After a while, after Wang Mingyuan called Han Xiaoling to the table and sat down next to him, the other women only half-pushed and half-got on the table.

It's just that when I really started eating, I still behaved very cowardly, and I didn't dare to move fast.

Wang Mingyuan had to take the fast seeds, and the vegetables were directly distributed one by one.

As for the children, they are all wild, and they are not the masters who can sit still, so they don't have to pay attention to them, let them jump around with dishes and bowls.

After all, the meal was finished lively, and Wang Mingyuan felt that in the future, he would have to come to such a banquet a few more times, and it would be better to change this kind of atmosphere that he was not used to.

It's just that at night, Wang Mingyuan heard the crisp and fine jingle on the roof tile again, and it was raining again!

The next morning, Wang Mingyuan was awakened by the sound of Han Xiaoling picking up the piglets.

He got up and looked, good guy, the entire open space in front of the educated youth point was turned over everywhere and fell pig. Look at the makeshift pigsty I built, surrounded by stones and wood, which have already been overturned.

It's also too capable.

Although it is a domestic pig, this arching ability is not inferior to that of a wild boar.

I just ate something good in front of the Zhiqing Point yesterday, and there were some bone oil soup and other things scattered on the ground, which is probably the reason why they are attracted to turn over.

"Hurry up and get a pigsty, this place can't let them be so tossed!" Han Xiaoling said breathlessly.

In order to catch two piglets, a lot of effort was wasted, and now he is empty-handed.

The two piglets are now in spirits beyond imagination.

"Then let's build a pigsty!" Wang Mingyuan thought for a while: "By the way, build another thatched house!" ”

As soon as she mentioned the thatched house, Han Xiaoling immediately thought of the incident she had bumped into at night before, and her face couldn't help but heat and red again.

Wang Mingyuan continued to drizzle and walked straight to Zhang Shouzhong's house opposite, and by the way, when crossing the river, he washed his face.

found Zhang Shouzhong, Wang Mingyuan told him about the preparation of a pigsty and a thatched house.

Zhang Shouzhong did not hesitate to accept the matter, quickly took the tools, found a few other helpers, and came to the Zhiqing Point.

Wang Mingyuan originally thought that he would get some stones and wood to build a pigsty, but he didn't expect that Zhang Shouzhong's advice would save time and effort.

There is a small stone cave under the cliff more than 20 meters behind the Zhiqing Point slope, which is said to be used to lock up pigs.

This stone cave, Wang Mingyuan knows, he drilled it when he was a child.

It is indeed a good place, the entrance to the cave is blocked by grass and trees, and I have been here for so many days, and I haven't thought of these for a while.

The entrance of the cave is a little low, it is about five or six meters deep, and the area is more than ten square meters, as long as the low section of the cave is blocked, and the raised stones on the ground and the stone walls on both sides are simply trimmed, and the door can be nailed with wood and nails.

It doesn't matter if the door is rough, anyway, the piglets are also free-range on weekdays, and the reason why the door is kept is mainly to let them get familiar with the new home at the beginning, and use it to close the door when they are slaughtered.

Pigs are still very well domesticated, as long as they are fed several times in the same place, they will immediately rush back when they hear the sound of the pot or the call of the owner.

With this cave, things are suddenly simpler.

The matter was quickly arranged, and several people immediately used knives and axes to clean up the weeds at the entrance of the cave, and then took sledgehammers and small hammers and quenched chisels, and clanked and beat them in the cave, and the stones that were smashed by the sledgehammer were also used by them to seal the stone cave.

In the production team, not all of them stayed in the village to work in the village, and some men would be sent out to do some construction tasks in various communes or other units, such as building dikes, building houses, repairing roads, carrying things, etc., which is usually called doing side jobs.

To put it bluntly, in fact, it is sent out to make money.

At the end of the year, after distributing the food by work, the money will be taken out and divided, which is the so-called dividend.

Generally, most of the people who go out are people with some skills.

After completing the sealing and cleaning in the hole, they even made a simple trough for Wang Mingyuan to use when feeding the pigs.

The whole place was taken care of, and it took almost a day for Wang Mingyuan to go in and take a look, and he felt that it was even more beautiful than his own earthen house, if he wasn't worried about snakes, insects, rats and ants, he would have the idea of moving in.

As for the thatched house, Zhang Shouzhong's suggestion is to directly choose a hidden place to dig a deep pit, spread some coarse logs on it, and then make three pieces of wood to support a tripod, and lay linoleum branches and leaves to protect from the rain.

This kind of thatched house can still be seen in remote villages in 2023, and Wang Mingyuan has even used it, like a cone with the tip pointing upward.

To be honest, it's okay to be cold, but when the weather gets hot, the smell is extraordinary, especially when you look down and see the yellow and white things and wriggling maggots inside......

As soon as he thought of this, Wang Mingyuan hurriedly shook his head.

In the end, he chose a good place according to what Wang Mingyuan said, dug a pit to make what he called a septic tank, built a wooden house with a door, and wrapped it with linoleum.

For this reason, Wang Mingyuan also prepared to go to Adu Commune to find someone to buy some cement for simple painting to prevent water leakage, but he didn't expect that the matter was easily solved by Zhang Shouzhong.

He said that he knew how to make soil-based cement, and the effect was very good.

This aroused Wang Mingyuan's interest.

Seeing that Wang Mingyuan dispelled the idea of buying cement, Zhang Shouzhong summoned a few people to bring over a lot of grass and wood ash left over from the firewood burning in the fire pond of every house for cooking on weekdays.

These ashes are often poured into their own fields as fertile soil on weekdays, and they feel that they are of little use, so they are happy to send them to Wang Mingyuan.

The ash was screened by several people with a fine-hole bamboo sieve to remove debris, and the fine powder screened out by the large water tank was put into the tank, and after stirring evenly, it was precipitated for more than half an hour, and then the water above the sedimentation layer in the tank was poured out.

Wang Mingyuan thought that it would be able to be used in this way, but unexpectedly, several people found more firewood, put the sediment into a ball and put it on the firewood, and lit a fire to burn it.

According to Zhang Shouzhong, it is necessary to wait for drying before it can be fired twice, but now that the sky is cloudy, everyone is taking the opportunity to roast the fire, as for that bit of water vapor, it is not a problem at all.

It took nearly an hour for the red-hot ash to be pulled out one by one, and after cooling, it was re-crushed and finely crushed, dissolved in water, and directly mixed with the screened red clay.

The red soil, which was already sticky, suddenly became more sticky.

Not to mention, it really feels like cement.

Subsequently, several people directly started the clay stirred out and smeared it layer by layer on the four walls of the thatched pit where a lot of waste residue left over from ironmaking was embedded, although it was uneven, but it did look good.

These waste slag used to be left over from steelmaking in a certain period, Wang Mingyuan rode three wheels, walked two miles towards the dirt road of Chenjiagou, it was easy to find piles of waste slag next to the roadside that had been covered by weeds, and he had already broken and collapsed next to the earthen stove, and after running seven or eight times, he pulled back enough amount, and he was tired enough.

The reason why Wang Mingyuan chose to build these steel-making earthen furnaces near Zhangjiaao was mainly because it was closer to the mountains and forests, and it was easy to obtain firewood as fuel.

In fact, it was here that the steelmaking was tossed for more than a month and less than two months.

At that time, everyone was involved in the process, and they were busy all day and night about how long it would take for steel production to surpass the goal of a certain country.

Wang Mingyuan smiled bitterly when he heard it, the temperature of firewood is not easy to rise, and the quality of iron ore cannot be guaranteed, but the result is destined not to be too good.

But at that time, people's enthusiasm to respond to the call was really not covered, and they were all working towards a common goal.

As for the top cover of the septic tank, a lot of fine bamboo was also cut down by several people, first laid a layer of strong wood, and then put bamboo as bones, and poured this mixture mixed with ironmaking waste residue with a very sticky mixture to prevent piglets, children and the like from falling.

In any case, it took two days, the pigsty was done, and the hut was also done.

As for the effect of this cement, we have to wait until it is dry to know.