Three Hundred and Forty-Nine, Build Houses for the Villagers

The new bandits were in a daze. They watched Jin Lan and the others happily digging mud in the river, and then used the mud to make adobes, and then exchanged the adobes for bullets.

Ten bricks are only exchanged for one bullet.

When they saw this, they didn't think there was anything wrong, but why did Jin Lan and Zhang Yiheng have happy smiles on their faces the moment they got a bullet!

Aren't you all bandit leaders, why are you so happy to get a bullet! Have you never seen the world?

Watching this group of people digging the river wider and wider, the river bed was just a ditch formed after a small river changed its course, but now the river is getting wider and wider, and it looks like it will become a big river.

Originally, the refugees were worried that when the spring floods came, the canals would burst due to the elevation of the river bed, which would definitely affect the crops.

But now they are not worried at all, the spring floods are nothing to fear...

In the river, Jin Lan and the others were carrying bullets in their trouser pockets, and the bullets were rattling in their pockets. The new bandits were frightened by this strange scene: "Did this group of people be lowered..."

After Jin Lan finished the work at hand, she called the new bandits together, and told them what to do, what they could get in exchange for bricks, and what long-term plans everyone had in the future, for example, they planned to wait for the arrival of the spring flood. Build ten little houses first, and in the summer...

The bandit listened in a daze, wondering if this is still a bandit?

Then Jin Lan talked about the highlight: "Do you know who is in charge of this place? You think it's unlucky for you to be caught, but I tell you, it's luck."

While talking, Jin Lan chattered on and on, the group of bandits looked at Jin Lan for a while, Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaojin for a while, their eyes gradually became confused.

At this time, there is no need for Ren Xiaosu to do anything, Jin Lan and Zhang Yiheng can settle everything for him, and he and Yang Xiaojin only need to take action to reduce casualties at the beginning.

Groups of bandits came over, and then came to join the brick-burning army, digging mud to make bricks during the day, and reciting discipline at night, life is extremely fulfilling...

The spring flood is coming as promised, and everyone can feel the water flow in the ditch is getting bigger and bigger, and fish can be caught from time to time. Now this fish bites everyone. If it weren't for the large number of them, it would be really difficult to deal with.

There are more and more firewood accumulated to dry on the bank, and the entire trunk of the tree that was washed away by the upstream flood,

The thin ones are used as firewood, and the thick ones are kept as beams in the future.

The refugees in the settlement also helped them build some temporary mud houses and two small brick kilns.

The bandits helped the refugees dig canals and river channels, and the refugees reciprocated their little favors.

At this time, the refugees were no longer afraid of the bandits, and they were like villagers in a small village.

A refugee came to Ren Xiaosu and said, "Brother, let's start burning bricks, otherwise when the first rain comes, the bricks we made before will be destroyed."

"Okay!" Ren Xiaosu agreed. At this time, a large area of ​​bricks has been laid out, which seems to be enough to build more than ten houses.

Burning bricks is not a particularly difficult technical job. Just put the bricks in the kiln, close the door of the kiln, and wait for the firewood to be added.

The thing of adding water to cool in the middle is naturally done by the bandit who understands.

Bricks are divided into red bricks and blue bricks. The silt clay contains iron, which is completely oxidized during the firing process to form iron oxide, which is red bricks.

If the iron is not completely oxidized during the firing process, it is a green brick.

The brick kiln that Ren Xiaosu and the others built had a kiln roof that was impermeable to oxygen, so all the bricks that were fired were green bricks.

"How many days will it take to burn the bricks?" Ren Xiaosu, the bandit who had burned the bricks.

"Our kiln is small, and we only burn more than 20,000 bricks at a time. It is estimated that it will be fired in about ten days, but there is a time to add water to cool it, and it will take two more days." A flat house needs nearly 2,000 bricks, and there are more than ten bricks in this kiln."

The bandits were quite excited thinking that it was time for them to live in a masonry house.

After all, most people here have never lived in a brick house in their entire lives. In market towns, brick and stone houses are a status symbol...

"Okay," Ren Xiaosu said to the refugees in the settlement: "You assign some people to come and guard them. When the bricks are ready, I can build a few houses for you."

Jin Lan muttered softly, "Why should we burn bricks and build houses for them?"

Ren Xiaosu cast him a glance: "Stop talking nonsense."

Jin Lan ran away with his head drooping. He told his brothers to get more bricks before the rainy season came. Now there are more than 400 bandits on their side, work fast!

But within a few days of working, the sky became overcast, and Jin Lan and Zhang Yiheng felt very distressed: "Hurry up, rescue the adobes with me, and carry all the dried adobes to the earthen house!"

About halfway through the rescue, the drizzle covered the entire wasteland like a fine cotton cloth.

"Unlucky," Jin Lan said while hiding under the eaves, "it doesn't come sooner or later, but this is the time."

"Captain, can we go inside to shelter from the rain," one of the bandits whispered.

At this time, the house is full of bricks, and there is no place for anyone to stay. Jin Lan stared at this and said, "You went in to shelter from the rain, where do you put the bricks?! These are the hard work of the big guys." Can the bricks be wasted?"

The bandits pursed their mouths, now they are not as good as bricks...

A large group of people, squatting outside a pile of mud houses to soak in the rain, guarding the bricks inside...

Jin Lan muttered, "Brother still needs to build houses for those refugees, but I don't know what to do. Our brothers don't have enough to live in."

"What's up, Captain, are you blaming Big Brother?" someone whispered.

"I'm not complaining," Jin Lan pouted, "I can see that those two are indeed different from those big shots in the fortress. Those big shots look down on us from the bottom of their hearts. These two are not. Which consortium big shots have you met? Can you dig mud in the river ditches like us? Now I am convinced of these two people from the bottom of my heart, so I want them to work with us."

"What do you mean, Captain?"

"I just don't think it's worth it, why those refugees can live in houses without pressing a single brick," Jin Lan said cursingly.

"The brick kiln was built by others," someone whispered.

Jin Lan glared at him: "You are the only one who talks too much."

However, at this time, many refugees came over in the rain, and they shouted at Jin Lan: "Don't get caught in the rain here, go to our house to avoid the rain, we have discussed it over there, which house do you want to go to?" You can take shelter from the rain, there must be enough space. There is still some hot soup at home, you can drink some to warm your body."

Jin Lan was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly said: "Hey, well, here we come!"

A bandit beside him whispered, "Captain, aren't we still angry about building a house?"

"Who says I'm angry?" Jin Lan poked her neck: "The villagers are so kind to us, what's wrong with building a few houses for them? We have to have a structure like the big brother, you know, be more atmospheric! The rain stopped for the villagers Build a house!"