Chen Xu walked around his house and began to think about the renovation of his house.

According to the progress, tomorrow Niu Dashi's house can be eaves and main beams, and then after installing purlins, you can use mud to smooth the walls inside and outside the room, and at the same time you can start to build the earthen kang in the room, and after the earthen kang is repaired, the fire will be smoked for two days, and if there is no problem, you can cover the roof with thatch, and then the new house will be completed.

The situation of Chen Xu's family is similar, but it is slightly more complicated, because his family's house has been repaired, and the walls made of bamboo must be demolished first, and then bricks will be laid, and it is also very troublesome to live and stay in that way, so it can only be temporarily renovated room by room.

But before that, first to move back all the mud bricks that are still placed at the foot of the mountain, this is another super troublesome task, each of his three houses has twenty square meters, and more than one meter higher than Niu Dashi's house, the need for more than three times more adobe bricks, the thought of such a heavy task to fall on his weak shoulders of less than fifteen years old, Chen Xu's legs and feet began to tremble.

Knowing this, Lao Tzu should not have built such a big house with a monkey heart, otherwise...... Just fix the earthen kang?

Chen Xu's depressed eyebrows were tangled together.

"What's the matter with Eun Gong?" Yu Wuya followed beside him and asked suspiciously.

Chen Xu told him about the bricks, Yu Wuya's face turned white, and he waved his hand again and again and said: "This matter is difficult to do, and there is nothing that can be done!" ”

"How about making you bean dregs and scallion cakes?" Chen Xu seduced and said.

"I don't want to eat okara cake lately, stuff my teeth!" Yu Wuya shook his head.

"Spicy tiger jerky?"

"It's too hard!"

"Roasted pork ribs with bean skin?"

"Fire on!"

"Fifty-eight degrees two pot heads!"

"I don't want to ...... Hmm~, what is the second pot head? Yu Wuya shook his head half and was stunned, because this was a brand new term, and it seemed to be delicious.

"Erguotou, a peerless immortal wine, is a hundred times more mellow than the low-alcohol fruit wine of Qinghe Wine. If the earth does not love wine, there shall be no fountain of wine on the earth. Heaven and earth love wine, and love wine is worthy of heaven. I have heard that it is more than a saint, and it is as virtuous as a sage. If the sages have already drunk, why bother to ask for immortals? This wine is said to be two pots, although the grape wine is good, but it is just water, and this two pots are made with grain ** heart, it takes three steaming and three brewing to succeed, clear as a spring, mellow and fragrant, smell it will be intoxicated......"

"Engong, you are the head of these two pots...... Can you make it too? Before Chen Xu finished speaking, Yu Wuya was already excited and began to swing, grabbing Chen Xu's arm, his eyes flashing with white light.

"Of course, there's just no time right now! There are so many bricks to move, and when I fix the house, I estimate that it will be next year, and I will wait for next year...... Well, I will have time to get it slowly ...... the year after tomorrow," Chen Xu shook his head and said regretfully.

"No...... We can't wait until next year, let alone the year after next, such a superb wine will inevitably be made this year! Yu Wuya couldn't stand Chen Xu's shirk at all.

"But I'm going to build a house to avoid the winter, and there are too many bricks......"

"Engong rest assured, it's just a few hundred mud bricks, and it will be moved in two days!" Yu Wuya lifted the hem of his clothes and tucked them into his belt, rolled up his sleeves and ran to the foot of the mountain where the mud bricks were placed.

In order to prevent being wet by the rain, Chen Xu asked the villagers to pile the mud bricks neatly together last time he came back, just like a city wall, and covered with thatch, among which Chen Xu's family has the most, there are more than 400 pieces, stretching for dozens of meters, looking magnificent.

Although Yu Wuya was seduced by Chen Xu's second pot head, when he saw this brick like a city wall at this time, his face couldn't help but shake a few times, gritted his teeth and lifted the thatch covering it, picked up a piece with one hand and walked back.

The two places are two hundred meters apart, so they only moved once, and there was a slight sweat on Yu Wuya's forehead, mainly because the bricks were too heavy, two pieces of more than 200 catties, and there were 50 kilograms in the future, which was completely pure manual work, and the labor intensity was much higher than that of the brick movers on the construction site in later generations.

Chen Xu took out a hoe and axe from the room, and began to design and make the ondol inlet, outlet, ash outlet, chimney and other positions first, and when the bricks arrived, they could be built first.

Unconsciously, half an hour passed, Chen Xu was humming a little song and working happily, only to hear a pop, and when he turned around, he saw Yu Wuya sitting on the ground with a sweaty ass, and a mud brick that he moved back also fell to the ground and shattered.

"Engong, I'm afraid I won't be able to drink these two pots, I'm too tired, I really can't move!" Yu Wuya gasped and said.

Chen Xu took a look, and more than 20 mud bricks had been moved back, but he really couldn't hold on to Yu Wuya's appearance.

Although Chen Xu felt that Yu Wuya was a little tired, because this goods could be pushed and polished for an hour without stopping, but this brick was indeed heavy, and he could move up to five pieces in an hour.

If you move like this, you won't be able to move it in three or five days, and even if you finish moving, it is estimated that people will be tired and prostrate, although Yu Wuya has practiced martial arts, but he can't bear to like this, and this thing is still injured.

Chen Xu was distressed, but unfortunately there was no cattle at home, otherwise it would be okay to get a car, but it was a big thing, and the poor people in the village could not afford it.

Chen Xu thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of something that was once common in the countryside when he was a child.

Unicycle, also known as chicken car, also called sheep's horn car in some places, a wheel plus a frame, make a simple wooden bucket or simply put a bamboo basket on the line, the structure is simple and easy to use, the frame is relatively easy, just find a few pieces of wood to make it, the only thing that is not easy to solve is the wheel, if it is not strong enough, it is estimated that it will be broken after a few trips, but now you can make one out to see the effect.

As the saying goes, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and once you complete the work of making tools, you can greatly facilitate and speed up the efficiency of your work.

So Chen Xu asked Yu Wuya to take a rest first, took out the axe and knife by himself, set aside the wooden horse, and found a dry coarse wood left over from the last thresher, this coarse wood has been placed under the pergola as a stool, and it doesn't seem to be cracked, and it can be sawed down as a wheel.

After more than ten minutes of grinding with a copper saw, a round rootstock about half a foot thick was sawed off from above, slightly trimmed with an axe, and it looked very round, and then the stone mill was removed, the copper shaft and the ring were taken out, and a small hole was dug in the middle of the rootstock according to the size of the ring, and the copper ring was nailed into it and inserted into the copper shaft to try to turn it, and it was found that the rotation was quite smooth and flexible.

The wheels are there, and the next thing is the frame, which is a little more complicated, but for Chen Xu, who has already made a threshing machine and a more complex blank drawing machine, this job is not difficult enough to make him scratch his head, after drawing on the ground with a bamboo stick for a few minutes, Chen Xu picked up the saw and axe again to chop and cut, busy Soon the sun went down, and with Chen Xu's production, a strange shape of a small car with only one wheel slowly appeared.

"Engong, this car has only one wheel, how to haul the goods?" Yu Wuya reads a lot, and naturally his knowledge is not low, but he has never seen this kind of car with only one wheel, and he can't think of any brain-dead person who can make such a car.

"Bang bang bang~" Chen Xu finally used an axe to nail a few wooden bolts into it to fix the wheels and frame, and then threw the axe down with a clatter, wiping the sweat on his forehead and said, "Come, push it and try it?" ”

"Me?" Yu Wuya pointed to his nose with a confused face.

"Yes, this is what I made especially for you, and it is easy and fast to move bricks."

"Engong, don't be kidding, this car can't be put unstable, how can you pull the goods!" Yu Wuya not only thought that Chen Xu underestimated his IQ, but also slightly suspected that Chen Xu's IQ had dropped sharply recently.

"Who said that if you can't pull the goods if you can't put it unsteadily, there are still two legs that haven't been installed, I just let you push it to see if you can control it!" Chen Xu said speechlessly.

Yu Wuya had no choice, so he had to grab the handlebar and push the wheelbarrow up, but before he could take a step, the car was crooked to the side, he quickly helped the car up with both arms and then didn't take two steps, the wheelbarrow was crooked to the other side, and after seven or eight steps, Yu Wuya put the car to the ground, wiped the sweat on his forehead and said: "Engong, it's not as fast as I hold it with my hands with a car like yours, anyway, I've rested for two hours today, I'll move it for half an hour!" ”

"To say that you are stupid is stupid, I will push it to you!" Chen Xu rolled his eyes and helped the wheelbarrow up, and after taking a few steps forward, he became proficient, and then Yu Wuya was stunned to watch Chen Xu push the wheelbarrow around the yard with great ease, all kinds of convenient and easy turns.

Pushing back and forth in the yard several times, Chen Xu slowly found the feeling of pushing a wheelbarrow when he was a child, so he became more and more handy.

The wheelbarrow, according to legend, was invented by Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period, and the wooden ox and horse that can walk on their own are built into the wheelbarrow, which was later widely used, and the wheelbarrow has been used for a very long time in Chinese history and is also very common, this kind of car is convenient and easy to use, not only can carry goods but also carry people, in ancient times, poor families did not have ox carts and carriages, many men used wheelbarrows to carry their daughters-in-law back to their parents' homes, which was completely a necessary thing for home travel and even a dart game, and also used a wheelbarrow to transport goods, because in ancient times, In many places, it is impossible to pass through the two-wheeled carriage at all, but in New China, when the water conservancy facilities were overhauled in the fifties and sixties, tens of thousands of people pushed the wheelbarrow together.

After the verification, it was found that there was no big problem with the wheelbarrow, so Chen Xu quickly installed the two wooden legs, and the first popular wheelbarrow in the Great Qin Empire was officially completed.