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Chapter Thirteen: Recruiting for the Imperial Army

"Brother, please tell your brothers to do anything. Don't look at their thinness, but you still have the strength to do some work." After the meal, the uncles might think that when the eldest brother came back, they did not welcome the eldest brother's family, but instead had a big meal at the eldest brother's house. So they rush to help the eldest brother's house with some work to make up for it.

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you, let you have a meal with me, there are so many things. If you do this, then don't come to my elder brother in the future." The father said with a dark face.

"Brother, you look down on brothers, right..." The uncles started arguing with their father. The father didn't want to let the uncles work hard, and the uncles thought that the father looked down on them.

"Okay, okay, grandpa, uncles, don't argue, I think this is the case." "Go, boy, what do you know?" "Brother, listen to what my nephew said, don't you look down on his uncles?" This good man can't be regarded as a good man, why did everyone's firepower point to Yang Heng unanimously.

"I think, if the uncles are idle, they can come here every morning to report that there is really a lot of work to do in our family, such as stacking the weeds and trees we cut down, and the roots of the reclaimed land will be cleaned out from the fields. But you can't let the uncles do it in vain. You will definitely not want to give you money. However, these two meals can still be managed every day, so that we will not delay our work. Uncles can also help us with more work. However, uncles, don't dislike my family's poor food."

"Well, okay, if you really want to come, come." When my father heard this, the conditions were good. Seeing that these brothers were as thin as little chickens, it was appropriate to make up for them.

"It's my nephew who understands the truth. Unlike my brother, you can use us but you can't pretend to be useless. What if you don't treat us as brothers?" The uncles were also satisfied. Seeing that such a large forest here was about to be reclaimed, and now that the house was not built, how could there be no work to do? Naturally, they wouldn't think that there would be meat here every day.

Everyone happily accepted Yang Heng's suggestion. "What are you waiting for? Let's start." The father didn't take action, but the uncles were anxious first.

"Don't be anxious, Heng'er, what should we do now? Should we build a house?" The father stopped the uncles from being impatient. Even if he didn't stop, the uncles were very curious at this time. The elder brother was actually asking for the advice of the eldest nephew, what a child knew.

But Yang Heng did have some opinions, and he discussed last night how to build this house, what to burn bricks and cement, but the kang is indispensable. Especially when he found that the quilts covered were filled with some grass as quilts, he became even more determined to build a kang, especially looking at the forest in front of him, once the cultivation was completed, how much firewood could be cut out.

Especially Yang Heng found that his life was better than those of these uncles. They were still wearing single clothes now, and they were very worn. Although they were not wearing any good clothes, they were also double-layer linen clothes. Yang Heng once asked me that when the weather became cold, they could also put a thin layer of kapok between these two layers of linens, so that they could spend the winter. At this time, cotton has not appeared, so there was no quilt like this. Even the rich just covered some animal fur for the winter in winter, or attached a layer of silk outside. It would be nice for the poor to have a quilt wrapped in grass, while some families lie down directly in the haystack. The Yang Heng family covered the quilt made of soft grass filling.

To build a kang, there must be stone slabs and bricks, but under the current conditions, if there are no stone slabs and bricks, you have to rely on yourself and make earthen embryos. Yang Heng was thinking about how to make this earthen embryo mold. With my uncle's skills, it will be much easier to make a few simple wood frames. "Uncle, come, please help me make such a thing."

Yang Heng first arranged for his uncle to make two frames for making earthen embryos. The frame sizes are five thick, twenty wide, and thirty long, and the inner surface should be quite smooth. In this way, after making earthen embryos, the frame can be easily picked up, and the earthen embryos will not deform.

"It's simple, it's done in just half an hour." The uncle agreed happily.

"Grandma, go and fetch water. Three uncles, come with me." Yang Heng led them to an open space outside the yard and asked the uncles to dig soil from this place and pull it into the yard. How to say this soil, these soils are relatively sticky and can be used to make soil and tangerines, but in order to avoid cracks after making them, some sand and soil must be mixed together.

"Heng'er, what work do you arrange for your mother?" I was anxious, why didn't I have any of my own affairs? "Mom, don't worry, you and I will cut some wooden piles." My mother and Yang Heng were responsible for cutting some wooden piles, which required wood from the mouth of the bowl to be thicker or even thicker. Yang Heng planned to cut each piece of wood into one and a half meters long, one end into flat stubble, and the other end into pointed heads. After cutting to a certain amount, burn the surface with a torch, then hammer it into the ground, as a floor pile, and then lay the crosswood on it, and then spread the square square wood on the crosswood, and a completely wooden floor was made.

Yang Heng planned to build a three-bedroom main house first, two and a half of them were made of large wooden floors, and the other half was a kang. The kang was about twenty higher than the floor surface, and the stove pit of the kang was built separately. One was left in the entrance of this basement and one outside the room. This was also for the neatness of the room. In this era, nothing could be violated if you were not careful. If you wanted to build a big house, you had to come up with this bad plan.

The stove pit is not used for cooking, but for putting firewood inside and burning the kang. The kang adopts a circular ventilation method. The final smoke passes through the flue between the partition walls. A chimney is built on the roof. The partition wall also serves as a fire wall, so that it will be very warm in both rooms.

At present, Yang Heng’s plan is like this: to make the place to live first, and if you can use other things temporarily, use them temporarily. The most important thing is to reclaim the fields first. Now Yang Heng thinks about his father and uncle’s affairs the more he thinks something is wrong, but he still can’t figure out what’s wrong.

"Dalang, you started to open up the land so soon, it's not bad." After the father finished carrying water, he was accompanying Yang Heng to select some suitable wood in the forest, his father's cheap uncle came again.
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