Chapter 432: Hitting the Wall
The rain lasted for three days before it stopped.
After the rain stopped, the fruit trees in the backyard sprouted new branches, with many tender yellow branches and leaves interspersed among the dark green leaves. The rain knocked down the wisteria flowers all over the ground, and now there are almost only green leaves left on the vines.
Water was flowing out of the drainage ditch on the grass outside the yard. Mu Xi walked out and blocked the hole for the drainage outlet on the wooden fence. Originally, there was a small door woven with wire mesh on the wooden fence to prevent snakes from coming in.
But the water flow was too strong a few days ago, and this relatively fine wire mesh not only hindered the flow of water, but was almost washed crooked by the water flow.
No snake could swim upstream against such a strong current, so the two men simply opened it.
When I walked out of the yard and stepped on the grass, as expected, I stepped into the water.
The water accumulated in the soft grass and was squeezed out when you stepped on it, making your steps sound "biaji biaji".
The rain lasted for a long time and was heavy. Zhao Yeqing guessed that it would not rain again in the near future, so he asked Mu Xi to take out the oversized canvas at home.
"We can build a temporary shed between the brick kiln and the vegetable field. When the time comes, we can take the red bricks directly to the brick kiln after they are dried, so we don't have to move them back and forth."
The two of them had poured the red soil here before, and now that it was wet by the rain, they didn't have to fetch water to make the mud.
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Red bricks were placed under the temporary shed. Because they were worried that the grass underneath would get wet, they pieced together a wooden floor using wooden boards that had been broken by wild boars.
Now Zhao Yeqing is making bricks at home, and Mu Xi has gone out to chop trees again. They also have to repair the fence next to the grain field. Even if it can't keep out wild boars, it can at least keep out some small animals that steal grain.
It is not easy to dry the red bricks before the accumulated water on the meadow completely evaporates. It is a good opportunity to build the brick kiln before the red bricks dry.
The red brick materials used were those taken from the previous brick kiln, and some small red bricks were dried before the kiln was dismantled to build a new brick kiln that is more than two meters long, wide and high.
I don't know if this brick kiln can be directly converted into a charcoal kiln by sealing the ventilation holes. If possible, it would be more convenient to burn charcoal in winter. The charcoal fired in an earthen kiln is always not heated evenly, and many charcoals cannot be completely carbonized.
Some of the charcoal that is not completely carbonized still retains the original dark brown color of the wood. When burning, it is easy to produce smoke or ignite an open flame, which will burn out in a short time, which is a great waste of wood.
When Zhao Yeqing was firing the first batch of red building bricks, he was observing the air outlet of the new brick kiln. If he found any unreasonable places, he would make adjustments based on the situation of the first batch of bricks. Generally, the first batch is used for experiments.
But she was lucky and basically succeeded on the first batch.
After Mu Xi repaired the wooden fence these days, he began to dismantle the courtyard wall. He first dismantled the walls near the damaged one, and then moved up all the necessary steel bars.
This time the courtyard wall is made of both red bricks and steel bars. Even if the wild boar comes again, the two are confident that it will not be broken so easily.
It was just that one of the main reasons for using movable cement to cast the wall panels was that they thought they could expand the yard later. Mu Xi ran to ask Zhao Yeqing, "Should we expand it?"
Zhao Yeqing looked towards his home. To be honest, the size of their yard was too big for two people to live in. It would be better to add on top instead of expanding it.
The two of them now live on the second floor, and it would be difficult to build a third floor. Not to mention the earthquake resistance, even transporting the materials would be tiring. However, a second floor can be added on top of the kitchen, bathroom, toilet on both sides, and even the hay house, so it would be impossible for them to live there.
"If we don't expand the building, not only will it be too crowded to live in, but we'll also need more red bricks to build the walls. So let's just leave it at that."
It took the two of them nearly a month to knock down the courtyard wall and rebuild it. By the time they had a new and solid courtyard wall, the rice at home was ready to bloom.
Finally we have time to harvest the corn, otherwise it will be eaten by birds.
During this period, the two of them kept speculating why the wild boar came to attack the wall of their home. They hadn't seen any traces of wild boar for a long time, and it didn't seem to have come from the birch forest.
There are Huhu and Xuebing in the broad-leaved forest. Could it be that they were sent over to the pine forest?
But aren't there elephants over there? Even if the elephants leave, the tigers or wolves will take over.
It can't be that the wolves and tigers have all left...
The two of them couldn't figure out the changing patterns of the forest and could only keep guessing.
Everything had been calm for so long that the two of them had let down their guard, but not long after they fell asleep, a familiar loud noise was heard again. They reflexively jumped out of bed and walked to the window, where they saw a wild boar smashing the wooden fence again.
This time, after crashing the crops, it did not rush in to destroy them like before, but turned around and ran away.
Zhao Yeqing was so angry that he laughed, "Is it sick? Just to hit the wall?"
There are all kinds of pigs in the forest.
What else can I do? I can only get up and patch up the wall with spare wooden boards.
It is not Mu Xi's habit to sit there and wait for death in fear. He can't just wait for it to hit the wall every day.
There is no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days.
This time he saw clearly that the stinky wild boar was running over from the pine forest.
After repairing the wall and turning on the lights on the courtyard wall, the two of them slept until dawn. After having breakfast, they went to the pine forest to check the situation.
You can't just go there rashly. Today, the cattle and sheep at home have not been let out. They are kept in the barn and eating feed. The fence at home has been upgraded, so even if we don't leave the dog at home to guard the house, we don't have to worry about anything happening.
Put the four dogs on the edge of the woods and let them wander around for a while, then follow them inside. Sometimes their noses are more useful than any experience.
While waiting for the dogs to come back, the two stayed outside the woods. Zhao Yeqing didn't want to sit in the car, and seeing the traces of the wild grass being eaten and the feces left by the deer, he guessed that this place should not be too dangerous.
He got out of the car, walked to the ramie bush, picked up the hatchet from the trunk and started chopping.
Mu Xi picked up a long wooden stick from the side and pulled Zhao Yeqing to the side. "Don't cut yet, let me beat the leaves first."
The long wooden stick was swung up and down between the straight ramie stalks quickly and forcefully, knocking the dense leaves on top to the ground, leaving only the bare ramie stalks waiting to be harvested.
Now that we have no shortage of feed at home, we don’t need to take the ramie leaves back. We just need to separate the stalks and bundle them. When harvesting the stalks without leaves, we won’t accidentally encounter insects. The insects on ramie basically grow on the back of the leaves.
After loading a large bundle of ramie stalks into the trunk, the four dogs returned from exploring the way.
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