Chapter 431 Reconstruction

I was woken up after only two hours of sleep, and then I saw a big wild boar in the yard. After killing it, I had to carry it to the broad-leaved forest. I didn't dare throw it too close for fear of attracting wolves.

After all this, Zhao Yeqing was exhausted both physically and mentally, and he still felt dizzy after taking a nap.

Once your biological clock is disrupted, no matter how long you sleep afterwards, it will not be as comfortable as sleeping at night.

I walked to the cornfield while rubbing my throbbing sunscreen. Nearly one-fifth of the corn had been trampled down by wild boars. Now was the corn harvest season, but it was not yet waxy and ripe, but still fresh and tender.

Zhao Yeqing picked up the corn that had not been damaged on the ground and threw it into the basket. She didn't even want to look at the ones that had been stepped on or eaten. She didn't know why these wild boars were so crazy that they suddenly came to mess with them.

I picked about a quarter of the corn and took it home. I planned to keep it for myself. I set aside a few to eat recently and shelled the rest into kernels and put them in the refrigerator to freeze.

It’s the same every time I plant corn. I’ll freeze a bag of corn kernels, which is enough to last for nearly half a year.

Fresh corn kernels are stir-fried with small pieces of carrots and cucumbers. Just a little salt will make it fragrant and sweet, and it goes very well with rice.

She has just picked the corn now, and the corn stalks have not been cut yet. She plans to leave them for later and harvest them all after the remaining corn is waxy and ripe.

Mu Xi didn't sleep for long. He was worried that he wouldn't be able to sleep at night, so he woke up after only two hours. He couldn't sleep well because he was still worried about the unrepaired wall.

After getting up and going downstairs, I saw Zhao Yeqing cleaning up the debris at the broken wall in the front yard.

The break was on the right side of the gate of the wall when looking out from the inside. Fortunately it was on this side. If it was on the left side, the livestock in the house would have been scared, and the drying room near the yard wall would have been damaged as well.

There were only two silage pits on the right side, which were next to the wall. However, the walls of these silage pits were originally built with red bricks and cement, which were much more stable than the courtyard wall. They were not damaged at all after being hit.

Zhao Yeqing sighed and said to Mu Xi who came over after washing his face: "See, the laziness you showed in the past will eventually become your loss."

Before washing his face, Mu Xi went to check the remaining lime reserves. He dug a cartload of it last time and only used a little for paving the road. There was still a sufficient stock left in the original breeding basement, next to which were the steel bars that had been brought back from the tourist area.

"It will take a long time to rebuild the entire courtyard wall. There are two options now. One is to fill this part with cement and steel bars, and the other is to replace the entire wall with a red brick, cement and steel structure."

The former is more solid than the previous one, but only slightly. However, its advantage is that it is simple and convenient. The latter is much more solid, but it still requires burning red bricks and cannot be moved in the future.

Zhao Yeqing learned his lesson, and having lived in the mountains for a long time, he developed a diligent character, so he chose the latter option without much consideration.

"Let's make bricks. At least it will be safer. Nothing is more important than safety."

Use plastic sheeting to cover the damaged parts of the yard wall. It can't block any sharp teeth and claws, but it can block small snakes that want to crawl in.

With the pickup truck and the small tricycle, digging up the red mud and bringing it back was no longer so hard and time-consuming. It took one day to transport back two trucks of red mud, one large and one small. The next day, Mu Xi had to get the red mud and lime, and Zhao Yeqing began to prepare to make red bricks at home.

In order to save trouble and make it stronger, the red bricks this time were fired in large sizes, close to the common building material "block bricks", which are several times larger than ordinary red bricks.

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In the past, masonry bricks were made of concrete or industrial waste materials such as coal slag and slag. The bricks were large, relatively easy to build, and light in weight, but they were not that strong.

Red bricks are much stronger, but building the wall piece by piece takes too long. Zhao Yeqing plans to combine the two and use the material of red bricks and the size of masonry bricks to make the wall.

This way you can take the advantages of both, but also combine the disadvantages of both, being too thick, taking up space, and being heavy.

These two shortcomings are nothing to Zhao Yeqing. The area of ​​the courtyard wall is neither big nor small. If the original small-sized red bricks were used, it would be very large and would take a long time to build. But with this large-sized one, it would not cost many bricks for a wall and it would not be that heavy.

Another problem is that it is too thick and occupies too much space. This problem is even less of a problem. In the past, every inch of land in the city was valuable. Now, even if the two of them build a house on the entire meadow, no one can stop them.

But in this case, the original brick kiln cannot be used and a new one has to be built. Otherwise, this small kiln can only burn three bricks.

The new brick kiln was moved outside the yard, next to the wall next to the birch forest. There was nothing planted in this area, so no matter how hot the brick burning was, it would not interfere with anything else.

The mold for the red brick also needs to be remade. Now the mold for the red building brick has to be made of a large piece of wood, and the middle has to be hollow with holes. Wood is the most convenient material.

The preliminary work was prepared for several days, but before the two of them started working, the summer rain came down.

After the bricks are made, they have to be dried before they can be fired. Now that it is raining, all work has to be stopped.

Fortunately, all the wheat that was harvested has been dried in the past few days. The golden wheat stalks were washed into the soil by the rain as soon as they turned into ashes in the wheat fields.

Zhao Yeqing became interested. The land that had just been burned would not be infested with insects. The rain would wash the wood ash into the soil, increasing its fertility. After the rain stopped, the soil became soft and he could plow the land and plant again.

Mu Xi was a little amused and said, "Ancestor, we can't finish all this." The construction of the wall hasn't even started yet, and he already found work to do.

"This is a pity, isn't it?"

With the right time and right place, it is obvious that we will have a good harvest if we plant the seeds.

It's like suddenly receiving a coupon with no threshold. As long as you spend money, there will be discounts and it's obviously a bargain. How can you resist it?

Finally, the two of them discussed it and decided to pull a cow over to plow the land and then sprinkle the sweet potato seeds there.

This thing doesn't require much care, as long as there is sufficient sunlight and water is added from time to time, and then you can harvest it and squeeze some sugar out of it.