The kitchen pot and stove operated by Liu Min was built by Liu Minniang under the guidance of Liu Er, Huo Renfu and others when she was still alive.

Before Liu Minniang's mother entered Liu Er's house, theoretically speaking, Liu Er's family and even the entire Baishulin Village did not have the concept of pot stove; When cooking and eating, put a few bricks on the ground in the house, put an iron pot on it, add water to the fire, and after the firewood is lit, the house is covered with smoke and fog.

Even in the 21st century, the practice of not having a stove was still prevalent in the villages along the southwestern border.

Liu Minniang personally went to Liu Er's house and felt very disturbed when she saw such a cooking facility, and immediately urged Liu Er's base plate to build a new pot.

New pot table? Liu Er didn't have the slightest impression of such a title, and when his father and mother were alive, they put a few bricks or stones on the floor of the house; Put an iron pot on top to boil water for cooking, and I have never heard of such a pot table.

Liu Er wants to ask Liu Minniang what is the base plate pot table? But Liu Minniang's handsome appearance had just entered his home, where the whole family was not hungry, and Liu Er was a little embarrassed; So he went to Xiaodongzhuang to find Huo Renfu.

The cypress grove is a large village with a population of one or two thousand; It is divided into four small Zhuangzi in the east, west, south and north, and the Jixian Temple, which has been burning incense for many years, is in the center of the four small Zhuangzi.

Liu Er's home is in Xiaonanzhuang, while Huo Renfu's home is in Xiaodongzhuang.

Liu Er rushed to Xiaodongzhuang to learn from Liu Minniang about the pot stove, and Huo Renfu was also stunned.

Because the Huo family is the same as Liu Er's family, cooking is to put a few bricks or stones on the floor of the house to boil water and cook rice.

As soon as Liu Minniang's words came out of Liu Er's mouth, they quickly spread in the four small villages in the cypress forest.

Some people have been to the Guanzhong Plain in the north of the Qinling Mountains, saying that the pot stove in the countryside there is the kind that Liu Minniang personally talked about; The pot stove is a high platform built up with bricks or huji and adobe, and there are several stove pits for pots and stove eyes for burning fires on the high platform; Smoke from the stove came out through the chimney, which led all the way out of the house; There is no smoke in the house when cooking.

As soon as the people who went to the customs said this, Huo Renfu immediately reacted; clapping your hands with a clap; Laughing, he said: "Guanzhong is the birthplace of the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties, and it is much more advanced than the living habits here in Chengdu Mansion!" ”

After a pause, he said solemnly: "When Qin Huiwen was king, Li Bing, the king and the second king who built Dujiangyan, were from Guanzhong, and Dujiangyan brought generations of favors to the people of Chengdu!" If you can't figure it out, Liu Minniang is a fellow villager with the king and the second king, she said that we must listen to the pot and pan stove! ”

As soon as Grandpa Huo said this, hundreds of people poured in from Liu's family, and Grandpa Huo asked Liu Minniang if he could draw a pot stove style.

Of course, this is difficult for Liu Min's mother, she has been practicing painting since she was a child; Soon draw a sketch of the stove and the pot.

Huo Renfu and Liu Er, Ba Si, Xu Hu and a group of villagers praised after seeing it.

Liu Minniang said: "The materials for the pot and pan stove should be used, bricks, huji or adobe!" ”

The inhabitants of the cypress grove may have come from the south, and the walls of the houses were built with earth to be successfully tamped with beams, straw or tiles, and they did not have much impression of the huki and adobe.

Liu Minniang personally drew another adobe mold pattern and a Hu Ji mold pattern.

It is also said that Huji directly beats with soil, and the adobe should be formed into soil and mud in a mold and then poured out; Therefore, it is called beating Huji, and it is also called stepping on Huji and pouring adobe.

Huo Renfu thought for a while and said, "So the adobe is stronger than the Huki, so let's use the adobe!" ”

Huo Renfu immediately asked Liu Er to go to the donkey head weir to find Carpenter Chen, and made a pair of adobe molds and Hu Ji molds according to the sketches drawn by Liu Minniang.

Liu Minniang saw Liu Er take back the Huji mold and adobe mold from Carpenter Chen, squatted aside and measured the size, which was not bad at all; Dingshen looked at Huo Renfu and said, "Brother Huo, Hu Ji mold and adobe mold are very qualified; Playing Huki saves trouble, and pouring adobe will require several more processes! Look at whether to beat Hukili or pour adobe! ”

Huo Renfu frowned and said, "Big sister, you might as well talk about the process of beating Huji and pouring adobe, let's have a two-pronged approach!" ”

Huo Renfu raised his arm as he spoke: "Once the eldest sister's new pot stove is popularized, the entire cypress forest and even the farmers in Chengdu Mansion may have to follow suit; To emulate it, there must be Huki and adobe, and we cypress woods simply contracted Huki and pouring adobe; Isn't it also an objective income! ”

Liu Minniang saw that Huo Renfu was serious, so she said with interest: "The tool for beating Hu Ji is a mold, a flat-headed stone hammer, a trip cage stove with ashes, find a place where the soil is not too dry, put the mold on the ground, smash it with a stone hammer, and stack it on the side to dry and apply after molding!" Playing Huki can be operated by two people alone! ”

After a pause, he stretched his neck and swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "Pouring adobe is much more complicated, you have to mix the soil into mud, fill the mud into the mold, scrape it flat, pour it out, and stack it on the side to dry and set aside!" ”

Liu Minniang finally said: "Huji is larger than adobe, but adobe is strong and durable; Both have their pros and cons! ”

Huo Renfu said impassionedly: "I see that we are divided into two waves, one wave to fight Huji, and one wave to pour adobe!" ”

Liu Er was naturally the one who poured a wave of adobe, and he picked up the soil and poured it in the yard; He also brought water and mud from the pond in Xiaonanzhuang.

Liu Er didn't give the reconciled mud to the wheat straw at first, and a bunch of mud had been reconciled Liu Minniang asked him to rework; It is said that the mud must be mixed with short-knotted wheat grass, so that it can play a pulling role; The adobe poured out of the mud from the tubular wheat straw is not easy to break, and the stove is very strong.

Liu Erbai obediently followed Liu Min's mother's suggestion and re-stirred the mud.

and Liu Erfen were in a wave of Huo Renfu, Huo Buffalo, Ba Si, and Xu Hu, and the latecomers were on top, and they were still picking up soil and carrying water.

Everyone worked together to stir the mud, and Liu Er was responsible for shoveling the mud into the mold; The buffalo took a spatula in his hand and patted the mud poured into the mold, scraping the excess and pouring out the rectangular adobe blocks; Ba Si quickly stacked the adobe on the ground to dry.

Huo Renfu was the overseer, and after watching the adobe pour for a while, he ran to the place where Huki was beaten.

One of the men who beat Hu Ji is Zhou Xiaozheng, one is Li Hucheng, one is Ma Zhiyuan, and the other is Yang Ziming.

The four of them beat Hu Ji together, and naturally there was a division of labor: Zhou Xiaozheng carried a stone hammer to jump on it, and Li Hucheng held a flat-headed shovel in his hand to fill the mold; Ma Zhiyuan brought the dry soil to add some water to ensure the moisture of the soil, and Yang Ziming was responsible for carrying water and transporting the soil.

The process of beating Huji is not as complicated as pouring adobe, but Zhou Xiaozheng, who carries the hammer, is a laborious person.

When Hu Ji mold sprinkled a handful of stove ash to fill the soil, Zhou Xiaozheng was about to step on the soil with two feet, and jump to press the soil to the ground; Then lift the stone hammer and hit it on it.

A piece of Huki is basically seven hammers, and it has a very musical rhythm - tom, tom, tom, tom.

That is to say, the stone hammer should be tamped seven times on the Huji mold: two hammers in the front, two hammers on the sides, two hammers in the back, and one hammer in the center; The rhythm and beauty of the musicality flew out with Zhou Xiaozheng's movements......