Tonight, there were a few more sergeants patrolling outside Wang Hou's mansion, and it seemed that Mr. Cao, who had been reported by Xiahoudun, also paid attention to Taicang.

It's just that when the soldiers tried their best to protect Wang Hou's safety in the ice and snow, this calf's mind was no longer in the office at all, and he was frozen for two consecutive nights and couldn't sleep, Wang Hou was fed up with this broken day!

In two days, the coal stove in the backyard kept burning, and the brand-new green bricks had burned out hundreds, and the technology of this thing was lost in later generations, and the quality was one word, strong!

There are also Wang Hou's lime and clay, which are also finely ground according to Wang Hou's order before leaving in the morning, and burned in the furnace for a whole day, at this time it is piping hot and spread in the yard, in the winter, a few men are stunned to take off their clothes and shovel out of the yellow mud cellar furnace shirtless, all evil feudal society!

The only regret is that the coal is not found, these years the rich people burn charcoal, the poor people are out to fetch firewood and cut grass to burn, the value of coal has not been reflected, there is no coal coke, the temperature in the furnace is estimated to reach more than 1,000 degrees, and the refined soil cement is not of any superior quality.

Fortunately, building a kang does not require anything too high quality.

"It smells terrible! What the hell are you doing with this? ”

was abducted home by Wang Hou again, and as soon as he entered the yard, Cao Hongjie was so smoked by the smell of lime that he pinched his nose, and asked angrily with a little face.

However, seeing these things, Wang Hou was like seeing a baby, his eyes lit up, and he didn't even care about him, and excitedly beckoned directly to Wang Fu who greeted him inside.

"What about sledgehammers? Let's get started! ”

When I was a child, I lived in the fire kang building, and burned the stove by myself, although it has been more than ten years, but the coal stove that can roast a sweet potato and burn a bud rice and the hot earth kang in winter are still deep memories, under the temptation of the fire kang, in a group of family members stunned, the head of the family was stunned to personally wheel the hammer into battle, and in a few bangs, the thick bedroom and tea room partition wall was dried out of a hole.

"Move bricks! How many of you, close the cement, just this powder, add water together, what about the trowel? And the mason! There are no trowels! ”

In the admiring eyes of the two plasterers, Wang Hou personally took the bricks and mixed the mud to build the hearth, but after a square stove came out, he forgot to hit the iron furnace ring!

This will be discussed later, after the stove was built, and in Wang Hou's shouting, a group of family members sweated profusely and carried the fired green bricks into his bedroom.

To tell the truth, Wang Hou really can't remember the internal structure of the kang clearly, but he knows the function of a big topic, but it does not prevent him from imagining, stacking bricks along the root of the wall, stuffing half a brick every two bricks, and the other end is a whole brick to build a third, so that just like the hollow decoration left above the wall of the rural courtyard in later generations, a row of supporting bricks leaves a large number of holes for heat and gas to pass through.

He panted with a wooden trowel and built a row, and when he turned around, he saw that the sun was about to set, and a large group of family members behind him plus Cao Hongjie were still staring at it with big eyes, full of sadness, Wang Hou launched the old man again.

"What are you doing in a daze? Don't hurry up and help, you can't finish building today, and all of them will hit the board! ”

As soon as he heard this, Wang Fu was the first to stir up, and he was also angry and stomped his feet.

"If you don't go up to work, what do you want to do such menial work? It's all sold in the market! ”

This double bush threat, all of a sudden stimulated the "working people" infinite "enthusiasm for production", this thing at a glance, more than a dozen men moved bricks to move bricks, plastered mud, the speed is fast, eight meters long, more than three meters wide, more than half a meter high kang body gradually revealed a rudimentary shape.

There is no electricity these days, and it is difficult to do any work after the sun sets, and with the family to take over, Wang Hou can also aim at the last difficulty, the chimney.

Fortunately, this thing existed in this era, and the masons given by Chen Deng also repaired it, and in Wang Hou's shouting, the two masons were familiar with the road and used bricks to pile up in the other corner of the kang.

The three servants below handed the bricks from the outside, and the two of them stepped on the scaffolding to lay the bricks, and finally, before the sun set the last rays of the sun, they dried the tiles on the roof and pushed out an ugly chimney.

In the end, there is only dust left, a row of bricks are neatly placed on the kang surface with cement, and then a layer of lime is smeared with the remaining lime, even if the typical Northeast fire kang is almost built, but in Cao Hongjie's speechless eyes, looking at it, Wang Hou is wow and burst into tears, the cement has to dry for at least a day, looking at the hot kang head can't sleep, and it has to be frozen tonight.

Fortunately, after failing to make a plan, silently staring at the kang that he was still plastering for a few seconds, Wang Houzao slapped his head again.

"By the way, this one's duck down! Call all the spinners under my name again! ”

In Cao Hongjie's speechless eyes, a large pot of poultry-smelling fluff soaked in alkaline water was brought up by the domestic servants, and in Wang Hou's babbling, next to a brazier was roasted and dried on the spot, and then a piece of precious silk was cut into small pieces without pity, and in Wang Hou's order, several maids also began to work in the dark, filling the dried chicken down and duck down into small pieces of silk, and then sewing the stitches into small pockets.

I really couldn't stand Wang Hou's longing eyes, just like staring at the peerless beauty and couldn't take a step, Cao Hongjie pulled his ear and held the account book, dragged Wang Hou out of the room, and while walking, Cao Xiaoniu was still shouting fiercely.

"Work hard !!"

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In the second half of the night, Cao Hongjie, who was accustomed to the cold of this era, was still able to lie on the edge of the brazier and squint for a while, but Wang Hou couldn't sleep at all, and he suffered until dawn.

However, he also cleaned up all the book inventory of the 20 warehouses of Xudu Taicang, and built the library for a year, including some previous introductions, written on the bamboo slips with a total of 171 volumes, more than 300 catties, but written on paper, more than 100 pages of brochures are only 20 volumes in total, and each volume is only about one-thirds of the book, no wonder the ancient mobilization of a soldier and horses grain and grass has to be protracted, which can be seen from this efficiency.

Early the next morning, this time before Wang Hou held the chicken soup jar and drank it full, the door of the mansion was already clanging, and the black circles under his eyes followed Wang Fu to open the door, the vermilion door had just opened, and Brother Xiahou, who was wearing a black blindfold in full armor, was already quite a social fist, and the armor leaves of his body shook loudly.

"Wang Lingguan, check the warehouse!"

There are a lot of major events in the world, Cao always needs to take care of a lot, too much storage of grain does not seem to be one of his worries, Cao Cao does not know how much grain he has in his warehouse, it is estimated that he was also shocked by the number brought back by Xiahoudun yesterday, this time not only lined up Xiahoudun, but also sent more than a dozen scribes from the Prime Minister's Mansion to follow Wang Hou to check the warehouse.

With the help of manpower, the progress of the day was much faster, and it was easy to check the remaining sixteen granaries and 320 grain cellars, but the situation was still not objective, basically except for corruption, the actual reserves remained at about one-third, and the book reserves of the entire Xudu Taicang were as much as 970,000 stones, but in fact only 290,000 stones could be eaten.

This Wang Hou's task has also been completed, after checking all the warehouses, he directly handed over the twenty account books to Xiahoudun and asked him to take them back to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and let Mr. Cao go to the fire himself, with the actual reserves here, and then stare at every grain in and out of the warehouse after death, he can completely get rid of it, and he is no longer afraid that Cao Dada will deduct any black pot for him.

However, this time he still came back with an uninvited guest, and he returned to the house in a two-wheeled carriage in a daze, and this Wang Fu went out of the house to greet him, and the confused Wang Hou was excited, and then he exclaimed in dismay.

"The account books are all checked! Why did you come back with you? ”

Following him, Cao Hongjie was riding her jujube rouge horse as always, elegantly following behind his carriage, sleeping in a daze, he didn't even pay attention.

Hearing him exclaim, Cao Hongjie was arrogant and raised his little brain, and hummed angrily: "You will tear down the bridge when you cross the river?" How about a good meal for me? You haven't been invited yet! Miss Ben won't let you go until then! ”

I haven't invited you to drink chicken soup in the past two days? Wang Hou couldn't help muttering in his heart. But in my heart, I already regard this girl as my pillow person, and I will come back when I come back, it's no big deal, Wang Hou, who is used to the life of the feudal lord as a powerful man, shook his head listlessly at Wang Fu: "Don't help the young grandmother get off the horse and go home!" ”

"What young grandmother, Miss Ben is not that old?"

In this era, there is no such thing as a young grandmother, humming, but Cao Hongjie still jumped off the horse with great interest, without Wang Fu to greet him, he had already trotted into the house, and the old housekeeper Wang was smiling, and Wang Hou himself yawned greatly.

"Lao Wang, have you done everything you did?"

"Back to the master, in addition to the charcoal is still looking, the clothes have been sewn, and the stone bed that the master ordered to build yesterday has also been dried for a day, and it is basically dry!"

There is no coal now, which is indeed a little disappointing for Wang Hou, but the down jacket and hot kang have been built, at least there is no need to freeze tonight, listening to this report, Wang Hou couldn't help but shake up, and then jumped out of the car briskly and walked inside.

The second entered the courtyard next to the main hall, in his big bedroom, sure enough, the neatly plastered cement was dry, and because the processing was very fine, there were basically no cracks or anything, Cao Hongjie was rolling on it, and when she saw Wang Hou coming in, she hummed disdainfully: "Hard and cold, I really don't know what you are doing with this effort?" ”

On the other side, Wang Houyao's big down jacket has been sewn, and it still looks like an official uniform on the outside, and a layer of silk has been added to it, but because of the sewing of small silk bags full of fluff, a small bag bulges out on the outside.

Throwing the robe on his body aside like garbage, Wang Hou hurriedly put on the big robe on the kang, and the warmth of the down instantly raised his body temperature by more than ten degrees, and he exhaled the turbid breath comfortably, Wang Hou smiled happily.

"Of course, I can't see anything now, but I don't know until I burn it! King pole, on carbon! ”

"What is there to be proud of in a well-dressed beast and wearing a feather! Hey, wait for me! ”

disdainfully mocked him, but seeing Wang Hou wearing a new coat and walking to the room on the side, this girl got up again again, took two steps and slipped over.

Curiosity kills cats, women are the same attribute as cats, and she pretends not to care about Wang Hou's fanfare for one night, but she is actually too curious.

The black carbon fire was burned red, and it burned vigorously in the stove, and the lid of the stove was covered, and the entire fire kang suddenly exuded heat, this time not only Cao Hongjie was rolling on the kang, but Wang Hou, who was wearing a big down jacket, was also comfortable and went up, and let out a long breath of turbidity.

"It's one step closer to food and clothing, and finally I don't have to be frozen!"