"Wangcai!"

Hearing Song Xuan's call, Wangcai, who was playing with the deer, ran over.

"Wow~Wow!"

Before the call came out, Wangcai was snatched into Song Xuan's hand.

However, it can still be seen from the gentle whimpering sound that this person and a wolf are still enjoying it very much.

After almost a month of savage growth, Wangcai is already a very lively little wolf cub, since he has always been taken care of by Song Xuan, he naturally regards Song Xuan as his parents, so he is very close to Song Xuan.

Of course, it also sees a lot of people every day, so it is also very affectionate, and no matter who in the tribe shouts, it will twist and run over to join in the fun.

Although Wangcai still needs to drink milk, it is much less, and Song Xuan has begun to try to give it some minced meat to eat, after all, it is only the first generation of wolves, so it is still full of wildness, and the meat is also very beautiful.

It is estimated that it won't be long before Wangcai will not have to drink milk, and the pressure on Song Xuan's heart will be much less.

Under the leadership of Uncle Deer, several deer have also been fully integrated into the life of Teng Snake, the character of the deer is relatively docile, and now they can help Shi Yan Camel with some things, and the forage cut back every day can be directly placed on the back of the deer after packing.

didn't even need Shi Yan to drive him, Uncle Lu consciously took his wife and children back to the tribe, and when he arrived at the door of the house where the forage was placed, he leaned directly, and the grass on his back was unloaded.

Song Xuan always has a feeling that Teng Snake has been their long-term meal ticket, there is enough forage to eat every day in Teng Snake, and Shi Yan still picks their favorite, in addition to eating well, there is no need to worry about safety here, the only possible threat Wangcai is still early to adulthood, looking at Wangcai playing with a few deer, even if he grows up, he will definitely not do anything to his own people.

Not to mention, the whole shack is theirs, the surroundings are ventilated, there is a roof on it, and there is a lot of hay, which can be said to be very comfortable.

As for what Uncle Deer needs to do is to mess with his three daughters-in-law every day, Song Xuan doesn't know whether it has succeeded or not, or hopes that it can give the tribe more deer, after all, if you rely on hunting alone, it is too slow to increase the number, and in the past nearly a month, the hunting team has also captured three sheep and four rabbits.

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The stone burned bricks for more than a month, and finally accumulated a lot of quantity, two small kilns, although they can't burn much at a time, but they can still burn two or three hundred bricks together.

However, this is also the number of two days, after groping for a while, the stone can be regarded as finding the best firing time, if you want to burn the bricks well, it will take at least a day and a half, and it is best to simmer it for a period of time like burning black pottery, as for the color of the burning, it is not the big red that Song Xuan was most familiar with before, but a little blue.

Anyway, as long as the brick is strong enough, it doesn't matter what color it is, as long as it works well.

At the beginning, the stone bricks were completely pinched by hand, so it was very uneven, and after Song Xuan saw it, he felt that it was still a little difficult to build a relatively stable wall with such uneven size bricks.

So he asked Shi Ban to make a few molds for him, which are very precious in the current Teng Snake, and they are all polished wooden boards, or wooden blocks may be more appropriate.

Each plank is almost three centimeters thick, which is also a matter of no choice, and it is still Shi Ban who used a lot of effort to make such a little.

The only tools in the tribe are stone axes, use it to chisel the wood little by little, the difficulty can be imagined, even if it is chiseled, the polishing is not simple, you can only use the stone to grind off the uneven places little by little, at the end of the day, the stone class can not get a few pieces, as for the thickness, it can only be cut out how thick it is, and it is unrealistic to want to be too thin.

However, the day after Song Xuan took the mold, the stone burned a pottery mold with clay, although it was a little heavier, but after brushing the grass and wood ash water inside, the glaze burned out was much smoother than the wood.

The most important thing is that this is very simple to make, as long as you take a brick, use it as a mold, although you dare not make it too thin, but there is no problem with the width of a finger.

This made Song Xuan not know what to say, but Shi Ban had already made it, if he told him that it was completely useless, it was estimated that the consequences for the two of them would not be too good, so both of them tacitly continued to use it.

After having a mold, the speed of brick making is also much faster, and the size is basically the same, and there are only slight differences.

After more than a month, the stones finally burned enough bricks, and the previous sum was almost six or seven thousand.

The address of the new kiln Song Xuan has also been selected a long time ago, and it is not far from the current kiln, which is also to facilitate digging clay, and it is close to the river, and it is also more convenient to make mud.

Song Xuan naturally had never seen such a thing as a kiln, so he could only use the existing ones to put a clay blank and a part of it protruding next to it as a combustion chamber.

The new kiln does not need to be too high, one person is almost high, and then it is a lot of trouble to put the pottery blank or take the fired pottery.

As for the bricks, they still have to be glued together with clay, and after they are built, they are burned again with fire, which is basically quite firm, although it can't be integrated, but it's almost the same.

This time the kiln is still on a small slope, according to Song Xuan's design, the kiln body is slightly higher than the combustion chamber, and it will be easier to put it on this ladder-like slope.

After all, it was the first brick structure building in the tribe, so Song Xuan still spent a lot of thought and designed it with the two of them for several days, striving to avoid any major defects.

Once everything is ready, the next step is to start building.

First of all, a foundation must be dug up, with which it is stronger, and in order to ensure that it is strong enough, the foundation alone is half a meter deep.

The first time he built this kind of thing, Song Xuan didn't make it too big, it was only two meters square, it was too big, first, it cost bricks, and secondly, it was definitely more difficult technically.

The bricks are also about the same size as later generations, and can be picked up with one hand, and in order to ensure that they are strong enough, all the bricks are stacked with narrow edges inward, layer by layer.

The bricks were stained with very sticky clay, and it took a few captives a morning to step on the stones to the satisfaction of the stones, for if the bricks could not be glued together, then it would be a failure.

After the foundation was dug, the speed of building it was faster, a layer of clay layer bricks, at the beginning, the stone was very particular about building the bricks as well, but fortunately, Song Xuan quickly stopped him after seeing it.

According to this way, even if it is built, it will not be very strong, of course, there is a high probability that it will fall when it is built, so the bricks still have to be built in dislocation.

In order to ensure that the masonry is not tilted, I also learned to make a plumb with a rope, but there is a stone hanging underneath, which may be more appropriate.

Since the whole building was not very big, Song Xuan didn't call anyone else to help, just he and Shi were responsible for the masonry, Shi Tao and Shi Porcelain were responsible for the work, and a few captives were responsible for concentrating on the mud.

Two people have a plumb for each person, and take it out from time to time to measure, although it is a bit pretentious, but the strength of the brick still looks very straight.

At first, the two of them were not very skilled, and it took a little half a day to get the foundation ready, but after getting started, the speed was much faster, and more than half of it had been laid by the time of the lunch break.

Of course, the main thing is that everyone cooperates better, the stone pottery and stone porcelain scrape the clay that the captives have reconciled on the bricks, and Song Xuan and the stone only need to be trimmed slightly, and then they can be placed on the wall that has been built.

After the meal, the two of them did not rest, and they prepared non-stop to make it all right today.

Soon the two of them had four walls and a waist-high combustion chamber.

Next is the most troublesome roof, the best situation is naturally to make a circular vault, but as far as Song Xuan's technique is concerned, he really doesn't dare to try it, in case everything around it collapses, it will not be cost-effective.

However, the technology is rotten, and there are ways to make up for the bad technology, Song Xuan and the stone adopt the method of gradual advancement, and after reaching the top, each layer of bricks has to stretch out a little more than the next layer.

After sticking out four or five bricks, the two of them were afraid of collapsing, so they would temporarily hold a pillar from the bottom, and then directly stack bricks to replace the pillar.

These brick-made pillars are not exactly the same on all sides, and two of the bricks will have different directions from the bricks below when they are separated by ten bricks.

Later, you only need to make a pottery plate between the two pillars, and you can put it on these baffles when you burn the pottery in the future, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

Otherwise, such a big and high kiln, if you only put a layer at the bottom, it is really a bit of a waste, although Song Xuan has not seen what kind of things are in the pottery kiln, but I think there should be a similar shelf, I just fused the two a little, as for the effect, it depends on the future use.

It stretched from the four sides to the top, and there was about eighty or ninety centimeters in width, and the two stopped, leaving the hole for the stone pottery.

In this way, there are two directions for taking pottery, one is to drill in from the combustion chamber, and the second is to come down from the top, no matter which way it comes in, it is more convenient to pass things out from the hole in the top, and its opening is larger than the combustion chamber.

One person lifts things up, and a person outside then hands them to the person standing, the combustion chamber is still too low, and the place where the kiln burns charcoal is waist-high, and the width is a little more than half a meter, and it is difficult to move inside, and some large objects are not easy to get.

The two of them worked all day, until it was completely dark, and finally the kiln was finished, and in the cave, the two of them carefully pasted a thick layer of clay, and the outside was also pasted with clay, striving to have no gaps.

As for the top hole, since the existing two kilns couldn't burn such a large pottery plate, Song Xuan asked the stone to make a few larger pieces in advance, and now it can barely be used if he fights a little.

Then it was burned inside and out for a few days to make all the clay solid.

With such a large kiln, the amount of charcoal needed is naturally quite a lot, but fortunately, the stone has already been prepared, and hundreds of catties of charcoal have been prepared, just waiting for such a day.

The thick charcoal spreads the bottom of the kiln, leaving no dead ends, which is very dry, and some pine needles are laid under the charcoal, which burn quickly after ignition, and you can see the flame inside through the small door of the combustion chamber.

The two outside naturally took it into consideration, but the charcoal was a little reluctant to use it, but they still brought a large amount of wood and piled it around, and the wood stacked was higher than the kiln.

The raging fire illuminated a large area, but there were still many trees around, Song Xuan was also worried that the fire would spread to other places, although the big stout wood was used, but in case the demon wind rose at night, blowing the sparks to the surrounding grass and igniting the grass and woods, it would not be good, this is not far away, but the tribe is not far away, and it is estimated that nothing will be left after the fire is burned.

So I still arranged for a few people to take turns guarding at night, and even brought a lot of basins, which were already filled with water, so that they could be used directly in case of any accidents.

After all, it is too close to the tribe, so Song Xuan can't be careful, and this burn is two or three days, so it's really not okay to be careful.

Fortunately, nothing happened overnight, and after getting up in the morning, the stone was burned from the periphery of the wood, and a gap was packed, even if it was almost burned, but there was still a lot of charcoal, and the temperature was still very high, but there was no way to open it, and the charcoal in the kiln was basically burned at this time.

I climbed up the ladder with the high temperature, and then poured a lot of charcoal into it, trying to keep the temperature inside the kiln very high, and the outside was already hard after a night of scorching flames, but in order to pursue a better effect, it must continue to burn, so the stone moved a lot of wood to stand outside.

At present, the effect is quite good, although there are many gaps in the outer layer of clay, but according to the stone, the kiln is okay, and there are not too many gaps, of course, it has a lot to do with the temperature in the kiln to maintain a relatively good temperature.

Although there is a small hole of nearly twenty centimeters left at the top, it is also used to dissipate moisture, and it does not have a particularly big effect on the temperature inside.

In order to ensure a success, the fire burned for three days, and only after the flames were extinguished naturally and the entire kiln slowly cooled down, did the two of them carefully inspect it.

The two of them went into the kiln and carefully looked at the surrounding walls, because they were pasted with a layer of clay and brushed with some grass and wood gray water, the whole wall looked very smooth, although there were some cracks, but most of them were relatively small and did not affect the overall strength.

Even the ground was hardened by the flames.

"Not bad!"

Song Xuan's evaluation of this kiln is still quite high, after all, it is also made by himself little by little, with this kiln, the tribe can burn things on a large scale in the future, as for the brick house that Song Xuan has in mind, it can also be put on the agenda.

Although the kiln as a whole is not very large, it is also an epoch-making thing for Teng Snake, and everyone can finally gradually get rid of the traditional wooden structure house.

It's not that the wooden houses are bad, the wooden houses in the tribe are relatively comfortable to live in, at least they can be warm in winter and cool in summer, but the natural disadvantages of the material are here, even if the thatch above is pasted with a layer of grass mud, it is enough to choke on rainy days.

The roof cannot be roasted over a high fire, so when it rains, some of it will be washed away, and after a long time, some places will not be able to hold on, and water leakage is also a common thing.

The next step is naturally tinkering, but fortunately, the wood in the tribe is thick enough to withstand such a toss, if it is a little thinner, I am afraid that it will be directly crushed by the huge weight on it.

However, the brick house is only Song Xuan's temporary idea, it will take a lot of time to really build it, not to mention that a large number of bricks and tiles are needed, and the manpower must be sufficient enough, there is no stock in the tribe for more than half a year, Song Xuan is still a little worried, after all, there are nearly four months in winter alone.

The food in the tribe has been consumed by the captives before, and it has only been left for three months, but fortunately, it has been replenished a lot in the recent period, and it is finally a little more, but there is still a gap of about two months from the half a year that Song Xuan is relieved of.

However, Song Xuan didn't think about doing it now, since the kiln has been done, he can let the stones burn more bricks when they are free, be prepared, prepare in advance, and wait until the autumn when the manpower is more sufficient, and it will not be troublesome to see it again.

In such a kiln, the number of bricks burned each time is still considerable, Song Xuan made a preliminary comparison, there is definitely no problem with 1,800 pieces, and even if it is put well, it is not hopeless to put one or two thousand.

However, such a kiln was placed outside the tribe, and Song Xuan began to worry about its safety again, mainly because he was afraid that the enemy would come and destroy it, but fortunately, Teng Snake's current enemy was only one of the Wuyu tribe, and I believe that they had not been able to recover from the previous defeat.

Even so, Song Xuan decided to wait until autumn when he was a little free, and then expand the tribe a little, at least in the future, most of the buildings would have to be protected by the wall, and it would be better to fence them off and keep them secret.

The previous kiln was surrounded by a circle of wood, the purpose was to prevent it from being seen by others, especially since many tribes had sent people over before, and the strictest targets were naturally those captives in the tribe.

The pottery that Teng Snake burned now was much better than that of the Wuyu tribe, and when he first caught those captives, Song Xuan was particularly worried that they would see some clues at a casual glance like stones, so at that time, the captives were strictly forbidden to walk in this direction.

But now it's much better, after the Wuyu tribe exchanged some salt back, most of the remaining people have begun to integrate into the Teng Snake, and most of the people in it, Song Xuan, have also let them re-form a family, and when they have children or something, the concern will be even greater, and I believe that they will be completely integrated into the Teng Snake at that time.

Therefore, at present, there is no special restriction on the activity area of the captives, as long as it is the open space around the Tengsnake tribe, you can walk around at will, of course, the traps around have not been removed, so the range of activities that no one guards is limited to the open space in several directions around the tribe.

However, the work is usually very busy, and there is occasionally a little leisure time, and most of the prisoners who stay now are more acquainted, and generally take advantage of this time to take a good rest, even if there are those who come to the river to wash things, they also pay attention to avoid the kiln.

After the new kiln was built, the mood of the stone became more and more good, and every day it seemed to be happy, although the work procedure was very fixed, digging soil and mud, making clay blanks, and then firing, it can be seen that the stone enjoyed this life very much.

As for the bricks that have not been used, the stone is used to make a larger charcoal kiln, although the new kiln is relatively large, big is good, good is big, but it is not completely without shortcomings, that is, the need for charcoal is very much, and if you want the kiln to always maintain a very high temperature, you have to consume a lot of charcoal every time.

In this way, the hole dug against the hillside before was not enough to see at this time, and the stone was nearly doubled with bricks, and it was enough to simmer charcoal once or twice in a new kiln.

After burning a few times, the stone came to Song Xuan again, saying that it always felt that the firepower was not very strong, Song Xuan saw that it was indeed so, although the combustion chamber was not small, but for the whole kiln, the air intake was still a little bit worse.

Song Xin also knew that this was missing a very critical piece of equipment, that is, something to blow the air, although the blower is not difficult, and the manufacturing principle is very simple, but the current Teng snake is still a little choking, and Song Xuan can only let the stone fan them with something to make do with it first, at least it can make up for some of the shortcomings caused by the lack of oxygen.

It's hard to do, but it's not realistic to let the stone they hold a big fan every day, such a big kiln, the wind that relies on the big fan to fan in, although it can barely be enough, but it consumes a huge amount of physical strength, after all, the fan is not small, and the frequency is also very fast, even if the stone and the three of them come in turn, it is a little unbearable at the end of the day.

So as soon as he knew about this situation, Song Xuan found Shi Ban to see if he could cooperate with him to make something that could blow the wind.

The simplest principle of wood blower equipment is not difficult, and even in the modern era where Song Xuan lived, it can still be seen in some remote areas, mainly by squeezing the air in the wood box into the kiln.

Although it is easy to say, it is not so simple to do, after all, it is very difficult to make wooden planks in the tribe now, and the wooden blocks used to make molds before took a lot of time to grind out, and now it is difficult to make a suitable large box.