Chen Xu walked around his house and began to consider the renovation of his house.

According to the progress, the house of Niu Dashi can be equipped with eaves and main beams tomorrow, and then after installing purlins, you can use mud to flatten the walls inside and outside the room. At the same time, you can start to build the earthen kang in the room. After the earthen kang is repaired, the fire will be burned and smoked for two days. If there is no problem, you can cover the roof with thatch, and then the new house will be completed.

The situation in Chen Xu's family is similar, but it is a little more complicated, because his house has been repaired, so he has to remove the walls made of bamboo and then lay bricks. Moreover, living and accommodation are also very troublesome, so he can only temporarily renovate one room at a time.

However, before this, I had to move all the mud bricks that were still placed at the foot of the mountain back. This was another super troublesome task. Each of my three houses was twenty square meters, and it was more than one meter taller than Niu Dashi's house. The amount of bricks needed was more than three times more. When I thought that such a heavy task would fall on my weak shoulders who were less than fifteen years old, Chen Xu's legs and feet began to tremble.

If I had known this, I wouldn’t have built such a big house, otherwise... I would have repaired the earthen kang?

Chen Xu's depressed eyebrows were all tangled together.

"Why are you worried about benefactor?" Yu Wuya followed him and asked in confusion.

Chen Xu said the story about brick, and Yu Wuya's face turned pale, and he waved his hands repeatedly and said, "This matter is difficult to deal with, Wuya is powerless!"

"How about making bean dregs and onion pancakes for you?" Chen Xu seduced.

"I don't want to eat bean dregs cakes recently, so I can stuff my teeth!" Yu Wuya shook his head.

"Spicy tiger jerky?"

“Too hard!”

"Boiled pork ribs in bean peel?"

"Get angry!"

"Fifty-eight degrees Erguotou!"

"I don't want to... well, what is Erguotou?" Yu Wuya's head was stunned for half, because it was a brand new term and seemed to be delicious.

"Erguotou is a peerless fairy wine, which is a hundred times more sweet and mellow than the low-grade fruit wine like Qinghe Brew. If the heaven and earth do not love wine, the wine star will not be in the sky. If the earth does not love wine, the earth should not have wine springs. Since the heaven and earth love wine, they love wine is worthy of the sky. I have heard that the clear and saints are turbid and as virtuous as virtuous. Since the sage has been drunk, why should I seek the gods? This wine is about Erguotou. Although the grape wine is good, it is just clear water. However, this Erguotou is made of the heart of grain. It requires three steaming and three brews to succeed. It is as clear as a spring and has a very mellow fragrance. If you smell it, you will be fascinated by it..."

"My benefactor, you... can you make this Erguotou too?" Before Chen Xu finished speaking, Yu Wuya was already excited and began to sway his whole body. He grabbed Chen Xu's arms and his eyes flashed.

"Of course, it's just that there's no time right now! There are so many bricks to be moved. I'll probably be next year when I repair the house... Well, I'll do it slowly if I have time the next year..." Chen Xu shook his head and said regretfully.

"No... you can't wait until next year, let alone the year after tomorrow. Such a peerless wine must be made this year!" Yu Wuya could not bear Chen Xu's ruling at all.

"But I want to repair the house to avoid the cold winter. There are too many bricks..."

"My benefactor, don't worry, just a few hundred mud bricks, Wuya will be moved in two days!" Yu Wuya lifted up his hem of clothes and stuffed them into his belt, rolled up his sleeves and ran to the foot of the mountain where the mud bricks were placed.

The autumn is clear and the mud bricks have been dry after half a month of drying. In order to prevent being wet by rain, Chen Xu asked the villagers to pile the mud bricks together neatly, just like a city wall, covered with thatch. Among them, Chen Xu's family has the most, with more than 400 pieces, stretching for dozens of meters, and looks spectacular.

Although Yu Wuya was seduced by Chen Xu's Erguotou, when he saw this brick that looked like a city wall, his face couldn't help but shake a few times. He gritted his teeth and lifted up the thatch covered on it, picked up a piece with one hand and walked back.

The two places were two hundred meters apart, so they only moved one trip. There was a slight sweat on Yu Wuya's forehead. The main reason was that the brick was too heavy, with two pieces of more than 200 kilograms, and if it were later, it was fifty kilograms. This was completely pure physical work, which was much more labor-intensive than the brick-moving workers on construction sites in later generations.

Chen Xu took out a hoe and axe from the room and began to design and build the locations of the warm kang inlet, fire outlet, gray outlet, chimney, etc. when the bricks arrive.

Before he knew it, half an hour passed, Chen Xu was humming a little song and doing happy work. With a sound of thump, he turned around and saw Yu Wuya sitting on the ground with sweat all over his body. A mud brick he brought back fell to the ground and broke into pieces.

"My benefactor, I'm afraid Wuya can't drink this Erguotou. It's too tiring. I really can't move it!" Yu Wuya said gasping.

Chen Xu looked at it and found that more than twenty pieces of mud brick had been moved back, but seeing Yu Wuya's appearance, he really couldn't hold on.

Although Chen Xu felt that Yu Wuya was a little tired because this guy could not stop for an hour, but the brick was indeed heavy. He could only move up to five pieces in an hour.

If you move on like this, you will definitely not be able to move it in less than three or five days. Even if you move it, you will probably be exhausted. Although Yu Wuya has practiced martial arts, he can't stand fucking like this, and this guy is still injured.

Chen Xu became distressed, but unfortunately there was no cow at home, otherwise he could get a car, but it was a big thing, and the poor villagers could naturally not afford to lick bran.

Chen Xu thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of something that was once very common in the countryside when he was a child.

A unicycle, also known as a chicken bus, is also called a sheep horn cart in some places. One wheel and a frame are added, and a simple wooden bucket is made on it or a bamboo basket is simply placed. The structure is simple and convenient to use. The frame is relatively easy. Just find a few pieces of wood to make it. The only thing that is not easy to solve is the wheels. If they are not strong enough, they will probably break a few trips, but now you can make one to see the effect.

As the saying goes, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. Once you complete the work, you can greatly facilitate and speed up the efficiency of your work.

So Chen Xu asked Yu Wuya to take a break first, take out his axe and knife, set off the Trojan horse, and found a thick dry wood left after the last time he made a threshing machine. This thick wood was placed under the pergola as a stool, and it seemed that it had not cracked and could be sawed down as a wheel.

I used a copper saw for more than ten minutes and sawed a round rootstock about half a foot thick from it. I slightly trimmed it with an axe to look very round. Then I removed the stone mill, took out the copper shaft and collar, and dug a small hole in the middle of the rootstock according to the size of the collar. After nailing the copper ring in, I inserted it into the copper shaft and tried to turn it. I found that the rotation was still smooth and flexible.

With the wheels, the frame is next, which is a little more complicated, but for Chen Xu, who has made a threshing machine and a more complex rolling machine, the work is not so difficult that it makes him scratch his head. After drawing it with a bamboo stick on the ground for a few minutes, Chen Xu picked up the saw and an axe and chopped it and cut it again. He was busy and soon the sun set. With Chen Xu's production, a car with a strange shape with only one wheel slowly appeared.

"My benefactor, this car only has one wheel, how can I drag the goods?" Yu Wuya read a lot and naturally had a good understanding. However, he had never seen such a car with only one wheel, and he couldn't think of any brainless car that would make such a car. He couldn't even put it in a steady way, so how could he push it?

"Bang bang bang bang~" Chen Xu finally used an axe to insert a few wooden pins into it to fix the wheels and frame, then threw the axe down with a clang and said, "Come on, push it and try it?"

"Me?" Yu Wuya pointed at his nose with a confused look on his face.

"Yes, this is made specifically for you. It is used to carry bricks easily and quickly."

"My husband, don't joke. This car is not stable enough to be released. How can you pick up goods?" Yu Wuya not only thought that Chen Xu underestimated his IQ, but also slightly doubted that Chen Xu's IQ has dropped significantly recently.

"Who said that if you can't put it in a stable manner, you can't pull the goods? There are still two legs that haven't been installed. I just asked you to push them to see if you can control them!" Chen Xu said speechlessly.

Yu Wuya had no choice but to grab the handlebar and push the wheelbarrow up. As a result, before he could take a step, the car tilted to the side. He quickly helped the car up with his arms and then took less than two steps. The wheelbarrow was tilted to the other side. After walking for seven or eight steps, Yu Wuya put the car to the ground and wiped the sweat on his forehead and said, "My bet, it's better to hold it with my hands than I can hold it with my hands. Anyway, I've been resting for two hours today, so I'll move it for another half an hour!"

"You are stupid, I'll push it to you!" Chen Xu rolled his eyes and helped the wheelbarrow up. After walking forward a few steps, he became more skillful. Then Yu Wuya looked at Chen Xu in amazement and ran around the yard with great ease, making various convenient and easy turns.

After pushing back and forth, Chen Xu slowly found the feeling of pushing a wheelbarrow when he was a child, so he became more and more comfortable in control.

According to legend, the wheelbarrow was invented by Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period. The built-in wooden ox and flowing horse that can walk by itself was a wheelbarrow. Later, it was taken out and widely used. Moreover, the wheelbarrow was used for a long time and very common in Chinese history. This kind of cart is convenient and easy to use, not only can carry goods but also people. In ancient times, poor families did not have ox, cart, horse cart, and many men used wheelbarrows to carry their wives back to their parents' homes. It was a must-have item for home travel, and even an escort agency. They also used wheelbarrows to transport goods, because in ancient times, many places could not pass through two-wheeled carts at all. In the New China, when water conservancy facilities were overhauled in the 1950s and 1960s, the scene of tens of thousands of people pushing wheelbarrows together was absolutely spectacular.
Chapter completed!