Chapter 43: Why Do You Only Scoop Half a Bowl of Rice? (Above)

It is definitely not a trivial matter for the lord to build a new house, and with the call of the old bell, the villagers who were newly named Zhangjiazhuang came over with a smile. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Looking at these guys with flat poles and hoes, Zhang Yi felt that their smiles were a little hypocritical, have you ever seen someone who still drags his family with his family while working?

"Young master, don't look at these children, they are also good at work!" Seeing his young master's disgusted eyes, Lao Zhong quietly said to Zhang Yi: "Don't take money just for eating!" ”

Of course, the lord would not care about this little money, but seeing that people are so enthusiastic, in order not to discourage the enthusiasm of the flowers of the motherland, Zhang Yi had to nod with difficulty.

It is said that it is easy to do things when there are many people, and hundreds of people are immediately divided into several teams after a division. Logging, quarrying, burning bricks, even those aunts and aunts are not idle to have something to do.

"Old Zhong, did I ask you to find someone to repair the kiln?" Seeing that everyone was doing their jobs, Zhang Yi hurriedly called Lao Zhong over.

Although the courtyard is good, there are many shortcomings!

First of all, as a wooden structure of the house, you can ignore the fire prevention point, once the slightest accident fires in the house, there is almost no need to ask, it is definitely burned in pieces, and if you don't burn a red city, you can't stop at all. This is also why in ancient times, there were old men who patrolled the streets, wandering around, and when they had nothing to do, they would take the broken gong and strike it so much and then shout, the weather is dry and the things are dry, be careful of the fire candle!

Then there's the issue of keeping warm. Cool in winter and cool in summer is definitely not an empty word, it is absolutely true! As we all know, wood and most materials have a commonality, that is, thermal expansion and contraction, often the newly built houses are not bad, but after a year and a half, the wood will be deformed due to the special rise and contraction or weathering, so that the house becomes very ventilated.

Such a house is very pleasant in the summer breeze, but what about in winter? That feeling when the cold wind blows.....

Therefore, Zhang Yi still thinks that since the construction of a new house, whether it is for fire prevention or warmth, or for a few more years, then the brick and wood structure must be used.

"It's ready!" Lao Zhong hurriedly said: "It's on the other side of the river, and there are three hoops according to your requirements, why don't you go over and take a look?" ”

Since bringing Xiao Yuer's grandchildren back to the door, Lao Zhong has been full of energy all day long, as if he was dozens of years younger all of a sudden, his waist no longer hurts, his legs don't hurt, and he is also diligent!

Zhang Yi nodded, and then the two of them walked towards the back mountain, he was still more at ease with Lao Zhong, but for the burning of cement, he knew that it was to use limestone, clay, and iron ore powder to grind and mix in proportion, and then calcinate, and finally add a certain proportion of gypsum powder to get cement. But how to calcinate? What percentage is added? He didn't know it at all!

So he needed to experiment, and he had to experiment over and over again until he reached the standard he remembered!

To this end, he also planned to build two waterwheels by the river, of course, to divert water to irrigate the fields on the one hand, and on the other hand, he hoped to realize the automatic grinding function through the waterwheel, otherwise he would not be able to grind much cement by manpower.

The two of them staggered to the river beach, and sure enough, about thirty meters away from the river, three kilns had already taken shape.

The kiln is not big, according to Zhang Yi's estimate, it can calcine about a ton of raw materials at a time, and he is a little disappointed with this number, but this is also a matter of no way. After all, it was impossible to build a standardized kiln like that of later generations, because he could not do it with just sealing and uniform heating.

So a ton or so of an earthen kiln is definitely the most suitable at the moment!

Walking towards the earthen kiln, the yellow mud on the kiln has been dried, and the cave has also undergone ignition experiments, judging from the black kiln inside, they should be very successful, at least able to use. However, what surprised Zhang Yi the most was that the fire door of the cave was actually designed in the direction of the wind, so that the wind of the river wind could achieve the effect of rapid heating of the cave.

Zhang Yi felt that he was still too young! As a person who has traveled through the past generations, he has never considered this, whether it is a waterwheel or something else, he just plagiarized those results that have been verified countless times, and he is really too bad when it comes to using himself! No wonder the sages have long said that it is better to read 10,000 books than to travel 10,000 miles.

After inspecting the earthen kiln, I took a look at the progress of the foundation of the water wheel that was beginning to be drawn in the river, and it was noon in a flash.

At this time, the foundation of the Zhang family's new house began to be lively, the women kept adding firewood to the makeshift earthen stove, the meat in the pot was overflowing, and the sweaty men were around the pot and drooling.

"Wang Laosan, can you stay away from the pot? Looking at your gluttony, it shouldn't have been three years without a fishy smell, right? A lady opened a man with a smile on his face with a burning stick, and scolded with a smile.

The man who was opened and called Wang Laosan was not angry, he rubbed his beaten arm and said: "Three years is not enough, there should be two years, Li Laosian's family, you don't have to talk about me, didn't your family buy meat for the Chinese New Year last year?" When I passed by your house on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, your dog was still clamoring for meat! Hahahaha! ”

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It's not a shame to have no meat to eat during the New Year, I don't have it at home, and he doesn't have meat to eat at other people's homes, so it's just 50 steps and a hundred steps.

When everyone is ready, the meal is ready on time.

As the lord, Zhang Yi didn't have to eat with everyone, but in order to show his determination to share weal and woe with the villagers, Zhang Yi still asked Lao Zhong to give him a bowl of dry rice and a bowl of broth to sit on a stone and chew slowly.

"Young master, why don't you eat less first, the old lady will let the kitchen make you your favorite roast beef with radish in the morning, I estimate that it will definitely be delivered in a while!" Seeing Zhang Yi's extremely difficult way to eat, Lao Zhong sighed in his heart.

The young master's mouth, he was born to be an emperor's mouth, whether it was in Lingnan or back in Chang'an, the requirements for meals have reached the level of no fault, and now he actually eats the same meal with a group of mud legs, which makes him extremely entangled.

"Let's talk about it later, besides, don't all the villagers eat it very fragrant?" Zhang Yi poured a mouthful of broth into his mouth, looked at the people in front of him who couldn't stop shaving rice in his mouth, and asked Lao Zhong curiously: "Old Zhong, I'm strange, just now over there I heard a woman say that a man hasn't eaten meat for three years, and the man also admitted it, I thought that since I haven't eaten meat for three years, my family must not be rich, but look at it, why do they only scoop half a bowl of rice one by one?" Could it be that they are all full in the morning? ”