Bianshanhan [farming]

The car was parked in the yard, and the Li family was pushed into the house.

Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Chen were sitting together, talking homely, raising their heads from time to time to look at these nephews, and kept sighing that they had grown so big.

Li Qingfeng couldn't stay in the house, so he asked Chen Lihe to take him out to have a look.

As soon as he made a sound, Li Qinghong and Li Qingwen also stood up.

In the end, only Chen Shi, Lu Shi and the two little ones were left in the room, and everyone else followed Chen Lihe out.

Li Zhengliang twisted his body to follow, but was held back by Mrs. Chen, and could only look outside helplessly.

The yards of the farmhouses are all like that, and you can finish it as soon as you pass by. Li Qingfeng said he wanted to go up the mountain, and Chen Shanhe was leading the way.

The door of Chen Shanhe's house opens to the back, with a yard in front, a ditch next to the yard, and a mountain on the opposite side of the ditch.

They were in the courtyard, and they could see someone working on the other side of the ditch. Li Qingwen covered his eyes with his hands, looked at it, and said, "Cousin, are they still busy?"

Chen Shanhe nodded with a sigh, went down the path, and saw a shed and wooden barrels in the upper ditch.

Chen Dingxin was burying his head in smashing the adobe, when he looked up to see his father coming, followed by a group of people.

"Father, uncle...Qinghong, Qingfeng..." Chen Dingxin stared at Li Qingwen for a long time, before he could speak, Li Qingwen called out "Cousin."

Chen Dingxin was covered in dirt, and scratched his head, but his hair was also dirty, "Uncle, it's dirty here, you go home and sit here."

"We just finished planting the land, it's all dirt, nothing dirty." Li Maoxian rolled up his sleeves and said, "It's idle, we'll do it for a while."

Chen Dingxin and Chen Shanhe couldn't stop them, so they could only let their masters do the trick.

In the shed next to it were finished bricks to dry, and there were a few young people I didn't know, some mixed with mud, and some made bricks.

Li Qingwen looked at it for a while, then turned around and saw the crypt next to him, and asked, "Cousin, can I go inside and have a look?"

Chen Dingxin nodded, "Be careful not to fall."

The crypt was dug into a hole on the mountain. The hole was as tall as a person, and the ground was covered with mud. When Li Qingwen walked in, the soles of his feet were stained a lot, and his shoes became heavy immediately.

The brick kiln is not big, inside is a one foot high pot belly, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, there are three firewood openings on the side, and three air holes on the top of the kiln, it is the simplest brick kiln.

After looking around, Li Qingwen felt a little confident, and retreated along the same path.

Seeing him come out, Li Maoxian said while talking to Ni: "Zaier, is it the same as the brick kiln you have seen before?"

Li Qingwen nodded, "Father, it's the same, this kind of simple brick kiln is the most test to see the heat."

The people who were working couldn't help but look up when they heard the conversation between the father and the two, and said in surprise, "Why, have you guys seen brick burning?"

Li Qingwen nodded, "I've seen it many times."

Chen Shanhe stopped what he was doing, and said: "I remember that there are no brick-burning bricks in your village for dozens of miles. Where did you see it?"

"Second brother, I didn't take my son out to see a doctor before. I went to many places. He should remember it at that time." Li Maoxian followed Yuan.

Chen Shanhe said "Oh", and then asked: "Little boy, do you remember what happened at that time, tell the second uncle what else do you know?"

"I know that when burning bricks, you have to keep staring at the fire inside. If the flame is red, the temperature will be low, so that the bricks will be tender. If the flame is white or blue, it will be high, and the bricks will be old..." Li Qingwen said: "First look at the eyes, and second look at Laojun."

"You know how to watch fire?" A strange young man next to him exclaimed in surprise.

Chen Shanhe and Chen Dingxin were also stunned. Li Qingwen spoke clearly and clearly, as if he really understood.

Li Qingwen said honestly: "When I was watching from the side, I heard someone say it."

Chen Dingxin and the others have been making mud and stripping for the past few years.The old man never taught them to look at the fire, but the most important thing is to look at the fire. They have not been able to burn it so far because of this.

As soon as they heard about Li Qingwen's meeting, those people surrounded him and said excitedly: "If you really understand, keep an eye out for us, we can't burn it all the way!"

Chen Dingxin couldn't believe it, and turned to look at Li Maoxian, "Uncle, is what the boy said true?"

Li Maoxian nodded.

"I'll try, but it may not be successful." Li Qingwen didn't say it dead, because there are many factors in making a brick, and it doesn't matter if you don't consider any of them.

"Then let's try it now, what are you waiting for!" The man who interrupted Li Qingwen just now said impatiently.

In fact, less than half of the dried adobes were loaded into the kiln, but it took too long to dry the adobes, and everyone couldn't wait, so they immediately moved the adobes into the kiln.

Only then did Chen Shanhe come to his senses, grinning and said: "My little nephew is so smart! It's okay, it doesn't matter if it can't be burned, just get adobe and firewood."

It is time-consuming to install the kiln, and firewood has to be prepared, so let's stop talking and do it quickly.

In fact, kiln installation is also very important, but Chen Dingxin and the others all understand this, and the movements are fast and neat, and they can see that they have done a lot.

Mrs. Lu finished the meal and asked his daughter-in-law to come and call the men to come back for dinner, but the daughter-in-law came back and said that bricks had started to be fired on the mountain and she would not come back to eat.

Lu Shi wondered, didn't they say that these adobes should be dried and then burned, why did it start again?

The men were all working, and the women couldn't feel at ease eating at home, so they went up the mountain after closing the door.

After the kiln is installed, the top and mouth are sealed, leaving only one hole for fire, and several fire inlets beside it are fired at the same time.

Fortunately, they have always prepared a lot of firewood, if they didn't open fire suddenly like today, it would be too late to get it now.

When Lu Shi and Chen Shi arrived, the kiln had already been fired, and the fire could not be turned off, otherwise all the adobe inside would be ruined. At this time, we cannot do without people at all.

But you have to work without eating, so everyone takes turns, go back to the two to eat first, and then switch to the other two when they are full.

Seeing how dirty Li Maoxian and Li Qinghong were, Lu Shi felt sorry for this, "Look, you guys managed to come here, and you still have a job."

"It's okay, second aunt, we are not outsiders." Li Qingfeng wiped his sweat with the hem of his gown, "My second uncle said, let us eat white rice every meal."

"Okay! You can't miss a meal!" Lu Shi said with a smile, she just likes the rudeness of the fourth nephew!

Li Qingwen stayed at the left "eye", telling Chen Dingxin what color fire to look at, the brightness in the kiln, and smelling the smoke, and told them what he had heard back then.

Because this fire will take a few days to watch, he can't stand it alone, at least he has to rotate.

Chen Dingxin listened very seriously, fearing that he would not remember, he repeated it to Li Qingwen. This is something they have not learned through hard work in the past few years, so they must not be a little sloppy.

Li Qingwen didn't work, his face was fair and white, and he was sweating a little from the heat. Lu felt sorry for his little nephew, so he got a small stool from somewhere, and asked him to sit beside him and talk.

Li Qingfeng snorted and said, "Second aunt, our son has traveled five or six thousand miles in half a year, so what's the point of standing around for a while?"

Everyone except the Li family and Chen Shanhe were shocked, and they looked at Li Qingwen with more respect.

Li Qingwen: "..." Don't mention it, his legs are weak when he mentions it.

At this time, Chen Shanhai and his family had just finished dinner, and Mrs. Wang shouted into the room: "Who brought the whole family to the second child's house, do you know?"

"Yes, I saw them when they entered the village. The second child and her didn't even fart, and I didn't bother to talk to them." Chen Shanhai said angrily.

"I've said a long time ago that the girl was raised badly by her parents. Seeing that my sister-in-law is so weird, even you, the eldest brother, don't want to recognize her."

"My parents are dead, why are you still talking about those things?" Chen Shanhai said: "She doesn't recognize me, and I don't even want to recognize her. I feel ashamed to marry such a poor thing and live a miserable life !"

"It's the first time I saw that I even brought my grandson with me when I went back to my mother's house. I'm afraid the family ran out of food and came to eat." Wang said: "But the second child's family is also raising bastards in a pot now, and the more they raise, the more they suck. Now the days What's wrong, you dare to let such a big family in, shame on you, and suffer!"

"Whoever likes to suffer, whoever suffers, I don't care! When Dingxin first learned how to burn bricks, I thought it was not appropriate. The craft is not easy to learn. I don't know what the second child thinks, and I didn't stop it. It took a lot of money..." Chen Shanhai said: "I just went out to see, and there was smoke again on the top of Nanshan Mountain. After five or six years of tossing around, Dingxin hasn't repented yet. I think his life is over."

"I tried to persuade my second daughter-in-law to have a few more children, but she gave me a bad face. Now that she's set up like this, she's probably going to regret it, and she'll be so stubborn. She deserves it!"

"I heard that the eighth son of my uncle's family has bought a yard in the county again. Uncle and the others should move to the county to enjoy their blessings soon, right?" Mrs. Wang curled her lips and said, "I don't know how much I have been greedy in the yamen. I'm afraid my head is full of oil and water!"

"He may be impatient now, don't go out and talk nonsense, be careful not to be heard!" Chen Shanhai said.

"How dare I say a bad thing, he is now an official, and I will be thankful that I don't have to kneel down when we meet."

Li Qingwen didn't know what uncle and aunt were talking about behind their backs. He was at the entrance of the kiln, watching the fire while listening to the little fourth brother tell the big guy about their going to the border town.

That's right, it was Li Qingfeng who said it was a thrill, and even Li Qingwen didn't know when he would fight the tiger for [-] rounds.

It caused Lu Shi to cry several times, so he said, "I just dreamed about those things just now. There were a lot of people there when Zai'er and the others went there, so there was no danger."

Chen reached out and pushed his head aside, "You mouth!"

Liu Daguang and the others went to bed first, so they could take over in the middle of the night. Chen Dingxin has been guarding the kiln, and the main thing can be fired. He can't sleep for three days and three nights.

Chen originally wanted to stay for a while, but the two grandsons were sleepy and tired of holding hands, so they had to go back first.

Li Qingwen wanted to lie down on the hillside and take a nap, but Chen Shanhe and Lu Shi refused to let him live or die. Li Qingwen said that there was nothing serious, he had slept in the snow nest many times, and now it was all good.

In a word, Lu's heart began to feel distressed again, Li Qingwen obediently went back to lie down for three hours, and went up the mountain alone before dawn.

Seeing him coming, Liu Daguang and the others were obviously relieved. Although they all remembered it well, it was the first time after all, and they felt guilty. With Li Qingwen here, they seemed to be more confident.