Wolf King

Ah Shan and Hong Ye went out for a walk and picked up a... er...a black-skinned young man covered in mud, Xiao Yun who was still organizing his clan to play games was completely dumbfounded.

Ah Shan dragged a large mat of rattan and grass, and Hong Ye put the black-skinned young man on the mat. A group of snow werewolves came up and took a look. Dahe, who has a good intellectual memory, immediately recognized him: "This is a cat clan." The black panther, I remember his name seems to be...Qingyan? When our tribe passed by them, he gave us some fruits."

Hongye's face suddenly changed: "By the way, it's him, no wonder I think his smell is a bit familiar."

"I also remembered that he can climb trees and pick the berries on the top of the tree." Niujiao has a strong memory when he mentions eating.

panther?Xiao Yun rubbed his chin, so it was like this, no wonder the fighting power of individuals within the cat clan is uneven. From his appearance, he should not belong to the cub of the cat clan, but should be considered an adult.

"The cat tribe is so far away, how did he come here?"

"Oops, he's hurt, his stomach is rotting."

"Where is the patriarch, is the patriarch asleep?"

The Snow Werewolf also has the ability to heal common injuries. The patriarch who was awakened looked at the black-skinned youth, and ordered him to move him to the kang inside the house. Well, everyone remembered Xiao Yun's request, that he brought the mat together. Go in, lest the dirty black skin stain the heated kang where everyone sleeps...

Curious, Xiao Yun leaned over to watch how the patriarch dealt with the wound, and he avoided it without even a second glance—it was so cruel, the patriarch actually showed his claws and cut off the carrion on the stomach, the unconscious guy was in pain Straight hum.

Cruelty is cruelty, but people were still saved. Xiao Yun went to the bathroom to bring hot water, and after the patriarch finished treating the wound, he went forward and wiped the unconscious Heipi to prevent his body from being too dirty and causing secondary infection of the wound, and then... …

Xiao Yun found out that this guy was not in vain.

Several buckets of hot water have been changed, and the sludge washed away is almost invisible, but compared with the snow werewolf who is at least white and clean after washing, the skin of this product is really black... Isn't it That healthy wheat color is black like charcoal.

"A person transformed into a black panther is even more non-chief than a non-chief?" Xiao Yun muttered, found out some rhubarb left over from the process of gathering wild vegetables, mashed the rhubarb slices and paste them on the affected area, and then used the rhubarb from Sarna The cloth that came was simply used as a bandage—the plantain could eat rhubarb but not rhubarb. The snow werewolves were not happy to collect this useless thing. The rhubarb that Xiao Yun had was left when he went to collect wild vegetables.

In online games, rhubarb is used as a hemostatic drug. In reality, rhubarb does have the medicinal effects of purging fire, cooling blood, dispelling blood stasis, and detoxifying. It’s just that the powerful snow werewolf can’t be easily injured. It's back...so rhubarb is of little value to the snow werewolves.

After taking medicine, wrapping his stomach, and lying on the warm kang, the black-skinned young man who was sweating a lot gradually eased his frown and fell into a drowsy sleep.Xiao Yun threw the dirty animal hide that had hidden a lot of parasites in the stove and burned it. After looking at the guy's appearance, he took out the horn knife and shaved his head without saying a word... Uh, cut the hair, this guy's hair also hides a lot of lice, Xiao Yun forced the tribe to cut off the hair and take a bath every day to eliminate the lice in the tribe, this hard work can't be blamed by this guy.

He was tossing about "guests", and the clansmen didn't say to stop him. Instead, they secretly ate all the beans and pine nuts that Xiao Yun had fried... Bundle.

When Xiao Yun finished his work and turned around, okay... All the clansmen who were sleeping on the kang pointed their butts at him, their cheeks secretly agitated in the dark, and the sound of chewing beans could be heard without deafness.

"...Is it really okay to steal food so openly and show it to the original owner!" Xiao Yun's egg was in pain.

The next day, Xiao Yun woke up to see if the guest had a fever. It was okay. These non-human bodies were all super strong. The patriarch's brutal shaving of carrion and his roughly processed rhubarb to stop the bleeding saved the person. , not only did not have a fever, but also slept quite comfortably.

"This black skin...Qingyan, is he going to stay in the clan for the winter?" Xiao Yun called to the clan leader who was about to go out.

"If you drive him away, he will die in the heavy snow." The patriarch nodded.I have to say that the simple way of thinking of the Snow Werewolf is quite heartwarming... I didn't even say that I dislike outsiders who share their food.

Xiao Yun nodded: "However... Will there be any trouble in taking him in, such as his tribe looking for someone or something?"

"If he wants to return to the tribe, let him go." The patriarch said strangely, "What trouble can there be?"

Xiao Yun's dead fish eyes: "...It's nothing, I think too much."

The tribe is very busy now. In addition to taking care of the cattle and sheep on the pasture, the tribe in charge of grazing has to bring back fodder one after another. The patrolling soldiers also have to hunt as much as possible, and let the young men such as wool process more dried meat strips for storage. During the winter, the wool will also grow bean sprouts to ensure the daily vegetable supply of the clan.

Xiao Yun doesn't have to work as busy and repetitive as Wool and the others, but he also has his task: he is going to build another activity room with floor heating for the clansmen to do activities during cat winter. A little cramped.

Floor heating is to apply the heating principle of kang to the floor of the whole house, which requires a lot of work on the foundation and floor tiles with sufficient compression and impact resistance.There are not so many rocks on the grassland for Xiao Yun to get local materials, so the only way he can rely on... is to burn bricks.

Burning bricks is a low-tech job, but no matter how low-tech it is, there is still technology in it. It’s not that the soil embryos can be used after they are sent to the cave for firing. I don’t take it for granted; The society is a small citizen who can eat enough and wear warmth in his idle life. When he has nothing to do during work, he just watches the live broadcast on his mobile phone to pass the time. On that magical Douyin app, he saw a high school student in the Northwest live broadcast his hometown’s homemade brick making. video……

The mud for burning bricks is much more particular than the mud for making mud bricks. After calculating the work plan in his heart, Xiao Yun led the coolies to carry out the preparatory work:

The first step is to dig a rectangular shallow pit on the bank of the river, pour the yellow clay that was dug out into it, step on it once and basically crush it, pour water into it to soak the soil, and leave it for about five hours.

The second step is to pour two loads of swamp mud and plant ashes swept from the big stove into the mud pit, and let the tribe jump into the mud pit to dance vigorously... er, and mud.This stomp and mud routine is repeated about five or six times.

Then put it aside to ferment again... Uh, wake up the soil, this time will take about five hours, Xiao Yun can do other things first, such as stir fry a pot of beans and pine nuts to amuse the clansmen at night...

After stepping on the mud for a long time, the two of them forced themselves to wash it and were too tired to move. Xiao Yun asked to make the mud more fine and delicate. feel tired...

As for the horns, he is still digging the foundation - he needs to build a [-]-square-meter activity room and provide floor heating. The foundation is more delicate than the mud-brick house before. After digging the horns, he has to cut the beams. In short, he is busy.

After a pot of fragrant beans and pine nuts was fried, Xiao Yun went into the house to get salt, and found that the guest sleeping on the kang had woken up, was staring at the mud-brick house with horror, and touched it with his hands in disbelief. With warm kang noodles.

"You're awake." Xiao Yun put the clay pot away, and stepped forward to observe enthusiastically, "You look pretty good...have you exhausted it?"

"...Huh?" The guest didn't understand.

"Is it just farting?"

"Let go." The guest swallowed.

"If the stomach hurts, I remember that you can eat when you can exhaust gas." Xiao Yun nodded, opened the pot on the big stove and looked at it, took a bowl to scoop up a few pieces of boiled white meat and half a bowl of soup, "There is no porridge, take Boiled meat is eaten as a meal for the sick, and bean sprouts are put in it, so make up for it."

The guest didn't dare to take the bowl, but just stared at him blankly...

"Didn't you come to join our tribe? The tribe also agrees to take you in. Eat quickly." Xiao Yun said, "Get up and move around after eating. This kang is usually not burned during the day, and it keeps burning because of you. It's a bit useless." firewood."

"You...you do have the smell of a snow werewolf on you." The guest raised his hand tremblingly, "but I remember that a snow werewolf is not like you...why are you so white?"

Xiao Yun: "..." It's embarrassing that the Snow Werewolf was dirtier than you before, huh?

The original owner, an autistic kid, didn't even deal with the clansmen, and the guest of the cat clan specified that he didn't know him. Xiao Yun called Dahe in, and the guest's spirit immediately relaxed a lot... Although Dahe also lost N color numbers, he can still recognized.

"Your tribe knows how to build houses!" The cat tribe youth who was relaxed held the broth and looked excited, "There are such good pottery bowls!"

When Dahe entered the house, he naturally climbed onto the kang. When he found the temperature, he called the green grass in. Hearing that Dahe stretched his neck, he imitated Xiao Yun's boasting virtue and showed his thumb: "Great Qingyan, this room I built the house!"

"Huh?!" The cat youth's jaw almost dropped.

"Wait a minute, I have also repaired the wall, and I paved the kang surface." Qingcao was not far behind.

"Oh oh oh~~" The golden vertical pupils of the young cat clan almost turned into a star shape.

"Let me tell you, can you guys pay attention to more important issues before you gossip..." The corner of Xiao Yun's mouth twitched, "Dahe, among other things, you were the one who took the lead in stealing my beans last night?"

Da He immediately looked like he was going to die from exhaustion, stretched out his tongue and panted there.

Only then did Qing Yan, a young man from the cat tribe, realize that Xiao Yun, a cub of the snow wolf tribe, actually had the right to speak, and looked over in surprise.

"As I mentioned just now, the clan agreed to take you in. After all, if you let you go, you can't survive the winter alone. However, we take you in, but it doesn't mean that we will keep you unconditionally. You are a member of the cat tribe. We have to I know the reason why you left the tribe and ran so far before the heavy snow came, and came to find us on purpose. If you will bring trouble to our tribe, then we can't take you in." Xiao Yun said with a straight face, the tribe They are so weak that they don't have the heart to guard against others, and this black face can only be done by him.

Not to mention the cat clan youths, Xiao Yun's seriousness frightened the Dahe who pretended to be dead and the grass who was really tired...

"I... Aren't you willing to take in even human beings?" The cat clan youth swallowed his saliva and said weakly.

"The humans we take in won't cause any trouble for the tribe. First of all, he can't even hurt the tribe's cubs. Secondly, no humans in the grassland will come to him specially, and therefore there will be no conflicts with the tribe." Xiao Yun narrowed his eyes, "But you are different, you are the black panther clan in the cat clan, you can hurt the cubs of our clan, and the adult clan members may also be hurt by you if you attack; what's more, you Your tribe is not too far away from us, when your tribe comes to beg you, if you have ulterior motives, then you have countless excuses to trouble our tribe."

The cat clan youths were shocked, as were Dahe and Qingcao. They could understand Xiao Yun's words, which made them very unbelievable... When did the simple grassland people have this kind of thinking mode?Has the door of the new world opened a crack for them? !

"I hope the Snow Wolf Clan can take me in, and of course I won't hurt any Snow Werewolves." The Cat Clan youth said quickly, "As for my clansmen...they will definitely not come to me, because I was exiled by the clan."

"Huh?!" Before Xiao Yun could make a sound, Dahe and Qingcao called out, "How could this be? Aren't you a warrior in the tribe?"

The cat clan youth showed a disappointed expression: "Our patriarch fell ill shortly after you left, Huagang wants to be the new patriarch and challenge the warriors in the tribe to a duel...I don't agree with this kind of decision of patriarch by duel. Tradition, but... so, Huagang exiled me after becoming the patriarch."

Dahe and Qingcao looked at each other and couldn't help but said: "The strongest person may not be a good patriarch, why don't you let the elders take the role?"

Xiao Yunte looked at Dahe appreciatively, this guy who often acts cute and knows how to pretend to be tired, is indeed considered to have an IQ among the snow werewolves.

The cat clan youth smiled wryly and shook his head: "Since the tiger clan left the cat clan, my people have firmly believed that only a strong leader can lead the clan to survive better. But... over the years, our cat clan has never been better than The tauren headed by elders and wise men are better off."

Hearing this level, Xiao Yun almost understood where this hard-working young man was lost—the main ethnic group on the grassland was actually neither the tiger clan of the king’s tent nor the richest tauren, but the cat clan, even if they were not considered divorced. The tiger clan of the cat clan and the Dingkou of the cat clan also accounted for more than [-]% of the total Dingkou on the grassland.

It stands to reason that as the main ethnic group, the cat clan should be the most powerful, but the actual situation is... even the large cat clan tribes that occupy the lush and fertile grasslands are not developing very well... In terms of sufficient supplies, they are definitely not enough Tauren, in terms of being able to fight, the Snow Werewolf and the Tiger Clan are ahead of them, not to mention occupying a dominant position, and all the clans in the royal account have enough say in the discussions.

This is a failed revolutionist~ After thinking about it, Xiao Yun found that the youths of the cat clan were more pleasing to the eye. As the descendants and successors of revolutionaries, Xiao Yun always has a little respect for those who dare to say no to the old tradition , ignoring that he brought a lot of mud lice to toss himself for half the night, nodded and said: "In this case, if you have nowhere to go, you can stay in our tribe, as long as you can work with our tribe, Snow Wolf Clan won't starve you."

Qing Yan, a young man from the cat clan, nodded quickly: "I'm very good at climbing trees. I can always find fruit when it's not snowing."

Except for the tauren, most of the aborigines on the grassland have been in a sub-healthy state of vitamin deficiency for a long time. It is not wrong for Qingyan, who is good at climbing trees, to use this as capital for shelter, but...

"If the work of our tribe can be done just by being good at climbing trees, then you are thinking too simply." Xiao Yun looked at Qingyan, who was about the same size as himself, with the standard of looking at labor, and clicked his tongue repeatedly.

"...Eh?" Qing Yan blinked his eyes, and then blinked his eyes again.

Qingyan, who has strong resilience, will be able to get off the kang for activities around four or five o'clock in the afternoon that day. Xiao Yun, who estimated that the time is almost ready to make bricks, squeezed the hard muscles of this black-skinned young man, and counted him as well...

On the bank of the river, next to the mud pit where the soil had recovered, Qingyan with a confused face held the wooden frame blank model Xiao Yun handed him, and stared blankly at the snowwolves who were sweating and playing with the mud.

"No, don't you want to work? Why do we come here to play with mud?" Seeing Dahe trying hard to smash the mud into the wooden frame blank mold, Qingyan couldn't recover.

"It's not for fun, it's about making bricks. The room you sleep in and the heated kang are made of this kind of mud bricks." Dahe wiped his sweat and inadvertently wiped his face with mud. For bricks, smash and press the mud into the wooden frame blank mold, cover the upper and lower sides with the dry fine sand here, flatten the animal tendons to scrape off the excess mud, and then put it on the flat ground over there to dry. ...It's very simple, and it's not too tiring, but it's a little troublesome."

Qingyan...Although Qingyan understood, he didn't understand why he did this at all, but the several snow werewolves present were all sweating profusely, and he couldn't stand by and watch, so he had to learn while watching and try his best to follow suit. Acting like others... Not to mention, his intelligence and hands-on ability are so much better than that guy with horns, he got started after a few lessons.

Making bricks is a troublesome point in the process. The technical content is the same as that of making mud bricks before. There are physical requirements, but it is not a threshold. They can catch the cubs of the snow werewolf, such as wool, as coolies... Qingyan This kind of cat clan youth in the weak stage can do it slower, but he is easily tired, his back is sore and the wound on his stomach hurts, and he almost didn't get down after only two hours of hard work.

It was so easy to rest, but the somewhat scary snow werewolf cub (Xiao Yun) asked him to go into the small dark room (bathroom) to wash his head, face, and feet, and then he was allowed to sit by the campfire and talk with others. The snow werewolves had dinner together...

Snow Werewolf's barbecue meat is cut into thin strips and then roasted, which is more delicious than meat roasted in chunks. There is also hot bean sprout soup to drink, and everyone can use beautiful ceramic bowls. This made Qingyan silently raise his evaluation of the snow werewolf tribe's financial resources - he thought that the cat tribe tribe was richer than the snow werewolf tribe, but now it seems that he underestimated the snow werewolf tribe (in fact, he didn't).

"But...why does he eat with sticks?" Qingyan peeked at Xiao Yun who was eating meat with chopsticks, not to mention being curious, "But other snow werewolves are not like this, is this cub special? "

Taking another peek at the human Sal sitting in the corner eating silently, Qingyan suddenly felt relieved: "This snow werewolf tribe has raised this human for many years, and they can even feed humans who are easy to die, so they shouldn't dislike me. That's right."

"The bean sprouts are really delicious, even more delicious than the dishes given to the tribe by the Tauren tribe in summer..." Quietly turning his attention to the hardworking Snow Werewolf girl Wool, Qingyan's mood was a little complicated, "This bean sprouts are also their young ones. The cubs of the snow werewolves are so powerful, no wonder they can always be so strong on the grassland..."

After eating the big pot meal, the snow wolves did not go back to sleep in the warm room as Qing Yan thought, but...surrounded by the cub named Ayun, constantly yelling that they will definitely win this time and other inexplicable things Before Qingyan understood what these snow werewolves were excited about, he saw... the cub named Ayun brought out a pot with a lid, put out a few pots, and threw a few pots into the pots. A bean whose aroma can be smelled from several meters away...

Next, Qingyan stared dumbfounded at the majestic snow wolves fighting each other two by two, poking the beans in the pottery bowl viciously with the thin wooden stick in their hands...

"I succeeded, I did it! I caught it!" Niu Jiao raised his slightly trembling hand, staring at the thin beans on the tip of the chopsticks, and shouted in surprise.

"Hurry up and eat, it doesn't count if you don't put it in your mouth." Ah Shan said nervously.

"No, I can't move. If I bend my arm, it will fall off. I tried to hold a stone during the day." Niujiao said with tears streaming down his face.

Ah Shan: "...Then you still admit defeat."

"Oh, it's such a pity, the beans of the horns fell, and this challenge was unsuccessful." Xiao Yun clapped his hands, "Hey, the horns, I told you it was unsuccessful, it doesn't count if you drop them on the ground and then pick them up and eat them. You haven't caught it yet, you still have a chance of winning if you try harder now."

"How can I lose to Niujiao!" Dahe poked the beans in the bowl harder and harder.

"Relax, Dahe, you won't be able to pinch it with too much force, just like I told you, pinch it gently, and pinch the chopsticks like your fingernails!" Qingcao also felt nervous.

"I'm picking it up again!" Bull Horn shouted.

"It doesn't count until it's in your mouth. Be careful and turn your wrist slowly... Oops, it fell again!" Xiao Yun slapped his thigh.

On the other side, the patriarch who was also fighting each other shouted anxiously: "Slow down, wool!"

"I ate two of them, patriarch, I'm sure I'll win this time~" Wool whispered.

Qingyan watched for a long time before he realized that the Snow Werewolf was playing a small game of eating beans with a wooden stick. He was stunned and couldn't help but feel a little envious. There are more than 300 people in the tribe, and the bonfire burning during the distribution of dinner every night can be seen far away from the tribe. The prosperity of the population and the abundance of food are the symbols of the prosperity of the tribe, and Qingyan has been proud of it for decades.

The population of this snow werewolf tribe was only one-tenth of that of his tribe, and the bonfire at dinner could not even light up the entire tribe camp, but... the lively atmosphere of this snow werewolf tribe was unmatched by his tribe.The people here don't seem to care about the heavy pressure of survival. Before the heavy snowfall, when every tribe is preparing materials for the winter, these snow wolves can still play this meaningless game in a relaxed way. No one is afraid of the coming long winter.

Thinking about it, Qingyan couldn't help turning his eyes to the warm house where he had slept all night. That kind of house was really amazing. He didn't feel any coldness at all during the night he spent in it. The thick walls are impenetrable, even if you are injured or weak, the warm "hot kang" can keep your body warm.

"Being able to build such a house makes them not afraid of snow." Qingyan sighed secretly, "If my tribe can also have such a house...then no one will freeze to death this winter, No one can't wake up after falling asleep..." He subconsciously turned his eyes to the big river and the grass, "Will they be willing to teach my clansmen to build houses? If the cat clan sends them a lot of prey and furs, maybe they will willing……"

"What the hell am I thinking? I'm obviously exiled." Realizing that what he was thinking was useless, Qing Yan smiled wryly again.Not to mention asking the Snow Werewolf to guide the tribe to build a house, he simply cannot go back... The exiled person is not allowed to return to the tribal range. This is a customary rule on the grassland. Killing has nothing to complain about.

On the second night when he was taken in by the Snow Werewolf Tribe, Qing Yan slept on the warm kang like the Snow Werewolf, but...he who used to be able to sleep soundly in the cold tent, but this time he had no sleep at all.

Early the next morning, the tribe of the Snow Werewolf was busy from the early morning like the tribe of the cat tribe. Everyone had a scope of work that they had to be responsible for, and no one could sit idle.Qingyan got up like other snow werewolves and took a bowl of bean sprout broth heated on the big stove on the top of the kang. After drinking it, he consciously came to find one of the little "leaders" who arranged jobs in the tribe, the cub Ayun.

In the tribe of the cat tribe, the cubs are often only responsible for the simplest repetitive tasks, but in the tribe of the Snow Werewolf it is different. Apart from the daily work, Wool and others are also responsible for sprouting bean sprouts and preparing food. Lead the clansmen to do things when they are underage.This is the Snow Werewolf's own rules. Although Qing Yan, as a sheltered person, finds it strange, he will not question it.

"Today, we are going to build a brick kiln."

The cub, Ayun, put Qingyan into his labor without any hesitation. After gathering, he brought everyone to the kiln, pointed to the small earth bag that Qingyan couldn't recognize, and said, "This old kiln doesn't need to be demolished. We can continue to use it when we have free time. We will build a large earthen kiln next to it for brick burning, and we will build it in this position. Niujiao, Qingyan and I will move bricks, green grass and big river, and the two of you will pick mud from the swamp. When you come, put it in this place, and then mix the soil and cement, the method is the same as when we built the house and the kiln before."

If ceramics can be fired, brick firing is not a big problem (the temperature required to fire red bricks is lower than that of pottery, which is more than 900~1100 degrees), but the original earthen kiln is not enough in size - all the ground needs to be fired. Compared with the demand for bricks made, the original earthen kiln is too small.

Moving bricks is to bring back the mud bricks made by the patriarch and the horns that were dried by the river bank. This work is pure hard work, and Qingyan understands it well; He stared at the cubs Ayun, Qingcao, and Dahe in a daze, scooping up the mud with a wooden plank and putting the mud bricks on top of each other. In his opinion, this kind of behavior was like reading a book from heaven...

"Qingyan don't just look at it, come and learn how to lay bricks." The cub Ayun waved at him, "Look, it's like this, with soil and cement on both sides, one by one, one on the top and one on the bottom. There must be staggered, ring-shaped, and curved... The hands of the cat people should be better than that of the snow werewolves, and you should learn it."

Qingyan is indeed more dexterous than the Snow Werewolf, Xiao Yun can teach him... After all, he is a cat clan who is good at climbing trees!The difference between him and a big fool like the Snow Werewolf is quite obvious.

After laying bricks for two circles, Qingyan suddenly realized: "Wait, is this how the house is built? Use this mud brick, and this earth cement, to build it up circle by circle?"

"Yes, but the earthen kiln is to be built in the shape of a bag of earth or a hill, so the surface should be built with an inward curvature, and the top should be sealed. If you want to build a house, you need to lay the walls in a straight line. The animal tendons were used to drop the stones from above, and the animal tendons adhered to the wall, so such a straight wall is not easy to collapse.” The cub, Ayun, nodded of course, “We are going to build another larger mobile room later. Then you can see the difference."

"..." Qingyan opened his mouth silently, wait a minute, isn't building a house an important knowledge of a snow werewolf, and he didn't exchange the fur of his prey, so is it really good to just teach him like this?

Xiao Yun couldn't care less about saving the world view of the cat clan youths, he had many headaches.The brick kiln, which is much larger than the clay kiln for firing pottery, is burned inside. That is to say, it can’t be completed by repairing a closed earth bag, and a T-shaped fire path must be left inside—the burning is carried out in the kiln. , This is the difference between the brick kiln he plans to build and the old earthen kiln.

Inside the brick kiln, a T-shaped fire channel with two long ends and a short one in the middle should be built. The burning is carried out in the middle fire channel, and then the heat is transmitted from the two long ends to the place where the bricks are placed in the whole brick kiln for heating; when the bricks are placed, the middle fire channel Set aside and leave a pattern of narrow top and wide bottom so that fuel can be sent into it for burning, and the kiln wall should evenly reserve fire holes for chimneys... The technical content of brick kilns is much higher than that of clay kilns for firing pottery. Xiao Yun didn't know how many brain cells died to burn usable bricks.

After the two-meter-high and three-meter-wide dome brick kiln was built, not to mention the green grass, the river, and the green rock, all three of the masterminds fell down, and Xiao Yun was so tired that he fell to the ground... The physical exertion was fine, but the brain cells were exhausted. If you don't eat half a catty of meat, you will never make up for it.

After the brick kiln is built, it cannot be used immediately, and the bricks built the day before will have to be cloudy for a few days before they can be fired. Next, Xiao Yun began to work on preparing the fuel for the bricks—he had nowhere to find coal, and the firing time was too long. A long brick kiln must store more fire-resistant fuel, and pine branches rich in pine oil and turpentine are undoubtedly the best firewood.

So I called the bullhorn who was digging the foundation, and led a group of coolies to the primeval jungle... No need to cut down trees, just pick up the pine branches that have fallen naturally for many years, bundle them up and drag them back in bundles Horde will do.

When he reached the outskirts of the jungle, Qingyan became active all of a sudden, jumping up and down... and brought two leather bags of pine cones to Xiao Yun.There is no way, the weather is so bad, it is impossible for there to be wild fruits on the branches.

After running six or seven times in two days and dragging back the hilly pine branches, Xiao Yun checked the dried bricks before deciding... to start burning them.

Placing adobes into a brick kiln is also a technical job. Apart from green grass, Qingyan is the only thing that can be learned after a while. As for Dahe, who should be said to be very smart... She still needs to spend more time to understand why the adobes are placed too far Why can't adobes be placed in some places... So being smart is not necessarily a good thing sometimes, Qingcao knows what to do and does it directly, and she likes to think about why.

Uh... In fact, Xiao Yun himself did not dare to say that the way he chose to arrange the adobes is correct, because the bricks are fired by the local method, how to arrange the adobes, and leave the gaps that have been burned are all technical work that pays attention to professional quality. For the blue bricks that the ancients loved to use, there is also a coquettish operation of water vapor cooling... But anyway, as long as he can burn red bricks, everything will be fine, and there are enough adobes to fill in the brick kiln, as long as half of the finished products are fired, it is more than enough...

After installing the adobe and firing it, unlike firing pottery, the firepower of the brick kiln can be visually observed: the lower part of the reserved T-shaped fire channel is left empty, and after the fuel is fed in and the combustion starts, the placed adobe leaves more space. You can also see whether the flame has burned all over the brick kiln through the burner, and the firepower is uneven. After all, burning bricks does not pursue high temperature and emphasizes airtightness like burning pottery. Experienced masters use the naked eye to observe whether the heat of burning bricks is sufficient. of.

Seeing the glowing red burning landscape inside the cave dwelling from the fire path and the fire opening on the wall of the kiln, Xiao Yun is not ashamed, and everyone else is amazed... This is also the shocking part of the old-fashioned brick-fired technology, even if you are well-informed When modern people see the burning situation of this ancient brick kiln, they also have to take out their mobile phones to take a picture...

The big pot meal that night, the clansman did not burn the bonfire, and ate around the brick kiln... One is to save fuel, and the other is to watch the rarity. Anyway, the heat of the brick kiln will overflow, and it is also warm to sit here.

The fire in the brick kiln continued to burn all night. During this process, Xiao Yun almost stayed close to each other, carefully observing the shape of the brick adobe that he could see at the fire crossing. He had no experience as a brick-making master, so he could only observe everything with his own eyes, anyway. He doesn't know about water cooling and steam cooling technology, and he doesn't need to burn blue bricks that are worthy of appreciation, as long as he can burn red bricks without deformation and can be used.

The ancients fired bricks at a low temperature (800 degrees or below) for three days, Xiao Yun felt that his brick kiln could not be lower than 900 degrees (put the mud tires kneaded in boredom for calcination, and the speed of potting the thinner mud tires is used as a reference) , After burning for a whole day and night, Xiao Yun stopped sending fuel to let the brick kiln cool down naturally.

It was another half-day waiting, and the kiln work started after touching the adobe with hands without burning it.The so-called mastery of kung fu can be achieved depends on God. At this point, Xiao Yun doesn't talk about whether he is nervous or not. He just went in and moved bricks with a normal heart... The bricks he moved out were still warm, and the whole body was flushed. Rough, compact, and compact—it’s really a standard modern street fighting artifact, an invincible brick!