The father and son had not seen each other for a long time. They should have cried and had a heart-to-heart talk.
Unexpectedly, Hou Yi shook his head violently: "Dad, I still have something to do, so let's go first!"
After saying that, he turned around and ran away.
Hou Junji still put his hands in the air and shouted: "Yi'er..."
Hou Yi didn't look back.
Hou Junji looked confused: "My son, has my son suffered a stroke? Why don't you even care about being a father?"
On the other side, Hou Yi had already hurried into Du He's yard and saw Du He and Ma Zhou having barbecue. He could only stand aside and wait.
After a while, Du He turned his head and found that there was another person. He was startled: "Ah, who is this person you are hooking on?"
Hou Yi widened his eyes and said: "County Lord, I am Hou Yi. You just arrived at Anhu Avenue yesterday and asked me to build those two big stone monuments. Have you forgotten?"
"Oh, it turns out to be Mr. Hou. I'm disrespectful. Are you here to report the good news? I said in front of everyone that if you can't handle this, I will beat you to death...even if you are Mr. Hou.
Son, I do what I say, and what I value most is credibility!" Du He said while eating barbecue, and handed one to Hou Yi.
Hou Yi looked at it, but did not dare to take it, and whispered: "County Lord, you gave me two days, and this is only the first day. I encountered some troubles, and I came here to ask the County Lord for advice."
"you say!"
Hou Yi briefly explained the difficulties he encountered.
After hearing this, Du He clapped his hands and said, "You mean, there is currently no way to find something that can fix those big rocks together, right?"
"Exactly, please give me some advice from the county magistrate!"
"This matter is not easy to solve, but it is not impossible. Let me think about it!" Du He touched his chin, fell into deep thought, turned around and returned to the house.
Hou Yi was filled with joy.
Sure enough, it was right to come to the county magistrate.
So, he stood at the door and waited quietly.
Besides, when Du He returned to the house, he kept muttering two words: "Cement...cement..."
Cement is the most common and indispensable item in the architecture of later generations. Everything from a skyscraper with hundreds of floors to a pigsty is inseparable from cement. But in this era, cement does not even have the shadow of its ancestors.
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If this thing can be developed, it will definitely be of epoch-making significance.
Du He lay down at the table and began to think hard.
Strange yet familiar memories came flooding back.
One afternoon, when his roommates were all going out to play ball, Du He stayed alone in the dormitory and inadvertently clicked on a video website. A title caught his eye: How to build a cement house on a desert island.
At that time, Du He scoffed, "You must be crazy. Where did the cement come from on a desert island?"
With a critical attitude, he clicked on the video and discovered that it was a foreign master who actually wanted to make his own cement.
Du He watched with great interest, and many details were deeply engraved in his mind.
He spread out the paper and recorded the details he remembered in detail.
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Half an hour.
One hour.
Two hours passed quickly.
Hou Yi stood motionless at the door, his stomach growling.
Ma Zhou came over and said, "Master Hou, I'm afraid the county magistrate won't be able to come out for a while. Why don't you just have a meal in the county government canteen?"
"No," Hou Yi shook his head, "I want to see the county magistrate as soon as possible. I want to know how he can solve the problems I encountered!"
Another hour passed.
Just when Hou Yi was about to faint, the door suddenly opened.
Du He walked out of the house and stretched.
Hou Yi's body swayed and he almost fell down, but he quickly held on to the pillar next to him to stand firm.
Hou Yi hurriedly said: "The county magistrate must be very hard, it has been almost four hours."
Du He scratched his head: "It's nothing, I took a nap later, probably for three hours!"
Plop.
Hou Yi was so furious that he fainted and fell to the ground.
Du He hurriedly called someone to check and found that Hou Yi had fainted from hunger. It turned out that this guy had been studying hard problems and even forgot to eat. He had been hungry for four hours in the county government office. It was almost getting dark.
I fainted from hunger.
Hou Yi was carried down and fed some food. After a while he woke up, got up from the bed and ran out in a hurry.
"Master Hou, what are you doing?" asked the servants of the county government.
Hou Yi said as he ran: "I want to see the county magistrate!"
When he came to the courtyard where Du He lived, he realized that Du He had gone to Anhu Avenue.
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Anhu Avenue Engineering Headquarters.
Lu Yuan looked at Du He dumbfounded: "Master, what do you mean? You want to create a kind of soil that will harden when exposed to water?"
"Yes, very hard!"
"From soft to hard?"
"Yes, it will harden when exposed to water. It can become as hard as stone."
Lu Yuan was surprised and said: "Master, with all due respect, I have read a lot of books, especially books on construction. I have seen a lot of things that will harden, but they harden when exposed to water.
, and it’s as hard as stone, but I’ve never seen it before!”
Du He said with a smile: "Just because you haven't seen it, it doesn't mean that you haven't. Shengxiao, you will be my deputy. It's best to get the things out tonight. You have a lot of ready-made tools here, which is much more convenient."
"Yes, Master!" Lu Yuan never doubted Du He.
boom.
The door was suddenly knocked open.
Then I saw an unkempt guy barging in.
It was Hou Yi who had just woken up not long ago!
"County Lord, and me, and me... I also want to be your deputy!" Hou Yi said excitedly.
He had a premonition that he was about to participate in something great. If he missed it, he would regret it for the rest of his life.
Du He said worriedly: "Mr. Hou, you are not feeling well, so you should go and rest quickly. Recuperate your energy and go build those two stone tablets tomorrow."
"No, County Lord, King Yao just told me. He said I fainted from hunger. I can hold on... Look!"
With that said, Hou Yi opened a bag under his body.
Du He just wanted to call this guy a stinky gangster, but he saw that there was a pile of big cakes in the pocket.
Hou Yi grabbed one and stuffed it into his mouth: "County Lord, I will always eat cakes and I won't faint from hunger again."
"If that's the case, then just follow me!"
Du He took Lu Yuan and Hou Yi to the laboratory at the Anhu Avenue Engineering Headquarters.
Du He asked people to get limestone, clay, a lot of iron powder, and a lot of gypsum. These were the raw materials he wanted to make cement.
First, people crush the limestone, mix it with clay and a small amount of iron powder according to a certain proportion, and then send it to a stone mill to start grinding. These raw materials need to be ground finely enough.
Due to the need for confidentiality, Du He did not want too many people to participate, so the grinding work was handed over to Lu Yuan and Hou Yi.
The two men pulled the rope of the big iron mill and began to drag the iron mill to rotate.