During the seven-day meeting, the children of the nobles in various cities, including Yuemei, did not participate, and they didn't even know what they said, and the people who participated were very nervous. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition to curiosity, a wonderful feeling called jealousy rose in Yuemei's heart, she felt a little alienated, she was not from Xia Cheng after all, even if she had a strange and wonderful companionship, but after all, she was still close and alienated.

Her daily life is much richer than when she was in Yueyi, and now she has learned the third text, can calculate addition and subtraction vertically, and even learned to ride a horse head-on.

More than a month ago, Jian Chen told her to let her see the city with her eyes, so when she was not studying, she would always sit by the wall with many words written on it, watching the hustle and bustle of Yucheng.

From the time Chen Jian left the island to go to the mine to the seven days after he returned, when Yuemei saw Chen Jian again after more than 20 days, she listened to a hoarse and strange voice like a bird's call.

It was the second morning after the meeting, there was some mist, the whistle for the school class had not yet sounded, and a strange smell completely different from the green smoke of Chai He permeated the island, which was somewhat pungent.

She didn't go to say hello to Jian Chen, but looked at Jian Chen silently, wondering what he was going to do today. The frantically excavated foundations of the past few days have left the originally chaotic island full of holes, and it is said that in the future, these hole-ridden places will be built.

She felt that this was the most important thing on the island, because it would be cold in a few days, but Jian Chen had promised them to let them live in a brick and stone house before winter.

But to her surprise, Chen Jian, who was finally busy, did not immediately direct the people to build the house, but led a few people to the lake, which was the end of the ditches in the city that had no water.

Out of curiosity, Yuemei followed behind, and when she arrived, Jian Chen had already been talking to people for a long time, and she only heard the last few words.

"Near the lake, count sixty steps, and plug it with bricks and stones while there is no water. The 60 steps blocked will be widened. In the future, the boat coming from the lake will first go to the river sixty paces. Plug the area that connects to the lake and release water from it, so that the water level of the river in these sixty paces is as high as the river inside, so that the boat can go directly from the lake to the city. ”

"Don't be in a hurry to do this, I just ask you to prepare the sixty-step lock waterway in advance to block it, and it will be connected to the small river in a while, and it will be difficult to dig in the future if there is water. Now that there is no water, can you 200 people finish it between noon and block the six-pace-wide dry river? ”

Yuemei didn't understand too much, only saw the leader nodding, patting his chest to ensure that it could be blocked after eating at noon, and saw Chen Jian writing a wooden tablet, and the person pressed a handprint.

Then I saw a group of people in the distance resist all the small boats that had been moored in the headland bay to the dry canal river where there was no water at all, and some people began to move bricks into those small boats.

The clay used for bricks is the soil used to dig inland rivers, so brick kilns are everywhere, and they are used nearby, but they are far from the construction area that was planned with lime a few days ago.

At this time, a sharp whistle sounded in the distance, which was to inform these relatives and noble children to have breakfast, Yue Meixin said that she would not eat this meal, but to see what he was going to do, anyway, there was still an hour before going to school.

Jian Chen also didn't seem to notice that Yuemei followed behind, and after finishing his work, he led people to the vicinity of the small river above the city.

"Prepare yourself, dig a pit, and prepare gunpowder. When the blockage is completed at noon, this side is blown open and the river flows into the river. The drainage canal has been repaired underneath, paved with brick and stone, and is two steps above the bottom of the river, which means that the water of the river can be discharged into Onozawa when it is two steps deep. ”

"Tell the people in the supply and marketing department to prepare some manpower to prepare some manpower to block the river downstream of this small river, and once your side explodes, as soon as the water is diverted, immediately go catch fish and pick up mussel snails."

"Part of the fish is put into the big pits below to be raised for easy catch, and the other part is roasted and dried, so I guess there are more than 100,000 catties. The mussel shell and snail shell are dried and kept to make buttons. If you find beads in the mussel shell, you can also keep them, and count them. ”

"Tell the people in the construction department that when the people in the supply and marketing department catch fish, they should not be idle, and transport the stones in the dry river to the inland river and fill the foundation, which are all pebbles, not big or small."

"Downstream, near the lake, there is a lot of mud in the river, and in the future, nitrification ponds and compost ponds will be built there, and those silt can also be used to raise nitrate. The pig farm and the cattle and sheep pens are also nearby, and when they are done here, a ditch is dug into the original river channel to facilitate the diversion of water. ”

Saying this, the black-clothed guards over there kept bringing the wooden tablets written by Chen Jian and what they heard to the people of different workshops, while the remaining black-clothed guards were busy digging pits and burying gunpowder, and a lot of dirt and wood had accumulated near the river, apparently preparing to block the original river after exploding.

After Yuemei heard what Jian Chen said, she joked with the people next to her: "This is called fishing with all your might." ”

After listening to these four words, I felt a little sorry for the fish and shrimp in the lower reaches of the river for no reason, but I was afraid that the smallest fish and shrimp would also die because of the drying up of the river, and I may not have seen winter snow, spring willows, summer cicadas, and autumn geese.

Thinking of this kind of pity for no reason, she couldn't help but feel a little upset in her heart, not because of the pity itself, but because she knew that Jian Chen hated this kind of pity the most, but she couldn't help it.

She stood there for a long time, until the whistle blew for the school hall, and she hurried away.

In the class, the gentleman, who was no older than them, was talking about the third text, talking about the rain in the morning and the sunset in the evening, and by the way, he took out the annotations written by Chen Jian, and talked about some simple things about looking at the clouds and knowing the weather.

When a few clouds in the shape of fish scales were drawn on the black wooden board with white talc, there were suddenly several loud noises outside, and the people in the class were not afraid, they were used to the sound of explosions at every turn, and even some dogs were too lazy to bark.

Yuemei looked at the time, and said in her heart that this group of people was working really fast, why did she say that it was so long in advance?

By the time it was time to eat at noon, the river in Yuemei's eyes, which had no water, was already sparkling, and the turbid water gradually rose, filling the canals that were originally used to dig clay and burn bricks, crisscrossing and connecting the brick-making workshops and construction areas that were originally far away.

In the distance, there was a constant sound of chaos in the lower reaches of the original small river, and I thought that I was catching fish in the receding water over there.

On the murky waters, strange wide-faced boats were sailing on it, loaded with stones from near the river above, and red bricks from near the brick kilns below.

At the intersection of the waterways, a man waving a black and white flag stood there, staring at the water on the other side of the construction area, and when he needed red bricks, he would give priority to dropping the black flag to let the boats full of red bricks pass, and if there were already a lot of red bricks there, let the boats full of stones pass first.

The construction area, where only the foundations had been excavated, was already full of people, and it was busy in an orderly manner, and the three half-man-high brick walls had risen on the foundations that had been filled in yesterday.

In groups of ten, the brick-laying was an obvious Xia Cheng man, for he was better dressed than the other nine. One workshop worker was responsible for delivering bricks upwards, three men were responsible for carrying the red bricks along the river, three were there to make mud, and the other two were carrying yellow mud mixed with lime on clay plates so that the man above could take them.

There were occasional shouts of more water or ash in the mud, but the speed of the masonry was not slow at all, and the whole wall was straight with a long sink leveled like the ink lines on both sides.

A little farther away, a group of people carrying a bunch of triangular wooden shelves are walking towards this side, each wooden shelf seems to look the same, the same height and the same length, and even together there is no difference, the tenon of the bayonet is a little tight and loose, the strict from the old hand loose from the novice.

It's all like a freeze-frame, except for the ever-increasing walls, everything else looks like it's the same after an hour.

Not only Yuemei, but also the young people who were about to go to dinner were stunned, they had never seen this kind of scene before, and this speed shocked them even more.

A few days ago, there had been no progress in the tumult, but on this misty morning it suddenly became orderly, and what was even more terrible was that it was as if you would not bite your tongue when you eat—the foundation was always filled five times faster than the rate at which houses were built, and five was the number of people who built houses at the same time, no more, no less, just the same.

I thought it would take a month to carry bricks, but with the sound of a few gunpowders, it disappeared invisibly, saving the people and time to carry bricks.

Beside Yuemei, Su Tang looked at all this blankly, and muttered: "Dig the earth and burn the bricks, fill the soil pit, transport the bricks and stones, masonry and mud, and the muddy water is close to the ...... What was originally five things became one? Ji Xia was ready to do this from the beginning? Or is it improvised? ”

Yuemei glanced at him and snorted, "Of course, I was going to do this from the beginning." Ji Xia asked us to learn, not just those things in the textbook, these are also what we want to learn. ”

Su Tang sighed, shook his head, and said, "I thought that Ji Xia could only finish building the house we lived in before winter, but I didn't expect to be able to build the houses of many people on the island. I'm glad I came so early, and these muddy damp houses are not in vain. ”

When Yuemei heard such a compliment, she was very happy in her heart, and she smiled and withdrew her gaze and walked to the place where they were eating.

Lunch, as she expected, was a variety of fish. Fried small fish in meat and oil, steamed medium fish with sweet and sour, and raw big fish with mustard. The soup is a mussel soup, and the after-dinner snack is a strange mix of grilled, smashed fish and shrimp minced meat and flour, but it tastes delicious.

She raised her chopsticks and hesitated for a long time, but finally picked up a poor little fish one finger long, stared at the white, small, bulging, round eyes that seemed to be blind, looked at it for a moment, sighed, and filled it into her mouth. (To be continued.) )