Don't panic, the family boss is busy farming

Chapter 54

Three artisans came, pushing a wheelbarrow with combed thatch, specially used to make the roof.

With the current conditions of Xu's family, tile tiles dare not even think about it. Half a bolt of silk is used for just this little thatch, which is not counted as labor costs.

If you count the labor costs and the cost of strengthening the wall, a bolt of silk will be spent.

But no matter what, the money cannot be saved.

No wonder Mrs. Wang has to buy wood to make furniture herself.

This is the case with the Xu family, but it is even worse for Wang Dayou's family. The roof needs to be repaired and the walls have to be rebuilt.

In order to save some material costs, Wang Dayou went out of the city by himself to pick up loads of yellow mud.

Xu Yue felt that she was very lucky. With Xu Da and Wang Shi around, there was almost nothing for her to worry about.

Can't stay in the house while the roof is being laid, three brothers and sisters sit in a row at the door basking in the sun, Xu Yue's mind has drifted to the research room.

The remaining three bolts of silk and hundreds of big money were spent, and half of them were used to bribe Liu Rong, who was from Hejian County, to be a guarantee for the two of them, so that they could stay in the county. .

The remaining half is spent on repairing the house and on furniture boards.

It is equivalent to saying that now their family has once again entered the stage of financial deficit.

Fortunately, there are still those things from the dead in her research room, which are worth several thousand dollars, and they are the only savings of this family at present.

It's just that they have no fields and no land now, which means they are jobless. When next year, they have to pay taxes and spend money to offset the corvee. This amount of savings is definitely not enough.

Holding her chin, Xu Yue began to think about the way to get rich.

Just as she was thinking about it, she saw Wang Dayou picking up a load full of loess dripping with sweat, and a flash of inspiration flashed in Xu Yue's mind.

She stood up and called to Wang Dayou who was walking by the door, "Uncle Dayou, where did you get this yellow mud?"

Wang Dayou stopped and rested for a while, just thinking that Xu Yue was curious, but he didn't perfunctory, pointed to the outside of the city and said:
"The area in the western suburbs outside the city is full of soil like this, which is used to make mud walls. What, the little girl wants to play with mud?"

Saying that, he knelt down and generously took a piece of yellow mud and handed it to Xu Yue, "Come on, play with it, just be careful not to stain your clothes, or your mother will spank your ass."

The corner of Xu Yue's mouth twitched slightly, and she took the mud over, "Thank you, Uncle You!"

"Why are you polite?" Wang Dayou waved his hand, continued to shoulder the burden, and went home.

Xu Yue carried the mud into the yard. A piece of yellow mud the size of a football was first smashed with a small hoe, and then poured with water. Soon the mud turned into a sticky ball that could be kneaded into any shape.

Xu Erniang originally thought that her younger sister wanted mud for something, but she didn't expect to follow her to see that Xu Yue was actually playing with mud, and she felt like she was choking.

Xu Yue noticed that Xu Erniang was speechless, but she didn't have time to explain to her sister now.

Knead the mud and ginseng water into many small pieces. At first glance, it looks a bit like a miniature version of bricks, but some of them are trapezoidal, not as straight as square bricks.

And because of the different moisture content, some are more three-dimensional, and some are directly rotted into a puddle.

Xu Erniang squatted aside and watched for a long while, but she didn't see anything. Just when she was about to get up, she heard Xu Yue suddenly roar excitedly:
"That's right, this is it!"

What's right about this?
The whole family looked over, and Wang asked concerned: "What's the matter? Are you all right?"

Xu Yue saw that her family members were frightened, she shook her head in embarrassment, "I'm fine, Mom and Dad, come here for a while."

"What are you doing?" Xu Da jumped off the roof and was the first to come to Xu Yue.

The rest of the people also gathered around, looking at Xu Yue and the lump of mud in front of her in puzzlement.

"Father and mother, we can cook the Kang in the house." Xu Yue said excitedly.

She had felt that there was something missing in the north before, but she was reminded by Uncle Dayou's mud wall just now, and suddenly remembered that every household in the north has a kang, but there is no here.

It was only at the end of September that Jizhou was already so cold. When the real winter came, wouldn't people freeze to death?

But it would be different if there was a kang. She had personally experienced how warm the kang in the northeast was when she was on a business trip. As long as the fire was on, the whole room would be warm, especially the warm kang bed, which made her sweat.

However, in the face of Xu Yue's excitement, the whole family couldn't understand it, because in their world, the heated kang did not exist at all.

Xu Yue waved her hand, motioned her family to look over, picked up the lump of mud just now, and demonstrated while explaining.

Xu Da showed a suspicious look, "It's so ugly, can it be warm?"

"Ugly?" Xu Yue couldn't keep up with her father's strange brain circuit, "Is life more important than beauty?"

Xu Da looked down at his hands that were too rough to look at, and fell into sadness and couldn't extricate himself.

Fortunately, Father is unreliable, but Mother supports her.

Wang nodded and analyzed: "I probably understand the principle of this kang, but we need to pay attention to the distribution route of the kang road to prevent the overflow of thick smoke and solve the distribution problem, then there will be no problem."

Xu Yue just had a flash of inspiration and thought of the heated kang in the northeast. She knew what materials were used to make it, and she didn't know the distribution of the kang roads at all. .

Mrs. Wang picked up the mud and made it for a while, and she basically had a plan in her heart. She stood up and pointed to the east room which was connected to the temporary kitchen and said:

"Just try it in this house first, and renovate the kitchen together."

Xu Da: Just say what you say, what do you see me doing?

Wang smirked, "Comrade Xu, it depends on you to put theory into practice."

Xu Yue handed over the pole and the newly bought bamboo dustpan, "Father, Uncle Dayou is going out of the city again, you go with him, he knows where there is yellow mud."

As he spoke, he pushed Xu Dalang out again to show his support, coaxing: "Brother followed Dad to dig the soil, and when he came back, he made something delicious for him."

"What, delicious?" Xu Dalang asked seriously.

Xu Yue glanced at her brother in surprise, she was not stupid, she knew how to negotiate terms.

Thinking about it, half a bottle of eight-treasure porridge is still affordable, beckoning Xu Dalang to squat down, and whispering in his ear: "Eight-treasure porridge, it's delicious."

Eight-treasure porridge. One of the favorite snacks of mankind!Xu Dalang seemed to have remembered something, and nodded hastily.

Xu Da's eyes flew over, and Xu Yue smiled slightly, "There are all of them."

So, the father and son borrowed another craftsman's wheelbarrow, and excitedly followed Wang Dayou, who set off again, out of the city to dig the soil.

Those who stayed at home were not idle, and Wang made the mold under Xu Yue's guidance.

After the father and son pulled the loess, they smashed the loess into pieces, mixed it with water in proportion, poured it into a mold to make bricks and dried it.

The weather is dry, and it can be made into a kang after four or five days of drying.

(End of this chapter)