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Chapter 54 Take the initiative to help

A brick truck stopped on the sun-glazed ground in Chashu Village. Chen Ming jumped out of the cab.

The driver unloaded the bricks on the drying ground and drove away. Chen Ming went back first to drive the macadamia horse mounted on the wooden rack. The wooden rack was specially customized by Chen Ming. It was mounted on the macadamia horse to facilitate loading supplies.

"Doctor Chen, have the bricks been put back? You really only build a cow pen?" Yang Chengwang came over with his grandson.

"Yes. But now not only do you need to build a cattle pen, but also a stable, sheep pen and a pig pen." Chen Ming smiled.

"You can build a bungalow here." Yang Chengwang said.

"I might as well live in my wooden house if I build a bungalow. The brick and tile house may not be as comfortable as mine. The wooden house in my house is made of hardwood. Although it is a little old, it is still very strong." Chen Ming said.

Yang Chengwang agreed very much: "Yes, your wooden house uses good materials. The best wooden house in the village back then was your one. It has been decades since this. Except for the tiles on the roof that have to be picked up every year, the wooden shelves are not loose at all."

As soon as Yang Chengwang and his grandson Yang Mingming came over, they helped Chen Ming put the red bricks on the horse's back and piled them up in a wooden shelf.

"Uncle Yang, you can easily get hurt if you don't wear gloves," said Chen Ming.

Yang Chengwang smiled and said, "Look at what you said, when do people in the countryside have to wear gloves when they work?" Yang Chengwang stretched out his calloused hand, and his hand was really not easy to be stabbed. However, Yang Mingming's hands were very delicate. Children of this age are all the flesh of their families and they are reluctant to let them do any work.

"Mingming, then you go and play. If you work like this, your hands must be blistered." Chen Ming hurriedly said to Yang Mingming.

"I'll go back to get gloves." Yang Mingming ran home quickly.

Yang Mingming had just left, and Ma Qinghan and Ma Yan also came.

"Doctor Chen, you don't even scream. Are you afraid of our wine with your family?" Ma Qinghan said with a smile.

"I only have this horse, and I can't carry much each trip. I'm alone enough." Chen Ming said.

"When will you move so many bricks by yourself? You have to take advantage of the good weather now, move the building materials back early, and then build the house quickly. Otherwise, when it rains, the bricks will be poured thoroughly, but it will not be so easy to move. The bricks are fine, but they will not be damaged even if they are in the rain. If you buy cement back, you will not use them as soon as possible. If you get rain, you will have to waste them all." Ma Yan reminded Chen Ming.

The building materials that Chen Ming bought had no place to put. When he moved home, he could only pile them on the already-tied foundation. Red bricks, river sand, etc. were easy to deal with. When he moved the cement back, he could only cover it with a rain cloth. However, even if it was covered with a rain cloth, the cement could not be stored for a long time. Once the moisture was absorbed, the cement would directly accumulate.

A jujube horse can carry four or five hundred kilograms in one trip, and a brick weighs about two or three kilograms. The wooden rack weighs 10 or 20 kilograms. It can carry up to two hundred bricks in one trip.

Several people cooperated to pass the bricks, and the speed of loading the bricks was several times faster than that of Chen Ming alone. In less than ten minutes, the red bricks were loaded.

Chen Ming slapped the butt of the jujube horse: "Let's go."

The red horse walked towards Chen Ming's house with a heavy wooden rack.

"Hey, in such a short time, this horse will be well maintained by you." Yang Chengwang said in surprise. This red horse was bought by Yang Chengwang and Chen Ming. Yang Chengwang remembers clearly what this horse looked like.

"This horse was mainly because it was too hard to work and often couldn't eat enough. Now I haven't worked for a long time, so I let it eat full every day. It's naturally faster to recover." Chen Ming said.

"Then this 800 yuan is worth it." Yang Chengwang said.

Ma Qinghan was a little disdainful of Yang Chengwang's words: "This is in the hands of Dr. Chen. If someone else gets this horse, it will be useless for a long time to recuperate. The way he just brought it back is really not worth 800 yuan."

Yang Chengwang also agreed: "I said at that time that 800 yuan was not worth it, but Dr. Chen insisted on buying it. Fortunately, this horse can be maintained to this level. This 800 yuan is not a loss."

Several people followed the horse and went to Chen Ming's house. They installed one by one and unloaded the other. They could not be stacked at will, and they had to be stacked into piles. This would not take up space and facilitate the use of the house by hand.

After walking twice, Chen Ming felt it was very troublesome to walk around like this, so he said, "Walking around like this, everyone will suffer from it. Otherwise, keep two people at the same time, pretend and unload them at the same time. In this way, there is no need to go back to the empty road."

Although the road is not very far, walking around is indeed quite troublesome.

"But no one drove this horse, can it be obedient?" Ma Qinghan said with some concern.

"I didn't drive it just now, it knew the way by itself. The old horse knew the way." Chen Ming said.

"That's right. This horse is really smart." Ma Yan was a little surprised.

Ma Qinghan and Yang Chengwang seemed not surprised. They both knew that the Meishan Navy had magic power, and the animals they fed were a bit unusual and natural.

After the division of labor, the loading and unloading process was a little slower, but it was not necessary to run back on both sides, which was much easier than before. The maroon horse has been completing the task successfully. It is not lazy. When it is empty, it always runs all the way, and the time spent on each trip is saved a little more than before.

Chen Ming bought more than 20,000 bricks, which took more than 100 trips. One trip took about twenty minutes. These more than 20,000 bricks took more than 30 hours to rest. It took at least two days to complete. It also had to work from morning to night, and it would take at least fifteen hours a day to move.

If no one helps, Chen Ming would have to carry this cart of bricks for a week.

Yang Chengwang and Ma Qinghan and his son helped Chen Ming for two consecutive days. Chen Ming gave him money, but they refused to accept it.

"Doctor Chen, if we work, we can do it with wine and meat. Don't feel that we owe us. Over the years, you have treated the villagers, and sometimes you don't even charge a medical fee. No one of the villagers has ever received your kindness. If it weren't for you, my family would have been destroyed. If you didn't let us work for you, we would have owe a lot." Ma Qinghan said sincerely.

Yang Chengwang also said: "For you, it may be just a small task, but for us, it is a life-saving grace. The last time I was obviously stuck in my bones, something big happened. My son said that if the children in the city were stuck, if they were not treated in time, they might be in danger of life. So, you obviously have a life-saving grace."

"Uncle Ma, Uncle Yang, then I will thank you for your help. I will definitely ask you for help in building a cowl later. But I will agree first. If you should pay the salary to build a cowl, you still have to pay the salary." Chen Ming said.
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