After closing the thatched door, I looked at the toilet and felt that it was so good. I didn't have to go into the woods anymore.
It's time to get some clay and bake the yellow bricks in the kiln for burning oyster ashes.
Yao Xiaoqing found two firewood sticks, recalled the size of the bricks in his previous life, sawed out the desired size with an engineering shovel, split it, and used charcoal to estimate the size and leave a mark.
I went into the cave and found a ready-made stone spear. I used the stone spear to mark the positions on the firewood sticks, cut out the tenons and tenon holes, and then combined them to form a simple brick mold.
After breaking it apart, I found that it was a little wobbly, so I found a vine to tie it tightly.
Carrying two round baskets and a basket, and a wooden shovel, I walked down the stairs and saw the big stone, staggering over with two baskets of shells.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at him and laughed: Hey! He is self-taught without a teacher, and he still knows how to pick it up.
Dashi saw her and smiled: "Xiaoqing, what are you doing with these shells?"
Yao Xiaoqing explained the function of shells again. Dashi nodded as if he didn't understand, "Okay, I will do whatever you say. There are a lot of these things by the river."
"Yeah! I'm going to dig clay."
"Go!" Dashi responded with a smile, staggering towards the pond carrying a basket.
Yao Xiaoqing took the guy to the slope, and Yao Hu and the others also covered the toilet.
Zhi and Mufeng followed them to the slope again. Several people dug out a lot of clay on the slope and carried the soil to the pond. Looking at the hill-like clay, Yao Xiaoqing wanted to make some adobe bricks before dusk.
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Making bricks requires a large amount of clay, so Yao Xiaoqing asked Mu Feng and Zhi to continue picking up clay from the slope.
She stayed by the pond, dug a hole in the clay with a shovel, poured a few buckets of water into it, took off her shoes and started stepping on the soil.
Golden Retriever was by the pond, throwing mud chunks at the fish in the pond. Occasionally he would hit one and run toward the bushes with his teeth bared.
Stepping on clay is also a very tiring job. When the clay becomes sticky, Yao Xiaoqing is sweating profusely.
I came out of the clay pile and found a stone slab. I grabbed some fine sand and wiped it on the stone slab. I dug out a piece of clay and patted it into a square shape on the stone slab. I picked it up and put it into the brick mold. Wiped off the excess clay with my hands.
He picked up the brick mold and walked aside, holding the handle of the brick mold, and poured the finished brick embryo out of the mold.
The golden retriever looked at her and found a new way to play. He also got a piece of clay and started playing on the stone slab.
By the time Mu Feng and Zhi came down, Yao Xiaoqing had already made more than a dozen adobe bricks. The two of them looked at the adobe bricks and felt strangely here and there.
Zhi said to her: "Xiaoqing, do you want to use this to build a wall?"
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and shook his head, "You can't use this, it will become mushy as soon as it is soaked in water. Once this is done, let it dry for a day and then bake it before you can build the wall."
Mufeng took it and said, "Oh! I know, it's like burning a pot."
Zhi took the brick mold from Yao Xiaoqing's hand and said, "Xiaoqing, brother, come here, you go and play for a while."
"Okay, I'll go check out the vegetable patch and come back." Yao Xiaoqing saw that the golden retriever's paws and face were all covered in clay, and he burst out laughing, "Ouch! Golden Retriever, you have really become a clay monkey.
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Carry it to the pond, clean the yellow mud off its body, and lead it towards the vegetable field.
When walking through the clearing, she saw that all the tree roots had been dug out, leaving only the area where kudzu grew. The rocks in the ground were dug out and piled together, creating a lively scene.
Opening the fence door and walking to the cornfield, she saw that millet seeds had begun to sprout. Taro seedlings also emerged from the soil. To her surprise, pumpkin seedlings and pepper seedlings also grew.
The pumpkin seedlings emerged from the soil, with two emerald-green leaves as big as a small fingernail, with the leaf petals not yet opened, and the seed shells were still attached to the leaf petals.
Yao Xiaoqing remembered that he put two seeds in each nest, and found that only one pumpkin seedling grew in four or five nests. When three or four leaves grow, it can be transplanted.
The yams have also been planted, and the wild onions and leeks have grown new leaves. Yao Xiaoqing feels that her hard work has not been in vain.
After tying the fence door with vines, Yao Xiaoqing felt that his feet were wrapped in leather, airtight and sticky, and felt uncomfortable. He thought about going back to peel off some vine skin and try to weave a pair of straw sandals to wear them.
Mufeng and Zhi dug soil and made molds, and they were so busy that they made more than two hundred bricks before dark. Yao Xiaoqing found some leaves to cover the bricks, and everyone packed up and went back.
Shan'am and Yun'am had already prepared food. Yaya ran over happily when she saw the golden retriever, holding the golden retriever and giving her clay figurine to play with. The golden retriever likes to play with children of her age.
The monkey had a great time playing with a dozen clay figurines.
The flowers were filled with water and placed outside. Yao Xiaoqing looked at the high fence and thought that when the pumpkin seedlings were ready, he would transplant a dozen or so pumpkins and plant them in the yard.
Yaohu carried two wild ducks and a waterfowl into the yard. He turned around and closed the yard door. He used the door bar to block the door. He turned to look at her with a smile and said, "Xiaoqing, look at what my father hit with a stone."
, I’ll make some stewed mushrooms for you.”
"Father is great," Yao Xiaoqing smiled and looked at his greasy hair, "Father, do you want to wash your hair?"
"No~no~~," Yaohu shook his head like a rattle, "I will go down to the river to wash myself when it gets hot."
Yao Xiaoqing found that they had a resistance to bathing and washing their hair, but there was no such taboo in the memory of the original owner.
She thought that people might be afraid of catching a cold and getting sick after taking a shower! In this day and age, sometimes a cold could kill someone.
Night meal, wild vegetables, arrowroot starch paste, and boiled taro.
Only then did Yao Xiaoqing realize that Yun Amu had dug some taro from somewhere and filled a basket full of it.
After eating, Yao Xiaoqing took a look at the taros. They were of the same variety as those grown in the field. She picked out the ones with good quality.
"Amu, you can open another piece of land next to the field tomorrow and take the taro I picked out and plant it."
Shan'am nodded and said, "Okay, just plant it like you planted it last time?"
"Yeah! The same method as last time."
Yaohu said to Dashi: "Tomorrow you and I will go to see Muba. If he offers to join us, this cave will not be habitable."
Dashi nodded and said, "Yes! We only have one cave."
Yao Xiaoqing took a look at the cave. It was already quite crowded, and if there were more than a dozen people there, they would not be able to live in the cave unless they moved the earth stove out.
"Father, it seems to be getting hotter day by day. Tomorrow we will build a bamboo shed near the cliff and build two earth stoves. We will cook food outside. You can use bamboo rafts to separate the cave and live in it.
Already."
Yao Hu thought for a while and said, "Okay, put the salt, bow and wooden arrows under Xiao Qing's bamboo bed. And Xiao Qing's ax, don't let Muba and the others know about it yet."