Chapter Ninety-Six: The Oven
There are two stoves in the new house, one is at the head of the current stove room, and the other is at the head of the hall house.
Because they were all separated, when my father was still in the house, Mr. Chen and his wife were cooking in the hall house, and my father was cooking in the stove house. Later, my father went out to work, and the old couple moved to the stove house to cook.
Because there were two coffins in the hall house, it was very inconvenient to cook, and after they moved to the stove house to cook, they successively added machines to the hall house, feeding the pigs and chickens, as well as firewood, and now it is even more idle.
For example, the chimneys of the two stoves are made of adobe bricks, and the pillars in the middle of the street are also made of adobe bricks. So when the house was being repaired, I still bought more than 1,000 bricks, and there were dozens of bricks left to rest on the eaves at the back.
"Well, master, if it's not enough, I'll just move with Binbin, and I don't need you to go. He put down the brick in his hand, and the brook followed suit. Fortunately, I was wearing old clothes, and I was buried. Burying is still Xiaoxi learned from the northeastern classmates in the university dormitory in the previous life.
After patting the dust on his body casually, Xiaoxi squatted down and fiddled with the adobe bricks, Chen Yubin handed the bricks to the side, and Old Man Chen stood aside to watch when he saw that there was nothing wrong.
Because of the first time, the creek was compared several times, and the old man Chen stood behind him and looked at her in a daze, and suddenly felt a lot of pressure, so he said embarrassedly: "Grandpa, you go and rot the chestnut board in the nest, and you will use it later." I guess it's going to take a while to get it up here. ”
Knowing that she was uncomfortable, Old Man Chen nodded and went back to the house to get something.
As soon as Old Man Chen left, his body and mind were suddenly relaxed, although there was still a Chen Yubin, but there was no pressure. I calmed down and seriously thought about how to build this oven.
With the memories in my mind and these things in my hands, I quickly set it up.
"Binbin, go back to the house and get matches and a few handfuls of firewood, let's try it. After setting up the oven, Xiaoxi asked Chen Yubin to go back to the house to get something, and she found a random room to go into.
After entering the space, Xiaoxi found what she needed in a corner of the courtyard, an iron plate.
It's still a big iron plate, I don't know what it's for, it was picked up at a turn when she went to Beijing last year, and one night they were walking around the corner after eating.
It was a dark place, and thanks to the sharp eyes of the brook, she sneaked over and threw it into the space, for the whole iron plate was heavy, and it was left here.
Because she hadn't told Chen's mother about the space at that time, she sneaked into the space by taking advantage of the darkness. When Chen's mother turned around and saw her coming from the corner, she casually asked, "Where are you doing?"
Xiaoxi blushed and said that he had gone to relieve himself. It's not that she is red-faced because of lying, but that she is red-faced, she has not urinated in the open for many years, why did she tell this lie today.
This matter was not put in Chen's mother's heart, but she said solemnly: "This piece, there are no street lights, you have to keep up, so as not to lose it." ”
To relieve hands is to urinate. In the countryside, you can't find a toilet in the field, just find a remote place to carry people on your back, and there is no requirement that you can't defecate anywhere.
I measured the size of the adobe bricks I had brought in, and I found a ballpoint pen to mark it. The oven outside the base is three bricks long and one brick wide.
After drawing the line with a pen and ruler, Xiaoxi will use his mental power to cut the iron plate.
A total of three small iron plates were cut down. Because the iron plate is thick, it has to be thin.
She drew the lines with a ballpoint pen and a ruler, and although she was skilled enough with her mental power, she was not fine enough, so she could only cut them in half.
After taking the firewood and matches, Chen Yubin saw that there was no one in the courtyard, so he turned his head and asked the old man Chen in front of him: "Master, where is my sister?"
Old man Chen, tilted his head to the left and signaled to go to the house. Chen Yubin took the things in his hand and entered the room next to the stove house. There is no one in the house, it is impossible for Old Man Chen to lie to him, so he will enter the space, or what will she do in this house.
Because a few years ago, Xiaoxi's spiritual power broke through the third layer, so now the time ratio between space and the outside world is five to one.
When Chen Yubin sat next to Old Man Chen, the flowers he was waiting for were almost gone, and Old Man Chen was about to finish the chestnut boards, Xiaoxi walked out of the house with his clothes in his arms and a red face.
Because the space is at room temperature, Xiaoxi's body heats up inside, so he takes off his sweater and jacket as soon as he enters. Later, he made efforts to cut the iron plate, and he was sweating profusely.
She was afraid that Old Man Chen would be worried when they saw it, so she wiped her sweat and put on a sweater before coming out.
Looking at his obviously sweaty hair, Old Man Chen stood up, hurriedly snatched his clothes, put them on, pushed the stream, and said anxiously, "Go back to the house and bake for a while." ”
"Master, it's okay, it'll be fine in a while. Xiaoxi said nonchalantly, "You don't have to go back to roasting." "She was afraid that she would go back, so it was difficult to explain it to Granny Chen.
Old Man Chen had a straight face, and glared at her when he heard the words, "You don't need to bake anything, you see that your hair is wet, don't go back to bake and dry, I'll say it again, it's almost the New Year......"
"Okay, okay, I'll go back and bake, I'll go back and bake. "I didn't want Old Man Chen to talk about it, so Xiaoxi had to raise his hand and surrender. He pulled the jacket on his body, raised his feet and walked towards the stove house.
Seeing Old Man Chen and Chen Yubin hugging the stream into the house, Granny Chen looked up in confusion, but because of the backlight, she didn't see anything famous. I didn't see it clearly until I walked in.
Hurriedly got up, pulled the stream and sat down by the fire, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and hurriedly said, "What's the matter?"
"Uh~" Xiaoxi didn't know what to say, lowered his head and looked at the fire.
Seeing that Xiaoxi didn't speak, Granny Chen raised her head, looked at Old Man Chen anxiously, and asked, "What is this?" ”
Old Man Chen cleared his throat embarrassedly, "What's the matter...... It's just building things with bricks outside, jumping with Binbin...... Ah~ Binbin go, go outside and help me. Hurriedly pulled Chen Yubin out.
Jumping means to fight.
Knowing that nothing major had happened, Granny Chen breathed a sigh of relief, and she didn't notice that only Xiaoxi was sweating profusely, and Chen Yubin, who jumped with Xiaoxi, didn't sweat at all.
Granny Chen complained: "Look at you, you have to jump properly, this whole head is full of sweat, if you catch a cold, I see what you can do......"
"Oh, mother-in-law, it's okay, I'm okay when I'm dry. At this time, Xiaoxi is no longer silent, if she doesn't interrupt, Granny Chen can talk alone for a long time.
It's really okay, Granny Chen told her to dry the sweat on her body, and then got up and went back to the stove to watch the fire. It took a long time to think of Chen Yubin who was with Xiaoxi, Xiaoxi was sweating here, why didn't he come.
However, when I saw him just now, my body was dry, and it didn't seem to be sweating. I looked at the creek next to the fire, what the hell was going on. However, the good grandson is fine, why do you want to do so much, so you just throw it aside.
"Mother, the pot should be boiled, and when it is boiled, the big firewood will be returned and the fire will be smaller. ”
"Hmm. Granny Chen agreed, and listening to the "gurgling" sound in the pot, she used tongs to withdraw the firewood in the hole of the pot.
After drying his clothes and hair, Xiaoxi said hello to Granny Chen and went out again.
Old man Chen had already scooped the chestnut boards into mud, and as soon as he went out, he saw him and Chen Yubin standing next to the oven, and they were all stunned.
Xiaoxi knew what was going on, the excuse just now was full of flaws, it should be that he was afraid that when they went back, they would be questioned by Granny Chen.
Raising her eyebrows, she didn't say much, and walked over quickly.
"Sister~" Hearing the footsteps, Chen Yubin turned around and saw that it was the creek that came out, so he raised a big smile. He really didn't know what he was doing standing here, but he was pulled over by his grandfather, and he didn't dare to disobey, so he had to follow Old Man Chen in a daze.
"Clothes and hair are dry?" Old Man Chen's stiff cheeks couldn't help but relax.
"Well, it's all baked. Master, I'll continue to work on this. Creek grinned and pointed to the oven next to it.
Old Man Chen nodded and took a step back.
threw a few cut iron plates into the open space, which frightened Chen Yubin backwards.
Remove half of the oven you just set up and put the iron plate inside. There are no gaps in the iron plate, which can not only isolate the firewood and ash well, but also have a better thermal conductivity function than adobe bricks.
The whole oven has a total of three layers, the bottom layer is directly burned on the mud floor, the middle layer is to put the things to be baked, and the top layer is also burned with firewood.
The top was covered with an iron plate, and a wooden handle was installed on the iron plate to make it easy to remove.
In addition to the iron plate installed on the top and bottom of the baked part in the middle, there is also an iron plate on the outside to prevent the heat from escaping, and a square wooden strip is nailed in the middle of the iron plate to make it easy to hold.
There is also an iron plate outside the door of the fire to prevent the smoke from running out, and the smoke is burning, so that the block will run out of the opening left in the back.
The creek also made an iron pan so that it was easy to get in and out of the oven and check the baking. This iron plate is smaller than the iron plate, with two bricks long and one brick wide, and it also has a wooden handle like the top cover, which is very convenient.
The upper and lower floors were lit on fire, and Chen Yubin went to find two red roots, washed them, and threw them into the oven. All the doors were blocked with iron plates, and a few people stood aside and looked at the oven.
The cigarettes on the upper and lower floors ran out of the "chimney" specially left, but the lower layer did not block the door with iron plates, so there were still a small number of cigarettes running out from the front, and there were no cigarettes in other places. It seems that this oven is a good one.
"Master, this firewood is too long, and it has to be shortened, otherwise it won't be stuffed in. "Because the door has to be blocked with an iron plate at the top, the firewood needs to be shorter, so Chen Yubin took a lot of effort to find a few short firewoods.