Zhou Zhi wants to use this half acre of land to grow vegetable greenhouses.

Vegetable greenhouses are commonplace in later generations, and it is a good project for many rural people to make a fortune, and it is not very difficult to plant, but it is just to pay more hard work.

Zhou Zhi lived in the countryside since he was a child, and his grandfather was a vegetable farmer who planted vegetable greenhouses. Every winter and summer vacation, Zhou Zhi returned to his rural hometown to help his grandfather take care of the greenhouse. So he knows a lot about vegetable greenhouses.

But at this time, it was the Ming Dynasty, and the materials needed to plant vegetable greenhouses alone were not available. For example, plastic film or glass to keep out wind and light. Although glass was already available at this time, it was an expensive thing. Large pieces of glass have not yet been introduced.

It is definitely a very bold idea to build a vegetable greenhouse in Daming. However, Zhou Zhi didn't know how many times this idea had passed in his mind, and after weighing it repeatedly, he felt that although there was no plastic film or glass, as long as it was done well and managed properly, it was possible to grow out-of-season vegetables successfully.

Where there are so many things to do, there is a certainty of success. If you don't take the plunge, you'll never know how far you're from success.

The three sides of the vegetable greenhouse need to be enclosed with earthen walls that are more than one person high, and the most important thing now is to take advantage of the good weather to make adobe for the wall. In the northern countryside of the Ming Dynasty, rich families will use fired green bricks to build houses, while poor families cannot afford green bricks, so they naturally use adobe. Surrounding the construction of vegetable greenhouses, the use of adobe can also better ensure the temperature in the shed.

Zhou Zhi roughly calculated that a vegetable greenhouse on half an acre of land would need at least more than 6,000 adobes. Breaking adobe is a physical task, and it takes about seven or eight days to make 6,000 adobes, which must be hurried.

Zhou Zhi has tools for beating adobe at home.

The tool for making adobe is actually very simple, it is a rectangular wooden box, one side of the wooden box is not nailed to the board, the mixed earth is loaded, compacted, and then poured out of the soil to form it. Northerners call this tool a "billet bucket".

When he returned home, he took a billet bucket and a shovel, took a wooden barrel, pushed it on a small wheelbarrow, and walked towards the barre.

There is a deep pit next to the threshing floor in the north of the village, and it has rained for several days in a row, and a lot of water has accumulated in the pit. In addition, the soil used for the blank is also ready-made, and the soil can be taken around the puddle. Anyway, it doesn't belong to any one of them, and no one will interfere at all.

Almost all the stones of rice produced by the farmers who share the grain drying field have been dried, and the drying field is basically idle. Although the barn is still wet, the ground is hard, just enough to dry the beaten adobe.

After choosing the right place and doing what he said, Zhou Zhi did not hesitate to busy building the adobe.

Occasionally, a few peasants would come to the fields to hang out, and when they saw Zhou Zhi beating adobe, they were surprised, "Zhou family boy, do you want to build a new house by beating adobe?" ”

"Hehe, the uncle laughed, my family is poor, where can I have the money to build a new house? I'm just idle with this adobe, and I'm going to dry it out and use it indiscriminately. Zhou Zhi replied loudly with a smile.

Typing it out and using it indiscriminately? What can it do? This week's kid is smart, it's always strange these days, I don't know what kind of fame I want to make this time.

Zhou Zhi invented the bellows, but in a few days, almost everyone in Baiyue Village copied it. That thing is really easy to use, which makes everyone look at Zhou Zhigao a lot, and they are very respectful.

The peasants whispered and speculated and walked away, while Zhou Zhi continued his busyness.

When he was tired of beating the blank, he squatted on the ground to rest for a while. Silently recite the pages of the book I read in the morning a few times, and the memorization seems to be very fast at this point. It seems that the brain is a lot clearer after paying physical strength, so it is not bad to combine work and rest.

It was nearly noon, the sun was in full swing, and three people came from the north on the official road. When they saw Zhou Zhi, they immediately stopped and stood on the edge of the barn.

Standing in the middle of the three is Chen Wenju. To his left was a Taoist man of about forty years old, wearing a Taoist crown on his head and a cyan robe. Standing on Chen Wenju's right and bent waist, with a flattering look on his face, is Chen Wenju's scholar, the little dog Wang'er.

Chen Wenju made a bet with Zhou Zhi in the field that time, and he lost face. After that, he was really stable and honest for a few days, and almost didn't even leave the gate every day except for going to the school in the town to study.

But in the past few days, he suddenly regained his spirits again, and returned to the unstoppable nasty image of the past.

At this time, he seemed to forget the shame of that day, and shouted at Zhou Zhi with a disdainful face, "Oh, Zhou family cub, you are tired, come here, Young Master Ben will talk to you." "The voice was high-pitched and unpleasant.

For people like Chen Wenju, it's better to provoke less. So Zhou Zhi didn't stop working, and replied loudly to Chen Wenju, "Third Young Master Chen, the villain is busy now, if you have something to say, just say it, I'll hear it." ”

That day, in the field, Chen Wenju had already understood Zhou Zhi's attitude towards him. In the eyes of other poor people, he Chen Wenju is supreme and is the real third young master. But this week, Zhou Zhi called him the third young master, but in fact, he didn't take him seriously in his bones.

Chen Wenju wants people to be convinced of him, and Zhou Zhi has such an attitude towards him, which really makes him unhappy. Moreover, he lost the bet to Zhou Zhi that day, and he already held a grudge.

Seeing that Zhou Zhi had a lukewarm and disrespectful attitude towards him today, according to his temperament in the past, he must have scolded Zhou Zhiyi fiercely. But he was in a surprisingly good mood today, so he smiled indifferently and simply walked over to Zhou Zhi.

He had already made up his mind, today he must play a good trick to regain the face he lost that day, and let his deformed psychology get a little satisfaction.

The little dog Wang'er naturally followed.

When the man saw Chen Wenju coming over, he looked around and simply followed.

Chen Wenju pouted and asked, "Cub of the Zhou family, the former Japanese young master once heard that you went to Wang Xiucai's house to borrow books, what's the matter?" Do you still want to read, do toads really want to eat swan meat? ”

Zhou Zhiwen was stunned when he heard this, he had never mentioned it to outsiders when he borrowed books from Wang Laoxiucai, which was a secret matter. But this Chen Wenju actually knew, so it can be seen that Chen Wenju has been secretly observing himself, and he is waiting for an opportunity to retaliate.

Hum! Since he has done it, he is not afraid of his retaliation.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhi's eyes were cold, and he said, "A few days ago, I did borrow a few books from Old Master Wang to read. What Third Young Master Chen said just now is right, my toad really wants to taste the swan meat. ”

Chen Wenju was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, "Hey, hey! The ambition is not small! Could it be that you also want to be a child at the age of fifteen like Young Master Ben? What a shame! Bah! Bah! ”

After finishing speaking, Chen Wenju spat on the ground a few times, as if he had just eaten.

Chen Wenju was admitted to the school at the age of fifteen, which is indeed not easy to say. Although they are scholars in the Chen family, he has the status of a child at the age of fifteen, and he is the only one, so he is proud and extraordinary.

Zhou Zhi looked at Chen Wenju's hateful expression, and couldn't help but feel a little angry, and said in a deep voice, "Third Young Master Chen has the identity of a child at the age of fifteen, and the villain admires Third Young Master Chen very much. ”

Hearing Zhou Zhi say this, Chen Wenju immediately felt useful, and his head rose in an instant, and he was extraordinarily proud.

But then Zhou Zhi said, "But I don't want to be a child in the exam, I want to show talent in the exam, raise people in the exam, and even take the Jinshi exam!" The little boy gave birth to me, and I didn't care about it at all. ”

Chen Wenju's nose was almost crooked, and this time not only did he spit a few mouthfuls of spit, he almost vomited.

When a poor cub said such crazy things, he felt that he couldn't communicate with Zhou Zhi anymore, and the ugly scene of that day could not be recovered today. He wanted to ignore Zhou Zhi anymore, but he always felt unwilling to leave like this, and he felt uncomfortable.

So he stretched out his hand and pointed at Zhou Zhi, and said to the Taoist beside him, "Immortal Master, please look, he is the poor cub of the Zhou family, there is nothing to do today, the Immortal Master might as well calculate this cub and see how this cub is?" ”