Yue Yang accepted Zhou Ming's commission, found Xiahou Yue on the same day, and explained the matter of Zhou Ming and his wife opening a kiln to burn bricks one by one. The more Xiahou is a general, he is very interested in burning bricks, after all, with a strong city defense, the safety factor of the soldiers has improved more than a little bit. So the next day, he followed Yue Yang to the site to inspect the kiln factory.

Zhou Ming took a small number of bricks baked according to Lin Taohua's method to Xiahou Yue. Xiahou Yue turned over the inconspicuous square bricks and looked at them a few times before frowning.

Zhou Ming naturally knew why he frowned, so he smiled: "Because the sheltered cave has not yet been built, these bricks are only baked in the open air, which is naturally different from the green bricks on the Qingyan side, but after verification, the soil quality is still extremely high-quality, I believe that after the brick kiln is built, it will be sealed and fired to get good green bricks, even if it is a gold brick, it is possible to burn." ”

"Gold Bricks?" Xiahou was more puzzled.

Zhou Ming said with a smile: "I heard Brother Yang say that Qingyan has a kind of square brick for the palace, which has a hard texture and sonorous knocking, but the output is less, and outsiders don't know about it." We're just getting started and we're going to have to figure it out for a while, but it's just around the corner. ”

Yue Yang glanced at Zhou Ming quietly, and he was extremely contemptuous of this guy's behavior of causing trouble in order to protect Lin Taohua.

To say that the secret technique of burning bricks comes from Yueyang, Xiahou Yue doesn't think it's strange, after all, Yueyang has traveled to various countries, and it's not strange to know something, so he half-jokingly said: "Yueyang, you and I have known each other for many years, since you know the firing method of green bricks, why don't you tell me." ”

Yue Yang rolled his eyes in his heart, and said with a smile on his face: "I just know the skin, the inner proportion, but the materials used are unknown." A few days ago, when I sent Yu Ning over to learn dance, I chatted with Brother Ming about Qingyan's green bricks, and I chatted with him about it. This is the credit of Brother Ming, and I don't know how much I tried to find out that the clay is different from ordinary soil, and it is still unknown whether it will succeed. ”

Zhou Ming took it and said, "I think it should be fine." In fact, in the early years, when porcelain was fired, some people proposed clay bricks, but unfortunately it failed, and the fragile impression of porcelain gave us, so we didn't use our brains on clay. Hehe, now think about it, the craftsman tried different soils in the process of firing porcelain, and it was not necessarily that there were no bricks at that time, and it is estimated that no one has studied it carefully, and it was directly disposed of as a waste product. ”

"Makes sense. A lot of things are indeed discovered in the process of making other objects. Hehe, no matter what, this time it is Brother Ming'er's credit, if it is done, I will write a letter to my father and ask you for credit to the court. Xiahou Yue was very happy.

Zhou Ming hurriedly waved his hand: "No need, if it is successful, the adults will leave half of the bricks produced for me to build a garden." ”

"Are you going to grab supplies from the imperial court, aren't you afraid of being arrested by the government?" Xiahou Yue asked with a smile.

Zhou Ming bowed: "My lord, Jinguo is a large country with a large population and a large population, if the Zhoujiacun experiment is successful, it can be implemented in the whole Jinguo, and the green bricks will definitely meet the national defense at that time, and there is no need to look at the bricks of Zhoujiacun." Besides, I don't need a lot, so why don't you do it all? ”

Xiahou Yue laughed: "That's right, but I'm a little anxious." ”

Yue Yang sneered: "I think you can't wait to replace all the national defense fortifications tomorrow." ”

Xiahou Yue was not afraid of being ridiculed by him, and said with emotion: "The life and death of the soldiers on the border are at stake, so I can't help but not care." ”

"The general loves soldiers like sons and worries about national defense, which is really a blessing for Jinguo." Zhou Ming still admires Xiahou Yue, a rising star in the army.

"Hehe, I dare not be honored for my duty. You hurry up to build the kiln, and if you need help, just come to me, and you will take your leave. Xiahou Yue had a number in his heart and hurriedly left.

Yue Yang stayed in the kiln factory to help, and was ready to leave when it was almost dark. Lin Taohua thanked him for his enthusiasm and specially packed a box of braised pork for him to take away.

Nowadays, Zhou Ji's braised pork will be sent to Zhuangyuan Building every day, and I heard that it is very popular, and the taste is one top and one good. Although Yue Yang is not a person who has a heavy tongue, some of them will not push back, and they unceremoniously carry away with the food box.

It is now late autumn, Qiongya County is located in the north of Jinguo, and there is often snow in the cold winter. The Zhou family built the garden a little late, and because they had to use green bricks to build it, the speed was even slower. In order to build the house before the first snow, Lin Taohua and Zhou Ming summed it up and decided to recruit some more people.

They gave them generous treatment and food and lodging, so in two or three days, they recruited twenty or thirty people. Later, Zhang Biao brought more than a dozen strong men from the county seat, and the manpower was enough.

Now everything is in place, as long as the brick kiln produces bricks, they can quickly construct.

All the things in the garden were handed over to the Zhou brothers, and she took advantage of the time to send condolences and urgently opened a women's association in Zhoujia Village.

Zhou Liu participated in this friendship and quietly told Lin Taohua about the opening of the store. Lin Taohua still appreciates Zhou Liu's foresight, and promised to find her as a shareholder once the store is opened.

After this friendship, the relationship between the women of the Zhou family and the women in the village has been drawn into a lot, and under the pillow wind, the men have become more and more harmonious.

In view of the special situation of the brick kiln, Lin Taohua repeatedly reminded Zhou Ming to do a good job of confidentiality, and asked him to make it clear to these new recruits that the relationship was very strong, and not to cause trouble.

In order to make her feel at ease, Zhou Ming simply built a few grass houses and gathered all the people who went to work to control them. Zhang Biao was also directly placed by him in the brick kiln yard to watch them.

When everyone saw the tightness of Zhou's defense, they naturally felt the power of it, and they did not cause trouble one by one. After the first kiln bricks were baked, Xiahou Yue rushed to Yuzhou in a hurry and personally reported the brick kiln in Zhoujia Village to his son Xiahou Jing. As a result, a few days later, the brick kiln in Zhoujia Village was taken over by many errand officers wearing official uniforms.

Finally threw the hot potato to the government, Lin Taohua breathed a sigh of relief, and even the bed was indulged by Zhou Ming.

The brick kiln factory in Zhoujiacun has a large area, a large number of kilns, and a lot of green bricks are produced every time.

With the increase in the number of workers, the big stove is extremely busy, and Hu Yiren and Brother Xing's daughter-in-law can only stay on the big stove every day to help, and basically have no time to help Zhou Hui make some braised meat and snacks.

In fact, Lin Taohua is not making money with braised pork and dim sum now, after all, building a garden is the most important thing now, so the braised pork dim sum delivered to the champion building every day is as much as Zhou Hui makes. Now that the garden is busy, no one helps Zhou Hui, and the things supplied to the champion building are naturally much less.

Some wealthy and powerful customers have not bought what they want to eat for a few days, so they have the idea of making an appointment to provide directly, even if the price is higher.

Su Jinquan is open to do business, so naturally he can't offend all the famous people in Qiongya County because of ordering braised pork dim sum, so he can only come to Zhoujia Village to visit Lin Taohua in person.

Lin Taohua also knew Su Jinquan's difficulties, so she agreed to increase the supply. As a result, she could only go into the kitchen to help, and Zhou Hui and the two of them supported the braised meat business, and spent most of their time on various meats and marinades every day.

One day, Zhou Ming always sniffed around when he hugged Lin Taohua Wencun.

"What's wrong?" Lin Taohua asked delicately.

Zhou Ming said with a smile: "There is always a smell of braised pig's trotters on the lady's body. ”

Lin Taohua was stunned for a moment, and then pushed Zhou Ming away, clamoring to take a bath.

Zhou Ming hugged her and said that it was okay, but Lin Taohua didn't follow, Zhou Ming couldn't but get up and boil water to bathe her, and secretly scolded herself in her heart, unless she had no meat smell on her body, she didn't want to get close.

That night, in order to remove the smell of braised meat on her body, Lin Taohua directly threw two main peach blossoms into the bath bucket, and the soaked skin was wrinkled and the whole body was fragrant before she was willing to come out.

Zhou Ming poured out the bath water and said with a smile: "I took a bath with 20,000 taels of silver, and this bath water is probably the most expensive bath water in the world." ”

Lin Taohua, who had just washed the incense, blushed on her face and muttered, "I'm not afraid that you will dislike me." ”

Zhou Ming shouted wronged, "When did the husband dislike it?" The braised pig's trotters are also very fragrant, and they drool. ”

Lin Taohua's face darkened, kicked him, and scolded: "Get out." ”

Zhou Ming poured out the water with a smile, dried her hair again, and it was already the second half of the night when she cleaned up. At that time, his lady's eyelids were fighting, where did he still have the energy to serve him? Zhou Ming could only give up.

Early the next morning, Lin Taohua followed Zhou Hui into the city, and when she came back, she brought an old mother, Zhao, and two maids, the first and second junior high, to completely rescue herself from the kitchen.

Zhou Hui thought that Lin Taohua wanted to expand the scale of supply, but this guy told her that she didn't want to be infected with the smell of braised pork, so she asked her to stay away from the kitchen. Zhou Hui gave her a blank look after hearing this, turned around and threw herself into the kitchen braised meat business.