"Okay, Xiu, last time you made bricks from the vegetable garden were very strong, and after a while, you came to make bricks with mud, and I made bricks with Xuhui, we have a lot of strength, and the bricks are pressed solid." Mu Shui said he would do it, stood up and put the shovel on the small cart, and walked outside, and Chen Xuhui also carried the shovel and followed closely.

Mu Xiu was preparing at home, pulling out all the straw ashes in the kitchen, and put a basket by the way, and pouring the straw ashes that were burned every day in the future.

Mu Shui and Chen Xuhui quickly pulled back a cart of yellow soil, poured it into the courtyard, and continued to dig the soil, while Mu Xiu poured water into the soil, and then mixed it evenly with straw ash.

Sure enough, after Mu Shui pulled another cart of loess back, he looked at the pile of black and gray mud and asked strangely: "Xiu, what did you put it, why is it this color?" ”

"Dad, this is the last time I went to the city, and I brought it back, and I heard that it is very hard to make bricks from this." Mu Xiu made a nonsense reason.

"Xiu, you were thinking about building a house at that time?" Mu Shui asked in surprise.

"No, I just thought about bringing it back and reinforcing the vegetable garden, after all, the half that was near the wall last time was kicked off."

Mu Xiu's words made Mu Shui blush, lowered his head and didn't ask more, and hurriedly went out to continue pulling soil.

Mu Xiu looked at the time, the mud had been soaked, she took out the shovel and kept stirring evenly, so that the mud and wood and grass ash were fully mixed together, so that it would be sticky.

Waiting for Mu Xiu to mix the mud, Mu Shui and Chen Xuhui pulled another cart of yellow mud and walked in.

"Xuhui, you continue to pull the soil, when you can't push it alone, put less soil, and I'll make bricks later." Mu Shui turned his head and said to Chen Xuhui.

Chen Xuhui nodded, pushed the cart and left, Mu Shui turned around and went to the house to pick up the mold, put on gloves, and started to make bricks.

I saw that he put the soft mixed mud into the molded wooden frame home, and after ramming it with a wooden plank, he lifted the mold and made a mud brick, and after five days, the whole brick was ready.

In this way, Chen Xuhui went to pull the soil, Mu Xiu stirred the soil, wood water made bricks, Mu Xiaocao went to carry water, and the bricks were put in the chicken pen and duck pen to cool, several people were busy until dark, a total of nearly 300 bricks were made, according to the budget, more than 3,000 bricks were needed, if you start doing it early in the morning, you should be able to do about 500 pieces a day, that is, it can be done in seven days.

Zhou Shuilian made dinner, and several people washed their hands and went into the house to eat.

"Xiu, what is that gray thing you use? It seems that the bricks used to build the vegetable pond last time were also used. Mu Xiaocao suddenly asked, her house in the previous life has also been renovated, the time to build the vegetable pond, used less, she didn't think much about it, this time, use more, she felt strange, after all, in her memory, her family once renovated the house, the time used was also 1986.

"It seems to be called limestone, I went to the county last time, brought back some, it looks very easy to use, I plan to go again tomorrow, ask if there is any, pull a few bags back, last year we went to the county together, you see the wall of the house in the county, it is this color." Mu Xiu was first stunned in his heart, and then said casually.

"I see, there are indeed houses that are this color." Mu Xiaocao felt that she was making a fuss, and her family was relatively late in renovating the house in the village in the last life, and it seems that cement had been used since the 80s.

"Yes, Muxiu, if there are more such things in the county, come back more, and the house will be built strongly." Mu Shui nodded as he ate.

"We need too many bricks, we can't do it ourselves, and the brick factory will not produce such bricks, the cost is too great, and then the house is built, we will paint a few layers ourselves, and it will be as strong." Mu Xiu also wants to build a house with cement bricks.

"Xiu is right, and then apply a few layers to be firm." Mu Shui thought about it, and it was indeed the case.

Everyone was exhausted from spring ploughing and brickmaking, and after eating dinner and washing, they fell asleep one after another.

In the early morning of the second day, Mu Shui went to the ground with Chen Xuhui, fertilized and watered, and loosened the soil again.

Mu Xiu used the excuse of going to the county seat to buy lime soil and left early.

Years later, Sun Xingfu came to Mu Xiu's house again to pull jars and pickles, and now it's been almost a month, Mu Xiu will go to see it again.

After Mu Xiu got off the shuttle, he found a secluded corner, took out a flatbed truck from the space, put more than a dozen jars of pickles, and walked towards Sun Xingfu's pickle shop.

Walking to the door, Mu Xiu was a little blind, at this time on weekdays, the shops were just open, but today, there are people inside and out, it seems that this early business is very prosperous.

"Auntie, you're busy." Mu Xiu said hello to Huang Cui, who was busy at the counter.

Huang Cui was looking down for money, when she heard Mu Xiu's voice, she raised her head, a smile appeared on her face, and said enthusiastically: "Mu Xiu, you are here, you enter through the back door, there are many people here, your uncle is in the backyard, and the door is open over there." ”

"Okay, you get busy first, I'll send the things to the backyard first." Mu Xiu came several times, or the first time to go to the back door, she pushed a flatbed truck, left in front of the store into the alley, walked less than ten meters, saw an open small door, approached and saw Sun Xingfu in the kitchen.

"Uncle Sun." Mu Xiu said hello.

"Xiu, you're here, you're still bringing pickles, you wait for me to bring these bowls of noodles, I'll move them." As Sun Xingfu spoke, he put the noodles in the serving plate, and went to the front first.

Mu Xiu set up the cart and moved it to the yard first.

"Xiu, I'll come, I'll come." Sun Xingfu took the empty plate, entered the backyard, quickly put it down, and began to move.

"Happiness, four more bowls of noodles." Huang Cui's voice came from the front.

"Okay." Sun Xingfu responded.

"Uncle Sun, hurry up and go below, it's not good to delay the guests' meals, I can still move this pickle." Mu Xiu said sensibly.

"When I'm tired, just sit there and rest, and I'll be done with this while." Sun Xingfu washed his hands and went into the kitchen again to start underneath.

More than a dozen cans of pickles were simply trivial for Mu Xiu, and she put the pickles into the courtyard after a while, and the flatbed truck also pushed into the courtyard.

Seeing that Sun Xingfu was busy for more than an hour, he stopped, walked into the yard, and said to Mu Xiu: "I'm going to drive back to you in a few days, look at you, a little girl, I'm tired of bringing so many pickles." ”