After breakfast the next day, Bai Wei and Tian Dong came over and prepared to say goodbye before heading back to Wanghe Village.
When Cheng Xue saw the two of them coming together, she raised the corner of her mouth and gave some symbolic instructions.
"...In short, Bai Wei has experience. Please discuss with Bai Wei more on the way to Tiandong. This time, if Jia An and Jia Ning are healthy, we will bring them here. But you will teach them personally, especially accounting and settling accounts.
, I’m useful.”
"Yes, ma'am. I accept the order."
After Tiandong finished speaking, he kowtowed with Bai Wei and left the house side by side.
Judging from the back alone, they really match each other very well.
Cheng Xue looked at Bai Shao with a smile and asked pointedly:
"How's it going? Is it okay?"
Bai Shao could not help but nod, and said with joy:
"My slave thinks it's good. She's more cheerful and free-spirited than Sister Baizhu. She's a good match for my brother's stuffy gourd."
"Go and tell Shunxi, you still haven't answered the recent messages."
"yes."
Bai Shao curtsied and went out. Cheng Xue once again took the children to start living in a small house.
Outsiders can't come in, and they don't go out. The cattle and sheep left behind are enough for them to eat for a long time, and the house has all the sauerkraut, radishes, potatoes, etc., which is more than enough if they don't go out for a month.
The mansion behind the government office is in good order, but the top of Mopan Mountain, which is far away, is extremely busy.
Putting aside the iron ore matter for the time being, the blacksmiths dug pits in the village every day. After the rows of houses were evacuated, they dug on the ground, leaving a width of three meters around them. After Wen Tian left, they started digging, and the first two rows of houses were already dug.
After digging, there are still four rows at the back.
They are only responsible for digging the pit, and they have no control over what happens in the pit.
It didn't take long for someone to start carrying thick and large bluestone slabs up the mountain and place them one by one in the house.
It’s not clear what it is used for specifically, but there are so many high-quality bluestones that are definitely not cheap.
The vacant land on the north side of the mountain has a dug foundation, but the house was demolished before it could be built. When the spring thaws, this area will also need to be dug. Everyone knows what exactly they do, which is retting. They are all men from the farm, right?
Retting and farming are no strangers. But such a large-scale digging of pits for retting still baffled the blacksmiths and soldiers.
Just as everyone was talking more and more every day, ox carts arrived one after another at the foot of the mountain.
What was pulled in the car was not a side object, but bird droppings.
It was cold, and the bird droppings had frozen into lumps, so they didn't have much flavor.
The day after the guano arrived, ox carts, donkey carts, and carriages arrived in the mountains one after another. The carts were pulling either cow dung, sheep dung, or horse dung, and donkey dung. When Du Qi and others went to the house to dump their dung,
It was only after collecting livestock manure that we discovered that the surrounding areas and the bottom of the pit were all covered with bluestone slabs.
Not only the blacksmiths didn't understand that such an expensive thing was used to hold excrement, but even the soldiers guarding the mountain were confused.
Soon, people from the government office arrived. Not only did they put bean poles into the manure tank, but they also put a lot of plaster of paris, soybean noodles and other items. Bean poles and plaster of paris are just the same, soybean noodles can fill the stomach.
The food in the stomach was actually put into the manure tank. It was like cold water dripping into a hot oil pan and it suddenly boiled.
While everyone was talking, they felt a little regretful. After all, soybean noodles were too luxurious. However, Du Qi also had some sense and told his companions to just say a few words in private. When they got home, no one should nag anymore.
With his advice, the matter was brought to an end without any hesitation.
The manure tanks in the house are eighty percent full. After they are all melted, the stove will be lit again and again every day. From now until the spring plowing, it can be done in three months. When Li Hui completes his inspection of Beijing Prefecture
All the county towns in the prefecture have returned to Mopan Mountain, and the cesspools have begun to ferment.
You can smell it about ten meters away from the rows of houses, and it's quite offensive to your nose.
"Master Li, please wear this." Tian Mao said as he handed over a few mugwort face towels, "This was sent by Mrs. Li. It has a faint smell of mugwort, so you won't be smoked when you go in."
Li Hui is inspecting the territory this time and will write to Cheng Xue wherever he goes. Even if she doesn't leave home, she knows what is outside and what he has done. It is still necessary to send this thing, otherwise it will always be
Smelling this smell is still harmful to the body.
After taking the face towel and putting it on, the faint scent of mugwort entered my nose. It was light and smelled very good.
"Master Li, please come this way."
Everyone followed Tian Mao into a house and burned it every day for an hour, so the house could not be said to be very hot, but it did not freeze anyone.
The original 80% filthiness in the pit has now completely disappeared. There is a light yellow film on the excrement water above, and occasionally there will be a few bubbles.
Everyone stood on the three-meter width reserved. Whether it was scooping fertilizer or placing a wheelbarrow, the width was just right.
"How often do people from the workshop come?" Li Hui squatted down and asked.
He really didn't mind the smell and had to take a closer look at the color of the fermented manure.
"As for Mr. Li, they come here every seven days and stay here for two days before returning."
Now Tian Mao is in charge of the entire Mopan Mountain and the Blacksmith Village. There is a team of twenty people here, five in the village and fifteen on the mountain. There are two fire-headed troops on the mountain who are responsible for three meals a day for these people.
.The tofu shop in the village has been opened, and the tofu is delivered every day.
They lived in the guard house in the original village. The house was spacious but didn't have many things, so it was just right for living.
"What do the people from the workshop do every time they come over? Do you follow them?"
"We are following them." Tian Mao nodded, "I followed them the whole time because I was afraid of wandering around on the mountain..."
The two of them were chatting animatedly, while the others were in a daze. The key point was that the smell in the room was so strong that even with a face towel, you could still smell it. But the two of them were so excited that no one had any intention of leaving.
Dexi and Yongxi, who had been following, looked at each other and suddenly felt envious of Chengxi and Wenxi. If they had known that they would drive back to report the news, it would have been better than staying here to smell the smell.
Li Heng took the opportunity to practice exhaling, breathing and holding his breath, which was also fun for himself. Yan Yixin listened carefully and slowly moved closer to Li Hui.
"...The people in the factory estimate that if these fertilizers are used properly, thousands of acres of fertile land can be planted. They also say that if the weather is good next year, the fields that have been used with these fertilizers will be able to harvest hundreds of kilograms more grain per acre than the fields that have not been used.
.”
An extra acre can yield hundreds of catties, and a thousand acres can yield more than a thousand catties.
Li Hui naturally understands the benefits of chemical fertilizers, especially in this era without technology and hard work, such fertilizers are the most valuable.
"Okay, let's do this for now. After the spring thaws, we will continue digging in the northern part of the mountain. This place will become a manure-making workshop in the future. It will definitely make money in two years at the latest."
"Okay, okay, I will wait for that day to come. I will arrange a room for you now..."
"No need, let's go back. It's been too long since we've been out, and I miss home."