Chapter 349, Building Houses for the Old Villagers
The entirety of the newly arrived bandits were dumbfounded as they watched Jin Lan and the others happily digging up silt in the river one by one, then using the silt to make brick blanks, and then exchanging the number of brick blanks for bullets.
For ten brick blanks, it was only one bullet.
When they saw this, they didn’t think anything of it, but what was with the happy smiles on Jin Lan and Zhang Yiheng’s faces the moment they got a bullet!
Aren’t you all bandit leaders, why would you be so happy to get a bullet! Have you guys never seen the world!
Seeing this group of people to dig the river wider and wider, originally this riverbed is just a small river diversion after the formation of the river gorge, but now the river is getting wider and wider, see are going to become a big river.
Originally, the displaced people were worried that when the spring floods came, the riverbed would be raised to cause the ditch to break down, and then it would definitely affect the crops.
And now they are not worried at all, the spring flood is not enough to fear ……
In the river, Jin Lan and other people loaded with a pants pocket of bullets, bullets just in their pockets clattering, the new bandits were scared by this bizarre scene: “This group of people are not by the drop …… head.”
After Jin Lan finished his own bit of work at hand, he called the new bandits together and routinely told them what they were going to do, what they could get in exchange for the bricks and mortar, and what long-term plans they all had for the future, for example, they were going to build ten small houses first after the spring floods came, and then in the summer ……
The bandits froze and listened, thinking Is this fucking still a bandit?
Then Jin Lan got to the main event, “Do you know who is in charge of this place, you think it is bad luck for you to be captured, but let me tell you, it is lucky.”
As he spoke, Jin Lan droned on and on, the group of bandits looked at Jin Lan for a while, and then at Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaoguan, their eyes gradually becoming confused.
At this time, there was no need for Ren Xiaosu to do anything, the two of them, Jin Lan and Zhang Yiheng, were able to take care of everything for him, and he and Yang Xiaoguan only needed to reduce the casualties at the beginning.
A set of bandits over, and then over to join the brick-burning army, digging silt during the day to make brick blanks, back discipline at night, life is incomparably fulfilling ……
Spring floods as promised, all can feel the water flow in the river gorge is getting bigger and bigger, and from time to time you can still catch fish, now this fish see people are biting, if not they are not more people, it is really not good to clean up.
More and more firewood was accumulated on the bank for drying, and there were also whole tree trunks broken by the upstream flood, the thin ones were used as firewood, and the thick ones were kept as beams for the future.
The migrants in the settlement also helped them build some temporary houses and two small brick kilns.
The bandits helped the stragglers to dig canals and rivers, and the stragglers returned the favor by doing a little help.
By this time, they were no longer afraid of the bandits, they were like villagers in a small village.
Some of the stragglers found Ren Xiaosu and said, “Big brother, let’s start burning bricks, or else when the first rain falls, some of the brick blanks we made before will be ruined.”
“OK!” Ren Xiaosu agreed, at this time, the brick blanks have already set out a large area, looks like enough to build more than ten houses.
Burning bricks is not a particularly difficult technical work, put the brick blanks to the kiln, the kiln door closed, waiting to add firewood on the line.
In the middle of the water cooling thing naturally have the knowledge of the bandit to do.
Brick divided into red brick and green brick, this silt clay contains iron, firing process completely oxidized to form iron trioxide, is red brick.
If the firing process so that the iron is not fully oxidized, is the green brick.
Ren Xiaosu they built a brick kiln has a kiln roof, impermeable to oxygen, so the burned out are green bricks.
“How many days must this brick be burned?” Ren Xiaosu the bandit who had burned bricks.
“Our kiln is small, and only burns more than 20,000 bricks at a time, it is estimated that it will be burned in about 10 days, but there is a time in the middle when water is added to cool it down, and it will take 2 more days,” the bandit explains, “To build a 20-square-foot house you need nearly 2,000 bricks, and there are enough bricks in this kiln for more than 10 rooms. ”
The bandits were excited to think that they would soon be living in a brick and stone house.
After all, most people here have never lived in a brick house in their lives ah, in the market town, brick and stone houses are status symbols ……
“OK,” Ren Xiaosu said to the stragglers in the settlement, “You guys split up some people to come and keep watch, and when the bricks are burned you can build a few houses for you as well.”
Jin Lan muttered in a low voice, “Why should we burn bricks and build houses for them.”
Ren Xiaosu glanced at him, “Cut the crap.”
Jin Lan drooped his head and ran away, he shouted at his brothers to get more bricks and blanks before the rainy season, now the number of bandits on their side has more than four hundred, work fast!
But just a few days after the work, the sky was cloudy, which gave Jin Lan and Zhang Yiheng a bad heartache: “Hurry up, hurry up, rescue the brick blanks with me, and carry the sun-dried brick blanks to the earth house for me!”
About halfway through the salvage process, a light rain covered the entire wasteland like a fine cotton cloth.
“Bad luck,” Jin Lan said as he hid under the eaves of the house, “It doesn’t come down sooner or later, but only at this time.”
“Captain, can we go inside the house to take shelter from the rain,” a bandit muttered in a low voice.
At this time, the house is piled up with bricks, there is no place for people to land, Jin Lan heard this and glared: “You go in to avoid the rain, where do you put the bricks? These are all the brick blanks that the big guys worked hard to press out, can they be wasted?”
The bandits deflated their mouths, now this is not as good as bricks ah ……
A large group of people are squatting in the rain outside a pile of earth huts, guarding the bricks inside ……
Jin Lan muttered, “Big brother also want to give those stragglers to build a house, also do not know what the figure, our brothers are not enough to live it.”
“What captain, you complain about big brother ah?” Someone whispered.
“I don’t complain,” Jin Lan bristled: “I can see, those two are really different from those big shots in the barriers, those big shots from the bottom of their hearts look down on us, these two aren’t, you’ve seen which consortium of big shots can go down to the ditch to dig silt like us? I am now convinced by these two, just because they are willing to work with us.”
“Then what do you mean, Captain?”
“I just don’t think it’s worth it, why can those stragglers live in a house without pressing a single brick,” Jin Lan said with a curse.
“Brick kilns are built by others,” someone muttered in a low voice.
Jin Lan glared at him, “You’re the one who talks too much.”
However, at this moment, some stragglers came over in the rain, and they shouted at Jin Lan, “Don’t stay here in the rain, go to our house to take shelter, we’ve discussed it on our side, you can go to anyone’s house to take shelter, there’s surely enough space. We also have some hot soup at home, so you can drink some to warm yourselves.”
Jin Lan froze for a moment, and then hurriedly said, “Hey, hey, okay, this is coming!”
A bandit beside him whispered, “Captain, aren’t we still angry because of the building of the house?”
“Who said I was angry?” Jin Lan stretched his neck, “The villagers have been so kind to us, so what’s wrong with building a few houses for them? We have to have the same pattern as Big Brother, you know, a little more atmosphere! When the rain stops, we’ll build houses for the villagers!”