Reborn stone tools to farm

Peeling off the green skin on the outside of the bamboo slices is called killing greens, drying bamboo slices is called history, and steaming bamboo slices with water is called boiling greens. What Tang Zheng teaches Zhizhi to do now is boiled greens.

Set up a ceramic pot to boil water, put all the bamboo slices in and boil for a while, but not for too long. Tang Zheng is not very clear about the exact time, but he has just heard about this craft.After that, the bamboo slices are taken out to dry naturally, and the moisture inside can be removed before use.

The fiber structure inside the boiled bamboo slices is tighter and more elastic, and it can also play a role in preventing moths to a certain extent.Tang Zheng explained the principles inside to Zhi in a simple way. As for how long it should be cooked, she still needs to experiment by herself.

"It's almost like this. Be careful not to burn your hands when you take it out later." Tang Zheng turned over the bamboo pieces inside with a branch, and said to the branch.

"Good master." Zhi nodded, his brows were furrowed and he was still thinking, probably digesting what Tang Zheng taught before.

Putting down the branch, Tang Zheng clapped his hands to remove the bamboo shavings on it. He was very idle before, but now he just finished working on this side, and found the mountain on the other side again.

"Master, I'm almost done, come and take a look." Shan poked his head out of the circular kiln and shouted at Tang Zheng.

"coming."

Let Zhi look at the pot, Tang Zheng went to the kiln, and Jing behind him also got up to follow, just like a small tail.

The two entered the entrance of the kiln, surrounded by brown bricks. For Tang Zheng, it was old and nostalgic, but for Jing, it was a novel experience, as if he had built a cave himself.

Turning around and looking around, the place where there is no light is very tightly built, and the shape of the whole kiln is round, you can see the intention of the mountain, but there is a big hole when you look up, Tang Zheng asked suspiciously: "Why isn't it built on top?"

Shan blushed and said embarrassingly: "I can't build it together, I don't know how to plug it up."

Tang Zheng smiled lightly and shook her head, why is this apprentice so stubborn, "Won't you climb up from the outside if it doesn't work inside?"

"I, I'm afraid I'll collapse what I just built." Shan explained anxiously.

Tang Zheng was speechless for a while, the eggshell shape is a very stable structure, how could it be so easy to collapse, but the principle must not be understood by the mountain, so he had to say helplessly: "It's not that easy to collapse, I'll go up to build it, you put it on the ground. Pass me something."

"okay."

Shan nodded in a hurry, Tang Zheng led them out of the kiln, climbed up from behind, holding a pottery bowl full of mud in his hand, Shan handed the bricks up from below one by one, and Tang Zheng sealed the whole kiln in a short time the last gap.

There is a large area in front of the entire kiln that has not been paved. The kiln body is facing south, and the opening is facing southwest. It is about two and a half meters wide and one person high.

Take the width of one meter along the circle drawn before rubbing off the ground, and build an arc-shaped kiln mouth outward at the gap, which is a bit like a small door in the west. The bottom is a vertical rectangle, and the top is a semicircle. , when the front is sealed, the bottom section is used for air intake, and an opening is left on the top for putting dry firewood into it. The whole structure looks like a flask from above.

There is a big gap next to it, which is used to move things in. There is no condition to make a thick door for easy opening and closing. It is always no problem to pinch a curved ceramic plate to cover it. When the pottery is fired, it will be no problem .

The three of them built it together until the sun slanted to the west. Tomorrow, we only need to ask Shan to get more mud, paste the inside and outside of the kiln a little more firmly, make a board to cover it, and dry it with fire to complete the job. After that, pottery products can be produced in large quantities, or bricks and tiles can be fired.

The progress of the next few days was faster than Tang Zheng expected. It was because she underestimated the combat effectiveness of the women, and it only took them one day to deal with those furs.After that, I joined the ranks of digging ice cellars, and the overall area was expanded to a depth of one meter after digging. The most fortunate thing is that there is no water seepage underground.

The soil in the constant temperature layer is actually relatively soft. Tang Zheng asked people to use the cut tree trunks to support the entire ice cellar as a frame to prevent future subsidence. After stacking, the simplest part of the whole project will come to an end.

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As the saying goes, everything is fate, and it can't be controlled at all. When it comes, iron turns into gold, and when it goes away, gold turns into iron.

This sentence is really good. On the day after the ice cellar was dug, it snowed again, and it lasted for two full days. The progress that was finally accelerated was abruptly dragged down by God.

Finally, last night when the snow stopped, Tang Zheng decided to take the time to take people to the river downstream to fish for ice cubes, and everyone woke up before dawn.

"Hazel, we are all ready." Behind Song stood a group of people, both men and women, holding specially made thick ropes and chisels in their hands, and two specially made Bamboo rafts with ropes attached to the front are used as trailers. Maybe it’s not easy to use in other seasons, but now the ground is full of thick snow and it’s absolutely no problem.

Transporting ice requires a huge amount of labor, and almost two-thirds of the clan members are in this team, leaving only a few disabled and young children in the clan to guard.

After checking the things that need to be brought, Tang Zheng nodded to Song, "Okay, let's go."

A group of people walked down the stream in a mighty way. Because there are not many roads upstream in this stream, there is a fork. The water flow next to them is relatively fast, and it is not frozen. It takes less than an hour to walk down. There will be a large river connected to a small lake, the water there is slow, and the ice layer should be very thick after winter has been so long.

Bamboo rafts are used to press down the places where people walk, and people stand on it and step on it to make a way, which will be convenient when transporting ice cubes back.

"Phew, it's getting colder and colder this day. When will it be a head?" Tang Zheng put his hands in front of his mouth and took a deep breath. While speaking, white mist was brought out from his mouth by the airflow. It was red from the cold.

In the past, Hazel had no concept of time, and her days were always the same. Looking back, she didn't know how long this snow season was.

Tang Zheng remembers the date now, and roughly calculates that the snow has been falling for almost two months, but the weather is getting colder every day, and there is no sign of warming up at all. After ten thousand years, it will probably only be the Great Northeast, Harbin It is only right that such a climate should exist in a place like this, and it is obviously not normal to put it here.

Zhang Zhang next to her heard her words, grinned, and replied with a smile: "Hey, it's not long, halfway through, the tree should have sprouts."

"Half?" Tang Zheng couldn't believe it. According to Zhaozhang, plus the previous frost, a snow season would last for nearly four months.

"Yeah, this year is much better for us." Zhang said with emotion, "Speaking of which this year's snow season is very cold, it is estimated that many people will die outside, a small tribe like ours, God loses his temper a little, maybe The whole thing is gone, and I don’t know how many will be left around when the rainy season comes.”

Tang Zheng didn't answer, and she also knew that Zhang just sighed a little. In fact, there is not much emotional connection between the tribes. Apart from exchanging supplies, the rest is about threatening each other.

Their stone tribe is the boss, so there is no need to unite and resist due to external forces. They are very indifferent.

The road was also boring, and Zhang told Tang Zheng some interesting things to relieve his boredom. He had been there several times when he went to the Stone Tribe for business over the years, and saw a lot of things in the world, but most of them were just which tribe was wiped out by which one. Whose family has a good fortune and got a lot of things, and it changed a lot of gossips among parents such as going home.

"I heard that there is a tribe in the west who exchanged ten packets of beans for a beautiful woman from the Stone Tribe to go home. I have seen that woman once. She has a thick waist and a big butt. She is really beautiful. Only the Stone Tribe can raise such a person. Come." Zhang said with envious eyes on his face.

Tang Zheng was not flattered about the aesthetics of the primitive people, and listened to him without thinking, when a thought flashed through his mind as fast as lightning, Tang Zheng grabbed Zhang Zhang and asked eagerly: "What did you just say? "

"Ah?" Zhang was taken aback and stuttered, "Just, let's change back to a beautiful woman."

"It's not this! What did you exchange for it!" The anxious Tang Zheng raised her voice a lot, attracting other people to look here.

"Oh, you said that bean." Zhang patted his chest, and Hazel became so excited, "What's the matter? It's a very powerful thing?"

"No, tell me what you look like first." After calming down, Tang Zheng let go of Zhang's clothes and asked again.

I recalled it carefully. After all, it happened more than half a year ago. Zhang didn’t quite remember it. After thinking for a while, he said, “It seems to be yellow and round, and it’s about the size of this finger.” Zhang pinched his own The little thumb stroked it.

"Really?!" Tang Zheng almost jumped up excitedly, if he guessed correctly, it must be soybeans!Before the entire fruit season, I was looking for plants that could be planted, and now I have a clue!

"That thing is worthless, why are you so happy?" Zhang scratched his head in doubt, ten packs of beans could be piled up to fill their clay pots for two or three pots, I really don't know what's so strange.

"You don't understand." Tang Zheng raised a finger and shook it, the smile on his face could not be put down, "This is a good food, a good food to eat."

Zhang was even more puzzled, and retorted: "The ones I've eaten are so hard that I can't even bite them, but the ones soaked in water taste a bit sweet."

Tang Zheng laughed more and more happily, without explaining, pointing to the destination that was getting closer and closer during the conversation, and said: "Look, we are here!"

"Hey!" Before Zhang could ask again, Tang Zheng ran forward, having fun in the snow, and the others laughed along because they didn't know. Maybe something good happened again.