Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 462 Dragon Kiln
Chapter 460 Dragon Kiln

After finishing speaking, he said: "This thing is powerful, but it takes a long time to practice to be accurate. I don't know if the video has been edited, but looking at the distance between two coconut crabs when they are hit, it should be within a short time. Two hits done here."

Lu En said with a smile: "In the hands of Ingris, this is a deadly weapon! It's so unexpected! Venus suddenly turned into Athena!"

Nian laughed and said, "Farmers need warriors to protect them. We used to think that Ingris was the one responsible for collecting and crafting in the two-person team, and the rest were all Jungle's tasks. Now it seems... emm..."

Bell said: "Jungle is also good. What I admire most about Jungle is his caution. You can see his love for tools and protection of pottery, which shows that he is a person who likes to rule out all accidents. He does not do things that are not sure. , this is very important in survival in the wild. It can even be listed as the first criterion."

Luen said: "There are many mysteries in the Chinese people. I am surprised that they let go of the taro they found. They seem to cherish the food they find. There is no need to take it lightly, but they scrape it on the beach. Isn't it a very contradictory thing to have so much coconut meat?"

Bell said: "This mystery, I hope tomorrow's program will solve it for us..."

Waking up in the morning, Li Junge took a bamboo shovel and began to renovate the stove where he cooked yesterday.

Dig out the inside of yesterday’s stove hole, and dig out a small hole under the stove for the intake of dust, then go to the stream to find a few strips of sand and stone, use flint to repair it, and put it in the hearth. As a support for the firewood, I climbed to the upper lawn and dug the ditch back along the position of the fire hole yesterday, digging out more than two meters, and then found thin stone flakes to spread on it, and picked thin mud to paste the gaps between the stone slabs. Then sprinkle a thin layer of dry soil and pat it down.

Remove the joints at both ends of a thick bamboo tube with a length of one meter, saw a square door at one end, insert it into the end of the passage, and seal the surrounding of the bamboo tube with soil. This is a chimney

Then, with this channel as the center, two deep ditches were dug with half a meter apart on both sides, and dead bamboo leaves were added in the middle of the deep ditches to play a certain role in heat preservation.

The soil near the water is generally relatively soft. After this change, the small stove was transformed into a dragon kiln more than two meters long and one meter wide.

Then Li Junge started to collect firewood.

Ayin slept very comfortably yesterday. When she woke up and saw such a big project, she couldn't help saying to Li Junge: "Erpi, why did you make such an exaggerated stove? Aren't we here for vacation?"

Li Junge smiled and said: "This is called vacation and work, today's project is huge."

Ayin laughed and said, "Then we'll have something to eat in the morning and start working."

When Ayin went to wash up, she saw a bucket of shredded coconut beside the water, and said in surprise, "Erpi, come quickly! Look what happened to the shredded coconut in the bucket!"

Li Junge was taken aback. Afraid that something might happen, he hurried over to see that there was a layer of white creamy substance floating on the top of the bucket.

Stretch out your hands and twist it a little, rub it on your hands, the creamy substance melts, and it is very moisturizing on your hands.

"Damn it!" Li Junge said to A Yin: "Coconuts can still do this! This saves a lot of time!"

A Yin also reached out to take some, rubbed it, and then applied it on the back of her hand, and said in surprise, "Oil? Coconut oil?"

Li Junge dragged Ayin to Tiaoguozhuang: "Hahaha, coconuts are such a good thing! It's so oily! I said why are people in Southeast Asia so lazy! I'm so tired when I go to Shuzhou to get some oil." !"

Ayin was also happy: "Then we won't rest today! I'll go find resin, tap carbon, make buckets, and boil all the coconuts that fall on the beach!"

Li Junge rolled his eyes: "Why do you need so much? It's enough for us to consume."

Ayin said: "With the oil, you can make soap and shampoo! You forgot that I used Sapindus sapinsinum to make it on the mountain? I know how to do this!"

Li Junge laughed from ear to ear: "Oh, this is a step into the age of chemistry!"

After finishing speaking, he said: "But don't worry, wait until I take the white cream on it and refine it. Don't be a monk looking at the sedan chair, just be happy!"

Two and a half barrels of coconut flakes, piled up with a thick layer of cream, Li Junge collected a full pot, lit the fire and boiled it.

Then start to take the wet mud that has just been pasted in the dragon kiln, and add some dry soil, adjust it to the right level, knead it into mud balls with hands clasped together, and put them on the dragon kiln behind the pot eye to bake.

This Ah Yin couldn't understand at all: "Erpi, what are you doing?"

Li Junge said: "Ayin, go fetch me another bucket of water, I want to build a pyramid."

A Yin obediently fetched a bucket of water and handed it to him, and said, "Let's see what tricks you can do!"

Li Junge said: "Later you will cut grass, burn a pile of plant ash, and collect seaweed to dry, burn a pile of seaweed ash, and shells, I will do a big trick for you these two days."

Add water to dilute the mud dug out of the trench, continue to rub the balls and bake them on the dragon kiln, and constantly adjust the front and rear positions of the mud balls, and soon a pile of dry mud balls will be obtained.

At this time, the first pot of oil was boiled out, and there were some golden oil residues at the bottom, and a small half pot of clear, translucent, fragrant coconut oil appeared on the surface.

Ayin jumped up happily: "Successful! This method will work!"

Li Junge took the coconut oil aside and said with a smile: "It's too simple, I thought it was like boiling lard, let's go, let's go pull the coconut!"

They took a few coconut leaves to cover the oil and let it cool down. The two excitedly carried baskets on their backs and searched for coconuts along the beach.

After going back and forth several times, there were hundreds of them piled up next to the camp.

Li Junge began to shell and peel the coconuts with a hand saw.

The two gained labor experience while handling coconuts.

Methods are also constantly becoming more advanced.

For example, take a basket and soak it in the stream water to prevent the coconut meat from losing water.

For example, you only need to saw half of it, insert a wooden wedge into the slate, and the coconut will split in half.

Li Junge started to cut bamboo and weave new baskets. When a rough new basket with large holes was finished, Ayin had already processed about [-] coconuts. According to the amount of oil produced, it would be more than one pot. .

After moving the coconuts to the new baskets, Li Junge replaced the old baskets and put them on the dragon kiln to bake, then went with A Yin to the forest to get gum.

It's still the same old way, pounding the toner, sifting the toner, adjusting the resin of the toner, and wiping it on the basket.

After finishing these, Li Junge said with a smile: "No problem, take it home after using it, and it can be used as a water tank!"

Then there is the old way to get shredded coconut.

This container is quite big, the desiccated coconut of thirty coconuts is only half a basket.

Carrying the baskets to a cool place in the woods for storage, Li Junge came back to fetch water, and said to A Yin: "Yesterday's coconut was soaked and not rubbed, but stirred for a while. I reckoned that if the method of cooking strange crabs was the same as yesterday, specify the oil. More!"

A Yin said: "Well, I'll do this, it's shady and cool here, and I can't get out of the sun."

At noon, the two of them ate some strange crab and coconut soup. After A Yin finished mixing one tank, Li Junge had already made the second basket into a water tank.

Then Ayin went to collect the seaweed and hay that Li Junge wanted.

It was [-] yesterday, and the tide was high. Now that the tide has receded, there are a lot of seaweeds near the waterline in the reef area of ​​the beach. A Yin dragged them to dry on the reef where the sea water can't wash them.

By the time A Yin came back with two large bundles of hay, Li Junge had already kneaded another basket of shredded coconut.

There is a small half of the coconuts left, which really can't fit, so I can only save them for tomorrow.

Li Junge looked at the coconut shells all over the floor, he laughed and said, "Let's talk about whether there are dates or not!"

Picked up a bamboo ring to measure the size of the strange crab, used bamboo thread to weave a long tube, covered one end with a bamboo thread, tied them together with bamboo thread and sealed it, and made a fish cage at the other end barbed funnel.

Holding two long cages, carrying coconut shells, he came to the place where Ayin hit the strange crab yesterday, and said, "Ayin, didn't you say that you saw the strange crab picking up coconuts yesterday? We set up two traps here .”

I dug two shallow ditches, put the cage in, the cage mouth was just half exposed, then covered the cage with grass, pressed soil on it, then covered it with sand, took some wild grass and piled it around the hole, and then put coconut shells Throw it all over the place.

After finishing this, the two returned to the camp, and Li Junge said, "Since the grease has greatly exceeded expectations, another matter can be put on the agenda."

Ayin asked, "What's the matter?"

Li Junge said triumphantly: "Refining the sword!"

First, I picked a piece of hammer-shaped flint, polished one end of the stone into a round head, untied the stone adze for planing bamboo tiles, replaced it with this stone, and the stone adze became a stone hammer.

He took a piece of bamboo and ground it into a straight knife, and took one of the pig iron screws from the handle of the hand saw.

Give the nut to A Yin, and tell her to put it away carefully. All things that cannot be made on the island should be kept carefully, and they might come in handy someday.

The dragon kiln, which had been burned for a whole morning, had become very hard now. Li Junge lit the furnace, put in charcoal, and let the charcoal burn.

When the charcoal was burning, Li Junge arranged the dried mud balls in the shape of two pyramids behind the pot eyes of the dragon kiln, and picked up two buckets of seawater, and asked Ayin to water the mud balls.

A Yin was a little confused, so she said, "Erpi, what are you going to do?"

Li Junge laughed and said, "Salt making!"

Ayin asked in surprise: "Didn't you say that there are salt everywhere in the caves by the sea? Can't you dry the salt?"

Li Junge said: "Those are all fictions. Yesterday was an astronomical high tide, and the seawater was at the highest level of the year. The seawater in any cave was poured in yesterday."

"If you want to dry salt, you have to have a suitable climate. The long coastline of our country is not said to be all salt farms."

A Yin said: "Then we can just burn the sea water directly? Why do we still have to do this?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "The efficiency of directly burning seawater is too low, because the concentration of salt in seawater is only [-]%, and one-third of it is impurities, so the content of sodium chloride in seawater is only [-]%. If we want to extract two catties of refined salt, we need to burn a hundred catties of seawater. What is the concept? With our pot, hahahaha..."

"And it also involves the issue of purification. There are many impurity ions in seawater. Without purification, not only will it taste bitter, but it may also be poisoned!"

"The ancestors of our country already knew about these things long before the Song Dynasty, so most of them were invented by novelists."

A Yin said: "Then why do you pour mud balls?"

Li Junge smiled and said: "This is not a way of my imagination. This is the method used in the Yuzhou area to improve the light brine spring water in the past. It is to use the loose holes in the mud balls to increase the evaporation area of ​​​​the brine, so that the water vapor evaporates quickly. Finally Turn mud balls into saline soil."

(End of this chapter)