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After the red panda had finished drinking, Shen Nan picked it up and wiped the dirt off its fur with a handkerchief soaked in warm water. Sanwa built a nest for it with old cotton clothes, right next to Xiao Huang. live.

The red panda is not afraid of animals, and will fall asleep after eating and drinking enough. The family is also tired, so they pack up and go to sleep.

The Shen family was peaceful, but the village was busy. The village chief summoned all the laborers in the village and divided the men and women into two groups.

Although Kaoshan Village is far away from the town and its geographical location is not superior, the land is fertile, and land is the foundation for people to settle down and live. Therefore, even after several dynasties, more than 150 people still live here. Among them, 38 were men in their prime.

Li Zheng arranged for ten of them to go to the brick factory in a neighboring village to purchase bluestone bricks, led by his eldest son Shen He.

The remaining eight people stayed in the village to build earthen kilns and bake earthen bricks, and this task was left entirely to his second son Shenyang.

As for why they buy blue bricks, it is because they have high hardness, high defense coefficient, and difficulty in firing. They cannot bake them at their level, so they need to buy them from specialized workshops. As for red bricks, there is no technical content. After a little thought, the men in the village can almost make them as long as they use the right method.

Although red bricks can be burned, red bricks alone are not enough. After all, they also need the blessing of blue bricks, otherwise the courtyard wall will be no different from an earth wall. The task of building the courtyard wall was thus assigned to men.

The food must be given to women.

There were 52 women in their prime, and Li Zheng also divided them into two groups. Young, strong and eloquent women like Wang Cuihua were sent to the town to purchase grain and seeds.

The rest of the diligent and honest women stayed in the village and took advantage of their time to make pickles, dry vegetables and other tasks.

Before purchasing, Li Zheng asked each family to send one person to He Sufen's house to register, and tell Zhao Zhaohe the grain they needed, and she would register it. After everything was registered, the women went to the town to purchase.

Li Zhengze took the remaining twenty men and began to build courtyard walls for the homes in the village that did not have courtyard walls.

Thinking that Da Ya had seen the world outside, she shyly went to the door again and asked her about building the courtyard wall.

"Da Ya, does our courtyard wall just need to be built thick and solid?" Li Zheng was sitting in the main room of the Shen family, looking at Shen Yue and asked.

He had never seen a dry corpse, so he didn't know if the thing could climb the wall. Naturally, he didn't know how high the courtyard wall should be. He was afraid that if it was too thin and short, it would be harmful to people.

When Shen Yue heard what Li Zheng said, she didn't know how to answer it. However, Shen Nan saw her eldest sister's difficulty, so she volunteered, "Uncle, my eldest sister is pregnant now. Why don't you let me go down and take a look at the dry corpse thing?" , the eldest sister has told me, I will come up with something."

When Shen Tiezhu heard this, he looked at Shen Yue. Seeing that the other party had no objection, he turned to look at Shen Nan, who had a serious look on his face. He had no choice but to act like a dead horse doctor and take Shen Yue down the mountain back to the village.

When Shen Yue arrived at the village, what she saw was the grand scene of the whole village coming out to perform their duties.

Uncle Shuanzi pushed a cart of clay towards the dam in the center of the village. Shen's second brother, Shen Yang, was making clay blocks with everyone. Add water to the clay, then knead it into bricks of similar size with your hands and place them aside to dry.

When Shen Nan passed by the earthen kiln, he subconsciously glanced at the people making earthen bricks.

Seeing that she was not leaving, Li Zheng hurriedly went up and asked, "Erya, what's wrong?"

Shen Nan scratched his hair and said hesitantly: "Uncle, Brother Shenyang, are they making adobe bricks?"

Hearing this, Li Zheng smiled and touched the stubble on his chin, "Yeah, I thought it would be too expensive to buy all the bricks. I might as well buy some green bricks and make some adobe bricks myself, so that the wall will be strong. And save money.”

"Uncle, I don't know whether I should say something or not." After thinking for a moment, Shen Nan said this.

"Oh, if you have anything to say, just say it. Uncle is not an outsider." Li Zheng answered immediately.

Shen Nan: "The clay bricks made this way are not much better than the clay walls."

Li Zheng heard the words and took a helpless breath: "Erya, I know everything you said, but none of us have much money in our hands. If we use it all to buy green bricks, then we won't have much money in our hands." Money is used to buy food, but if there is no food, what is the use of building such a high courtyard wall?"

Seeing that the other party had misunderstood, Shen Nan quickly explained: "Uncle, you misunderstood. What I meant was that this adobe brick can be burned to be stronger."

"Why did Erya say this? But there is a better way?"

"That's right, if you add water to clay directly, the bricks will not be strong and brittle." At this point, she looked at the busy people and looked at Li Zhengdao: "If the clay is stepped on repeatedly, the stickiness will be created." , and then put it into an earth kiln to be fired, it must be much stronger."

"Oh, Erya, you are so smart, why didn't I think of this?" Li Zheng clapped his hands, the admiration in his eyes even stronger.

Shen Nan touched her nose in embarrassment. In fact, these were things she had seen in books in her previous life, but obviously she couldn't say that now, so she had to find an excuse: "When I was a child, when I was drinking at a player's house, I found that the clay that was rubbed repeatedly burned. It was very hard after drying, so I came up with this method.”

Li Zheng had just tried it out before, thinking that if Erya's method didn't work, he wouldn't let her down in person. Unexpectedly, the girl gave him a big surprise as soon as she opened her mouth.

Thinking of this, he immediately called his second son Shen Yang, summoned him to him, and told him what Shen Nan had just said.

When Shen Yang heard this, he felt like a pot of warm water being suddenly boiled, and a feeling of enlightenment came to his heart. He looked at his father, obviously not believing that he could come up with such a method. Then his eyes moved to Shen Nan aside and asked: "Sister Erya, is this the method you came up with?"

Shen Nan smiled and nodded. Seeing that the other party was not angry, but looking at her with admiration, she spoke out the memories in her mind: "Brother Shen Yang, when making adobe, you can add branches or bamboos and the like. The adobe bricks made this way will be stronger.

And it is best to make several molds so that the adobe bricks are the same size, which will be more convenient when building walls. "

"What kind of mold is Sister Erya talking about?"

"That's it. You can nail several wooden boards together, place them on a platform, stuff the prepared clay inside, flatten the surface, and then demould, and a mud brick will be ready..."

Shen Yang got the idea and immediately found someone to make the mold according to Shen Nan's method. At the same time, he moved out his own rice-pounding vat and used his own vat to pound the clay.