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"Are you going to the brick kiln?" Guan Wentao asked as he looked in the direction Lin Xu was heading.

"Hmm!" Lin Xu nodded.

The brick kiln is a small factory in their village that fires bricks and tiles for building houses, and is built by a joint venture of three brothers in the village. It is said to be a factory, but in fact, it is a slightly larger family workshop, and it has no name, and the village is called a brick kiln.

The brick kiln was built behind the village school, in the southernmost part of the village, from the alley of Guan Wentao's house to the other end. There was no wall to enclose this brick kiln, and it was all open. The people in the village are relatively simple, and the village is not big, they are all in the village, and no one will steal bricks and tiles. In addition to building a house, this thing is basically not needed in ordinary times. Therefore, the owner of the factory is very relieved and is not afraid of people stealing.

The bricks and tiles are fired with clay, first the soil is mixed into mud, fully whipped and then pressed and separated by a machine, and then the mud bricks and tiles are put up to dry for a period of time, and then they will be fired into the kiln to make the final product. Outside the brick kiln, there are often rows of neatly stacked mud bricks and tiles in drying, stacked a lot, rows of rows have a person to be high, there are horizontal rows, there are vertical rows, children because they are small, they can't show their heads when they walk in, they can't see each other, they feel like a maze, so the children like to play here. There are also mud that is sometimes not used up to make bricks and tiles, and the leftover is also ready-made mud.

When Lin Xu used to go to primary school in the village, because of the proximity of this brick kiln, he would sometimes play with his classmates in this brick kiln after school. Now the children who go to school in the village also come to play often. Guan Wentao is often patronized because of the proximity to his home.

The two didn't walk for long, and after leaving the alley of Guan Wentao's house, they had already seen the familiar brick kiln. The first thing you see is a large kiln built of clay to the south of the brick kiln, where the bricks and tiles are finally fired into finished products. The kiln is more than five meters high, like a hill made of earth, in the shape of a cone, but the bottom is thicker, and the top does not have a spire, but the tip is removed, and a circular hole with a diameter of about one meter is opened there, which is used as the smoke outlet of the kiln, and the whole kiln is also hollow.

The children in the village have not been less than during the shutdown of the brick kiln, and some of them have gone into the big kiln to play, and some of them have climbed directly to the top of the kiln from the outside. Lin Xu had also gone in, and he had also climbed from the outside.

Although he has not been in good health since he was a child, he is very courageous, and he often falls in love with climbing high and low, especially climbing trees. Because he was small, dexterous, and lightweight, he was often able to climb to the top of the tree. Every autumn, when the persimmons in the family are ripe, he climbs the tree to pick them.

Approaching the end of the year, the brick kiln has long been suspended, and it looks very desolate. On the large flat ground to the north under the large kiln are neatly arranged rows of mud bricks that are drying. To the east of the brick kiln are patches of fields, and to the west is a low hill of earth that is not very high. The brick kiln is used to burn the bricks and tiles, and the soil used to burn the bricks and tiles is the small earth hill that has been dug up, and the earth hill has been dug up a lot towards the side of the brick kiln, showing a row of cliffs with a vertical drop of two or three meters.

At this time, there were also some children playing in the brick kiln, and the two could hear some children's playing, laughing and talking, but there was no one to see from their side, it should be in the rows of mud brick walls. Listening to the sound, it also seems to be in the depths on the other side.

However, the brick kiln is quite large, and some people are not afraid. After leaving the alley and seeing that the brick kiln had stopped slightly, Lin Xu continued to walk towards the brick kiln, and Guan Wentao followed by him.

The village school is in front of the kiln, and there is only a two-meter-wide road between it and the kiln. The road is on high ground, and from this road, you can see the school through the low fence behind the school. After the two of them walked to this road, they casually turned their heads to look at the school, and saw that some village children were also playing in the school.

During the winter holidays, the village school is closed and locked. However, if the children want to play, they naturally have a way, and they all climb the wall to get in. Like the road the two of them are walking on now, because the terrain is higher than the school, the school wall is only half a person high on this side, and it is easy to climb. Even the other walls are higher, and it is difficult for naughty children to be affected.

When Lin Xu used to go to school in the village, he also climbed the wall of this primary school. Even when he went to middle school, the walls there couldn't stop the students' overstepping interest, and Lin Xu was among them.

Walking into the brick kiln, Lin Xu took Guan Wentao to behind a row of mud brick walls that no one could see outside. After looking around to see that there was no one, he raised his hand to unload the mud bricks that had already dried on the wall next to him.

"What are you going to do?" Guan Wentao asked strangely as he watched Lin Xu move bricks down with some puzzlement. But when he asked, when he saw Lin Xu moving, he also helped to move it from above to down.

Wen Tao helped, and it was much faster, and seeing that more than a dozen yuan had been moved down in a blink of an eye, Lin Xu stopped and said, "Okay, that's enough." ”

After that, he squatted down and fiddled with the mud bricks on the ground. He stacked three bricks in two rows, about half a brick in width, just enough to carry the bricks horizontally. When the two columns were arranged, he put three bricks on top of them. Then when Guan Wentao was even more puzzled and couldn't help but open his mouth to ask again, Lin Xu half-squatted into a horse step with his legs apart, pointed to the brick below and said, "Look!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he was lucky with his right palm, raised his hand and slapped the three bricks he was carrying on the top pile. With the sound of "horn", followed by the sound of "bang". After he slapped it with one palm, the three bricks immediately fell down from breaking into two. The sound of "bang" is the sound of two halves of bricks falling, and by the way, the sound of a stack of bricks falling down.

"My day!" After seeing this scene, Guan Wentao couldn't help but freeze with his eyes wide open, his face was full of disbelief, and he couldn't help but curse in a foul language when he was too surprised. After scolding, his mouth opened and forgot to close.

Although these bricks are still mud bricks, they have never been fired. But after drying, the hardness is also very high. Although it is not as good as a fired brick, it is used to smash people, and if you hit it on the head, it can definitely knock down a healthy adult with a brick. Guan Wentao, who lives nearby, has seen two young people in the village fight in this brickyard, and one of them smashed the other brick to the ground with a sun-dried mud brick. Therefore, he is well aware of the hardness of the dried mud bricks.

Only one piece was enough, and the three pieces were stacked on top of each other, and Lin Xu's thin little body actually broke three bricks with one palm. If someone told him, he wouldn't believe it, but now that the facts are in front of him, he can't help but believe it.

"See, this is a little bit of the result of my practice in the past two days!" Lin Xu stood up, and said lightly to Guan Wentao with an unchanged face.

Originally, he didn't plan to show off the little skills he had just gained today in front of Guan Wentao, but when he was at Guan Wentao's house just now, he noticed that Guan Wentao didn't seem to take this martial arts practice too seriously, so he felt that it was necessary to show it, let Guan Wentao see and understand, and stimulate his enthusiasm for martial arts.

If it was someone else, where did he bother to bother to pay attention to it. But Kwan is different because this is his best friend from childhood to adulthood at the moment.