Chapter 20 Charcoal is baked

"Data restructuring is in progress.

"The captain has been issued: clay kettle blueprints, please check them.

"The next aid is being manufactured in an accelerated manner, and the estimated completion time: 24 hours, please be patient."

Another drawing.

Lu Ning unfolded the drawing and glanced at it briefly.

Although Lu Ning hadn't seen such a thing, he probably knew what it was.

"Boiled beans burn beans, and beans cry in the kettle." The famous seven-step poem Lu Ning has still heard and learned.

This kettle, in fact, is a container made of clay that can be used for boiling and frying, which is the predecessor of the pot.

With a clay kettle, you can boil water for stir-frying, no longer need to drink cold snow water, and no longer have to eat monotonous barbecue and roasted green potatoes all day long.

You can stir-fry animal meat with hot grass fruits!

It's drooling just thinking about it.

Lu Ning woke up from his imagination and wiped the tears from the corners of his mouth.

More motivation to work!

Lu Ning picked up the stone shovel and hoe, and according to the drawings, he carved out a horn-shaped corner for the outside of the circular pit of the half-cave house, and dug a staircase leading to the ground at the end of the corner.

The overall shape looks similar to the snail shell on the side.

The underground part is now completed, and then the ground and pit walls can be laid again with earth or wood, depending on the situation, but for the time being, there is no need to worry about it.

Then there's the ground, and that's where the work comes in.

For example, the pillars of the cave houses were made of wood, and the walls were built with clay.

When it comes to timber, Lu Ning considers himself very prescient.

He had brought back a large amount of timber that he had intended to use to dig cellars and fortify tents, which could now be used directly.

Regarding the walls of the half-cave mud house, two schemes are given on the drawings.

One is to use clay completely, mixing clay with grass and building adobe layer by layer until it is capped.

The second is to bury a dense circle of wooden piles around it as the main body, and then fill it with clay.

Both options have their advantages and disadvantages. The first option would obviously be more durable, but it would take a lot of time to build dirt and require more forage and clay.

The second option is not as solid as the first. However, using wood as a skeleton is light and easy to build, and requires less clay and forage, which is more in line with Lu Ning's current needs.

Therefore, Lu Ning did not hesitate too much and chose the second option.

Lu Ning brought in the wood, used a bronze hand axe to make some simple treatments, and dismantled the wood into wooden stakes of uniform size and thickness, which were deeply inserted into the soil.

To be honest, there was another reason why Lu Ning would choose the second option: he had the metal weapon of a bronze hand axe in his hand.

Metalware is far more efficient at processing wood than stone and bone utensils. Only with a bronze axe can Lu Ning quickly complete the processing and manufacturing of wood.

If there were only stone tools, Lu Ning would probably have to consider whether to change to plan 1 and use all earth to build the wall.

Thanks to this bronze axe, which has been with Lu Ning since the first day and has been used until now, Lu Ning was able to take this shortcut.

However, the durability of the bronze itself is not high, and the hardness is also low, although Lu Ning has been using it carefully, but the axe blade still has obvious curling blades and chips, and the sharpness is not as good as before.

During this time, Lu Ning didn't use this hand axe very much, and turned to using stone logging axes and other tools. But this time the situation was urgent, and Lu Ning had to take out his hand axe again to deal with the wood.

The pit was already surrounded by a circle of wooden stakes about half a meter high. Lu Ning finally tied some horizontal logs to these stakes and fixed them, and then used clay and forage to form grass mud.

Lu Ning had already set up a bonfire with wood here before making the stakes, and dug a pit next to the bonfire, which was filled with collected snow.

After such a long time, the snow in the pit has melted into cold snow water.

When excavating the stone kiln, Lu Ning mined a lot of excellent clay, which can be used as long as it is transported and mixed and processed.

Lu Ning straightened up and took a breath and asked the ghost what time it was.

"It's seven o'clock in the morning, Captain."

The ghost replied.

Before you know it, the night has passed.

Lu Ning looked at the flatbread sleeping soundly by the campfire in the distance, and couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

It seems that since I crossed here, my routine has been sunrise and sunset, and I slept in a hurry in the early hours of the morning two days ago.

Staying up until the next morning, it was common to work in Blue Sea Starfish before, and I was often given meaningless overtime by my own leader, but this is the first time I have encountered it after I arrived in this world.

Lu Ning yawned and decided to put down his work for the time being and do something else to change his mood.

He remembered that he had a charcoal burning in the cellar.

From yesterday to today, it has been boring for a whole day and night, and this batch of charcoal should be ready to be baked.

In fact, it stands to reason that this pile of charcoal does not need to be burned for so long, and it will take less than ten hours to bake.

But why is Lu Ning doing this now? Quite simply, he forgot......

After all, there are too many things to do in the past two days, and it is very physically and energetically demanding to transport firewood back and forth during the day and dig pits and holes at night.

Therefore, when Lu Ning focused on doing these tasks, the charcoal kiln that was originally thrown aside and left to wait was completely forgotten by him, and it was not until he wanted to take a breath now that he suddenly remembered.

Lu Ning took the shovel and went to the cliff where he had turned it into a stone kiln, and removed the stones that were plugging the hole.

After ventilating slightly, Lu Ning looked inside, and sure enough, there was no trace of fire in the kiln, and the pitch-black charcoal was piled together, surrounded by white ash left over from the burn.

"I had the foresight to sew a big bag out of animal skins beforehand."

Lu Ning took out a large animal skin bag from his back, shoveled the charcoal into the bag with a stone shovel, and then resisted back to the camp and placed it next to the firewood stack.

After three trips back and forth like this, Lu Ning took back the first batch of charcoal, and then moved another batch of firewood and put it in the cellar to light it.

When the firewood is fully burned, the ventilated hole is plugged and allowed to extinguish naturally. The whole process only takes about seven or eight hours, and most of that time does not require Lu Ning to stay here.

Lu Ning blocked the entrance to the cave, and at this time there was already a trace of light in the sky. But that ray of sunlight could barely penetrate the thick clouds, and it was impossible to see it at all.

The cold wind was blowing, and the flying snow fell on Lu Ning's face, making it a little difficult for Lu Ning to breathe, and he unconsciously increased his breathing.

In the distance, on another hillside, he saw several snow geese stepping on the snow, pecking at each other's feathers, chasing and playing.

This is a special kind of large bird.

They have slender legs and large, powerful wings. Nowadays, when the temperature continues to drop and there are almost no wild monsters to be seen, only they can still live freely.

It can be called the overlord of the snow.

Suddenly, several snow geese spread their wings and rose from the ground to join the other snow geese that flew in.

They braved the wind and snow, pierced through the clouds, and disappeared.

There are still four days left until the blizzard falls.