Chapter 169 Making Bricks
"Okay, show, the bricks you made in the vegetable garden last time were very strong. You will come and mix with mud later. Xuhui and I are very strong and the bricks are solid." Mushui said it and did it. He stood up and put the shovel on the cart, and walked outside. Chen Xuhui also carried the shovel and followed closely behind.
Mu Xiu was doing preparations at home, pulled out all the straw ash in the kitchen, put a basket on it, and poured all the straw ash burned every day in the future.
Mushui and Chen Xuhui quickly pulled back a truck of yellow soil, poured it into the yard, and continued to dig the soil. Muxiu poured water into the soil and mixed it evenly with the straw ash. Muxiu did not hide it, and generously put the cement in and stirred it.
Sure enough, Mushui pulled another cart of loess back, looked at the pile of black and gray mud, and asked strangely: "Xiu, what have you put on? Why is this color?"
"Dad, this is the last time I went to the city and brought it back. I heard that it is made of bricks very hard." Mu Xiu said a random reason.
"Xiu, are you thinking about building a house at that time?" Mushui asked in surprise.
"No, I just thought about bringing it back to strengthen the vegetable garden. After all, the half of the side close to the wall last time was kicked out."
Mu Xiu's words made Mu Shui blush, lowered his head and stopped asking more, and hurried out to continue pulling the soil.
Mu Xiu looked at the time and the mud had been fermented. She took out a shovel and stirred it evenly, so that the mud and the wood and grass ash could be fully mixed together, so that it would be sticky.
After Mu Xiu mixed the mud, Mu Shui and Chen Xuhui pulled another cart of yellow mud and walked in.
"Xuhui, continue to pull the soil. When you can't push it alone, put less soil. I'll make bricks now." Mushui turned his head and said to Chen Xuhui.
Chen Xuhui nodded, pushed the car and left. Mushui turned around and went to the house to pick up the mold, put on gloves, and started making bricks.
I saw that he put the soft mixed mud into the molded wooden frame home, and then pounded it firmly with the wooden board, then lifted the mold and made a mud brick. After five days of placing it, the entire brick was ready.
In this way, Chen Xuhui went to pull the soil, Muxiu mixed the soil, Musui made bricks, and Muxiaocao took water. The bricks were placed in the chicken and duck circle and it was cold. Several people were busy until dark, and a total of nearly 300 bricks were made. According to the budget, more than 3,000 bricks were needed. If they started from early morning, they should be able to make about 500 yuan on that day, which means they could finish them all in seven days.
Zhou Shuilian prepared dinner, and the few people washed their hands quickly and went into the house to have dinner.
"Xiu, what is the thing you use that gray thing? The bricks you used last time were also used to build a vegetable pond." Mu Xiaocao suddenly asked. The house in her last family had also been renovated. She used less time to build a vegetable pond, and she didn't think much about it. This time, she felt strange that she used more. After all, in her memory, her family had used to renovate the house and it was 1986.
"It seems to be called limestone. Last time I went to the county town, I brought some back. It looks very useful. I plan to go there again tomorrow. I will ask if there are any more. I will bring back a few bags. Last year, let's go to the county town together. Look at the walls of the houses in the county town, which is the color." Mu Xiu paused in his heart, and then said as if nothing had happened.
"So that's the case. Some houses are indeed of this color." Mu Xiaocao felt that she was making a fuss. Her family renovated the house in the village in her last life. It seems that cement had already started to be used in 1980s.
"Yes, Mu Xiu, if there are too many things like this in the county town, I will pull back a little more and the house will be built firmly." Mu Shui nodded while eating.
"We need too many bricks, so we will definitely not finish them all by ourselves. The brick factory will not produce such bricks. The cost is too high. When the house is built, we will apply a few more layers of them ourselves, and it will be as strong as it will be." Mu Xiu also wanted to build the house with cement bricks.
"Xiu is right, and then apply a few layers to firmly." Mushui thought about it, and it was indeed the case.
Everyone was exhausted when they ploughed in spring and made bricks. After dinner and washing, they went to bed.
The next morning, Mushui and Chen Xuhui went to the ground, fertilizing and watering, and then loosening the soil.
Mu Xiu used the excuse to buy limestone in the county town and left early.
After the New Year, Sun Xingfu came to Mu Xiu's house to pick up jars and pickles. Now almost a month has passed, Mu Xiu will take a look again.
After Mu Xiu got off the bus, he found a secluded corner, took out a flatbed truck from the space, put more than a dozen jars of pickles, and walked towards Sun Xingfu's pickles shop.
When I walked to the door, Mu Xiu was a little confused. On weekdays, the shops only opened when I came here, but today, there were people inside and outside. It seemed that the breakfast business was very prosperous.
"Aunt, I'm busy." Mu Xiu greeted Huang Cui, who was busy at the counter.
Huang Cui was looking for money when she heard Mu Xiu's voice, raised her head, showed a smile on her face, and said enthusiastically: "Mu Xiu, you are here, you come in through the back door. There are many people here, your uncle is in the backyard, and the door is open there."
"Okay, you're busy first, I'll send the things to the backyard first." Mu Xiu came several times, and it was the first time she went to the back door. She pushed the flatbed cart and entered the alley at the entrance of the store. After walking less than ten meters, she saw an open small door. When she approached, she saw Sun Xingfu under the kitchen.
"Uncle Sun." Mu Xiu greeted.
"Xiu, you are here, you are still bringing pickles. Wait for me to bring these bowls of noodles, and I will carry them." As Sun Xingfu spoke, he put the noodles in the serving plate and went to the front first.
Mu Xiu put the cart on and moved it into the yard first.
"Xiu, I'll do it." Sun Xingfu took the empty plate into the backyard, put it down quickly, and started moving.
"Happiness, let's have four bowls of noodles." Huang Cui's voice came from the front.
"Okay." Sun Xingfu responded.
"Uncle Sun, please go downstairs quickly. It's not good to delay the meal for guests. I can still move these pickles." Mu Xiu said sensiblely.
"If you are tired, sit there and rest. It will be fine when I finish my work." Sun Xingfu washed his hands and entered the kitchen and started to get underneath.
More than a dozen cans of pickles were simply a slight connotation for Mu Xiu. She put the pickles into the hospital in a short while, and the flatbed truck also pushed it into the hospital.
Chapter completed!