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

Chapter 235 Checking the Cement Road

I drank milk tea today, and the next day Jiangci made several flavors of fruit tea.

A lot of fresh dishes have been prepared in the past few days, and Lin Jing'an and Lin Jingxuan have eaten their fill at every meal.

They had just finished lunch and were lying on chairs in the yard, with fruit tea on the table, lazily basking in the sun.

Lin Jingxuan rubbed her full stomach and said, "It's so delicious!"

Lin Jingan sighed and said, "I must have gained several pounds in the past few days."

Several days have passed, and the cement factory over there has produced a lot of cement.

Just then, the person who came to their door knocked on the open door a few times.

Jiang Ci looked in the direction of the voice and said, "It's Xiao He."

"Hello, sir. Have you had lunch? Do you want to transport the cement over there?"

"Oh, bring it here. Use bamboo baskets to carry it. Bring seven baskets here first."

"Well."

Lin Jingsheng stood up and said, "I'll lead the donkey cart over there."

Lin Jingan asked doubtfully, "Where is the ground to be laid?"

"Kitchen, study, and living room, pave these three places with cement first."

"Then I'll clean up everything inside."

Jiang Ci went to the kitchen to wash the dishes. Lin Jing'an and Lin Jingxuan first went to the main room to move out the tables, cabinets and other things.

They had so many people and were not under any deadline, so they did not look for anyone else.

Seven baskets of cement were pulled over in a donkey cart. When Jiang Ci entered the door, he could see that the donkey was having some difficulty pulling the cart.

Lin Jingsheng pulled the donkey cart over there and brought over the sand he needed.

Lin Jingsheng saw Lin Jing'an in the main room shoveling the top layer of soil with a shovel, so he started mixing cement.

It was still at the place where the cement was moved last time, and there were still traces of dried cement on the ground.

First pour out half of the cement and sand, which is more than enough for paving the floor of a main room. Then add cement and sand when paving the study and kitchen.

There was no cement mixer, so everything had to be done manually. The cement and sand used were much more than when paving the water room. Lin Jingsheng mixed the cement with water, while Lin Jingan had already compacted the soil in the main hall.

Lin Jingsheng and Lin Jingan carried the mixed cement to the main room one batch at a time.

When the cement was almost spread out, Lin Jingsheng was leveling it alone while the three of them started to clean up the things in the study.

After working for an entire afternoon, I finally paved the floors of the three rooms.

Several people were busy and exhausted, especially Lin Jingsheng, whose clothes were still stuck with hardened cement.

Before moving things in the kitchen, Jiang Ci heated up some buns that she had made two days ago in a pot.

Now they washed their hands and faces, took a wet rag, wiped the dust off their bodies, and came to eat.

The milk tea was delivered as quickly as possible. When Wen Yuting received it, the water that had melted into ice had been filtered out at the Sifangyuan. Now when he opened the rag wrapped around it, there were still some ice chips left.

Wen Yuting murmured to himself, "What good stuff was sent over this time?"

Wen Yuting didn't rush to open the pottery jar to read it, but sat on the bench next to it and opened the letter.

From the content of the letter Jiang Ci wrote to him, he learned that the pottery jar contained milk tea.

"Milk tea" was another word he had never heard of.

Yuan Qi noticed Wen Yuting's gaze on the pottery jar, "Master, do you want to open it?"

"Well, let's clean up the things next to it."

Yuan Qi took out the linen wrapping and the remaining ice chips inside, took out the towel, and wiped the outside of the pottery jar and the water stains on the table.

Then untie the hemp rope used to secure the pottery jar.

Wen Yuting opened the lid and saw the full view of the milk tea. A mellow fragrance wafted out of the clay pot and into his nose.

He moved closer and sniffed it, confirming that it was the mellow mixed milk aroma that Jiang Ci had described, and it had not gone bad.

Yuan Qi had already brought the cup and picked up the pottery jar and poured most of it into the cup.

Wen Yuting picked it up and tasted it. It tasted delicious, a taste he had never experienced before. It was mellow with a hint of milk, but he couldn't tell whether it was goat's milk or cow's milk.

"Yuan Qi, you try it too."

"it is good."

Yuan Qi took a sip of the cool milk tea and his eyes lit up. It was really delicious. "It's delicious."

There was a knock on the door, and then Ji Chen's voice came, "Ting'er, I'm going in."

"In."

Then Ji Chen pushed the door open and walked in. He saw the pottery jar on the table and the cup in front of Wen Yuting, and asked curiously, "What's in it?"

"The milk tea that Brother Ci asked someone to send over."

"milk tea?"

Wen Yuting handed the cup that Yuan Qi had just poured to Ji Chen, "Try it."

Later, they followed what Jiang Ci said in the letter and added some mashed fruit juice and fruit pieces to taste it.

The taste is exceptionally good.

Jiangci used cement to pave the floors of three rooms, and cement was also being burned in full swing in a farm north of the capital.

A gorgeous carriage arrived at the door of the manor.

The curtain of the carriage was opened, revealing a handsome young man with gorgeous features.

Another head came closer to him, very close to his face.

Leng Xuanqing, who was sitting opposite, knocked on the wall of the carriage next to him with the fan on the box in his hand.

He deliberately spoke out loud, "Walk a little further inside before you can see the road being repaired."

"understood."

Ji Chen held Wen Yu in this position and listened.

It was simply unbearable to watch. Leng Xuanqing also lifted the curtain on this side and looked outside. Those two people were so affectionate that it was unbearable to watch. If he had known earlier, he would not have ridden in the same carriage with them.

The carriage drove for another half a quarter of an hour, and a winding gray road appeared in the distance.

"There's a cement road ahead."

After a while, the carriage reached the cement road. The road surface was very flat and more stable than a sedan chair.

Not only were the people sitting in the carriage surprised, but even the coachman driving the carriage outside and the attendants riding horses behind were looking at the flat gray road with surprise.

Halfway through the journey, Ji Chen waved to the driver to stop the carriage, and they got off to look at the cement road.

The manager who got the news also came to them.

Before the steward knelt down, the prince asked him to stand up, "No need to be so polite."

It was the first time for the three of them to see a concrete floor, and they all knew its importance, so they squatted on the ground and observed the concrete floor without any airs.

"This land was built strictly according to Master Wan's requirements. We dare not be careless in the slightest."

"Let someone open this side and take a look."

Wen Yunting was pointing at the soil next to the cement road. When the cement road was built, it should have been built directly on the compacted land. It was a little higher than the land next to it, but a part of it was still buried under the soil.

"okay!"

The one who was standing next to him, the two of them immediately ran back to get a shovel.

After a while, the soil at the place where Wen Yuting pointed out was dug away, making a very deep pit, revealing the entire cross-section of the cement road.

At the bottom is an earthen roadbed that is different from the soil next to it. You can see that it has been heavily compacted. It is more than a foot thick, or at least more than a foot thick.

Then there is the gravel cushion layer on top, which is a compacted layer of gravel, gravel residue, sand and some soil mixed together, and it is more than one foot thick.

Further up is the cement mortar. Although it is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, there is a layer of dry and hard cement cushion on top of the cement mortar.

The entire cross-section looks very thick. The method of building the road is based on the method given by Jiang Ci to build official roads between various prefectures.

If Jiang Ci's village were to build a cement road, they would not make it so thick because it is not needed at all and it would just be a waste of raw materials.

Wen Yuting was very satisfied with the cross-section of the road.

This was the first road to be built, and it attracted the attention of these three great men.

Moreover, the people who made cement and paved the road were the prince's trusted aides, so you can be 100% assured that there will be no cutting of corners.

However, if we build roads in various places in the future, we can’t just check like this…

Jiang Ci did not tell them about some modern cases of cutting corners, hoping that they would think about the situation in the future where someone tampered with the cross-sections on both sides of the road and in the middle of the road.

"How is it? Are you satisfied?" The speaker was a young man with a handsome and tough appearance and dressed in tight clothes.

Prince Shuai answered first, "Satisfied!"

He also patted Wanrong on the shoulder twice.

There is a large iron mine at the border between the capital and the northern provincial capital. The iron mine was discovered several decades ago. The iron slag and mined gravel are all transported to this village. What's more coincidental is that some of the iron mines there have been mined for a long time and still need to be calcined. Some of the trees next to the iron mines have been cut down, forming a natural sand field, so there is even sand.

They went to the cement kiln together to take a look.

This kiln was enlarged and covered in proportion to the drawings given by Jiangci, and the raw materials used are also better. The two here are this size. If you walk further forward, you can see a kiln that is one size larger than this one. This was enlarged and covered after this kiln was tested and was 100% sure it could burn cement. There are quite a few kilns here, and the amount of cement produced is also considerable.

A large shed has been built to store the baked cement.

The prince said to Wan Rong beside him, "The scale of the cement factory here is already complete. You hand it over to Hong Yang, and take some people to the iron mine in Jizhou and find a place to build a cement factory next to it."

"Yes."

Leng Xuanqing handed over almost all the cement matters to Wan Rong, his confidant and person of great trust. However, it was impossible for the cement factory to be built in only one place. Hong Yang was Wan Rong's assistant. After Wan Rong left, the matter would be handed over to Hong Yang. He knew this from the beginning.