Chapter 71 Fire Kang
The next day, Xiao Hei was completely recovered, and when Mo Yi'er went to see him, he babbled happily, he was really a child without trouble.
Mo Yi'er led the four men left behind by Chu Wei during the day to dig loess not far in front of the cave and prepare to dry the bricks. The tools are rudimentary, just digging with stones of the right shape, so they are not very efficient. The next day continued, but when Mo Yi'er came to the pit dug yesterday, she found that there was a roe deer inside, and she seemed to be exhausted and jumped all night, and the four walls of the pit were actually traces, and now it was dying and fell to the bottom of the pit.
Mo Yi'er slapped her head violently when she saw this: "Aren't you stupid, you actually forgot that you can dig traps and catch prey, such a trouble-free way!" ”
"What's wrong? Mo Yi'er! One of the men left behind, Li Luo, asked, they were following behind Mo Yi'er, and they hadn't seen the roe deer in the pit yet.
"Look." Mo Yi'er pointed to the pit, and the other three men also looked inside with Li Luo, and then shouted happily: "It's a roe deer, haha, you didn't have to go to the jungle to hunt the gods and sent food, it's great." ”
Mo Yi'er couldn't help but have black lines on her head when she heard this, obviously this stupid roe deer fell into the pit by himself, and this can also be counted on the head of the gods? This god is too good to be a little bit!
"Alright, let's get the roe deer out and kill it." Mo Yi'er ordered, what matters now is to make zuò bricks.
The men easily took the exhausted roe deer out and slaughtered them, and then continued digging into the loess. When digging until noon, there was already a large pile of loess, Mo Yier walked back to the cave to find Casa, after two days of hard work, Casa's molds were also made out of six, and the shape was not bad.
"Alright, you guys will do it with me." Mo Yi'er said as she used the water from the wooden bucket to mix the mud, added a little sand and hay to the loess mud and put it into the mold, made a lot of these mud blocks in the open space, and then let them dry naturally. The next thing to do is to burn them dry and get acquainted with them. Mo Yi'er had never touched these things, but she had only seen bricks, and probably knew that they were burned, so she began to grope for them little by little.
In the cave, a small, rudimentary brick kiln was built out of stone and mud according to the mountain, and the dried bricks were put into the brick kiln and burned with firewood. Several men took turns to add firewood day and night, and it took two days and two nights for Mo Yi'er to stop, in fact, she also had some drumming in her heart, if it didn't succeed, the hard work of several of them for several days would be in vain.
The brick kiln burned for two days, and the temperature was very high, Mo Yi'er asked the men to pry open the hole to dissipate heat to avoid being burned by the heat, and no one could approach. After about half a day, Mo Yi'er approached alone with apprehension.
Looking inside from the entrance of the cave, it was pitch black, and nothing could be seen. Mo Yi'er was already a little disappointed in her heart, she had a thick animal skin in her hand, and then grabbed a brick and took it out, the blue and black color was not at all the same as the red bricks seen in the 21st century, did it fail?
"How is Mo Yi'er?" Li Luo couldn't bear to come over and ask.
Mo Yi'er shook her head, didn't speak, just tried with bricks. I smashed it to the ground with all my might, only to hear a "pop", and the blue and black bricks smashed a small hole in the ground, which was not broken at all. In other words, it was a success.
"Haha, that's great!" Mo Yi'er laughed happily, her and the clansmen's efforts in the past few days have not been in vain, have they?
The others saw Mo Yi'er laughing, and they all laughed happily when they knew that they had succeeded. After being happy, Li Luo asked Mo Yi'er: "What are we going to do next?" ”
"We have to build a fire kang in the cave, which can keep warm, and can cook food without smoke!" Mo Yi'er said, then squatted on the ground, and the four men also paused around her with a very shocked mood, and watched her write and draw on the ground with branches.
Mo Yi'er drew the shape of the earth-kang and then the internal shape was roughly drawn, she pointed to a blank space and said, "This place is to be vacated for smoke, and we will drain the smoke directly through the guò passage out of the cave." It is used to set up stone pots and clay pots, and to add firewood here. The place where the firewood is added is called the stove...... You can also express your opinions......" Mo Yi'er said a lot, thinking about it as she spoke, but she was not a professional, and if other clansmen had any good ideas, she would be even happier.
"Oh, can we ...... like this here" Soon, Li Luo said what he thought. He is probably a little older than Chu Yi, he can accept new affairs as much as possible, and he has a more flexible head, so Chu Yi sent him to Mo Yi'er, among the four men, Li Luo is a small leader, and the others are his kind.
Li Luo was very interested in this ondol, and had his own opinions, and even put forward a few opinions that were adopted by Mo Yier, and in the end, he was solely responsible for the matter of building the ondol, and Mo Yier just put forward the original idea.
Within a few days, it was discovered that the rabbit's belly was getting bigger and bigger, and Mo Yi'er became more and more sure that it was going to give birth to a rabbit. In order to prevent the baby rabbit from being harmed when it was born, she separated the two rabbits that had become adults, and now she only hopes for the arrival of the baby rabbit.
The picking team led by Sang Zhen found less and less food, and Mo Yi'er simply asked them not to go anymore, which was just a waste of effort. Seeing that the weather is getting colder, I need to make a fur coat to wear in winter. This time, all the animal skin coats were made of thicker animal skins, and the style of the clothes was the style of the 21st century nightgown, but the animal skin belt was tied around the waist, and the animal skin pants made before could be worn inside.
At this time, the first kang built by Li Luo and the four men was also completed. The kang is built on the west side of the cave, about 2.3 meters wide and 10 meters long, the kang has a large stove, and four small stoves are added in the middle to keep the heat, so that it can be heated evenly. These are all things that Li Luo thought of, but it was very troublesome to build, so it took many days to complete the construction.
On this night, a fire was lit, and the effect was unexpectedly good, and the flue was built perfectly, and there was no smoke in the cave at all. Mo Yi'er couldn't help but admire: "Li Luo, you are really powerful." ”
Li Luo touched his head and smiled: "Mo Yi'er, it's still your idea." ”
"Haha, if it weren't for you, this kang wouldn't have been built. After the yellow mud on it is dried, the woman and the old man can go to sleep first. Mo Yi'er said, when everything is done smoothly in the future, she hopes that she can have a separate space to sleep.
On the night when the first kang was completed, the rabbit gave birth to a litter of 9 rabbits, which was a great harvest! When Mo Yier went to feed the next morning, she found that she was so happy!