Chapter 1113

Just like that, the three of them got busy again, digging soil, mixing mud, moving bricks...

After the preparations were done, Wang Dazhu took out the lighter and lit the kindling in one of the cellars.

That's right, Comrade Wang Dazhu also started using a lighter, and it was windproof.

It's just that this windproof lighter in Wang Dazhu's hand was snatched from Wang An's hand; in his words, Wang An was still young, and the enjoyment was still to come, so this windproof lighter became Wang Dazhu's.

There was no other way; for a father to ask for things from his son, it was simply a matter of course, so Wang An found the new lighter that Qiao Xiaohu gave him.

Actually, the reason Wang An snatched the lighter from Qiao Xiaohu's hand at the beginning was to prevent Wang Dazhu from snatching it from himself; the main thing was that Wang An knew too well what hobbies his old father had.

Looking at the chimney of the ground fire dragon starting to smoke, and the kindling in the cellar gradually starting to become charcoal, Wang Dazhu held the trowel in his right hand, turned his head and said to Wang An and Huang Zhong:

"Little An, add mud, Little Zhong, add bricks."

Wang An agreed casually:

"Hey, alright Dad."

Huang Zhong also immediately responded:

"Yeah, Uncle, bricks are coming."

After the mud and bricks were all in place, Wang Dazhu squatted at the cellar entrance and started using mud to lay bricks.

The function of this brick wall was to keep the hot air, smoke, and air inside the burning cellar tightly sealed inside, and then use the ventilation port of the burning cellar to control the concentration of air inside the burning cellar.

The main thing was that the fuel in the burning cellar, like mosquito coils, belonged to the kind of smoldering burning without flames, so the air inside couldn't have too much, but it couldn't be in a state of having none at all.

Anyway, the air in the burning cellar was very thin, which could let the fuel inside keep burning, but it couldn't start flames, constantly emitting smoke and hot air.

Of course, besides this, to prevent the chimney from having too much suction on windy days, or the wind back-flowing into the chimney, causing the fuel in the combustion chamber to accelerate burning, a movable baffle had to be installed separately under the chimney, that is, at the flue, which local people called a chimney board.

It should be said that it wasn't just the flue of the ground fire dragon that had to have a chimney board installed; the flue of the fire kang would also have this thing installed, all with the same function.

As Wang Dazhu completely sealed the cellar door, this burning cellar of the ground fire dragon was completely finished; if there were no accidents, this cellar wouldn't need to be managed until next spring.

Just as Wang Dazhu and the three were lighting the second burning cellar and planning to seal the second cellar door, Huang Li ran out from the house and greeted the three:

"Uncle, Big Brother, Little Brother, time to eat."

Ever since Huang Zhong also stayed at Wang An's house, Huang Li was clearly much happier than before.

I don't know if it was influenced by the family, but Huang Li was simply better to her younger brother Huang Zhong than to herself, as if the whole Huang Baoguo family placed all their hopes on Huang Zhong, the only boy.

Of course, this kind of thing was very common in this era, especially in situations like Huang Zhong's, that is, when there was only one boy in the family.

It's just that when Wang An hesitated to let Huang Zhong move into the new house to live, it was opposed by the sister and brother Huang Li and Huang Zhong at the same time.

The reason was that Huang Zhong living in the old house was quite good, there was no need at all to come to the new house to live.

It should be said that refusing was also good; the main thing was that Wang An himself was a bit difficult.

Because although Huang Zhong grew up small, he was already a solid half-grown boy, and having such a half-grown boy living in the same house, and seeing him every day, this truly had many inconveniences for Mu Xueqing.

After Huang Li finished speaking, Wang An said:

"You guys eat first if you're hungry, Xiaomei and Xiaoli still have to go to school in the afternoon."

After Wang An finished speaking, Wang Dazhu also said:

"The kindling is all lit, we have to seal the door before eating, you guys eat first, we'll be fast too."

After Huang Li finished listening, she ran back and said:

"Then I'll go back and tell my aunt."

Without paying attention to what Huang Li said, Wang Dazhu and the three continued to get busy.

Fortunately, the cellar door wasn't big, and it only took 20 minutes for Wang Dazhu to successfully seal the cellar door with mud and bricks; immediately after, Wang Dazhu looked at his masterpiece and said with a smile:

"Let's go, go back to the house to wash hands and eat."

Wang An flattered with a smile:

"It has to be you, Dad, this cellar door is built so straight, not even a bit of smoke is running away."

Wang Dazhu waved his hand and said a bit smugly:

"That's a must, what work do I not do straight? It's very meticulous, hahahaha..."

Although Wang Dazhu was praising himself, it must be admitted that Comrade Wang Dazhu was indeed quite meticulous; what carpentry work, masonry work, including stonemasonry work, he could do, and the most critical thing was that he could do it quite well.

Sometimes Wang An wondered if the reason he learned everything fast and could do it as soon as he started was because he inherited it from Wang Dazhu.

After Wang Dazhu finished being smug, Wang An cooperated and said:

"Yeah, it has to be my Dad who is capable, my Dad is too capable, hahahaha..."

As they spoke, the three walked toward the house together.

Although Wang Dazhu and Wang An both said to let Liu Guilan and the others eat first, in fact, only the two little girls Wang Xiaomei and Wang Xiaoli ate first because they had to go to school.

And Liu Guilan, Mu Xueqing, and Huang Li, the three of them, only put the bowls and chopsticks on the table, and the dishes and rice weren't served out of the pot.

Seeing Wang Dazhu and the three enter the house, Liu Guilan immediately asked:

"Are those two cellars finished?"

Wang Dazhu said with a face full of happiness:

"Yeah, finished, after finishing this, don't worry about it for the whole winter, hahahaha, this ground fire dragon thing is super labor-saving, in the future, there's no need to even light a stove in the house, it will be super warm."

After all the fuel cellars were tinkered with, Wang Dazhu was clearly very happy; as he spoke, Wang Dazhu squatted down, touched the ground with his hand, and then continued to say with a smile:

"Look, this ground is starting to get hot, in the future, if you forget to burn the kang in winter, sleeping on the ground won't be cold, hahaha, this thing is really good."

Seeing Wang Dazhu squat down, Liu Guilan also bent down and touched the ground, and then said with a face full of surprise:

"It is, this ground is like a kang now, really warm, hehehe..."

Mu Xueqing originally wanted to touch the ground too, but for her to sit on a chair and bend over to touch the ground now, that was truly quite strenuous, so Mu Xueqing got off the chair and squatted down directly.

It has to be said, although Mu Xueqing found it strenuous to bend over, squatting was still okay; after touching the ground, she said with a face full of smiles:

"Yeah, this ground is really warm, almost catching up to the kang."

Hearing the conversation between the adults, and seeing the actions of the adults, the two little girls naturally had to join in the fun; only to see Wang Xiaomei and Wang Xiaoli put down their chopsticks and slid onto the ground.

Immediately after, the two little girls also touched the ground like adults, and then one could see Wang Xiaoli saying while nodding:

"Yeah, not bad, not bad, it's quite warm."

Wang Xiaomei also said like an adult:

"This ground fire dragon is quite good, really quite good."

Wang Dazhu and his wife, Wang An and his wife, and the sister and brother Huang Li were stunned for a moment, and immediately after, they laughed out loud "hahahaha..."

The main thing was that the two little girls didn't know what the ground fire dragon was at all!

(End of chapter)