Chapter 265 265 Closing the Kiln and Collecting Herbs
Two days later, Yao Xiaoqing went to the kiln before dawn. The kiln was about to be closed, and everyone was a little nervous and excited.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at Ah Chong, "Uncle Chong, are the clay and bricks ready?"
Ah Chong rubbed his hands and nodded nervously, "It's ready, and the bricks on the kiln roof are also ready."
"Okay, fill the kiln with firewood and start the fire. Keep burning until I tell you to stop. Then we will start adding firewood and sealing the kiln."
"yes!"
Several people acted quickly, and soon the kiln was filled with firewood.
The fire burned for nearly two hours, and Yao Xiaoqing asked them to fill up the firewood and prepare to close the kiln.
Several people used bricks to block the kiln door, and then used a layer of prepared clay to paste it tightly without leaving any gaps.
Everyone carried the remaining clay to the top of the kiln, and saw that the tiles inside had turned into a transparent orange-red color.
Everyone lifted the basket, poured the prepared soil on the top of the kiln, and piled bricks on top. They built a small pool with clay and bricks, and then used clay paste to seal the top of the kiln to prevent smoke and water leakage.
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"Uncle Chong, go pick up a few buckets of water and put them into the pool. There must be no shortage of water in the pool. Leave two people here to watch the kiln and carry water."
Yao Xiaoqing thought for a moment, "There is no need to add water after six days."
Achun smiled and said: "Can the kiln be opened in six days?"
Yao Xiaoqing shook his head, "No, if you open the kiln too early, the heat inside will burn your skin and flesh. You have to dry it for a few days, remove the bricks sealing the top of the kiln and the door of the kiln, leave it open for a few days to dry, and then you can leave the kiln.
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Ah Chong nodded, "Xiao Qing, the bricks and tiles are already piled up. I want to build a few larger kilns next to the earth kiln, and I can guard the kiln here and help burn oyster ashes."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "Then you rest for two days before doing it. It will be too tiring and you can't stand it anymore."
"Hey!" Several people agreed happily.
Yao Xiaoqing got off the kiln and walked down the ditch dug out. He saw that the wolf and a group of men had already dug into the bushes. After more than ten days of digging the ditch, they would reach the Ning River.
She turned around and climbed up the mountain, and saw that the restaurant on the mountain had been built.
There are three rooms, the walls of the kitchen are made of stone, and the chimney is also built.
After untying the rope on the door, I saw that the kitchen was about 20 square meters, and the two wooden sheds next to it were 70 to 80 square meters. After the floor of the house was compacted, a layer of oyster ash sand and gravel was used to harden it.
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When the big market starts, the market-goers arrive, set up the tables and chairs, and the business can begin.
In the forest about twenty meters away diagonally across from the restaurant, a clearing was cut out, and a large pit was dug. The middle was separated by wooden boards. A row of more than a dozen squatting toilets were dug on both sides. The toilets were also filled with oysters.
The limestone is hardened.
Yao Xiaoqing looked around and felt that it was somewhat similar to the toilets in primary schools in the 1970s and 1980s.
After looking around, she turned and walked down the mountain.
Back at the tribe, the woman and the old man from the collection team, as well as the remaining warriors, were all busy in the fields.
The peppers have been planted, and after the accumulated pepper seeds were raised, nearly 70 to 80 acres of land were planted. Rapeseed was also planted on nearly 100 acres of land.
Everyone was busy transplanting pumpkins and winter melons. They used bamboo knives to scoop up a seedling and put it into a bag, then picked it up and planted it in the millet field.
A few winter melons and the seeds Jiang Li brought back were planted and more than 300 winter melon seedlings survived.
The winter melons Jiang Li picked up were small, so they had so many seeds. She thought about the large winter melons at home in the past, which weighed twenty or thirty kilograms each. There were still people who counted them when they were idle, and there were more than a thousand seeds in each one.
The wheat seedlings in that wheat field had been sprinkled twice with plant ash and fertilized twice, and they had already begun to tiller and joint.
With experience, Yao Xiaoqing decided to plant all future wheat crops in winter wheat.
Shan Amu came over with a bucket, "Xiao Qing, Hua said that the little pig's urine has been yellow in the past two days, and I found that the skin on his face is also a little yellow. Do you want to go and see what's going on?"
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Okay! I'll go take a look." He gave birth to his son safely in a few days. He was chubby and cute.
When I arrived at the door of Hua's confinement room, I heard the baby crying.
Hua looked up and saw Yao Xiaoqing, picked up the child and said, "Little Zhuzhu, look at Aunt Qing here."
Yao Xiaoqing stepped forward with a smile and looked at the crying child with his eyes closed.
"Let me see, what's wrong with our little pig?"
Hua frowned and looked at her worriedly, "Xiaoqing, he has been a little misbehaved these past two days. He has not been feeding well, and his face and neck have become a little yellow. Yaya has never been like this before."
Yao Xiaoqing checked it and remembered that her nephew at home had neonatal jaundice at that time. His father said it was not serious, just drink more warm water and get some sunshine.
"Hua, give him some warm water, find something to cover the piggy's eyes, and take him to the yard to bask in the sun and he'll be fine."
After hearing this, Hua breathed a sigh of relief and laughed, "Okay! I'll take him out." She got out of bed and started looking for something to cover the child's eyes.
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Yeah! I'll leave first then. If you need anything, come see me again."
She returned home, opened the warehouse and looked at the medicinal materials stored in bamboo baskets on the shelves.
After preparing a basket of medicine, I went to the main room and got busy. It was not until dark that I prepared the medicine for golden sores.
Some of the saved medicinal materials have been used up. Yao Xiaoqing wrote down the missing medicinal materials in a notebook and prepared to go to the mountain to collect herbs tomorrow morning.
Early the next morning, Yao Xiaoqing said hello to Yun Amu, took dried meat and seasonings, and went up the mountain carrying a kettle and bamboo basket.
She had walked almost all of the hills behind the tribe, and was planning to go further afield to collect some other herbs.
After walking for more than two hours, we passed through the pine forest and descended into a mountain depression. The sticks were knocked on the bushes, and several pheasants flew up from the forest.
Yao Xiaoqing took out a stone and threw it over. Two slow-flying pheasants were knocked down on the bushes, flapping their wings and clucking. She walked over, grabbed the pheasants from the bushes, cut a vine and tied them.
Hang on the backpack.
Continuing to walk forward, I didn’t even see a clump of yam or kudzu. I collected some astragalus, plantain, lobelia and also found a clump of licorice. Licorice nourishes the spleen and replenishes qi, clears away heat and detoxifies, eliminates phlegm and relieves coughs...
…, and also has a mediating effect.
But Yao Xiaoqing has never liked the taste of licorice. After digging out all the main roots and branch roots, she separated the main roots and branch roots, shook off the soil on them, rolled them into small bundles and put them in a backpack.
Going further, I found several flower trees with double pink flowers in the forest. I didn't know what kind they were. Yao Xiaoqing left a mark and planned to go back and have someone dig them up.
Holding an engineering shovel in one hand, he used a wooden stick to beat the dense shrubs and weeds with the other hand. He pushed aside the shrubs and continued to move forward. He collected some more angelica, cangshu, motherwort, purple pearl, bletilla... and also found a rice dumpling leaf.
Thinking of being a beggar's chicken, I chopped a handful and took them with me, and continued walking forward.
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