Chapter 274: Something to Do
The day after Xiaoding returned home, everyone in the family resumed their daily life and was busy with their own work. Xiao Ding is the only one, with nothing to do, bored, going around the house by himself, thinking about what he should do?
Xiao Ding spun around, and he suddenly remembered the hill behind him. I thought to myself, why don't you go around the hill and see how to plan on the mountain.
Pushing the door out of the house, a person walked towards the back mountain.
At the foot of the mountain, he saw Xiaofu skiing with Ou Mulin on the slopes.
The snow some time ago, although Yongzhou was not as big as Jizhou and Jinzhou, it also rained a little, and the slopes were also snow-white.
The child's world is very simple, although the snow is not heavy, Xiaofu took the wooden climbing plow and took Ou Mulin, and the two of them slid down the hillside again and again, and they had a lot of fun.
When he came to the hillside, he saw the thirty or forty horses in the woods. In fact, when Xiao Ding joined the army, he rode away more than a dozen horses, and when they rode these horses, they did not all ride back, and some of them had unfortunately died on the battlefield.
However, when Zhao Hu and the others came back from Yongzhou City, the people who didn't have horses all bought horses again, after all, each of them was rewarded by Zhizhou, and there was no shortage of silver.
Therefore, when they came back, they still came back on horseback, and after Xiao Ding came back, he brought back three horses, and the number of horses in the back mountain not only did not decrease, but increased by two.
The waterhole on the mountainside, which had been stopped halfway because it was too cold to use cement, was now frozen because the ground was cold, and the waterhole could hold water. When filled, the overflowing water flows down a small stream to the foot of the mountain, where it joins with the water flowing down from the rock wall on the other side of the hill, and then flows along the pre-dug ditch to the farmland south of the village.
Ding climbed to the top of the mountain and came to the two caves again. In this cave where hot spring water flows out, Second Uncle Niu has already arranged for someone to clean it up. On the other side of the spring, a pond was carved into the stone floor, which could be used for bathing in the hot springs in the future.
The water flows out of the cave and splits into two streams, one leading to a cistern on the mountainside, where the horses and pheasants and hares of the mountain can drink. The other stream flows directly down from the vertical stone wall on the east side and flows into the small stone pool at the bottom of the mountain, which is used for the daily water of the Tian family.
Xiao Ding looked towards the foot of the mountain on the east side of Xiaoshan, and suddenly found the coal mine pit they had found before joining the army. Suddenly, it occurred to me why no one in the family burned coal?
Looking at the appearance of the pit, there is very little mining, and it seems that the people in the village rarely burn coal.
Why is that?
In the morning, he also saw Ou Muyun and Xiao'e going out to chop wood together, it seems that people in this era are still not used to using coal!
Xiao Ding guessed that people in this era are not used to using coal, the first may be that they dislike coal is not easy to ignite, they usually use flint and fire knives to ignite the fire, and if you want to ignite the coal, you still need to ignite the firewood first. The second may be because the fire of coal is relatively slow, if coal is used for cooking and stir-frying, it is far less convenient than burning firewood, and it may be difficult to ignite the coal every time it is tossed for half a day, but the coal fire that has just been lit is not hot enough, and the stir-fry is not cooked for half a day, and after the coal fire is completely ignited, the dishes in the pot may be burned.
Xiao Ding withdrew his gaze from the coal mine, thinking in his heart, how to make full use of such a good resource in the village?
Turning his head, he looked at the flat land on the top of the mountain, and thought to himself, after a while, he can start construction, and build a wooden house on the top of this mountain, and live alone in it, condescendingly, wouldn't it be happy!
He marked the location where he was going to build a wooden house, and then walked down the hill, and when he saw Xiaofu and the horses again, he thought to himself that Xiaofu had reached school age, even if he didn't send him to a private school, he had to follow Zheng Die'er to read and write together! You can't let him just play like this all day.
As for the horses, you can first build some stables at the foot of the mountain, and then put some fences on the ground for the time being to prevent the horses from running around.
Xiao Ding came to the foot of the mountain, selected the location where he wanted to build the horse shed, marked it, and then walked towards the vegetable greenhouse.
After entering the greenhouse, Xiao Ding told Zhao Laixi and Zhao Hu about the idea of building a horse shed, and everyone unanimously agreed, and said that they would start working in the afternoon.
So, after lunch, everyone began to cut timber, dig pits and bury piles, and build horse sheds.
You don't need to use mud to build a stable, dig a few pits, bury wooden stakes, erect a shelf, and cover it with a straw curtain so that it doesn't leak rain.
In this era, there is no concept of indiscriminate felling, the west of the village has been to Luoxia Mountain, all of which are primeval forests, there are many timbers, everyone has a lot of manpower, and the work is fast, and the grass curtains are also made up by Tian Dabao in the morning. So, in just one afternoon, we built a row of stables at the foot of the mountain, enough for the horses to rest.
Then Xiao Ding commanded everyone to build some wooden fences to stop the horses on the mountain from running around.
After the wooden fence was built, Xiao Ding told Xiaofu and Ou Mulin that they didn't have to come to the back mountain to watch the horses in the future, and they would go to learn to read and read with Zheng Die'er's sister in the future.
When he was about to call it a day in the evening and go back, Xiao Ding looked at today's masterpiece and finally grinned, this day, he finally found what he could do.
This shows how happy it is to have something to do, and how hard it is to have idle and boring days!
When he finished eating, Xiao Ding's mind began to think about what he should do tomorrow.
At this time, I heard Zhao Laixi say: "The batches of vegetables planted on the greenhouse can be picked again, and I can sell vegetables again tomorrow." ”
Xiao Ding was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "Then I'll go to the county tomorrow morning to deliver vegetables." ”
Since Zhao Laixi and them came back, the people who went to the county to deliver food every day were replaced by Tian Dabao and Zhao Hu, and the other car was sent to the town by Zhao Laixi.
Xiao Ding was worried that he had nothing to do tomorrow, and when he heard that he could deliver food, he hurriedly took this errand to himself.
The family is all looking forward to Xiao Ding, and seeing that Xiao Ding took the initiative to take care of the errand, others have no objections.
As soon as Xiao Ding thought that he could go to Xiangmanlou in the county seat tomorrow, he couldn't help but think of Han Luer, the daughter of the shopkeeper of Xiangmanlou, I don't know, if I can see this little girl when I deliver food tomorrow?
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