Orcs through the age

The opening time of the kiln is in the morning, and everyone gathers around the brick kiln early in the morning, looking forward to it.The brilliance of the rising sun shone on the brick kiln, and there was a wonderful golden brilliance.

Although I was a little nervous, and everyone around the brick kiln was the same, but because I insisted on opening the kiln, and I insisted on making bricks and tiles, I still gritted my teeth and insisted on opening the kiln with everyone.

Although it has been placed for a few days, we still felt a steamy feeling inside the brick kiln when we entered the brick kiln, probably due to lack of oxygen, and I was still a little dizzy.Maybe because of my ugly face, Canaan even advised me not to go into the kiln, and Luo Lei also looked at me worriedly.

How can I rest assured if I don't go into the kiln?I shook my head at them and took a few people to see it together.

Picking up the burnt bricks and tiles and looking carefully, you can see that the surface of the bricks is a bit like the hemp cake we bought on a trip before. It is said to be green bricks, and the color is indeed dark blue, while the color of the tiles is gray and black. All stained with coal burning left ash and dust.

I tapped it with my fingers, and asked Luo Lei and the others to try to break it off. Seeing them grinning and breaking it off, I couldn't help but feel an emotion that I didn't know how to describe.

At first I was very worried about whether it would be successful or not. Later, when I entered the kiln, I was very nervous. Now that it is really successful, I don’t know what to express.

To say that the last time I saw this thing was at my grandfather's house when I was a child, but now, in this other world, I actually succeeded by myself!

Everyone was amazed to see the bricks and tiles that were fired, and just wanted to touch them. Even a few children wanted to go to the kiln to have a look. I was worried that they would not be good in this environment, so they didn’t dare Let them in and just have them out there rinsing these big chunks of brick out with water and stacking them neatly next to the foundation of the house we're going to be building.

Although I didn't move bricks out of the kiln all the time, we still had an even more unexpected surprise because Roy found a brick that couldn't be moved when cleaning the kiln.

We all know that early cement comes from the burning of limestone and clay, and we also know that later cement is mixed with a certain proportion of slag and the like.

I don’t know which process it is, maybe some limestone mixed with clay was mixed into the kiln, and it just happens to be fired in the brick kiln, and because it has been fired for so many days, the temperature is probably just right, just right for firing For green bricks, we are pouring water into the sealing soil layer when we open the kiln. Maybe some water seeps down near the edge, and it just falls on this piece of burnt cement. The bricks placed there are just glued to the brick kiln. inside.

So, by accident, we gained another harvest - primitive cement.

Because the brick could not be lifted, everyone felt very surprised. After I made it clear that this was also a treasure given to us by the gods, everyone became excited again. Canaan and Luo Lei took the lead and knelt down on the ground Thank God for His gift.

I looked left and right, and couldn't think of when there would be a chance to put such a time in the furnace, unless it was to carry those coals.

As far as I know, coal generally does not co-exist with clay-type limestone. However, in this world that is far away from the world I live in, there are many things in common. Everyone has them, so maybe there are also miracles that I cannot understand.

Now that I had this discovery, I deliberately searched for the kind of clay-type limestone that I might be able to find.Although I told them that it was a gift from God, I also told them that nothing can be completely given to you by God's gift, and everything must be done by yourself.After all, if you don’t work hard, even if God gives you something, you won’t be able to see it.

Although everyone was a little worried about whether there would be many such things, fortunately, we did find many such stones near the coal seam.Near the place where we found cassiterite, we also found lime ore that coexisted with cassiterite. Although it was mixed with a lot of impurities, the cement was no worse than our mixed cement raw material!

At times like this, if I don’t thank God anymore, I feel like I can’t make it through.

How much luck does a person have to encounter such a good thing?How lucky is one to find so many things in one place!

And it's not all goodies here.

Not long after arriving here, I found some lacquer trees, and the most surprising thing is that these lacquer trees also have big bellies. If you don’t look carefully at their leaves, it is easy to compare them with the small belly trees on the grassland. get confused.

But it's not like the little tripe tree that oozes luscious sap.Sumac is a tree that produces raw lacquer.In this era without steel bars, wood is the best material for house construction.Raw lacquer is a very good material for protecting wood from corrosion and waterproofing, especially for wood to be buried in the ground for piling. Using raw lacquer can not only protect the wood, but also prevent corrosion and mildew, and increase the service life of the wood. .

The first time I found this kind of sumac tree was actually quite accidental.At that time, I was going with Luo Lei, a logger, to see a spot of clay found on the mountain behind when the tribe was hunting. I was thirsty on the road, and Luo Lei planned to find some water for me.

Just seeing this kind of tree that looks like a small belly tree, Luo Lei naturally took a knife to cut it. Unexpectedly, what came out was not a sweet juice, but a thick and smelly juice.

I happened to be resting next to Luo Lei, so I was a little surprised to smell this smell.After careful observation of the tree, I found that although the overall appearance is similar to that of the small belly tree, judging from the texture of the bark and leaves, it is not a small belly tree, and the juice is the one we used to use. The raw lacquer is almost the same.

So, for the sake of experimentation, I asked Luo Lei to cut some back and apply it on a piece of wood. After the juice was dried, I put the wood into the depression and waited for its change.

A month later, when I found that the part of the piece of wood that had been coated with that juice was still smooth and clean to the touch, while the part that had not been coated was wet and seeped with water, I was almost overjoyed, and I especially told all the loggers People, please pay attention in the future, this kind of tree cannot be cut down.

Canaan didn't quite understand, I was so excited to show him what a piece of wood meant, but Luo Lei did the experiment with me, so he naturally understood a lot.Instead, he lovingly helped me move the wood to Canaan, and explained to him why I was so excited when I took a piece of wood.This made him lose his surprised look.

From that day on, we have a person who goes to the woods every morning with an iron and wooden knife, and collects raw lacquer against the pitiful lacquer forest, although there are not many of them.

Unlike our impression that the lacquer tree can collect not much raw lacquer, and a tree cannot be collected frequently, although the lacquer tree here is also difficult to collect raw lacquer, because it will itch if you are not careful, it is much more terrifying than the small belly tree, but its sap But like the little belly tree, it is almost endless.Although it may be because the sap is more viscous, basically if it is collected the day before, it will take two days to collect it again, but I am very moved that a tree can collect a barrel full of raw lacquer.

A wooden barrel full of raw lacquer can be used to paint two pillars. In the woods of the back mountain, we have found at least [-] such big trees, plus the contribution of those small trees, Our daily harvest can also cover eighty or ninety pieces of large timber, and even if it is calculated according to the specifications of the largest house I built in the past and one large pillar every two meters, the large timber used for a house will increase. The wood needed to support the tiles on the roof only needs less than [-] pieces, not to mention that not all houses need to be built so large, and sometimes the raw lacquer harvested in one day is enough for two houses.

Calculate according to the fact that we currently need to build fifteen houses.By the time we planned to build the house in September, all our wood had been lacquered and dried, and we could start building the house directly.

The depression here can be said to be a treasure trove.

In this depression, in addition to catching rabbits, fish, and running turkeys, we also caught a lot of wild ducks and wild geese, which became the source of our breeding.

What pleases me the most is that in this depression we have found almost all the plants we have seen before, and we have collected several thousand catties of barley and wheat on the plain we occupy, and another In addition to a lot of onions, loofahs, pumpkins, winter melons, cabbage and other vegetables, I also found another thing I like very much-rice.

The first time I went to the river here, I discovered that there were things very similar to the things I saw most in my impression growing on the side of the depression near the river, and those things might mature soon.

Although there is still some uncertainty that the two things are similar, but when we really found out that we can harvest, we also discovered that this——is indeed the rice in our impression.

Although I have eaten boiled dough for so long and tried to make noodles, for me who lived in the south since I was a child, rice really suits my taste, and rice does not need to be added like steamed buns, buns and noodles. Soda or yeast or something, as long as it is cooked, is much better for me than boiled barley and boiled wheat flour dough that we always make, or fried noodles that I only eat once in a while.

So, this time, we also collected a few hundred catties of rice, some of which we plan to cook and eat in winter, and I plan to open a part of the depression by the river as a paddy field to grow rice.Next year we will plant barley and wheat in the plains that are higher than the depressions, and potatoes, sweet potatoes and various vegetables in higher places.

Although I was a little worried about whether I could find things like sweet potatoes and potatoes here, Canaan and the others proved to me with practical actions that potatoes and sweet potatoes exist everywhere.

In the grasslands where they were hunting in Canaan, they found a large field of potatoes growing very lushly.

I went to have a look, and this one is definitely much bigger than the one I used to find in Hezu.

And this much larger piece of potato is completely enough to feed our few dozen people for one winter.

Not to mention that Luo Lei and his logging team found a large piece of sweet potatoes in the forest behind them, enough for us to eat.

Because they were still uncooked at that time, I asked them not to rush to accept them, but to do what they should do first.

After the harvest festival in September, we organized all the females and children who had lost their homes, and collected as many potatoes as possible on the other side of the plain.Eat what should be eaten, use what should be used to dry powder, use what should be used to make vermicelli, and use it to make vermicelli. There is also a full cellar of potatoes, which is planned to be used as seeds in the coming year.We do the same with sweet potatoes.

Basically, by October, we have stored enough food for the winter. On the one hand, we have prepared staple foods such as barley, wheat, rice, sweet potatoes, and potatoes. On the other hand, because the hunters work hard, Now we also raise a dozen cows, more than 20 sheep, and more than a dozen wild boars, big and small. We also caught a group of turkeys, wild ducks, and wild geese and put them in bamboo cages.Moreover, in the usual prey processing, we also dried tens of thousands of catties of bacon, sun-dried meat, and dried meat. On average, each person can also get a few hundred catties of meat for this winter.

Although those animals were caught in a hurry, we can only surround them with a few wooden fences to keep them there, but we have solved our problem of eating meat in winter, and we don’t pay much attention to the problem of breeding for the time being. Said, we don't have the conditions now, people don't live in houses, how can we control animals?If it doesn't work, just kill these animals and eat them, and wait until the conditions are better next year to raise them.

In order to let the children eat more fish, I also dug a large half-moon-shaped pond near the stream that passes through the valley, and brought in a lot of water and released a lot of fish, even if it is winter. , we can also easily pry open the ice to catch fish.

We can almost say we are food ready for winter to come.