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Chapter 53 Why did you close the door? (Please read)

Li Qing followed Xu Ye back home with some excitement.

As soon as she entered the yard, her heart started pounding.

With some panic, he quickly closed the gate and was about to bolt it.

"Why did you close the door?" Xu Ye looked at Li Qing in confusion.

"what?"

Ignoring the shocked Li Qing, Xu Ye walked to the concrete location and started mixing it.

"Xiaoqing, move some bricks to the innermost kitchen on the left."

There are three kitchens in this row. After all, the Li family was divided into three households and all lived here.

For safety reasons, the kitchens are all built in the same row.

These kitchens are surrounded by earth walls on all sides and are relatively independent.

If you wrought iron inside, the noise to other rooms will be relatively smaller.

Li Qing then realized that she had misunderstood and hurriedly went to move the bricks with a red face.

After carrying a bucket of concrete to the small kitchen in the corner, Xu Ye began to smash the remaining earthen stove.

Xu Ye still needs to use the chimney of the earthen stove. He chose to build the blacksmith furnace here because he was attracted by the chimney and smoke exhaust outlet.

When he was smashing it, Xu Ye discovered that blue bricks were also used in this earthen stove, and there were quite a few of them.

So he ran to the kitchen in the middle and smashed the earthen stove as well.

I found that the inside was indeed built with blue bricks, including the chimney.

This was a pleasant surprise, as we got about a hundred blue bricks.

He and Li Qing smashed the earthen stove and moved the blue bricks to the innermost room.

Then, Xu Ye began to build the coke oven for blacksmithing.

For this stove, Xu Ye still uses the structure of a rocket stove. After all, this type of stove has strong firepower and does not rely too much on bellows.

When burning charcoal, it is not a big problem to reach a temperature of one thousand degrees.

If a bellows is added, the temperature can be even higher, and the iron can probably be melted directly.

After the structure is built with concrete, it needs to be applied with mud made of yellow mud mixed with wood ash.

This mud is heat-resistant, but cement is not so good.

Near noon, Xu Ye had finished building the iron furnace.

However, after having more than a hundred blue bricks, Xu Ye planned to make a workbench.

This will be his studio from now on, where he can forge and make tools.

At around eleven o'clock, Xu Ye asked Li Qing and Li Qian to cook.

Because Jiang Ruyue knew that Xu Ye was working at home today, she left the pocket watch to him.

So, when Jiang Ruoan and Jiang Ruyue came back, the house could already smell the fragrance of food.

However, after they came back, they did not go to the kitchen, but came to find Xu Ye first.

They were all curious about how Xu Ye's iron furnace was doing and whether he was tired.

"Brother Ye, are you tired?" Jiang Ruoan spoke first.

"It's not tiring, and it's not any heavy work." Xu Ye stopped and looked at the two sisters who walked in.

This kitchen has two small windows, so the light inside is pretty good.

But Xu Ye was not satisfied and planned to open two large windows, hoping that his studio would be bright enough.

"This furnace is really exquisite. It is completely different from the blacksmith furnace in the state-owned ironware service agency." Jiang Ruyue couldn't help but say.

At that time, there were no private blacksmith shops. Everything was collective and state-owned.

The same goes for the blacksmith shop, which is why Xu Ye and Yang Zongming told him that there was no future in blacksmithing.

When people go to buy various ironware, they need a ticket.

That's why Xu Ye built a blacksmith furnace and forged it himself.

As long as you don't sell it, it's not a violation.

Xu Ye agreed with Jiang Ruyue's evaluation.

After all, his aesthetic taste has been influenced by the later generations, so he naturally prefers something more refined and not something so rough and primitive. The influence of later generations' industrial design still has some influence on Xu Ye.

"Same as that rocket stove."

“Is this called design?”

Jiang Ruoan raised her chin proudly. After all, Xu Ye was her man and she was proud of him.

"Well, it's barely acceptable." Xu Ye walked to Jiang Ruoan with a smile and put his arms around her slender waist.

"Let's go wash our faces and have dinner."

After coming back from farm work, my body is covered in sweat and I have to wipe it off.

"After work tonight, you buy tomorrow's work points. I have something for you to do tomorrow." Xu Ye said while washing his face.

"No need to buy it, we can just take a day off tomorrow and I'll do it." Jiang Ruoan said directly.

You don’t need to buy work points to take sick leave, but you can’t just take it casually.

It is easier for women because they have menstrual periods.

If we don't allow them to be invited, the people from the Women's Federation will make a big fuss.

Now the women's captain of their brigade is Yang Hehua, the daughter of Yang Zongming. She is a strong woman and even Fan Dajun is a little afraid of her.

Speaking of Yang Hehua, she is also a miserable person. Her mother died early and her father is disabled.

She married a driver who was one of the eight major members of Shangxi Village, and was once the envy of the women in the village.

After giving birth to a pair of daughters, she seemed to be living a good life, but the man died in a car accident.

Her husband's family thought that she had brought misfortune to her husband, so they sent her back to her parents' home.

Last year, she took over the job of women's team leader. She stood up for many women in the village who were victims of domestic violence. She was respected by the women in the village, but not by the men.

After all, many men in the village think that beating their wives is natural and that Yang Hehua is meddling in other people’s business.

"What about my sister? She's here too?" Xu Ye glanced at Jiang Ruyue.

He knew that women's menstrual periods could affect each other, and then gradually bring them closer.

But it's not absolute.

"I was here this month, two days before hunting." Jiang Ruyue said with a red face.

In this day and age, this kind of thing is still very private.

It is difficult to talk about it even with my husband.

"Then you buy work points. We won't take advantage of the team." Xu Ye said directly.

"Okay." Jiang Ruyue nodded obediently.

They were all very curious about what Xu Ye would arrange for them tomorrow.

"Boom!"

Suddenly there was a thunder in the sky and some raindrops fell.

"Take some time off this afternoon as well. Don't go to work if it rains. It's not good for your health." Xu Ye said simply.

Even when it rains now, we still have to wear straw raincoats and go to work. As long as it is not raining heavily, the production team will organize villagers to go to work.

Because Xu Ye predicted that it would rain in the morning, he asked Li Qing to move the concrete and necessary yellow mud into the hall, and he was not worried about the rain.

After having a peaceful lunch, Jiang Ruoan and Jiang Ruyue waited until the time came to go to the production team to ask for leave and buy work points.

Xu Ye and Li Qing remixed some concrete and prepared to paint the walls in the afternoon.

After a while, Zhang Sanbao also came to help.

He didn't want to go to work because it was raining, so he asked his father to buy work points for him.

After having money in his pocket, Zhang Sanbao's thinking changed a little.

At the same time, I wanted to hold Xu Ye's thighs even tighter.

After all, Xu Ye is not only good at hunting, but also at forging iron and laying bricks.

He wanted to learn from them, as it is always good to have one more skill.

If hunting becomes impossible in the future, we won’t have to go back to digging for food in the soil.

He understood very clearly that farmers would be poor all their lives and only by doing other things would they have the opportunity to earn money.

(End of this chapter)