Volume 1 The First Advent Chapter 33 Charcoal Burning and Ash Furnace Building
After returning home, Ding Qi first washed and peeled a fish, skewered it on a wooden stick and grilled it on the fire. Then quickly pack up the two bamboo shoots, slice them, and blanch them in water for three minutes to remove oxalic acid. Then the snail is smashed with a stone, the meat is picked out, the internal organs are removed, and then cleaned. Then Ding Qi took out the treasured red peppers, collected the pepper seeds, and kept the pepper skins for stir-frying snails.
There was no oil, so Ding Qi had to scrape off the smoked lizard, throw it into the hanging pot to melt, and then put the red pepper and snail meat into it, the high-temperature lizard oil roasted the snail meat and chili, exuding a strange sweet fragrance, mixed with the spicy smell of chili, which made Ding Qi's taste buds can't help but get excited.
Take out your own spoon and keep stir-frying, and finally throw the bamboo shoots, mushrooms, and fungus shreds into it, add a little salt to enhance the flavor, and a piece of bamboo shoots and fried snail meat out of the pot, the fragrance is fragrant, so that Ding Qi's index finger moves, and he took a pair of bamboo chopsticks next to him and put the snail meat bamboo shoots into his mouth. The crisp bamboo shoots and the smooth snail meat really complement each other perfectly, and I can't wait to have a big pot of rice there now, and eat three bowls of rice.
The snail meat is good, and the fish next to it is also grilled. gave the little cutie half a piece of fish, but didn't get a positive response from it, just stared at the dishes in the hanging pot and twitched his nose, and even rubbed the edge of the pot several times to smell the smell inside, due to the high temperature, he has been hesitant to step forward and grab a paw up.
Ding Qi also hesitated, not because he was afraid that the cutie would eat all the dishes he made, but because he was worried about the chili peppers in it. After thinking about it for a while, Ding Qi took out two snails and put them in front of the cutie, warning it that this thing is spicy and should be eaten carefully.
The little cutie didn't have so many concerns, the newborn calf was not afraid of the tiger, and he was stunned, so he rushed up and rolled the two snails into his mouth with his tongue, smashed it twice and swallowed it, licked his mouth, and it was a picture of unfinished and expectant face.
Ding Qi, who was waiting for the little cutie to eat the chili pepper and jump up and down, with a lot of snot and tears, was shocked and dropped his jaw.
The little cutie turned out to be fine, and the lynx that ate the pepper was really fine, and she was looking forward to it. What's going on, isn't that a chili pepper? Ding Qi tried it just now, and the taste of chili pepper is still lingering in his mouth.
Could it be that this kidnapped lynx is not afraid of chili peppers? This can only be explained in this way.
Ding Qi, who didn't believe in evil, put two chopsticks and snail meat with chili peppers and bamboo shoots in front of the little cutie, and before he could say hello, the little cutie had already stepped forward to eat the food given to it, licked his mouth, and was still fine.
At this point, Ding Qicai believes that the little cutie is a lynx who is not afraid of spicy, but I don't know if I like it, and I don't know if I like it, but I don't like it and I like it.
After eating and drinking, he got up and took out his toolbox, removed one of the two remaining guardrails from the trunk, burned one of them in the fire until it was red, and beat it repeatedly with an axe to make a sharp spear-like shape. The other end was similarly forged, resulting in a steel spear with sharp tips at both ends, which could be used later in battle, especially in confined environments.
After making the steel spear, Ding Qi got up and peeled, sliced, and blanched the remaining bamboo shoots, and then put them on the large leaves picked back to dry, ready to be dried into bamboo shoots for easy storage.
After all this, it was already two o'clock in the morning, and Ding Qi had to hurry to sleep, so as not to delay tomorrow's business.
The next morning, after washing up, Ding Qi took advantage of the cooking time to take the little cutie to the forest, checked the state of those traps, and collected two hares and a pheasant, one of the rabbits and the pheasant were alive, which made Ding Qi very happy, domesticated animals can have a much longer shelf life than smoked animals, and you can try to raise them when you go back. After collecting two large bundles of vine plants, Ding Qi carried the two living creatures and carried the harvest on his back.
When they returned to the camp, they first tied up the live rabbits with their legs crossed in front and back, and the pheasants cut off their long feathers to prevent them from escaping or flying away, and tied them to two goats, and then set up two cages to raise them when they were free.
Then he collected a large pile of stones and cut down two trees around to prepare for today's two tasks, one is to burn charcoal and the other is to build an ash kiln. Both jobs have one thing in common, or they both need the same material, and that is mud mixed with weeds.
Therefore, Tinch took a long shovel and went to the stream near the forest, and chose a relatively high slope for the ash kiln and charcoal burning. First, a soil hole was dug next to the soil slope, two meters long, one and a half meters high, and one meter deep, and then the timber of the two trees was sawed into a stake half a meter high and put it in, and there was firewood and grass underneath, and some firewood and grass were stuffed in the middle, in order to facilitate the burning of wood.
Then Ding Qi dug a pit in the pile of soil that had been dug up, poured it into the stream, mixed it into mud, and then put in the weeds collected in advance, and after stepping on it with his bare feet, he set the firewood and the wood on fire, and threw the mixed mud on the pile of wood, and applied a thick layer, leaving a fire door and a smoke outlet. After the combustion is sufficient, the fire door is sealed, and the smoke is discharged from the smoke outlet, so that the firewood inside is burned slowly and carbonized, and the outer mud shell can be cooled out of the kiln.
As for the ash kiln, Ding Qi is not ready to build a particularly large kiln, first, it is unrealistic for him to be alone at present, and second, he only needs to prepare enough kilns, and there is no need to build a large kiln.
The ash kiln should be built with two layers, the upper layer is the furnace body to fill the raw materials, the lower layer is the bottom of the furnace, which is used to burn the fire and take the slag, and the middle is used to block the raw materials or slag with a refractory chamber.
Ding Qi first used a shovel to dig a platform on the soil slope, dug a fire hole below, and began to build stones on the top, smeared yellow mud, and set aside a damper, and finally built an ash kiln with a height of one meter, a radius of 50 centimeters in the middle furnace, and a feeding port on it.
Then Ding Qi made a round chamber with a radius of 50 centimeters from yellow clay, which was relatively thick, and placed it between the bottom of the furnace and the body of the furnace, and then took a firewood rack to burn it, and burned it directly for more than two hours, and then the chamber was burned red. In the process of firing, also check whether there are gaps in the furnace body at any time, and quickly paste it with yellow mud as soon as it is found, until the whole is tightly sealed, there is no major problem, and it can also ensure that the temperature will not be too missing, and it can meet the requirements of smelting copper ore, iron ore or burning lime.
While firing the furnace and inspecting the furnace body, Ding Qi focused on how to make a blow dryer to facilitate the supply of air to the ash kiln.