Night.

At the foot of the mountain, you can see that there is a hazy fog in the gourd mountain at night, and the cold air on the mountain is rolling and settling to the foot of the mountain, and there is still a lack of a thick quilt at home, and the thatched quilt is really not good to sleep!

"Where's the duck eggs?"

Today is really tired enough, Yi Niang pouted and said unhappily: "Do you have to do things again, it's not early and you don't rest?" ”

"Making Songhua eggs is not a day or two can be completed, let's do it as soon as possible, take advantage of the New Year's Festival when everyone has a little spare money to buy New Year's goods, and they are willing to spend money to see if they can sell at a good price!"

Brother Zhao heard the movement in the house and also came to help!

Yi Niang moved out more than 100 duck eggs during the day, and the ducks did not lay many eggs in winter, and it took the entire Fengshan Market to buy so many eggs. There were several broken on the way, and the artist was so distressed that she almost squatted down and cried.

"Brother Zhao, go and pull out all the firewood ashes in the stove, and move the previous ones together!"

The stove of the farmer should be cleaned regularly, and the bottom of the pot should be scraped regularly, otherwise the soot will adhere to the bottom of the pot and the stove, and the stove will become smaller and smaller, and the rice will not be easy to cook! In the north, there are still people whose profession is to clean stoves and kang platforms for people, which can also make money.

Brother Zhao knew what to do when he looked at the duck eggs in this place, and he couldn't help but swallow another mouthful of saliva. I really have nothing to say with the third brother, I eat different delicious foods in different ways every day, delicious and fresh!

There is not much ash in the stove, and the artist will regularly clear the firewood ash inside, and then collect it into baskets, and there are several baskets of firewood ashes piled up at home.

In ancient times, firewood ash was used as fertilizer for crops, one of the most basic farm fertilizers, and the other was the excrement of people and animals.

If you take it to the market and sell it, you can exchange it for money.

Liang Chuan poured the ashes on the ground, dug out the shape of a crater in the middle, and put the ingredients he bought in the market into it, adding some lime, salt, star anise, fennel, ginger, and white alkali, which were not valuable ingredients, and there were many people selling them in the market.

Add a little water and mix it with cement and start stirring, and the firewood ash will become viscous when it touches the water. Then put the duck eggs in the middle of the firewood ash and roll them, and a thick hard shell will form on the outside. Drawing the gourd in the same way, the three of them worked together to wrap all the duck eggs in firewood ash shells.

After getting the shell of the duck eggs, put the duck eggs into the earthen jar one by one, pour the remaining firewood ash on the ground into the jar evenly, leaving no gaps, and finally put a lid on the jar and close it!

"There are still more than 30 years left until the Chinese New Year, and the time is just in time! If this thing sells well, let's make more in the future! ”

The two of them had never seen such a toss of duck eggs, and they were curious about what would become of this duck egg in a month?

Preserved egg?

The next day, Liang Chuan asked Yi Niang to carry the charcoal to the city to sell it in the pavilion, and run a few more times back and forth, just be faster.

Yi Niang knows Ye Shopkeeper, although she usually doesn't go out of the door, but Yi Niang is meticulous and steady, and there is generally no problem with explaining the key to her work.

Besides, when you come back, you have to buy some food or what kind of food, and Yi Niang can arrange it herself. He himself and Zhao Di were preparing to build a bamboo shed behind the house to burn charcoal at home, and it was about to be the New Year, and the end of the year was also the season when the spring rains began.

Liang Chuan gave Yi Niang a piece of bamboo, which was engraved with a few words of fifty catties of charcoal on the first day, and instructed that when handing over charcoal, he must let the shopkeeper or the person in charge of the shopkeeper write his name or draw a charge on it, confirm that he has received the charcoal, and save disputes in the future.

Yi Niang felt that there was no need to be so troublesome at first, Liang Chuan explained, people's hearts are unpredictable, there is a credential to save a lot of trouble in the future, Ye Shopkeeper is a good person, but the other guys are not necessarily, and after figuring out this joint Yi Niang, she happily went. It is said that I feel tired with fifty catties of firewood on my back, but this catty of charcoal can be exchanged for a lot of money, and it is strong to carry it!

After Yi Niang left, Liang Chuan said: "Okay, now it's time for us to get to work, recruit brother, you go to the rice field to carry some other people's leftover straw, if there is really no more, just beat some reeds by the stream and come back, the number will be a lot, and we will have to make a thick pile on the roof." ”

"Black nose go, work!"

When Brother Zhao also left, Liang Chuan pulled out the two heels of bamboo that he had cut down from the mountain yesterday. The roots of the bamboo are very strong, and it is most suitable for making pillars and beams, leaving more than three meters, slightly lower than the house where you live, and one side of the shed should be leaning against the eaves, so it cannot be higher than the eaves, so that the water will not accumulate on the roof when it rains, and can flow down along the slope. The thinner end of the pole is dug with two mortise holes, and the hemp rope is left to fix it.

Liangchuan dug two holes fifty or sixty centimeters deep on the ground, put two bamboo poles three meters thick into them, and used them as pillars, burying the soil that had been dug up again, and tamping the soil so that the two bamboo poles would not be unstable.

After a while, Zhao Di came back with a large bundle of straw, and there are not many people who use straw in this season, but in the spring, the unused straw will be burned by the farmers and turned into grass ash to fertilize the fields.

Liang Chuan instructed Zhao Di to smooth out the straw, bundle a small handful together, and then tie it into a piece, the thickness is not too thick, but it is very dense, and after a few more layers, it can achieve the waterproof effect.

There is no ladder at home, Liang Chuan is a human ladder, Zhao Di directly stepped on Liang Chuan's shoulders and held the wall with both hands, the wall is an earthen wall, two openings should be opened in the wall, and the bamboo pole is placed horizontally to bear the weight of the frame.

The two bamboos were originally ten meters long, and the remaining part of Liangchuan was divided into two and broken, because this grass shed needs to bear the weight of thatch, and there is no need to use the whole pole, and half of the broken can bear the weight of the thatch, and it can save the bamboo from being enough. Liang Chuan picked two thicker ones for Zhaodi, inserted one end into the hole he had just carved out in the wall, and the other end connected to the tenon hole of the pillar.

The four thicker bamboo poles are tied into a rectangular frame, and the two shorter sides of the bamboo poles are left with one head. Although the connection is connected by a tenon hole, Liang Chuan still tied it with hemp rope in case it was not strong enough.

Liang Chuan used it as a human ladder for Zhaodi, and set up the frame of the straw shed for Zhaodi back and forth. After a long day of work, a prototype of a framework finally appeared! Liang Chuan broke all the remaining bamboos, the thickness and size were appropriate, and all of them were used as beams, and the trabeculae were evenly spaced and tied with hemp rope.

Finally, the original straw slices were laid up piece by piece, and some key connection points such as the grass rope on the side were tied and fixed, so that a grass shed was completed in half a day!

Standing in the grass hut, looking up, the sun can't penetrate at all, there is no shelter around, and if the wall is also built, it can completely live in people, but it is a little simpler. Brother Zhao's room hasn't been bad yet, and I'll have to find a way to get it for him when I go back.

The shed is also built, the ground under the shed is repaired, the surrounding ground is slightly shoveled down, causing a small slope to prevent water accumulation, and the drainage ditch is dug out again, so that the water is discharged to the outside of the house, so that when the rainy season comes, how to have a dry place.

Next, I have to prepare for tomorrow's charcoal, and Zhao Di quipped: "The third brother has built this shed, so I don't have to worry about wind and rain in the future, so I will start playing with mud?" ”

"Let's get started, you should be able to do it now, you can get to work!" Brother Zhao is right, he is going to start playing with mud again, every day when the mud is up to burn charcoal and waste, the mud and water are more or less corroded, not to mention corrosion, the skin will crack after a long time, and there are no skin care products at home, and the pain is as uncomfortable as a knife cut!

Zhao brother is not disgusted, he works hard, all the work is done by himself, the third brother is now quite his own owner, their husband and wife treat themselves like relatives, they have to eat and live, and the clothes are also new, no longer like a little flower, do more work is also happy.

Brother Zhao held a large pile of wood back and forth, carefully piling up the wood in a circle, what shape of wood do you want now, how much wood is piled up, it is better to pile up Brother Zhao has a little experience, and after a while, a large pile of wood stands up like a small tower.

Brother Zhao gasped and brought back a bucket of water, and began to mix the land without a sound and was ready to start stirring the mud, and complained rarely while working: "I said third brother, this charcoal stove has to be re-pasted every time it is burned, if only there was a charcoal kiln like a stove, or a fixed charcoal stove!" ”

That's right! A word woke up the person in the dream, Liang Chuan was woken up by a sentence from his younger brother, why is he so dirty, he doesn't know the truth of reuse, can't he just make a stove. "Yo, young man, you can do it, you still have a little idea, do it well, you can't build a stove for a while, or you can only use this old way, don't complain, hurry up."

As soon as Brother Zhao heard that his opinion was adopted by the third brother, he felt happy in his heart, and said: "Okay, I know, don't call for help." ”

Liang Chuan asked: "Brother Zhao, you are more familiar with the Fengshan area, do you know where to sell bricks?" ”

"After the bazaar, go south, and when you reach the county seat, you can see a brick kiln. Bricks there are not cheap. ”

"Why?"

"This brick firing must use good clay, just like we make this charcoal furnace, digging mud and calcining, digging a little bit is good, it will not hurt the farmland, this brick kiln is different, make a little more acres of soil and hollow out. The manure in the field has been dug up and the bricks have been burned, and the remaining sand will not be able to grow if it is necessary to grow grain. ”

"So that's the case, so where did the bricks come from?"

"Of course, I bought it from this official kiln, but this one has no other semicolon."

"Isn't this an official kiln, how can it be sold to the people?"

"The money spent is in place, and it will be there."

"Oh. . . Oh... I see. Liang Chuan suddenly realized, patted his forehead, and lost himself to being from a public family, and this little truth was not the point for a while.