Prehistoric Survival Records

Chapter 61 The Fireplace

I showed the orcs a cross-age interior design, and achieved good results. Tchacha just stayed in Bu’s room and refused to leave. Fortunately, because he is his nephew, Bu didn’t go outside. he.

After refusing to leave, another group of cubs came, including the cubs of the dog tribe and the cubs of the Jiufang tribe, all of them were chubby and chubby, crawling everywhere, and a few of them recently ate and drank well The Satsuma cubs regained their snow-white and smooth fur, occupying the cloth bamboo bed like snow balls, jumping back and forth on the elastic bed board.

Bu has no temper for the cubs at all, he is happy to take care of them, as long as he climbs up by accident, he still uses his hands to prevent them from falling, even if he is kicked on his nose by a Samoyed cub jumping from the shelf. Don't get annoyed, just pat the pup's white bottom with a tickle and put him back safely on the ground.

Rigg looked interestingly on the side. Although he was a cub on the outside, he was actually an adult, and he would definitely not roll into a ball like the real cubs. Charlie, on the other hand, maintained a relatively calm image, and he looked very calm. The appearance of upbringing, a little one, always serious, I don't know who I learned from, neither Laika nor Quinn has such a temperament.

However, Rieger has been very busy recently, and has no time to think about this kind of thing deeply. He can only simply and rudely think that Charlie is such a different cub.

Just thinking about it, it happened again.

It's not for anything else, the orcs have now fully mastered the skills of building houses, but they don't understand the functional areas drawn in Rigg's design drawings.

For example, there is a huge collective activity room in Rigg's picture, with a fireplace embedded in the wall, which confuses the orcs who have no idea, and they don't know what the fireplace is for.

"A fireplace is a type of heating facility."

"The volume of the fireplace is reserved in advance in the wall, and it can be burned in the fireplace to keep warm when it is cold."

Rigg explained it like this, but——

"The fire will keep you warm."

"Yeah, we just need to light a few more fires."

Having said that, these voices were mercilessly suppressed by Li.Wiseman.Ge.

——It doesn’t matter if you light a fire outdoors, anyway, it doesn’t matter if the sky is on the ground, you have worked so hard to build a house, and you want to light a fire inside the house?At that time, there will be piles of smoke, not to mention how pungent the smoke is, it will smoke the ceiling and the ground of the brand new house to black everywhere, you don't mind, I don't want to do it.

The fireplace is a very old and used heating method. According to records, at a temperature of -10, in a house of about 100 square meters, the fireplace can be lit for about 10 minutes, and the indoor temperature can rise to above 20. The heating efficiency is not better than that of ancient times. The old kang in the east village in the northeast of Huaxia country is poor, and the indoor temperature is 20 degrees. In the cold weather, it should be a very comfortable temperature for the orcs to stay indoors.

As for why it is not directly designed as a fire pit, it is a bitter tear to say. Before cement or a substitute can be found, it is okay to build a wall, and to build a heated kang. The small bricks are glued with earth cement, and there is no support at the bottom. He was really afraid that these big guys would collapse the new kang after lying down for a few days.

But in the future, if a large amount of limestone can be found to burn cement, the heated kang can still be built. At that time, every family will build a kang, no matter how cold the weather is, he will not be afraid, but for the time being, he has too many things on hand, and he really has no time to look for the heated kang. It can only be used as a long-term plan, which has been put on hold for the time being.

There are two kinds of fireplaces: closed fireplace and open fireplace. Given the existing conditions at hand, it can only be designed as an open fire fireplace. When adding firewood, you can also roast potatoes and meat.

Unlike building a house by building bricks directly, although the fireplace looks like there is only one huge fuel window, in fact, in order to obtain the heating effect of the whole house, it is still necessary to install flues on all four walls. This is a big project, even if With Rieger on the side doing technical explanations, the job took five full days.

The flue is carefully arranged, even in the farthest corner. This is mainly to prevent the cubs from rolling to the corner to catch the cold. In this way, no matter which corner of the house the dumplings roll to, It's all warm, and for the cubs' rolling experience, everyone has worked hard.

The work of the remaining few days is not complicated, but it is also tiring. A chimney and a smoke vent must be made on the upper part of the fuel window to prevent rainwater from pouring in. Well, the advantage of this design is that the smoke is guided smoothly, and even if there is a slanting wind and rain, it is impossible to blow a drop of water into the smoke exhaust port, which is very scientific and easy to use.

After working tirelessly to make the winter heating system for the group room, everyone was exhausted, but also very excited.

The finished piece of the fireplace, in order to test the effect of the fireplace, even though it was not cold, Rieg still lit a pile of firewood in the fuel window. In a few minutes, people standing in the room can feel the temperature of the room rise by a few degrees.

The other orcs looked fun and amazing, so they came to add more firewood, one for you and one for me. Soon, the fire was raging in the fireplace, and the temperature in the room continued to rise. Finally, Rieg yelled that he was dying of heat, and rushed out. Standing on the vast grassland panting, panting and berating this group of people, he almost smothered him in the house.

Soon, those who owed money jumped out and stood at the gate of the house, looking at each other's sweaty faces and laughing, mainly because they were happy, although they were a little embarrassed, But this fireplace is simply too easy to use. With it, you will never be afraid of the cold again this winter.

The house construction project is in progress. Everyone is familiar with the big wall that has been built for a long time. If you need to make various gadgets and small furniture in the room, just go to Billy directly. There is no need for Rigg at the construction site. Always be a consultant.

Lige's focus shifted to the vegetable field again. After all, food is the most important thing for the people. This is related to the richness of everyone's dining table in the future, and it must not be careless.

Compared with the previous period, the vegetable field has changed a lot. Thanks to the careful care of the two orcs guarding the vegetable field, it took only half a month for the original seedlings to grow into big seedlings, and the big seedlings to grow into plants.

The sun was getting hotter and hotter, and Rieger counted the days in his mind. If this continent had a climate with four distinct seasons, and if three months were a season, then it would be almost summer at this time.

Planting on the grassland is not as easy as imagined. The soil on the grassland is thin, the wind and sand are strong, and the sun is also shining. It is extremely important.

Fortunately, Lige had anticipated this situation a long time ago, and adopted the ridge and groove farming method when plowing at the beginning, so that the water would flow along the ridges and cover the root system of the plants, and then accumulate in the grooves, so that the water would not be lost too quickly. , This is the practical application of the wisdom accumulated by the ancient Huaxia people in order to deal with the grassland climate. Even in the barbaric and desolate prehistory, it brought convenience and benefits to Lige and the orcs here. Respect and gratitude.

But even so, when summer comes, it is still something to do thoroughly watering every day before the sun rises.

Fortunately, the two people watching Tian are flying-feathered orcs. One is a mountain eagle and the other is a falcon. idea.

At the beginning, they created two wings and flew at low altitude and splashed them with earthen pots. Then one day, the hunting team captured a kind of one-horned sheep. When the females killed the sheep, they found that this kind of sheep had a very malleable The strong, very tough stomach pouch was boiled in boiling water for a long time, but it was not cooked to a crisp, but a lot of jelly was cooked out, turning the pot of soup into a sticky soup with a very different flavor.

However, the two farmers in Lige are not just addicted to eating, they are probably working with the farmland every day. They are very keen on small tips that can improve farming. They found two stomach pouches and cleaned them, and tried to fill them with water. Then they were delighted to find that this kind of stomach bag can expand to twenty times its original size and can hold fifty to sixty kilograms of water, so they have a good tool for sprinkling water.

Poke some small holes under the water-filled stomach bag, and fly a few times over the fields with the stomach bag, and the water will evenly and gently cover the hungry plants below.

While this invention of theirs was highly recognized by Lige, it also made him feel a little embarrassed. To be honest, the water source is not far from the farmland, but it is not very close. This distance is far from Feiyu. For the orcs, the round trip only took about 5 minutes, but Rieg still felt that he hadn't thought carefully.

Now there are two types of water containers in the tribe, one is stone pots and clay pots. Due to the limitation of handmade, no matter how big the pots are, they are only twice the size of the pots in the previous life, let alone the stone pots. , the inner diameter is not deep, and heavy.

The other is a back basket covered with gum-like resin. The gum tree is also a new discovery of Lige on the grassland. Just take the gum from this tree and melt it, and fill the inside of the back basket completely. After the gum dries, The back basket is completely impervious to water, but the back basket also has a capacity limit, at most it can be turned into a large bucket, which is far from enough water for irrigation.

So the daily routine of the two flying feather orcs is to put water in a plastic basket and put it aside, fill their stomachs, sprinkle water, then go to the river to collect water, and continue to sprinkle water when they come back. They don't feel anything at all, but Rieg feels that It is both troublesome and inefficient. Now there are not many crops in the field and the area is small. Wouldn’t it be a waste of time to do so when planting in large quantities in the future? We still need to think of a way. If we build a large pool and put it aside Well, the orcs are very hardworking. Anyone passing by can pick up a few loads of water, and they can keep the pool full of water at all times. It is comfortable to irrigate, and it is also convenient to pass water into the ditches when planting hydrophilic crops in the future.

The author has something to say: there will be another update after [-] o'clock in a while, this week is a bye, there is no list, angry, add more to save yourself.

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