When Chu Ying returned home, she picked up the axe and chopped firewood, there was still a third of the firewood in the reed house, and she wanted to make a fence to enclose her yard first, and the fence could be cut by cutting willow branches, one foot apart, and obliquely. You can also sow elm pods or jujubes, and mix them when they grow to a person's height.

In this way, after a few years for the plants to grow up, the plants are crowded with each other, staggered, looking like dragons and snakes, birds and beasts are galloping, and some ingenious people can also make various styles of coffee tables along the growth, but Chu Ying didn't have the time to wait for the fence to grow, so he could only fence it with wood one by one.

Chu Ying sharpened the end of the cut branch, inserted it into the soil, and then knocked it on the other side of the axe so that the branch could be inserted deeper. Although the snow has melted, the cold wind is still a little biting.

Chu Ying moved the branches to the kitchen and cut them first and then piled them outside the door, and when the branches were almost cut, Chu Ying came out and inserted them into the soil one by one, because the garden was planted with ginger, garlic, mustard and leeks, and the place was a bit big, and it was more necessary to raise seedlings and ramie in the future, so Chu Ying made a big fence.

When the fence is ready, Chu Ying cooks rice, decoctions medicine, puts some wet gloves and cotton shoes on the stove, bakes hands and feet by the stove, takes out the ramie seeds and puts them on the shelf, washes the wooden basin with water, and then moves the medicine jar on the stove, and puts a clay pot behind it with water to heat.

In such an early spring bubble hot water feet is very comfortable, I have to go to Aunt Wang's house to buy more chickens, now the weather is slowly warming up is time to add more new members at home, but I also have to build a chicken nest outside, I don't want to stay with a group of chickens, a hen is enough to choke, and another group of myself is afraid that it will stink to death.

But things often backfire, Chu Ying didn't want to move her feet when she looked at the chickens in the backyard of Aunt Wang's house. "Don't dislike this, it's all good farm fat." Chu Ying watched Aunt Wang sprinkle the ashes of the grass and trees on it, and then shoveled it directly into a bamboo-backed basket, which was already half-full.

"See for yourself which ones you want, the ones on the far left were born in winter, and now the hair has grown, you won't raise them to death." Chu Ying looked at the chicks who were already plump up, it was better to buy some chickens that were easier to survive like herself, although they were a few pennies more expensive than the newly-born ones.

"That's it, I don't know how to choose, Aunt Wang, you can help you choose." Aunt Wang took a bamboo basket and pulled out a few chicks from the chicken nest. The chicks' wings and feet fluttered, and when they got to the basket, they wanted to crawl out slowly, and their hearts melted when they looked at their furry appearance.

"Are you going to hatch your own chicks? If you don't hatch, buy 10 females. Chu Ying saw that Aunt Wang had caught 10 chicks neatly, but Chu Ying was entangled in whether to choose a few males.

"Aunt Wang, you still catch 2 males, I'm afraid that they won't have a brother to protect them when they grow up, and what if they are bullied by other chickens." Aunt Wang looked at Chu Ying, who had grown taller after a year, and her childish face was a little sad, no matter how capable she was, she was still a child.

"That's 8 females and 2 males. You hold it and take it, and next time you bring it back to the basket. Chu Ying carefully took the basket and used her hands to protect the few chicks that were about to run out.

"Eat some soft rice first, don't freeze, if one chick is sick, others will get sick." Chu Ying gave 80 wen and hurried home, these 10 chickens are precious.

When Chu Ying returned home, she put the chicks next to the hen first, and it was really lively all of a sudden, Chu Ying used wood to build an overhead chicken coop against the wall of the reed house 4, which could be opened to take the chickens in and out, because there were not many chickens, Chu Ying only made one layer.

When the chicken nest was ready, Chu Ying still didn't bring the chickens over, but let them stay in the kitchen first, and the kitchen would be slightly warmer.

Chu Ying drank the medicine, fed the chickens and went back to the bedroom to put the bucket in the bathroom, and then hung the lock in the back room, the lock looked a little shivering, took a nap with the medicine, and when he woke up, he was sweating a little.

Chu Ying shoveled off the soil on the open space on the west side of the kitchen, dug out the more delicate soil below, added some water, added chopped reed knots, stirred with a wooden stick, knew that the two were mixed together, picked up some soil that was not dry or wet, and stuffed it into a wooden lattice with reed curtains, and when the wooden lattice was stuffed with mud, Chu Ying picked up the version of the wooden lattice that was put at the beginning, but it may not be long in time, and some of them did not make the trip.

Chu Ying added some soil to it and stabbed it with a wooden stick to make the adobe bricks more solid. Chu Ying didn't know when to pick it up so that it wouldn't scatter the adobe bricks, so she tried many times before she found a time for the adobe bricks to be completely out of the mold.

Chu Ying waited for the adobe bricks to dry a little, shoveled the more viscous mud into the basket and moved it to the side of the reed house, and pasted the mud on the wall made of reeds with her hands, because the reed wall was silky, and the mud could still stick when it was pasted up, but it could only be pasted under it now, and then paste it on the top when it was slightly drier.

Chu Ying looked at the mud on her hands, although it was cold but very relieved, this reed house was built by herself, every inch was her own effort, now it will be stronger with mud, and it will be more windproof and rainproof.

On the second day, Chu Ying moved some air-dried adobe bricks to the reed house, and continued to dig the soil and add water to stir the reed knot, these adobe bricks were extremely time-consuming, only more than 40 pieces a day, and it would take 3 days to wait for them to be completely air-dried.

It's good to have a sunny day, but in case of rain, you can only move into the reed house, this reed house is for firewood, it was not very big at the beginning, and now the chicken coop firewood and adobe bricks are a little crowded.

Chu Ying went to the back woods and cut down a few long tree trunks and dragged them outside the yard. Chu Ying didn't plan to build a house as sturdy as the reed house this time, but just to place her own adobe bricks, just to shelter from the rain.

Chu Ying made a frame and spread reeds as before, hung a reed mat on three sides, and left the other side empty, which not only ensured that the air circulation would not delay the drying of the adobe bricks, but also ensured that the adobe bricks would not be wet on rainy days.

But his own method of making zuò adobe bricks still needs to be improved, Chu Ying added straw to the adobe bricks, the straw is lighter and thinner than the reed knot, Chu Ying took off her shoes and stepped back and forth with her feet several times, and when the straw has been trampled in the mud, Chu Ying took the mud to make adobe bricks, and the adobe bricks in this way will be stronger.

With such a reality, Chu Ying added messy things to it, washing rice water or cooking rice, and also added bamboo slices into it, and the adobe bricks with bamboo slices were harder, but if you want to add bamboo slices, you need to make the adobe bricks longer to have an effect.

"Chu Ying, what are you trying to build?" Wang Qiyuan looked at the extra shed on the west side of Chu Ying's house, which was filled with piled up and scattered adobe bricks, and the color of the adobe bricks was still a little different, and the things added in it were a little different.

"I'm making adobe."

"It's spring, do you want spring ploughing? I'm afraid you can't do it, so I'll ask. "

Wang Qiyuan didn't come Chu Ying and forgot about spring ploughing, but his ramie seeds were soaked in water for a day, and he had to take them out and rummage for breathing oxygen, and the open space in this yard hadn't started hoeing yet.

"It's the yard that needs to be hoeed, and there's nothing else important, I'm not busy, but I haven't seen you for a few days, and I haven't seen you since I went to your house to buy chickens last time." Chu Ying poured a cup of hot tea with a bamboo cup and gave it to Wang Yuyuan.

Wang Qiyuan looked at the home where there was no partition and there was a curtain, there was a low table tied with branches in the hall, the floor was clean and spotless, there were four cloth cushions next to the low table, and on the low table was a row of bamboo cups and a clay pot with a lid.

"I went to the east lake of the city to transport ice and earn some money to subsidize the family." Wang Qiyuan said that Chu Ying hadn't figured it out yet, but there was no refrigerator in ancient times, and the ice needed was harvested in winter.