It looks like it's almost!

Chen Xu leaned his body to the position of the hive on the trunk of the tree, slowly put his hand into the tree hole, and sure enough, he touched a large piece of soft beehive, and there were not many bees flying out of it, it seemed that his seduction plan had been a complete success, so Chen Xu no longer hesitated, touched the root of the hive and pulled it a few times, and suddenly a large piece of the hive was broken.

The beehive was quickly thrown into the beehive, although there were a large number of bees in the beehive, and even many of them began to attack around Chen Xu, but Chen Xu didn't care at all, and kept reaching into the tree hole to break the beehive, and after repeating it several times, he made out seven or eight pieces, almost taking up half of the beehive, although there were still a few beehives in the tree hole, but Chen Xu still quickly stopped, because at least half of the bees in the beehive flew out at this time, and the sky was dense like a tide. The buzzing sound was overwhelming like a bee riot, so Chen Xu didn't dare to guarantee that these bees wouldn't all fly away, so he hurriedly covered the beehive and quickly slipped down, and at this time, Niu Dashi had already escaped from the grove in fright.

"Brother Xu, how is it?" Seeing Chen Xu come out, Niu Dashi hurriedly asked.

"As long as the queen bee is also put into the beehive, it is estimated that there will be no problem at all!" Chen Xu said with a slightly pale face.

"Bees have kings too?" Niu Dashi asked in surprise.

"Well, every nest of bees has a queen bee, the largest and darkest in color, it is a female, and it is responsible for laying eggs, and if there are two queen bees, the bees will divide into two swarms, just like a human family!" Chen Xu explained.

"It's strange that bees also have kings, do they still have a division of labor?"

"You're right, bees are divided into several kinds in addition to the queen bee and drones, there are bees that are responsible for collecting honey, there are nursery bees who are responsible for taking care of young bees and eggs, there are nest bees who are responsible for building nests, and there are even guardian bees that are specifically responsible for fighting, and we humans are almost the same, the division of labor is clear, each performs its duties, let's go, the beehive is placed on the tree first, and you will know it if you observe it a few times tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, as long as you catch the queen bee, this nest of bees will be successfully caught!"

"Brother Xu, Brother Xu!" Niu Dashi caught up from behind and grabbed Chen Xu's arm, and said with a sneer on his face: "That, can you not eat stone grinding, lest you have no teeth when you get it, and the apricot girl doesn't like it!" ”

"Hey, what's that going to do? Manly man, how can you be untrustworthy! Chen Xu pouted disdainfully.

"Brother Xu!" Niu Dashi's legs were weak and he almost cried.

"Engong Engong ~ I'm back!" Just as the two were talking, Yu Wuya ran over along the river beach and asked expectantly: "Engong, how many bees have seduced!" ”

"Don't ask how many, let's two prepare to eat stone mills!" Niu Dashi said with a sad face.

"What? All caught! Yu Wuya covered his mouth in shock.

"Hey, hey!" Chen Xu smiled proudly and strode back.

"Engong Engong!" Yu Wuya hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Chen Xu's arm and begged for mercy, "It's wrong, you can arrange me to do anything, don't eat stone grinding, it's just casual, don't take it seriously!" ”

"It doesn't matter, I can brush the stone mill with honey and lard and salt to make a honey barbecue flavor, you can eat it slowly!"

"Don't laugh at it, you still can't eat it!" Yu Wuya said with a bitter face.

"Okay, you don't need to eat stone grinding, but you have to help me build mud bricks in the next few days, don't be lazy!"

"Okay, you can't go back on your word!" Yu Wuya and Niu Dashi both breathed a big sigh of relief at the same time.

"Let's go!" Chen Xu waved his hand, took Yu Wuya and Niu Dashi home to get tools, while it was still early, he could still do the preliminary work today, and officially start to expand the bricks tomorrow, three houses plus such a large earthen kang, enough to need hundreds of mud bricks, enough for three people to be busy for a few days!

At the same time, Chen Xu was also a little crying and laughing about this matter, these ancient people were too upright, they didn't seem to be very good at joking, since he said a few times in the town to eat the stone mill and eat the table this oath, everyone around him almost learned this kind of complaint, once he didn't believe and disagreed, he would always sacrifice the stone mill and the stone mill to prove the degree of distrust that supported him, so one by one became less upright, saying that the people who ate the stone mill and the stone mill had never eaten, Chen Xu was very regretful.

At the foot of the mountain not far from the river at the entrance of the village, Niu Dashi and Yu Wuya wore shorts and shorts, and dug out a round pit two feet wide and two feet deep with a hoe with bare feet.

The three of them worked for more than an hour, made most of the pit soil, and then dug a small ditch to the river, poured the river water into the ditch with a broken clay pot and flowed into the pit to soak the soil, and leveled out a large piece of the field not far away, and worked until the sun went down before they sweated like a chicken carrying tools home.

This kind of physically exhausting work must be done by men, so today Chen Xu used the method of agitation to seduce Yu Wuya and Niu Dashi to help, otherwise the two would not do this kind of stupid and dirty work, Niu Dashi is better, Yu Wuya will definitely not do it, he will find all kinds of opportunities to escape, let him run errands and kill people and do anything, but he can't command him to do dirty and tiring farm work, the only thing he likes farm work is grinding.

Chen Jiangshi had already prepared dinner and put it on the table, and the dinner was a coarse flour bun with wheat bran, millet porridge and a few cold pickles, although simple but abundant, the steamed bun was burnt yellow, and he made twenty of them, enough to eat three rice buckets.

After digging for a long time, they were indeed tired and hungry, so the three of them were not polite after washing their faces and hands, so they ate around the table, and soon everyone ate four or five steamed buns plus two or three bowls of porridge before they stopped, and Chen Jiang and Xing'er ate one steamed bun.

"Hiccup~" Yu Wuya burped and drank his tea, looked at the molds used for two mud bricks on the ground, one large and one small, and said: "Engong, I'm afraid that this mud is not strong when made of bricks, will the house collapse?" ”

"No, tomorrow add some corn and hemp grass to the soaked mud, keep stepping on the mixture more evenly, and expand it into bricks and dry it for decades!"

"Ah, you still have to step on the mud with your feet?" Yu Wuya's face suddenly became bitter.

"Why don't you continue to eat stone mills? You can choose honey or spicy! Chen Xupi said with a smile.

"Forget it, I'll step on the mud!" Yu Wuya immediately shook his head like a rattle.

"Brother Xu, can you help me get a kang for me, otherwise I'm afraid that my mother and Xiaochun will freeze to death in winter!" Niu Dashi held back for a long time and still couldn't hold back.

When the three of them were working in the afternoon, Chen Xu carefully explained his ideas and design principles for making a fire kang, so Niu Dashi already knew the effect of this fire kang, and there was such a good thing to keep out the cold, so he naturally looked forward to having one at home.

"Well, it's no problem to do it, but your foundation and house are very low, it's more troublesome to do, or just rebuild a new house, this time we can get more adobe bricks, so it's more convenient to design and make!" Chen Xu nodded and said.

"Really, this is the best, I have long wanted to repair the house, tomorrow I will invite my uncle and second cousin to help with the mud and bricks, and after finishing it, level the site, and strive to get the foundation right before planting wheat!" Niu Dashi hurriedly said.

"Yes, you can make your own ideas, I can help you design and make the ondol, and I can also help you get back materials such as slate and clay bricks!"

"Good!" Niu Dashi's excited teeth almost laughed out, and he hurriedly added tea to Chen Xu very diligently.

Nowadays, adobe bricks can be made in the village, but the terracotta bricks and slate have to be transported back from the town, and the freight alone is a big expense, hiring cattle and horses to consign, a cow can only run twice a day, and get four buckets of grain, and their family wants to make two ondols, according to Chen Xu's design, the ondol is six feet wide and eight feet long, which is equivalent to one meter four wide and one meter eight long in later generations, and the design of the stone slab is one foot by two feet in size, so the slate alone needs thirty-two pieces, the weight of the bluestone slab can be imagined, adding up to hundreds of catties, You have to use several cows to carry it back at one time, and the freight costs have to be several stones of grain, and you have to make clay bricks for the chimney, and you also need a few cows to carry it back, and Niu Dashi himself must not be able to pay the freight, otherwise the family will be hungry for half a year next year.

The reason why Chen Xu wants to use bluestone slabs instead of pottery slabs to make fire kang is because the pottery slabs are troublesome to make first, and there is that the pottery slabs are thin and not strong, and they are easy to break, but they are easy to crack if they are thick and burned, so it is necessary to safely resist the impact and pressure generated by people sitting and lying on it, and the bluestone that is easy to obtain and easy to process is the most suitable for use, which is both strong and cheap, and the cost is not more expensive than the pottery plate.

Bluestone is everywhere in the country, belongs to sedimentary rock, the main components are calcium carbonate and clay, etc., the stone is soft and easy to collect and process, now the time of Daqin has been widely used, Chen Xu's stone mill is made of bluestone, the house of the county government of Pheasant County is also made of bluestone, I heard that many places on the Great Wall are also made of bluestone, but Chen Xu has not seen it.

While the sky was still bright, Chen Xu picked up the measuring rope and followed Niu Dashi to find a place to repair his house, and did not go home until it was almost invisible after dark, and finally chose the location on a vacant land less than thirty meters away from his house, and the two families were closer after repair.

However, there is a bamboo forest between the two families, Chen Xu dug a few times in the bamboo forest, and found that there are a lot of bamboo shoots that have not yet been unearthed, which makes him a little excited, and when there is no vegetable in winter, you can dig some winter bamboo shoots back to stew meat or cold salad, and the nutritional value of winter bamboo shoots is also very high, if you can get beef and chili peppers, you can make braised beef noodles.

Chen Xu instantly felt that his saliva was about to flow down!