Beginning Backpack [Farming]

Recently, the weather has turned cold at night, and Shen Huaijin's sleep quality is getting better and better. When she wakes up, she often feels comfortable physically and mentally, and is full of vitality from head to toe.

The curtains in the room were only opened a thin slit at the foot of the bed, obviously worried that the sunlight would disturb those who were still asleep on the bed.The windows were still wide open just for ventilation, and the morning breeze bulged the curtains into different shapes, which still woke Shen Huaijin.

With sleepy eyes, he sat on the bed and opened the curtains directly, losing the shackles, fresh air flooded into the room at once, dispelling the dullness of the night.

After waking up, the voice from the other side of the stream outside the house became clearer. Everyone was busy doing some finishing work, but it still couldn't be vague.

Shen Huaijin changed into her clothes, picked up the cloth belt beside the bed and tied her hair, and went out of the room with her hands and feet moving.

The valley is already full of vitality, and Li Ye is patiently squeezing licorice juice with freshly picked licorice.

Shen Huaijin strode to the entrance of the bamboo path to wash up. After tidying herself up refreshed, she slipped into the kitchen with ease, and took out the silver-haired orc's breakfast that was still hot on the stove.

He scooped up the custard and ate it as he walked, and sat on the edge of Li. He first took a big breath of the sweet fragrance of licorice, and then asked, "Li, why did you get up so early today to pick licorice?"

"The bad season is not far away. I'm afraid that the licorice will wither quickly, so I have to prepare it early." Seeing Shen Huaijin staring helplessly, the silver-haired orc smiled helplessly, and handed him a clean stalk from the side, "Eat it .”

Shen Huaijin immediately took it, showing two canine teeth contentedly, the licorice stems are tender, and the juice will come out after a couple of sips, very sweet and delicious.

"But we should still stock up on some brown sugar. There is no need to make preserved fruit and jam recently, and in fact, we don't need much sugar." Shen Huaijin chewed the juice twice before throwing the wrinkled licorice stalk in the On one side, he stretched his waist, and looked vaguely at the busy figure on the other side, "Squeezing licorice juice is too troublesome, you don't need to waste time doing too much, if there is not enough, then just exchange it with other people with linen .”

Li squeezed the juice for an imperceptible pause, glanced at Shen Huaijin from the corner of the eye, and said in a flat tone: "It's good to stock up on more sugar...it's sweet."

"Then you can figure it out, as long as it doesn't affect other things." Shen Huaijin was thinking about other things, so he naturally didn't notice the abnormality of the orc. He patted Li on the shoulder, "Then I'll go get busy first."

After speaking, he walked to the bridge without looking back.

Li watched his back gradually go away, then looked back at the half-filled bucket of licorice juice, frowned in frustration, his emerald green eyes were full of bewilderment, he didn't understand why Shen Huaijin didn't act like before. smile.

Shen Huaijin, who had never had such a delicate and turning mind, had already walked to the other side quickly, found Rin, and after exchanging pleasantries, he begged: "Rin, I think the house here is almost repaired, let's start burning glass with me today." , but I don’t have a lot of raw materials, so I have to trouble you to lead everyone to find some quartz sand and limestone, you know exactly where these two things come from.”

"Okay!" Rin responded quickly, and said again: "Jin, but there is no glass kiln at the base, I ask you to go there first and guide us to build the kiln."

"Glass is brittle, and I'm afraid it will be shattered a lot during transportation." Shen Huaijin pondered for a moment, and said, "The crucible kiln for burning glass should be built in the nearby valley. After enough glass is fired, most of it can be dismantled. It just takes hard work." You have shipped quartz sand and burnt limestone."

Rin waved his hands, and said boldly: "This is all for us to live a good life, why is it called hard work, no matter how hard it is, there is no cold season for the sub-beasts to suffer from the cold. Anyway, we have just built a house and are free to move. Touching rocks can be so tiring."

With his words, Shen Huaijin no longer had any scruples, "Okay, then you all rush to the base as soon as possible, first burn the limestone and then wash the quartz sand, and send them back together at that time. By the way, remember to leave some people in the valley. You have to help me build the kiln together."

Rin patted his chest, "Leave it on us!"

It was still early, and some people had not had time to eat breakfast, so Shen Huaijin had no choice but to leave first, intending to wait until most people were ready before going.

Li in the shed had disappeared, and Shen Huaijin reckoned that the other party had gone to inspect the valley.

The bucket left in place was carefully covered with gauze. He looked at the faintly half bucket of licorice juice. Thinking of what the other party said just now, he scratched his cheek strangely and muttered: "It's not that I don't like sweets. ?"

This curiosity was quickly forgotten by him, and the gauze reminded him of the soybean paste that he was still drying in the other corner of the shed.

This soybean paste is the first time he made it. It is estimated that the fermentation time should be about the same, and he does not know if it will be successful.Thinking that he hadn't checked the situation for a long time, he hurried over and knelt down to check.

As soon as you get close, you can smell a fragrance, which is even stronger after removing the gauze.Soybean paste has been dried in the sun for many days and fermented for many days. The color is getting darker and darker, from the original khaki to the current reddish brown.After scraping off the water layer above, what is left is the thick soybean paste.Shen Huaijin scooped a little with a clean spoon. The soy bean paste obviously only added salt, but it tasted a natural and delicious taste, combined with the fragrance of beans, it was very appetizing.

This big pot of soybean paste was stored in cans by him again, and he divided it into eight cans. When the time came, he would give one can to each of his friends, and he would have three or four cans left, which was enough.

Just as he was thinking, there was a shout from the other side of the stream, "Jin, we are all ready!"

Shen Huaijin hurriedly stored the soybean paste neatly, took the tools and went to the other side, and planned to build a few more glass-burning crucible kilns with everyone.

The "crucible kiln" is still a new thing for other members of the tribe, unlike brick kilns or ordinary pottery kilns, everyone has more or less contact with it, so they are full of interest, and their eyes reveal urgency.

"Jin, what is this crucible kiln? Is it different from other kilns we usually use?" An asked curiously.In his opinion, brick kilns and lime kilns are very similar, and sometimes they can be used in common.

"The crucible kiln...there is a separate crucible in this kiln." Shen Huaijin led everyone downstream and explained: "The raw materials for firing glass are actually small stones, but we need extremely high temperatures They can be shaped after they are softened by burning. In order to prevent these small stones from being scattered everywhere, and to prevent the final glass from being stained, they must be placed in a high-temperature crucible in advance. Once it’s soft, just grab the crucible and take it out together.”

"Oh..." An suddenly realized, "It's just like you usually steam egg custard. The kiln body is the pot, the crucible is the bowl, and the glass is the steamed custard, right?"

Shen Huaijin nodded in relief, "That's right."

While speaking, everyone had reached a suitable position near the valley entrance, Shen Huaijin stopped everyone, and suggested: "It's almost here. Let's build six kilns, and the distance between them should be larger. Don't delay the time to blow the wind. "

The kiln he had built alone was not too big, with only six crucibles inside, and it was still a bit stretched to use.This time there were many people helping, so the kiln body was appropriately expanded, and it could probably hold eight crucibles.In this way, 48 balls of soft glass can be burned at one time, and as long as the success rate is slightly higher, the needs of the entire tribe can be quickly met.

After demarcating the scope, everyone took clay and dry grass stems, mixed them together, and began to build the kiln body patiently, and baked it with a low fire while building to speed up the shaping.

At this moment, Li and his party also came back from patrolling outside the valley, and saw people busy by the stream.Li knew Shen Huaijin's plan, so he didn't need to say anything, he just asked, "Jin, is there anything we can do?"

As soon as he reminded her, Shen Huaijin's eyes lit up, "By the way, go back and burn some crucibles for me, I have to watch this way, I can't go away yet."

In fact, everyone is already quite skilled in their techniques, and Shen Huaijin just wanted to finish it as soon as possible just in case.

"Okay." Li rubbed his black hair, "Then let's go there first, and you can talk about what else to do."

After sending them off, Shen Huaijin knelt down and together with everyone, put mud on the kiln body that had just bottomed out.This kiln is not too small, and the required kiln temperature is also very high. For the sake of overall stability, everyone's speed is inevitably limited.

By noon, Rin and the other orcs returned with their first batch of quartz sand and quicklime.

When the kiln body was built in the evening, they brought back a lot of quicklime and some bellows that had been used at the base.

Shen Huaijin glanced around and saw that there were only a few people who came back. He was a little worried, and asked with a frown, "Rin, where have all the other orcs gone?"

Rin quickly explained: "Jin, don't worry. We thought that if the glass is burned out, the iron frame of the window must be needed, so we left some orcs at the base, and we can prepare some more quartz sand and The limestone is convenient for us to pick up, and secondly, the iron frame can be made in advance, so as to save a trip when we can.”

When he said that, Shen Huaijin felt relieved. He patted the shoulder of the orc in front of him, and said softly, "Thank you for your hard work."

Rin, who was born serious and straightforward, waved his hands and reiterated: "Jin, we all want to live a good life, these things are not hard."

On the other hand, the orcs on the side were already gearing up and eager to try, and asked curiously, "Jin, when can we start burning glass?"

Shen Huaijin asked everyone to pour out the translucent quartz sand and gray quicklime, and asked people to fetch a large amount of soda ash exchanged from traveling merchants, and mixed them together in proportion.

"Crush these things into particles first, and then start firing the kiln after the crucible is ready."

The author has something to say: Gougou (working hard to squeeze the juice): We also want to be sweet.

Xiao Shen (passionately): Glass, glass, glass!

感谢在2021-04-2200:55:03~2021-04-2400:51:03期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: Wu Ningyue 1;

Thanks to the little angels of irrigation nutrient solution: 10 bottles of Xilu; 1 bottle of Jingxi;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!