Chapter 13 Conscription as a government soldier

"Big brother, even if you tell your brothers to do something, don't look at the thin brothers, but you still have the strength to do some work." After the meal, the uncles may think that when the eldest brother came back, they did not give the eldest brother's family a meal, but instead had a big meal at the eldest brother's house, and felt a little embarrassed, so they rushed to help the eldest brother's family do some work to make up for it.

"Okay, okay, I said you, let you have a meal with you, what so many things, if you are like this, then don't come to the eldest brother in the future." Daddy said with a dark face.

"Big brother, you look down on the brothers, don't you......" The uncles argued with the father, and the father didn't want the uncles to work, and the uncles thought that the father looked down on them.

"Okay, okay, grandpa, uncles, don't argue, I'll do it." "Go, stinky boy, you know what to say." "Big brother, listen to what the little nephew says, don't you look down on his uncles too." This good person can't be done, why is everyone's firepower unanimously pointing at Yang Heng.

"I think that if the uncles can come here every morning to report when they are idle, we really have a lot of work to do at home, such as piling up the weeds and trees that we have cut down, and the roots of the trees that have been reclaimed from the land will be cleaned up from the fields, but you can't let the uncles work in vain and give you money, you must be unwilling, but you can still manage these two meals a day, so that we will not delay our work, and the uncles can also help us do more work, but, Uncles, don't dislike my family's poor food. ”

"Well, well, if you really want to come, come along." When Dad heard this, this condition was good, and seeing that these brothers were as thin as chickens, it was also appropriate to make up for them.

"It's still the eldest nephew who understands things, unlike the eldest brother, you can obviously use us, but you can't pretend to be useful, and don't treat us as brothers." The uncles were also satisfied, seeing that such a large forest was about to be reclaimed, and that there were no houses built now, how could there be no work to do, and they naturally did not think that there would be meat to eat here every day.

Everyone happily accepted Yang Heng's suggestion. "So what are you waiting for, let's get started." Dad didn't act, but the uncles were in a hurry.

"Don't worry, Heng'er, what should we do now, should we build a house?" The father stopped the uncles' impatience, even if they didn't stop it, the uncles were very curious at this time, the eldest brother was actually asking for the opinion of this eldest nephew, what does a little child know.

But Yang Heng does have a lot of opinions, that is, he discussed it last night, how to build this house, what to burn bricks, don't think about burning cement, but the kang is indispensable, especially when he found that the quilt covered is filled with some grass bedding, he is even more determined to build a fire kang, especially looking at the forest in front of him, once the reclamation is completed, how much firewood and grass can be cut down.

Especially Yang Heng found that his own life is better than these uncles, they are still wearing single clothes, and they are all very shabby, and although they are not wearing good clothes, they are also double linen clothes, Yang Heng once asked the old lady, after a while, when the weather is cold, you can also sandwich a thin layer of kapok between these two layers of linen, so that you can spend the winter, at this time there is no cotton plant, so there is no quilt and other things, Even the rich are just covered with some animal fur quilts in winter, or attach a layer of silk to the outside, and the poor can have a quilt wrapped in linen wrapped in grass It is good, but some people lie directly in the haystack, and Yang Heng's family is covered with a quilt made of soft grass filling.

To build a fire kang, there must be slate and bricks, but under the current conditions, there are no slate and bricks, so I have to be self-reliant and make a clay embryo, Yang Heng was thinking, how to make the mold of this clay embryo, this has the skill of the uncle, and the production of a few simple wooden frames is much easier, "Uncle, you come, you help me make such a thing." ”

Yang Heng first arranged for the uncle to make two frames for making soil embryos, the size of the frames is five thick, twenty wide, and thirty long, and the inner surface should be quite smooth, so that after making the soil embryo, it is easy to pick up the frame, and the soil embryo will not be deformed.

"It's easy, it only takes half an hour to get it done." Uncle happily agreed.

"Grandpa, you go to fetch water, three uncles, you come with me." Yang Heng led them to a vacant lot outside the yard, and asked the uncles to dig soil from this place and pull it into the yard, these soils, how to say, are these soils, which are relatively viscous and can be used to make adobe, but in order not to crack after they are done, they also have to find some sand and soil to mix together.

"Heng'er, what kind of work do you arrange for your mother?" The old lady was in a hurry on the side, why didn't she have her own business, "Mother, don't worry, I'll cut wood stakes with you." Yang Heng's plan is to cut each section of wood into one and a half meters long, one end into a flat stubble, one end into a sharp end, after cutting to a certain amount, and then use a torch to scorch the surface, and then hammer into the ground, as a ground pile, and then put a horizontal wood on it, and then spread the square square wood on the horizontal wood, and a full wooden floor is made.

Yang Heng's plan is to build a three-room main house first, two and a half are made of large wooden floors, and the other half is a fire kang, the fire kang is about twenty higher than the floor surface, and the stove pit of the fire kang is to build a small basement alone, the entrance of this basement is left in the room, and one is left outside, which is also for the neatness of the room.

The stove pit is not used for cooking, it is to put firewood and grass into it, and it is used to burn the kang, and the kang adopts a ring ventilation method, and the most scorched smoke and dust pass between the flues between the adjacent walls, and build a chimney on the roof, and the next wall also plays the role of a fire wall, so that it will be very warm in both rooms.

At present, Yang Heng's plan is like this, the place where he lives is done first, and other things can be used temporarily, the most important thing is to reclaim the field first, now Yang Heng thinks about his father's uncle, the more he feels that something is wrong, but he can't think of anything wrong.

"Da Lang, you started clearing the wasteland so soon, not bad." After Daddy finished carrying water, when he was accompanying Yang Heng to choose some suitable wood in the forest, Daddy's cheap uncle came again.

"Uncle, are you here?" "Ha, Da Lang, a good thing, a good thing, I tell you, you have been selected as a government soldier, I am here to inform you now, the day after tomorrow, you are going to report to the county."