Early the next morning, the wolf, a dozen warriors, and fifty or sixty men arrived at the ditch.
Everyone got busy with hoes and shovels. Suddenly, a few people behind started shouting and pushing each other. One person punched a buck-toothed man on the head, and another person stepped forward to help. Several people twisted together, and you punched me.
The fight started.
The wolf came forward with a green face, and saw that Ah Hei's head and body were covered with gravel, and shouted: "Stop! Ah Hei, what are you doing?" When the other people saw this, they hurriedly separated them.
Ah Hei pointed at Dahu, "He deliberately threw gravel on me. I told him several times, and he bumped into me on purpose, so I pushed him."
Dahu glared, "You're talking nonsense, I didn't see you there, that's why the sand and gravel fell on you."
The wolf looked at the big tiger and said, "I noticed you yesterday. You carried a sack of dirt and poured it out for a long time without being able to clean it out. The man who worked with you carried two sacks of sackcloth, and then you slowly walked down the ditch.
You're causing trouble for your companions again today, don't you want to do it?"
Dahu hurriedly begged for mercy, "Wolf, please spare me, I will do my best."
Several men who broke up the fight also helped to plead for mercy, "Wolf, please spare him this time!"
The wolf looked at the big tiger and said, "This time I will punish you by not having breakfast this morning! If you dare to do this again next time, the mountains and forests opposite are waiting for you!"
Dahu lowered his head and replied: "Yes!" He turned around and picked up the wooden shovel and started working.
The wolf waved his hand and shouted, "Go to work."
When going back to eat food, the wolf found Yao Xiaoqing and told her what happened in the morning.
Yao Xiaoqing thought for a moment, "You let people stare at this guy named Dahu. This person is not peaceful. You have been leading them for these days. What do you think of them?"
Wolf said: "Most people are still peaceful. The guy named Ah Hei and a few other guys are doing well. A few of them are like Dahu. They are not as obvious as Dahu, and sometimes they come to please me.
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Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Okay, you can wait for a while to make people watch the restless people."
"Yes!" the wolf responded.
Outside the wooden shed, Dahu looked at his companions who were devouring their food, swallowed his saliva, and glared at Ah Hei hatefully.
Ah Hei glanced at him and took a big bite of the Poria bean cake.
After eating the food, Yao Xiaoqing, Mu Feng, and Jiang left them to the star anise forest, while Mu Feng and the others stayed behind to pick the star anise. Yao Xiaoqing carried the bamboo basket on his back and continued to collect herbs.
The market was about to open, so she had to prepare more herbs during this period.
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Time flies and the day comes for the opening of the kiln. Yao Xiaoqing and Ah Chong arrived in front of the kiln early in the morning to prepare for the opening of the kiln.
After removing the clay and adobe bricks that blocked the door of the kiln, they saw that the adobe bricks had also been burned into red bricks, and waves of heat hit their faces. Everyone saw the fired bricks from the entrance of the cave dwelling.
Yao Xiaoqing shouted: "Uncle Chong, let's open the roof of the kiln and wait for the heat to dissipate, then open the kiln again in the afternoon."
"Okay!" Ah Chong and Ah Chun opened the pond on the top of the kiln, pried open the clay, and saw that the bricks laid on top had been fired. They were emitting bursts of heat.
Everyone used shovels to pry out the bricks and dig out the soil covering them, and a wave of heat rushed up.
"It's so hot!" Ah Chong backed away repeatedly, "No wonder Xiaoqing said that the heat can scald the flesh. It's been six or seven days and it's still so hot inside."
Achun smiled and said: "Don't even think about it. There are so many bricks inside, and the fire has been burning for several days. They are all simmered inside. How can it not be hot!"
Yao Xiaoqing looked over and said, "Let's burn it in the small kiln below first, and then come back after it cools down!"
Ah Chun nodded and said: "Ah Chong, I heard from Spear this morning that all the oyster shells and limestone on our riverside are almost gone. In the future, we have to go further to dig oyster shells and find limestone."
Ah Chong smiled and said, "What are you afraid of? There are oyster shells under the gravel by the river. When we have nothing to do in the future, we will slowly dig them back and store them there. We can use them as often as we want."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at the tired and thin people, "Uncle Chong, Uncle Chun, after you have finished this period of work, you should take a good rest."
Several people looked at her and laughed, "Xiaoqing, after the wall is built, the autumn harvest will begin again!"
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Yes! It seems that there is no time to rest this year. When the wheat is harvested, I will prepare delicious food for everyone!"
Ah Chong laughed and said, "Okay! The buns and steamed buns are all delicious!"
Yao Xiaoqing said: "It's soft and sweet, and tastes better than steamed buns."
After hearing this, several people laughed and said: "We still like to eat big meat buns." After several people ate it once, they could not forget the taste of big meat buns and steamed buns.
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Okay, I'll make big meat buns for you." She found a honeycomb in the forest over there in the Bajiao Forest yesterday. It didn't look like a wasp, but a bit like a bee from later generations.
There were many buckets of beeswax hanging on the eucalyptus and locust trees, and there must be a lot of honey in them. She felt that so much honey was left after the black bear was killed, and she wanted to get some honey to make honey cakes.
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She returned to the yard, went to the warehouse to find two pieces of gauze woven by Shan Amu and the others, and two pairs of gloves, and returned home.
I took a needle and thread and sewed four circles of gauze, threaded a string inside, put on a hat, and tightened the string so that the bees couldn't get in.
Jiang Li walked to the entrance of the courtyard and saw Yao Xiaoqing standing there wearing a white gauze hat and looking around.
"Qing Wu, what are you planning to do?"
When Yao Xiaoqing saw Jiang Li, he smiled and took off his gauze hat, "I want to go into the mountain to get honey."
Jiang Li smiled and said, "It's a little late to go now. How about I go with you tomorrow? I drew some drawings and wrote down some random things that came to my mind. I'll show them to you."
"I originally planned to go tomorrow." Yao Xiaoqing paused, "I originally planned to go tomorrow too."
As she spoke, she went into the room and brought out a bamboo chair. Jiang Li unfolded the drawings in his hand.
Yao Xiaoqing saw buildings that were somewhat similar to city walls and courtyards in later generations.
"I drew this based on the city I defended before." Jiang Li pointed to the drawing, "Here are the city gates, turrets, horse faces, barbicans, and arrow towers..."
"Halfway through the painting, I thought about the battles we had with black bears and big witches, and felt that some facilities were of no use here, such as horse paths, urn walls, etc. and could be discarded. We only needed to build city gates, turrets, and piers.
Already."
Yao Xiaoqing asked: "What is a pier?" She had heard of other things, but this one seemed a little strange to her.
Jiang Li thought for a moment, "It is the protruding part built on the outside of the city wall. It is generally long and 10 to 20 feet wide. It protrudes from the outer surface of the wall by 30 to 40 feet. The spacing is...
Within the effective range, it can attack enemies under the city from three sides from top to bottom."
"Actually, the wall you built is already very strong. All you need to do is remodel the courtyard gate and build turrets at every corner."