After being replaced, she changed from a miserable daughter-in-law to a lucky wife

Chapter 486 Labor-saving Tools

Xiao Zilin saw that she had taken out a lot of books and was looking for something: "Mom, what are you looking for? I can help you."

Xia Wanniang handed him the book and said, "I'm looking for a way to save effort, so that everyone can lift the bricks more easily and speed up the construction process."

Xiao Zilin can now read simplified Chinese characters with Qingfeng, so he can understand them even without translation: "I'll look for it with you."

Xia Wanniang smiled and nodded, and the two, one big and one small, began to look for tools to save effort.

Chai Song came over at this time: "Madam, the weather is too hot. Master Qing asked me to ask if we can let everyone take a break at noon."

Seeing that he was also sweating, Xia Wanniang said, "Let everyone rest." Then she took out the herbal tea recipe she had written earlier and handed it to him, "Go to North City and buy these herbs. I have written the method of brewing them at the back."

Chai Song looked at the words on the paper and said, "Okay, do we cook it here?"

Xia Wanniang thought for a moment and said, "The elderly people in the village where we live have nothing to do. You can ask them if they are willing to cook it. Give them thirty coins per person per day. When it's cooked, you can arrange for someone to bring it over."

Chai Song nodded: "Okay, I'll go now."

Xiao Zimu, Xiao Zisen, Qingfeng and Banyan all came back. As soon as they came back, they poured the water on the table and drank it in big gulps: "This weather is really too hot."

Xia Wanniang gave them some bayberry juice: "Quench your thirst."

Qingfeng now knows where those strange things come from. Why does it feel so uncomfortable to drink the bayberry juice in his hand?

Seeing that he didn't move, Xia Wanniang threw a book in her hand to him and said, "Master Qing, help me if you have nothing to do."

Qingfeng looked at the book she threw at him, feeling powerless. This was something he had never seen before. He opened his mouth and asked, "How much more do you know that we don't know?"

Xia Wanniang looked up at him in confusion and said, "A lot." She stopped talking and wiped the sweat off the other two children.

Xuanqing and the others stayed outside to sort out the registered roster.

Banyan took a sip of bayberry juice and said, "Mrs. Xiao, who knows your secrets?"

Xia Wanniang blinked her eyes and said, "Apart from my family, you are the only ones who have taken the pills."

Banyan and Qingfeng understood that since they were all in the same boat, the secret could be shared.

Forget it, at least she didn't hide it from them until the end.

Xia Wanniang and a few others looked for labor-saving tools in the room, trying to make everyone feel more relaxed.

The more she turned, the more she discovered the problem: "Master Qing, is the middle of the city wall rammed earth now?"

Qingfeng answered without even looking up: "Well, the outer wall of the city wall here is made of bricks, and the inner part is made of rammed earth. Otherwise, we would have to build the city wall, which would cost a lot of materials."

Xia Wanniang frowned slightly. Ramming earth is not an easy task, and problems will arise over time.

Porphyry looked up at her and frowned: "Madam Xiao, is there any problem?"

Xia Wanniang showed them some pictures of modern city walls she had found, many of which showed what the rammed earth walls would look like after they collapsed. "I want to build them all with bricks, with a height of more than ten meters and a width of six meters."

Porphyry and Qingfeng took a deep breath. The number of bricks needed to build the city wall was huge, not to mention materials such as glutinous rice mortar.

Qingfeng looked at Xia Wanniang: "Are you sure? This material is not a small number, although it is much more reliable than rammed earth."

Xia Wanniang looked at the three children who were flipping through books beside her and said, "We don't just have one generation. This is also for their future."

Qingfeng was silent for a while: "As long as you can provide enough materials, I think building a wall will be faster than ramming the earth."

Xiao Zilin found a tool in a book that could save effort, a hanging basket, which could be used when there was a high wall behind.

They found some usable tools and prepared to have someone make them. These were relatively simple tools but could save a lot of effort.

Now that the sun was setting, it wasn't as hot as it had been at the beginning. Qingfeng and Banyan took the blueprints and went to find the people to make tools, trying to finish it as soon as possible so that they could be more relaxed.

The three children went to find Xuanqing and others and prepared to go home for dinner.

Many tents have been built on this side of the city wall for everyone's living convenience. Several people share one tent, and there are people specifically responsible for preparing food. They can eat whatever they want.