Cats grow fields in the apocalyptic wasteland

The process of tomato chili cake is more complicated.

Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi were busy, and there was nothing else to say, but the stove was too small to meet their needs at all.

Xia Lunong looked at the pot that had been baked on the stove for almost a whole day, slumped lazily on the chair, and said depressedly: "It would be great if there was a bigger stove and a bigger pot, let's bake more together, And you don’t have to be in the kitchen all day and night.”

Without raising his eyes, Kong Zhi said, "Go to the market tomorrow and have a look."

"The market is just that big. We've already bought the biggest pot, so where can we find other pots?" Xia Lunong was so tired that her eyelids were almost glued together, she closed her eyes and murmured, "Forget it, even if we can find Even if you get such a big pot, you don’t have such a big stove at home.”

"If you don't have one, build another one. The yard is so big, it's convenient to cut some bamboo to build a shed."

Xia Lunong changed his expression, turned over and sat up, looked at Kong Zhi and asked, "Speaking of this, have you ever heard of something called a bread kiln?"

Kong Zhi raised his chin slightly, beckoning him to say.

Xia Lunong gestured, "Actually, it is a variant of the stone kiln. It was introduced from the West. It is similar to our brick kiln, but it is much smaller. First put firewood in it, and after the kiln body has fully accumulated heat, Then put the things to be baked in, and use the heat radiation to cook or something."

Kong Zhi thought for a moment, and said: "I have a little impression of this, does the hero's house in the "Eniania Island" have this thing?"

Xia Lunong patted her thigh, looked at him with her head up, and said with bright eyes: "Yes, it's this movie, how about we make a bread kiln like in the movie?"

Kong Zhi said truthfully: "We may not be able to do it."

"Let's try it first." The more Xia Lunong thought about it, the more feasible it became. "Didn't they build a hydropower station in the past? There should be professionals. We'll find out after asking."

In the evening Xia Huoqu and Yan Xinian came back.

Xia Lunong followed behind them, asking about the bread kiln.

After Yan Xiannian washed his face, he turned his head and said, "I've heard of this thing too, it's not complicated in theory, I'll ask tomorrow."

"Okay." Xia Lunong leaned on the door frame, stretched out his hands to pull the door, and asked, "If you want to build, can you exchange some cement or something?"

"Yes." Yan Xiannian smiled, "Tomorrow I will send a professional to come to the house, and I will exchange as many materials as you want."

Xia Huoqu said from the side: "Let someone come over tomorrow to take a look. If you can use the materials from the base, try to use the materials from the base as much as possible. It's not good to change the materials to a private name."

Yan Xiannian smiled, "It's fine."

Seeing his brother's serious face, Xia Lunong nodded and said, "I see."

The next morning, someone called by Yan Xiannian came to the house.

The one who came was a young man named Xi Jianbai. He was dark and thin, with an average build. He smiled and showed a little bit of buck teeth. He looked easy to talk to.

After introducing himself, Xi Jianbai took out a blueprint from his satchel, "Captain Yan and Vice-Captain Xia both told me that I suggest building a white kiln."

Xia Lunong asked: "What is Baiyao?"

"It's also a kind of bread kiln."

"The white kiln is similar to the black kiln. The black kiln needs to burn the fire in the kiln cavity. After the fire is finished, the firewood is withdrawn and the charcoal is removed. Because the fire is fired in the kiln cavity, there is still a little firewood smoke in the kiln. Baked things have a smoky taste, and the scope of application is relatively narrow.”

"The white kiln burns the fire under the kiln, and the smoke is discharged along the chimney, basically there is no smoky smell, and the scope of application is also wide."

Xia Lunong had only watched other people's bread kilns look good in movies before, but she didn't expect this.

As soon as Xi Jianbai said, he nodded immediately, "Okay, then Jianbai Kiln, we listen to you, do you want to prepare anything?"

"Sand, cement, masonry, if possible, it's better to have some beer bottles." Xi Jianbai wrote down the required materials on the drawing, and explained: "This kind of kiln needs to thicken the kiln body, and the sand and beer bottles are used as heat storage. Materials used, some would be better."

Xia Lunong responded immediately, "No problem, there are a lot of beer bottles in the cafeteria, I'll go to the cafeteria to change some."

"Okay, if it's sandy soil, just dig a little in the river outside the base, it's not too complicated." Xi Jianbai said, "Then let's determine the values ​​first? Can you understand the drawings?"

Xia Lunong looked at the densely packed data on the map, and her scalp felt a little numb.

He studied opera and literature in college, so he didn't even need to take the advanced mathematics test, and he lost mathematics long ago.

He looked embarrassed like a scumbag on his face, and pretended to look aside, and said "huh" and wanted to pass the blueprint to Xi Jianbai.

Xi Jianbai was about to pick it up, when Xia Lunong stretched out a hand behind him, and gently took the blueprint in his hand.

As soon as Xia Lunong felt the force, he knew it was Kong Zhi, so he took a step back to the side to give Kong Zhi his position.

After reading the drawings, Kong Zhi asked Xi Jianbai, "Can you refine the height of the opening of the kiln body and the height of the interior ceiling?"

"Let me see." Xi Jianbai thought for a while, and said, "I don't know the ratio, or should I calculate it according to the golden ratio? Multiply the ceiling inside the stone kiln by the golden ratio, and then get the height of the opening of the stone kiln. Is this okay?"

After Xi Jianbai finished speaking, he was afraid that Kong Zhi would disagree, so he quickly added, "I have never built a stone kiln, so I don't know much about it, but according to my experience, it is generally not wrong to use the golden ratio."

Kong Zhi glanced at him, nodded, and continued: "We have to confirm the height and depth of the chimney, the height and width of the fire chamber underneath, and the size of the furnace door."

Xi Jianbai was still in school before the catastrophe, but after he came out, everyone was fooled. The first time he met Party A who was more rigorous than himself, he was a little confused.

He quickly reacted, "No problem, let's confirm now."

The two parties spent more than an hour confirming the various values, and drew a more detailed structural diagram to determine which materials need to be prepared, and it does not matter which materials are prepared a little later.

Xi Jianbai's eyes were dulled by Kong Zhi, as if he was back in school when he was preparing for the final homework.

Fortunately, Xia Lunong took care of the rice at noon, and Xi Jianbai ate white rice with tomato scrambled eggs and minced meat chili sauce.

"Xiao Nong, your food is so delicious!" Xi Jianbai yelled, "I'm so envious of your craftsmanship. I almost vomited from eating in the cafeteria every day."

After Xi Jianbai finished speaking, he sniffed and took another big mouthful of rice, it was delicious!

Xia Lunong said: "It's not difficult, you go to Brother Liu to change the recipe, prepare the ingredients, try a few more times, and you can basically get started. It's no problem to make home-cooked dishes."

"It's too troublesome. I have to wash and cut it, and I have to wash the pot and wash the dishes. When I finally get it out, the taste may not be as good as the canteen stir-fry." Xi Jianbai felt full of bitter tears as he said, "I still work hard. Save up a few more meal tickets, and go eat fried rice when you're hungry."

Xia Lunong smiled and stopped persuading.

After Xi Jianbai finished speaking, he asked hopefully, "Xiao Nong, do you want to change your tomato and chili cake? I also want to change five catties."

"Change." Xia Lunong nodded, and said apologetically, "But now I may have to wait in line, I still have other orders in hand, I have to complete the previous order before I can make yours, it will take about a week It can be done well, okay?"

"No problem! Your tomato and chili cake is so delicious, you can just wait for a while longer." Xi Jianbai took another big mouthful of rice, "I was talking about it before, you exchanged it too cheaply for such a delicious thing , can you earn it?"

Xia Lunong nodded.

Of course you can earn it.

Tomatoes contain a lot of water. Even if they are made into chili cakes, they cannot be roasted too dry. A tomato chili cake worth about ten yuan is a pound.

After the rice is ground into rice noodles, it is still dry and refreshing, without any moisture. There is a small bag of rice noodles per catty, which is enough to make seven or eight catties of chili cakes.

Even with labor, firewood and a little minced meat, their tomato and chili cakes can earn at least three catties of rice for one catty.

This income is considerable.

Everyone in the base either worked tirelessly to farm, or risked their lives to collect supplies, but in total they did not harvest much clean rice.

Seeing him nodding, Xi Jianbai muttered in relief, "I'm always afraid that you won't have much profit, so you won't sell it after you sell it."

"That's not enough." Xia Lu smiled thickly, "We don't want to build a bread kiln now? If we don't want to do it anymore, we won't spend so much thought on it."

"Hahaha, too. Speaking of which, you don't need to give me rice for building a bread kiln. You might as well replace them with tomato and chili cakes."

"No problem, as you requested."

Xi Jian reached a cooperation agreement with Xia Lunong with a smile on his face, and he became more motivated in the afternoon.

He took Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi to look for clay outside the base, "The soil in the sand must be made of clay. There is a small amount of clay in the bamboo forest at the base, but none of them pass the test. It's best to come out and look for it."

Xia Lunong nodded.

Xi Jianbai carried the basket on his back and looked around, "The base will come out every season to clean up the mutated animals and plants nearby. It is relatively safe, just watch it. We usually come out to carry clay more often, and generally there will be no problem."

Xia Lunong said smoothly: "It's okay, Kong Zhi is very powerful, if something happens, let him take us to the sky."

Before Xia Lunong finished speaking, Kong Zhi tapped his shoulder from behind, "Speak carefully, be careful what you say."

Xia Lunong turned her head quickly, and said, "Bah, bah, I was just talking nonsense!"

Xi Jianbai's eyes kept falling on him, seeing his funny movements, he couldn't help showing a smirk on his face.

Kong Zhi glanced at Xi Jianbai, his eyes were dark.

With the vigilance unique to herbivores, Xi Jianbai turned his head to look at it, and subconsciously touched his neck.