Chapter 38: Making the Clay Kang

I have a lot of tricks to turn enemies into friends, at least Bai Lu and Yingchun can be fully active, no longer passively waiting for arrangements, and Bai Lu knows a lot, and she is indispensable for advice, and she has also helped solve a lot of small problems, after all, she has opened a clinic herself, and after hearing some of my arrangements, she will also make reasonable adjustments and personnel management, which is rare to use.

In addition, now that the food stock has begun to run low, and the logistics need to be stable, I can go outside again to find food to fill the vacancy, which requires Song Bailu's talent and her cooperation, so that I can go out with confidence.

In the past two days, I went to saw some timber again, Song Yingchun knew the mortise and tenon method of carpentry, so he optimized the fence with the previous arrangement, heightened and strengthened the fence, so as to prevent the beasts from jumping over and threatening them, and at the end of the living spring well, only by making a wooden awl, the ice surface was chiseled, chiseled and crushed, and then sent a person down to put it into the mud urn and pull it up for drinking water on weekdays.

In order to be able to easily dig ice and get water, we widened the wall of the well, and the girl still had extra firewood in Yingchun, so I made a wooden ladder with me, which was conducive to crawling up and down, but even so, it was still difficult to get water, not only the water that needed to be drunk, but also the water to be poured into the wheat field, and the water for stewed soup and cooking.

And the trouble of winter, there is not only this one, the temperature of the constant temperature room is very easy to drop suddenly, and there are people who are specifically responsible for taking care of it, beware of the temperature is too low so that the mycelium is frozen, from time to time you have to add fire in the kang hole to raise the temperature, and when the temperature comes up, you have to extinguish the fire, and after about an hour or two, the temperature will be low, and you have to repeatedly add fire to extinguish the fire, which can be said to be extremely troublesome.

And the cold winter has come, in addition to eating, there is also a problem in the problem, that is, the problem of keeping out of the cold, now at night whether it is by the fire or not, it is cold and can not sleep at all, even if the three people are huddled together, it will be cold and shivering, and although the earth house can block the wind, the temperature at night will reach several degrees below zero, which means that it is useless to just block the wind, and favorable measures must be taken to protect against the cold.

Food, protection from the cold, water, protection from wild animals... None of these problems can be effectively cured, and they are especially acute when winter comes.

It's been another three days of morning, and everyone couldn't sleep in the cold last night, so they all gathered around the campfire to keep warm.

"Brother Zhou Bo, if we continue like this, we will all freeze to death, do you have a way to get some animal skins back, so that I can cover them." Song Yingchun covered his body and took the lead in speaking.

"In such a cold day, no matter how much animal skins are not enough to keep out the cold, the problem still appears in our place of residence, people in the northeast of the country, know how to use the principle of the kang to spend the winter, we can also try, first make a clay kang, the fire is burning below, not only can increase the temperature in the house, sleeping on the kang can also have a little heat to drive away the cold." I said.

"Zhou Bo is right, start with what can be done, as for animal skins and the like, they are all unattainable." Song Bailu said.

"I agree, let's make the kang first." Yun Wen also said.

"Yes, in the past two days, we have driven this out, and only when we sleep comfortably can we have the energy to find food, and as for the animal skins, when I go to the other side to find food, I will see if I have encountered any dead animals, and I can bring them back at that time, what do you say?" I said.

The girls nodded, clearly agreeing with what I was saying.

"The soil kang needs adobe, the adobe needs to have deep loess underground to do, the arrangement for a while is, Song Bailu you are responsible for boiling water, drying water, and when the water temperature is suitable, pour the wheat field again, and then take ice for later use, Yunwen you are responsible for taking care of the temperature of the constant temperature room, when the two of you are idle, cook the meal, Song Yingchun, we still have deer skin is useless, I heard that you have a lot of skills, find a way to make the deer skin something that can keep out the cold, I will dig the soil with a sapper shovel for a while, and prepare to make adobe after digging the loess." I said

After the division of labor was completed, Bai Lu and Yun Wen quickly left to do their errands, but Song Yingchun came over a little angrily and said, "Are you trying to embarrass me?" Even if I can sew, can you tell me, how can I sew without a sewing kit? Just pick some difficult things for me to do, don't you still hold a grudge, think I forced you to kiss..."

Before she could finish speaking, I immediately stood up and covered her mouth, that kind of thing is not good to talk about.

She bit my hand, and I hurriedly let go, and then Yunwen came over and said, "That's it, Yingchun, you change jobs with me, and I'll sew." ”

"You? Will you do magic, or will you do tricks? You're looking for an excuse to be lazy, right? Song Yingchun said unceremoniously.

"It's not that I'm lazy, I have a way to do it." Yun Wen said.

"That's okay, your flight attendants have always been omnipotent, just leave it to me, and I'll take care of the constant temperature room." Song Yingchun was still afraid that Yun Wen would regret it, so she left after speaking.

"What was she not finishing?" Yun Wen asked.

"It's nothing, that girl has never been able to speak, I want to ask you, do you have a way to sew deerskin?" I asked.

"Well, leave it to me." Yun Wen smiled, her diet has been much normal recently, she looks a lot more energetic, and her face has returned to her former beauty and roundness, which is really good-looking.

After they all went to work, I also went to work, using the German-style folding sapper shovel to dig into the ground, digging deeper, piling up the black soil dug up on the right side, and then digging down about two or three meters, during which the width could stand two people, digging the loess, I found the wooden ladder, set it down, found the backpack, filled it, threw it on the ground, poured the loess in a separate area on the left, and then went down to continue digging the loess, and then filled it again...

This way back and forth several times, the loess piled up on the ground became more and more, until there were more than ten or twenty times, and the loess on the left side of the ground was also piled up as high as half a person.

Then I made the model, I found the leftover wooden stakes that I saw, sawed them into a length of about 20 cm in my palm, about 10 cm wide and about 2 cm thick with my index finger, so sawed two pieces, and then sawed off a square piece of wood with the same thickness of 10 cm in length and width, and tried to use the tenon and tenon technique recently used in Yingchun to splice it together to form a mold with a length of 20 cm and a width and height of 10 cm.

Return the wooden ladder, take a pot of spring water that has just been overheated and available, find some hay, stir the loess and water and hay, and wipe the mold with water again, find a relatively dry ground, put the mold on the ground first, and then mix the cement mixed in the earthen basin, pour it into the mold, spread it, fill it, and then smooth it with a relatively flat stone.

Then move the mold a little and take it out, so that the adobe can be used after it is dried, and then according to the above order, one by one, the adobe is made, and it will not be long before the ground is full of those square-shaped adobes, and about a hundred pieces are made.

By the time I finished, my waist and legs were sore, and when Yunwen came over and called me to eat, I let it dry and dry, and then went to eat.

Today's meal, because the venison itself is particularly hard after drying, it is not used to roast and eat, but cut into meat slices, put it in a pot with some fungus and weed roots, stew it slightly more tender before taking it out and eating.

It's still a little too hard, it tastes salty, and the fishy smell is resolved by the plant roots in the pot, but it still has a different flavor, and the food is okay, adding a lot of satiety.

After the meal, I set out with a mud urn, intending to go to the beach to get some seawater and come back, at least with mud, so that when I need a lot of water, I can use precious well water.