In the past, when the family was still using firewood, Li Zhongqi would throw a sweet potato into the furnace pit every time he boiled water, and when the water was boiled, the sweet potato was almost ripe.

The smell is also fragrant, and it also has a strong smell of firewood, but in this way, the surface of the sweet potato is all burned, and after eating, the mouth is full of ashes.

Li Wanqi ate with him, and said curiously: "Brother Zhongqi, let's just make a fire and throw the sweet potatoes into it soon, why are you letting us find these clods of soil." ”

She had already followed Li Zhongqi's instructions, and Yang Yun and the two of them had found some relatively large pieces of mud nearby.

Li Zhongqi smiled: "That kind is too untechnical, I don't seem to have taken you to kiln sweet potatoes before, right?"

Li Wanqi shook his head, what is the difference between kiln sweet potatoes and baked sweet potatoes?

I saw Li Zhongqi hoeing a flat ground in the ground with a hoe, and there was a slightly recessed pit in the middle, and his hoe made it very flexible.

"As for the sweet potato, we must first build an earthen kiln. Come, you watch. ”

He took the mud blocks that Li Wanqi picked up, looked at them, and said helplessly: "Qiqi, these clods of soil you picked up are too wet, you need that kind of dryness." Look at the kind that Yang Yun picked up, it's easy to use. ”

Li Zhongqi took the clod of soil picked up by Yang Yun, the size of a palm, and the shape was relatively regular.

He picked up a firewood knife, trimmed the irregular clod of earth a little, and placed it around the edge of the pit.

Li Wanqi squatted and looked curiously, "What is this for?"

"First make the kiln door, these big ones, repair a little square, and use them to make the door. ”

Li Zhongqi's movements were very neat, and soon a boxy kiln door was ready.

"Let's go find some clods of dirt, don't take the ones that are too wet. ”

"Uh-huh, good!"

Li Wanqi ran away again to find clods of soil.

Ning Yue and Ning Xue, the two little Lori, were not idle, running around to find some dry branches, this side is more close to the mountains and forests, and there are still quite a lot of dry branches.

Sika followed them to find it.

When I bit one in my mouth, I ran over and put it aside, and then I ran over and bit one again.

Yang Yun said enviously: "Qiqi, your cat is really smart, it watched Ning Yue and Ning Xue running around with branches, and it also learned to pick it up." ”

Li Wanqi came back with a few large clods of soil, looked back, and said with a smile: "Sika learns things quickly, and often sees what we do, so it follows what it does." ”

Several people were busy, Ning Yue and Ning Xue were also running happily, the surrounding branches were almost picked up, Ning Yue looked left and right and didn't find the rest of the branches, so she planned to look farther away to find them.

Sika's eyes were sharp, and he hurried over and bit her little skirt to prevent her from running away.

"Hey, big cat, won't you let me go?"

"Then don't go. ”

Ning Yue hugged Sika back together.

Li Wanqi and Yang Yun had already picked up enough clods of soil and came over to help pick up some more branches.

"Yue'er, Xue'er, don't run far, go back and drink water, you don't need to pick it up. ”

The two little Loli took Sika back to the bag laid out near the kiln and sat down.

Li Wanqi came over and unscrewed a bottle of water for them to drink.

"Big cat, do you want water?"

Xue brought the bottle to Sika's mouth.

Sika: "......"

How can I drink it!

Li Zhongqi's hands and feet were nimble, and a pile of clods of soil was cut to a good shape. When building a kiln, these clods of soil are stable and stacked on top of each other, and if you are a novice, it is easy for the kiln to collapse unevenly when it is high to a certain extent.

The base must be stable, the most difficult thing is that when it is finished, the clods of soil on both sides have to slowly move closer to the middle, and if one is not careful, the half-built kiln has to collapse again.

It was not until a semi-elliptical shape was built and the top was finally sealed that the entire kiln was built.

In fact, a large part of the fun of kiln sweet potatoes is the process of building a kiln, just like building a building, if it is a 'tofu dregs' project, when the kiln is burned, the kiln collapses, and it will definitely be laughed to death by friends.

Li Wanqi and the others had already prepared all the supplies, and looked at Li Zhongqi building the kiln curiously with their knees hugged.

At the end of the day, even if Li Zhongqi is a veteran, he has to carefully and gently put the clods.

Qiqi held his breath, for fear that he would blow down this fragile earthen kiln with a single breath.

"That's it!"

The last egg-sized clod of soil was capped, and Li Zhongqi was also relieved.

"Hahaha, I look so nervous, I'm afraid it will suddenly fall. Li Wanqi said with a smile.

"If you fall, you can only do it again. Li Zhongqi clapped his hands and fell into a puff of dust.

"Shall we start the fire now?"

"Don't worry, use some small clods of soil to plug the big holes around the kiln, so that the kiln will burn hot. ”

Li Zhongqi picked up a pile of small clods of soil and gently stuffed them into the cracks of the earthen kiln.

"Qiqi, do you want to give it a try?"

Somewhat unexpectedly, classmate Li Wanqi hurriedly shook her head and said nervously: "I don't dare, I'm afraid that I will be clumsy and accidentally collapse it." ”

Sika nodded secretly, we Qiqi still have self-knowledge.

Once everything is done, the kiln will be fired.

Li Zhongqi first put some dead grass from the kiln door, lit it with a lighter, and then slowly ignited some small wooden branches.

The fire was soon on fire......

"I'll make a fire!"

"Come on, be careful, don't stuff too much at once, for fear of touching the earthen kiln, burning and collapsing, and it will 'blow up the kiln'. Li Zhongqi said with a smile, got up and gave up the burning position to Qiqi.

Li Wanqi is keen on making fires, and she liked to burn fires in her hometown when she was a child. Watching the wooden branches in the fire being burned to ashes by the flames, watching the dancing flames in a daze, and the firelight reflected in the eyes, the heart will look very calm.

I guess all the troubles were burned to ashes.

The kiln takes a long time to burn, and when it is about half red, the kiln begins to emit the characteristic smell of earth.

After burning for more than half an hour, Li Wanqi's legs were numb when she squatted, and her mobile phone was given to Ning Yue and Ning Xue to play games, but Sika had been sitting here with her to watch her burn the fire.

"Sika, do you like to watch fires too?"

"Meow. ”

Li Zhongqi walked over and felt the temperature of the air with his palm next to the earthen kiln, "It's almost, I'll clean up the ashes." ”

Li Wanqi got out of the way, Li Zhongqi squatted and used a wooden stick to pull out some of the ashes inside, his movements were very light, for fear of collapsing the earthen kiln.

The hot earthen kiln emitted an astonishing heat, and Li Wanqi took Sika a little away.

Li Zhongqi stuffed all the sweet potatoes into the clay kiln one by one, then picked up the hoe, smashed the clay kiln that had been built for most of the day, smashed the red mud to cover the sweet potatoes, and then used the hoe to cover the new soil on the hoe next door, covering it tightly.

"Brother Zhong Qi, our sweet potatoes seem to have forgotten to wrap tin foil!" Li Wanqi suddenly thought.

"You don't need to wrap it, you just burn it out like this, and it tastes a little earthy, which is the most delicious. Li Zhongqi said with a smile.

"Let's sit and chat and play with my phone first, I have to cover this for a while. ”

As they grew older, the brother and sister did talk and chat less, and taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Wanqi and Li Zhongqi still talked a lot.

Neither of them played with their mobile phones, Li Zhongqi had a grass stalk in his mouth, Li Wanqi listened to him tell some interesting things from the past, and unconsciously, more than half an hour had passed.

Sika yawned, her little nose moving slightly, it could already smell the sweet potato scent slowly coming from the mound......

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(There are two more tonight, the first order and the more specific details of the reward I posted in the comment area, thank you for your support!)