Before Wang Liangyu could figure out the reason, the weather gradually turned cooler and the valley became more and more withered.
The once lively and active monkeys all hid one after another. Even the white ape became possessed by the spirit of laziness and huddled in a corner all day long, losing interest in even sparring.
Wang Liangyu nestled in the cave, leaning against the fire, wrapped in several layers of thick clothes, but he could still feel the bone-chilling cold.
"They say that the cold in the north is a physical damage, while the cold in the south is a magic damage. Don't deceive me!" Wang Liangyu twitched her nose, which was red from the cold, and began to think about ways to survive the winter, "I have to build a fire kang, this thing
Antifreeze!"
Wang Liangyu has never slept on a kang, but he knows the general principle.
The kang is essentially about burning a fire to keep warm. A more vivid metaphor is stone barbecue. The heat and smoke generated by the fire are circulated under the kang bed through the flue, thereby achieving the purpose of keeping warm.
The principle sounds simple, but in practice it is not that simple. Where to place the burner and how to design the flue, many things need to be considered.
However, Wang Liangyu doesn't need to do it very carefully, as long as it can keep warm, it doesn't matter if the thermal efficiency is a bit low.
In addition, the most important thing is the building materials. Bricks, cement and stone slabs are not easy to come by in this era.
Wang Liangyu thought about it for a moment, then immediately approached the napping white ape and said seductively: "Old Bai, do you want to live a warmer winter?"
Bai Yuanmi stared at Wang Liangyu with doubts.
"It's as warm as a fire, just like summer!" Wang Liangyu said boldly and continued to deceive.
The white ape became interested after hearing this.
Wang Liangyu immediately introduced the principle and function of the fire kang, and then said: "If you want to make a fire kang, you need bricks and stone slabs."
When the white ape heard the words, he understood it and waved his hands. With his sword energy, he could chop gold and stone like melons and vegetables, and he could do it with ease.
After convincing the material manufacturer Baiyuan, Wang Liangyu immediately devoted himself to the planning and design of the fire kang.
The original cave hut was not suitable for adding a fire pit. Wang Liangyu found four big trees by the waterfall as pillars, surrounded a 30-square-meter piece of land, made rocks as walls, and patched the seams with yellow mud. With the help of white apes and a group of monkeys,
, in just two days, the new stone house was built, spacious and bright, and Wang Liangyu finally said goodbye to the dark cave.
Next, Wang Liangyu officially started building the fire kang.
Wang Liangyu originally planned to build a bed-sized hot bed, but then she thought about it and decided to build a big one and cover the entire house. It would be the same as floor heating, except that it is not electric but water heated.
As a result, the project was several times larger, the originally designed fire pit had to be enlarged, and the flue needed to be redesigned.
It took a week and the heated floor heating was finally completed.
As the fire filled with firewood ignited a raging fire, the high-temperature smoke circulated in the U-shaped spiral flue under the floor of the stone house, bypassing every corner of the stone house, and finally emerged through the chimney. The temperature in the stone house began to rise slowly.
High.
"So comfortable!" Wang Liangyu lay on his luxurious Simmons with a satisfied look on his face. He turned around and saw Bai Yuan squatting on the ground, curiously looking at the warm bluestone floor under his feet, and said with a little pride, "How about it, I didn't
I lied to you!"
Bai Yuan stood up and screamed at Wang Liangyu.
"You want to do one too?" Wang Liangyu was a little reluctant and too lazy to bother, "My room is quite big, you can sleep here!"
The white ape shook his head and called out again and again.
Wang Liangyu paused when he heard the sound, and looked a little melancholy: "Is it for your monkeys? You have to build a big one, otherwise it won't be able to fit in!"
There are nearly two hundred monkeys in the valley. If the room is too small, it will definitely not fit in them.
At Bai Yuan's urging, Wang Liangyu once again took up the job of contractor and directed the monkeys to build a new floor heating room.
Because it is for monkeys, there is no need to build the house too high. A little more than one meter is more than enough. The only difficulty is that the area is very large, at least seventy or eighty square meters.
However, due to the large area, it is difficult to achieve the heating effect of heated floor heating.
In order to solve this problem, Wang Liangyu connected the monkey house with his own stone house and added five additional fire pits, two on the east and west sides, one on the north side, plus one on this side of the stone house, for a total of six fire pits and six smoke bars.
The roads are not connected to each other and are heated in separate areas.
Not to mention, the effect is excellent. The heat generated by the six fire pits is amazing. The temperature in the room is higher than that in Wang Liangyu’s original stone house.
The only thing you need to worry about is that the consumption of wood is also huge, and the trees in the valley are rapidly decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye.
However, compared to the warm winter, the white apes and monkeys do not care about this loss.
After being busy for nearly a month, Wang Liangyu finally took some time off and prepared to treat himself well.
"Lao Bai, let's eat something fresh today." Wang Liangyu sent the white ape to hunt for ingredients, while he began to prepare the hot pot base.
Yes, hot pot, Wang Liangyu is going to have a hot pot meal today.
Walking into the kitchen area of the stone house, opening the cabinets, there are various kitchen supplies. Different from modern pots and pans, they are basically made of bronze and clay. They have the unique characteristics of this era and are simple and simple in shape.<
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Wang Liangyu picked up the largest tripod, walked to the pool next to it, and opened the wooden stopper of the bamboo tube on the pool. The clear and cold spring water drew an arc and fell into the tripod below, with splashes of water scattered.
All over the floor.
The spring water was collected by Wang Liangyu from the waterfall in a bamboo tube. It was tap water from the Spring and Autumn Period.
Wang Liangyu was not willing to live in poverty, and began to try to improve the quality of life. In addition to heated floor heating and running water, flushing toilets and stone bathtubs that can be heated by fire are also in place. Next, Wang Liangyu is preparing to make paper. Life without toilet paper is really uncomfortable.
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After the three-legged cauldron was filled with two-thirds of the spring water, Wang Liangyu added ointment, salt, onion, pepper, ginger and other seasonings, added firewood to the bottom of the cauldron, and ordered the bald old monkey to watch the fire.
Wang Liangyu grabbed a sharpened wooden spear and ran to the edge of the pool under the waterfall.
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After a while, Wang Liangyu harvested more than a dozen plump and fresh fish, which were about a foot long, and threw them to the monkeys in the room to cook them into fish dumplings.
Immediately, Wang Liangyu picked up another animal skin bag and went into the forest. After some searching, the bag was filled with winter bamboo shoots and unknown wild plants.
Food was quite scarce during the Spring and Autumn Period, especially vegetables.
Wang Liangyu planned to be a divine farmer and taste the wild vegetables of this era, so he brought back some of the green plants that he could see and feel edible during this season.
When Wang Liangyu returned to the house, the white ape was skillfully dismembering a wild boar.
Speaking of which, ever since Wang Liangyu came to this world, the beasts in this mountain forest have suffered a lot, and they have to be hunted every once in a while.
Nowadays, hundreds of miles around the valley have become a forbidden area for wild beasts. They dare not approach it at all. Every time they hunt for white apes, they have to run far away to gain anything.
"I'll do it!" Wang Liangyu drove the white ape aside and took out a bronze dagger to slice the meat. He said to the white ape with a smile, "Old Bai, let's eat something fresh today. Just follow my instructions and try to cut as many pieces of meat as possible."
Cut it thinly."
The white ape understood after looking at it for a while, picked up the bamboo stick, and with a thought, the silver-white sword energy suddenly appeared, but it was not triggered, like a thin veil covering the bamboo stick.
The bamboo stick blessed by sword energy was extremely sharp and easier to use than a bronze dagger. With a slight wave of the white ape, a piece of meat as thin as cicada wings flew up from the wild boar and landed on the pottery plate beside it.
The whole process is silky and smooth, and the antelope hangs its horns.
Wang Liangyu stood aside with a look of envy on his face. The sword energy that he had struggled to release with all his efforts, but the white ape could use it so freely. The difference was huge.
The look of envy in his eyes disappeared in a flash. Wang Liangyu stabilized his mind, stopped cutting meat, and observed the white ape more intently.
Bai Yuan is not a good teacher. Wang Liangyu can only explore the advanced skills of sword energy on his own.
It is a rare opportunity to have such a close observation, and Wang Liangyu hopes to learn something from it.
Unfortunately, this cannot be understood by just looking.
The movement of Qi cannot be seen with the naked eye.
Wang Liangyu could only vaguely feel the powerful and majestic Qi in the white ape's body, but he couldn't sense how the Qi actually moved, which acupuncture points it passed through, and which meridians it followed.
Alas!
Wang Liangyu sighed and looked helpless.
"This is not the way to go. I have to figure it out on my own. I don't know when I will be able to use my sword energy!" Wang Liangyu turned his head and stopped looking at the white ape. He thought in his heart, "The so-called true transmission of one sentence and the false transmission of thousands of books. I
You really need to find a famous teacher and study hard!"
Due to his lack of education, Wang Liangyu knew nothing about meridians and acupuncture points, and he couldn't even study sword energy.
While thinking wildly, Wang Liangyu was awakened by the cry of the white ape. When he looked up, he found that only the pale skeleton of the wild boar was left, and the table beside him was already piled with slices of meat as thin as cicada wings.
"Cow!"
Wang Liangyu gave a thumbs up to Bai Yuan, walked to the three-legged cauldron, looked at the churning milky white soup base, stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a piece of meat, put it into the hot cauldron, rinsed it a few times, and waited until it turned bloody.
When the meat pieces changed color and became cooked, I immediately took them out and stuffed them into my mouth. I chewed a few mouthfuls and swallowed them, with a look of sadness on my face.
"Too bad, no chili!"
Wang Liangyu has always been a fan of anything spicy, so even with the addition of Sichuan peppercorns, this clear soup hotpot is still a bit boring.
After thinking about it, Wang Liangyu turned around and prepared the sauce for himself. He specially added some mustard, simmered the meat again and swirled it around in the sauce. He took it into his mouth again and felt the spicy stimulation on his taste buds. Wang Liangyu finally had the desire to eat hot pot.
Feeling.
Bai Yuan, who was waiting impatiently, immediately picked up a pair of chopsticks, imitated Wang Liangyu's actions just now, took a bite of boiled wild boar meat, and then started dancing excitedly again.
Wang Liangyu ignored the white ape and turned to look at the bald old monkey: "Bring some wine over here. We won't go home until we get drunk today!"
The bald old monkey rolled his eyes. Since Wang Liangyu came to the valley, the monkey wine stored in the valley has been consumed more and more.
However, the bald old monkey did not refuse and went straight to bring a group of monkeys to move the wine.
Wang Liangyu reciprocated the favor and invited other monkeys to eat hot pot together.
A group of monkeys cheered and rushed over from the monkey house. Fortunately, the three-legged tripod was big enough. Under the threat of the white ape, the monkeys did not dare to be too presumptuous, let alone disturb the white ape and Wang Liangyu. A group of monkeys guarded one side, one by one.
Around the three-legged tripod, people take turns cooking and eating meat in a very orderly manner. The scene is crowded and harmonious.