Next, every day at noon, Zhou Dazhi had to go to the roof of the house, turn over the city brick cakes, and wait until the evening, and then take them down and put them in the house, so as not to be stained with night dew and affect the quality of the city brick cakes.

By noon on the seventh day, the brick cake had finally been completely dried.

They turned reddish-brown, like red bricks fresh out of the kiln.

Zhou Dazhi took them all back to the house where he lived with Chu Yunniang, deliberately picked them next to the existing kang in the house, compared to a ventilated place, and according to the method taught by Xiao Qiongzhi, they were stained with glutinous rice and lime paste to build a new kang.

Two hours later, the new kang was built.

At first glance, it is completely indistinguishable from ordinary red bricks.

Zhou Dazhi was very satisfied.

But he was a little skeptical about the sturdiness of this new kang.

On the morning of the eighth day, when the glutinous rice and lime paste had dried, he deliberately took a wooden clay and tried to knock it.

Knock knock! Knock knock! Knock knock!

The sound became louder and louder, waking up Xiao Qiongzhi, who was sleeping next door, and ran over to see the excitement.

happened to see Zhou Dazhi, and finally made up his mind and made a hard knock.

Boom!

In the sound of the air falling, a piece of city brick cake that was hit by the wooden gas finally loosened, and a few small pieces of glutinous rice lime paste that glued it together with another city brick cake fell.

The bricks of the city wall were not broken.

It's so sturdy.

Zhou Dazhi was very satisfied.

He touched Xiao Qiongzhi's head with a smile, and said sincerely: "Zhi'er, this method of hiding grain that you heard from your father is very good. However, people's hearts are unpredictable, and this is a good method, and you and your mother must not tell other people in the village, so as not to leak the news and lose its effect. ”

"Okay, Dad, I understand." Xiao Qiongzhi smiled and nodded obediently.

In the past few days, in order to smoothly make city wall bricks and not be leaked, Zhou Dazhi bolted the courtyard door in broad daylight.

Occasionally, when a big girl, a dog, and a stone came to play with Xiao Qiongzhi, Zhou Dazhi didn't open the door, but only coaxed them, saying that Xiao Qiongzhi was studying at home and would not be allowed to play with them until a few days.

As for the other village adults who came to knock on the door and talk to Zhou Dazhi, he said that he was busy now, and asked others to go home and wait first, and when he was done, he would go over to find others.

In short, no one is allowed to come into the courtyard.

It can be said that he is a very cautious and successful person.

It is a good fortune that Chu Yunniang can marry him.

It's a pity that today is the day when Zhou Dazhi went to the township to gather and was sent to the battlefield.

The swords and guns have no eyes, and the notice in the last time I returned to the township said that the 600,000 troops of the Chu State died nearly 200,000 in battle in just one month, and this mortality rate is actually quite high.

Although Zhou Dazhi knows some martial arts and is in the prime of life, it is difficult to say whether he can return safely after leaving this time.

Of course, in order to make Zhou Dazhi feel at ease when he leaves, so that Chu Yunniang doesn't have to worry too much about Zhou Dazhi, in the past few days, Xiao Qiongzhi has not revealed his deep worries.

On the contrary, she also pretended to be looking forward to Zhou Dazhi's triumphant return, and from time to time asked Zhou Dazhi to remember that on the way back, she bought herself some interesting gadgets, which made Zhou Dazhi and Chu Yunniang happy.

It's Chu Yunniang, after all, she is a newlywed Yan'er with Zhou Dazhi, and she is a little inseparable.

She knew in her heart that when Zhou Dazhi was about to go to serve the country and kill the enemy, if he was too sad and sad, it would make him worry, and at the same time, it was not a good luck, so he should force a smile.

In the past few days, she has also been pretending well.

However, when Zhou Dazhi put down the wooden gas in his hand, hastily ate a few bites of the breakfast she made, put on her bags, and prepared to go out, she still couldn't hold back the worry in her heart anymore and wept silently.

Xiao Qiongzhi was worried that she would be like this, and kept staring at her.

At this time, he hurriedly came to her, took her hand affectionately, stood on tiptoe, and whispered in her ear: "Mother, if you raise your head a little higher, if you raise it high, the tears will not flow, and you won't let your father see it." ”

"Hmm." Chu Yunniang immediately nodded and did so, feeling a little ashamed in her heart.

The child is still so young, he knows how to hide his mood, and as an adult, he can't lead by example, which is really uncompromising.

"Yun Niang, I'm leaving. When you are home alone with children, you must take care of yourself and don't worry about me. Do you remember how Zhi'er analyzed it last time? Our Chu State will win, and I should be back soon. ”

"It's still early now, you can take Zhi'er and sleep again, you don't need to send me to the village, and when you receive a letter that I want to come back, just pick me up at the village entrance." Zhou Dazhi actually noticed that Chu Yunniang was crying, but he didn't expose it, he just walked up to her, and gently touched her pretty face with his calloused hand, and coaxed her gently.

"Okay, Brother Dazhi, I will listen to you. However, this time, you must also listen to me, and when you are on the battlefield, you must be cautious, protect yourself, and return safely when the army triumphs. Chu Yunniang nodded heavily and said reluctantly.

"Hmm!" Zhou Dazhi agreed with confidence, turned around and strode out.

The morning light is faint outside, and the sky is about to break.

He had just walked out not far away, and the father of the big girl next door, Zhou Youqian, seemed to have been waiting for him for a long time, walked out of the door with his bags on his back, said hello to him, and set off together.

Wait for a while, not far from Xiao Qiongzhi's house, there was a "Wait for me", and then, Zhou Youzhong, the father of the dog and the stone, ran with his bags and chased after Zhou Dazhi and Zhou Youqian.

After a while, several young villagers in the vicinity, carrying their bags, joined their group.

When Zhou Dazhi's figure disappeared from sight, there were already dozens of companions behind him.

Although Chu Yunniang promised Zhou Dazhi not to send him, she still took Xiao Qiongzhi and quietly chased him to the gate of the courtyard after he left the courtyard gate, and looked forward to it.

It wasn't until Zhou Dazhi's figure disappeared for a while that she withdrew her gaze, covered her face uncontrollably again, and cried "duh".

Xiao Qiongzhi didn't persuade her, just silently stayed by her side, reaching out and gently patting her back to appease.

Soon, Wang Chunhua, the mother of the big girl next door, took the big girl, and Liu Wuxiu, the mother of the dog and the stone, took the dog and the stone, and coincidentally came to Xiao Qiongzhi's house to visit the door.

Usually, Wang Chunhua and Liu Wuxiu don't like each other, basically when they see this and that coming, they must leave immediately.

But today is different from the past, and they all have tacit understanding to make exceptions.

Chu Yunniang welcomed them into the house and took some of the leftover pots from the previous days, as well as a few handfuls of peanuts and melon seeds to entertain.

Wang Chunhua and Liu Wuxiu were polite on the surface, but maybe they wanted to turn their grief into appetite, and soon took the children to eat.

Liu Wuxiu was fast-mouthed, and while eating, he wiped his tears and said to Chu Yunniang: "The dead ghost in my family has never learned kung fu, it is a brute force, this time on the battlefield, the sword and gun have no eyes, and I don't know if I can come back with all my tails, if anything happens, our family will not survive." ”

"Yun Niang, the day before yesterday, when the dead ghost in my family asked Brother Da Zhi to come to my house to talk, I wanted to ask Brother Da Zhi to take care of him, but he didn't allow me to say, I didn't dare to speak, you wait a few days, after their specific whereabouts are decided, write a letter to Brother Da Zhi, let him take care of the dead ghost in my family more!"