He hugged the green vegetables, pulled Tan Dasha's clothes and walked inside: "Let's go, Dasha, go in first, your sister-in-law is making tea, drink a few cups of hot tea before going into the mountain." That kid at Aoyama has just gotten up, so you don't need to go so early. ”

Inside, a warm fire was rising in the kitchen.

Wu Cuimei sat on the small bench by the stove, holding a tea mallet in her hand, and when she saw Tan Dasha coming into the house, she showed a smile as warm as the stove fire: "Dasha, why are you so early, we just got up." ”

Tan Dasha sat down directly and replied: "My mother said that I work slowly and asked me to get up early and enter the mountain early, so I got up before dawn." ”

"Uncle Dasha, you don't have to get up so early in the future. Liu Qingshan walked in through the side door of the patio, holding a plate of green onions and a plate of coriander, which Tan Dasha brought in yesterday morning.

He put the two plates of ingredients on the table and sat down as well: "It's so tiring to work during the day, you can sleep a few more hours at night and have a good rest, it's okay, you can wait until dawn to get up again, there's no need to work so hard." ”

"yes. Liu Yuanhe echoed, "Dasha, it's not me bragging, I was more diligent than you in the early years, but in the past few years, my body has not looked good, so this person still has to pay attention to rest." ”

"Dasha, you haven't married a daughter-in-law yet, don't work so hard, otherwise you will be tired and your body will be exhausted, and you will regret it in the future. Wu Cuimei also persuaded.

Listening to Liu Qingshan's family of three's concern for him, although Tan Dasha is not very smart, his heart is also warm.

However, he can't speak, so he can only laugh silly.

Seeing him laugh, the other three laughed too.

Camellia oleifera is ready.

Today's camellia is as common as ever. However, this is for Liu Qingshan's family. For Tan Dasha, such an oil tea with green onions and coriander, fried rice, peanuts and biscuits is really a luxury.

Liu Qingshan took a spoon and divided the green onions into each bowl, and when the last bowl was distributed, he looked at Tan Dasha and asked, "Uncle Dasha, do you want chopped green onions?"

"Well, yes. ”

"Do you want coriander?"

"Yes. ”

"Do you want peanuts?"

"Yes. ”

"Where's fried rice and kueh?"

"Don't. Tan Dasha shook his head, "My mother said that you can't eat too much dry food when you go into the mountains to work, otherwise you will always have to drink water and delay your efforts." ”

Seeing that Tan Dasha was stupid and said that he was serious, Liu Qingshan couldn't help but smile and add some fried rice and kueh zi to his bowl: "It's okay, Uncle Dasha, today's workload is not big, it is estimated that you can call it a day before noon, it doesn't matter if you eat more." ”

Before noon, the two of them did put all the wild wood they had brought back yesterday into the charcoal kiln. However, the next work made it difficult for both of them.

"What should I do?" Tan Dasha looked at the surrounding mountains with only wild trees and weeds, and couldn't help but exclaim, "There are no stones, how can you seal the entrance to the cave." ”

After Liu Qingshan put the last piece of wood into the charcoal kiln, he also looked around: "Do you have to use stones? Can't you just seal the mouth with wood?"

"Of course not, it has to be stone, only stone can withstand the heat. ”

"Yes. Liu Qingshan smiled. It is said that Tan Da is stupid, but in fact, he is not stupid, he knows that wood is not resistant to high temperatures, while stone is resistant to high temperatures.

"Then let's go around the area, and one of us will take a snakeskin bag, and if we find the stone, we will put it back." Liu Qingshan said.

"Okay, I'll go over here. ”

"Then I'll go over there. ”

The two of them went their separate ways, each walking to the side of the mountain.

Stones are still very common in the mountains, and although there are not as many stones in this sandy mountain as there are in the stone mountains, they are not a few. It's just that it's hard to find a suitable stone.

However, fortunately, the two worked together, and after a while, they found many large and small stones.

With the stones, the rest of the work is easy.

First dig a concave trench at the entrance of the charcoal kiln, then fill in a layer of stones, and knock it down with a hoe to make the surface of the stone level with the surface of the hole, and there are no edges and corners protruding from the ground.

After that, the wall was built on the stone foundation with the stones that were picked up, in the same way as the wall.

Although it is only charcoal-burning, this stone wall must not be sloppy, not only must it be firm, but also have good sealing.

If it is not strong, when the kiln is opened, the stones will be poured inside, and all the damage will be charcoal.

If the sealing is not good, smoke may leak from the hole, and in this case, it will not be good for charring the wood.

Therefore, this stone door must be built firmly and sealed.

Of course, no matter how sealed the stone door is, it cannot be said that it is impermeable to the wind at all, so after the stone door is erected, it is necessary to use the sand dug up before to confront the outside of the stone door, so that the sand completely covers the stone door. The thicker the sand, the better.

However, sand does not stack on top of each other like stones, so if you want to pile it up, you need to use wood.

At the outermost edge of the cave, a wooden door is reserved, and while the wooden stalks are stacked on the ground one by one, sand is filled between the wood and the stone, and when the sand completely submerges the stones on the inside, and the wood completely covers the sand, then the work of sealing the kiln is completed.

After that, it's time to start a fire.

This work does not need to be done by two people, so Tan Dasha stayed to burn the fire, while Liu Qingshan went to open up the wasteland and cut wild trees at the same time.

According to his speed and strength, if he specializes in cutting wild trees, it doesn't take a day to cut all the wild trees needed for a kiln of charcoal.

However, this requires both clearing the wasteland and cutting wild trees, and the speed is naturally not so fast.

Clearing land and cutting down wild trees seem to be the same thing, but the nature is different.

Cutting wild trees is to selectively cut some arm-thick trees, but it is different, no matter how big or small, whether it is trees or shrubs or weeds, all must be cut down.

After cutting down all the wild trees, shrubs and weeds on the land, taking advantage of the dry and scorching winter sun, the plants in the field are dried, and then they are burned on a rainy day, and then the work of clearing the land is finished.

Liu Qingshan was opening the wasteland, and at the same time peeking at his father from time to time.

Seeing that my father behaved abnormally today, and he hadn't looked at his phone for a long time, Liu Qingshan couldn't help but tease his father from afar: "Dad, have you been kicked out of the group chat? Why haven't I seen you playing with your phone today?"

Liu Yuanhe was attacking a wild tree that was growing, and while vigorously waving the woodcutter, he replied: "Why do you talk so much? Can't you cut down your tree well?"

I really don't have any eyesight, with the looks and temperament of your father and me, they are willing to kick me?

Liu Yuanhe uncharacteristically doesn't look at his phone today, mainly because he thinks that the number of his wife and son yesterday is right.

This is a wasteland, orange trees are planted, orange trees are forested, and that face is his face, and no one will rob him.

In that case, of course, the sooner this great work is completed, the better.

In this way, the can be blown sooner by then.

However, Liu Yuanhe also felt strange. He looked back at Tan Dasha, who was carrying the thick wood below the mountain, then looked back at his son and asked, "Qingshan, has the charcoal kiln been sealed?"

"It's sealed. ”

"Then why don't you follow Dasha to light the fire?"

"You didn't teach me about burning fires before, and I don't, and I'm in the way if I stay there. ”

"Qingshan, it's not me saying you, since you and Dasha burn charcoal together, then you can't leave Dasha to work there alone, you said that you are so old, why don't you understand anything at all. ”

"Yo yo. Liu Qingshan looked at his father with a funny face, "Who said that Dasha took advantage of me last night? Hey, it's only been one night, and someone's thinking has been reversed one hundred and eighty degrees, which is really strange." ”

These words made Liu Yuanhe's old face tense, and he glared at his son and said, "Who said such a thing? You must have heard it wrong." You don't want to spew blood. ”

If this kind of talk is listened to by Tan Dasha, it will not be conducive to unity.

Liu Qingshan said with a smile: "I didn't say what you said, why are you in such a hurry? Besides, I am ostensibly clearing the wasteland, but in fact I am also preparing wood for the second kiln charcoal." ”

Liu Yuanhe straightened his waist and looked clearly in the direction of his son.

Really, this kid came up for a while, and actually cut down a large field of wild trees.

Looking at the results that he had worked for most of the day, he had as many as his son's, Liu Yuanhe suddenly felt that he was really old.

However, he didn't care, anyway, his son would help clear the wasteland, so he did it slowly.