I turned around and found a thin bamboo joint that was not much thicker than chopsticks. I cut it into an inch-long piece, cut a hole in one end, cut a piece of brown rope and tried to thread the wick through the bamboo tube. After pulling it through, I found that
After feeling a little tight, he nodded with satisfaction, pulled out the wick and put it aside.
I dug out a piece of clay for flower-burning pots, pinched a few oil lamps, and put them aside. I dug out a lump of clay and pasted it on the bamboo tube, leaving a hole, inserted the oil lamp, dipped it in water and smoothed the inside of the lamp.
Go to the fire pit where the pots are fired and put them in for firing.
I came out and looked at the soaked brown rope in the jar, and found that it had penetrated. I took out a piece of it with chopsticks, placed it on the edge of the jar, and lit the brown rope wick. The wick burned, and the only bad thing was that there was a little black smoke.
Yuzi stared at the resin lamp with wide eyes, "Hua, come and see, the fire lit by the green witch."
After Hua came over to look at it, he asked in confusion: "Xiaoqing, what is this for?"
Yao Xiaoqing looked at them and said with a smile: "This is called an oil lamp. When we move into the house, we won't have to light a bonfire."
The two nodded and gave a thumbs up, "Xiaoqing, you are really capable."
Yao Xiaoqing blew out the oil lamp and sighed secretly, I don’t want to be so incompetent. I came to this barbaric land and refused to work or work hard to create better conditions in order to live a life of living like a baby and drinking blood. How could I live a slightly comfortable life?
One o'clock day.
Yao Xiaoqing made the oil lamp and went to the foot of the mountain. He said to Yao Hu: "Father, you caught wolves in Qiu Mountain last time. Why did Yan Yu from the Dawu tribe bring his people here to hunt?"
Yaohu frowned and said: "There are many tribes over the Qiu Mountain. When there are more people hunting, the prey becomes less and less. The big tribes have many warriors, so they take their people to hunt far away."
Yao Xiaoqing felt that if things continued like this, sooner or later there would be a day when they couldn't catch any prey, so they had to breed their own fish as soon as possible.
"Father, did you tell my brother to hunt docile beasts and come back to breed them?"
"I have already told Mu Feng and the others that Ah Shui and A Lin were at the river today and brought back a dozen half-grown wild ducks. Are you going to see how to raise them?"
"Okay." Yao Xiaoqing went to the bamboo shed, took out the scissors, and went down the mountain.
At the bottom of the mountain, Ah Shui pointed to the wild ducks covered with baskets and said, "Xiao Qing, the wild ducks have been captured and we dare not release them for fear that they will fly away."
Yao Xiaoqing raised the scissors and said, "Cut off the wings and they won't be able to fly."
"Oh! I'll catch it and you can cut it."
Yao Xiaoqing cut off all the wings of the wild duck, put the feathers into a basket, and made wooden arrow feathers.
"Uncle Shui, take the wild ducks to the ditch and make a few nests for them in the open space. Then cut some bamboo back, surround it, and keep the wild ducks inside to feed them."
"Okay," Uncle Shui thought about it and asked, "Where are they kept, and what do they eat?"
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "There are a lot of small fish and screws in the ditch outside the wall. Catch some and put them in a wooden basin and they will eat them naturally. Oh! Remember to break the screws and feed them!"
Ah Shui smiled and nodded, "Okay, if you give it something to eat, it won't run away!"
Yao Xiaoqing shook his head, "That's not necessarily true. It's best to cover it with a net on the fence, just like the pumpkin shed in the yard. This will prevent it from growing feathers again and flying away again."
"I understand. I'll cover them with baskets first, and then put them away after they're surrounded."
The next day, Ah Shui took a few Gen and spent half a day to surround a large section of the ditch near the wall by the river with bamboo poles and covered it with a fence to build a duck for the wild ducks.
shed.
Yao Xiaoqing took out the burned oil lamp from the fire pit, wiped off the dust, melted the resin in the jar, poured it into the lamp, cut a length of about one foot, soaked the oil-soaked brown rope wick, and threaded it through
Pass the excess through the pottery tube into a lamp and light the wick.
The oil lamp was on, and it was quite bright when we entered the cave.
Looking at the oil lamp in his hand, Yao Xiaoqing was a little proud, but also a little sour.
He handed the shape of the oil lamp to Hua and asked her to continue firing.
There was still no sign of the goats and wild boars, and Mu Feng and the others carried rocks home every day. Half of the newly built house at the foot of the mountain was already filled with rock salt.
Yaohu took Dashi and a few others to install the newly built wooden doors on the three new houses.
After Yao Xiaoqing asked them to level the house, he went to the river to bring back a large flat stone and tamped it down to compact the room.
The stone walls were then smoothed with mortar, and all the mortar on the floor of each room was hardened. Finally, the walls were painted with oyster gray. The originally dusty walls became fresh and bright, and the white walls lined the rooms.
Gotta brighten up.
The kang is covered with straw mats woven from cattails and a rattan box made of rattan. There is also a shelf made of bamboo placed next to the kang, and curtains made of reed rods are hung on the windows.
The courtyard dam under the eaves and at the entrance was also rammed and leveled with stones and paved with mortar. An open space was left outside the courtyard dam against the wall for growing wild garlic, leeks and some side dishes.
There are three main rooms, three east and west wing rooms respectively. There are toilets and bathrooms in the stairwell at the corner of the west wing room and the corner wing room, with two windows at the back.
There is a water tank and a wooden ladle placed at the door of the toilet for flushing the toilet.
A latrine was dug behind the house, and sewage was discharged from a clay pipe buried underground.
In the corner of the east chamber, there are two stoves built with red bricks for burning fire and hot water.
Everyone giggled and looked around every room, then went to the yard and looked at the two similar houses inside and outside. The expressions on their faces were richer than when Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden.
Yao Xiaoqing told Shan Amu to dig up the beautiful flowers they saw outside and plant them in front of and behind the house.
A few people just nodded happily.
Standing in the courtyard and looking at the yard, she seemed to have traveled back to her family's old house in the 1980s.
Thinking of her elderly parents at home, Yao Xiaoqing felt unbearably sour in her heart. She looked up at the sky and forced back the tears in her eyes.
Yaohu and Mufeng walked to her side and comforted her softly, "Xiaoqing, your mother and brother will see that we are getting along well."
Yao Xiaoqing sniffed and nodded: "Yes, they are looking at us!"
Mufeng looked at her with a smile and said, "Xiaoqing, which room do you like? I'll let you choose."
Yao Xiaoqing pointed to the right-hand room of the main room, "Just that room!"
The father and son nodded together, "Okay."
Yao Hu turned around and said loudly to the people in the yard: "Everyone, please move down and squeeze in for a while. When the house is completely built, we will redistribute it."
Dozens of people responded in unison: "Yes, leader."
Yaohu's family of three moved into the first courtyard down the mountain, and Yaohu and Yao Xiaoqing moved into the main house.
Mufeng moved into the east wing, and of the remaining two rooms, the wooden shelves in one were filled with bacon, the jars under the wooden shelves were filled with dried meat, and the other contained half of the room's rock salt.