Chapter 463: Dragon Kiln

After speaking, he said: "This thing is powerful, but to practice the head, it takes a long time to exercise, I don't know if the video has been edited, but looking at the distance between the two coconut crabs when they were hit, it should be two blows completed in a short time." ”

Lune laughed, "In Ingris' hands, this is a lethal weapon!

Nian smiled, "The farmer needs warriors to protect him, we used to think that Ingris was the one in charge of gathering and crafting in the two-person team, and the rest is all Jungle tasks, but now it seems that ...... emm……”

"Jungle is not bad either, and what I appreciate most about Jungle is his caution," Bell said. You can see his love for tools, as well as his protection of pottery, which shows that he is a person who likes to eliminate all accidents. Not doing something you are not sure about is very important in surviving in the wild. It can even be listed as the first criterion. ”

"There are a lot of mysteries in the Chinese, and I wonder if they let go of the taro they found, and it seems that they value the food they find very much, and there is no need not to collect it easily, but they scrape so much coconut meat on the beach, isn't it a very contradictory thing?"

Bell said: "This mystery, hopefully tomorrow's show will solve it for us......"

When he got up in the morning, Li Junge began to use a bamboo shovel to renovate the stove he cooked yesterday.

Dig out the inner chamber of yesterday's stove hole, and take out a small chamber under the stove for air intake and ash, and then go to the stream to dig a few strips of sand and gravel, take the flint to trim and trim, put it in the hearth, as the support of firewood, and then climb to the lawn above, dig the ditch back along the position of yesterday's fire hole, and dig out more than two meters until now, and then find a thin stone sheet to spread on it, and pick up the thin mud to paste the gap of the stone slab, and then sprinkle a thin layer of dry soil to pat it firmly.

Remove the knots at both ends of a one-meter-long thick bamboo tube, sawed out a square door at one end, insert it into the tail of the passage, and seal the bamboo tube with soil, which is a chimney

Then, with this passage as the center, the two sides are separated by half a meter, and two deep ditches are dug out, and withered bamboo leaves are added in the middle of the deep ditch to play a certain role in heat preservation.

The soil at the water's edge is generally soft, and after this change, the small stove has been transformed into a dragon kiln more than two meters long and one meter wide.

Then Li Junge began to collect firewood.

Yesterday, Ayin slept very comfortably, and when she woke up and saw such a big project, she couldn't help but say to Li Junge: "Erpi, why did you get such an exaggerated stove?

Li Junge said with a smile: "This is called vacation work, and today's project is huge." ”

Ayin smiled: "Then let's eat something in the morning and start work." ”

When Ayin went to wash, he saw the bucket where the coconut was stored by the water, and said in surprise: "Erpi come quickly! Look at the coconut in the bucket!"

Li Junge was taken aback, for fear that something would happen, so he hurriedly ran over to take a look, and it turned out that there was a layer of white creamy object floating above the barrel.

Reach out and twist a little, rub it on your hand, the creamy object melts away, and it is very moisturizing on your hand.

"Damn!" Li Junge said to Ayin: "Coconut can still be like this!

Ayin also reached out and took a little, rubbed it, and applied it to the back of his hand, and said in surprise: "Oil, coconut oil?"

Li Junge pulled Ayin to jump into the pot: "Hahaha, coconut is really a good thing! It actually produces oil like this! I said why are people in Southeast Asia so lazy! I want to get some oil in Shuzhou, so it's called a tired!"

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

Li Junge rolled his eyes: "What do you want so much for? ”

Ayin said: "If you have oil, then you can make soap and shampoo! Have you forgotten that I make soapberry in the mountains?

Li Junge couldn't stop laughing: "Ouch, this is a step into the era of chemistry!"

After speaking, he said: "But don't worry, wait until I take the white cream on it to refine a handful, but don't be a monk looking at the sedan chair, empty joy!"

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

Then I began to take the wet mud that had just been pasted from the dragon kiln, and put some dry soil on it, adjust it to the right one, knead it into mud balls with both hands together, and put it on the dragon kiln behind the pot to roast it.

This Ayin couldn't understand it at all: "Erpi, what are you doing here?"

Li Junge said: "Ayin go and fetch me a bucket of water again, I want to build pyramids." ”

Ayin obediently went to fetch a bucket of water and handed it to him, saying, "I'll see what tricks you can play!"

Li Junge said: "Later, you will beat the grass, burn a pile of grass and wood ashes, and the seaweed will also be collected and dried, burn a pile of seaweed ashes, and shells, I will make a big trick for you in the past two days." ”

The mud dug out of the trench was thinned with water, and the balls continued to be rubbed and roasted on the dragon kiln, constantly adjusting the front and back positions of the mud balls, and soon a bunch of dry mud balls were obtained.

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

Ayin jumped up with joy: "It's successful! This method works!"

Li Junge took the coconut oil and put it 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!"

Grab a few coconut leaves and cover it with oil to let it cool, and the two excitedly carry baskets on their backs and look for coconuts along the beach.

There were hundreds of them piled up next to the camp.

Li Junge began to use a handsaw to hull the coconut and peel the brown.

The two of them worked with coconuts while learning from their labor experience.

Methods are also constantly becoming more advanced.

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

For example, you only need to see half of it, take a wooden wedge and stick it into the stone slab, and the coconut will split in half.

Li Junge began to cut bamboo, weave a new basket, and wait until a new basket with a rough hole is finished, Ayin has already processed more than 30 coconuts, to estimate according to the amount of oil, it must be more than a pot.

After moving the coconut to a new basket, Li Junge replaced the old basket and roasted it on the dragon kiln, and then went to the forest with Ayin to get gums.

It's still the same old way, pounding toner, sieving toner, adjusting toner resin, and smearing it on the basket.

After finishing these, Li Junge said with a smile: "There's nothing wrong with it, you can still use it as a water tank when you take it home after using it!"

Then it's the old way to get the grated coconut.

This container is large, thirty coconuts, that is, half a basket.

Carrying the basket to a cool place in the forest for storage, Li Junge came back to fetch water, and said to Ayin: "Yesterday's desiccated coconut didn't rub much, just stirred for a while, I estimate that if it is like yesterday's strange crab, there will be more designated oil!"

Ayin said: "Well, I'll come here for this matter, it's cool here, and I can't get sun." ”

At noon, the two of them dealt with each other and ate some strange crab coconut soup, and after Ayin mixed a 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.

Yesterday it was 30, the astronomical tide was full, and now that the tide is receding, there is so much seaweed near the waterline in the beach reef area that Ayin hauls them all to dry on the reef that the sea can't wash.

By the time Ayin came back with two large bales of hay, Li Junge had already kneaded another basket of desiccated coconut.

There is only a small half of the coconut left, which really can't be filled, so I can only keep it for tomorrow.

Li Junge looked at the coconut shells all over the ground, and said with a smile: "If there are dates, there will be no dates!"

Picked up the bamboo circle and made a long tube with bamboo silk, covered it with a lid with bamboo wire, tied them together with bamboo wire and sealed them, and made a barbed funnel like a fish cage at the other end.

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 sandwiching coconuts yesterday? ”

I dug two shallow trenches, put the cage in it, the cage was just half exposed, then took grass and covered the cage with mud, then covered it with sand, took some weeds and piled them around the hole, and threw coconut shells all over the ground.

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

Ayin asked, "What's the matter?"

Li Junge said triumphantly: "Refining the sword!"

First I went to pick a hammer-shaped flint, polished one end on the stone into a round head, untied the stone adzes of the bamboo tiles, and replaced them with this stone, and the stone adzes became stone hammers.

Take a piece of bamboo and grind it into a knife, and take off the pig iron screw on the handle of the handsaw.

The nut was handed to Ayin and told her to put it away carefully, as everything that could not be made on the island should be kept well, and maybe it would come in handy one day.

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

When the charcoal was burning, Li Junge arranged the dry mud balls in the shape of two pyramids behind the dragon kiln pot, and then picked up two buckets of seawater and asked Ah Yin to pour water on the mud balls.

Ah Yin was a little confused, so he said, "Erpi, what is this going on?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "Salt making!"

Ayin was surprised: "Didn't you say that the seaside grotto is full of salt?

Li Junge said: "Those are all fiction, yesterday was the astronomical tide, the sea water is the highest position of the year, and the sea water in which hole was poured into it only yesterday." ”

"If you want to dry salt, it must have a suitable climate, and my country's long coastline does not say that it is all salt farms. ”

Ayin said, "Then why should we just boil seawater?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "The efficiency of directly boiling seawater is too low, because the concentration of salt in seawater is only three percent, and one-third of it is impurities, so the content of sodium chloride in seawater is only two percent, if we want to refine two catties of refined salt, then we need to boil one hundred catties ......of seawater, what is this concept?

"And this also involves the problem of purification, there are many impurity ions in seawater, without purification, not only bitter taste, but also possible poisoning!"

"These ancestors of our country already knew about it before the Song Dynasty, so most of them were made up by the family. ”

Ayin said: "Then what is the reason for you pouring mud balls?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "This is not a method I think of, this is the method used to improve the light brine spring water in Yuzhou back then, that is, to use the loose cavities in the mud balls to increase the evaporation area of the brine, so that the water vapor can evaporate quickly, and finally turn the mud balls into salt soil." ”