Before the sun set, all the wool dried in the paper mill had been dried, and after the wool was collected, Chen Xu found You Liu Po and asked him to help find a few women who could spin thread.

With wool, you need to spin it into wool first, these wool are soft enough, there should be no problem with spinning into wool, the problem is that Chen Xu can't, and it's not necessary, now he is a lidian, how can he do this kind of rough work? He was only in charge of commanding, and the work of spinning should be the specialized skill of his fellow women.

Soon Liu Po found five women, who should be a few good spinners in the town, Chen Xu let them see the wool, and after saying the thickness and requirements, he asked each of them to take two baskets of wool back to spin.

Spinning is actually very simple, generally with a spindle, in fact, just a wooden stick, one end thick and one end thin, first the twine with a bamboo brush into a very fine and fine fiber filament, and then twist the spindle with your hands, so the fine hemp silk will be wound into a thin thread, flexible hands and feet can spin dozens of zhang in an hour, Chen Xu saw his mother Chen Jiang spun twine, the principle is to rub the string, but it is much faster than rubbing it by hand.

If there is a spinning wheel, the speed is many times faster, and some people in the town have spinning wheels at home, so it doesn't matter what these women spin with when they go home, Chen Xu just needs to get the result.

And the wool that Zhao Qing brought this time is thick and fine, and only three of them are soft enough to be used to weave sweaters, but Chen Xu still decided to spin them into wool first, regardless of the thickness, and if they can't weave sweaters, they can be woven into blankets when the time comes, and there is no waste of materials, otherwise it would be a pity to lose them, and these wools can basically be concluded to be brought back from a long distance in the northwest.

Several women are really diligent in their hands and feet, and the next afternoon they have successively sent the spun wool over, the coarse wool yarn is thicker, and the soft wool is thinner, Chen Xu opened a few meters and looked at it, the thickness is more uniform, although it is slightly rough and the color is monotonous, but the toughness is very good, it is not easy to tear off, and it fully meets the expectations and requirements, so Chen Xu was very happy to give twenty dollars per person, and several women went back happily.

Although more than 100 catties of wool are countless times smaller than the original wool, they are still packed in two large baskets, and Chen Xu has already packed up the things to take home, bottles and cans and two large baskets of ores of various colors, as well as a few wild ginseng and many spices for cooking, a box of crystals, as well as grinding tools, candy, rice, sorghum, wine and grape vinegar and other messy seven or eight baskets, hired four horses to carry the goods, and then asked Liu Po to escort two hunters with him, and then left Qinghe Town with Yu Wuya and returned to Xiaohe Village.

Now that the farm is over, the school has been on winter vacation, the children have to go home to help prepare firewood for the winter, the eight children in Xiaohe Village have gone home ten days early to help, and the last batch of wine in the sugar and wine workshop has also been brewed, all of them have been sent to the cave for storage, and the sugar can continue for a while, but now the villagers of Shili and Eight Villages basically have no time to go up the mountain to pick wild fruits, and under the repeated supervision of several pavilion chiefs, they have stepped up the construction of warm ondols, and some rooms are too dilapidated to avoid the cold. Chen Xu also asked the village to organize people to help repair the house to ensure that everyone could survive the winter safely.

Chen Xu has done everything he can do, and as for what it looks like in the end, he can only look at God's eyes.

The pack horse clanked all the way, and Chen Xu had already walked well on the twenty-mile mountain road, and now even with his eyes closed, he clearly knew where to raise his legs and where to turn.

Autumn is beautiful, the forests are dyed, and the mountains and fields are full of red and yellow colors.

The leaves of the persimmon trees have long since fallen, the branches are full of red persimmons, and the beautiful wild birds are flying among the branches of the mountain forest, and on the ridge, from time to time there is a play of monkeys, and these monkeys sometimes jump on the road and throw stones and wild fruits at the passers-by.

"Bang~" The hunter who walked in the front slammed the gong, and suddenly the mountains and forests were like a hornet's nest that had been stabbed, hundreds of birds were startled and went in all directions, and the monkeys on the mountainside were also frightened and fled, and soon there was a loneliness between the mountains, only the sound of horses' hooves and the sound of snorting could be heard.

Chen Xu woke up from his contemplation and sighed as he looked at the rolling mountains in front of him.

The Great Qin I saw was definitely different from the Great Qin that later generations only understood by relying on a few bundles of bamboo and wood slips, a huge Great Qin Empire, could it be that a few bundles of Yunmeng Qin Jian could be recorded, and the harsh Qin Law that had been criticized by later generations for thousands of years was really the reason for his collapse? What did Qin Shi Huang really look like? Is it a fat man? How credible is the history of Qin recorded in the historical records......

"Brother~" A childish and familiar shout woke him up from his reverie again, and he found that he had walked to his door.

Xing'er was holding Niu Xiaochun and cheering excitedly, and her mother Chen Jiang also stood at the door with a gentle face to greet her, after a few months of worry-free life, her body began to slowly appear some of the maturity and color that a woman of this age should have, and that touch of misery has long disappeared in happiness and joy.

"Brother Xu, Brother Xu, you're finally back!" Before Chen Xu dismounted and said hello, Niu Dashi ran over anxiously.

"Hey, what's going on on your face?" Chen Xu looked at a scratch mark on Niu Dashi's face and asked in surprise.

"The day before yesterday, when I was building a house, the adobe bricks fell and almost hit my head!" Niu Dashi explained.

"What's the matter, the wall is down?" Chen Xu asked nervously.

"No, no, it's because the adobe bricks made are too heavy, the wall is too high halfway, and the adobe bricks don't fall down without lifting them up, if it weren't for my uncle pulling me, you wouldn't be able to see me today!" Niu Dashi hurriedly said.

Chen Xu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Let's go, go and see what the masonry looks like!" ”

In fact, the location of Niu Dashi's new house is only 30 meters away from Chen Xu's house, but there is a piece of bamboo in the middle, and the two families are basically invisible.

The location of this house is still selected by Chen Xu for Niu Dashi last time, the terrain is relatively high, and the foundation is also raised by one foot, and the footing is also made of large pebbles to build up a foot of adobe bricks on it, which is exactly the same as the structure of the adobe houses in the countryside in later generations.

Because Niu Dashi's house is designed to be a little smaller, a row of three houses, each about ten square meters, looks very narrow, but compared to the previous narrow and damp thatched houses, it is completely the difference between a bungalow and a villa.

When the construction began seven or eight days ago, Chen Xu came back once, and he had already instructed to reserve a place for the construction of the fire kang, according to Chen Xu's guess, it should have been repaired a long time ago, but he didn't expect that even the wall had not been completed.

There are large mud bricks everywhere on the ground, and a few of them are broken and broken, Tian Erzhuang and Tian Bao are handing bricks and building walls, which looks very laborious and hard, Niu Tian is helping and mud on the side.

After greeting each other, Chen Xu looked at the inside and outside of the room side by side, because the size of the mud bricks was regular, and Chen Xu specially told him to staggered stacking and glue with mud last time, and the walls should be measured layer by layer with vertical lines and straight lines, it looks pretty good now, the walls are very flat, without the slightest sign of tilting and crookedness, and there is no need to worry about the danger of collapsing halfway through.

"Brother Xu, the mud bricks made of this big mold are 100 catties, and it is extremely laborious to lift them, even my second cousin will have sore hands and feet if he can't lift a few pieces." Niu Dashi followed behind and said.

"To say that you are stupid is stupid, for Mao you must lift it, won't you use a rope to pull it up?" Chen Xu said speechlessly.

"But this mud brick is square, there is not even a hole in it, there is no way to hang it, we tried it with a rattan basket, and it turned out that a rattan basket broke after two or three uses......

Chen Xu kicked Niu Dashi's ass with a black line on his head, "Can't you bolt it if you don't have a hole, and use a rattan basket, why don't you use a sheet?" ”

"Sheets...... That one...... It's too expensive, a piece of cloth costs twenty dollars......" Niu Dashi said cautiously with his mouth squirming.

Chen Xu was completely convinced, and after placing a piece of adobe brick horizontally, he said, "Go and get a thicker straw rope!" ”

"Give!" Niu Dashi quickly handed over a straw rope with the thickness of an egg mixed with hemp skin and corn, Chen Xu gestured at the mud brick, played a ∞-shaped rope sleeve at one end of the straw rope, and then put both sides of the rope sleeve on both ends of the mud brick, tried to lift it up, and the rope sleeve tightened up under the force and hung the mud brick tightly.

"Climb up and see if you can lift it?" Chen Xu said.

"Huh!" Although Niu Dashi was very skeptical that such a simple rope sleeve could hang the mud bricks, but seeing that Chen Xu was so confident, he still climbed up the wall nearly two meters high along a bamboo ladder, and after Chen Xu threw the rope up, he spit on the palm of his hand and rubbed it a few times, then took a deep breath and lifted the rope, and then saw the mud bricks hanging under the rope hanging in the air and swaying, and there was no sign of falling down at all.

Niu Dashi was relieved and exchanged his hands, and soon pulled up a large piece of mud brick and put it on the wall.

In fact, this is a very simple method, this seemingly simple rope sleeve is not a piece of adobe bricks, that is, more than ten red bricks stacked together can also be hung, in fact, the principle is very simple, that is, by friction and rope sleeve to the inward extrusion force, as long as the rope is strong and rough enough, hundreds of pounds of things can also be hanged, the reason why Niu Dashi and others did not find a way, is because the application range of bricks in this era is very small, especially in this remote countryside, people build houses with bamboo and mud, and have never seen bricks at all.

After solving Niu Dashi's problem, Chen Xu went home and rode a horse to the village to go around, one was to say hello to the villagers to say that he was back, and the other was to check the progress of the construction of the earthen kang of each household by the way.

Chen Xu also breathed a sigh of relief after a circle, because the mud bricks were prepared in advance, and the town's craftsmen provided the method of making chimneys and heat insulation boards, and now every household has begun to make clay kangs, some of the actions have been completed quickly, and a few of them plan to renovate and repair the houses with adobe bricks by the way, so the whole Xiaohe Village is engaged in construction, it looks lively, and everywhere it passes is a busy scene, everyone sees him, and their faces are also smiling, and their expressions are full of gratitude and respect while greeting him warmly.