He carried stones from the back mountain, trip after trip.
All piled up outside the courtyard.
How many stones are needed for a room?
He carries forty or fifty pounds of stones per trip, either two or three stones, occasionally bringing back some rubble.
This kind of task doesn't require others' help.
In fact, as long as everyone doesn't think he's useless to the village, that's enough.
The distance of this route is about the same as what was walked in the Shanxi Village back then.
He just focuses on carrying stones.
'Ban Jiu' has been making soap, and he finds it quite interesting. Just by mixing liquid animal fat with lye extracted from plant ash and stirring, soap can be produced.
But the reaction process is very slow, so he can only keep stirring there.
Perhaps the whole day has to be spent on it.
Ma Lin now considers himself a strong man, having carried stones more than a hundred times in the morning, each trip walking over sixty meters.
