Wei Mo and Li Xiuxiu moved some of their belongings and luggage into Wang Zhenhua's room. Li Xiuxiu originally wanted to move back to the female educated youth's room.
But Wei Mo disagreed, so he had no choice but to go along with the little brat's wishes. Li Xiuxiu sighed softly beside him.
"You! You!"
Wei Mo chuckled to himself, then said to Li Xiuxiu.
"I knew Aunt Xiuxiu was the best to me."
Finally, he pulled Li Xiuxiu down, gestured for her to squat down, and kissed her on the cheek.
Li Xiuxiu looked at the little kid in front of her with some helplessness and said to Wei Mo.
"Behave yourself tonight, okay?"
Wei Mo scratched his head and gave an awkward smile.
"I know, I know, don't worry, Aunt Xiuxiu."
After Wei Mo and Li Xiu finished moving their belongings, Qian Manman, Wang Zhenhua, and the others carried the old man and Grandma Yu's luggage, along with other items, into Wei Mo's previous room.
While helping the two tidy up the room, Wei Mo, having nothing else to do, said to the old man...
"Grandpa, let's build a wall first, but we don't have enough bricks. Grandpa, do you think of any way to solve this?"
After hearing this, the old man thought about it and realized that bricks weren't too scarce. As long as you had the brigade's approval, it wouldn't be difficult to get them.
The old man nodded and said, "Okay, then wait for my news."
Wei Mo purchased the bricklayer skill and some tools needed for bricklaying from the shop, then shouted to his family,
"Everyone, come here for a moment, let's discuss how to build this thing."
Wang Zhenhua, Wang Ling, and others gathered around, and even Wei Xiaomin and Wei Xiaohui stared wide-eyed at their younger brother.
Seeing that the whole family had arrived, and that the old man had gone to haul bricks and wasn't there, Wei Mo slowly began to speak.
"Let's assign tasks. Aunt Ling and Aunt Juan, you two go and mix some mud."
Wang Ling and Yu Juan nodded, and then spoke to Wei Mo.
"Okay, Xiao Wei Mo."
Then the two of them walked out directly. In fact, everyone in this family was more willing to trust Wei Mo, and many things were left to Wei Mo to handle.
Now he's like a little adult, and his family has no objections to that, because Wei Mo's decisions are always quite perfect.
Watching the two leave, Wei Mo nodded and looked at Li Xiuxiu and Qian Manman beside him.
"Aunt Manman, Aunt Xiuxiu, you two move the bricks here."
Li Xiuxiu and Qian Manman nodded in agreement and began to act as well.
Meanwhile, Wei Mo's mother, Grandma Yu, and his two older sisters all looked at him. Wei Mo scratched his head and said to his family.
"Then you guys help me tidy up and lend a hand."
Hearing Wei Mo's words, Wang Zhenhua and Grandma Yu nodded, but Wei Xiaomin disagreed and said to Wei Mo,
"Little brother, little brother, what about me? What am I supposed to do?"
Wei Mo thought for a moment, then said to Wei Xiaomin,
"Sis, then take the water and pour some water on the bricks to wet them a bit."
Wei Xiaomin nodded, smiling very happily.
"Okay, little brother."
Wei Mo plans to add two firewalls to the house; in Northeast China, this is the fastest way to heat up a house.
Once the stove is lit, the fire wall can maintain its temperature for a long time, so I guess everyone will worry about the house getting too hot.
The family got to work in an orderly fashion. Wei Mo secretly took out his tools and started drawing lines on the ground.
After Wang Ling and Yu Juan brought over the mixed mud, Qian Manman and Li Xiuxiu had already moved a lot of bricks over, and Wei Mo began to build the wall.
Wei Xiaohui stayed obediently to the side, and whenever she saw someone who was tired, she would bring them a bowl of water.
"Little brother, have some water."
Wei Mo looked at his older sister in front of him and said to Wei Xiaohui,
"Thank you, sister. I was thirsty just now."
Wei Xiaohui was happy to receive the praise, and then she carried the water to other people.
"Xiao Hui is so good, Xiao Hui is so nice."
Wei Xiaohui was very happy with the praise from her family, while Wei Xiaomin listened to her younger brother's instructions and poured water on all the bricks on the ground.
"Little brother, is this okay?"
Wei Mo nodded and smiled at Wei Xiaomin.
"That's enough, that's enough, sis, you should take a rest too."
Wei Xiaomin said something else.
"Little brother, I'm not tired yet. Can you find me something else to do?"
In fact, Wei Xiaomin was quite curious about these novel things, so she kept chattering around Wei Mo.
Wei Mo stacked the bricks one by one, but he was too short. If he were any taller, he could only stand on a stool, but if he were any taller, he couldn't reach the top of the shed at all.
They could only ask Li Xiuxiu and others for help, tell them the specific methods, and then barely managed to build up the tower.
It took a whole morning to build the firewall. There was a gap between the firewall and the original wall, and Wei Mo used bricks to lay out the flues in different locations.
In this way, the hot air will flow into the chimney little by little, and then pass through the entire fire wall. The hot air and smoke will heat up the fire wall, which is the secret of the Northeast fire wall.
Before the first wall of fire was even finished, the old man had already returned, bringing with him a large quantity of bricks in an oxcart.
After two rounds, Wei Mo, seeing that it was about time, spoke to the old man.
"Grandpa, Grandpa, that's enough, you don't need to pull anymore."
The old man nodded when he heard Wei Mo's words, and then unloaded the bricks from the truck.
“Alright, grandson, if that’s enough, then I’ll return the oxcart.”
Wei Mo thought that the bricks in the yard should be enough. After the family had lunch, they continued to work. Slowly, the second firewall was also completed.
Wei Mo then built a stove in the kitchen and connected it to the two fire walls.
The others watched from the sidelines, nodding in approval at the furnace and fire wall that Wei Mo had built.
Wei Mo said something after the final step was completed.
"Okay, Mom, burn some firewood and see if any smoke comes out."
Upon hearing Wei Mo's words, Wang Zhenhua's family's eyes lit up, and they quickly ran out and brought back a bundle of firewood and hay.
Then they brought back a lot of hay, put it in the stove and lit it, and then weighed some wood down on top.
As the hay burned, the family looked around to see where the smoke was coming from.
"Smoke is coming from here, here, here, little brother!"
Wei Xiaomin, with her sharp eyes, noticed smoke rising from a small crack. Wei Mo nodded, took his tools, and shoveled some mud onto his hands.
The smoke was quickly covered, but since the smoke was mostly coming from the top, Wei Mo had no choice but to hand the tools to Li Xiuxiu, as his height was too much of a problem.
After covering all the smoking areas, Li Xiuxiu jumped off the chair and spoke to Wei Mo.
"Alright, little brat, do you want me to do anything else?"
Wei Mo thought for a moment, then spoke to Li Xiuxiu.
"Aunt Xiuzi, go and check all the rooms to see if there's any smoke coming from them."
Li Xiuxiu nodded and said to Wei Mo,
"Okay, kid, I'll go check it out."
Then, carrying tools, she inspected all the houses and found that Li Xiuxiu had covered several places that were smoking with mud.
As the fire in the furnace burned brighter and brighter, the temperature of the entire fire wall gradually increased, becoming hot to the touch.
The family tried touching the fire wall and laughed heartily.
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