Chu Ying put the bath beans made of soapberry on her hands and scrubbed them, there was not a lot of foam, but the washing was quite clean, flour and other things were more absorbent of oil, and the soap cleaning ability of soapberry was still very objective.

It took two or three days for the soap to fully solidify into a lump, and it took a little more foam than a bath bean. But the amount of this recipe is difficult to estimate, the alkali content in the plant ash is incalculable, and Chu Ying made these pieces of soap purely by luck.

Chu Ying put the bath beans and soap on the kitchen shelf, it is okay to do these things for a while, Chu Ying picked up the shovel and continued to dig the soil to make adobe bricks, the place that was dug before accumulated half of the rainwater, Chu Ying could only dig another pit to take the soil below.

There are already 5 simple sheds on the south side of the kitchen outside the fence, and the method of bending the tree trunks to make a platform against each other is really practical and time-saving, the only drawback is that it is formed by the bending of the tree trunk, so the height is not very high.

Chu Ying also thought about finding someone to do it, but she had no income, and these adobe bricks could not generate any income, these adobe bricks could be made by themselves with a little manpower, and the bricks that she didn't want to fire had some technical content.

Although it was fortunate, Chu Ying found that her arms were getting stronger and stronger, and she could shoot arrows far away several times, and she seemed to have become taller, and she worked every day so she had to eat 3 bowls of rice per meal, and she also caught up with her growing body.

When I first came, I was so thin and weak, as if a gust of wind could away, and now I am finally in the shape that a normal 9-year-old child should have, and there is no fat on my body during daily labor, and the flesh is quite strong, but it is not like the kind of bodybuilding that exercises.

"Chu Ying, what are you doing?" Chu Yingyan and saw that Wang Naiyuan was coming, so he leaned the shovel against the wall, "It's nothing, it's just making adobe bricks, I just saw that Li Zheng went to your house, what's wrong?" ”

"It's nothing, but I have to serve in conscription, and when the spring plowing and spring planting are over, I just came to ask if there is anything I want to help, and then I will have to go for 1 month, is there enough firewood at home?"

Chu Ying brought cool water from the kitchen and poured it for Wang Naiyuan, and turned the bowl on the unnotched side towards him. "What do you have to do in the service of conscription?"

"Build bridges and roads, manage rivers and canals, do all kinds of chores, fortunately you are a girl, or you will be miserable. Originally, they were only required to serve as an adult at the age of 18, but now they are required to serve after the age of 15. ”

"I don't have anything to do, I can do it, you can rest assured, I will help Aunt Wang if she has something."

"How many more bricks do you want? I'll dig it for you, when do you want to do it, I'll dig it out for you, and then you can make your own adobe so that it will be faster. Wang Naiyuan drank the water, picked up Chu Ying's shovel and began to work.

"No need, I'll just come by myself, you should be very tired when you have to go to conscription."

"That's nothing. Then I'll dig it out and you can carry it somewhere else, just like when you dug the pond before. Before Chu Ying could react, Wang Naiyuan had already shoveled a bamboo basket of soil and handed it to the ground.

"Okay." Chu Ying brought a few more bamboo baskets from the kitchen, these were made up when he was fine before, although they were ugly, but they could hold things, it was almost noon, Chu Ying hurriedly cooked the rice for the two of them.

Chu Ying saw that Wang Naiyuan's speed was still quite fast, so she used a flat pole to carry the two bamboo baskets filled with soil to the far side. "Isn't it possible to pay for this conscription and not go?"

After digging for a while, Wang Naiyuan took off his winter clothes, "Yes...... "I was digging some before, transporting some to make some adobe bricks, so the progress was very slow, and now Wang Naiyuan is digging and moving the soil by himself is much faster."

"How much money does it cost?"

"3 pieces of cloth or 1 piece of silk, what's wrong?"

"No, how much is it for silver?" Wang Jiyuan stood at the bottom of the pit holding a shovel and looked at Chu Ying on the ground, "That costs 7 yuan." ”

"That's quite a lot." When it was almost noon, Chu Ying cut the marinated meat, picked mustard greens, and then put some dried bamboo shoots to make a pot of broth, and the two of them ate together and continued to cook.

With the help of Wang Jiyuan, it was almost dug in 5 days, and a large pit was dug next to the previous pit that was 25 steps long from east to west and 10 steps wide from north to south.

Chu Ying took out two pieces of bacon and gave them to Wang Qiyuan, "No need, there are still them at home, don't go into the mountains by yourself in the future, go in from the place where I took you last time, it's good to pick some wild vegetables, don't go inside." ”

"Okay, got it."

"I bought it last time I was in the market, and I don't know if the size is appropriate, it's good for your body to wear a silver bracelet, and it will be better if you're weak and sick."

Chu Ying looked at the plain silver bracelet in his hand, although there was no pattern, but it was very weighty, "No, really no, I'm much better now." ”

"Take it, I don't have anything to give you, you can let go of this when you grow up, and you can wear it for a long time, I'll rest assured that you're fine."

When he got here, Wang Jiyuan was the best for himself, helping himself hoe the ground, helping himself dig pits, and often taking care of himself, and he didn't do anything for Brother Wang except for blindly causing trouble, which was really guilty.

"Silly girl, why are you still crying? It's even uglier when you cry, you look at you, you're so tanned, it turns out to be white. Wang Qiyuan hugged Chu Ying, who lowered her head and sobbed slightly.

"I'm white now, too. Don't speak ill of me, huh. Wang Yuyuan scraped the nose of Chu Ying, who was holding her head high. Yes, in vain, I'm gone, and I'll come back to you when the time comes. Chu Ying looked at Wang Qiyuan's majestic back and slowly walked away, it was really a blessing to meet Wang Qiyuan.

Chu Ying widened the pit he dug before, the same as the long one dug by Wang Yuyuan, and then dug out the soil in the middle, Chu Ying first dug a small hole to let the water flow out slowly, and when the flow was almost done, Chu Ying transported the wet soil to the ground, Chu Ying looked at the pool with some water was still very good.

Just like Wang Jiyuan said, you can raise fish in it, in fact, Chu Ying doesn't want to raise fish, because the villagers can catch fish when they go to the stream, so they feel that fish are not so valuable, and Chu Ying made the pit into a pond mainly to solve the problem of irrigation.

Every time Chu Ying is watered, it is well water, and a day of watering the wheat field will pass, with this pool, Chu Ying can shorten the distance, and maybe build something similar to a waterwheel to shake the water directly to the wheat field, but he is not so skilled, these will wait to see if they can be implemented later.

A few days later, Chu Ying concentrated on making adobe bricks, and then built more than ten sheds, lined up at the back of the house, and saw Aunt Wang carrying a burden and didn't know where to go.

"Aunt Wang, where are you going?" Chu Ying shouted at Aunt Wang on the slope.

"Go see my son." Although Aunt Wang didn't roar very loudly, Chu Ying still heard it. "Let's go together, I'll be right here." Chu Ying took some smoked meat and put it in a small clay pot, then closed the door and ran down.

"What are you going to do?"

"Brother Wang is so good to me on weekdays, I'll go see him and bring him some meat." Aunt Wang touched Chu Ying's head.

"It's a shame that you have a heart, if you don't be busy, Fei Qiyuan loves you so much on weekdays, my son is just good-hearted, haha." Chu Ying obediently followed behind Aunt Wang, although the road was also far this time, but after conditioning for so long and her body could still bear it with her often working.