Before the sun set, all the wool dried in the papermaking workshop had been dried. After packing the wool, Chen Xu found Youjiao Liupo and asked him to help find a few women who could spin.

With wool, you need to spin it into wool first. The wool is soft enough, so there should be no problem in spinning it into wool. The problem is that Chen Xu doesn't, and it is unnecessary. Now he is a Lidian, how can he do such rough work? He is only responsible for commanding. Spinning work should be born with the specialized skills of his compatriots.

Soon Liu Po ​​found five women, probably a few good men in the town. Chen Xu asked them to look at the wool, and after saying the thickness and requirements, they each asked them to get two baskets of wool back to spin the wiping.

Spinning thread is actually very simple. Generally, spindles are used, but in fact they are just a wooden stick, one end thick and the other end thin. First, brush the twine with a bamboo brush into very thin fiber wires, and then twist the spindle with your hands while turning it. Then the fine linen silk will be wrapped into a thin thread. The flexible hand and foot can be spinned dozens of feet in one hour. Chen Xu saw that his mother, Chen Jiang, had spinned the twine wire, and the principle was to rub the thin rope, but it was much faster than rubbing it with your hands.

If there is a spinning wheel, the speed is many times faster. Some people in the town have spinning wheels at home, so it doesn’t matter what spins these women use after returning home. Chen Xu just needs to get the results.

The wool that Zhao Qing brought this time was thick and thin, and only three of them were soft enough to be used to knit sweaters. However, Chen Xu decided to spun into wool no matter the thickness, and if it was not knitted, it could be knitted into blankets. It would be considered as a waste of materials. Otherwise, it would be a pity to lose it. These wools can basically be concluded that they were brought back from a far northwest.

As expected, the women were very diligent in their hands and feet. The next afternoon, they sent the spun wool one after another. The thick wool was thicker and the thinner and softer wool was thinner. Chen Xu opened a few meters and looked at it. The thickness was relatively uniform. Although it was a little rough and monotonous in the color, it was very tough and not easy to break, which completely met the expectations and requirements. So Chen Xu was very happy to give twenty yuan each, and the women went back happily.

Although the size of more than 100 kilograms of yarn is countless times smaller than the original wool, it still contains two large baskets. Chen Xu has already packed up the things he wants to take home, bottles, jars and two large baskets of ores of various colors, as well as a few big wild ginseng and many spices for cooking, a box of crystals, as well as grinding tools, candy, rice, sorghum, wine and grape vinegar, etc., and he hired four horses to carry the goods, and then asked Liu Po ​​to take two hunters to escort them. Then he left Qinghe Town with Yu Wuya and returned to Xiaohe Village.

Now that the busy farming season is over, the school has already had winter vacation, and the children have to go home to help prepare the firewood for winter. The eight children in Xiaohe Village have already gone home to help ten days ago. Moreover, the last batch of wine in the sugar and wine workshop has been brewed and all have been sent to caves for storage. The candy can be continued for a while. However, now the villagers in the villages have basically no time to go up the mountain to pick wild fruits. Under the repeated urging of several pavilions, the construction of warm kangs has been stepped up. Some rooms are too dilapidated to avoid the cold. Chen Xu also asked the village to organize people to help repair the house to ensure that everyone can spend the winter safely.

Chen Xu has done everything he can do. As for what he will look like in the end, he can only look at God's wink.

The pack horses were jingling all the way. Chen Xu had already walked through these twenty-mile mountain roads. Now, even with his eyes closed, he knew clearly where to lift his legs and where to turn.

The autumn is gone, the forests are dyed, and the mountains and fields are filled with red and yellow colors.

The persimmon leaves of the mountain have already fallen, and the branches are covered with red persimmons. Beautiful wild birds are flying among the branches of the forest. On the ridge, monkeys are playing and playing from time to time. Sometimes these monkeys will jump on the road and throw stones and wild fruits at the passing people.

"Bang~" The hunter walking in front knocked the gong hard, and suddenly it was like a hornet's nest in the forest. Hundreds of birds were startled and headed in all directions. The monkeys scattered and fleeing on the mountainside were frightened. Soon the mountains were lonely, and only the sound of horse hooves and sniffing sounds could be heard.

Chen Xu woke up from his thoughts and sighed at the rolling mountains ahead.

The Qin I saw was definitely different from the Qin that later generations learned about by just a few bundles of bamboo and wood bamboo slips. Is it possible for such a large Qin Empire to record just a few bundles of Yunmeng Qin Shops? Is the harsh Qin law that has been criticized by later generations for thousands of years really the reason for his collapse? What exactly does Qin Shihuang look like? Is he a fat man? Is the Qin history recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian? Is it a bit credible...

"Brother~" A tender and familiar shout woke him up from his reverie again. He focused on his mind and realized that he had already walked to his doorstep.

Xing'er was jumping and cheering with excitement on her face, and her mother Chen Jiang was also standing at the door with a gentle face. After a few months of life without worries about food and clothing, some maturity and color that women of this age should have gradually appeared on her body. The misery had long disappeared into happiness and joy.

"Brother Xu, you're finally back!" Chen Xu dismounted and said hello before he could enter the house, Niu Dashi ran over with an anxious look on his face.

"Hey, what's going on on your face?" Chen Xu asked in surprise as he looked at a scratch on Niu Dashi's face.

"When building the house the day before yesterday, the acres fell and almost hit me on the head!" Niu Dashi explained.

"What's going on? The wall fell?" Chen Xu asked nervously.

"No, it's because the acres of the earth bricks are too heavy. The wall is halfway up and it's too high. It's not lifted the acres of the earth bricks and fell off. If my uncle hadn't pulled me, you wouldn't have seen me today!" Niu Dashi said quickly.

Chen Xu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Let's go and see what it is built!"

In fact, Niu Dashi's new house is only thirty meters away from Chen Xu's house, but there is a piece of bamboo in the middle, so the two families can basically not see it. After turning around the bamboo forest, they really saw a one and a half-finished project.

The location of this house was chosen by Chen Xu for Niu Dashi last time. The terrain is relatively high and the foundation is also raised by one foot. The foundation is also made of large pieces of pebbles and the acre bricks are built on it. It is exactly the same as the structure of the acre brick house in rural areas in later generations.

Because the Niu Dashi family's house is designed with a smaller house, each with three houses of about ten square meters, which looks very small, but compared to the small and humid thatched huts before, it is completely different from the bungalows and villas.

Chen Xu came back once when the construction started seven or eight days ago. He had already reserved the place to build the kang. According to Chen Xu's guess, it should have been repaired long ago. Unexpectedly, the walls were not even completed.

There were large mud bricks everywhere on the ground, and several of them were broken and broken. Tian Erzhuang and Tian Bao were handing over bricks and the other was building the wall. It looked very laborious and hard. Niu Tian was helping with the mud.

After saying hello, Chen Xu looked at the inside and out of the room. Because the mud bricks were of regular size, and Chen Xu specifically told him to stack them interlaced and stick them with mud, and the walls should be measured layer by layer with perpendicular lines and straight lines. It looks pretty good now, the walls are very flat, with no signs of tilting or twisting, so there is no need to worry about the danger of collapse halfway through the building.

"Brother Xu, this large model has a mud brick that is 100 pounds. It is extremely difficult to lift it. Even my second cousin can't lift a few pieces and your hands will become weak." Niu Dashi followed behind and said.

"You are stupid, you are stupid. You must lift the hair up, and you won't pull it up with a rope?" Chen Xu said speechlessly.

"But the mud brick is square and there is no hole, so it's impossible to hang it. We tried it with a vine basket, but it turned out that one vine basket broke after two or three times..."

Chen Xu kicked Niu Dashi's butt with a black thread, "Can you not tie it without a hole? You also use a vine basket. Why don't you need a sheet?"

"The sheet...that... is too expensive. A piece of cloth costs twenty yuan..." Niu Dashi said carefully while squirming his mouth.

Chen Xu was completely convinced, put a piece of earthen brick horizontally and said, "Go and get a thicker straw rope!"

"Give it!" Niu Dashi quickly handed over a straw rope with a mixed layer of tangerine peel and millet grass. Chen Xu gestured at the mud bricks, and typed a ∞-shaped rope sleeve at one end of the straw rope, then put both sides of the rope sleeve at both ends of the mud bricks, and tried to lift it up. The rope sleeve was tightened up and tightened it tightly.

"Climb up and try to see if you can lift it up?" Chen Xu said.

"Hey!" Although Niu Dashi was very suspicious that such a simple rope cover could hang the mud bricks, seeing that Chen Xu was so confident, he climbed up the wall nearly two meters high along a bamboo ladder. After Chen Xu threw the rope up, he spitted into his palms and rubbed it a few times before taking a deep breath to lift the rope up. Then he saw the mud bricks hanging under the rope and swaying in the air, with no sign of falling off at all.

After Niu Dashi felt relieved, he exchanged hands and quickly pulled a large piece of mud brick and placed it on the wall.

In fact, this is a very simple method. This seemingly simple rope cover is not just a piece of earth brick, but even more than ten red bricks can be hung together. In fact, the principle is very simple. It depends on friction and the squeeze pressure of the rope cover. As long as the rope is strong and rough enough, hundreds of kilograms of things can be hung. The reason why Niu Dashi and others did not find a method is that in this era, the application scope of bricks was very small, especially in this remote rural area, people use bamboo and mud to repair houses, and they have never seen bricks at all.

After solving Niu Dashi's problem, Chen Xu went home and rode his horse to the village and walked around. One was to say hello to the villagers and say he was back, and the other was to check the construction progress of the earthen kangs in each household.
Chapter completed!