Chapter 720: No Essence in This Era!
As the name suggests, the so-called cellaring is to dig a grain cellar in the ground and use it to store grain.
However, unlike radish cellars, sweet potato cellars, and cabbage cellars that need moisture, grain storage cellars cannot be made wet.
After thinking of the method of cellaring, the method of building the grain cellar also appeared in Han Cheng's mind.
Basically, choose a place where the ground is relatively high and the groundwater is not very strong to dig down the grain cellar.
After digging, ram the earth inside the grain cellar, then pile firewood and grass into the grain cellar, light a fire to bake, bake the bottom and four walls of the grain cellar, lay dry wooden boards on the grass and wood ashes at the bottom layer, and stack grain on the wooden boards.
However, the grain cannot be directly in contact with the surrounding soil wall, and it needs to be surrounded by dustpans woven from things such as Shu millet poles and hemp poles.
In the gap between these things and the soil wall, fill in a layer of plant ash, wheat bran, and grain bran to prevent moisture.
When loading grain into the cellar, it is also necessary to dry the grain very dry, and then wait until the winter is cold, and then load the grain into the grain cellar, which is to achieve low temperature storage.
After loading, seal the kiln, and it is finished.
Grain stored in this way can be kept for as little as three to five years without spoiling.
And because it is sealed underground, there is no need to worry about insects and rats.
And there is no need to empty the stored grain every year and dry it at least once a year, as is the case with ordinary grain storage.
This is not the main thing, the main thing is that because the grain is stored in the ground through cellars, there is no need to worry about burning the grain by fire!
Thinking of the benefits of cellaring, the more Han Cheng thought about it, the more excited he became.
As for the need to dig soil to build a grain cellar, Han Cheng didn't care about the trouble at all.
Compared to such a good way of storing food, it doesn't matter if it takes a lot of work.
Moreover, for the Qingque tribe, which is now building a large number of buildings, it is really not too troublesome to dig out some grain cellars, after all, they need to use a lot of soil every day to build houses and other things.
The big fish pond outside the tribe alone has been dug out of two by now!
Han Dashenzi, who had figured out the matter, took a big bite of the raw radish hard, chewed it vigorously, and ran towards the tribe like a joy, ready to tell the people in the tribe the good news.
It was at such times that the dogs roaming around the tribe began to bark.
While shouting, he also ran to the east of the tribe.
Han Cheng squinted his eyes and stared, only to see several figures appear at the end of the field.
It's too far away to see who is coming.
However, from the fact that they did not turn around and flee in the face of many dogs, or attacked the dogs with the weapons they were holding, it was clear that these people had come to the tribe before.
Han Cheng stood here and didn't go to the east, and the senior brother who heard the movement led some people out.
Until now, the vigilance of the Qingque tribesmen has not decreased in the slightest.
When he came out after hearing the movement, he had weapons in his hands.
This is a valuable lesson left by the two previous attacks of the Teng Snake tribe and the sudden attack of the bone tribe to the people in the tribe.
After waiting for a while, Senior Brother headed towards the east with some people with weapons, and Han Cheng continued to stand here and watch......
"It's the sheep tribe!"
After the elder brother and the others passed, it didn't take long for them to return.
Seeing that Han Cheng was still standing here, the senior brother shouted from afar, conveying the news to Han Cheng.
It turned out to be a sheep tribe.
Han Cheng was relieved.
Yes, at this time of year, the people of the sheep tribe will bring a large number of sheep to the tribe for exchange.
For a long time, I have been thinking about the grain cellar, but I have forgotten that the sheep tribe has not come to exchange things until now!
Haha, this time it's going to be a mouthful, fresh lamb stewed with fresh radish is also a rare delicacy.
As for the lamb chops, which are not too meaty, they are particularly fascinating to eat over a charcoal fire.
Han Cheng swallowed his saliva and thought like this, but his brows slowly furrowed.
As the elder brother and them kept getting closer, he could already see these people from the sheep tribe who had come.
The people of the sheep tribe who came this time were not only small in number, but also did not carry sheep with them.
Moreover, among the few people who came, Han Cheng did not see the leader of the sheep tribe.
What's going on?
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After seeing Han Cheng, the older primitive man of the sheep tribe seemed a little restrained and afraid, but after thinking of what happened to their tribe, he quickly overcame these and said to Han Cheng.
Looking at the old primitive man who spoke very quickly, Han Cheng's brows furrowed even harder.
On the one hand, it was because from the reactions of these people, he could be sure that something not very good had happened in the sheep tribe, and on the other hand, the old primitive man said it too quickly, and Han Cheng couldn't quite understand what he meant by what he was saying now.
Han Cheng stopped the old primitives and motioned for them to enter the tribe.
At the same time, let people quickly find Mao, a foreign language talent who often dealt with many tribes, and ask someone to make some food for these people to eat.
After all, judging by the tired looks of these people, they should have not eaten for a long time.
Now is the time to do something else, not to do business, so naturally there is no need to compete with the baht as before.
After arranging these, Han Cheng instructed the senior brother to arrange some people to pay attention to the vigilance, and call back all the people outside the courtyard.
Now that the situation is unknown, there is nothing wrong with being cautious.
With the arrival of several people from the Sheep Tribe, and Han Cheng's several orders, the Qingque tribe immediately became nervous.
Of course, this tension refers to the cautious and solemn attitude of the people in the tribe in the face of danger, not that it is the fear of danger that causes tension.
With the translation of Mao on the side, Han Cheng's brows gradually furrowed, and the high-level leaders of the Qingque tribe such as Wu and Senior Brother on the side also became solemn.
At this time, Han Cheng didn't think about the fact that the sheep tribe actually knew about a sheep migration path, but was thinking about what happened to the leader of the sheep tribe.
According to the story of this sheep tribesman, nine times out of ten, the leader of the sheep tribe has encountered an accident.
And it is very likely that the one who did it to them was a relatively powerful tribe.
Because there were nearly twenty adult primitives, no beast could kill them all.
Another reason is that even if they really encountered an extremely ferocious beast that caused the people of the sheep tribe to be wiped out, these beasts would not take the pottery away anyway!
After all, this era is not allowed to become a refinement.