"That's good! I'm old, and I probably won't live long, I just want to see a whole family all good in my lifetime! ”

Time is the best healing medicine, and harvest is the most desired festival in the last days.

Before you know it, the leaves that were green yesterday have quietly turned yellow, and the terraced rice fields have also put on a golden coat. The orange and yellow fruits on the tree are like lit lanterns, announcing to the world that the harvest season has come!

The whole country was full of joy and laughter, sharpening knives and rushing towards the rice fields. Go to the end of his life, as long as food can grow in the soil, everything will no longer be terrible.

Different from the tense and eager atmosphere outside, the autumn harvest in Linzhuang is both leisurely and relaxed. With the help of many laborers in Johor Bahru Town, it only took a week for the oversized and empty warehouse to be packed to the brim. Golden rice, snow-white cotton, and boxes and boxes of fruit.

The piglets in the pig farm, eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating, grew a body of fat, and the fat made people think of oily Dongpo meat when they looked at it. Not to mention those hens and ducks who have upgraded to become mothers, one egg a day, and swear goodbye to kitchen knives!

Therefore, the food in Linzhuang is as good as ever, so that the strong men who come to help are full of oil and addicted. But here comes another problem:

At the beginning, the promised helper paid off the debt for two months, but now there are three weeks left after the work is done, and everyone said that they would stay and work as handymen, and they would not go back anyway. Nonsense, of course you can't go back, go back and have big pieces of fat to eat?

However, after the late rice harvest in the countryside, there is really no farm work to do. Dad Lin was very distressed, and he couldn't think of any good solution after thinking about it. It's impossible to wield a hoe to drive people away! There are not as many of them as old and young combined, besides! Do you want to ask someone to help you next year?

But if they don't leave, the food consumed in a day is better to say, it is meat, and it is really distressing for them to eat it in a big gulp.

Father Guo and Uncle Cao also wanted to break their heads, and the three old men in their 50s sat together, frowning, and they really had some inexplicable joy. Lin Yue suddenly remembered what her grandmother had said when she first got the space:

Planet in exile! Yes! It's the end times!

Just after a period of peace, I almost regarded the brutal end times as a small white flower. Now that the entire galaxy is off track, no one knows what will happen in the future, as if no matter what preparations are made, it seems that no matter what preparations are made, it is not too much.

This year's newly harvested grain is enough, and the entire forest village can eat more than two or three years after opening its belly. The house is also enough to live in, and there is no shortage of water, as if the only thing missing is fuel for the winter.

In winter, the sun does not show up often, can relying on photovoltaic panels alone provide heating for the entire forest village? I'm afraid it's very mysterious, so what is the oldest heating method of our ancestors?

"So be it! Let them go up the mountain to cut wood, and cut it from the foot of the mountain upwards, which will not only clear a wasteland, but also provide firewood for heating in the winter. ”

"It's still you young people who have flexible heads, that's all!"

The trees and weeds that grew at the foot of the mountain suffered because of these words. One by one, they fell down and were transported back to the forest village to pile up high stacks of firewood.

A word wakes up the dreamer.

Dad Lin suddenly realized that he began to gather the villagers who had come down to dig a cave in the mountains to burn charcoal. When it comes to heating in winter, how can you not have charcoal burned at home? Young people may think that the story of "The Charcoal Seller" is a long history, but in fact, many mountainous villages in today's society still rely on charcoal burning to support themselves. When electronic heating products such as heaters and air conditioners were not in full swing, Lin's father began to burn charcoal every autumn and sell it in the winter to pay for the two children's school fees.

Now that life is better, he is getting older. I haven't been up the mountain for many years, and I've forgotten about such a skill!

Many people have seen bamboo charcoal when eating barbecue, and it is very square and neat. In fact, it is all industrial charcoal pressed by machines, which is very different from charcoal burned in the mountains.

It is not difficult to say that charcoal is difficult, and it is difficult to say that it is not difficult. However, it is easy for beginners to burn out, and the timing and timing of the fire depend on the experience of the masters.

First of all, you have to dig a cave. The size, location and soil quality of the charcoal kiln are very subtle in the selection. Dad Lin can't explain this with science, but decades of charcoal burning career has made him understand which hillside has a higher slope and soil quality! He searched for a few feet in the back mountain, and after a while, he circled dozens of suitable locations and asked the villagers behind him to start digging holes. Generally, the charcoal kiln is connected through two kiln holes, one is the main cave for charcoal, and the other is the auxiliary hole for burning fire.

Some people dug holes, others began to cut down trees. In nature, there are so many and complex types of trees that ordinary people simply can't name most trees. But this does not affect Lin Dad, who knows which kind of tree burns more compacted and burned.

The trees should also not be too big, and wrist to calf thickness is the most suitable. It is too large and the parts of the tree are not easy to burn through. If it is too small, it will not be mentioned, and it will directly turn into fly ash when the kiln is opened. They also have to be cut into pieces of wood that are about the same length, and then they can be installed in the kiln.

Arrange the wooden sections tightly and vertically in the cave so that there are no large gaps. When the cave is full, seal it and open a skylight at the top of the cave.

Everything is ready to go. Next, he burned the fire desperately in the auxiliary cave, and he couldn't stop for a moment, for three or four days in a row. Experienced people can tell the burning of firewood enclosed in the cave by the color of the smoke coming out of the skylight.

Dad Lin has a trick for checking the burn level, and he usually puts a thumb-sized wooden stick across the skylight. Check the color of the smoke every day, and then look at the appearance of the wooden stick, when the large and small coke bubbles appear on the wooden stick, it means that the charcoal in the cave can be sealed and the kiln can be stopped!

Dirt is used to isolate all the air inside and outside the kiln, so that not a trace of smoke can come out, and the rest will be left to time. If it is autumn, it may take half a month before the kiln can be opened. If it's winter, it's about the same time in a week!

The combat effectiveness of 500 young and middle-aged people in rural areas cutting down trees is very high. Forcibly cut from the foot of the mountain to the halfway up the mountain, cutting out a large empty isolation belt. There was nowhere to put the firewood that I got back, so I had to build a firewood wall against the stone mountain.

When the last day of work expired, Lin Yue deliberately killed five fat pigs and gave them two catties of meat each. It's not that she's too generous, it's just that they work so hard that people can't bear to be harsh!

"Brother Lin, after you go back, tell your grandfather that there will be more firewood in the village, more wood, more wood, and important things to say three times! Trust me, there's nothing wrong with that! ”

"Lin Yue, did you hear any rumors again?"

"I have a hunch that saving more dry firewood for the house is definitely not a bad thing!"

In fact, Lin Yue couldn't be sure, but subconsciously she believed the prophecy that her grandmother once said. That was her old man's warning to her juniors at the cost of burning her soul. They are all the same clan of the villagers, so why not save a little heating material when they are idle at home? Sometimes not only can people starve to death, but they can also freeze to death.

"I believe you, can you tell them?"

"Of course you can!"