Nongmen sisters and brothers are not simple

Chapter 58 Experimental Brick Making
The yellow soil was dug back, and it was not so simple.

The hard raw loess should be crushed, the pebbles and other sundries in it should be picked out and discarded, and then passed through the sieve again, and the larger yellow soil should be sifted out, and then crushed, and after being exposed to the sun, the yellow soil should be thrown away. Twist into fine powder.

The yellow soil twisted into fine powder can be followed by the second step process.

This afternoon, Xie Fanxing took his siblings to break up some yellow soil, sieve the yellow soil and other chores.

"Sister, what are you using this yellow mud for?" Xie Fanyue finally couldn't help asking after she finally got rid of the yellow mud.

She hammered her waist, and today she was only busy with work for an afternoon, which was more tiring than planting rice seedlings and digging the soil in the past. Not only was her back sore, but her shoulders were sore and sore from carrying the dustpan on the shoulder pole.

"See the brick in the corner, I was thinking, can we burn the bricks and use them to build a house?" Xie Fanxing pointed to the big brick in the corner of their house.

"So today, sister, the utensil you asked me to make is for making bricks." Xie Fanyang quickly realized that he looked at the blue bricks under the corner of their house, and then at the utensils he made. Is it about the same size as the green brick in the corner?
"Then eldest sister, you asked your eldest brother to make the utensils for making bricks, and you also brought back the things for making big bricks, but do you know how to make bricks?
If you don't know how to do it, I'm afraid this brick will not be fired. " Xie Fanri glanced at his elder sister and asked.

It is easy to make bricks, but difficult to burn them.Brick firing is a technical job that has been passed down through the family line, and it is very difficult to do it if no one teaches it.

"It's easy! Isn't burning bricks the same as cooking vegetables? Build a stove, set a fire under it, and leave a space in the middle to put bricks and burn it?" Xie Fanxing thought it was so simple. .

In fact, brick making is really as simple as Xie Fanxing said, but I don't know why there are so few people who know how to make bricks, and bricks are not cheap.

"Sister, what you said is rough, but it makes sense." Xie Fanyue, who was on the side, heard that such a difficult thing, in the eyes of her elder sister, turned into a stir-fry.

But what she said is not unreasonable, and it is really similar to cooking. The stove, the fire, the roasting, and finally the finished product comes out.

"I'm just trying to make bricks and burn bricks. We don't lose if we succeed. I won't need your help here tomorrow. You should do whatever you want."

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Early the next morning, after Xie Fanxing washed up, she immediately went on to deal with the yellow soil.

After being exposed to the sun yesterday afternoon and drying it all night in the evening, the yellow soil has already dried up in such hot weather.

After the yellow soil dried, Xie Fanxing took a hoe and crushed the yellow soil. After crushing, she passed the fine yellow soil through the sieve again.

The sifted yellow soil is the material for making bricks next.

Xie Fanxing put the thicker yellow soil aside first, she will use the yellow soil to build a brick kiln to burn bricks later.

Xie Fanxing first poured the yellow soil on the water, and she tied up her trousers, stepped on it directly, and repeatedly stepped on the mud until it was very soft. The mud was very sticky to the feet, and when it was difficult to move the feet, the yellow soil Only then can it be put into the brick box and made into shape.

This process is the most tiring and dirtiest in brick making. Xie Fanxing stepped on it for more than an hour before he felt that the yellow soil was trampled well and the next round could be carried out.

Now Xie Fanxing's legs are so soft that he trembles when he walks back and forth. It feels like his feet are stepping on cotton, and his whole body is covered with mud.

"Sister, today I went up the mountain and hunted a hare and a pheasant. Let's eat hare and pheasant for lunch today!" When it was almost noon, Xie Fanyang came into the backyard with the hare and pheasant, and said to Xie Fanxing.

"You shot, it's amazing. We won't eat hare and pheasant for lunch today, let's eat a little at will, and we will eat hare and pheasant in the evening." Seeing that the hare and pheasant were wounded by arrows, Xie Fanxing praised Xie Fanyang with a smile.

This kid finally got the hang of it. He knew that he would hunt some prey back from the mountain, and he also knew that he couldn't make a big splash. The first time he went up the mountain, he brought back a wild boar for himself.

Children can be taught.

"Sister, what's the matter with you." Xie Fanyang also felt that something was wrong with his elder sister at this time. When he was walking, he saw her feet trembling, and Xie Fanyang asked quickly.

"It's okay, it's just that it took a long time to step on the yellow soil with my feet, and I'm a little trembling due to fatigue, and I'll be fine after a rest." Xie Fanxing waved his hand at Fanyang, signaling that he didn't need to worry.

"Sister, next time there will be labor-intensive work, just let me do it, and there is no need for you to do it." Xie Fanyang said with some distress for her elder sister.

"Okay, there is work for you in the afternoon. In the afternoon, you just smash the yellow soil I stepped on into the brick box you made.

If there is excess yellow soil exposed from the brick box, you can use the bowstring in your hand to cut along the surface of the brick box, cut off the excess yellow soil, and then slowly and gently lift the brick box, leaving a brick on the ground Embryo.

When the bricks are drying at night, sister Minger will come to burn the bricks again to see if they can be fired. "Xie Fanxing took the pheasant and hare from Fanyang's hand, and she explained to Fanyang while boiling water.

"Sure, big sister, I know. It's not time for dinner yet. I'll get some bricks out first to see if it's done like this." Xie Fanyang thought his big sister was just trying to make bricks yesterday, but he didn't expect him to The eldest sister is very concerned about making bricks, Xie Fanyang can't help but become concerned when seeing this.

"Okay, you can go! If you don't understand, you can call me Eldest Sister." Xie Fanxing didn't bother cooking at noon today.

She first processed the hare and pheasant, marinated them and put them aside, and then left them alone.

She brought some eggs out of the warehouse, and planned to fry the eggs into poached eggs to fry peppers, stir-fry cowpeas, cold peppers, fry a perilla cucumber, and then fry a loofah.

Xie Fanxing asked her siblings to go to her vegetable garden to pick the vegetables she was going to fry today.

She went to the warehouse to get the eggs herself, but she found that several eggs were broken.

The five hens in their family can lay eggs every day, and there are 150 eggs in a month. They used to cook and eat less, and most of them were steamed into egg custard for Xiaoguai to eat. Seventy or eighty eggs were saved every month. The eggs are down. After these three months, there are now more than 200 eggs.

Now that the weather is so hot, you can't win if you eat it. Xie Fanxing plans to process these eggs separately and directly make them into preserved eggs.

Otherwise, it would be a pity to break it.

(End of this chapter)