Since a large number of clay pots are needed to make salt, and more clay pots and pots are needed to preserve coarse salt, caves for firing pottery are also built.

Among the craftsmen who followed, there were people who had been learning to burn bricks from the red deer, but Ding Qi set a task for this group of people: to burn green bricks.

In order to reduce the workload and achieve the purpose of one kiln for multiple purposes, the sunken brick kiln they built this time is not large. Dig a pit of 15 meters long and 5 meters wide and 4 meters deep in the east-west direction, and then start digging five kilns along the north edge, the diameter of the kiln is two meters, the height is three meters, the partition between the kiln and the kiln is one meter and two, and the partition will dig out a hole of 50 centimeters in length and width, which is convenient for the rapid circulation of kiln temperature, and the temperature of the first kiln is used to preheat the kiln temperature and reduce fuel consumption. It is usually sealed with adobe, and when the bricks are burned, they can be opened and sprayed with water to test the method of making green bricks.

Facing the kiln door, a flue was dug backwards, thirty centimeters long and wide, leading to the ground. When you start to light the bricks, seal the kiln door with adobe and smear a layer of mud on the outside to keep it warm.

The design was the result of discussions between Ding Qi and the red deer and their craftsmen. When firing the kiln, the second and fourth kilns are fired first, and their kiln temperatures are used to preheat the kiln temperature of the three kilns of 135 when leaving the kiln, and the kiln temperature is alternately fired.

According to preliminary calculations, it takes five days before and after firing, and one kiln can burn about 2,000 bricks, and five kilns can fire about 10,000 bricks, and the speed is still very fast.

When the bricks are no longer burned, the pottery can be burned, the space is small, the kiln temperature rises quickly, and it can meet the needs of firing pottery.

While the rats are being constructed, their lives must continue, and the salt mine is being collected and coarse salt production is being carried out at the same time. They would also send a squad of warriors out to hunt every day, and after skinning and dividing the prey, the surplus would be pickled, dried and stored. As for the unwanted animal entrails, bones, etc., they will be fed to the wolves.

For wolves, these things like going into the water are not too much, but they can give hope to the old, infirm and young members of their pack. Originally, the rat planned to prepare animal meat for the two wolf kings, but they didn't like it, so they directly gave the meat to the weak in the tribe, and chose to lead the wolves out to hunt. This made the rats very moved, so every time they brought these back, they would give them to the weak.

Every time the hunting party returned, the weak ones would come up to them from afar, shouting excitedly around them. They are already familiar with the people in front of them, are not afraid of humans, and even prefer to be close to humans. They help the hunting party haul the small prey back, and when the humans skin and divide it, they sit silently until they divide the water and bones equally among themselves.

Older wolves have dignity of their own and do not bother humans when they eat. But the little ones don't care about this, they don't eat too much, they will come to the human world, swallow the rest of the human food into their own stomachs, and thus their relationship with the human race becomes closer and closer.

When the hunting party goes out hunting, they sometimes come across wolves that go out to hunt. By observing the way humans hunt, wolves are smart enough to combine the way they round up their prey with human hunting. They will chase their prey into the encirclement of humans, who will kill the prey and distribute it to their own prey.

The wolves who cooperated with humans to hunt found that this way of cooperation was easy for them, and they no longer had to run long distances like before, as if they were tired of something, and they might not be able to catch them. They began to like this cooperative way of hunting, where they could easily get food, and all they had to pay for was to run and drive their prey to the eyes of humans.

Seeing that their group began to cooperate with humans, Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai did not object, but personally led the wolves to hunt with humans to encourage them in this way.

More and more wolves began to like to be with humans, and when the hunting party set out in the morning, some wolves

The herd will be followed by humans, who are responsible for driving away the animals, which are then shot by the humans using bows and arrows. Especially for animals such as rabbits, which prefer to hide in grass and bushes, they can easily obtain prey by pulling their prey into human nets.

If Ding Qi is here, he will find that the wolf pack led by Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai is developing in the direction of hunting dogs, and is slowly becoming the most important hunting companion of humans.

But Tinch didn't know this, at this time he was advancing with his men in a canyon.

The canyon was wide, overgrown with a man's height of weeds, and from time to time large shrubs grew in between, and occasionally tall trees, standing alone, swaying in the wind, but not affecting the shouting of the above.

The wind blew and knocked down the grass, and the grass rose and fell like a wave, but there was still nothing to see underneath.

Luckily, Tinch was on a horse and could see what was ahead. If they come in by walking, they will get lost in this wild grass.

Ding Qi and his team made their way along the old horseshoe marks in the Wild Horse Valley and on the hillside, and when they arrived, they were full of wild grass, covering the marks of the horses and hiding the danger in them. Seeing that there was no way to go, Ding Qi found that this part of the grass grew a little low, like a road, winding and winding, as if pointing to a smooth path.

He scattered the people and searched for horseshoe prints at the entrance, eventually determining that only there were some horseshoe prints underneath the low grass, and that there were only weeds and dead bones elsewhere. The trail, about forty or fifty meters wide, is similar to that of a herd of horses. Ding Qi speculated that a large number of horses had passed through this area for thousands of years to trample the wild grass, and then continued to grow, affecting the way the wild grass grew above, causing the same grass to be a part lower than the surrounding grass.

At this moment, Xiao Erhei, who was under Ding Qi's crotch, took the initiative to walk into this horse road without being driven by him. As he walked, he snorted and seemed to be in a good mood

An old ox makes a straight furrow?

Ding Qi was excited in his heart, thinking that he really didn't hurt this big dark horse in vain, and it came in handy at the critical moment.

With a whistle, the people behind him protected the cloud in the middle and followed into the meadow. Cang and Ling drew their weapons and followed closely on Ding Qi's left and right, alerting to the movements around him, for fear that any danger would occur. Ding Qi raised his hand and made a gesture, and Jin in the air quickly responded, smoothly slicing through a circle.

Wow~

Kim signaled that there was no danger ahead.

turned around to look for the cute figure, but didn't find it, it should have been when Xiao Erhei stepped into this grassland, it had already come in to observe the surrounding environment.

Since everyone could see the situation around them while sitting on the horse, everyone was not too uneasy and laughed from time to time. More than a dozen horses walked in a balanced manner, flicking their tails to drive away all kinds of flying insects that were startled in the grass, crickets and other songworms that kept calling.

The weather is very hot, and the grass is even more stuffy, and within half an hour of walking in, the body is already soaked, some people can't stand it and simply take off the short coat on the upper body, even the horses are sweating, and some flyflies smell the sweat on the horses and run over to suck blood.

Ding Qi didn't feel any discomfort, the temperature here in summer was about 25 degrees, which was about the same as the temperature in the northeast before the crossing. He'd experienced many sauna days a year with temperatures above 40°C, and the stuffiness wasn't a big deal.

He was observing the grass around him and the mountains on both sides of the canyon when he suddenly noticed a sudden silence around him.

Ding Qi waved his right arm, and everyone immediately stopped their horses.

Immediately after, a cute roar came from the left front.

"Wow!"

It's the sound it makes when it encounters an enemy that it can't deal with.

Soon there was the sound of a fight over there, and Xiao Jin in the sky also sounded the alarm at the right time

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"Wow~"

Ding Qi looked up and saw that Xiao Jin's body fell rapidly, and then quickly raised, circling quickly, signaling that something dangerous was rushing around him.

The fight continued on the cutie's side, and when I looked over the horse, the grass was stirring, and occasionally there was a low roar or two, like a wolf or a dog.

Ding Qi hurriedly let out a whistle to summon the cutie back.

I saw that the grass in that direction quickly parted on both sides, like a fish crossing the water surface to form a wave, and then quickly closed. followed by another wave of grass, followed by the wave of grass in front, chasing after it!

"Woo~woo~"

Suddenly, a wolf's howl was heard from a large boulder on the edge of the canyon in the distance. When Dingqi looked there, he saw a tall gray wolf standing on a boulder and howling.

Like a clarion call for a general attack suddenly, Ding Qi and the others soon found that dozens of ripples instantly appeared in the surrounding grass, breaking through the barrier of the tall grass and rushing towards themselves in the middle.

Dingch understood that they had fallen into the encirclement of the wolves. They used the tall grass to hide their figures, and even the little gold in the sky could not detect it. They gradually shrink their encirclement, waiting until they are small enough to launch a surprise attack, tearing both men and beasts to pieces, like the horses of the past, always leaving behind the old and weak to fill their own people.

Unfortunately, they didn't expect a wolf predator to exist in their ranks. It was the little cutie who discovered the existence of a wolf in front of him during his sneaking, and he was the first to warn and fight with the other party.

The wolf king hiding on the boulder had no choice but to attack in advance to try to maximize the results of the hunt.

Herod~

Some horses began to get restless, kicking their hooves in circles, and some horses began to panic and snort in an attempt to flee the area, but were restrained by warriors on horseback. Only Xiao Erhei was a little calm, and he was not as flustered as his kind, it should have experienced the same calamity a long time ago! Of course, judging from the fact that it is always afraid of Ding Qi, it is not afraid of this group of wolves!

It has seen more powerful wolf kings, not to mention these ordinary gray wolves?

Looking at the warriors on horseback again, except for Yun who was a little flustered, the others were very calm, drew their mountain opening knives, held bronze spears, and waited for the battle.

Just when the wolves were around and the situation began to become precarious, Ding Qi shouted:

"Dismount and chop the grass!"

Including the soil, the thirteen people immediately dismounted, waved the mountain opening knife in their hands and quickly cut down the tall grass in front of them.

Brush! Brush! Brush!

The tall grass fell down, and along with the grass around them, only knee-high stalks remained.

In less than twenty seconds, thirteen people immediately cleared out a space of about ten meters.

"Go on! Return to the center after five breaths! ”

Sitting on horseback, Ding Qi was staring at the movements of the wolves on the outskirts, estimating that they would arrive in ten breaths, and quickly ordered them to expand the space to facilitate the next battle. He knew that his side would not have an advantage in fighting the wolves in the dense tall grass, and that he would have to make enough space to give his side enough time to react.

After five breaths, after expanding the space of about seven or eight meters, everyone quickly retreated to the center, stood in a circle around the horses, and took their bows and arrows from the horses to meet the upcoming tough battle.

Ding Qi had already dismounted, inserted the stainless steel mountain knife into the soil in front of him, stretched out his bow and arrows, and exhaled in the direction of the cutie's return:

"Fight!"

"Hah! Ha! ”

The fighting spirit of the crowd rose, and they echoed loudly to enhance their momentum. Although there were only ten people, the sound reached into the sky, and seemed to shake the tall grass around it and tip outward, making the wolves frightened.