Chapter 200: Picking a New Village Name
"Even if you have a well, you still need to store water in your house. If you have enough money, it's best to buy a few large water jars."
"The more firewood, the better. You've just arrived, and this is your first year. Don't think of preparing firewood based on past experience, and don't think that adding one or two more than usual will be enough, right?
Instead, you should believe that the more the better, and mobilize the whole family to collect dead branches, chop firewood, and cut straw. The more you have, the more comfortable you will be throughout the winter."
"When the craftsmen who build the kang are invited, you can also ask about the fire wall. The kang can warm the sleeping area, but the fire wall can warm the room.
But the best is the ground heating, which can make the whole house warm and comfortable no matter where you are in the house. However, the ground heating floor must be paved with stone slabs or at least rough bricks, which is too expensive.
In their mountainous area, firewood was not a problem, as long as people were diligent, everything would be fine. However, it was different with slate and bricks, which had to be bought with money. They were reluctant to use them to build houses, let alone lay them underground.
The villagers listened and took notes carefully, but gave up silently when they heard the word "earth dragon" at the end. They were already blessed by Aunt Shen Qing that they could use bricks to build stoves and kangs. Even if they earned money, they couldn't waste it like this.
Jiang Xiangbei thought of the brush workshop and hurried over to Lei Dafu, asking humbly, "Brother Dafu, how do you lay the ground dragon?"
My mother said that she is busy now and should focus on important things first. Everyone has started to hibernate in winter, so it is a good time to make brushes to earn money to supplement the family income.
Lei Dafu replied calmly: “I don’t know much about this. What I know is not the bunk, but the underground smoke pipe, which is similar to the kang hole flue;
It is said that there are several ways to make it. The craftsmen who build kangs should know and be able to do it. You can ask them.
But building a ground dragon is different from building a stove or a kang. The latter is done after the house is built, but the ground dragon should be built before the house is built. If your family wants to do it, don't leave it too late."
Jiang Xiangbei immediately understood and nodded.
After the two groups separated, Jiang Xiangbei hurried to find his mother and told her everything the Lei family had instructed him to do, especially the key point about the earth dragon.
Shen Qing: .....Isn’t this the ancient version of heating!
That’s great, not only the brush workshop needs it, she needs it too.
In the winter in the north, it is snowing heavily outside and the world is covered with ice and snow, but it is warm inside the house and we are eating frozen pears and yellow peaches. Well, it is not a dream to go up the mountain to find frozen pears, but I don’t want to find peaches, especially yellow peaches, because the season is out.
It doesn’t matter, she will plant her own peach trees and make canned peaches next spring!
If you can’t eat canned yellow peaches, you can have red bean soup and sticky rice dumplings.
"Okay, once the suspension bridge over the lookout tower is built, you guys will start carrying bricks and tiles back. I'll be in charge of selling astragalus in the city and transporting food back."
Jiang Xiangbei disagreed ten thousand times: "No way! There are so many disaster victims in the city. It's dangerous for mother to go alone. After we have loaded the bricks and tiles, my brothers and I will go!"
Shen Qing comforted: "Don't worry, there will be no danger."
Because she didn't have to go into the city at all, she sold the astragalus to the mall, and then bought rice and flour from the mall, completing the transportation easily.
Jiang Xiangbei was still worried.
Shen Qing made an effortful gesture and said resolutely, "Wealth and honor are sought in danger. We were short of manpower at the beginning, so there was nothing we could do."
She thought that now that things had come to this, Xiangbei, who had always been quick-witted and flexible, refused to agree when it came to his own safety.
There was no other way, she sighed, "Then I'll team up with the Lei family and go to the city together."
By then, the Lei family should be able to sell the first batch of astragalus, and she would have to go to the city to buy cotton, then load the cotton into the carriage, and when she came back, she would buy rice and flour from the mall and put it in the carriage.
Jiang Xiangbei originally wanted to ask if the Lei family would definitely go to the city at that time, but then he thought that the Lei family must be going to the city to sell leather materials, and they probably had already discussed it with his mother last time.
He felt more at ease having the Lei family with him than having his own villagers go with him.
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The strong men in the village spontaneously built a watchtower and a suspension bridge, while the old and young drove to carry bricks and tiles back.
Shen Qing is the only one who is older in the family. Jiang Xiangzhong is also a younger one. But other families only need tiles, bricks for building kangs and stoves, which can be carried back in three to five days. But her family needs bricks to build a courtyard house and a brush workshop!
So she even lent out her own donkey and cow, and waited for the villagers to finish loading the bricks and start making adobe bricks. Then her donkey would be free, so she would borrow it to help.
The young boys were also borrowed to drive the donkey cart.
With a plan in mind, Shen Qing was unusually calm and just checked the progress of the entrance protection from time to time.
Rather than caring about her own house, she is more concerned about the safety factor of the entire village.
Fortunately, he was born into a farming family and was very strong. With the help of the men from the Lei family, he rolled more than 10,000 adobe bricks on the first day and cut the wood for the suspension bridge and the gate.
On the second day, the forty men who made adobe bricks built the wall, and the forty men who chopped wood built a watchtower and a suspension bridge.
It was all done by the evening of the fourth day. It was all for the safety of their own family, so both the wall and the suspension bridge were made of solid and heavy materials!
Mr. Jiang brought everyone in the village to watch, and Shen Qing followed behind the crowd. Somehow, everyone was polite to each other, and she was pushed to the front step by step.
"Auntie, can you please give us your opinion on how we built it?" Feng Meng shouted.
Shen Qing winked frantically at Mr. Jiang Er!
What a fool she is. Mr. Jiang is the village chief, and there are so many people older than her there. Why does Feng Meng not ask them for their opinions, but instead asks her, a woman!
"Auntie, are your eyes uncomfortable? Why are they always twitching?" Feng Meng's rough face was full of worry.
As soon as he said that, everyone else looked at Shen Qing. Granny Qin was the first to ask with concern, "Could it be that something got into the mouth? I'm old and my eyes are blurry. Let a young woman give your aunt a good blow job."
Immediately, several young women and girls came forward.
People tend to laugh when they are speechless. Shen Qing deeply understood this sentence.
At this moment, she wanted to laugh. Looking at everyone who was serious, she could only take a deep breath and said with a smile: "Let the village chief speak. I am just a woman."
Mr. Jiang interrupted, "In our village, we only value ability and contribution. If it weren't for you, how could you all make bricks and chop wood without any worries? And how could you easily come up with the money to buy iron chains?"
So you deserve it. Also, we used to call it Qili Village because it was close to the city. Now that we have moved to a new place, it is not appropriate to use the previous village name.
We were able to arrive here safely and live here peacefully because of Shen Qing. My idea is that you should also come up with the name of the new village!"
The Lei family members in the crowd looked at Shen Qing with admiration.
At the same time, I think the atmosphere in their village is really good! They only look at ability, regardless of gender.
Boss Lei thought about what his wife had told him about the relationship between his children, nieces, and nephews. His wife had a really good vision, and she could see things more clearly and far-sightedly than he could...
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