The next morning, the area around the eleven trees was bustling with activity and noise once again.
Han Zhaoxiong and his men went to the village's homestead early in the morning to build houses and courtyards, still without having eaten breakfast.
Last night at dinner, Silver Fox and the others said they would go over to help tomorrow morning.
Tiehua also went to the construction site to help build houses.
She knew that if they stayed here, they would need a house and a yard.
Li Lanzhen told Han Shunde and Xue Laohu to stay behind and discuss things last night.
So, after breakfast, she discussed several recent matters with Han Shunde and the others.
First, we need to build a few more courtyards.
Since the structures inside the courtyards are all the same, all we need to do is increase the number of courtyards.
They discussed whether they needed to increase the number of courtyards.
Li Lanzhen thought to herself that she would give Yinhe and her three bodyguards a courtyard, and perhaps someone else would come looking for Yinhu later.
Tiehua and her eleven sisters lived in one courtyard.
Shuisheng and Lingjiao, siblings, live in the same courtyard. In the future, Shuisheng will still get married and have children.
When discussing Master Xu...
Li Lanzhen said.
"I have an idea, what do you guys think?"
I want to build a school in this paradise, oh, I mean an academy.
Please invite Master Xu to be our teacher and teach the children of Peach Blossom Spring.
How are you?
Before Han Shunde and Xue Laohu could speak...
Then came bursts of hearty laughter.
"Haha, this is exactly what I wanted! I am willing to devote my heart and soul to teaching the children of Peach Blossom Spring."
After saying this, regardless of what others thought of him, he bowed to Li Lanzhen.
"Thank you so much, Sister Lanzhen! I'm so happy!!"
You all continue your discussion, I'm going out for a stroll. A stroll indeed!
He left, and everyone burst into laughter.
Li Lanzhen also laughed.
"That's wonderful! I was just about to ask the old master for help."
Li Lanzhen was relieved; education is a very important matter!
"My idea is to build a school, and in the backyard, build a house and courtyard for the teachers and students to live in."
That is, a suite of courtyards.
Han Shunde asked, puzzled, "Isn't there only one teacher now?"
"I believe that Peach Blossom Spring will be reborn."
Upon careful consideration, everyone realized that this was indeed the case; with so many children, having only one teacher would be too tiring.
“Alright, let’s plan ahead. We’ll finish building the school and Master Xu’s house before winter, and then build the other houses and courtyards next spring. What do you all think?” Han Shunde asked everyone.
"OK."
"Can."
"That's fine!"
Han Shunde said, "After we get there, we'll first choose a good location to build the school. Let's discuss how to choose, and which location would be better?"
After discussing it, the group decided to build the school at the very front of the village.
Keep a distance from the village, but not too far.
A hundred meters or so would be fine, so it would echo the village.
After discussing the matter, Han Shunde and the others prepared to leave.
The ten people that Tiehua brought now regard her as their leader and patriarch.
I have to follow her wherever she goes.
In the morning, Li Lanzhen said that the younger girls could go to the fields to help.
But they didn't want to separate, so Li Lanzhen went with them.
Shui Sheng and Han Mingxiang are also going there to build houses.
Water chestnuts followed the apricot and pear blossoms to the fields to plant crops.
As a result, when Xue Nizi and the others delivered breakfast this morning, the amount of food was more than doubled.
Li Lanzhen simply took out the horse and carriage from the space.
One horse-drawn carriage and one oxcart should be enough to deliver the food.
Large wooden barrels filled with food were placed on two carts, and Xue Nizi and Li Sanya drove the carts toward the homestead to the north.
Li Lanzhen also wanted to see how the houses and courtyards in the village were being renovated.
Just one person, walking slowly along the river.
All the children went with us today, to the village's residential land behind the village.
The older children didn't take them with them; the little ones were settled in the fields.
But these little ones were resourceful. From afar, Lei Lanzhen spotted several toddlers holding hands, singing, laughing, and chasing each other as they ran north.
Li Lanzhen didn't disturb them and followed behind them slowly.
I'm just afraid something might happen to them, so I can help them out.
Silver Fox and his three bodyguards started working on the homestead.
Han Yinan and Gou Dan were also here with a group of boys. Their task today was to make mud bricks.
Starting the day after Li Lanzhen left, anyone who had free time would come here to make mud bricks.
Mud bricks are used to build houses, specifically the part above the foundation.
Later, everyone realized that spreading mud bricks was too slow and there wasn't enough time.
At this point, Xue Laohu offered a good solution: rammed earth walls.
A mud wall is actually made by first creating a mold for a rammed earth wall.
The mold is simple: find four or five pieces of wood of similar thickness and length, tie them together in a row, make two sets like this, and then make a frame that can hold the two rows of wood in place.
Next, we can start ramming the earthen walls.
The two rows of wood are securely fixed inside the frame, forming a hollow gap between them.
Then they filled it with loess to a certain height, and then four people lifted the ropes on the four corners of the ramming block and tamped it down one stroke at a time.
They kept tamping down the loess soil, then adding more on top and tamping it down again.
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This process continues until the earthen wall reaches the required height.
Therefore, they can build houses and yards very quickly.
The stones that Li Lanzhen placed here were all used to build the foundation of the house, and then rammed earth walls were built on top of the foundation.
At first, they got stuck on how to combine the earthen walls and the stone foundation, which took up some time.
Later, they came up with a solution: they simply enclosed part of the foundation within the earthen wall.
At the foundation location, dig down one meter into the ground.
They filled the foundation with gravel, then added larger stones, wrapping the earthen wall around the stone foundation, and tamped it up to form a trapezoidal earthen wall that was large underground and slightly narrower at the top.
This solved the problem of the instability of the earthen wall.
Even if the problem of the walls of the house and yard is solved.
However, mud bricks still need to be made. People want to use these mud bricks to repair kang (heated brick beds) or other more elaborate buildings.
So this became both a task and a source of joy for the children.
Dig a hole, pile up the soil, water it, chop up the thatch and reeds, mix them in, and stir well.
Then, let it ferment overnight, and it will be ready to use the next day.
The children used the molds that Li Erhan and his friends had made to make mud bricks.
When Li Lanzhen arrived, she was amazed by the speed at which they built the house and yard!
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