When making food for Zhao Dabai and Kaka before, Jiang Yan had already discovered the limitations of an earthen stove.

There is only one pot to use, so that Jiang Yan's cooking efficiency is greatly reduced, and in order to prepare lunch for himself and Zhao Dabai, Jiang Yan often consumes more than an hour on this, which is too wasteful of time.

Carrying a shovel, Jiang Yan walked out of the gate with a small cart, Jiang Yan's land was almost used, and there was no place to dig for Jiang Yan, but the neighbor's house had never been mined by Jiang Yan.

Kicking open the door of the neighbor's house, Jiang Yan pushed the cart to the neighbor's house, aimed at a piece of yellow earth in the corner, and rushed over with the cart.

Most of Shengjia Village is precious black soil, loess is relatively rare here, but Jiang Yan knows the neighbors very well, there is a piece of loess in the southeast corner of the front yard, after all, the soil stove of Jiang Yan's house now comes from this loess.

Shoveling out buckets of loess, Jiang Yan poured the loess on the cart, and found that the cart could not be loaded, Jiang Yan put down the shovel in his hand and pushed the cart back to his farm.

Unloading the loess on the cart next to the earthen stove, Jiang Yan pushed the cart back to the neighbor's yard again, and so on twice before Jiang Yan finally collected the loess for making the clay kiln.

After cleaning the small cart, Jiang Yan fetched a bucket of water next to the well and poured it on the loess pile, with the help of an iron shovel, Jiang Yan stirred the loess into viscous yellow mud, and then put down the shovel in his hand and walked to the left side of the farmhouse.

Jiang Yan stored a lot of broken bricks, collected all these broken bricks next to the yellow mud, Jiang Yan used the broken bricks to roughly build the outline of an earthen kiln, stood up and judged the size, and found that it was okay, Jiang Yan smeared a thick layer of yellow mud on the top of the adobe bricks.

The yellow mud filled all the gaps in the adobe bricks, and after doing all this, Jiang Yan put a second layer of broken bricks on the yellow mud.

Like a binder, the yellow mud unites the broken adobe bricks, which in turn resemble the bones of the yellow mud, giving the soft yellow mud a three-dimensional shape.

After building three layers, Jiang Yan stopped what he was doing, looked at the hole he left out, Jiang Yan put two iron rods on the hole, and then carefully placed a brick on the iron bar, and after building the lintel, Jiang Yan continued to lower the fourth layer of bricks.

A layer of bricks, a layer of yellow mud, busy for nearly an hour, Jiang Yan finally built an earthen stove with a diameter of one meter and a height of one meter and a half.

The earthen stove in front of him is like an inverted funnel, big at the bottom and small at the top, the reason for this is because Jiang Yan has no big iron pot at home, only a small household pot is left, if the mouth is too big, this pot can't be placed.

After measuring the size, Jiang Yan put the iron pot back in the room, and then walked to Gao Chou's side to help the latter decompose the big tree in front of him.

The best way is to wait for the earthen stove to dry, and wait for the soil to be almost finalized, and then add firewood to dry, not only will not make the earthen stove crack, but also make the earthen stove more solid.

Following Gao Chou, Jiang Yan gradually decomposed the big tree in front of him, and with an axe, Jiang Yan split the wood that was broken into pieces into pieces of firewood of the right size, and then placed it neatly on the pyre.

The chopped branches were placed on top of the firewood by ginger smoke, and from a distance it looked as neat as a green-roofed wooden house.

After doing all this, Jiang Yan finally relaxed, and worked all day, now the time was close to evening, and walked to the stone mill, Jiang Yan observed the shadow on the grinding plate.

The slanted sunlight left a clear mark on the grinding disc, and he took out the chalk from the storage room, and Jiang Yan drew a mark on the graphite, and after doing this, Jiang Yan pulled out the rolling pin inserted in the center of the stone grinding and put it back in the storage room.

Brought out a wool thread from the storage room, Jiang Yan tied one end of the wool to his finger, and pointed his finger on the stone mill, Jiang Yan looked for the center of the circle drawn by the sun, and after searching for a long time, Jiang Yan finally drew a standard circle at the two reticules.

Drawing out the ruler, Jiang Yan divided the circle in front of him into twelve equal parts, with the first mark as the apex, Jiang Yan carved the most basic twelve hours.

After doing all this, Jiang Yan put away all the chalk and wool, and then returned to the storage room and took out a hammer and an awl.

Along the traces of the chalk, Jiang Yan carefully beat the back of the awl with a hammer, and the sharp cone carved a white mark on the stone mill, and with the appearance of the traces, the twelve hours drawn by the chalk were finally imprinted on the surface of the stone mill by Jiang Yan.

After nearly an hour of busy work, the sundial was finally made by Jiang Yan, and the hammer and awl were put back in the storage room, and Jiang Yan immediately pulled out a suitable size firewood from the pyre and inserted it in the center of the stone mill.

The sky was dark, the daylight had long disappeared, Gao Chou on the side lit the stove, a large amount of corn had been boiled in the pot, trying to distinguish the time with the help of the faint daylight, but after observing for a long time, Jiang Yan only saw the shadow left by the stove fire on the stone mill.

"What are you doing?" Gao Chou on the side saw that Jiang Yan's eyes were about to stick to the stone mill, and he couldn't help but speak.

"I'm judging the time."

With his eyes fixed on the faint shadow, Jiang Yan opened his mouth to explain.

Hearing this, Gao Chou instantly put down the firewood in his hand, stood up and pointed to the sky with both hands.

"Isn't it all dark this day? Isn't it night? Isn't this visible with the eyes? What else is this to judge? Do you think it's dawn? ”

Hearing this, Jiang Yan turned around helplessly, Jiang Yan understood what Gao Chou meant, but obviously Gao Chou didn't understand Jiang Yan's actions, and opened his mouth helplessly, but Jiang Yan didn't know what angle to start explaining, he was embarrassed for a long time, and then sat next to the stove.

"You're right, it's night."

Filled a piece of firewood into the stove pit, Jiang Yan was better than dead.

The corn was quickly cooked, Zhao Dabai and Kaka were called, and Jiang Yan and the four of them enjoyed the food of the moment wantonly, waiting for everyone to eat with a round stomach, and there was not a single corn left in the pot.

After dinner, Jiang Yan walked to the earthen stove he had built, the yellow mud he had wiped in the afternoon had been fixed at the moment, and it was time to burn the stove.

Bringing a pile of corn stalks, Jiang Yan broke the corn stalks and stuffed them into the earthen kiln, then turned out a lighter and lit the corn stalks.

The bright yellow firelight instantly illuminated Jiang Yan's face, looking at the flickering firelight in front of him, Jiang Yan broke the corn stalks in his hand and filled the stove pit again.

The stove didn't last long, it only needed to dry the water, stuffed a large amount of corn stalks into the earthen kiln, and Jiang Yan looked at the vigorous firewood and walked into the farmhouse.

Tomorrow's Jiang Yan has to rush to the trading place, and now it is not early, and Jiang Yan, who has been tired all day, will go to bed early.

Following.

In the early morning, the tired Jiang Yan struggled up from the quilt, and after a simple wash, Jiang Yan took out his backpack and began to prepare his bags for the past few days.

Stuffed all the smoked crocodile meat into the backpack, this crocodile meat is suitable for food for long journeys, and the remaining amount is just enough to meet the needs of Jiang Yan and others.

Immediately hung the military lunch box on the backpack, the role of the military lunch box is very great, the steel material is not only strong and durable, and even can be used to boil water in the field, which is very convenient.