I was exiled after wearing a book

Chapter 17 The First Day of Coolie Life

Jiang Xin is also grateful for the sincerity of the ancients, but he only taught some common sense knowledge, but he still treats himself as a real teacher and takes it to heart. He is a person worthy of friendship.

When you're done shopping, put everything back together.

A simple wooden shelf is ordered on the kitchen side, with seasonings in the middle and rice noodle oil on the bottom.

Then every room was pasted with new window paper, and each Kang was covered with newly woven reed mats, new mattresses, and cotton quilts.

Looking at the brand-new cotton quilt, Jiang Xin was really distressed. A catty of cotton in Liaodong actually cost three renminbi, and a bed of eight catty quilts cost two or four renminbi. According to the price conversion before the world, one tael of silver is equivalent to six hundred yuan, and two taels of silver is equivalent to 20 yuan.

A pair of quilts cost more than 400, even the best silk quilts cost only [-] or [-].

Xiao Hu was a little surprised by Jiang Xin's exclamation, and thought for a while: "The cotton production in the Great Zhou Dynasty was low. Even in the capital, a catty of cotton costs more than one yuan, and eight catties of cotton quilts cost more than one tael." A little."

Well, coauthored cotton was a luxury in ancient times?

The roof of the dilapidated house has been repaired, and the room is tidied up, and it feels much more cozy.

This toss, also arrived at night.According to the geographical division, Liaodong, in Jiang Xin's previous life, should be close to the three eastern provinces, with Shiwan Dashan on the westernmost side, and Beiyi Kingdom to the east.

But here is not the Northeast where rice was rich in the previous life, but wheat, buckwheat, and sorghum as the staple food, and the soil is not like the black soil seen in the three eastern provinces in the previous life, mostly barren land.

On the way back, I bought [-] steamed buns with thick noodles and weighed [-] catties of pork, of which [-] catties were suet.

Fan Chunhua and Jiang He cut pork and pork suet together, while Xiao Hu boiled the suet, sprinkled with Chinese prickly ash and peppercorns, and put it all in the jar.

For dinner, Jiang Xin cooked five catties of braised pork, fried Chinese cabbage with oil residue, and fried two cabbages in a large pot.

Take out some and keep them for cooking tomorrow morning, and put all the rest on a suggested dining table made of adobe bricks. Some of the big guys are standing, and some are sitting on stools with missing legs. Yes, I ate my first meal in the main room by lighting a kerosene lamp.

Qin Lang really had a big appetite. Even though he ate so much mutton and mustard cakes at noon, he still ate a lot for the evening meal. However, Jiang Xin noticed that he waited until everyone was full before filling up the rest.

In the evening, everyone simply scrubbed and lay down on the hot kang. They all felt that such a day was actually not bad. There was no comparison and no harm. After rewarding the suffering, people will become cherish everything they have. .

The big guy was assigned to a management team named Luo Daniu, and started digging ditches.

Including these newcomers, there are a total of 70 people, but it takes only 300 days to repair a [-]-meter section of the canal.

Don't think about the distance. This canal is connected to the dam. It must be three meters deep and three meters wide, and it must be surrounded by stones.

In other words, at least 15 meters must be dug out every day to ensure that the task can be completed within the specified time.

Luo Daniu is a 40-year-old man with a hunchback and a scar on his face. He looked very fierce. When he met him, he slammed his whip and said to the crowd: "Dig with all your strength, don't procrastinate." , who wants to be lazy for me, don't blame me for being rude!"

The people started to work with shovels and heads.

Jiang Xin and other women, children, and children all went to move the stones, and then pushed them with carts, and then some older men started to lay stones in the dug water at the front.

Jiang Xin saw that several old people just smeared yellow mud on the stones and embedded them in the walls of the canal.

Jiang Xin told his father about his thoughts. Jiang Cunliang knew that there was a special kind of mud ingredients for the construction of the city wall, but he only knew two or three of them. So I went to Luo Daniu to talk about it.

Luo Daniu looked at the five big and the three rough, but he also had his own shrewdness. Jiang Cunliang was sent to him by the care of Jiang Cunliang, so seeing him talk to him, it was very face-saving.

Hearing that he knew a formula for making city wall mud, he asked, and Jiang Cunliang told him that he and his daughter had made up the formula together, and only said that it should not be a big problem. Under the test.

In fact, they have known for a long time that stone canals filled with yellow mud are prone to collapse. The people above are also thinking about this problem, but there is no better mud formula at present, so they can only use yellow mud instead.

After hearing this, Luo Daniu frowned. It is not a difficult recipe, but if it is used in a large area, the cost will increase. Jiang Cunliang saw that he had concerns, so he said: "Mr. Luo, you can try it first and wait for it to work. It’s a credit to report to Shangfeng.”

Luo Daniu felt that what Jiang Cunliang said made sense, nodded, and smiled at him. Luo Daniu's face was full of flesh, and with the scar on his face, his smile was really permeating, but Jiang Cunliang was not afraid at all. He has been in the army for many years, what kind of I have never seen a dead body, so there is nothing to be afraid of the living.

Ever since, Luo Daniu ordered everyone to dig the canal straight away and stop using stone chips to stick the canal wall.Originally, I wanted to send people to buy materials, but I was worried that others would buy them, so I asked Jiang Cunliang to buy them together, and arranged for people to watch the digging.

The two came back at noon and brought two carriages of materials.

First boil the rice in a large iron pot, then use a stone mill to start toner, grind some ore, coal ash, and rice finely, then wash the sand with an iron mesh sieve, and start stirring with rice water.

Then arrange some careful old men and women to start painting mud to stick the stone slices on the canal wall.

Fan Chunhua's task was to watch over all the children, while the rest of the family did her work.

Although Jiang He has endured a lot of hardships along the way, this is the first time he has done such a physically demanding job, and he was so tired that he lay down that night and didn't want to get up.

Jiang Xin didn't let her go to sleep directly, pulled her up, and practiced three or four movements of gymnastics with a few children, and practiced for more than half an hour until she ate.

The physical fitness is too poor. If you are tired today, take a rest early, and if you are tired tomorrow, take a rest early, and you will not be able to exercise at all.

As long as you persist in practicing gymnastics, your physical fitness will gradually improve, and you will not be too tired to bear the heavy work all day in the future. Although Jiang Xin never thought that the whole family would do this work all the time, physical work in the early stage is indispensable. .

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