The huge profits encouraged the whole village, men, women and children all mobilized, and after only ten days of hard work, the expansion of the salt pan was completed. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info was worried about poor sales and other reasons, but in the end, the production capacity of Yantian was not expanded uncontrollably. According to Qian San's calculations, as long as fifteen women were arranged to work in the salt fields, they would get twice as much as the twenty-five men who had worked in the past. Liu Yao and Mei Xianzhuo followed the plan to replace all the men back to build houses, and let the women go to work in the salt fields.

On this morning, the two families came to Yantian with a group of women from the village. When the lean Qian San saw it from afar, he greeted him and beckoned the people who were working to gather.

Liu Yao secretly said to his wife and daughter: "This is the first time I have seen him wearing clothes. "Everyone in the salt pans got dressed and stood in front of the shed. As soon as Liu Yao walked over, the crowd suddenly bowed and saluted. Liu Yao was taken aback, and hurriedly returned the salute with a smile, saying "don't dare to be" again and again.

Mei Xianzhuo said: "You deserve it." This salt pan is yours to give to everyone. ”

After Liu Yao finished saluting, he asked Mei Xianzhuo: "Let's transfer the man back to build a house, how do we calculate the salary?" ”

"I haven't asked you yet. I'll ask at dinner later, and I'll talk to you about a number. Mei Xianzhuo replied with a smile.

After coming into this world, this is the first time that the family has come to the seaside. Liu Ze still couldn't figure out the difference between the river and the sea, so he pointed to a vast ocean and shouted: "Little river! Stream! Small fish swim. The family decided to play at the beach, and filmed Liu Man to ask Mei Xianzhuo when he planned to go back.

"Daddy! Father! They plan to spend the night here! A whole village of people is out for the night! Man hurriedly ran over and shouted happily.

"Hey, why didn't you tell us earlier? I didn't prepare anything. ”

"This village is so romantic, haha." Liu Yao stopped his wife, who was starting to be anxious: "I'm sure Mrs. Mei brought all the things you need." ”

The work in the salt pans naturally ends as the sky darkens. In the evening, a group of people cook and grill fish on the beach, and sit around the campfire to talk about family life. Men sit around the fire drinking rice wine, children run around, and women are busy cooking. Xiaoman sat next to his father, grabbing a piece of charcoal and sketching on the board. Xiaoman had learned sketching before, but now no one teaches or judges, but he draws much more smartly.

"I've been coming to Yantian a lot these days, and I haven't taken you to the mines. Are you catching fish and beasts as your main business? Liu Yao asked Xiaoman with a smile.

"I'll cook!" Xiaoman dropped the plank and hurriedly fled, afraid that his father would inquire about his unserious lifestyle. A group of children jumped up and scrambled over the planks. It was a sketch of Mrs. May, unfinished, but already vivid. In the end, Mrs. Mei took the wooden board in her hand as if she had obtained a treasure, and asked Liu Man to inscribe a word. Liu Man didn't know anything about these traditions, and habitually handed over the problem to his father. Liu Yuan smiled and said to his wife: "I can't handle that word, you have to do this." Yao Ying has practiced calligraphy since she was a child, not only is her handwriting not bad, but she is actually the only one in her family who can write well. Yao Ying took the wooden board and charcoal, asked the year and month, and wrote in the upper left corner of the picture "Mrs. Mei is like the four men of the apocalypse"

"Four years of the Apocalypse......" Liu Yao was talking about this year, a little distracted, and he didn't notice the surprise of the people around him at Yao Ying's ability to write.

The main course of dinner is grilled fish made by Koman. The washed and peeled fish is wrapped in lemongrass and grilled in a salt pile, which not only tastes good, but also makes the fish very firm, and is popular with everyone. The fish was still sweet tonight, but instead of talking and laughing loudly, the men began to talk softly in groups of three or five with serious expressions. When the bonfire was about to burn out, everyone asked Zhao En to say a few words to Mei Xianzhuo, and Mei Xianzhuo came to Liu Yao again and said that the result of everyone's discussion was to help build the house for free and not charge wages.

Facing Liu Yao's surprised expression, Mei Xianzhuo asked, "Do you remember why Zhao Shilu didn't take your money?" The people in our village know how to do what is bad. ”

"I've already got a lot of shares, and it's not a good idea to do it, so what if I'm going to build a big house?" Liu Yao said embarrassed and embarrassed.

The men sang around the fire, all of which were rough ballads, which caused the women to laugh and curse. The bonfire flickered in the darkening night, and the sparks rose and merged with the stars.

"Makes sense. Then every man goes to you for a month. We have a house built in a month. Mei Xianzhuo thought for a moment and replied.

Liu Yao didn't expect the villagers to be so grateful, so he hurriedly stood up and thanked him loudly. Everyone smiled and didn't speak, only Qian San stood up and said, "Everyone! Do we all remember what my husband said about one egg a day? Everyone laughed and said yes. Qian San said again: "Everyone's kindness, Mr. will laugh at it." The sooner you live in a big house, the sooner you can help everyone figure out how to eat eggs! "A burst of laughter on the beach.

The night was deep and the stars were shining, so everyone packed up and slept by the sea. It's summer, and you don't have to worry about freezing when camping in the wild. Yao Ying asked Liu Yao for a coat, wrapped her son, and prepared to sleep by the fire.

Xiaoman has been helping his mother clean up the sleeping place by the fire, and when he saw everyone disperse, he sat down on the sand all of a sudden. Mom asked her, "Tired?" ”

Xiao Man shook his head and lay down, pointing to the unobstructed night sky in front of him, a Milky Way across the sky and said, "Don't be tired." I'm starting to love this place. You look at this galaxy, just to see it, and it's worth a visit. ”

Liu Yao and Yao Ying looked at each other, full of surprise at their daughter's words, and felt that they didn't know where to start.

Early the next morning, after the men of Yantian returned to the village, they did not return home, so they gathered at the door of Mei's house and pulled Zhao Shilu to discuss the work.

Liu Yao moved a chair, took off his shoes and stood up, cleared his throat, and said aloud to everyone: "Everyone's kindness, I won't be outside, I accept it!" Thank you. It's just that I want to build a lot of things, please register first, from now on a month, I won't be paid, and the construction site will be in charge of lunch. A month later, I paid you 5 catties of grain for big workers and 3 catties of grain for small workers. What do you think? ”

Everyone said yes, and Liu Yao asked Zhao Shilu to divide the people into two sides, some to build a kiln to burn bricks, and some to build a road that leads directly to Freedom Mountain.

Hearing about Freedom Mountain, Mei Xianzhuo grabbed Liu Yao's sleeve: "Brother Tai, do you really plan to build it in that remote place?" ”

"I see that above the dry land is a gentle terrace. This land is much higher than dry land, and it is inconvenient to divert water for irrigation, so it cannot be converted into farmland, and it is just right for building houses. ”

"It's really good, the terrain is open, even if it's a village, it's spacious. It was surrounded by steep ridges on three sides, and high mountains in the back, which was also convenient for defense, and my father also thought about settling there at that time. It's just that drinking water is quite inconvenient, and I have to go to the small river dozens of feet below to fetch water every day. It is precisely because of this that we chose the current place to build a house. ”

"Everything in Meijia Village is good, but it is not good for defense. Brother Tai has not yet attracted the attention of Qianghao, and the occasional nuisance is a small person, and it can be defended by relying on a rod and a short knife. If the accumulation increases, and the people who come to attack have bows and horses, or thousands of them, how can Brother Tai resist? ”

"But there is no water source there. Thousands of people don't need to attack, they are trapped and trapped to death. ”

"Mountain people have their own tricks." Liu Yao made a mysterious smile again and showed it to Mei Xianzhuo.

The importance of cement is self-evident. Liu Yao hoped to build a house to do the experiment of burning cement. Although Qian San's triple soil formula can also be coagulated, it has not been smelted, and in fact, the strength and water seepage rate and other indicators are not ideal. After the cement is made, not only can it be used to build your own house, but the salt pan is also very much needed, and it can also be sold to the outside world, which is really worth trying.

These days, I have been investigating all over the world, and I have figured out the location of limestone and other raw materials, and I have also figured out the kiln site for burning cement and bricks: it is in the most downstream of the industrial area, close to the Shilu River and raw materials, the terrain is flat, and it is convenient to get water. Liu Yao and Mei Xianzhuo discussed setting up the kiln factory, so that there would be no need to buy bricks from outside in the future. Mei Xianzhuo hesitated: "Burning bricks has always been the business of the Zhou family in the county, and it is the Zhou tent in the county. His cousin Zhou Yunchi runs a brick factory, and the price is fair. ”

"If we burn the brick kiln, will the other party interfere?"

"If you burn bricks, he will definitely not come to disturb him, but the brick factory always sells bricks. If there is a customer who wants to buy bricks, and you have to sell it, I will also sell it, and when the time comes, there will inevitably be disputes. ”

"That's fine. We won't have bricks to sell for a while. When it comes time to sell the extra bricks, Mr. Ledger is no longer a problem. ”

Liu Yao asked everyone to build an ordinary kiln first, and it was enough to produce bricks, but the place where the bricks were piled up and the ditch where the water was diverted were very large. The senior executive was still ********, and asked understandingly: "Mr. Liu, do you plan to build a few more brick kilns in the future?" ”

"There are more than a few brick kilns added. There will be smoke billowing from here in the future! Liu Yao couldn't help but get excited when he thought about the cement kiln and the steelmaking plant. Regardless of the doubts of the executives, he led Zhao Rushan to locate the cement kiln.

After the location of the cement kiln was selected, Liu Yao only gave Zhao Rushan a drawing and a formula for cement raw materials, and asked him to find out how to do it himself. Facing Zhao Rushan's surprised expression, Liu Yao told him to come and find him at any time if he had a problem, and he came to report the progress every day after finishing work, and left without looking back.

Since he started building houses, Liu Yao has been soaking on Freedom Mountain all day long, taking several people from the Zhao family to measure and lay wooden stakes to make various markers. Ten days have passed, and not only are there no houses to be seen on the mountain, but even the foundations have not been laid.

Mei Xianzhuo was a little breathless, and after dinner, he took the executive's family to Zhao Shilu: "Old Zhao, are you planning to build an official office or a big temple, why can't you see anything after ten days?" ”

"Lao Mei, let me tell you, this Mr. Liu is a talent. The house he wants to build is to bring water into the room. ”

"Wouldn't it be better to dig a ditch?"

"It's that simple! Don't talk about you, tell my husband to build a house, I'm a layman. He had to use a sink to bring water into the house, and there would be water in the kitchen and toilet, so it would be very convenient to use water. Then the used water, and the urine and urine in the toilet, flowed out of a buried gutter, called a sewer. It does not flow out directly, first go to an underground brick pool, called a septic tank, precipitate, and then drain it. "It's all new M nouns, Zhao Shilu stumbled.

"There's a lot of work that you can't see underground." Mei Xianzhuo groaned.

"It's just a job that we can't see, and we're done with it. The key is that the water he wants to use is the canal, the kitchen, toilet, septic tank, and sewer, all of which must have a fixed location, not high or low. Zhao Shilu shook his head as he spoke, obviously this positioning is also a big challenge to it.

"But we're done. The foundations are also positioned, and tomorrow's workers will be able to go up the mountain. Zhao En took another sentence.

"You're done. I haven't started here yet. Zhao Rushan walked in with a look of resentment. I build a small stove all day long to make recipes, and the big kiln that really burns cement has not yet been built. ”

"What's that good thing about your cement?" Mei Xianzhuo asked with a wink.

"That's a good thing to say. I've got the recipe right. This thing, after being put on the water, will solidify, like gypsum, but it is much harder than gypsum, and when it is solidified, it is as hard as stone. I think this cement will change the technology of building a house a lot. Zhao Rushan took out two broken bricks that were glued together, and said with sparkling eyes.

Zhao Shilu knocked on the broken bricks on the ground, and smashed them hard, found that they were still not broken, picked them up and looked at them carefully for a long time, and stretched out his tongue to lick the cement, and then gave Mei Xianzhuo and told his son. "You must do what the gentleman said, and do a good job of the cement kiln. Also, you must not let others know about that recipe. ”

"I know that. It's just that we're not good at kilns. I have a drawing in hand, but I am not sure how to do it. The gentleman said that he only had drawings and had never done it. Zhao Rushan said embarrassedly.

"Then you go to the porcelain workshop in Chahe Village, and his old Jiang will burn the kiln nearby." Mei Xianzhuo made a move.

"That money fan, how much money will he give him before he comes?" Zhao Rushan felt that this was not a good move.

"If you show him this cement, he won't want any money." Mei Xianzhuo said with a smile.

"You guys have trouble making cement, and I don't know what to do when I burn bricks all day." The executives couldn't help but complain. "You said burn bricks, burn bricks, he took all the bricks burned and built a brick-burning kiln, called the Wheel Kiln. It is to burn the fire in the middle, put several kilns around it, this into the brick embryo, that burn, the back is cold, and then the back is out of the bricks, unlike the usual brick kiln, a kiln to wait for the furnace to be cold out of the bricks before it can be burned again, which is time-consuming and laborious. It's just that this round of kilns is going to be built, what is the use of producing so many bricks? ”

"Why do you have to toss so many things to build a house?" Mei Xianzhuo walked around the Zhao family's house a few times, raised his head and said to everyone: "No matter what, we will help him get things up." If nothing else, I always learn a lot of new things. ”

"These new things are not just casual things. Both of them are worth a lot of money. Zhao Shilu picked up the teacup and took a sip and said slowly.