Wooden or bamboo nails must be used to connect the wood pieces tightly together, and bamboo strips or rattan can be used to form hoops to hold them together.
To make it watertight and sturdy and durable is not an easy task and requires superb skills.
This is not comparable to something made of glue and stainless steel hoops.
In his previous life, when Lu Lu came to his wife Chen Xiuyu's house, he once took apart a water-carrying wooden bucket that had become loose after being unused for a long time. Thinking that it was an old object, he planned to repair it, but when he tried to assemble it again, he failed.
In the end, the pieces of wood could only be turned into firewood.
When the cedar wood was delivered to Zuo Songling's home, Lu Lu saw Zuo Songling busy building furniture.
After asking, I found out that Liang Kangbo asked him to build it, following Lu Lu's style.
Wang Dalong and others were already busy building a house for Liang Kangbo, using Lu Lu's wooden template. However, the location chosen was not in the village of Huilongtun, but in a piece of land behind him, surrounded by mountains and rivers.
Inside the private plot.
Since Lu Lu's wooden house was built, everyone who has seen his house thinks it looks good and useful, and almost all of them want to build a similar one.
This kept Wang Dalong leading the group of people busy at work. As a carpenter with a well-known craftsmanship in the village, Zuo Songling had not been idle much in the past year. He had always been busy with building houses.
Zhang Shaofeng also came to say hello. After Liang Kangbo's house was built, he would also build it. Meng Zhaohua, Feng Dezhu, and Zhou Fangjing all came here to see the furniture he made. Although they did not say anything about building a house or anything,
But I guess they already have ideas.
Lu Lu was more concerned about Raymond. Their family lived in the house in Luchang, which was really crowded. Now that they have money, they should think about it soon.
After asking Zuo Songling whether he could make a bathtub, Lu Lu directly explained the dimensions he wanted. There was enough wood. In addition to Zhang Shaofeng and others, Lu Lu from Raymond also asked him to help build one.
This is a delicate job that cannot be completed in a short while. It will take some time.
After finishing the work, Lu Lu drove the carriage to the bee farm and brought back all the remaining honey dregs that had been cut off.
Every year, there are always old nest foundations that need to be replaced and eliminated. With the addition of honey residue, the quantity is quite large. The beeswax in these honey residues must be extracted to make new nest foundations for later use.
You know, by next year, the bee farm can still be expanded.
With such a large area of mountains and wilderness, there are plenty of places to show off.
There is nothing else to be busy with at the moment, so Lu Lu plans to take the time to do this.
When the honey residue is smelted, the remaining honey and beeswax inside will emit a strong fragrance. Obviously, this matter cannot be done in the bee farm or Lu Lu's meadow.
Otherwise, affected by the smell, bees will inevitably swarm in, causing chaos and causing a series of problems such as theft.
After much deliberation, Lu Lu decided to send all the honey residue, together with the leftover honey harvested at home, to Zhao Yongke's house further away.
Zhao Yongke, Zhang Shaofeng and others were also busy working on the forest frog overwintering pond.
Along the length of the mud ditch, which is nearly a kilometer long, there are more than ten large wintering ponds, each with an area of three to four hundred square meters. Lu Lu requires that the mud must be cleared away, and the depth must be at least two and a half meters. The bottom must be used
The yellow mud should be smoothed out and the edges should be sloped to prevent water leakage. Drainage and other issues must also be considered.
When the wood frogs come down the mountain to overwinter, they have to lay some branches, grass and leaves on the bottom of the pond in advance, fill the pond with water, and let it sit in the sun for a period of time, including disinfecting it with quicklime.
There were a lot of things that couldn't be completed in a day or two. They had nothing to do for the time being, so they took the time to start preparations in advance.
Everyone is working hard to make the farm better.
Since he chose to go to Zhao Yongke's house, Lu Lu really needed help, so when he went back, Lu Lu called Zhao Yongke too.
After Lu Lu and his gang came back with their mallets, Zhao Tuanqing went to Jiayin to help Lei Meng, Zhang Shaofeng and Liang Kangbo pick Oroqen horses.
But in fact, Lu Lu and the others could also see that Zhao Tuanqing had been trapped at home for too long and wanted to go out for a walk.
In that family, Unakan was the only one taking care of the housework, the fields, and taking care of the two children who were going to school.
Lu Lu is a grown man, but he can't just let it go.
The two of them took Honey Zha back to Zhao Yongke's meadow and saw five or six half-size roe deer roaming in the small meadow.
"Sister-in-law, when did you get this and keep it?" Lu Lu couldn't help but smile and asked Unakan, who was taking care of the vegetable field.
After carrying the hammer back, Lu Lu was very tired and busy these two days, so he hadn't had time to come over and take a look.
Even if Zhao Tuanqing went to Jiayin, it was just a brief mention by Zhao Yongke during the tooth ceremony.
"Amma said that the meadow was fenced off, and I was always thinking about raising something. But after thinking about it, wild boars, blind bears, hares, sand half chickens, flying dragons, etc. were all difficult to raise. In the end, they were raised in the mountains.
While wandering around, I met roe deer, so I brought a few back and kept them.
When Ama was at home, Ama would visit and feed these roe deer every day. There were two little roe deers that would follow him around. If he wasn't afraid that there wouldn't be enough grass and leaves to eat, he would have thought about raising a few more. As long as Ama is happy, that's all
!”
Ounakan said cheerfully.
For the Oroqen people, roe deer is closely related to their lives. The shadow of roe deer can be seen everywhere. The roe deer skin is used in the tuluozi they live in, and the suen made of roe deer skin is worn. Roe deer meat is the food they serve to entertain distinguished guests...
Zhao Tuanqing finally chose to raise roe deer, which was not surprising to Lu Lu at all.
As Wu Nakan said, as long as Zhao Tuanqing is happy.
This carefree old hunter who has been wandering in the mountains all his life actually has a deeper understanding of the mountains and the animals in them than anyone else. Even just looking at them makes him feel comfortable.
After unloading the honey residue from the car, Zhao Yongke moved three stones left over from building the foundation of the house and built a stove. After lighting the fire, he took out a large iron pot from home and put half of it in.
water, then put the honey residue in and start boiling.
Zhao Yongke's buckets and basins were not enough, so Lu Lu went home and brought his own buckets, basins, gauze for filtering and squeezing beeswax, and other tools.
There are more than 180 peaks, and there are a lot of honey residue left by two honey collections, blackened and eliminated honeycombs, and excess spleens, which have been boiled in three large pots.
During the cooking process of the honey dregs and honeycomb, it exudes a strong fragrance of honey and beeswax, attracting many black bees and bumblebees to fly around, and even attracting mine bees.
It buzzed around the cooking pot, and took the opportunity to eat the remaining honey contained in the bag.
The honey residue is fully melted in the large pot. After stirring, it is scooped into the filter gauze for filtering and squeezing. It is put into a bucket. The beeswax floats on the water. After cooling in cold water, the yellow wax cakes are taken out one by one.
came out.
This matter alone kept the two busy for a whole afternoon.
The next day, Lu Lu came to Zhao Yongke in the morning and brought the nest foundation machine, wax dipping plate and wax dipping pot left by Sun Hanwei at that time.
It’s the same big pot as yesterday. Melt the beeswax and put it into the wax dipping pot.
This is a rectangular iron container. Melted beeswax is placed in it, just like a pot of oil. It will not cool down and solidify easily in a short period of time.
The wax plate is made of polished fir wood and is the same size as the base of the nest. It is dipped in cold water and then put into the wax pot to dip it in wax. It is required to cover the wax plate.
Dip the melted beeswax. After taking it out, there will be a layer of beeswax attached to both sides of the wax pulley. Then put the wax pulley into a wooden basin filled with cold water for rapid cooling, and then stick the top to both sides.
Remove the wax film, then put the wax film into the nest foundation machine equipped with two roller molds full of nest holes, shake the handle and press the nest holes to form the nest foundation.
It sounds simple, but it also requires a bit of skill.
Lu Lu also invited Unakan to help. There were three people: one dipped in wax, one took off the film, and one pressed the nest eye.
Even so, Lu Lu spent a lot of time to teach Zhao Yongke and Unakan, two Oroqen people who had never been exposed to this series of things, how to operate it, and things were carried out in an orderly manner.
It took a whole day to prepare the nest foundations needed for the coming year, and then Lu Lu took the stacks of nest foundations, separated by newspapers, back to his warehouse for storage.
It can be considered as completing one thing.
The next step of framing the nest foundation will be done when necessary.
After two days of rest, Lu Lu took the baby and wandered around in the meadow all day long.
In the past few days, the four sticks were dried during the day and baked over charcoal fire at night. Finally, they were dry. Lu Lu took four jars that had also been soaked in sesame oil for several days, and wiped the sesame oil on the inside and outside with a cloth.
Clean it, and then add Huayin asarum into it. In order to prevent it from getting damp, Lu Lu went to the district to buy some glutinous rice, stir-fried it and mixed it with asarum. Together with the mallet wrapped in yellow paper, he placed it in the cylinder and carefully
of storage.
Four mallets, four cans used.
After sealing it, Lu Lu opened the entrance to the floor in the bedroom, put the four jars in a wooden box, and placed them upstairs.
In fact, Lu Lu was still a little uneasy about this method of preservation. As for the effect, we would know after a while.
Of course, Lu Lu didn't plan to store it for long. He had already thought of it. After two or three years, he would have enough musk on hand, and then send it to the coast together.
By that time, reform and opening up will be more comprehensive, and the economy will be developing rapidly. I will find an opportunity to sell all these valuable things.
But now, Lu Lu is more concerned about another issue, which is about the animal skin book.
In his spare time these days, he has been thinking about what happened when he met Cao Shulongye and the other three in the mountains. They seemed to have a clearer and more detailed understanding of the location of the old omen marked on the animal skin book.
The situation in Shenbang these days is complicated.
If it is just an ordinary Participating Gang, then there is nothing to worry about. The key point is that the Participating Gang forces formed in the early years should not be able to disappear completely. There are also some families who made their fortunes by carrying sticks. These people have
It has quietly emerged. Even after so many years of twists and turns, Lu Lu also firmly believes that many of them still exist.
If there is a foundation, it will not be easy to disintegrate. If there is an organization, these people will have a stricter division of labor and tend to be more ruthless in their actions. This is beyond the comparison of ordinary people who join the gang.
Lu Lu felt that it was necessary for him to go and chat with Jiang Zewei, learn about this aspect, and also visit the old man.
He has now mastered the essence of carrying the mallet while viewing the mountain scenery. He can judge the position of the mallet more accurately. The animal skin book is even more powerful.
And all of this is thanks to Jiang Zewei.
Whether it is morality or affection, we should respect it well.
On the morning of the third day, Lu Lu rode Zhui Feng into the mountains to see if he could catch some flying dragons. Uncle Jiang was very curious about this thing.