The Big Landlord

Taking advantage of the time when the construction team was laying the foundation, Wang Ben didn't want to be idle, and planned to buy bricks and tiles himself. Last time he built a pig house, he contracted it all out to save trouble. This time he didn't want to do that. Life is rare. How can you understand the fun of building a house several times without experiencing it yourself.

There is no large-scale firing of bricks in Xiaoxing Town, so you have to travel dozens of miles to other towns to buy bricks. Before dawn, Wang Ben went out with seven or eight tractors that he had agreed to. Arrive at the brick factory on the occasion of advent.

A long and rectangular brick kiln with a width of about two acres appeared in front of my eyes. The part exposed to the land was only more than two meters high. Under a tall chimney, there was a huge roof covering it. On the wall made of red bricks, There is an archway into the kiln every few meters. From a distance, it looks like a modern castle where dwarves live.

The brick kiln has not been opened yet, and all the arches are closed. This batch of bricks has been fired and is waiting to cool down. Otherwise, how dare people enter the thousand-degree kiln.

Many people who came to buy bricks had already gathered outside the kiln, much earlier than Wang Ben. Dozens of tractors parked around the kiln. Here, the houses with truss structures are gradually phased out, and houses with brick and tile structures are ushering in. In this era, there are many people who buy bricks. If you come late, you can't buy them at all.

"Start the kiln!"

Someone in the crowd shouted, and several masters walked quickly to the brick kiln wearing gloves and carrying steel drills, and opened the arches one by one. After a burst of heat, all the people who bought bricks, together with the tractor master, rushed into the kiln. .

Following the crowd into the kiln, the inside is an oval design, at least hundreds of thousands of bricks, and many layers are built horizontally and obliquely around the center of the circle, like rows of dominoes, which makes people want to stretch out their hands. overthrow.

The hot air in the kiln was still invading everyone's body. After standing in it for less than a minute, Wang Ben couldn't bear it any longer. Big beads of sweat oozed out from his body, falling to the ground one by one. It is really not a wise move to buy bricks. If it is left in the winter, it is estimated that you will stay inside and don't want to come out.

Regardless of the heat, everyone got busy and began to move bricks to the tractor they had brought. Those with a large number of people lined up to pass them from the kiln to the tractor one by one, while those with few people carried them outside. Crowds come and go, come in and go out, so lively.

After only a few times of hugging, Wang Ben felt bored. The seemingly small red bricks were really hard to hold. Each piece weighed five catties, and the edges and corners were also very hard. It is good to hold five or six pieces at a time. up.

Not only that, but the skin on the knuckles of the fingers is also worn out. It is due to the usual laziness in doing farm work. After returning to the village for a year, the hands are still soft and tender, without any calluses, and they are inexperienced. They should be like tractors. Like a master, prepare a pair of thick thread gloves, so you won't be afraid of being worn out.

"Take this and use it," a kiln master came forward, handed over a pair of pliers for lifting bricks, and said kindly.

It is much easier to have this thing, push the five bricks together, the pliers can just get stuck, and it can be held firmly in the hand, neither feeling tired nor afraid of scratching the hands again.

I worked hard for more than an hour, I don’t know how much sweat flowed, and I ran back and forth no less than a hundred times. The seven or eight tractors I brought were all packed to the brim. These were marked as only one ton of cargo, and they were all packed separately. More than a thousand bricks, the overload is not so serious, but thanks to the help of the tractor masters, it is estimated that half a car is enough to put Wang Ben himself.

These thousands of bricks are far from enough. After paying the money, all the quantities to be purchased will be ordered. In the future, only a tractor will help to drag them back. It is really not that easy to have a new house.

The brick problem was solved, and Wang Ben rushed to the tile kiln without stopping. The place where the tiles are fired is relatively close, and the need is not so urgent. Just make a reservation first.

On the edge of the slope, a large circular pit with a diameter of about three meters and a depth of about six meters is covered with a layer of plastic cloth. Blocks of coal are burning like a large boiler room.

This is the tile kiln. In the kiln, densely packed tile embryos are being fired. Every layer of tile embryos is piled up, and a layer of finely divided coal is sprinkled on it. It seems that the last moment has come, and in a few days, the tens of thousands of tile embryos in the kiln will become pieces of blue tiles, which can be released for sale at that time.

Compared with brick factories, tile kilns are mostly individual in nature, and the scale does not need to be too large, and one or two people can get busy.

The tile kiln master is busy, adding a piece of coal to the stove from time to time, and most of the time is making tiles to prepare for the next kiln tile.

Lift a rake with only one wire, push it smoothly on a square piece of wet mud, and with a bang, a piece of mud that is more than one meter long, more than 20 centimeters wide, and about one centimeter thick is crushed. Formed, very uniform in thickness.

Pick up the mud flakes with both hands, wrap them around a tile-making cylinder, pick up a small flat shovel and dip it in the water basin, swing the flat shovel while turning the cylinder, and paste the mud flakes tightly on the cylinder. superior.

Use a bamboo stick with nails to scrape off the uneven soil on the top, and draw two lines as decorations to add a bit of beauty to the tiles.

The cylinder and the tile tube are lifted into the flat dam, and the middle cylinder is retracted toward the middle, and a tile tube is formed. After drying, it can be photographed into four tile embryos.

The process seems to be quite complicated, but it is done very quickly. Within two minutes, the tile kiln master completed several tile tubes. Wang Ben was very curious, and asked excitedly, "Master, I will make it." How about one?"

Master Wayao gave up his seat very boldly, and handed over the apron in front of him, standing aside and guiding with a smile.

Following his master's example, Wang Ben picked up the wire rake and began to push the soil.

"Wow!"

Instead of forming a sheet of mud, the rake sank into the wet mud, and a pile of mud was completely broken and had to be re-pasted before it could be used.

Well, instead of doing a good job, it brought unnecessary workload to the master.

Fortunately, Master Wayao didn't care about it. After kneading and patting the soil again, he patiently let Wang Ben continue to try.

I managed to push out a decent piece of clay, but I couldn't take it away. The thin thing collapsed in half when I hugged it.

With the continuous help of the tile kiln master, the mud pieces were surrounded by a cylinder, scraped and kneaded for half a day, and it took five or six minutes to finally make a crappy tile cylinder.

Picking up a twig, lightly wrote the word "Wang Ben" on the tile cylinder, rubbed the mud on his fingers, waved his hand and said happily: "Master, when these tiles are burned, put them in a separate place. It's mine."

Regardless of whether it is good or bad, this is made by myself, take it back and treasure it, haha.

After ordering the tiles, there was nothing to do during the building process. We boiled water to disperse smoke, occasionally discussed details, or checked the construction quality. Everything else was left to the construction team.

Bring Xiaolinglong with you, look for snacks on the slopes, pick flowers and leaves, step on the grass by the river, blow the river breeze, build a new house in full swing, and enjoy life.