Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 458 Capping the roof and building the kiln

Chapter 450: Capping the roof and building the kiln
Li Junge said: "Towa needs water to escape, so the inner layer needs to be painted with waterproof paint. You can do this next. I will fill the foundation hole."

After tamping the pillars, Li Junge opened four more bamboo troughs, boiled the carbon powder resin, and took over A Yin's work, and A Yin continued to collect resin.

It took five baskets of resin and a large basket of toner to finish painting the inner layer of the drain tile.

A Yin put the bamboo tiles on the roof, and Li Junge started to build the tiles again.

The difference between the tiles and the tiles is that the tiles are cut off from the joints, and the top bamboo section is left unplaned. When it is built between the two tiles, the partition is just hung on the top of the tiles. , steady and steady.

After covering all the bamboo tiles, the two looked up in the shed, and A Yin said, "This shed is really beautiful, what about the seam on the top?"

Li Junge said: "It's simple, paste it with yellow mud, and when it dries, cover the grass roof to prevent the yellow mud from being drenched in water, and everything will be fine. It is more than ten times labor-saving than using all grass."

Ayin hugged Li Junge's neck excitedly and kissed him: "Erpi, you are really amazing!"

Li Junge put his arms around her waist and said: "You are not bad, then we will collect firewood, cut bamboo, harvest reeds every day, and bring in all kinds of things. Come on, that's it for today, let's have a picnic by the lake! Here, your little gift."

A Yin asked: "You also made me a small gift?"

Li Junge handed her the net bag with hemp rope tied at both ends, and said, "I just didn't know how long the rope should be, so I didn't cut it off."

A Yin said: "Grandpa said to wear the back pocket to reach the elbow, which is good for strength and accuracy."

Li Junge adjusted the sling, handed it to her and said, "Village Chief Ayin, the life of the villager Li Junge is in your hands. You want to protect and love him for the rest of your life. Can you do that?"

These words are a bit like wedding vows, Ah Yin blushed and gave him a blank look: "You're messing around again!"

Picking up a stone half the size of a fist and putting it in the net bag, putting the noose on the index finger, and holding the other end of the rope, Ah Yin turned the sling twice, and when he let go, the pebble flew out with a whoosh , rubbed against a tree trunk more than ten meters away, and sank into the woods.

"Ah, it's crooked! It's not right!" Ayin said angrily.

Li Junge murmured in his heart: "This skill is good. The accuracy of the new tool will be there just after you get started. After two more days of practice, you will be able to walk sideways on the island..."

The two of them came to the lake with buckets, basins, bamboo troughs, and kindling. A Yin started to light the fire, and Li Junge went to carry the fish cage.

There was another big catfish and two small catfish in the empty fish cage on the third floor yesterday.

Li Junge said to A Yin: "It's a bit crowded. I have to make a few fish cages when I go back tonight. A Yin, do you want to eat small fish? There are a lot of small fish in the two cages. If you don't want them, I will Just let it go."

Ayin thought for a while and said: "Why don't we make dried fish? Now there is a shed. If it rains, we will work in the shed and eat dried fish."

Li Junge made sense after thinking about it. He poured all the small fish in the two cages into the bucket, and then caught a catfish weighing more than a catty and came out to clean it up.

After the catfish were cleaned up, Ayin also gathered the spices and began to cook the fish soup in a bamboo tank.

Li Junge continued to clean up the little fish.

Use a sharp bamboo knife made of dried bamboo to enter the fish’s breasts, cut open, scrape off the viscera, gills and scales, don’t throw away the fish bubbles, put them on a lotus leaf, this thing is the same as the catfish’s fish bubbles, and should be collected
Li Junge was so quick to do this job. After a while, all the small fish were transferred from one bucket to another.

The well water was fetched with a washbasin, the small fish were washed clean, and the fish soup was cooked, and the two began to eat dinner.

After eating the fish, Li Junge went to chop another piece of bamboo, sawed off a bamboo tube and gave Ayin a drink of fish soup, and then went down to the well to wash away the last bit of mud and sand scattered at the bottom of the well, and washed the river beach with the well water .

After finishing everything, the bamboo is surrounded into a square circle the size of a wellhead, and stones are moved to press the surroundings tightly.The well is officially complete.

Back at the camp, the two found a large stone slab, heated it up, spread lemongrass on it, and spread the small fish on it to roast.

Then Li Junge started to process the hardwood from Ayinfa.

For thicker hardwoods, while the wood is still alive, use a saw to slit from the top, and then use a wedge and a mallet to split it in half. Don't worry about the thinner ones.

A Yin started to build a new firepit in the shed.

Li Junge started to pack the dried bamboo, firewood, and reeds on the open space.

Putting a few logs on the side of the fire to roast, Li Junge and A Yin began to weave at night.

Ayin was smart, learned quickly, and his hands began to become more dexterous. The two talked and laughed, and soon weaved baskets, dustpans, dustpans, and sieves.

At the end of the day's work, Li Junge finally made a bottomless frame with bamboo shreds, put it on the slate for grilling fish, put a thick layer of cattails on the bottom, half-dried fish in the middle, and cattails on top. The coals were warming up, and then the two of them went to sleep.

In the program that night, Bell commented: "Today, the Chinese team's operation is very impressive! The cooperation between Ingris and Jungle is so perfect, they actually built a bamboo building! The bamboo building covers an area of ​​[-] square meters!"

"Pay attention to the details of their building! The places that should be reinforced have been reinforced, and the places that should be corroded have been corroded."

"Their requirements for themselves far exceed the requirements for survival! They are living! A good life!"

"They have food reserves, fuel reserves, water reserves, and they have begun to hoard production materials and make production tools!"

"They have shelters, workshops, bamboo beds, buckets, pots, poles, stone adzes, and several kinds of bamboo containers."

After talking, he said with a smile: "I was surprised by their careful arrangements, and the planning and organization of their work is amazing. They didn't waste any time in the past two days, and every minute was efficiently used, and it was light and easy. Physical labor and heavy physical labor are carried out alternately, and the amount of exercise is distributed reasonably, which is really perfect."

Nian was also very excited: "I don't think they are surviving. What they did was done by the ancestors of our country, ah no, it was done by the ancestors in southern Asia. Ingris and Jungle are doing it. Retrace the path of the farming society in Southeast Asia! I can't guess how they will act tomorrow, but I am very much looking forward to the surprise they will show us tomorrow."

Lu En said: "This is the second day of survival, my God, how many things they have done! What a hard-working nation, I hope Ingris' physical strength can keep up."

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Early in the morning of the third day, Li Junge and Ayin ate dried fish for breakfast, and started to cut hemp in the hemp field while there was still dew.

Now that the effectiveness of the fiber has been proven, it must be utilized.

Li Junge used a hand saw as a sickle, and scraped the hemp down. A Yin used a bamboo knife to peel off the hemp skin from the bottom, and then stored it separately.

This hemp field is quite large, and the two of them spent a whole morning cutting down a large piece of hemp, and tied four or five bundles of hemp skin, which weighed less than three hundred catties.

Then Li Junge carried four bundles of hemp, and Ayin carried one bundle, plus a bucket, and carried the hemp skins to the lake, and put them one by one in the reeds in the downstream, and then moved large stones to crush the bundles Get below the surface of the water and start retting.

By the way, he cut another four bundles of reeds, and Li Junge fetched water, carried the water with one shoulder and the reeds with the other, and returned to the camp.

Then Li Junge arranged for A Yin to take a nap, and went to the bamboo forest to collect dried bamboo leaves by himself.

Then came to the place on the edge of the clearing going downhill to the lake, where there was a collapsed place, and Li Junge began to dig mud.

With the baskets, the efficiency is much higher. One or two hundred catties of soil can be picked up.

Picked five picks of dirt
Picking up the soil to the edge of the open space, Li Junge first took the mud and watered it, made a circle on the ground, about three square meters, then added mud to the inside, went to the lake to fetch water and added water, and finally went in barefoot to step on the mud.

The mud was trampled more and more evenly, and it was almost done. Li Junge put the dried fish into the dustpan, removed the charcoal fire, brushed the slate clean, sprinkled sand on it, put the grilled fish bamboo rings on the slate, and covered it with a layer of soil. , Remove the bamboo ring, and you will get a mud cake two fingers thick.

Scrape the mud cake with bamboo slices, and turn fingers on the mud cake to make many holes, like a honeycomb coal shape.

To be on the safe side, Li Junge made two more with the same method, and then added some charcoal under the stone slab to bake the mud cakes.

Take a bucket of mud and put it aside, then add dead bamboo leaves to the remaining mud, and continue to step on the mud.

Dry bamboo leaves are equivalent to steel bars, which can make the mud embryo stronger and prevent it from cracking after drying.

After the mud work was done, Ayin also woke up, and then went to collect with a basket, while Li Junge put the red mud in a big basket and put it on the roof. Starting from the far end, a [-]-centimeter-wide strip was built on the roof. When the soil ridge comes, after the soil is completely dry, you can even walk on it.

Then pick up the soil with a wide bamboo board, and evenly spread the soil that leaked from the roof seam inside the shed with your hands.

After all this was done, the mud cake on the stone slab was also dried. Li Junge piled up a pile of firewood, buried the mud cake in the firewood and burned it.

By the way, surround it with a circle of wood and bamboo, and continue to dry and harden.

When burning mud cakes, Li Junge started to make mud embryos with wet mud on one side of the work shed.

Here we need to pick up some stones to use as bricks, and try to save the amount of mud.

The mud stove is divided into three layers, the bottom layer is the place where ashes are discharged, the middle layer is for firewood, and the top layer is the kiln chamber.

Firstly, the bottom ring is laid out, and the soil is hardened by burning fire. The middle spacer is made by finding strips of sandstone and then roughly knocking out with a flint chisel. It does not require meticulousness, but only needs to be able to stand up to bear the firewood.

When Ah Yin came back with a basket of wild vegetables and fruits, he smiled at Li Junge from a distance: "Erpi! I found a saponins tree, a lot of saponins!"

A Yin has also picked a lot of things in the past few days. The wild fruits are not easy to preserve now, and they have been eaten by the two of them, but such as cattail, bitter wormwood, coriander root, money grass, plucked ear root, lotus leaf, Ophiopogon japonicus, Qinggangzi and the like, and a kind of citrus with pleats, etc., were all dried.

Li Junge was setting up the stone strips to prepare for the second floor, when he heard this he laughed and said, "Look, I'm not idle here either!"

Seeing such a big battle, A Yin was shocked: "Er Pi, why did you burn such a big fire, what a waste!"

Li Junge laughed and said: "This is not a waste, it depends on whether you eat meat or drink soup."

Remove the firewood and pull out the mud cake, which has been burned red.

"Hey! One is not broken! There is a play!" Li Junge was so happy that he ran to continue the discussion.

After finishing the second layer, Li Junge dug out two lumps of mud from the mud bucket, and said to A Yin: "Come on, A Yin, let's play with mud."

A Yin smiled and said, "I see! You are going to make pottery!"

(End of this chapter)