"See, is this okay?"

Looking at the thin steel wire in Shen Muhan's hand, Xia Mujian's eyes lit up, and he took it, and then picked out two and wrapped them tightly, and then picked up another tool on the ground, and fixed it at both ends of the tool with the wrapped steel wire, so that the tool for making bricks was ready.XshuOTXt.CoM (I don't know if you know if you know that when I was a child, a certain Chen's father made money by helping others make bricks, that is, tired and dirty work.) ）

A few days ago, Brother Erdan called the first few young people in the village to come over, Xia Mujin saw that they were malnourished but full of confidence, so he made a few molds for them to try.

"Uncle, aunt!"

As soon as he entered the house, he greeted Mrs. Xia and his wife.

Mrs. Xia and his wife like Erdan very much, but unfortunately there is no suitable girl at home, otherwise

"Jin'er, this ground is all paved, look, what else is there to do?"

Erdan admired Xia Mujin in his heart, looking at her as a teenage baby, it only took two or three months for her to change her home.

Now who is not envious in this village, two days ago he heard a lot of uncles and aunts inquire about her birthday, probably because they wanted to come to the door to say goodbye.

"Oh, no need, let them go home, Brother Erdan, do those big brothers you looked for a few days ago have time today?"

Xia Mujin walked to the door and glanced at the new place a few times, then walked back and asked.

"Xiao Tian, they're fine, I'm waiting for you to arrange it."

Hearing this, Xia Mujin nodded, and then asked his father to find Aunt Sixth and Sister Yanzi again.

Xia Forest didn't know what his daughter was going to do, so he didn't dare to delay, so he went when he heard the words.

The sixth aunt had just dried her clothes, and when she saw that Xia Forest asked her and Yanzi to come over, she wiped her hands and led Yanzi over.

"Sixth aunt, Sister Yanzi, can you help me find five or six sisters and aunts who are capable but have a good reputation, preferably in the afternoon, I want to hire them to do things for me for a few days, they can rest assured that they will give it when they finish it, not forty wen a day for lunch, and thirty wen a day for lunch."

When Aunt Six and Yanzi heard this, their eyes widened in surprise, and they immediately said yes, and then the two of them were happy to leave.

"Aunt Six, I hope they can let me go, and my mother can help watch it."

When the sixth aunt heard this, she moistened her eyes and sighed, and then led the swallow away.

"Brother Erdan, call those big brothers over for a meal, bring hoes and dustpans, I have something to arrange."

After giving the order, Xia Mujin said something to Erdan again, and then washed his hands and began to cook.

Half an hour later, Erdan led six young people in their twenties over, probably because they were used to being suppressed by the Wang family, and when they saw Shen Muhan one by one, their eyes were obviously timid.

Xia Mu Hibiscus just put the last dish of boiled fish in a big basin, these days let my brother make a big round table, a whole can sit ten people, Ming Yi helped bring the dish to the table, Xia Mu Hibiscus used a small basin to fill some boiled fish, and used a bowl to fill some pheasant soup and let his father take it to the sixth aunt's house.

Speaking of which, Sister Yanzi is half a widowed father and daughter after all, and it may not be comfortable eating with this group of men, and it will also cause gossip, so the way to do it is to send some over, and their family will eat comfortably.

"It's all from one village, and a few big brothers do it casually."

Mrs. Xia and her husband also greeted warmly, and everyone threw away the fear in their hearts and sat down.

This meal, Xia Mu Hibiscus is quite rich, the main dish is boiled rain, this is the male fish bought in the town yesterday, there are five catties, mushroom pheasant soup, hot and sour chicken offal, small fried meat, ginger fried snails, boiled amaranth, stir-fried green beans, cold purslane, and a plate of steamed buns.

Originally, a few people were still nervous, but Xia Mujian was a living treasure, and after a few words, a few people relaxed their guard, and they let go and eat.

"Let's just say, what's cramped, it's not that you can't see anyone, you still have to have a child with your daughter-in-law."

Seeing that everyone was letting go, Xia Muhibiscus said teasing again, Shen Muhan's hand picking up the vegetables, glanced at her heavily, and then stuffed a piece of big chicken into her chattering mouth.

"Eat more vegetables and talk less, your future husband will be unlucky."

His doting but gritted teeth made several men blush, they were all from here, besides, at this table, Shen Muhan had been picking out vegetables for Xia Mujian, especially this fish, and even the bones were picked out for her.

Xia Mu Hibiscus glared at him fiercely, drank a bowl of chicken soup, put down his chopsticks and ran into the house.

came out again, with a thick notebook in his hand, and a pen that had always been nondescript.

Yes, this is actually a pen, but it is not the kind of brush of ancient times, because she finds it cumbersome and laborious to use, and she has to constantly grind the ink, and this, just find some herbs to extract its juice, and it can be used as ink.

This tip is a swan feather on the feather arrow, and I made a small refill with some fine cotton stuffed in it, which can absorb ink.

Seeing that everyone had eaten well, he called everyone into the courtyard and let the pine nuts make tea.

"What's the name of the big brothers?"

Everyone looked at her suspiciously, Xia Mujin was helpless, this brick is counted by one, besides, her one by one to write down the account, otherwise when counting, you will count one by one!

"My name is Black Bull!"

The first person spoke, and everyone laughed, Xia Mujin looked at the sound, and it did match his name, because his skin was really dark enough, if he went out at night, showing a few teeth would scare a bunch of people, besides, he was the tallest and the strongest among several people.

"My name is Erbai!"

"My name is Ah San!"

"My name is Melon Seed!"

"My name is Sangou!"

Xia Mujin couldn't help but laugh and wrote down their names one by one, during which Shen Muhan quietly walked behind her and watched her unload the names of several people one by one, and she wrote them very formally, with a capable pen and a beautiful font, just like her person.

At the same time, he also fell into deep thought, why she could write

Not only him, but also everyone else.

"Uncle, I'm very good, you see you taught me for a month, and I can use these words."

After writing, Xia Mujin found that everyone's eyes were fixed on her, like looking at a monster, and her mind suddenly turned, so she said to Shen Muhan behind her, and glanced at him, as if to say: If you don't admit it, you are good-looking.

Shen Muhan shrugged his shoulders funny, and he admitted it, and several people breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing this, Xia Mu Jincai said: "I have an agreement here, if you think it is appropriate, press your handprint, starting today, you will be hired by me, if you feel that you do not agree, I will not force it." ”

Seeing that she opened a small thin book, which was densely packed with words, several people looked at each other, and they were all beating drums in their hearts, but they heard Xia Muhibiscus say:

"The meaning of this agreement is very simple, this brick was invented by me Xia Hibiscus, I will teach you how to do it hand in hand, but you are not allowed to start a brick factory after you have learned, if you want to start, you can do it, then I must take 50% of the benefits, this brick is calculated according to a penny, but it must be a finished product, that is, from the brick to drying, if it rains halfway, we have not had time to protect it, and it falls or cracks, then these have to bear their own responsibility, of course, if it is a natural disaster caused by floods or mudslides, etc., I still pay the same money, and there is, I have to absorb my Jian yì at any time. ”

This ancient money is 16 yuan, and one yuan is 160 yuan, so 160 bricks are one money, as long as they are skilled and willing to endure hardships, 500 bricks can still be earned at the end of this day, then it is 500 yuan, which is already a sky-high price for them.

Of course, this is also seasonal, and you can't do it in winter, it's too cold, and it's weirdly cold to step barefoot in the watered mud.

Hearing Xia Muhibiscus say this, several people's eyes showed a glint of hope, and they nodded again and again.

Seeing this, Xia Mujin asked everyone to press their handprints on the agreement.

Then he took them to the land he bought for the second time.

"Today, everyone will clean up these weeds first, and tomorrow morning, I will wait for you at home, half a day, forty wen per person, and you can come to settle the money in the evening."

Looking at this slurry-colored soil, the corners of Xia Mujian's mouth cracked, which was to divide the place for everyone, and after giving the order, he hurried back home, and saw that the sixth aunt had already brought a few capable-looking women over.

Xia Mujin did not delay, and led everyone out of their own yard, and stopped beside a pile of rice stalks, and then took the straw rope that had been prepared on the side and the bamboo strip six centimeters wide and four or five meters long, took the rice stalk on the side and connected it to the bamboo strip little by little, and then fixed it with a straw rope.

"Do you all understand? Originally, I wanted to calculate it by day, but now I will calculate it by the article, four cents a piece, everyone will do a good job and pile them together, and I will come to count them when I go back, and the salary will be settled for everyone at that time. ”

As soon as she said this, how dare everyone say the word "unwilling", they all found a place and started to do it, in addition, he asked Ming Yi and them to help collect these rice stalks, and they took them back at the price of ten yuan and one thousand catties.

As soon as the news came out, the villagers rushed to pull their rice stalks over, and Xia Muhibiscus found a big scale and took some broken silver to his father, so that he could take care of this matter.

"Girl, what do you have in your head, what do I want to do if I want to put you in my pocket and carry it every day?"

After finishing this qiē, Xia Mujian sat in the courtyard to rest, Shen Muhan saw that there was a thick tiredness between her eyebrows, so he stepped forward and pinched her shoulder, and said in her ear.

suddenly found that she was too useless, so she could only watch her go to command and command.

Moreover, such a wife is too dazzling, he just wants time to pass quickly, preferably three years later, five years later

"Uncle, let you relax for a few days first, and you will be busy after a while."

Xia Mujin glanced at him a few times, and then said with Guan Zi.

Early the next morning, Xia Muhibi and a few big brothers came to the new land, and then asked everyone to dig the soil first and trim the ladder.

In fact, this ladder is not the kind of farming, but a long mound about one meter wide and about the same as the ridge, and then a channel for releasing water was also built, after all, this brick can not be placed flat with ordinary soil, and this ladder with high and flat soil is used to put bricks.

Everyone works in the fields, and the village has also made adobe bricks.

Before everyone officially made bricks, Xia Mujin solved the problem of water, after all, this brick is water in addition to mud, she asked a few people to dig a large pond on the side, and then according to the principle of irrigation, the water was led over with a bamboo pipe.

When the official start of construction, she supervised on the side for a few days, and brought out the bad points for everyone to improve as much as possible.

In just a few days, Xia Mujin set up her first brick factory.

He built a shed next to the work of the Black Bull and the others, and let people move the rice fences that had been made in the past few days, and if it rained, they would cover these rice fences on the bricks placed to avoid being exposed to the rain.

Attracted everyone's praise again and again, bluntly said that she thought thoughtfully, solved everyone's worries, even if it rained in the middle of the night, everyone's home was close, as long as you ran to cover the things.

And she will also help everyone prepare ginger water every day, sometimes mung bean porridge, saying that it can avoid heat stroke.

The daughter-in-law is also grateful to the Xia family, and they can finally see the end of this day, and the hibiscus girl also paid two taels of silver per person in advance, saying that she is tired of doing this work, although these silver can't make everyone eat big fish and meat, but at least they can eat enough in a short time.

A big man, who has lived for twenty or thirty years, is the first time he has met such a good boss, and he is working hard with wet eyes.

Early this morning, Xia Muhibiscus got up and went to the river to wash clothes, and in the past few days, it was the first time she saw Zhou Cailian, and she was obviously much haggard than before.

And when she walked to the river with a basin of clothes, she was full of hatred when she saw Xia Hibiscus.

It's the end of summer now, and although the summer heat hasn't passed, it's cool in the morning and evening, like my mother is still two clothes in the morning and evening-

End of this chapter