【087】Chimney
When the sun was about to set, Shen Nong and the others finally set up all the traps, as long as the southern forest was also deployed tomorrow, then the surroundings of the Huangqiu tribe would at least be much safer.
As soon as you return to the tribe, you can smell the aroma of stewed meat from the bone pot, since Shen Nong discovered the spice of star anise, the people of the Huangqiu tribe are more and more fond of eating stewed food.
Before this, the only condiment that the Huangqiu tribe could use was salt, and because the amount of salt was very scarce, everyone was very unwilling to use it on weekdays, even to the point of being stingy, but since getting a large amount of salt from the dead Tushan tribe trading team, the tribesmen gradually began to use salt, and they would no longer be reluctant.
Shen Nong still remembered that when he came to the Huangqiu tribe on the first day, the meat steak he ate was only sprinkled with thirty-one salt grains that could be counted with his fingers, which could be described as extremely shabby.
"They're back. The clansmen gathered around the bone pot hurriedly said.
"Have all the traps been dug up?" Xiong Yao asked as he walked straight up to Shen Nong.
"Well, if any enemy dares to approach our tribe next time, they won't end up as well as this one. Shen Nong said with a smile.
"That's good, let's come over and eat something first, someone from the Ten Ministries Conference will come over to inform us in the next few days, you can rest more, don't be too tired." Xiong said.
"Hiss!" Hearing this, Shen Nong couldn't help but gasp: "I'll go, how can I forget about this, we have all set up the trap now, what if the people sent over there step on the trap." ”
Xiong Yao was stunned for a moment, what Shen Nong said was not unreasonable, this trap was arranged to prevent someone from approaching the Huangqiu tribe, but at this time, if the notice of the ten conferences came, wouldn't it just hit the muzzle?
"Generally speaking, the people who come to inform us, from which direction do they come?" Shen Nong asked.
"Over there, every ten-part conference is held in the Bailing tribe. Bear said as he pointed to the south.
Looking at the direction of his finger, Shen Nong suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, we haven't had time to set up the trap over there, and we originally planned to get it tomorrow morning when the sun rises, but now it seems that we can only forget it first, and we will continue to arm after the person who notified us arrives." ”
After a false alarm, Shen Nong walked to the ditch, scooped up the scoop of water and washed his hands, and then began to enjoy his dinner, it has been many days since the last hunting in the foothills of the Black Mountain, and the corpses of those beasts stored in the tribe have either been eaten or have rotted, but fortunately, there are not too many rots, because the tribesmen know that the dry season is coming, so they cut off a lot of meat that can not be eaten in advance and dried it into dried meat to improve the preservation time of food.
Shen Nong doesn't have any good ideas to put forward in this regard, he has never been very particular about eating, so he doesn't know too much about this aspect of knowledge, the only preservation means that Shen Nong knows in his mind are refrigerators and freezers, but with the current civilization level of the Huangqiu tribe, it is obviously impossible, even if they are given a hundred Shen Nong, they can't make a refrigerator.
But eating jerky is not the way to go, this thing is hard and chewy, even if you eat too much salt, it is tasteless, and the tribesmen still have to count on the hunting team to catch the prey when they go out, or the collection team can find more berries and vegetables to come back.
"Xiong Yao, when will the third team come back?" Shen Nong picked up a rib and stuffed it into his mouth, while not forgetting to ask Xiong Yao beside him.
"I don't know, every time the third team comes back, I can't say for sure. Bear shook his head.
Shen Nong remembered that the task of the third team was to continue to explore the area outside the Huangqiu tribe, if this was the case, then where was the nearest source of stone from the Huangqiu tribe, and whether there was an iron mine nearby, these people in the third team should know that if Shen Nong could get the specific situation, then he could carry out more plans to promote the development of the Huangqiu tribe.
And when they had eaten, all the tribes went about their own business, and they made man and man, and slept and slept all night.
Following.
When the hunting and collecting teams were out, the Huangqiu tribe was once again in a state of idleness, and the construction of the wooden houses was almost complete, and almost every family had their own wooden houses, but the outside of the walls had not yet been smeared with mud.
"Here, dig a hole in this location. Shen Nong pointed to the wooden house where he had painted the mud with Cang yesterday.
After a day of exposure, all the mud on the outer wall of this wooden house has been dried, and it is hard to the touch, very strong, just when the four people in the warehouse looked at this wooden house and felt very satisfied, Shen Nong pointed to the foot of a mud wall and said.
"Why, Wu Wu, aren't they all built?" asked Cang incomprehensibly.
"Yes, it's been built, but it's still missing, I'm going to make up for it, don't look at it, dig it quickly." Shen Nong urged.
Cang had no choice but to take the stone pickaxe and start working at the position where Shen Nong pointed his finger, and soon chiseled out a square hollow half an arm's length.
"Look, put two long stones at the mouth of this cave, and build them with mud on the basis of the stones. Shen Nong took the soft mud that had been mixed earlier, and set up an object like a chimney outside the hole that had been dug in the wooden house, which was in fact a chimney.
If the people who live in the wooden house feel cold at night, they can make a fire in the chimney through the square hole, and the smoke from the flame will not spill into the wooden house, but will be discharged through the chimney to the outside of the house.
At the same time, the flame burns in the chimney, so there is no fire that spreads out and causes a fire.
Shen Nong kneaded the mud into the shape of strips, and then joined them into a ring, which were stacked on top of each other, and soon the chimney became higher and higher until it exceeded the roof of the wooden house.
"Well, that's the general shape, every wooden house must have a chimney in the future, and the flame can't be burned directly in the house, otherwise it will easily cause a fire. Shen Nong turned back to Cang and the others and said.
"Oh. Looking at the chimney in front of them, which was built attached to the wooden house, the four of them nodded as if they didn't understand, where did they know what chimney, Shen Nong undoubtedly advanced their cognition by several eras in an instant, and whether they could be thoroughly digested still depends on time and personal comprehension.
"You have to remember that the chimney needs to be dried before it can be put into use. Shen Nong reminded.