Chapter 53 The Kiln Factory Commencement
However, Chang Yu was such an enthusiastic little brother on the other side, and no one paid attention to him in the six or seven melon-eating masses.
I'm afraid of the sudden silence in the air......
Chang Yu didn't walk or walk, and he was embarrassed for a moment and didn't know what to do.
"What are you doing?" Fortunately, the embarrassment was quickly broken by a man who was thin and squatted on the ground and couldn't tell his age.
"Open the kiln and burn bricks," Chang Yu laughed.
"Why are there so many people?" Someone asked.
"Oh, the house in the courtyard is also broken, and the kiln has collapsed, so I hired some people to repair it, and I hired more in order to hurry" Chang Yu snorted, and then changed the topic: "Aren't our Panjia kilns all kilns, why don't you see a fire?" ”
"At this time, no one will build a house, who will burn it and sell it to, and it is not enough to open a kiln for charcoal fire" The thin man pouted: "I have to wait until after the beginning of spring!" ”
Oh, Chang Yu nodded: "My lord's family is a big family in the city, and I am going to build a big house in the southern suburbs of the city recently, and I need a lot of brick ......."
Rubbing, some people who were originally squatting on the ground stood up in panic, and their faces were angry.
"But in order to save costs and control the quality of the bricks, the master decided to burn the kiln by himself, so he bought a kiln factory here and burned it himself" Chang Yu continued, and several people in front of him suddenly sighed and squatted down: "Then why do you go so far to burn, don't build a kiln near the south of the city."
"That's different, the soil quality here in our Panjia kiln is famous, and the bricks burned are strong" Chang Yu smiled, and several people nodded slightly: "That's right, but it also depends on who will burn it......"
"What this old brother said is that the kiln is a technical job, we are all laymen, and we will have to invite some masters to come over when the time comes" As soon as Chang Yu's words fell, a few people who were squatting stood up again: "This is my line, the three generations of my family's kiln, ...... in this area"
They all boasted of themselves, Chang Yu smiled and waved his hand, interrupting them: "Cheng, wait for a few days to clean up, and then invite all the masters to go to work, the salary will naturally be less."
Several people were immediately overjoyed, which was equivalent to pie in the sky for them, after all, it was the off-season of their industry, and they were at home every day.
The croppers were already enthusiastic, and when they heard that they were going to hire themselves in the future, several people immediately enthusiastically wanted to go to Chang Yu's house to help, but Chang Yu refused, there were already too many people inside, and there was no technical work, so they went to make trouble, and they would come to the door to invite you in a few days.
The strength of the number of people, coupled with the division of labor and cooperation, the excavation of the soil, the transportation of the soil, the exchange of various tasks in turn, in an orderly manner. At noon, when Li Tiezhu came back with people to buy food, the project in the courtyard had made Chang Yu very satisfied, a deep pit cut ten meters long, five meters wide, and five meters deep had been completed, and it was formed into a plane N-shape, and two holes with a height of two meters and a width of three meters were dug under the houses and caves in the south direction, and they had been dug to a depth of nearly five meters.
In fact, at this time, many people have realized that their great eunuch Chang Gonggong is by no means such a simple purpose as firing a kiln, although some people explain from time to time that this can take more soil, some agree, some doubt, and some people think that they can not only take soil but also create a secret passage to kill two birds with one stone.
But no matter what they thought, it did not affect the progress of the project, and after a hurried lunch, after a short rest, the construction continued, and this work continued until dusk, when the courtyard had been piled up with a high mound of earth, and the secret room project two meters underground was hastily completed.
Chang Yu walked into the tunnel with a torch, the passage of two meters high and three meters wide appeared extremely spacious, the two ends were transparent, the air was smooth without the slightest sense of suffocation, the space under the house and the brick kiln was relatively empty, there were thirty or fifty meters of space, roughly total, the total space was nearly three hundred square meters, even if it was a royal treasure, it should be able to hide!
Seeing that it was already dark, Chang Yu asked the eunuchs to return to the palace quickly, and did not forget to take a panic shot: "If you can't return to the palace in time, you will stay on the street tonight" This made the eunuchs who had been working hard for a day tired and anxious, and they ran to the capital one after another.
"Brother Chang, you won't be so ruthless" Hu Ling, the Fan family looked bitter.
Looking at their appearance, Chang Yu gave a kick by himself: "Teasing you, hurry up, I have already greeted the prince when I came out, and I will leave a door in Dong'an Gate when the time comes, but it won't stay too long, you hurry up."
Only then did Hu Ling and the others breathe a sigh of relief, bid farewell to Chang Yu and hurried away.
The reason why Chang Yu scared those eunuchs was to force their potential out, if there was an accident in the future, it would not be normal to march in a hurry or something, now it is just for them to experience it in advance.
It was dark, the building was empty, and Chang Yu was left alone in the courtyard in a huge abandoned house, looking left and right, except for the howling north wind and the occasional barking of a certain Wangwang in the village, he was not heard, and the whole village fell into silence.
Did you go to the kang so early to make people in the dark? Chang Yu opened the courtyard door and glanced around, the village was pitch black everywhere, and there was no light in sight, and he glanced back at the courtyard behind him that was also darkly lit.
Walked to the side of the carriage, rummaged in it for a while, took out a lantern and lit it, and then hung the gate of the courtyard, led the carriage into the courtyard, closed the courtyard door, Chang Yu got into the carriage, lit a candle, and then was in a daze.
No accident, there are naturally candles in the Ming Dynasty at this time, in fact, there are candles recorded as early as the Qin and Han dynasties, and they have been popularized in the upper class of society in the Tang and Song dynasties. By the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, candles had become popular, and of course, poor families still used oil lamps for lighting.
Leaning on the carriage, not very cold, Chang Yu was in a daze, thinking about things, but unconsciously sleepy came up, tilted his head, and fell asleep.
Bang bang bang, not only for a long time, there was a knock on the door outside the courtyard, and the dogs in the village also began to bark wildly, Chang Yu woke up with a spirit, got out of the car in a daze, woke up immediately as soon as the cold wind blew, and hurriedly opened the courtyard door.
There were three carriages outside the hospital, about 20 people.
"Why did you come so late, and you thought you couldn't get out of the city too late?" Chang Yu was a little blamed.
Chunxiang scratched his head: "We were waiting outside the city gate before dark, and when we saw our people entering the city, we hurried over, but we were not familiar with the dark road and took a fork in the road......"
"Come in and talk about it" Chang Yu interrupted him, Chunxiang, Jiang Quan and others led the carriage into the house, and the courtyard door closed again.
After "Brother Chang" entered the courtyard, Luo Tang and the others greeted Chang Yu one by one, and their eyes looked around from time to time, full of curiosity.
Training in the morning, under the supervision of Chunxiang and Jiang Quan in the afternoon, twenty-six families led by Luo Tang repaired the houses in the city completely, ate some simple food, and took out twenty people to leave the city in a hurry.
"This is a kiln factory of our master's house, it has been abandoned for a long time, and I plan to reopen the kiln, you will help here in the future, but you must also repair and rest first" Chang Yu carried the lantern and led everyone to a garden dream.
Luo Tang and the others are okay, they are used to living a hard life, as long as they have food, they are the same wherever they nest, but Chunxiang and Jiang Quan are different, after all, they are from a big family, and they feel very scary in this abandoned house, not to mention, the working environment is too bad, not to mention that the roof has collapsed, and there is not even a foot on the ground full of debris and dust, how can you sleep.
But soon they opened their eyes, Chang Yu carried the lantern, led them down the earthen pit, and then entered the pit: "Breathable, sheltered from the wind, and warm, how about it?" ”
Lighting the oil lamp, Chang Yu asked Luo Tang and others to pick up some firewood, lit a fire in the secret passage, dried and roasted the pit hot, and then put the futon, everyone huddled together, eating some melon seeds, while chatting over the fire, that feeling was as warm as a university dormitory.
Zhuanghu people have a habit, that is, go to bed early, get up early, go to bed early because there is no entertainment when it is dark, and it costs oil to light the lamp, so it is better to pass the time on the kang.
It's hard to understand early in the morning, in fact, there is no work to do in the cold weather, you can lie in bed, but you just have to get up, even if you sit in a daze, even if you go outside to blow the cold wind, you don't want to lie down.
Chang Yu had the urge to lie in bed for the first time since he crossed over, but he didn't expect to sleep so comfortably in the secret passage, quiet and warm, some people may think that lighting a fire in the secret passage will not be choked by the smoke, no! Smoke will flow down the roof of the tunnel.
Chunxiang and the others were very conscious, although they were later than usual, they also got up early to start morning exercises, so Chang Yu was embarrassed to continue to lie in bed and got up listlessly.
It wasn't until he washed his face with cold water that he got up and played a few sets of boxing techniques in the yard, and at this time Chunxiang had already completed the five-kilometer regular run with Luo Tang and other family members.
After a brief rest, I began to teach military boxing.
The military body boxing must be accompanied by the shouting and cheering, which will naturally arouse the curiosity of some villagers, and soon some people will lie on the crack of the door and look into the courtyard.
was found by Jiang Quan and walked to the door and shouted: "Get out!" ”
The big families are fierce, and the villagers are scattered.
Chang Yu was not idle, when he was training at home, he began to make porridge for them on a fire, and these cooking utensils and ingredients were naturally prepared yesterday.
After eating and drinking, it was eight or nine o'clock, and after Chang Yu went out to the village for a walk, he bought some bricks from a family.
He instructed the family to bring the bricks back to the courtyard, and then built a wall with mud, dividing the original courtyard in two, leaving only a small door in the corner, so as to hide the large pit at the entrance of the tunnel in the courtyard.
"I'll give you a day, cover and reinforce the pit below with a brick wall, don't sleep tonight if you can't finish it" Chang Yu just wanted them to have a sense of urgency, saying that twenty people did this bit of wall-building work, ready-made bricks and ready-made mud, it was really not a big project.
When leaving, Chang Yu told Chunxiang and Jiang Quan to supervise the two workers, not to leave the hospital at will, and not to allow outsiders to enter the hospital, and he would come back tomorrow to check.
Driving the carriage leisurely, entering the city from the Guangqu Gate, passing by the Yellow House, he suddenly frowned, tied the horse to the roadside tree, stood at the door and looked left and right, the frowning old Gao, this house door is a little too broken......
"Hey, who are you looking for?" While he was pondering, a voice sounded, and when he turned his head to look, it was two women standing curiously not far away looking at him.
"I'm not looking for anyone," Chang Yu was a little inexplicable.
"Oh, you should be a newcomer to this house" The two women were like curious babies: "Your surname, what do you do in your family, it seems that there are a lot of people."
It seems that he is a neighbor who loves to gossip, Chang Yu really wanted to roll his eyes, but he was alert in his heart, how to do a good job of camouflage and make this house not look so peculiar.
"The main family's surname is Huang, I bought this house for the eldest young master, and I will move here after a rest, the two eldest sisters are the ...... in the neighborhood here" Chang Yu had a sweet mouth, and stood at the door with the two women and chatted.
knocked on the door gently, and after a while, Sui opened the door, saw that it was Chang Yu, and called Brother Chang with a smile, he was one of the four family members who stayed in the Yellow House.
Chang Yu didn't enter the courtyard, but just stood in front of the door and instructed Sui to ask him to find a craftsman to renovate the door of the house, which should be big, thick and magnificent, and set a plaque to hang and read: Huangfu!
After leaving the Huang Mansion, Chang Yu did not go back to the palace directly, but went to the nameless alley at Qianmen.
"Brother noble, you're here," the stupid big man saw Chang Yu laughing even more stupidly.
Your sister, Chang Yu really wanted to scold him, but looking at his bearish appearance, his sister shouldn't be very good-looking, so he just smiled at him and found a seat to do it
Stupidly realized, turned around and went out after making tea, and after a while, I heard a hearty greeting outside, and my grandmother came.
"How many people did you find?" Chang Yu gets straight to the point.
"Seventeen, hey, my wife has been busy with you all over the capital these days, and her feet are about to break......" Grandma Zizi invited credit with a face.
Chang Yu smiled slightly: "Earning so much silver, even if you break your foot, it's worth it."
"Where, where, a little hard-earned money" Grandma said with a straight look: "The old woman just thought about sending someone to you today, but I didn't think that you would fall into the mountain gate......"
"Don't go to that house in the future, my master's eldest young master moved over, he doesn't like to be born, he annoys him for no reason, and the consequences are very serious" Chang Yu's eyes looked at his grandmother very coldly when he said this, and she was really scared: "Oh, okay, okay, then I'll find all the people......"
"In the future, I will come every few days" Chang Yu said and took out the silver from his arms: "Panjiayao, my kiln factory has started, you let them go directly, the one in the westernmost part of the village is easy to find."
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