Joe's Farming

The bread kiln mainly consists of a hearth below and a vaulted oven above.

The stove is square, a bit like the fireplaces in foreign countries.

The children worked quickly and soon dug up three buckets of clay. They poured them out and started digging again.

There were still some materials left from building a house at home, so Gu Feng and Qiao Yu started building the stove directly.

The stove doesn’t need to be built too high, about half a leg’s height, when Gu Gang came back.

Now, Qiao Yu just gave instructions from the side, and the construction speed increased.

For the top layer of the stove, Qiao Yu made a mezzanine in the center, arranged the small jars in a circle and mixed river sand next to them, and then sealed it. He was not sure if this would work, and if not, he could just modify it later.

It's time for lunch.

Fortunately, it is Bai Lan who cooks most of the food at home now, and the food tastes very good.

After lunch, Qiao Yu, who wanted to take a nap, didn't do it and continued to build the oven above the stove.

"How do we build this round roof?" Gu Gang wondered. He really couldn't understand the structural diagram drawn by Qiao Yu.

Gu Feng immediately said, "It's simple. Just follow me, brother."

Qiao Yu stood aside, watching Gu Feng's movements nervously, fearing that Gu Feng's movements would be too big and cause the stove that had been set up in the morning to collapse.

Gu Feng first quickly laid a circle of bricks, leaving a hole for the oven.

Gu Gang followed suit and added a circle on the outside, and Gu Feng built another circle. Then when building upwards, they moved the building inwards a little. In this way, they slowly built the top upwards, and slowly the outline of a round fortress appeared.

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Xiaobai took advantage of the fact that there were not many customers in the afternoon and squatted in the backyard to eat.

Da Zhuang pretended to be calm and squatted next to Xiao Bai.

"Xiaobai, does it look good?" Dazhuang took out a colorful ribbon, which was a headband.

Xiao Bai looked at him suspiciously, a little puzzled, but still nodded honestly and said, "It looks good."

Da Zhuang immediately grinned happily: "For you."

Xiaobai choked on his rice in surprise.

Cough cough--

Da Zhuang immediately frantically tried to pat him on the back.

Cough cough--

Xiaobai quickly stood up and stopped Dazhuang with his hands. It took him a long time to catch his breath.

"You, why are you giving me something?"

Xiao Baifan didn't even bother to eat and looked at Dazhuang. He was not an inexperienced guy and he immediately thought of other places.

Da Zhuang's face turned red and he spoke incoherently.

"I... I just think it suits you, and when I got my pay yesterday, I wanted to buy it for you. If you don't like it, just throw it away."

Da Zhuang stuffed the hairband in his hand into Xiao Bai's hand and ran away.

The only one left was Xiaobai, who looked confused.

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As night fell, the dome of the bread was finally completed.

Qiao Yu happily made caramel milk tea for the two heroes, and waited for Gu Feng to add a wooden board to the opening of the bread oven!

Seeing Qiao Yu's expectant eyes, Gu Feng felt satisfied after being tired all day.

Qiao Xing walked around the bread oven several times, looking at it curiously, but still couldn't understand how his little daddy used it to bake things.

Qiao Yu rubbed his head and said, "Don't look at it anymore. I'll bake bread for you guys after it's completely dry in a few days! You can also put baked sweet potatoes directly in there."

It’s a pity that he doesn’t know how to make cheese, otherwise he could bake pizza for the children, and the children would probably love it.

However, just because he won’t do it doesn’t mean that the herdsmen of this era won’t do it.

Qiao Yu felt that he knew too little about this era. For example, before he went to the provincial capital, he didn't know that there were people who specialized in raising cattle and sheep and slaughtering them for sale.

"Brother Gu, you went to the northwest when you joined the army, right?"

Gu Feng nodded, not understanding why his husband suddenly asked this.

Hongxiu and Gu Gang, who were having dinner, also looked at Qiao Yu. They had met in the northwest before.

Everyone looked at Qiao Yu, and he explained shyly, "I read in a book before that herders in the northwest make cheese from milk. It tastes a bit sour, but has a strong milky flavor. I've always been curious about what it tastes like, so I'm asking."

Gu Feng smiled and said, "Local people do make a lot of food out of milk. I haven't tried what you're talking about, but there are things called milk tofu and milk lumps, which are very similar to what you're talking about. But the taste is really weird, not very delicious."

Qiao Yu's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Is it possible that we can find a caravan going to the northwest and buy milk lumps or milk tofu?"

Hong Xiu smiled and said, "Brother Qiao, you don't have to look for the caravan. Milk tofu is simple and I know how to make it. I didn't expect you would want to eat it. I noticed that you always use the milk to make tea or drink it directly."

Qiao Yu didn't expect Hongxiu to be such a hidden talent. He felt very lucky that he could get whatever he wanted.

"Okay! How much milk do you need? I'll go find Xuyuanding."

Hong Xiu said a little embarrassedly: "I haven't made it for a long time, so I made it with a can first, for fear that it would be damaged."

"Okay! I've already boiled all the milk for today, so I'll give you tomorrow's can."

Hong Xiu nodded: "I didn't expect that Brother Qiao still couldn't do it. I am finally of some use."

Qiao Yu immediately retorted, "Everyone has their own strengths. I don't know too many things. I can't compare to Brother Gu in hunting, I can't compare to Sister Lan in embroidery, and I can't compare to you in raising children..."

Gu Feng immediately picked up a piece of meat for him: "But when it comes to cooking, no one can beat you."

Qiao Yu chuckled: "That's the only use I have. Hehe."

Everyone laughed at his expression.

In the kitchen, Bai Lan poked Su Qing with her elbow and pointed at Da Zhuang with her eyes.

"What's going on?"

Da Zhuang ate in silence, with his head drooped, looking like a poor big dog that was bullied.

Su Qing shook her head: "I don't know either. It was like this before I came back this afternoon."

Da Zhuang pretended not to hear what the two said. He finished his bowl and stood up.

"I'm full. I'm going back to the house first."

This is the first time ever.

Bai Lan wanted to stand up and follow to ask what was going on.

Su Qing grabbed him.

"Wait for him to be alone."

"Oh." Bai Lan sat down again. She felt something strange about her hand that Su Qing had just pulled.

Bai Lan didn't think much about it and continued to eat with Su Qing.

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Before going to bed, Qiao Yu hugged Gu Feng and asked, "Now that our family has so much money, should we open another shop to sell hot and sour noodles and hot pot noodles?"

Gu Feng hugged his husband back and asked, "Do you want to listen to me or to yourself?"

Qiao Yu: "Of course I'm asking you because I want to hear your opinion."

Gu Feng said seriously: "It will be Laba Festival soon, and after Laba Festival it will be Chinese New Year. I want you to take a good rest, and we can talk about it in the spring after the Chinese New Year."

Qiao Yu couldn't help but smile: "Actually, I think so too. Who wants to go to work in the middle of winter? I just want to hear your opinion."

Gu Feng buried his head in Qiao Yu's neck and said in a deep voice: "We can do something else in the winter."

"Hey! Wasn't it yesterday that..."

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