Once you become a boy, marry a good man, and become rich together

Chapter 243 White Paint

In the evening, Lin Jingsheng came to pick Jiang Ci up and take her home. As soon as he entered, he smelled the fragrance coming from the courtyard.

Lin Jingsheng went over and touched the top of Jiang Ci's head who was sitting at the kitchen door.

"What's cooking in the kitchen? It smells so good."

"I just taught them how to make pork rib soup. There's still some in the pot. Do you want some?"

"Well."

Jiang Ci scooped half a bowl from the pot and handed it to Lin Jingsheng, "This stew is very delicious. It's been a long time since we had pork ribs soup at home."

After drinking the pork rib soup, they went home without staying for long. It was getting late, and they could go home just in time for dinner.

"How's the construction of the new house going?"

I haven't been there for several days, and Jiang Ci wants to know the progress there.

"The water in the pond in the yard has been changed several times. It is now clear. All that's left is to throw fish fry in it and plant lotus. The house will be able to have its roof completed tomorrow. The pavilion over there will have to wait a few more days, but the corridor has been built."

"In that case, it will be quick, but the decoration inside the house will take some time."

"As Ah Ci mentioned before, we should paint the walls with white paint. The white paint should be made these days."

"Ah! Yes! I had almost forgotten that."

Fortunately, Lin Jingsheng reminded him, otherwise he would not have remembered it during this period of time, and would not have remembered it until it was time to lay the cement floor and plaster the walls, and then he would have to burn the paint, which would have wasted several days.

"The white paint used to paint the walls is slaked lime. Slaked lime is made by violently reacting quicklime with water. Quicklime is made by calcining natural rocks rich in calcium carbonate at high temperatures in a kiln. This kind of rock is also included in the stones that were transported here before, but there are many other rocks that are difficult to distinguish. We need to write a letter to the capital and ask the prince to arrange for his men to send us a batch of limestone stones."

Lin Jingsheng was confused. "Just let Ah Ci arrange it. I don't understand any of this."

"I'm telling you now, and you'll understand in the future. The shells we used before are also rich in calcium carbonate. But if we want to calcine them, we don't have that much here, and we don't know how much we need to burn to get enough."

"Go through the back road later and see what the house looks like now."

"Okay, what tree did you pull over today?"

"Pull back a few truckloads of red maple trees and neem trees."

"It turns out to be these two types of trees. Have the red maple trees been planted?"

"We planted them in two staggered rows at the outermost edge as Ah Ci requested. But we bought saplings, and they don't look very nice now. They will look nicer after a year when they grow bigger and have more branches."

"I know that. It will be nice in a year or two. We have already planted them now. Will they be in the way when we build the fence?"

"It's OK. There are doors where they should be. It's not a problem to carry bricks in. It's more convenient to draw a straight line when building the fence. There's no worry about it being slanted."

"That's good."

A few hundred meters away from the soap factory at the entrance of the village, I saw a group of dogs rushing towards this side from the other side of the village.

Jiang Ci patted Lin Jingsheng's thigh and said to him, "The leader will definitely be our lucky boy."

"That's for sure. They're running so fast, will they bump into us when they get here?"

"This... can't be possible? Can you watch people and cars crash into it?"

After saying this, Jiang Ci was slapped in the face.

Fuzai rushed the fastest, braked suddenly when he got to the front, and then jumped onto the donkey cart.

There were at least seven or eight dogs following behind him. They probably didn't expect Fuzai to brake suddenly, but when they saw that the car in front was about to hit, they slowed down and avoided to the sides of the road.

But there were seven or eight dogs after all. The dog that was originally running wildly in the middle of the road was unable to dodge and bumped into the leg of the donkey that was walking with a clattering sound.

Fortunately, the little black dog reacted quickly, otherwise the donkey would have stepped on its tail.

He whined and ran to the side with his tail between his legs.

Jiang Ci slapped Fuzai on the head, "Why are you running so fast? And you're running so fast with a group of dogs."

When Jiang Ci touched his head, Fuzai’s tail was about to turn into a propeller.

Listening to Jiang Ci's words, Fuzai barked twice at the person next to him.

The dogs over there should all go out for a walk. Some are having fun nearby, while others are running towards the village.

The main road outside the village leads to the land where they built the house. There is a slanting road about 100 to 200 meters away from the soap factory. After the essential oil factory and houses were built some time ago, this road, which was originally a bit bumpy and not very wide, has been widened and paved.

They took this road and walked along this slanted road. Some distance away from their wasteland, the road turned into an east-west road.

They have made the road here wider, so people who usually return to the village from this road can walk more smoothly.

There is an essential oil factory on the south side of the road and their house on the north side, so Jiang Ci plans to open the gate here.

As they got closer, Jiang Ci could see clearly that the two rows of maple trees were neatly arranged in a straight line. No wonder Lin Jingsheng said it would be more convenient to pull the wires when building the wall. These trees must have been planted by pulling the wires and digging holes.

There are houses on both sides of the gate, some distance away from the maple trees. This area is used as servants' rooms and a place to store sundries.

A few rooms were built in the north-south direction a short distance away from the servants' rooms. These were places for guests to stay.

Looking inside, there are still quite a few trees, but they look a bit messy.

You can also see their houses, the dug pond, the small bridge over the pond, and the pavilion and corridor on the side.

It’s almost finished and looks quite finished.

There is a house behind this, but it cannot be seen from this angle.

The house at the back was built for my family. If we ask those people in my family to move in, they won’t want to live here.

Their current house is one of the best in the village, but it is different from their previous house where they can go out and chat with their neighbors.

So Jiang Ci built the house here because he thought that there would be no work to do in winter and the people in the village would stay at home, so the whole family could live here and have a barbecue or hotpot together.

If it snowed, they would sit together in the hall and watch the snow outside the window.

When building the house, Jiang Ci told Ye Wan and Lin Shan about this idea, and they readily agreed.

The carriage stopped at the door. "Would you like to go in and take a look?"

"No, mom should have prepared dinner at home."

"Then go home and eat."