Prehistoric Survival Records

Even though Billy repeatedly stated that he was walking as fast as flying while carrying a stone pot full of water, Rigg didn't think he was a black-hearted contractor, especially after experiencing the weight of the water container himself.

At this time, the benefits of being close to the water intake point are reflected, because my wise site selection in the early stage has at least reduced the latter of the two difficulties of the heavy pot and the long distance, and greatly increased the efficiency of Billy's water intake. , Rieg gave himself a thumbs up in his heart.

As for Billy, Billy felt that as long as he could make a round trip during the day, it was nothing.

When Rigg directed Bill to use the water he brought to stir the soil into a medium-humidity and slightly sticky state, Gal finally picked up the pile of wood. Although Gal often focused on Rigg with two purposes Here, however, the tasks that Lige entrusted to him at hand did not delay at all, on the contrary, they were completed quickly and well.

Not only did he pick out all the wood that met the requirements, but he even sorted them out from coarse to subdivided. Those that were too long and the whole ones were also split with a stone axe, and they were neatly arranged by category.

Not only did Lige once again lament the patriarch's insight into people, but the two subordinates assigned to him are simply too capable. If the whole world has such subordinates, then the boss is simply the happiest person in the world.

The process of making charcoal is simple to say, but how to burn charcoal efficiently and well requires some skills. Although Rieg has never practiced it himself, he understands the process.

He drew a circle with a radius of about 1.5 meters on the ground with a branch, asked Gal to dig down the soil inside the circle a few centimeters, and asked Billy to find some stone strips to cushion the bottom, which played the role of overhead to enhance convection .

Then start from the center of the circle to pile up the wood layer by layer, starting from the thickest wood, and proceed to the outer wall in turn. This process requires the wood to be stacked relatively tightly to prevent the wood from being burned at once when the oxygen content in the gap is too high. Turned into ashes.

After the wood is piled up, it is necessary to use the stickiness of the soil to paste the entire huge pile of wood, except for a fist-sized ignition hole at the top, leaving no pores.

While Rigg was explaining, he demonstrated to the orcs——

"The thickness of the soil should be moderate. It is unnecessary to paste too thickly, and it will not be able to seal if it is too thin."

"The whole thing will be glued together, be careful not to leak air."

After completing this step, Lige walked around the preliminary rough charcoal kiln, nodded with satisfaction——

"The next step is to dig out eight fist-sized vents around the bottom of the charcoal kiln."

"Billy, don't look at me, look at your own fist."

Billy, who was digging a hole with Rigg's small fist, hurriedly enlarged the hole under his hands.

The next thing is to light the fire. The fire should start from the hole left on the top. If the wood can't be lit, you can add a little kindling. If possible, it is best to pour some gasoline to help the combustion. I can point a handful of dead leaves and throw them in.

Since it hadn’t rained all winter, the wood picked up was very dry, and soon the tip of the kiln bag was ignited. The air in the kiln bag was convected up and down due to the stone strips at the bottom and the eight ventilation holes. Soon, the fire spread along the self-injury.

Rieg lay on the ground, checking every ventilation hole——

"If you see a fire burning in any vent hole, cover that hole with wet mud."

While speaking, flames came out of the hole in front of Rieger's eyes. Riger's eyesight was quick, and he grabbed a large handful of wet mud to block the hole.

Gal and Billy imitated the example, and also lay down on the ground to watch. Soon, Gal also found a light-emitting vent hole. Without Rigg's reminder, Gal blocked the hole faster than Rigg. .

Charlie also craned his neck to look into each hole. He seemed to be playing some kind of interesting game. Whenever he found a burning hole, he would scream, and then someone would come to plug the hole. It's so interesting.

When all eight holes at the bottom were glued, the only remaining hole at the top began to emit a lot of white smoke——

"It's a lot of moisture evaporating from the wood."

"This process will continue for a while."

"Watch carefully."

"When the white smoke becomes smaller and the hole starts to glow again, the hole must be blocked immediately."

Rieger spoke very carefully, and the other three also listened carefully.

While speaking, the white smoke began to shrink, and the kiln roof showed signs of resuming fire.

"Now, quickly, paste this hole!"

As soon as Rigg finished speaking, Gal and Billy each grabbed two handfuls of wet mud and threw it up, so the last air hole was also sealed.

Clap, clap, Rigg slapped his hands, indicating that he's done.

Seeing the other little meaty hands staring at him with somewhat magical eyes, Rieg explained——

This is a long-standing way of expressing happiness and celebration on the ancient earth. When something is done, or I am very happy, or when I want to congratulate others, clapping is a good way. Very nervous, clapping can also be used to decompress, it is very suitable for releasing inner emotions.

So the number of clapping people standing in front of the kiln changed from one to three——Charlie's winged hands were too short to be photographed, but judging from the vigorous flapping of his wings, Charlie also had a lot of emotions in his heart that needed to be released .

This scene is actually quite weird for others to see. Imagine four orcs standing in front of a tall kiln (fen) bag and applauding passionately, as if sincerely congratulating the death of the person buried in it, and sincerely happy for it Like orz.

Charcoal burning is already in progress, and Rieger has done everything he can think of in this crude environment, no matter whether the final result is successful or not, now he can't do anything for the time being, the wood needs to be smoldering in a sealed kiln Let it cool naturally after at least one day and one night. If this method is successful, you only need to peel off the outer mud seal to get the fired charcoal, so now just wait patiently.

After finishing all this, it was actually still early, far before dinner time. Now that he came out, Rigg wanted to make full use of this time. Since he discovered Billy's knitting talent in the morning, Rigg decided to help him Then develop and develop, teach him something with technical content.

So he was going to teach Billy—basket weaving.

Rieger remembered that when he accompanied Laika's father to fish by the lake for the first time, the stick Laika found as a fishing rod was a piece of high-quality green bamboo, because bamboos always grow in pieces. Riger deduced that there was at least a small piece of green bamboo nearby. bamboo forest.

Is there anything more suitable for weaving than bamboo strips? Even in the era when he lived, technology and technology developed to an astonishing level, and various living utensils made of bamboo were not completely replaced by various polymer materials. It can be seen that bamboo is What a good companion for co-existing with humans.

Bamboo permeates every aspect of human life. For example, the hollowness of bamboo joints can be used to store water, guide smoke, carry water tanks, make blowguns, etc.; The root bamboo is divided repeatedly to obtain bamboo strips as thin as sheets of paper. Bamboo strips can be used in a wide range of ways. Not only can we weave bamboo baskets, baskets, bamboo hats, etc., but also can be used as straps, curtains, and summer mats. It is simply a kind of bamboo strip with hundreds of patterns.The elasticity of bamboo can also be used to make weapons, bows and arrows, blowing tubes, not to mention sweet spring bamboo shoots, delicious winter bamboo shoots, thinking of the taste of fried pork with bamboo shoots, Lige couldn’t help sucking in his mouth. In short, he found a piece of Bamboo forest is equivalent to sitting on a treasure!

In short, Rigg could not wait for a moment.

"Gal," Rieg called Gal to him with a smile on his face and asked him, "Do you remember that there was a blue straight tree growing near the tribe, it was hollow inside, the leaves were shaped like chicken feet, and the tree body was very elastic. Still one by one."

Gal took a step back from Rieger's enthusiastic eyes, and said involuntarily, "Okay, it seems that there is such a tree as you mentioned."

"Where is it? Take me to see it!" Rieger's eyes became more eager.

Gal thought for a while, the bamboo forest was very close to the tribe, and there were no dangerous creatures nearby, so he agreed.

"I can take you there, but you have to tell me what you are burning these logs for."

Jill Rieger, it just occurred to me that although the two brothers were ordered to work for a day, they didn't bother to tell them the reason for their work, or else these orcs are simple and honest, and they don't even know why they work. so hard.

"Well, let's talk as we walk, let me tell you, this charcoal is a good thing..."

Along the way, he gave a few orcs science information about the benefits of charcoal. Gal listened thoughtfully, and Billy was more straightforward. He didn't understand much of the indirect benefits, but he understood a little.

"You mean, this charcoal can also make the current salt taste better?"

The original salt has a strange taste of bitter and salty, and there is stone powder mixed in it, chewing a mouthful of froth, if it is not for the lack of strength in the body if you don't eat salt, there are really few people who want to eat that stuff.

Later, after improvement, salt became something that can make meat very delicious. No one will say that they don't like salt anymore.

In Billy's view, the salt is already extremely delicious, and this charcoal can make the salt taste better, and the charcoal is amazing.

Billy wouldn't believe it if someone else said that, but it was the little cub who figured out how to make salt taste better in the first place, and now he says there is a way to make salt taste better, Billy couldn't help but believe him.

What's more, he has been secretly paying attention to this little cub this day, and found that although he is always slow, but the same thing, if you listen to him to do it, you will do it quickly and well. It's shorter, and it takes less effort. No wonder everyone says that this little cub has inherited the beast god's inheritance. Could it be that just standing next to him can make the orc become more powerful?So, the Beast God also favors him too much, right?

If Rigg knew what Billy was thinking in his heart, he would definitely tell him that this was not the favor of some beast god, but just using scientific management methods to increase the work efficiency of the team.

This ability is a must for managers!