Chapter 500 501 Success

After noon, Uncle Zhou returned to his house and reported to Li Yuchen: "Madam, after Boss Su bought Zhuangzi, he renovated it. He didn't move away the original furniture. The sandalwood tables and chairs in the main room were still the old man's. He will do it later, and he also introduced hot spring water into the bathroom. Only the bed in the main room needs to be remade."

Li Yu sighed inwardly after hearing this. The complete set of sandalwood tables and chairs plus the hot spring village cost Old Mrs. Zhou less than 6,000 taels of silver. The old man married this old lady to spend money.

"Okay, you can take someone to measure it. The bed will be made like the one in Fengming Village. We can spend some time there to live there for a few days."

Uncle Zhou smiled with a smile on his face, "Hey! Once you go and live there, you will like it."

Li Yu looked at Uncle Zhou's happy expression and thought: I haven't asked him in so many years, how come he and Aunt He are married? The two of them stayed with Xiao Xi in the Zhou family for the rest of their lives, working hard for the Zhou family.

Jixiang came back from Wangjia'ao in the evening, and he and Han San drove a carriage, pulling a dozen baskets of coal and several baskets of clay. The coal stove was also fired. The stove was gray-green, and looked better than in the previous life. thick.

"Madam, is it like this?" Ji Xiang asked.

"Yes, that's it. Take the pebbles and clay to the back garden and find a spacious place to put them."

Ji Xiang and Han San carried coal and clay to the back garden. Li Yu went to the woodshed to find a hoe, a hammer, and a shovel, and went to the back garden.

When all the coal was carried into the back garden, Li Yu said to Ji Xiang, "Crush all the coal into pieces. The finer the better."

Ji Xiang nodded in agreement, and everyone got busy.

Li Yu looked at their busy figures and recalled the scene when his father made briquettes and sold them when he was a child. He only made a few yuan after a tiring day. Later, with the briquette factory, he no longer even had the chance to make those few yuan.

Grandma Chen and Xinghua came to the back garden to look for Li Yu with Yueyue and Xinghua in their arms. The two little villains didn't want to stay in the house when they opened their eyes. They liked to be carried around in the back garden and look at the flowers and plants in the garden. .

Nanny Chen smiled and said to Li Yu: "Madam, the third young master has begun to recognize people. When he opens his eyes, he will look for you everywhere."

Li Yu took Xing'er and kissed him with a smile, "Is Xing'er looking for your mother?"

Xingxing looked at Li Yu with his dark eyes open and pouted. Li Yu also pouted at him, and Xingxing chuckled.

Xinghua looked at Xingxing's smiling face with a look of helplessness, "The third young master is the most recognizable. We teased him several times before he smiled lazily. The second young master loves to laugh the most, poking his lotus joints." Little hands, he’ll giggle.”

Li Yu watched him look up at Little Loach and the others, and said with a smile, "Yeah! Put less sugar in the goat's milk from now on. You see he likes to play with Little Loach and the others."

"Yes! Children rarely play with older children," Xinghua looked at the little loaches who were helping there, "Maizi and the others haven't given them a name yet!"

Li Yu nodded, "Yes! If they want to follow Yang'er in the future, they should wait for your eldest master to give them the title."

The two children wanted to sleep after playing for a while. Grandma Chen and Xinghua took them back to the house.

Half an hour later, Ji Xiang and others pounded several baskets of coal into fine pieces, and Li Yu asked them to sift through the media with a rice sieve.

Pour two baskets of coal and half a basket of clay together and mix well. Make a pile. Dig a hole in the middle. Add water slowly into the hole. Stir the slime over and over until the slime is evenly blended together. It fits well without getting wet or dry in the hand.

Li Yuti carried a briquette machine weighing about ten kilograms. He walked to the reconciled coal slime, grabbed the handle of the briquette machine with both hands and smashed the coal slime twice, then rotated left and right and crushed it several times. Continue to smash, repeat this several times,

When the briquette machine is fully filled, carry the briquette machine to the flat ground next to it, push the iron rod down, and a round briquette will slide to the ground.

Ji Xiang and Han San looked at the briquettes on the ground with wide eyes. Maodou shouted: "Madam, it's like a magic trick."

Jixiang looked eager to try, and walked forward with a smile, "Madam, give me a try."

Li Yu handed it to him. Jixiang recalled Li Yu's actions just now, hit one, pushed it out and scattered. The little loaches laughed, "Uncle Xiang hits a few more, if it doesn't work, it's us."

Jixiang smiled and said, "You little brat, you wait in line."

Li Yu said with a smile: "You have to smash it twice and put the coal machine on the ground and rotate it a few times, so that the coal slime will be filled in and the pushed out briquettes will not spread out."

Ji Xiang nodded and hit it again according to the method Li Yu said. This time the briquettes produced were the right ones.

Seeing that the briquette machine was working well, Li Yu said to Ji Xiang: "When these briquettes are ready, go to the blacksmith and ask him to make a few more."

"Madam, do you want to sell this thing?" Ji Xiang asked.

"Let's make a batch first and send the coal stove and briquettes to each family. The ones we made today will be sent to the drug store first and placed outside. Someone will come to ask."

"Okay, I'll go as soon as I finish typing these."

Li Yu looked at Han San, "You go back and hire a few day laborers in Linxian County to mine coal in the back mountains." When Li Yu said this, he suddenly thought that there should be gas under the deep coal. He couldn't think of a solution for a while, so he had to He ordered, "Hire five short-term workers first to dig shallow coal. If there is a strange smell, take the people and leave as soon as possible. Do you remember?"

"Yes, ma'am, are the coals dug out piled in the village?"

"Pile it on the village first, wait for it to be dug out, and then buy a few oxcarts to bring back, and then use oxcarts to pull them."

Han San agreed and left. Li Yu went back to the house to think for a while and said to Aunt Yang: "Auntie, go to Sihai Bank and ask Chu Qing to come home. I have something to discuss with him."

"Yes, madam." Aunt Chu retreated.

Li Yu leaned on the recliner, thinking about how to solve the gas emission problem in deep coal mines.

After thinking about it for a long time, I suddenly thought that the gas could be discharged by punching the bamboo tube in!

Li Yu hurried to the back garden and said to the little loach: "You and little Stutterba go to Zhuangzi and tell Han San to go to the blacksmith shop to buy an iron drill first, and then go to the bamboo forest to cut some bamboos and open up the holes. For the bamboo joints inside, cut the bamboo pole into a knife edge, use an iron drill to dig a hole deep in the coal mine, insert the bamboo pole into it, and after a while, you can dig deep coal."

Little Loach scratched his head and looked at Li Yu, "Madam, you wrote it on paper, I'm afraid I'll forget it."

After stammering for a moment, Little Loach nodded towards Li Yu, "Madam, I...I remember."

Li Yu smiled and nodded, "Okay, remember, let's go! Come back tomorrow with Han San."

Chu Qing followed Nanny Yang to Zhou's house. Li Yu took him to the back garden, pointed at the coal in the basket, and said to Chu Qing: "Shopkeeper Chu, do you know what this is called?"

Chu Qing picked up a piece and looked at it. Isn't this charcoal? No one has ever used it among the people. How did Mrs. Li know about this thing?