Chapter 36: Limestone Mines

Liu Mulei looked at the snow-white mountain wall in front of him, unable to speak to himself for a long time, he didn't expect the salt mine to appear directly beside him like this.

After a long time, I suppressed my excitement and went to the edge of the thatch, cut a pile, took out some of the thatch and began to weave it.

In less than ten minutes, a few straw pockets were ready, and when they came to the mountain wall, they used the tip of a woodcutter to chop off a few pieces and put them in their pockets.

Connect a vine, hang it on the calf's body, turn to Xiao Hei and say, "Remember, before you reach the gate of the yard, remember to pull this rope!?" ”

Little Black nodded his little head, whined at the calf, and ran down the road to the house, and the calf followed behind him, walking slowly.

Liu Mulei didn't pay much attention, but picked up the woodcutter and waved it around, the terrain here is relatively low, just to clear a place, and then open up a mountain road.

Look at the mountains and forests here, what other animal species there are, and the length of the mountains and forests spread here, directly to the horizon, it can be said to be boundless.

At the end of such a mountain range, it is not a large mountain that can occupy it, and before that, the mountain on the edge of the river beach was the highest mountain here.

After exiting the mountains on the river beach, along the edge of the fields, the high and low hills form a natural barrier to block the scenery deep in the mountains.

Among them, the salt mine is one of these high and low hills, the shortest place is almost equal to the field, from a distance, this side of the mountain is more like the left and right mountain walls, squeezed into a hill, and the left mountain wall is the salt mine that has just been discovered.

Now the place that Liu Mulei cleans up is this hilly place, and after it is cleared from here, a house can also be built here in the future, which can be used as a temporary resting place.

And if you guess correctly, you may have to stay here for a long time in the future, so you need to prevent diseases, so you need to plant some necessary medicinal herbs.

In this way, this hilly place is simply a perfect base for medicinal herbs, not to mention, there are salt mines here.

Liu Mulei wielded a woodcutter and pulled out the miscellaneous trees and thatch here, even the roots, so as not to clean it up again in a short time, but this would be very laborious.

Suddenly, after pulling out the roots of the tree, he found that there was a little gray-white stuff under the soil, and as the roots were pulled out, he found that there were more and more gray-white things under the soil.

Liu Mulei frowned slightly, stretched out his hand to deduct a little from the thing below, but found that he couldn't deduct it, knocked out a little with the tip of a woodcutter, looked at its shape, and licked it lightly with his tongue.

"It only smells of earth, is it limestone?" Liu Mulei looked at the dirt, the gray-white thing, and muttered.

Looking at the salt mine on the mountain wall in front of me, I couldn't believe that there was a limestone mine under the soil, and the salt mine was together with the limestone mine? That's weird, isn't it?

Liu Mulei quickly broke the soil, exposed the limestone mine, gently knocked off a few pieces with a woodcutter, reached out and gently stroked the edge of the limestone, and saw that his fingers were stained with white substance, and it could be determined that this was a limestone mine.

"Are salt mines and limestone mines together?" Liu Mulei felt speechless, he didn't expect this to be the case.

If so, wouldn't it be difficult to tell the two together? Especially in the middle of the two, how to distinguish between salt mine and limestone mine?

Liu Mulei shook his head, put aside this thought, if the mountain wall is full of salt mines, one person will not be able to eat it for several lifetimes, but I don't know what the reserves of limestone ore are, after all, it is the most important material for cement.

He chopped down several large pieces of limestone with a woodcutter, placed them on a net woven by vines, and let the calves who had just come over drag them back.

I still wanted to tidy up here, but now that the limestone mine is discovered, there is no need to do this, and I need to turn over the dirt anyway.

Liu Mulei looked at the mountain in front of him, and after thinking for a while, he still didn't continue to move forward, but continued to clean up this side, open up a place, and wait for the cement to come out later, and at the same time put the miscellaneous trees and thatch cut down here here, and let the sun dry them.

Liu Mulei looked at the sky, stretched out his hand to tie up the thatch, and dragged the big tree towards the house, while recalling information about the salt and limestone mines.

Before, I didn't know what ore I could look for, so almost all the ores I had to remember some information, and I didn't know about a certain ore.

Now that you have found salt and limestone mines, it is natural to go back to reality and learn about these ores and how to use them, especially how to fire cement.

Liu Mulei picked up the salt block pocket and several large limestone vine nets, opened the gate of the yard and entered the yard, put the salt block pocket and limestone, pulled the calf into the chicken and duck shed, and waited for the cowshed to be built tomorrow.

Holding the large vat, I went to the edge of the canal to clean the traces left by the firewood inside the vat, and to see if it was fired, and saw that the vaat did not leak.

Liu Mulei breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and after pouring out the water, he carried the big vat to the yard, fortunately, the gate of the yard was spacious enough, otherwise it would be very troublesome to move these vat back.

I looked at the pottery in the yard and there was no leakage, and I couldn't help but be secretly proud, this is the first time I made the pottery, and they are all in good condition, which is simply very good.

After tidying up, start making dinner, and at the same time light the coals and press them tightly with the ashes, and put them in the house, so that you don't have to worry about the cold at night, although it is summer, but it is still a little cold in the middle of the night.

Especially for people like Liu Mulei who have no quilt and no clothes, if they don't have the tools to keep warm, it won't taste good in the middle of the night, after making a fire plate.

Liu Mulei returned to the kitchen, took out a piece of limestone and put it under the wood stove, increased the flame to calcine them, and saw if they could be burned into lime, if it was lime, then it was 100% sure that it was a limestone mine.

Seeing that the fish in the pot was not yet fully cooked, he got up and walked towards the chicken and duck shed with a bundle of thatch, but he didn't want the calf to be hungry and eat the thatch of the chicken and duck nest.

"Growing so fast? Is it the reason for the land? Liu Mulei looked at the vegetable field by the way, and actually saw that those vegetables not only survived, but also grew five or six centimeters tall, and couldn't help but be surprised.

After thinking about it, I went to see the fish pond again, and found that the fish were still in good condition, and I was relieved, so I don't have to worry about getting fish grass every day in the future, saving a lot of effort!