In order to build a house, Zhang Zhimu led a few people to take off a small adobe as big as a brick by the river for two days, and the small adobe had a little more sand in it, and there was no grass in it. The adobe was cool by the river, and I went to the brick kiln to bring back a few truckloads of green bricks. Then he started digging a pit on the east side of Huang Yukun's original house, preparing to build a house there. The pit was dug in preparation for the basement. It is completely dug according to the area of the four rooms, but these four rooms are larger than the ordinary four rooms, six zhang long from east to west and two zhang wide from north to south. The design is that the west side of the house opens independently, two zhang five by two zhang five bays, the other three are in the middle of the east and west, the east house is coiled into the northeast kind of north and south kang, the west house is a south kang. The basement is basically the same structure as the above, except that it cannot be opened independently. The pit was dug for two days. The bottom of the wall foundation is also sand and stone foundation, and then a brick and a half green bricks, mortar joints (lime loess mixed with water), at the same time, the brick wall and the pit wall between the soil filled, green bricks and the ground level, began to hit the ground. The ground is mixed with ash and soil, and then paved with green bricks. Then open the mouth to cool for two days. I went and bought a few carts of five-inch thick logs for beams, and placed one every other foot on the top of the bricks, and then used wooden strips to make them. A layer of wicker rows is spread on top, and another layer of mats is spread, and a layer of plaster is plastered on the mat. After drying, first spread a foot-thick layer of loess. Then it took eight days to build the house above with adobe, during which everyone objected to Zhang Zhimu making the windows so big, Zhang Zhimu insisted, he was used to the big windows in his previous life, although there was no glass, using window paper, he still felt that the big windows were good. One reason Zhang Zhimu hasn't said yet, that is, he will change the glass window when he makes the glass. The entrance to the basement is in a room with only one kang, under a wooden cabinet. The door to the basement is a large two-inch thick wooden plank, on which a layer of green bricks is fixed with glue and nails, and the wooden plank can be lifted on the ground. On the ground, the green bricks and the green bricks on the ground are spliced tightly, and there is no difference, and the door is opened to a staircase. You can take shelter when you have something, and you can put things when you have nothing to do. The vent Zhang Zhimu design makes everyone feel incredible. A vent is built side by side with the chimney, in order to prevent the smoke from entering, a line of bricks is shorter than the chimney, and from a distance, I think that a chimney has dropped a brick. Another vent has a small opening outside the wall of the house, which corresponds to the position of the stove in the house, which actually has nothing to do with the stove. In this way, the pressure difference between the two ventilation points, one high and one low, can allow the basement to be naturally ventilated. From the outside, the house looks like an adobe house, but the inside is plastered with a lime knife, and the white walls make the house look very bright. Originally, Huang Yukun was asked to live in the new house, but she said that she was used to living in the old house, but she couldn't come. I couldn't help it, so I repaired the old houses, and the houses were also plastered with lime, and I felt much better.

After the house was built, a row of two-story chicken racks was built, and the chicken racks were spaced one by one, and there were forty rooms in total. Huang Yukun came over to see the amusement and asked, "Brother, are you preparing a chicken and a nest?" ”

"No, five or six in a litter! In the future, the number of chickens will have to be expanded. Zhang Zhimu said.

"Come on, these eggs haven't been sold yet! It's talking about so many eggs, it's not easy to sell! ”

"There are so many ways to sell them, and you can't sell them in the basket at the market. By the way, I almost forgot, I've got to go and pull the bones back tomorrow. You put a hundred eggs in a basket, fifty in a basket. ”

"Okay!" Huang Yukun was anxious about these eggs, thinking that this brother had forgotten about these chickens.

The next day, Zhang Zhimu took Li Yunhe into the city with a hundred eggs. Before leaving, let Liu Yun lead the two brothers to dig a pit one zhang deep by the wall.

When I arrived at Huixian Tower, I parked the car behind and said to Li Yunhe: "When you go in, you will say that you are looking for a guy named Wu Dashan, saying that someone from his hometown is here." ”

After a while, Li Yunhe led Wu Dashan out. "Oh, you're here, I thought you weren't coming. You see that the bones are kept for you over there, at least fifty pounds, take them quickly, and don't let the shopkeeper see them. Zhang Zhimu saw that there were seventy or eighty catties of bones in the two broken baskets.

Zhang Zhimu took out a hundred copper coins, handed them to the young man and said, "At this time, fifty catties of bone money." I'll come back in ten days. "The young man's hands trembled a little when he received the money, which is a lot of money for a young man. But Zhang Zhimu took out another fifty dollars to him. The young man didn't dare to take it.

Zhang Zhimu said: "Those bones are not only fifty catties, in addition, there is something I want to ask you." In your store, it doesn't matter which shopkeeper buys. ”

"Our Huixian Building is a big restaurant, and the valuable shopkeeper is in charge of himself, and some seasonal small things are in charge of the shopkeeper."

"Can you help get the second shopkeeper out. I have some chickens at home, and I can deliver 100 eggs every 10 days. As he spoke, he shoved the money into his hand.

The young man said, "It stands to reason that I am a young man who can't talk to the shopkeeper. But I was introduced by the second shopkeeper, and I am a bit of a distant relative. You wait first, I'll go and take a look, and just say that you are from my hometown, don't be wrong. ”

The young man really invited people down. Zhang Zhimu stepped forward and arched his hand and said, "Hello shopkeeper! ”

"You have chickens at home, how much are you going to sell them?" The second shopkeeper asked.

"It's cheaper than the market, fourteen cents a piece."

"Can you send a hundred in five days?"

"It's going to take some time, not yet. Ten days can guarantee a hundred, a few more, not much. ”

"Then come once every ten days, and bring as much as you can." The mountain helped carry the eggs inside. "No nonsense, turned around and left.

Zhang Zhimu hurriedly asked Li Yunhe to help carry the eggs in.

Seeing that Wu Dashan and Li Yunhe came out, Zhang Zhimu said with a pun: "I'll be here in ten days." ”

Li Yunhe took out a tael of silver and four hundred copper coins and handed it to Zhang Zhimu, and asked, "Why didn't this shopkeeper return the price?" ”

"What price is it back, for how many eggs? In such a big restaurant, he buys more seasonal supplies every day, and ours is already less than the one in the market, and he doesn't have to collect it all over the market. Haven't you heard? Do you want a hundred in five days, we are sharing his worries, now there can be a few people who raise so many chickens at once, and no one can raise them. ”

After packing the bones and guiding by passers-by, the two came to Mr. Huang's school. Zhang Zhimu asked Mr. Huang if he could accept students now, and Mr. Huang said that he usually collects a batch of autumn grain every year when it is harvested, and he can't teach it because the progress of the middle class is different.

Saying goodbye to Mr. Huang, the two of them came to the market again, saw that there were hens that could lay eggs, bought ten more hens, then bought some feed and grain, and bought some bamboo poles, and went back.

When he arrived at the city gate, Zhang Zhimu gave the old man a few copper coins, and the old man said: "Tell the 'Mountain Harrier' that I have some good goods, and he can walk with his legs, look for me." ”

Back at the kiln, several people had already dug the pit.

Huang Yukun came over and asked, "Why are all the eggs sold so quickly?" ”

"Not only did they sell them all, but they sold everything that wasn't born yet." Zhang Zhimu handed over the silver and copper coins.

After talking about selling eggs, everyone thinks that Zhang Zhimu is too powerful.

Huang Yukun said: "If this is done well, a few chickens can feed a family." The money from selling eggs a month can buy one stone of good grain, and the rest of the money can buy some good feed. ”

Zhang Zhimu also said proudly: "When these bones are powdered and filled into feed to feed the chickens, you won't be able to check the egg bones, haha." ”

"I'll check my mother." Xiaoqing squeezed over and said. When everyone heard this, they all laughed and bent over.

Zhang Zhimu said to Xiaoqing, I went to Mr. Huang's school in the city, and I can't accept students now, so I will collect them together in the autumn, and when the time comes, you will go with Yinfeng and Guixiang.

"Oops, okay. I thought my uncle had forgotten about it. ”

Sister-in-law Xu and the two children were moved.

In the afternoon, Zhang Zhimu led a few more brothers and built them with bricks in the pit according to the method of repairing the basement.

Then, he made a circle with the excavated soil, took out the dung from the spear toilet and put it in, and put the cow and horse dung, chicken dung, and pig dung into it, stirred it up, poured some water, and covered it with soil, and soaked it up. This lane smoked away the children who watched the excitement. Adults don't understand, and there's no need to make such a big movement in dung. asked Zhang Zhimu, Zhang Zhimu replied: "The secret of heaven cannot be leaked." Then, Zhang Zhimu did another thing for everyone to talk about - changing the toilet. It is to rebuild a toilet, separate toilets for men and women, squatting pits are all built with bricks, feces can flow directly to the outside pool through the slope, feces can also be taken away directly from the outside, and the toilet can be flushed with water if it is dirty. These are things that these people have never heard of.

These days, everyone is very tired, but the mood is very good, the food is dry and full, and there are meat dishes every day, Zhang Zhimu personally changes the method of making fish to eat every day, and now it is impossible to go without fish for a day. A few children ate with oily noodles, and adults also ate with red noodles. In particular, Zhang Zhimu, the actual family member, is amiable, funny and humorous, who has any worries, and a few words are scattered. This is a day that people in this era dare not imagine. Even the people of so-called big families like Huang Yukun and Sister-in-law Xu have never lived such a comfortable life. Those big families have a lot of rules, and women actually live a very depressed life.

is no longer alive, Zhang Zhimu doesn't want everyone to be idle. Knowing that Li Yunhe was skillful, he asked him to make a large wooden lid one foot square, with two holes drilled on it, one with a switch made of wood, and the other with a one-and-a-half-foot-long bamboo pipe. I found another wooden barrel, put a lid on it, nailed it, and sealed it with paint.

When there was nothing else to do, Zhang Zhimu led everyone up the mountain to catch hares. Under the cover, the result is very little, and they are all dead. Later, it was much easier to improve the method and go to the rabbit hole, with the help of Saihu. Find the rabbit hole, don't rush first, then find the back hole, use a pocket, put it on the back hole, at the front hole, light a fire and pour smoke into the hole, as a result, the rabbit runs out of the back hole, and gets into the pocket. In this way, large and small, about 20 rabbits were made. The hare is wild, and does not feed on the first day of return, covering the cage with a cloth, and does not see the light, and the second day sees the light and feeds no person. It's good to start eating, raise it for a few days, and when you can see people every day, you can divide the male and female according to the size, and put them in different cages in pairs.

One day, Zhang Zhimu saw that Saihu was all over the yard catching mice to eat, and there were many mice, so he felt that resources could not be wasted. Ask Huang Yukun; "Is fox fur expensive?"

Huang Yukun said: "Fox skins are precious, but they are rare. If it's red, it's more expensive than white. ”

Sister-in-law Xu happened to be next to her, and then said: "It is said that foxes are thousands of years red and thousands of years white, and it is not easy to get them. And the quality of this thing is also very important, whether the hair is good or not, when it was hit, whether there is a sword wound or not, the difference is too big. My father-in-law once gave a gift to a big official, and begged someone to buy a red fox skin, which cost 5,000 taels of silver. ”

Hearing this, Zhimu was happy. He led his brothers to dig a big pit in front of the dog hole in the yard, and lowered a large vat into the pit, the mouth of which was also three feet deep from the ground, and made a flap on the ground. At night, he tied up the tiger and tied a rooster to a distance of a foot in front of the dog's hole.

As soon as everyone fell asleep, they heard the chickens jumping and the tigers croaking. Hurriedly took the lamp and went out to take a look, it turned out to be a weasel falling into the tank. Li Yunhe took the weasel to Saihu and ate it. Everyone went back to sleep. In the middle of the night, it was another time when chickens flew and dogs jumped. I went out with the lamp again, and this time I was happy. There were foxes in the tank, and the foxes were packed out in a sack, and there were five foxes in total, and it turned out that the mother fox with four children came out to hunt, but I didn't expect to carry it. They were all in a nest, and they were all put in a fox pen, and a few rats caught by tigers and some thatch were thrown into the circle. The fox pen was surrounded by bricks, and even the ground was made of bricks, for fear that they would dig holes and escape.

In this way, for several days, a total of five big foxes and four small foxes were caught, only one was gray, and the rest were red, and they were locked in five circles. In addition to feeding rats, small fish are often fed. Occasionally, throw in some cornmeal nests. Everyone thinks it's a little strange, how can Zhang Zhimu raise everything, and foxes can also be raised? Especially Huang Yukun, he told a lot of legends about foxes, but Zhang Zhimu didn't believe it, so he smiled slightly. One thing, as everyone knows, these foxes are worth a lot of money, so when feeding the nest head, no one thinks it shouldn't be.

When it was time to deliver eggs and bones, this time there were really enough of 200. Zhang Zhimu instructed Li Yunhe a few words, and asked him to lead the "divine ape" Li Jing to deliver the goods with him.

Zhang Zhimu stayed at home and did another thing that made everyone feel very strange.