The bamboo pieces were carved by Xiao Mu yesterday.
There are numbers from one to twenty engraved on it. Not only does Xiao Mu's writing look beautiful, but his carvings are also sharp and sharp, which cannot be imitated by ordinary people.
"Brother Xiao, my Sidan mother said it would be fine for Sidan to come and work, so I brought him here today!" Sidan's father pulled his son, feeling a little embarrassed.
Si Dan was as old as Xiao Jing. A child with little strength and no skills. Si Dan's father was afraid that the Xiao family would dislike him.
"Si Dan Niang told me yesterday." Xiao Changhe replied: "There is a new Master Zhou in the village, and many children have gone to school. Why don't Si Dan go to school?"
"Why are you studying? He is as stupid as me." Sidan's dad smiled honestly: "In the future, he will just be able to plant the land well. When the farming is off, he will go out to do some odd jobs, save more money and marry his wife early. .”
"Okay," Xiao Changhe said, "I told Sidanniang yesterday to give Sidan 10 cents a day. If he does a good job today, he will be like you tomorrow and will be charged 20 cents!"
"Thank you, Uncle Xiao!" Si Dan thanked him and hurried to work.
At this time, all the second crop of rice in the village had been planted, and there happened to be idle labor. After a while, five more villagers came.
Xiao Changhe divided them into five groups.
The first group was led by Xiao Song and six people, responsible for picking soil and stirring it.
The second group of two people are responsible for cutting grass. Cut the dried straw into small pieces with a guillotine and mix them into the soil to increase the strength of the mud bricks.
The third group of four people is responsible for sweeping out flat areas in the open space, and then pouring the mixed mud into the mold. After the mud bricks are formed, the molds are taken away, and the mud bricks are left in place to dry in the sun. If so, it would take four or five days for the mud bricks to dry.
Of the remaining eight people, three were led by Xiao Mu to dig the foundation according to the drawings.
There are three houses and seven or eight shacks on the drawing. The foundation of the house needs to be dug deeper.
There were five others who were responsible for collecting flat stones from the open space, led by Sidan Daddy, and paving the floor of the shack with stone slabs.
According to Ye Luoxin, rabbits like to dig holes. If they are not covered with stone slabs, it will be difficult to control them if they raise too many in the future.
Therefore, the chicken nests, goose nests, pig nests, and rabbit nests built this time are all paved with stone slabs, which makes them easier to take care of.
Xiao Changhe was a little puzzled, as his second daughter-in-law knew quite a lot.
I can make a thresher, braise meat, and now, I can also raise rabbits.
Simply omnipotent.
I don’t know where I learned these skills from!
With more people and greater strength, they made more than a hundred mud bricks in just half a day.
Taking advantage of her break, Ye Luoxin dried a large pot of water and took it out for everyone to drink. As she was pouring the water, the sound of horse hooves came from the entrance to the village.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked towards the entrance of the village.
Ye Luoxin also straightened up, put her hands on her eyebrows, and looked at the carriage in the distance.
The carriage stopped at the entrance of the village for a while, as if asking for directions. When it started running again, it headed straight for Xiao Changhe's home.
"Uncle Changhe, this carriage seems to be coming to your house?" Sidan's father said.
"Yeah, I think so." The person next to him agreed.
"Who is it this time? It's not the county master again, is it?"
At the thought of this possibility, everyone became nervous and even threw away the guy who was working.
While he was talking, the carriage had already arrived at the door of his house.
"Hey!" The coachman stopped the carriage.
A man in official uniform jumped out of the car and shouted into the courtyard: "Is the Xiao family here?"
"Here!" Ye Luoxin hurriedly greeted him.
"Brother Li, why are you here?" she asked.
The person who came was none other than Li Yamen, the county magistrate's servant.
Li Yamen also laughed when he saw Ye Luoxin. After two contacts, Li Yamen had a very good impression of the Xiao family.
Especially last time, after the case was closed, Ye Luoxin secretly gave him the food boxes that had been knocked apart.
The braised pig's trotters inside taste really good.
"Brothers and sisters of the Xiao family, I have sent the best doctor in the county here under the order of the county magistrate."
As he spoke, he opened the sedan curtain, and sitting inside was an old man with a white beard and a fairy-like manner.
Ye Luoxin saluted the old man and said, "That's great. Mr. Kong's health has not recovered for a long time. I would like to trouble the doctor to check it out."
The old man with a white beard had a serious look on his face, and when he saw Ye Luoxin saluting, he just nodded slightly.
Li Yamen quickly introduced: "This is Dr. Pei Shu Pei. Dr. Pei travels around all the year round. It is rare for him to come to our place. The county magistrate remembers his original promise and asked me to invite Dr. Pei as soon as he met him. Come here."
"That's really a lot of work!" Ye Luoxin said.
There was nothing wrong with what the two people said, but Doctor Pei became unhappy when he heard it.
"Is your county magistrate the only one who can invite me? If I hadn't wanted to come, Liu Mian, even if he kowtowed to me, wouldn't have been able to invite me!" He said with a trembling beard.
"This..." Li Yamen was a little embarrassed, and Ye Luoxin quickly smoothed things over: "Then, the hard-working miracle doctor, go and take a look at Mr. Kong."
Everyone was busy in the yard. Ye Luoxin had nothing to do, so she planned to take others to the academy with her.
Unexpectedly, just as the carriage turned around, another carriage came to meet them.
"Hey, who is this?" Everyone was amazed.
It is really unusual to see two carriages at one time in the village.
The carriage on the opposite side seemed to recognize the county government's carriage and took the initiative to move the horse out of the way. However, Li Yamen's servant here refused to leave and stopped the carriage in the middle of the road.
"What's wrong?" Ye Luoxin asked Li Yamen.
"Across the way is Xu Ji's carriage," Li Yamen said.
The Xu family is a large family in the county. In order to show their status, their carriages hang a small wooden sign with the word "Xu" engraved on it.
Xu Ji, isn't he the same Xu Ji who just lost money a few days ago and owes the Xiao family ten slaps?
Could it be that he was angry at the county government and came to the Xiao family to settle the score?
Li Yamen held a whip in his hand and said in a stern tone to the other side: "Shopkeeper Xu, are you looking here because you are dissatisfied with Master Liu's judgment and want to seek revenge?"
