"Brother Lu, where are we going today?"

Qin Shou asked Lu Chen while preparing to make breakfast.

"Let's go to the bamboo forest today and get some bamboo, and then some clay."

"The house is already there, and the furniture has to be arranged."

Lu Chen looked at the empty room.

The two houses, although not small in size, do not have much in them.

"Hey, this pheasant lays an egg."

Qin Shou originally planned to go to see if the ducks had laid eggs, and wanted to take a few duck eggs for breakfast, but accidentally found that there was an egg under the pheasant.

"Giggles!"

The pheasant crowed and dangled next to his egg, his face full of pride.

"Since it will lay eggs, let's keep it for now."

Lu Chen raised his eyebrows.

"If you're interested, I was going to stew it for you today."

"But for the sake of the egg, I'll let you live a few more days."

Qin Shou took the eggs and let go of the pheasant.

Qin Shou went to cook, and Lu Chen filtered and refined the salt.

Lu Chen picked up the brine that had been precipitated by standing, carefully poured out the supernatant, and filtered it with a funnel.

It is then poured into the bottom of a glass bottle that temporarily serves as an evaporation dish.

This process will take some time, and Lu Chen is not in a hurry.

After the meal was ready, the two of them began to eat, but Lu Chen was still paying attention to the situation of the evaporation dish while eating.

"When the water evaporates, is it okay? Qin Shou asked curiously.

"Yes."

Lu Chen nodded.

After breakfast, after a while, the first purified salt finally came out.

"This is refined salt, it looks pretty good."

"Although it doesn't look as good as the salt on the market, we make it ourselves, and it tastes very good."

Qin Shou grinned, pinched a grain of salt, and looked at it carefully.

He put it in his mouth and tasted it, smashed it, and gave it a thumbs up.

"We have limited things, and the purification is too slow."

"Let's do it for now, and then we'll come back in the evening."

Lu Chen stopped.

If you want to purify the coarse salt, it doesn't take much effort to let it settle here, but the next steps need to be watched.

Their salt pans are so big, and they produce so much salt, but there are only one funnel and one evaporation dish, so the efficiency is naturally very low.

Fortunately, they are not in a hurry and can take their time.

The two set off for the bamboo forest.

"I don't know if there are any bamboo rats left, the bamboo rats before tasted really good."

Qin Shou licked his lips.

"Gluttony!"

"Didn't you just have a big dinner last night?"

Lu Chen smiled.

"Hey, isn't it different?"

"Pork is pork, chicken is chicken, duck is duck, and this bamboo rat meat is something else."

"Every meat has its own beauty, I just want to eat some bamboo rat meat, what's wrong with me?"

"I wasn't wrong! The pursuit of food is a gene engraved in the bones of human beings. ”

Qin Shou Zhenzhen has words.

"Okay, you're right, then let's find out if there are any bamboo rats."

Lu Chen smiled and said no more.

The bamboo rat meat does taste good, and if you can catch a few more, you will have more dishes on the table.

While collecting bamboo, they kept an eye out for any bamboo rats in the vicinity.

Soon, they found it.

"This mark should be the footprints of a bamboo rat."

Lu Chen pointed to a few small paw prints under a tree.

"It should be, it's quite similar in size and shape."

Qin Shou's face was full of joy.

"There should be a bamboo rat hole near here, let's look for it."

"After finding it, I still use the previous method to catch it."

Lu Chen said, looking for it carefully.

Through the efforts of the two, the bamboo rat's burrow was found.

There are three holes in this litter of bamboo rats, and the two of them simply buried one on the spot.

Subsequently, they each guarded one of the other two holes.

Igniting the smoked rats, as the black smoke came out, the bamboo rats inside began to become restless.

"Bang bang!"

Lu Chen used a relatively thick piece of bamboo to tap the ground hard.

Feeling the vibration, the bamboo rats below were even more panicked.

"Whoosh!"

A bamboo rat rushed out and was grabbed by Lu Chen.

Soon, the nest of bamboo rats was wiped out.

There are two large bamboo rats and four small bamboo rats.

"Not bad, not bad."

"The family needs to be in order."

Lu Chen touched his chin.

"The little bamboo rat is so cute, we can't eat it all at once, otherwise let's raise it first."

Qin Shou was a little unbearable.

They raided someone's house, and they took away all the leftovers.

"Okay, it's not bad to raise."

Lu Chen nodded.

After putting the bamboo rat into the bamboo basket, the two of them collected some other things before returning to their residence.

"Let's lock the bamboo rats in the house over there first, it's all wood, it's hard for them to run away when they go in."

"Otherwise, they will dig holes with sharp teeth and mouths, and if they are locked directly in the fence, they will soon be able to dig holes and run."

Lu Chen said.

The shelter is a converted house made of wood.

The wood is harder, although over time, the bamboo rat may bite off. But as long as you pay more attention and visit often, there should be no problem.

"Hey, yes, these little guys are just cute, but they're not easy to raise."

"Animals that can burrow are the most troublesome, and one can run away if they don't pay attention."

Qin Shou agrees with this.

Locking the bamboo rat into the house, Lu Chen looked at the large pile of clay they had collected.

Previously, building a house required mud bricks, which in turn required a lot of clay. For this, they collected a lot back.

And in the past two days, they have met and occasionally come back.

Now, it's time to use these things.

"We've collected a lot of clay, let's make some more stuff out."

"Okay, do you want to make some more mud bricks?"

"The previous mud bricks have all run out, so it's good to have a little spare."

"When the time comes, it would be nice to build a small house with mud bricks, or make a pigsty fence or something."

Qin Shoule nodded.

Do you make mud bricks, he is good at this job, after all, he doesn't know how much he has done before.

"You can make some more mud bricks, but there's no rush."

"Why don't you do something else first?"

"We still have a little bit of pots, pans, chopsticks and so on, it's time to build some."

Lu Chen touched his chin.

The iron pot I picked up last time can be used, but the rust is too serious. It has to be carefully washed before and after every use, not to mention the trouble, and it is not very healthy.

As for the dishes and chopsticks, they often use coconut shells to make bowls.

It's just that it's not strong enough to be durable, so it has to be replaced often, and it's not very convenient.

"Can we still make pots and pans under these conditions?"

Qin Shou was a little surprised.

He also felt that it was inconvenient to have fewer things, and the problem was that the conditions here were limited.

To say that he made these things himself, he couldn't even think of it.

"Yes."

Lu Chen gave an affirmative answer.

"Have you ever made pottery?"

Lu Chen asked.

(End of chapter)