Chapter 42: Charcoal
"Mr. Kaziba, you have time to breathe today. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info "Morey and Kaziba are not yet acquainted with each other, this strange old man has been placed in a separate house since he came to the tribe.
At first, Thor announced that Kazibah was the new witch doctor of the tribe, who would heal the wounded and sick. Later, Morey met the two for a secret night talk, after which Kaziba was assigned to a private room.
Staying in the house every day, he hardly came out, except for Diana and Thor, who would visit his room from time to time, and the others rarely approached, because the house always emitted a pungent and unpleasant smell of medicine, and even the dire wolves would not take the initiative to approach.
Thor also placed two warriors guarding the door, and ordinary people were also forbidden to enter, and according to Thor himself, Kaziba seemed to be researching some new variety of seeds, and Morey could recall the way Thor and himself were frowning.
Kaziba smiled mysteriously, did not answer Morey directly, he stretched out his dry old hand to cover his head, squinted his eyes at the sun in the sky, although both of them were old men, but if you look at the appearance alone, Morey is at least twenty years younger than Kaziba.
"The sun here is quite pleasant—" Kazba said hoarsely, squinting at a blazing sun in the sky, "I heard that there's a continent not far from here—"
Morey waited for a long time, and did not wait for the second half of Kaziba's words, so he could only reluctantly answer: "Wotan is indeed not far from here, whether it is Chateauroux in the southwest of the Kingdom of France, or Leco City in the southeast, it is only a two-day sailing schedule. ”
After a pause, the familiar name came to mind, Morey was suddenly a little touched, he hadn't mentioned the name of his hometown for a long time, he thought he was about to forget, but he didn't expect to think of it at this time, but the terrain of Flange was so clear and vivid.
Later, Morey was already a little absent-minded: "As for Worms, the distance to here is almost two or three days......"
"Then I'll have to ask you more about another continent." Kaziba replied in a low voice, and without saying hello, he turned, hunched over, and walked slowly towards his hut.
"Strange people" Morey thought to himself, but strange people generally have special skills, such as Kratos, although he is also taciturn and cold, but Morey has to admit that even General Bedwell, who is known as the "cornerstone of the kingdom" in France, may not be stronger than him.
"There are so many people around Noam......
"Ahh Sneezing heavily, Thor touched his nose and muttered, "Isn't it raining and catching a cold" He was now with wet mud on his hands, and was piling up a half-man-high conical hill, behind him, Tula, Bertha, and several other clansmen, with a few small dire wolves, watching intently.
Thor wasn't playing with the kids, but was going to burn some charcoal.
The arrival of the witch doctor Kazba is Thor's biggest surprise these days, even surpassing the dinosaur pack that inhabits the tribe.
After studying several species of forest plants, the gloomy old man began to try to breed cassava and canolea seeds, which were easier to grow and ripen faster.
With Diana's cooperation, the two had recently experimented with thousands of schemes, and eventually seemed to have bred the first experimental seeds, which Thor named "Hope One".
Diana was full of praise for Kazba's vast knowledge of herbs, saying that he was simply a master of plants, and it was no wonder that the eccentric witch doctor was able to find out the properties of plants that he had never seen before, the growth cycle, etc., in a very short time.
Seeing that the cassava and oil beans in the experimental field were about to blossom and bear fruit, and the seeds of "Hope No. 1" were about to be bred in large quantities, Saul looked at the stone farming tools in the hands of the tribesmen anxiously, and he knew that if he wanted to expand the planting area, it would not work without changing the people's tools.
So he wanted to make iron, and burning charcoal was the first step in preparing for ironmaking.
The mud-filled pile was filled with chopped firewood and some dead branches and leaves that were used as ignition materials.
A large hole was left at the top for ignition, and a few small holes were cut out by Thor for air intake below, and when the charcoal was burned, it had to be sealed again with mud, waiting for a day and a night before it could be used.
Thor made three of these mud stoves at once, and he needed to burn them while explaining them to the people behind him.
"Come to Tula and hand me the torch." Thor came to the first pile of mud, took the torch that Tula trotted over, and shoved the flaming torch head into the hole left above.
The branches and leaves used for ignition were soon set on fire, and after a while smoke began to rise from the tandoor, Thor blew vigorously at the opening above, and after a few "whirring" sounds, the fire slowly spread.
"Remember, after the top burns, you have to watch the air intake below." Thor looked back at the people who were trying to listen to him, and he had to teach them how to burn charcoal, or he would not be able to do it alone.
Thor lay on the ground, staring at the air intake, and Tula on the side also followed suit, looking inside carefully from behind Thor in the same way.
After a while, he saw a red fire flickering in the small hole, and Thor raised his head and hurriedly called the people who were studying, and shouted: "Come and see, when you see a fire burning here in this small hole, you can seal the hole." As he spoke, he took a handful of wet dirt from his side, applied it evenly to the air intake, and tightly sealed the small hole.
"The other holes are the same, one by one," Thor led the group around the stove in a circle.
"Brother Thor! Here, here burned! Bertha turned to the other side of Thor, jumped up and shouted at him excitedly.
"Okay, Bertha, find some wet mud and glue the hole up." Thor pointed, and Tula on the side had already brought a handful of dirt, and following Thor's example, he carefully smoothed the hole.
Bertha frowned and looked at Tula, the little boy had robbed him of his job, and it was clear that she had found out first and told Brother Saul, who had personally instructed her to paste the little hole.
"Forget it, don't bother with him," Bertha thought, beckoning to the gray wind and turning towards the other small holes, but the corners of her mouth remained curved, revealing a deep displeasure in her heart.
"This Tula has been sticking to Brother Sol lately, asking questions, so I don't have time to play with Brother Sol." Inexplicably jealous in her heart, Bertha gave the boy a hateful look.
Without noticing, Tula ran to the side, carefully examined a small hole, and waited intently for the right moment to plug it.
Thor saw everything in his eyes, shook his head and smiled bitterly, he didn't have time to care about the awkwardness of the two children now, and there were still several people behind him who didn't understand, so he could only come to the second earthen furnace and demonstrate it again.