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Chapter 1061 The Wisdom of Rural People (for Subscription)

Li Yuan remembered that kang leather was still a rare commodity when he was a child, and the kang at that time was still covered with straw mats woven with grass.

If people can't live for a long time, there will be many small insects hidden in the straw mat, but after two days of burning, the insects will disappear without a trace.

And this was also one of Li Yuan's childhood nightmares.

Of course, fortunately, the fetish of Kang Ge appeared later, which ended Li Yuan's nightmare, but... Although Kang Ge is clean, it is also dangerous.

If there is too much firewood for cooking one day, the kang can even cook eggs, let alone sleep on it.

If you put the quilt on earlier, watch, in less than half an hour, the originally tough kang leather will become a soft layer. Time will be burned.

Sometimes the kang leather was set on fire because of fear that the kang would be too hot, and sometimes it would even wait until twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.

Of course... Usually at this time, Li Yuan no longer knows the time, and just finds a place to sleep in the dark.

In winter, when the outside temperature is below zero, the kang transforms into a tool for drying clothes.

Wash the clothes and put them outside to cool for a while, soaking in water.

Of course, the clothes that hang out in the winter in the Northeast look like they are hung on the hangers, and they will look like when they are brought back to the house. After all...

In such a cold weather, the clothes are already freezing for half an hour after going out.

But one thing that has always puzzled Li Yuan is that, for some reason, the clothes were frozen shortly after going out, but the frozen clothes are still faster than hanging them in the room to dry.

And the clothes that are dried outside need to be processed again when they are brought into the house, that is, put them on a warm kang and dry them again, but this time is not long, basically one night, as long as the clothes are not too thick to dry No problem.

It’s just that the heated kang is slightly different from before. Many rural self-built houses are slightly larger, and several groups of radiators are added inside for heating.

Heating is much easier to stay away from.

Water is the medium for heating to store heat. Water is poured from the top of the furnace into the hollow cavity of the furnace wall. After being heated by the furnace, hot water flows upwards and flows into the radiator from the upper pipe to heat the radiator.

And the cooled warm water flows back into the stove from the bottom of the radiator after heat dissipation, and flows back to the stove from the water pipe above after being heated.

This keeps going round and round, so that the radiator can maintain the temperature continuously and dissipate heat outward. .
Heating and kang can be said to be the crystallization of the wisdom of the older generation. Although they have been gradually replaced by other forms of heating, these things are still quite practical.

In the Northeast, there is also a lot of attention to pan Kang.

Although the kang is simple, the required craftsmanship is not low, and there are fewer and fewer good craftsmen who can cook a kang. Even in the Northeast, there are not many people who know how to sleep on a kang.

Generally, those who know how to cook a kang should be at least five or sixty years old now, and there are relatively few young people who can do this. After all, this kang...is really a job with both skills and strength, but it is really impossible to earn money. How many.

But of course, although this soil kang has many advantages, it also has some disadvantages. The most troublesome and biggest disadvantage is digging out ashes.

Speaking of dust removal, many people may not know it at first glance, but if you ask people from the Northeast, you will definitely understand it in an instant.

The so-called ash removal is actually because the flue is not deep, and in rural areas, straw and corn paste are generally used for burning stove pits.

There is a lot of plant ash in the straw. If you are diligent, you need to dig out the plant ash in the ash chamber from the pit with a small shovel in a day, put it in a bucket and pour it out.

In this way, the ash can fall in the ash chamber when the stalk is burned again.

And if the ash chamber is full, the straw will not be easy to burn if there are plant ash.

For families that are a little bit lazy, or those that don’t work hard, they need to clean up the ashes in a maximum of three days.

To say that cleaning up the ashes... is really a troublesome thing.

Plant ash is light, so if there is a little wind, the plant ash will float from the ash chamber, so every time the house is cleaned up, Li Yuan's parents will close all the doors in advance to ensure that no wind will come in.

of course……

Another reason for closing the door is to prevent the ash in the ash chamber from falling elsewhere.

And when you want to clean up the ashes, you have to prepare half a basin of water aside.While cleaning the ashes, slowly pour the water from the basin on the plant ash.

Plant ash has strong water absorption capacity. After watering on it, the plant ash will be adsorbed together. In this way, the plant ash will not only not float randomly, but also reduce the volume a lot.

The plant ash that has been watered in this way will be more convenient to clean up.

But of course, the weight of the ash will be heavier. Although Li Yuan has never tried it, he can tell it every time he sees his father struggling.

In addition to the ash chamber that is cleaned every three days, there is another place that must be cleaned for cooking and kang, and that is the kang cave.

Dust will accumulate in the stove pit, and some plant ash will naturally fall in the kang cave, and because the plant ash accumulates relatively deep, this is far from something that can be obtained with a shovel.

Li Yuan remembered that when he was a child, he had a long wooden stick nearly one and a half meters long at home, and the other end of the wooden stick was a piece of wood that was bigger than a palm.

The wooden stick and the wooden block were nailed together vertically, and the ash was 'pulled' out by this unknown guy at the slightly deeper place.

Although this thing has no name, it is still very easy to use, which can be regarded as the wisdom of rural people.

But of course, even with such a tool, the ash in the innermost part of the kang cave is still beyond reach, so if you want to clean it, you can only choose to remove the pot and clean it.

And if it is serious, you can only pick up the kang.

Lift off the Kang leather, plan the top layer of mud, and then lift off the stone slab to reveal the Kang hole inside.

When digging the kang, you will find that almost all the red bricks in the kang hole have been turned black, and a lot of plant ash has accumulated in the kang road.

After cleaning up the ashes, the stove pit that was originally smoking and did not want to burn immediately became unobstructed.

It's just that it's a troublesome thing to remove the kang, after all, at that time, every household slept in a kang, and there was no such condition to have two rooms and one living room.

and so……

When it comes to grilling the kang, I will choose to grill the top of the kang first or the bottom of the kang.

Pull out half and keep half to ensure that the family has a place to sleep at night, that's all.

(End of this chapter)