Orcs’ Time Through Time - Chapter 66

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

Although I was a little nervous, looking at everyone in front of the brick kiln as well, because I insisted on opening the kiln, and I insisted on making bricks and tiles, so I gritted my teeth and insisted on opening the kiln with everyone.

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

How can I rest assured without going into the kiln? I shook my head at them, and took a few people to see it.

Picking up the burned bricks and looking closely, you can see that the surface of the bricks looks a bit like the moss cakes we bought on our previous trips. It is said to be blue bricks. The color is indeed dark blue, and the color of the tiles is a little gray and black. They are stained with coal and burned, leaving ash and dust behind.

I tapped with my finger, and let Luo Lei and the others try to break it. Seeing them snapping with a grin, there was an emotion that I didn’t know how to describe.

At first, I was very worried about whether it would be successful, but when I entered the kiln, I was nervous again. Now that I have really succeeded, I don’t know what to express.

To say that the last time I saw this thing, I was at my grandfather’s house when I was young, and now, in this other world, I have succeeded by myself!

Everyone was surprised when they saw the burnt bricks and tiles. They were thinking about touching them. Even a few children wanted to go to the kiln to have a look. I was worried that they would be bad in this environment, and I didn’t dare Let them in, just let them wash these big bricks with water outside, and then put them neatly next to the foundation of our house.

Although I didn’t always move the bricks out of the brick kiln, when cleaning the brick kiln, because Luo Lei found a brick that could not be moved, we still had an even more unexpected surprise.

We all know that the earlier cement was made from limestone and clay, and that later cement was mixed with a certain proportion of slag.

I don’t know which process it was. Maybe some limestone mixed with clay was mixed in the kiln. It happened to be burned in the brick kiln. And because it was burned for so many days, the temperature was probably just right, just for firing. The blue bricks, when we opened the kiln, we went to the sealing layer to pour water. Maybe the water leaked from the side, and it happened to fall on the burnt cement. The bricks placed there happened to be stuck to the brick kiln. in.

So, by accident, we have another gain-the original cement.

Because there was no way to make the brick, everyone felt very surprised. After I made it clear that this is also a treasure given to us by the gods, everyone became excited again. Canaan and Luo Lei took the lead and fell to the ground. Thank God for the gift.

I looked from the left to the right, and I couldn’t think of when I would have the opportunity to put such a time in the furnace, unless it was to carry the coal.

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 where I live and I don’t know how far away, even if there are many things in common, since it can even be animalized There are people, so maybe there are miracles that I can’t understand.

Now that I made this discovery, I also deliberately searched for the kind of clay-type limestone that I might be able to find. Although I said to them that it was a gift from God, I also told them that nothing can be put into your hands 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 see it.

Although everyone is also worried about whether there will be many such things, fortunately, we did find a lot of such stones near the coal bed. In the vicinity where we later found cassiterite, we also found lime ore that co-grown with cassiterite. Although it was mixed with a lot of impurities, when the cement was burned, it was actually no worse than our mixed cement raw material!

At this time, if I don’t thank God, I feel that I can’t make it through.

How much luck does a person have to meet such a good thing? What kind of luck does a person need to find so many things in one place!

And there are more than these good things here.

Not long after I got here, I found some sumac trees, and the most surprising thing is that these sumac trees actually have big bellies. If you don’t look at their leaves carefully, you can easily compare them with the small belly trees on the grassland. Confuse.

But it is different from the small belly tree that oozes luscious juices. Lacquer is a tree that produces lacquer. In this era without steel bars, wood is the best material for building structures. Raw lacquer is a very good material for protecting wood from corrosion and waterproofing, especially for wood that needs to be buried in the ground for piling. The use of raw lacquer can not only protect the wood, but also prevent corrosion and mold, and increase the service life of the wood. .

The first time I found this sumac tree was actually quite accidental. At that time, I was going to see a piece of clay found on the mountain behind when the tribesmen were hunting with Luo Lei, who was logging. When I was thirsty on the road, Luo Lei planned to find me some water.

Just when he saw this kind of tree that looked like a small belly tree, Luo Lei naturally took a knife to cut it. Unexpectedly, what came out was not a sweet and sweet sap, but a thick, peculiar scent.

It happened that I was resting next to Luo Lei, and I was a little surprised to smell this smell. Observing this tree carefully, we found that although the overall appearance is similar to that of the small belly tree, judging from the texture of the bark and leaves, this is not a small belly tree, and the sap is something we have used before. The lacquer is almost the same.

So, for experimentation, I let Luo Lei cut some back and apply it on a piece of wood. After the sap was dried, I put the wood in the depression and waited for it to change.

A month later, I found that the area where the sap was applied to the piece of wood was still smooth and clean to the touch, but when the unpainted section was soggy with water, I was almost happily unable to do so, and in particular told all the logging workers. People, be careful in the future, this kind of trees 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 experiments with me, so naturally he understood a lot. On the contrary, he pampered me to move the wood to Canaan, and explained to him why I was so excited about holding a piece of wood. This made him fade away from the look of surprise.

Since that day, we have had a man carrying an iron-wood knife into the woods every morning. Although there are not many of them, they will not be so rare to collect raw lacquer from the poor lacquer woods.

Unlike the lacquer that we remembered that the lacquer tree can collect not much, and a tree cannot be collected often, the lacquer here is also difficult to collect, because it will itch if you are not careful, and 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 was collected the day before, it would take two days to collect it again, but the fact that a tree can collect a barrel full of raw lacquer still makes me very touched.

A wooden barrel is full of raw lacquer and can be painted with two wood materials for pillars. In the woods of the back mountain, we have also found at least 30 large trees of this kind, plus the contribution of those small trees. Our harvest in one day can also be brushed with eighty or ninety large timbers, and even if it is calculated according to the specifications of the largest house I have made in the past, it is calculated according to a large pillar every two meters, and the large timber used for a house is added. The timber needed to support the roof tiles is less than 90 pieces, not to mention that not all houses need to be built that big. Sometimes the raw lacquer harvested in one day is enough for two houses.

According to our current needs to build fifteen houses to calculate. By the time we plan to build the house in September, all of our wood has been dried with lacquer and can be used directly for the construction of the house.

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

In this depression, in addition to catching rabbits and fish, and turkeys that can run, we also caught a lot of wild ducks and wild geese. These have become our source of breeding.

And what makes me most happy is that we have almost found all the plants we have seen before in this depression. We have collected thousands of catties of barley and wheat on the plain we occupy, and we also collected another In addition to vegetables such as onions, loofah, pumpkin, winter melon, and cabbage, I also found something I like very much—rice.

The first time I came here, I found out by the riverside. On this low-lying land near the river, there are things that are very similar to the things I have seen most in my memory, and those things may soon mature.

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

Although I have been boiled for so long and tried to make noodles, for me, a person who has lived in the South since I was a child, rice is still in line with my taste, and rice does not need to be added like steamed buns, steamed buns and noodles. Alkali or yeast can be eaten as long as it is cooked. It is much better for me than eating boiled barley and the boiled wheat flour dough we have been making, or the fried noodles that can only be eaten once in a while.

So, this time, we also collected a few hundred catties of rice, and made a part of it to be cooked and eaten in winter, and I plan to open a part of the depression by the river as a paddy field to grow rice. In the plains higher than the depressions, we will grow barley and wheat next year, and the higher areas will be used to grow potatoes, sweet potatoes and various vegetables.

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

On the grassland where they hunted in Canaan, they found a large area of ​​very lush potatoes growing.

I went and took a look, and this one is definitely much larger than the one I found in the Hindus before.

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

Not to mention that Loray and their logging team found a large piece of sweet potatoes in the mountains behind it that we could not finish eating.

Because they weren’t familiar at that time, I told them not to rush to harvest them, and to do what they should do first.

When the harvest festival in September was over, we organized all the females and children who left the house, and collected as many potatoes as possible on the other side of the plain. The ones that should be used for eating are used for eating, the ones that are used for drying the flour are used for drying the flour, the ones that are used for making vermicelli are used for making vermicelli, and a cellar of potatoes is fully stored, which is intended 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 prepare staple foods such as barley, wheat, rice, sweet potatoes and potatoes. On the other hand, because the hunters work hard, We have now also raised a dozen cows, more than 20 sheep, and more than a dozen wild boars. Turkey, wild ducks, and wild geese have also caught a group of them in bamboo cages. Moreover, in the usual prey processing, we also dried tens of thousands of catties of bacon, dried meat, and dried meat. On average, each person can get a few hundred catties of meat for this winter.

Although the animals were caught in a hurry, we could only enclose a few wooden fences for them to stay, but we have solved our meat-eating problem in winter, and we don’t pay much attention to the problem of feeding for the time being, after all. Say, we have no conditions now, and no one lives in a house. Where can we control animals? If it doesn’t work, we will slaughter these animals and eat them, and we will raise the animals until the conditions become better next year.

In order to let the children eat more fish, I dug a big half-moon-shaped pond from the stream that passed through the valley near the river, which brought in a lot of water and put a lot of fish, even if it was winter. , We can also easily pry open the ice to fish for fish.

We can almost say that we have prepared the food for winter.