"Mom, have you redrawn the house?" Su Ning'an strode in and tilted his head to glance at the large flat on the paper. "Are you going to build a one-story house instead of a three-story one?"
"Yes, mother didn't consider the sturdiness of the roof before. This large house on the first floor is much larger than the main house. We will each have our own room then."
"Brother Song, sister-in-law, please come in."
"Xingyi, can you see it?" Song Dazhu and his wife seemed unable to believe their eyes.
Su Xingyi smiled, "It's been a few days since I regained my sight."
Song Dazhu approached and said, "Xingyi, your eyesight has been restored. No one in the village has heard about it. Such a happy news should be known to the villagers so that they can be happy for you."
Xiao Lingyu was very confused when he heard this. The Zhang family and the village chief's family should all know about it, right?
The gossipy villagers don’t know, and most likely they didn’t say anything.
Mrs. Song smiled and said, "Dazhu, today we leave the Su family yard, and the villagers of the entire Guihua Village will know."
"Wife, you're right." Song Dazhu glanced at the crutches placed against the wall. "Xingyi, will you be able to walk soon?"
Su Xingyi nodded: "Not yet, but I can walk with crutches."
Song Dazhu and his wife seemed to have forgotten the purpose of coming to the Su family's yard, and they yelled at Su Xingyi to walk with crutches.
Soon, Su Xingyi, with the support of Song Dazhu, was practicing walking in the yard with crutches.
"Xingyi, I didn't expect you to be able to walk on crutches. I think it won't be long before you can go hunting in the mountains again."
Su Xingyi responded with a smile, "Yes, I haven't been to Wufeng Mountain for more than two years."
Mrs. Song saw that although Su Xing walked slowly with crutches, his body was steady and not shaking.
Mrs. Song glanced at Xiao Lingyu who was sitting in the main room painting. This Mrs. Su was not here to live a hard life at all.
Even after being here for so long, he still looks wealthy.
This is a great benefactor sent by God to the four people of the Su family.
Su Ningwen silently pulled up Mrs. Song's sleeve and shook it, "I can speak now, too."
Mrs. Song lowered her eyes and glanced at Su Ningwen. The child has gained weight.
Seeing that she didn't hear him, Su Ningwen raised his voice slightly, "Aunt, I can speak now too."
"Third brother, were you the one talking just now?" Mrs. Song quickly squatted down and looked at Su Ningwen in surprise.
Su Ningwen smiled and nodded, then leaned close to her ear and said, "I can speak now, but I can't speak loudly yet."
"Hey, Dazhu, the third one can speak now..."
"What? Is this true?"
"Of course it's true, come here and listen..."
Xiao Lingyu looked at the scene in the yard with a bright smile on his face.
Song Dazhu and his wife truly care about their father and son.
After a while, Xiao Lingyu invited the two into the main room to discuss the brick matter.
Mrs. Song handed over the wooden board with the painted bricks. "Madam Su, how thick do you want the wall to be? A 12-inch wall would require 64 bricks per square inch, an 18-inch wall would require 96 bricks per square inch, and a 24-inch wall would require 128 bricks per square inch..."
After listening to Mrs. Song's explanation, Xiao Lingyu discovered that the size of a blue brick in ancient times was not much different from the area of a red brick in later generations.
Fortunately, she participated in the construction of the villa on the base, otherwise she might not understand what the ancient professional brick-making people told her.
"Mrs. Su, how big a wall do you plan to build?"
"Not only do I need to build a house, I also need to build a fence. I need a thicker fence, 24-inch thick. The load-bearing walls of the house need to be 24-inch thick, and the rest of the walls need to be 18-inch thick." Xiao Lingyu handed over the blueprint in his hand. "This is the house I want to build. You two can take a look at it. How many bricks do I need?"
Song Dazhu took a closer look and said, "Madam Su, such a big house won't cost 50,000 bricks."
"We still need to lay the foundation. The wall is 24 square inches, with 128 bricks per square inch. We need 100,000 bricks first, and the extra ones will be used to build the wall." Xiao Lingyu glanced at Sister-in-law Song, "How much does it cost for 100,000 bricks, Sister-in-law?"
Mrs. Song said, "128 bricks are 78 wen, so 100,000 bricks, minus the odds, are worth 60 liang."
Xiao Lingyu thought that the bamboo forest was three hundred acres, and the part near Wufeng Mountain did not need to be repaired because no one would enter. Building a three-meter-high wall around it would require at least one million bricks.
"Okay, I need one million bricks first. Can they all be burned in seven days?"
Mrs. Song was shocked. "Madam Su, my family only has one brick kiln. It can burn 50,000 bricks and 30,000 tiles a day. It takes a day to transport and prepare the materials. It will take at least 40 days to make one million bricks."
Xiao Lingyu tapped the table lightly and thought for a moment, the house had to be built slowly, and it would be no problem to burn bricks while building.
This is not an option for repairing the wall. She hired 100 people to repair 50,000 bricks a day. Isn't that a waste of time and manpower?
When Xiao Lingyu was building the villa, he learned that a professional craftsman could easily repair 2,000 bricks a day, which took about 10 hours.
Based on the terrain of the bamboo forest and the characteristics of the mountains, Xiao Lingyu set the minimum standard of repairing 800 bricks per person per day, working for four hours a day, and gave them a ten-day construction period.
"Madam Su, there are brick kilns of all sizes in the surrounding villages of Xishui County. We should be able to collect one million bricks in seven days."
Xiao Lingyu's eyes lit up. This was a good idea. Tomorrow, he would arrange for the Xu family to go to various villages to fetch baked bricks. Seven days would be enough time.
"Sister Song, I'll buy 100,000 bricks and 30,000 tiles from you first. How much is the total?"
"Seventy-five taels."
Xiao Lingyu took out a piece of paper and pen and wrote two copies of the brick order agreement, handing them to the couple. "This is a 30-liang deposit. The balance will be paid after the inspection is passed in three days. If there are no problems, you can sign and seal it."
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