An earthen platform was paved with bricks, with baffles nailed to both sides and wooden stakes placed.

The stakes have protruding grips at both ends, which make it easy to push the stakes back and forth on the platform, and a simple roller table is complete.

The clay is shoveled into the mould, crushed by the back and forth of the stakes, and then scraped to the end of the slope, allowing the clay to roll down the plank slope.

Knock the wooden board while rolling down, it will form the simplest vibration screening, the large clay will float to the top, the fine will sink to the bottom, a light scrape, you can scrape away the coarse, the rest are more delicate parts, dozens of times more efficient than other methods.

"Sister, how did you come up with such a useful method?" Looking at the delicate clay that was rapidly accumulating, Li Youwei saw that Liu Jun's gaze couldn't help but bring a hint of shock.

"Is it hard?" Liu Jun pretended to be casual and said: "It's not difficult, you can use your brains more, it's just that Li Dashi didn't allow 'her' to use her brains before." ”

The word 'she' Liu Jun deliberately accentuated his tone, naturally referring to the former Liu Niang, but Li Youwei understood it as the 'she' who had been abused and bullied before, and said with a firm expression on his face: "Sister, I will never let others bully you in the future." ”

"Okay, sister will rely on you to protect me in the future." Liu Jun laughed.

Li Fujiang and Li Minzhuo are not far behind: "Mother, we will protect you in the future." ”

"Good, good." Listening to the crisp words of the two little beans, Liu Jun said with relief: "Okay, well, my mother will rely on you to protect me in the future." ”

In this way, it is not a bad thing to pick up a few children for nothing, when these children grow up, see who else in the village dares to bully him, and then meet someone like Zhu Liu, where do you need to use such extreme means to directly let the children smash her house.

The four of them worked together, and soon crushed a large pile of clay, and the rest of the people continued to roll the soil, Li Youwei freed his hands to start making tiles, clay and blocks, pressed into the mold, pulled the string, cut off the excess, and a beautiful tile was formed.

Li Youwei became more and more excited, and said loudly: "Sister, these clays are so good, the tiles pressed out are smooth and smooth, just pull them, you don't need to buckle the small pieces inside, and they must be good tiles when you turn around and burn them." In the past, Li Dashi was reluctant to use this kind of good soil on the tiles. ”

"Really? That would be great. Liu Jun was overjoyed, and when he heard Li Youwei's words, he became more confident in his improvement.

The clay was almost milled, Liu Jun and his two children also joined the ranks of tile making, the tiles increased rapidly, and it took two full days of busy work to accumulate enough 500 tile embryos, which is just the amount of a furnace of tiles, which can be fired in the kiln.

But Li Youwei shook his head after looking at the tile embryo: "Not yet, the tile embryo is not dry, it is easy to crack if it is fired in the kiln, and it must be dried thoroughly." ”

"How long will it take to dry?" Liu Jun asked.

"Not necessarily, depending on the climate, the weather is slow, the weather is dry, the slowest rainy day is five days, and the winter is much faster, just three days." Li Youwei said.

Wouldn't we have to wait another three or four days before the kiln could be opened? If the tile embryo is not dry, the kiln will have to wait?

"No, we can make more tile embryos and dry them there, and pinch the pottery in the extra time, the price of pottery is much higher than that of tiles." Li Youwei said.

Liu Jun shook his head: "No, this is too inefficient, the kiln is idling, the personnel are empty, etc., we have to find a way to shorten the time for the tile embryo to dry." ”

Li Youwei obviously didn't understand what Liu Jun meant, and stood there a little dazed.

The first step, of course, is to shorten the drying time of the tile embryo, Liu Jun circled around the pottery kiln for a few words, and immediately had an idea: "We can use the waste heat of the kiln." ”

People in the Northeast know about the fire kang, but it is just a kang, and Liu Jun has once seen a kind of whole-house earth dragon, with pipes on the ground leading to the kitchen.

When the kitchen cooks on fire, the heat enters the house through the pipes and is discharged from the other end, and the entire floor will be warm, using only the residual heat of the stove to cook, which is convenient for saving firewood.

Knock out the chimney of the kiln and lay the flue with bricks, leaving gaps between bricks. Then use bamboo chips, build an arch shed, and the outer layer of paste mud is insulated, and a semi-enclosed drying room is completed.

At this moment, several full ox carts swayed over, and the coachman at the head greeted him from afar: "Li Da, Li Da." ”

When Li Youwei heard the voice, he was stunned for a moment before he realized that he was calling him, and he had forgotten the name Li Da by Liu Jun's 'promising and promising' in the past few days.

Li Youwei obviously knew the person who greeted him, looked up, and hurriedly responded: "Seventh Master." ”

In a village, the person who can be omitted by someone and only called 'Ye' must be the number one person in the village, and the person who comes is Li Qi, one of the elders of the village, known as the Seventh Master. For the people surnamed Li in the village, he is the elder of the clan.

Li Qi is a well-known figure in the village, with a wide range of contacts, mainly buying and selling bulk commodities, grain, firewood, building materials, etc., you can find him when you buy and sell, and you can do things fairly, and everyone is happy to ask him for help.

Seeing Li Youwei, Li Qi's gaze turned to Liu Jun's body again, looked at it twice, nodded, and said with a heavy and slightly worried look on his face: "Dashi's family, I just heard about Dashi when I returned to the village today, alas, this is really ......." ”

I guess he didn't know what to say, he drowned in a well while washing his face, this kind of death is simply ridiculous, so that people can't even afford to sympathize, they just feel ridiculous.

Liu Jun restrained his emotions and said in a flat tone: "Thank you Seventh Master for your concern." ”

He had to pay attention, because he was afraid that he would laugh out loud, Li Dashi's death was a good thing for him, and it would be troublesome if he made a loud noise.

"Ugh......." Li Qi sighed again, hesitated for a while and then said in embarrassment: "Although Dashi is gone, but the debt of death is not gone, what should he do with the tiles he promised Liu Zhuang?" He took a deposit. ”

"Deposit?" As soon as he heard that money was involved, Liu Jun felt a sigh in his heart, and hurriedly asked, "How much deposit did he take?" What about the deposit? ”

After Li Dashi's death, Liu Jun turned his house upside down at that time, searched out about 300 copper plates, and when he was buried, he spent 80 copper plates to give gifts to the villagers who helped, and there were only more than 200 left in the family.

If Li Dashi received a deposit from someone else, how much did he collect? Where did the deposit go?

"I received a deposit or two, and promised to give Liu Zhuang three thousand tiles after half a month, in order to catch up with the construction period, the deposit was all for me to help him buy charcoal, and now the charcoal is bought, but others are gone, what can I do now?"

"Forget about others, it's a big deal to raise it and refund the deposit, but Liu Zhuang repairs the ancestral house, the auspicious days of the zodiac are selected, the east village buys bricks, the west village buys tiles, the south village buys grain, the north village buys meat, and the idlers around are also summoned."

"If you can't hand over your tiles, it's not something that can be solved by unsubscribing, maybe your pottery kiln can't be saved."