's guidance, and they were all cut down by knives and axes, and they died completely......
With wood, many problems are solved.
The Hanako dug a big pit in the soft ground, chopped up the dead trees into wood, stacked them neatly in the pit, lit a fire, and covered them with a layer of soil, and after a few days, a pit of good carbon was dug out and stored in an idle house.
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After more than half a month of busy preparations, the women sewed cotton clothes and quilts for the winter, the men burned charcoal to store and chop firewood, and Yang Jingshu also used the large vat of water in the palace to pickle a vat of pickles and dry dozens of bacon......
Before you know it, a thin snow has fallen on the mountain, and winter has officially begun.
------Off topic------
Before you know it, it's the Mid-Autumn Festival of the year again......
It seems that only at this time can we feel how quickly time passes......
Thank you to all my friends who have been with me along the way!
Mid-Autumn Festival, I wish you all a full moon and a happy family! o(n_n)o~