The Ninety-Second Day is in full swing (I)
"Xiao Yezi, bring the knife here......" Brother Qian shouted loudly, the yard was now a prosperous scene, and everyone was busy. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
I was putting the tile embryo into the stove, Brother Qian and Ye Qingchen were building the earthen stove and chimney in their tree house, weaving the twig board at half past one, Mi Dakang took the axe and Ying Yuefeng to pick up the stones, I have already told them the specific route, the hill is not very far from here, it is enough for the two of them to go with plastic baskets.
I had a very good idea yesterday, not a single tortoise ran away, and it was doing well in this enclosure, but the speed at which they were feeding frightened us, and judging by the speed at which they were eating now, it might not take three days for the grass in this enclosure to be eaten almost completely. That's an amazing amount of food!
Early this morning, Brother Qian also dug a small pit for these tortoises, added some water, and made these tortoises happy, and they all rushed into this small puddle to drink water and take a bath......
This kind of weather is not afraid, I am afraid of rain, I don't know if these tortoises like dry places, after discussing with Brother Qian, we reached a consensus, and after the urgent things are done, in this enclosure of captive tortoises, build a small shed for them, if they like to hide in a dry place on rainy days, then the small shed is their best choice.
It is worth mentioning that the trap that was done yesterday was visited by Brother Qian early this morning, and the result was intact and there was no harvest.
The tile embryos were stacked in the furnace piece by piece, and before the fire, I came to the front of Brother Qian's tree house, and measured the total number of tiles needed with the tiles fired before, but I didn't know, I almost collapsed after the calculation, the first batch of tiles was already very large, but if you want to install all the tiles on the roof of their tree house, you need at least more than 100 tiles!
You must know that I can only burn more than ten pieces at a time, if you add my tree house, it is more than 200 tiles, and at least more than 18 times of firing, this number almost scared me to stop, you must know that these more than ten firings are not something that ordinary people can bear, not to mention the high temperature that needs to be endured when firing, as well as preparations, it takes a long time to make and dry the tile embryo......
Maybe I've been standing in front of their tree house for a long time, and after Ye Qingchen saw it, he came to ask in particular: "Brother Luo, what's wrong?"
"Oh, it's okay, it's just that after counting the total number of tiles needed, it seems to be a lot more than I thought!" I looked at the faint opening in the roof.
"Brother Luo, does it cost more than 100 yuan?" Brother Qian also heard the conversation between me and Ye Qingchen, so he also walked over.
"Yes, the two treehouses add up to more than two hundred, and my stove can only hold more than ten at a time. Maybe we'll have to expand this kiln a bit. "Maybe that's the only way to speed things up.
"No, Brother Luo, wait for tomorrow and we will do the same, when the time comes, everyone will dig a big one, and it will be good if you can burn thirty or fifty yuan at a time, this is not a big deal, you don't have to worry, I don't think it will rain in a short period of time." ”
"Hopefully, if it rains, it'll be troublesome. Shaking my head, I walked to the stove, I had to fire it quickly, and by the way, I would take advantage of the good weather to make more tile embryos, and I could open the furnace and keep firing after the tile embryos were done first.
Maybe Brother Qian's side has done a similar job, and the rest will have to wait for Midakang and their stones to be transported back before they can start work again, so let Ye Qingchen come to help me do things here first. At this time, it happened that I was burning a fire, so I asked Ye Qingchen to help split five small tree trunks and use them to dry the tile embryos.
At first, he had little experience and wanted to use a knife to split the trunks from the top, but this method was too stupid to be suitable. So I crawled out of the pit and began to teach him.
First put the tall tree into the dirt pit, so that one end can be on Ye Qingchen's chest, and then try to split the trunk a little bit. After that, as long as you put a pebble or pebble in the split gap, hit it hard with the back of the knife, and when the crack is larger, find a branch to get stuck into the gap, and with the beating of the back of the knife, the crack will get bigger and bigger, and you can always divide the trunk into two pieces.
After watching my operation, Ye Qingchen suddenly realized, and began to become eager to try, at first he was still a little unskilled, when he came, the tree was a little crooked, either split a little bit and fell off, or the two sides of the split trunk were completely asymmetrical.
Knowing that when you split the fifth trunk, you start to become proficient, this practice is very simple to say, but as long as you see it, you will know that this thing is not so easy, because every blow requires great physical strength, and every blow must be hammered hard to make the branches stuck in it go down, and try to maintain an average force use to make the split trunk more symmetrical.
The fire in the earthen stove was getting stronger and hotter, and I began to repeatedly go into the pit to add firewood as I did last time, and after nearly two hours of firing, I saw that Midakang and Ying Yuefeng had also returned.
Ye Qingchen had already chopped four small tree trunks, and after he rested for a while, he began to make tile embryos according to the method I taught him. The matching efficiency of the two people is more than a little higher. I still have a lot of soil from the termite nest I got last time, and I can make at least twenty or thirty tile embryos.
This time the firing seems to be quite smooth, the last firing poured this time there was already a pop in the furnace, it should be the sound of tiles breaking, but this time it didn't, I hope it can be maintained.
A few hours have passed, and the temperature in the furnace is already very high, and Ye Qingchen, who is still some distance from the stove, has been blown out of sweat by the heat wave, not to mention me. The thought of enjoying this sauna-like feeling made me feel a little broken, and I really wished that there would be a big stove to finish firing it once. But it can't be, I've also thought about it, if the stove is too big, the temperature after burning the firewood will probably not reach the firing temperature. All you can only think about.
I have seen that the process is more troublesome, and it also takes a lot of time, and the main thing is that the amount that can be obtained is not very large, and it cannot be used to burn tiles at all, so the charcoal has to wait until it is empty later.