Jiajia and her brother Chen Jiacheng are curious to look at all this, the quiet and charming scenery, the mountains and forests rich in products, and the well-cared after the countryside, they also want to live here!

Pei Yao pulled Jiajia, who got off the horse, and beckoned the two of them to come in and have a look.

Chen Jiacheng first went to the bamboo forest to tie up the horse, there is a lot of grass in the bamboo forest, even Pei Yao said that there is a lot of alfalfa grass, he saw that the horse really likes to eat, and he has a number in his heart.

Seeing the chicken pens and finely handmade chicken cages in the bamboo forest, Chen Jiacheng admired this girl's ability and ingenuity! When he turned around and returned to the cave, he happened to see the bamboo shed blocked by the cave, this time he did not sigh that Pei Yao was capable, but sighed that she also suffered hardship, a 13-year-old girl, she can take care of the house and outside in an orderly manner, and she is not inferior to a man at all!

Originally, he felt sorry for the girl who lived in a cave, but when he went in, he found that this wide cave was completely better than ordinary houses, and there was a small pile of neat and chopped firewood near the door. In addition to a stone platform, there is a bamboo shelf that circles against the mountain wall, and the shelves are full of food but not messy, and it is well organized.

Seeing that the food in the cave was complete, he was as surprised as Jiajia who came in before, this life is really good!

Chen Jiacheng listened to Pei Yao tell Jiajia about the introduction of the stone platform.

"This stone is built on the fire kang, but it has not been completed yet, and now it is dry, and finally a layer of yellow mud is applied to seal the gap on the surface, and then the flue is built to the exit with a stone on the chimney, and it is completed." As she spoke, Pei Yao also pointed to the hole left in the wall of the cave.

She knows what the fire kang is, but the brother and sister don't know. Jiajia asked, "Sister Yao, what is the fire kang for, it's so big?" ”

Pei Yao looked at Chen Jiacheng and was also confused, but she was very curious and listened to her explanation: "The kang is a kind of bed used to sleep, that is, to cook on the stove, the hot firewood smoke will go down the bottom of the kang to the outside, and when the meal is ready, the kang is hot, and the quilt is spread on it at night, and the kang under the body can be kept hot overnight, and the winter will be more comfortable." ”

Chen Jiacheng and Jiajia were surprised and admired, and Chen Jiacheng couldn't help but interject: "This thing is called Huokang?" Is it enough to heat up such a large kang noodles directly with the fire that cooks rice? ”

"If it's a particularly cold time in the depths of winter, just throw two thick pieces of wood in the stove pit at night and burn them slowly to keep it hot. And the kang is not all the kang can be hot, if you burn more, the kang head will be hot, the kang tip is hot, and the less you burn, the more the kang head will be cooler to the kang tip. Moreover, if the kang is not covered with a quilt during the day, the temperature will be dissipated, and the temperature in the house will also rise. ”

Chen Jiacheng understood, and he also keenly felt that if this method spread, it would definitely spread in this winter realm.

He said to Pei Yao: "What do you do, I'll help you learn by the way, go back and build one for your family, so that you won't suffer much in winter." ”

"Of course you want to learn from me, but you don't know if your house is okay?" Pei Yao said: "This chimney sometimes if there is a spark spewing out, it is not okay for the thatched roof to fall on the sparks, if the chimney goes from the wall below, I am also worried that your mud house can still dig holes?" But if it's your grandmother's kind of stone tile house, it's fine. ”

Pei Yao gave him his own opinion, don't he don't know, the house is damaged, let alone happy, there is no place to sleep.

Listening to her words, the Chen family was a little gloomy, and the stone tile house also had a part of his family, but he was driven out.

Pei Yao was stumped by this, Pei Yao didn't say anything, pulled Jiajia to sit on the small rattan stool she made, and moved another one for Chen Jiacheng.

So he went to the inner shelf and brought out a small pot of chestnuts, and still set up an iron pot with stones on the fire, filled it with water, put a wooden fork into a basin made of willow branches, poured all the washed chestnuts into the willow branch basin, and steamed it through the water.

I went outside to pick a few cucumbers, washed them and brought them to the small rattan table, and brought a little sauce in a bowl for them to eat.

"Wow, Sister Yao, there are still cucumbers now, my family has long been off the shelves, hehe, I just saw the cucumbers in the field outside and I was hungry" Jiajia didn't see the outside and got started directly, in front of her brothers and sisters, that's not polite, who let both of them love her!

Pei Yao nodded at her with a smile: "I can already see that you are staring at the cucumber outside, otherwise I will serve you pears to eat." ”

Jiajia stuck out her tongue, picked up a cucumber and took a bite of it crisply, and said inarticulately: "It's a good ruler."

Watching the smoke rise from the stove, Pei Yao said: "It's still early, wait until I take you into the mountain, collect more food and bring it back to my aunt." ”

When Chen Jiacheng heard her arrangement, he also felt that it was okay, he would have to raise his father's grave tomorrow, and he had to find familiar help, it was inevitable to have a meal, and it was good to pick more mushrooms or something.

Then he got up and said, "Xiao Yao, how do you get this kang, let's go to the mountains together when we're done." ”