Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

Early the next morning, the wolf, a dozen warriors, and fifty or sixty men arrived at the ditch.

Everyone got busy with hoes and shovels.Suddenly, several people behind shouted and shoved. One of them punched a buck-toothed man on the head, and the other stepped forward to help.

The wolf looked forward with a blue face, and saw that Ah Hei's head and body were covered with gravel, and shouted: "Stop! Ah Hei, what are you doing?" Seeing this, the other people hurriedly separated them.

Ah Hei pointed at Dahu, "He deliberately threw gravel on me. I told him a few times, but he also deliberately bumped into me, so I pushed him."

Du Hu stared, "You're talking nonsense, I didn't see you there, that's why the gravel was thrown on you."

The wolf looked at Dumb, "I noticed you yesterday. You carried the sack to dump the soil for a long time and it was not clean. The man who worked with you carried two sacks, and you slowly went down the ditch. You’re making trouble with your companion again today, don’t you want to do it?”

Dui hurriedly begged for mercy, "Wolf, please spare me, I will do well."

Several men who persuaded the fight also helped to intercede, "Wolf, please spare him this time!"

The wolf looked at Dumb and said, "This time I will punish you for not having breakfast this morning! If you dare to do this again next time, the forest on the opposite side is waiting for you!"

Du Hu lowered his head and replied: "Yes!" He turned around and picked up the wooden shovel and started to dry.

The wolf waved his hands and yelled, "Go to work."

When returning to eat food, the wolf found Yao Xiaoqing and told her what happened in the morning.

Yao Xiaoqing thought for a while, "You let people stare at this man named Dahu. This person is not safe. You have led them to work these days, what do you think of them?"

The wolf said: "Most people are still safe. That man named Ah Hei and the other guys are doing good things. There are a few who are just like Dahu. They are not as obvious as Dahu. Sometimes they will come to please me. .”

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Okay, you can watch for a while, so that people can watch out for restless people."

"Yes!" The wolf responded.

Outside the wooden shed, Du Hu looked at his wolf-eating companion, swallowed, and gave Ah Hei a bitter look.

Ah Hei glanced at him, took a big bite out of the Fuling bean cake.

After eating the food, Yao Xiaoqing, Mu Feng and Jiang Li went to the star anise forest, and Mu Feng and the others stayed to pick the star anise.Yao Xiaoqing continued to collect herbs with a bamboo basket on her back.

Seeing that the market is about to open, she has to prepare some more herbs during this time.

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Time passed and it was the day when the kiln was opened. Yao Xiaoqing and Ah Chong arrived in front of the kiln early in the morning to prepare for the opening of the kiln.

After removing the clay and adobes that blocked the entrance of the kiln, I saw that the adobes had also been fired into red bricks, and waves of heat came rushing toward us.Everyone saw the burnt bricks from the entrance of the cave.

Yao Xiaoqing shouted: "Uncle Chong, let's open the roof of the kiln, wait for the heat to dissipate, and then start the kiln again in the afternoon."

"Okay!" Ah Chong and Ah Chun pushed open the pond on the roof of the kiln, pried open the clay, and saw that the bricks laid on it had also been fired.There were bursts of heat.

Everyone used shovels to pry out the bricks and dig out the soil covering them, and a wave of heat rushed up.

"It's so hot!" Ah Chong stepped back again and again, "No wonder Xiaoqing said that the heat can cook the skin and flesh. It's been six or seven days, and the inside is still so hot."

Ah Chun laughed and said, "Don't even think about it. There are so many bricks inside, and it has been burned for a few days. They are all simmering inside. Can you not be hot?"

Yao Xiaoqing took a look and said, "First burn it in the small kiln below, and let it cool down before coming back!"

Ah Chun nodded, and said, "Achong, I heard from Mao this morning that the oyster shells and limestones on our riverside are almost gone. We have to go further afield to dig oyster shells to find limestone."

Achong smiled, "What are you afraid of! There are oyster shells under the sand and gravel by the river. We will dig it back and store it there when we have nothing to do in the future. We can use it whenever we want."

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the tired, dark and thin people, "Uncle Chong, Uncle Chun, after you have finished your work, you should take a good rest for a while."

Several people looked at her and laughed, "Xiaoqing, after the wall is built, you have to

Autumn harvest! "

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Yes! It seems that there is no time to rest this year. When the wheat is harvested, I will cook something delicious for everyone!"

Achong laughed, "Okay! Steamed buns are delicious!"

Yao Xiaoqing said, "It's soft and sweet, and it's more delicious than steamed buns."

After hearing this, several people laughed and said, "We still like to eat big meat buns." After eating it once, they can't forget the taste of big meat buns and steamed buns.

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Okay, I'll make big meat buns for you." She found a honeycomb in the woods beyond the octagonal forest yesterday.

There are many buckets of beeswax hanging on the eucalyptus and locust trees, and there must be a lot of honey in it.She felt that so much honey was left after the black bear was killed, and she wanted to get some honey to make a honey cake.

She went back to the yard, went to the warehouse to find two pieces of gauze woven by Shan Amu and the others, and two pairs of gloves, and returned home.

I took a needle and thread and sewed a circle around the gauze, threaded a thin rope inside, put on a hat, and tightened the rope so that the bees couldn't get in.

When Jiang Li walked to the gate of the courtyard, he saw Yao Xiaoqing standing there wearing a white gauze cap, looking around.

"Qingwu, what are you planning to do?"

Yao Xiaoqing saw Jiang Li, smiled, and took off the gauze hat, "I want to go into the mountains to get honey."

Jiang Li smiled and said, "It's a bit late to go now, how about I go with you tomorrow? I drew a blueprint, and also wrote down some things I thought of in random notes, and I'll show you."

"I originally planned to go tomorrow too." Yao Xiaoqing paused, "I originally planned to go tomorrow too."

As she spoke, she entered the room and came out with a bamboo chair, and Jiang Li unfolded the blueprint in his hand.

Yao Xiaoqing saw buildings that were somewhat similar to the city walls and courtyards of later generations.

"I drew this based on the city I defended before." Jiang Li pointed to the blueprint, "Here are the city gates, turrets, horse faces, urns, arrow towers..."

"I was halfway through the drawing, thinking about the battles we had with the black bear and the big witch, and felt that some facilities are useless here, such as the horse road, the urn city, etc. can be discarded, we only need to build the city gates, turrets, and piers. gone."

Yao Xiaoqing asked, "What is a pier?" She had heard of all the others, but she found this a bit strange.

Jiang Li thought for a while, "It's the protruding part of the city wall. It is generally ten to twenty feet long and wide, protruding three to four feet from the outer surface of the wall, and the distance... is used to throw stones from bows and arrows when facing the enemy. Within the effective range, it can attack the enemy below the city from three sides from top to bottom.”

"Actually, the fence you built is already very strong. You only need to remodel the courtyard gate and build turrets at every corner."