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Chapter 371 What a nice house, all made of bricks!
The brick kiln was Sun Jianping's "den" for making firecrackers. He called Zhang Fuming, Liu Guiying, Li Xiuzhi and others as helpers, and gave each person ten work points a day to help him make firecrackers.

There is a very important condition for recruiting people!
No smoking allowed!

So Lao Cao, Lao Zhang, as well as Zhang Fucai and Xiao Lu, who had just learned to smoke, were turned away!

Qian Huijun and Miss Liu Guiying stood side by side and watched Sun Jianping doing the firecrackers intently.

The simplest firecrackers are firecrackers. They are rolled into straight tubes with thin iron rods, and the edges are glued with paste made of flour. Then they are cut into even small sections and tied into a big bundle every two hundred or five hundred. After the bottom is dipped in yellow mud and dried in the sun, use a sieve to evenly sprinkle the medicinal powder, then insert the medicinal powder and twist it, then stick a layer of yellow mud and let it dry in the sun, and you can braid it into a long string like a braid.

There is nothing technically difficult about this job, the main thing is that practice makes perfect.

What Sun Jianping wants to do now is the more complicated two-kick kick, also called double ring. In the same way, he first cuts the collected newspapers into strips of about fifteen centimeters in length with a knife, and then rolls the newspapers around a piece of iron as thick as a thumb. Roll the sticks into paper tubes and seal the edges with paste.

With a bang, Sun Jianping held the paper tube with one hand and smashed it against the green bricks on the ground. The paper tube was "punched" down, and it was a small hard paper roll in his hand.

Then there is the threading of the medicine twister, which is slightly different from making firecrackers. Use a large-size needle for shoes to poke a hole in the lower half of the paper tube, and pass the medicine twister rolled out of rice paper through it until it penetrates the straight tube. At the other end, take an iron rod that is one circle smaller than the diameter of the paper tube. The other end of the iron rod is fixed on a large log stake with the top flush. Place the paper tube on it and measure the middle of the paper tube. , insert a medicine twister, and then pour in the wolf feces mud with a certain viscosity, insert the other end with an iron rod of the same thickness, align the two ends, Sun Jianping made a sound with a small hammer in his hand!
The wolf poop mud stuck firmly to the middle of the paper tube.

This is called "tangling".

This move requires strength. If you hit it too hard, the wolf dung mud will form lumps, which will easily crush the gunpowder and cause misfire. If you hit it too lightly, the wolf dung mud will be loose and loose, and the gunpowder will be messed up in the upper and lower sections during the process of carrying it back and forth. If the firecrackers don't fly, or they explode as soon as they go off, other people will scold them if they buy them back.

The control of this strength is a technical task, which requires groping experience from countless hammers to achieve the balance of strength!

Then there are still bundles, one hundred bundles into one large bundle, first containing the gunpowder to provide lift and the sawdust to block.

This layer cannot be sealed. After sealing, the gunpowder cannot be vented out, and there will be no way to provide lift for the firecrackers. Use a large needle to pick up the paper layer by layer, and stuff it into the bottom layer by layer like poking petals. The gunpowder and sawdust filled inside are commonly known as "pulling out the bottom".

The next process is similar to making firecrackers. Charge the upper cartridge, apply wolf feces mud to solidify, and you're done with a bundle of firecrackers.

This thing is not technically difficult. The only requirement is that no smoking, no open flames, and no iron tools are allowed!

In the brick kiln, there are only knives for cutting paper, iron rods for rolling paper rolls, and hammered connecting iron rods. There are no other iron tools!

Even the containers for wolf excrement mud and firecrackers are wooden square plates used for making tofu!

Just for two words: safety!

"Do you know how to do it?" Sun Jianping demonstrated again and placed a full bundle of two kicks in front of Miss Qian. Miss Qian snorted disdainfully, "It's so simple, why can't you do it!"

"Okay then, you can be responsible for the job of putting on the medicine!"

The eldest lady curled her lips, overqualified for overuse!
Easier said than done. As soon as the eldest lady got started, she didn't poke a few paper tubes before pricking her hand with a bloody cut. The pain made her shed tears.

There was no other way, so Sun Jianping had no choice but to arrange for her to do the lightest and least dangerous work!
Cut paper!

Qian Huijun pouted and reluctantly came to the simple table made of wood. He measured the thick stack of newspapers with a ruler and cut them with a sharp knife. Uniform size.

"The yield per mu in Nanling County is 18,000 kilograms..."

The eldest lady was reading the newspaper while she was doing it!

"Ahem! No paper!" Sun Jianping coughed. Only then did Miss Qian realize that she was working. She responded hurriedly and picked up a knife to cut the paper. After a day of hard work, everyone was so tired that their backs ached, but they couldn't help laughing when they looked at the firecrackers piled up like a hill.

It’s not that difficult!

It takes one person to learn it!

Sun Jianping frowned, picked up a bundle of prepared firecrackers and looked over them. It was winter, the brick kiln was very cold, and the wolf excrement mud used to block the firecrackers had frozen. He had to find a way to heat the firecrackers to dry them!
This is a big problem!

If it doesn't work, just build a kang in the brick kiln. This solves the problem of the brick kiln being too cold. Secondly, it can also dry the firecrackers without producing an open flame, so there is no safety risk.

Lao Cao wandered over and watched from a distance. Finally, he couldn't bear it any longer. He handed the copper pipe pot to his grandson Xingwen, patted the ashes on his body and walked over.

"Dad, please take it easy! Otherwise all of us will be reimbursed!" When Li Xiuzhi saw her father-in-law coming, she was so frightened that she stopped her!

If the old man gets addicted to cigarettes, he will light one in the brick kiln, and then we will go to the West together!

"No more smoking, no more smoking!"

Lao Cao waved his hands repeatedly, but did not dare to go inside anymore. He stood at the door of the brick kiln and poked his head to look inside.

"Jianping, show me two of the prepared firecrackers!"

Sun Jianping smiled and threw two "paper tubes" over. The old man took them and looked at them from left to right. He couldn't put them down!

This kid, if he talks about making firecrackers, he will do it for you!

so amazing!

What does that phrase say on the radio: integrate theory with practice and take the road of scientific agriculture!
"Uncle, I've thought about it. Let's see if we can ask Uncle Lian Sheng to come over and set up a kang. Otherwise, the mud won't be dry for a while..."

"If you want to build a kang, send all these things to the educated youth dormitory. Aren't they burning the kang to heat up the room now?"

"Yes, I almost forgot about this!"

Sun Jianping slapped his thigh. The newly built dormitory for educated youths has not yet been put into use. The room there also has a big kang, which is just right!
The educated youth dormitory was built overtime at the strong request of Tian Guangming and others. It is said that the higher-ups will gradually decentralize educated youth, so it was built very large during the planning and was divided into two courtyards, the east and west. One courtyard houses boys, and the other There were girls living in the hospital, and the educated youth also requested that separate public toilets for men and women be built behind the courtyard. There was no other choice but to satisfy Lao Cao.

In Ermajia Village, where most people live in adobe houses, the educated youth dormitory is the only house built entirely with blue bricks. The two courtyards for men and women are connected together and are twelve meters long!

The men's and women's houses are built exactly the same. In the same way, the kitchen is entered into the house. A window frame is left on the wall to make a ventilation window sill. There is a wall in the middle, and a set of windows is hollowed out in the upper half to facilitate the people in the house. Check the status of your kitchen at any time.

Pushing open the door, you will find Datongpu connected together, separated by a brick wall. At the same time, the brick wall also serves as the load-bearing beam of the house. A large piece of wood as thick as a basin runs across the brick wall and leads directly to the back gable.

In this way, Datongpu is divided into two parts, the inner and outer parts, by the brick wall, which is exactly the same as the design of Lao Cao's family.

"Just put them all here, otherwise they would have to come here to light the fire every day... What a nice house, all made of bricks, tsk tsk..." The old man couldn't help but stretched out his hand and touched it. He had lived for fifty or sixty years, and he still hadn't lived there yet. Live in such a magnificent brick house!
Liu Fengxia pushed open the door and came in, and bumped into Sun Jianping.

(End of this chapter)