Fengcheng old events

Chapter 42
Liu Zhaofeng said: "Uncle, I want to throw molds, and clay is fine too, I have strength."

Li Daya shook his head: "You are too tender. To be honest, the strong men have to take turns to do the job. No one can handle it all the time. That's not a joke. It's a sickness. You listen to me." , code the blanks first, practice your body, if you really can do it, I will ask you to go, okay?"

Liu Zhaofeng wanted to say something else, but Li Daya's face sank: "You have to obey when you come here. If you don't agree, you should go back to school."

Liu Zhaofeng was a little reluctant, but nodded.

Li Daya looked at Liu Zhaofeng up and down, and tapped the cigarette pouch on the sole of his shoe: "Go, I'll show you around the familiar road."

The brick factory occupies a large area, taking sand and mud, throwing the bricks, drying the bricks, and firing the kiln. There are several acres of land.

The mud used for firing bricks is clay, and the clay is mixed with water in proportion, and the feet are repeatedly stepped on until it is soft and hard.

It won't work if it's too thin, or it won't work if it's too hard, so mixing mud requires both strength and experience.When the mud is reconciled, it has to be beaten into shape, and then dropped into the mold. The briquette weighing tens of kilograms has to be lifted over the head and fell down. If the strength is weak, it is impossible to play.

After the bricks are dropped and demoulded, they should be put together to dry in the shade, and they should be turned upside down according to the time and degree of drying, otherwise they will be deformed and bent, and the bricks will be useless.

The dried bricks are transported to the kiln and fired with coal.

The kiln in the brick yard is the most dangerous place. When the kiln is fired, the temperature inside the kiln is higher than several thousand. The holes on the top of the kiln can be drilled by thinner adults, let alone children. If they fall into it, they will be gone. Cleaner than the crematorium, no ashes to be found.

More than 90.00% of the brick kilns have no protective measures and can be climbed at will. (Now the country has completely banned the use of red bricks, and brick kilns are being banned)

"How about it? Why don't you go down and try a few feet?" Li Daya and Liu Zhaofeng stood by the edge of the mud pool, where a few strong men were stepping on the mud.

While trying to repeat the movement of raising his legs high, a man raised his head and asked, "The factory director, didn't you say that you want to get on the machine, when will you be there?"

Li Daya slowly filled his cigarette pouch, and said, "I'm not in a hurry, why are you in a hurry? When the machine comes, you don't need manpower. Where can you earn the work points?"

The man said: "There are too many machines, and my codes are still not the same. On this day, my legs are going to be broken."

The clay has too much suction, and it takes a lot of effort to lift it up when you step on it, and you even have to pull it up with your hands on your knees.

After stepping on it, roll the adobe into a ball and apply water for later use.

Throwing the clay is all about strength, smash the clay into a square shape, then lift it over the head, smash it into the mold with force, and then scrape off the excess clay with a scraper to smooth it out.

After demoulding, an adobe is ready.Throwing billets is ten thousand bills, and a strong laborer can throw about three thousand billets a day, which is a high-income job.

The fallen blanks should be pushed to the drying shed with a wheelbarrow and neatly stacked, leaving a uniform gap between the blanks.

The wheelbarrow is walking on the winding ridge of the brick yard, which is more than one meter wide, and it is not a job that everyone can do.

A piece of adobe weighs seven or eight catties, and it feels like my arm will fall off in a day.Moreover, not everyone can play with a single-wheeled flatbed for a few hundred meters.

The adobe here has been dropped, and after demoulding, the workers who stack the adobe skillfully move the adobe onto the wheelbarrow, push it up and trot all the way to the awning, and then unload it and stack it. Breaking the billet is also a handicraft.

After turning around and looking around, Li Daya said to Liu Zhaofeng: "Do you understand? If I ask you to code the blanks, is it wrong for you? You can't do it.

Take your time, young man, it’s not enough just to have a heart, you have to have work in your hands, and you have to have strong arms and legs.

Besides, manpower is too slow, tired enough to not work, still have to use the machine, the dozens of people are not as fast as a machine.

This year is just like this. In a few days, next year our brick factory will unify machines, and the current workers are digging soil, sifting sand and stacking billets. "

Liu Zhaofeng nodded.Li Daya looked around and said, "Over there, there is a car idle. You can practice your hands first. You can transport it for a few days to make bricks. It won't be a big problem if you throw it and mix it. Wait until you can push it a hundred and eighty." If the ten bricks are not overturned, then the bricks will be reversed. This stuff can’t be dropped.”

Liu Zhaofeng glanced over there and asked, "Then, uncle, how do you calculate the points?"

"Two hundred and one points, the same as the code, go. Don't be brave, rest when you are tired, no one forces you, you have to adapt, not for this day, understand?
If you try to be brave today, you will not be able to get out of the kang for a week, and everyone will suffer. "

Excitedly, Liu Zhaofeng took the gloves and ran over, and then it was a tragedy. Let alone transporting bricks, he couldn’t play with an empty car. After a long time of work, his head was sweating, and he couldn’t even push 20 meters.This thing is a real flip.

"Don't force it, you have to follow it, use skill." Li Daya said from the side with a cigarette bag in his mouth, "This thing is a thief, can people avoid it? Follow it, just like riding a bicycle. Have you ever ridden a bike? Walk with strength and find your balance."

After tossing for more than an hour, I could barely push it out 50 meters away, which is still a thousand miles away from transporting bricks.

"Uncle, Uncle." A man with a stubble trotted over: "Uncle Li, find some people for me."

Li Daya turned his head and glanced at him: "What are you doing in such a hurry?"

The man took a few breaths: "Borrower, I don't have enough people on my side, hurry up."

Li Daya said: "Commune? Oh, I don't have any idlers here, what should I do?"

The man pointed at Liu Zhaofeng: "Isn't it just one, how many count, I'll get you some good wine later, okay?"

Li Daya said: "Let me help you shout, my head is also tight, and it will be cold soon and I won't be able to make billets."

After turning around, I found two more to come over, and waved to Liu Zhaofeng: "Xiao Liu, come here. This is Brother Dong, and he has some urgent work on his end. You can help me first, it's over." Come again, anyway, this is not a day or two for you. Dongzi, how do you calculate your wages?"

Dongzi said: "Thirty cents a day, and I take care of the pastry at noon."

Liu Zhaofeng's eyes lit up, and he asked, "Brother Dong, I'll bring my own food. Is it okay to give me fifty cents a day? I promise to do the job well for you."

Dongzi took a look at Li Daya, and asked Liu Zhaofeng, "How long can you work? Is it okay to work until the next frost?"

Liu Zhaofeng said: "Okay, as long as you give me the money, I can work until it freezes." He paused for a while and asked with a smile on his face, "So what, brother, what kind of work?"

Li Daya said: "As for him, you can do it. Sieving sand is easier than this one. If you can do it, you can do it. You can come back when the work starts in the spring of next year. During this time, I will write you a borrowing procedure."

Dongzi is in charge of the battlefield, and now that the commune has come to the quota, he will not have enough manpower at once.

(End of this chapter)