Cute peasant girl loves farming

Chapter 34 Brick Making
Seeing that everyone had no objections, Li Yuanshi was not to mention very happy. Now that the seeds don't need to be watched all the time, she immediately studied burning bricks.

"Xiao Shi, what are you doing? It's been a few days. What did you go to find Xiao Hongyu that day?" Ling Xiao was puzzled, what was this girl doing, and she even went to find Xiao Hongyu.

"I'm studying brick making. I want to build a house." Li Yuanshi looked around without raising her head, and finally saw her grandfather saying that there was a kiln for firing earthen jars in the village. She rushed over happily, um, although it was a little Dilapidated, but still usable. Moreover, this place is actually very convenient. It is very close to my home. It takes less than 10 minutes to walk from my home. It happens to be my own field, so the raw materials for making bricks are ready. With this you can try it out.

"You really want to build that house." Ling Xiao really didn't understand why there were so many things in this girl's mind. He thought he was working on something these days, but he made such a picture when he came out, and it was obvious that he had changed it. a lot of.

"That's right," Li Yuanshi checked the condition of the kiln, well, I have to try it myself first, cement is also convenient to make, and many things can be found.

Ling Xiao had no choice but to follow her. Everyone else went to work on their own. In order to build a house, they all went to find medicinal materials, or went out to find work. Even if Li Yuanshi said that the money was enough, everyone still had to make more money. Seeing this A family, he is actually very happy, such a family is really warm.

In the next few days, Ling Xiao saw that Li Yuanshi was making firewood and digging mud, and asked Li Hoe to make many tools. He followed suit, and finally saw Li Yuanshi making the soil into a square shape. , and then put them in rows. Is this brick making?

Li Yuanshi looked at the fire and did not relax at all. In fact, making bricks is not difficult, but the details are very important. Fortunately, I found books on these things. Originally, the clay used to be dried for half a year, but she knew that the clay did not need to be dried. Yes, because it is in the air-dry time.

Moisten the pure soil with water and knead it repeatedly like kneading dough. Her strength is weak, and there are no cattle in the village. In the end, she had to ask Ling Xiao, a man of force, to make thick mud and refined soil The shape is shaped by blank molding. The soil should be compacted when shaping, and a layer of fine sand should be laid on the place where the bricks are placed to prevent you from sticking.The adobe should be dried in the shade, and do not expose to the sun to cause cracks and deformation of the brick. After the adobe is completely dry (about one to two months), it can be fired in a kiln. The general brick uses coal as fuel, and the density The taller filter bricks are slowly burned with fuel such as wheat straw and pine branches.

After more than ten days of firing, the green body is sintered.If the fire is turned off slowly at this time, the outside air enters the kiln, and what comes out is our common red brick.If you want blue bricks and need to sinter brick adobes at high temperature, you need to seal the air holes on the kiln roof with mud to reduce air entry, so that the temperature in the kiln is conducive to the reduction of brick body components, and the red high-order iron oxides in the body are reduced to blue-gray In order to prevent the low-priced iron in the billet from being oxidized again, the iron drinking water on the top of the kiln sealed with soil has achieved the purpose of cooling until it is completely cooled and then exits the kiln.

Ling Xiao saw that she made a lot of things, so he followed suit, but he also knew that it would be impossible to make a lot of things in a while. Seeing that the sky had already darkened, he thought they should go back, "Xiaoshi, do we want to make more."

"That's it." Li Yuanshi felt that it was time to go back. They probably all came back. She got up and saw her masterpiece and smiled.

"Is this enough? Dry it in the sun?" Ling Xiao really didn't understand these things.

"No, it will be fired after it dries, so we still have a long time to go. I think it will be around this time next year when we really want to build a house." She also needs to make cement boards. She doesn't know about floor tiles, ceramic tiles. These can be fired or not, go back and check.

This adobe is easy to make, the most important thing is actually to fire it, but it is impossible for me and Ling Xiao to get so many, it seems that I still need to find my family, and I am not short of money now, so get these out first, just right now for farm work not busy.

After returning home, Li Yuanshi looked for ways to make cement. Floor tiles and ceramic tiles had to wait until later, and cement boards and cement had to be made together. She wanted to study this by herself after her grandfather and the others knew how to make adobe bricks.

After looking at the production method, what she needs to find most is the raw materials. The raw materials for bricks are best obtained, but the cement and cement boards have to look around or go to other places.

Everyone in the village knew that Li Yuanshi was going to build a special house, and they were very curious. Many idle people saw that they were making bricks, so they came to have a look, and then helped each other. People in the village are like this, helping each other Mutual help, harmony, and the village chief is also very happy. If the girl succeeds, they can build it. He has seen it. The house is very good, and it can accommodate many people. It is spacious and comfortable. Who wouldn't want it.

(End of this chapter)