The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 51 Digging a Pool

Chu Ying put the bath beans made of Sapindus chinensis on her hands and rubbed them. There wasn’t a lot of foam, but the washing was quite clean. Flour-like things were more oil-absorbing, and the soap of Sapindus chinensis was still good at cleaning. Very objective.

It took two or three days for the soap I made to completely solidify into a block, and after using it for a while, the foam was more foamy than bath beans.But the amount of this formula is hard to estimate, and the alkali content in the plant ash is uncalculated. Chu Ying made these pieces of soap purely by luck.

Chu Ying put the bath beans and soap on the shelf in the kitchen. It’s okay to make these for a while. Chu Ying picked up the shovel and continued to dig the soil to make earth bricks. Half of the rainwater had accumulated in the place dug before. However, Chu Ying had no choice but to dig another hole to get the lower soil.

There are already 5 simple sheds built by myself on the south side of the kitchen outside the fence. The method of bending tree trunks to lean on each other to make a platform is really practical and time-saving. The only disadvantage is that it is formed by bending tree trunks , so the height is not very high.

Chu Ying also thought about finding someone to do it, but she didn't have any income, and the clay bricks she made would not generate much profit. These clay bricks can usually be made by others with a little manpower, and the bricks that don't want to be fired have some technical content.

Although fortunately, Chu Ying found that her arms are getting stronger and stronger, and she can shoot arrows far away several times, and she seems to have become taller. She works every day, so she has to eat 3 bowls of rice every meal, and she can also catch up with the arrows. I am growing my body.

When I first came here, I was so thin and thin, as if I could be blown away by a gust of wind. Now I finally have the body shape that a normal 9-year-old child should have, and there is no fat on my body from daily work, and the flesh is quite strong, but It's not like the kind of strong bodybuilder.

"Chu Ying, what are you doing?" Chu Yingjian leaned the shovel against the wall when she saw Wang Naiyuan coming, "It's nothing, just making clay bricks, I just saw that Li was going to your house, what's wrong? "

"It's nothing, but I have to serve corvee again. I'll start after the spring plowing and spring planting are over. I'm just here to ask if I can help. I'll have to leave for a month. Do you have enough firewood at home?"

Chu Ying brought cool water from the kitchen and poured it on Wang Naiyuan, and turned the uncut side of the bowl towards him. "What do you do in corvée?"

"Build bridges and roads, manage rivers and canals, and do all kinds of chores. Fortunately, you are a girl, otherwise you will be miserable. It used to be 18 years old when you were an adult, and now you have to serve corvee when you are over 15 years old."

"I don't have anything to do here. I can do everything. Don't worry. I will help Mrs. Wang if she has anything to do."

"How many earth bricks do you want? I'll dig it for you. When you want to do this, I'll dig it out for you. It will be faster if you make the earth bricks yourself." Wang Naiyuan picked up the bricks after drinking water. Chu Ying's shovel started to work.

"No need, I'll just do it myself, you will be very tired if you have to go to corvée."

"It's nothing to be tired of. Then I'll dig it out and you can carry it elsewhere, just like when digging the pond before." Before Chu Ying could react, Wang Naiyuan had already shoveled a bamboo basket of soil and handed it to the ground.

"Okay." Chu Ying brought a few more bamboo baskets from the kitchen. These were made when she was free. Although they were ugly, they could hold things. It was almost noon, so Chu Ying quickly put the two baskets together. Cook the rice.

Chu Ying saw that Wang Naiyuan was still very fast, so she used a pole to carry the two bamboo baskets filled with soil to the far side. "Isn't this corvée free to pay?"

After digging for a while, Wang Naiyuan took off his winter clothes, "Yeah..." Before, I was digging and transporting some to make some earth bricks, so the progress was very slow. Now Wang Naiyuan is much faster digging and moving the soil by himself.

"How much silver will it cost?"

"Three pieces of cloth or one piece of silk, what's the matter?"

"No, how much would it be in silver?" Wang Naiyuan stood at the bottom of the pit, holding the shovel and looking at Chu Ying on the ground, "That would cost seven dollars."

"That's quite a lot." When it was almost noon, Chu Ying cut up the cured meat, picked mustard greens, and put some dried bamboo shoots to make a pot of broth. The two continued cooking after eating together.

With the help of Wang Naiyuan, the digging was almost done in 5 days. A large pit was dug next to the previous pit, 25 steps long from east to west and 10 steps wide from north to south. Now the soil can be used to build adobe bricks for two rooms.

Chu Ying took out two pieces of bacon and gave it to Wang Naiyuan, "No need, I still have some at home, don't go into the mountain by yourself in the future, go in from the place I took you last time, it's also good to pick some wild vegetables, don't go inside."

"okay, got it."

"I bought this when I went to the market last time. I don't know if it's the right size. Wearing a silver bracelet is good for your health. It will be better if you are weak and sick."

Chu Ying looked at the plain silver bracelet in her hand. Although it didn't have any patterns, it was quite heavy, "No, really, I'm much better now."

"Take it, I have nothing to give you. You can let go of this when you grow up, and you can wear it for a long time. I can rest assured that you are doing well."

When I got here, Wang Naiyuan was the best for me. I helped myself hoe the ground, dig holes for myself, and always take care of myself, but I didn't do anything for Brother Wang other than just causing trouble. I was really too guilty.

"Silly girl, why are you still crying? You're even uglier when you cry. Look at you, you're so tanned, but you're actually white." Wang Naiyuan hugged Chu Ying, who lowered her head and sobbed slightly.

"I'm white now too. Don't speak ill of me, hmph." Wang Naiyuan scratched Chu Ying's nose with her head held high. "Yes, it's nothing. I'm leaving, and I'll come to see you when I come back." Chu Ying looked at Wang Naiyuan's majestic back and walked away slowly. It was a great fortune to meet Wang Naiyuan.

Chu Ying widened the hole she dug before, which was the same as the long one dug by Wang Naiyuan, and then dug out the middle soil. Chu Ying first dug a small hole to let the water flow out slowly, and when the flow was almost done, Chu Ying After transporting all the wet soil to the ground, Chu Ying saw that the pool with some water was still very good.

Just like what Wang Naiyuan said, you can raise fish in it. In fact, Chu Ying doesn’t want to raise fish, because the villagers can catch fish when they go to the stream, so they feel that the fish are not so valuable. Chu Ying turned the pit into a pond mainly to solve irrigation problems. The problem.

Every time Chuying watered, she used well water, and once she watered the wheat field, it took a day. With this pond, Chu Ying could shorten the distance, and maybe build something like a waterwheel to shake the water directly to the wheat field. Go up, but I'm not that technical yet, I'll wait to see if I can implement it later.

In the next few days, Chu Ying concentrated on making earthen bricks, and built more than a dozen sheds, lined up behind the house, and saw that Aunt Wang was carrying a burden and didn't know where to go.

"Aunt Wang, where are you going?" Chu Ying called to Aunt Wang on the slope.

"Go and see my son." Although Aunt Wang didn't yell very loudly, Chu Ying still heard it. "Let's go together, I'll be right there." Chu Ying took some smoked meat and put it in a small clay pot, then closed the door and ran down.

"what are you going to do?"

"Brother Wang is so kind to me, I'll go see him and bring him some meat." Aunt Wang patted Chu Ying's head.
"It's a good thing you're caring. You're not busy. Fei Naiyuan loves you so much on weekdays. My son just has a good heart, haha." Chu Ying followed Aunt Wang obediently. It is still bearable to work often.

(End of this chapter)