Chapter 36 Making bamboo shoots and salty, suspended structure
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It is not difficult to make salty bamboo shoots. Just slice the bamboo shoots, throw them into a pot and cook them, then take them out, filter out the water and put them into cans. Sprinkle a layer of salt on them, compact them and seal them.
Although he had a clay pot, it was impossible to seal the pot. Therefore, he chose to use a bamboo tube instead. Then he only needed to apply a layer of wet mud on the joint of the bamboo tube lid.
Thinking of bamboo shoots, Yun Buliu realized that he missed white rice. He had not eaten white rice for a long time.
When he used to eat bamboo shoot salt in his hometown, his favorite thing was to pour home-brewed red yeast rice wine on the bamboo shoot salt, add some lard, sprinkle some salt and MSG, and just steam it.
Thinking of that tempting smell, he missed white rice even more.
But when he thought that there might not be white rice in this world, he felt a sense of sadness.
Peel the bamboo shoots, use a bone knife to peel off the muddy bottom, then place them on the deer skin and cut into pieces.
Cut into pieces and cook in a clay pot.
Only ten bamboo shoots were cooked, and seven tubes of salty bamboo shoots were made.
Yun Buliu felt that he wouldn't be able to finish eating so much in a year.
So he didn't plan to cook the remaining bamboo shoots, but kept them as vegetables. Anyway, if the bamboo shoots were not peeled off, they could be stored for a few more days.
After exercising the next day, he continued planting bamboo piles.
It took him another two days to finally finish planting the bamboo piles.
In order to make these bamboo piles more stable, he spent another day using some thin bamboo tails and grass and rattan to connect the bamboo piles one by one with triangles.
Among the twenty-five bamboo pillars, the four at the four corners and the two earliest main pillars planted in the middle are more than ten meters high, and the other twenty-three are about two meters above the ground.
After driving these bamboo piles, Yun Buliu was not in a hurry to lay the first layer of bamboo raft flooring.
He had never known how to build a bamboo house before. These were all tricks he came up with on his own, and he built them quietly with plans he thought were feasible.
In his opinion, building the stilt layer is not the most difficult. The real difficulty is how to build the first and second floors. Underneath the first layer is the stilt layer. It doesn’t matter how many reinforced bamboo pillars there are underneath.
What impact does it have? But on the second floor, there needs to be enough space for activities.
If there are too many pillars, it will definitely be inconvenient for people to move around inside.
But if there are fewer bamboo pillars, the stability will definitely not be enough.
How to ensure that it is stable enough, minimize the number of supporting bamboo pillars, and ensure the maximum space for movement is what he needs to think about.
In the evening, he used a newly fired pottery cup to brew freshly collected tea leaves, and used a fired incense burner to light the fragrant wood powder scraped from the incense branches.
For a moment, the unknown fragrance of fragrant wood filled the cave.
This kind of fragrance is somewhat similar to sandalwood, but much lighter than sandalwood. I don't know if it's because he used less amount.
The firing of the pottery was completed the day before yesterday. Two pottery cups were made, one incense burner for burning incense powder, one pottery pot, one pot, and one pot lid.
To light an incense burner, you just need to use a small bowl with a lid and poke a few holes in the lid. It is simple and crude but practical.
Today, the tea leaves were also dried, and he put them into four bamboo tubes for drying. If you save some time on brewing, there should be no problem in brewing them for a year or two.
Sitting on a wicker chair, smelling the fragrance, petting the little white snake and the little fur ball, he fell into deep thought.
He did not graduate from the Department of Architecture and knew very little about architecture. However, he had seen some mechanical architecture diagrams when surfing the Internet.
In the end, he chose to use the elasticity of bamboo to design a suspended structure.
After thinking about it, he let go of the little white snake and the little fur ball, took a sip of tea, and felt refreshed. The warm tea, with a slightly bitter taste, bloomed in his taste buds.
But at the end, there is a sweet aftertaste that is endlessly memorable.
Maybe it’s because he’s been eating meat for so long! He always feels that this is the best tea he’s ever had.
After drinking tea, he stood up, covered the little fur ball with a rabbit skin, then hugged the little white snake and lay down on the kang, and soon fell into a dream.
Every morning he would find a little white snake coiled around his body. He was used to it. If he didn't find it when he woke up one day, he might be even more surprised!
Therefore, he no longer carries it back to its nest.
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After breakfast the next day, Yun Buliu once again planted six bamboo pillars.
These six bamboo pillars are planted next to the six longest bamboo pillars, but they are much shorter than the longer ones because they are used to support the bamboo beams on the second floor and are all bent inward.
After planting, tie their bottoms together for reinforcement.
After the six bamboo pillars were planted, he used five bamboos to be fixed horizontally on the five rows of bamboo piles as bottom beams. Fixing these bamboos used as bottom beams is also very simple. Use small wooden sticks to insert into the bamboo piles, and then use
The hard clay left over from the firing of the clay pot is put into it to hold the small wooden stick in place.
The burned hard mud will not carry insect eggs, which will prevent the bamboo from being eaten by insects prematurely.
Then the specific distance was measured with a rope, and holes were drilled into the bamboo beams with wild boar tusks.
The size of the hole is consistent with the size of the small wooden stick, so that the small wooden stick will not shake easily after being inserted into the hole of the bamboo beam.
After the bamboo beams are erected, thin bamboo strips are tied to the bamboo beams for reinforcement.
After the bamboo beams were erected, he fastened the bamboos cut in half to the bamboo beams one by one, spread them densely in a layer, and tied each piece with bamboo strips for reinforcement.
Then a layer of bamboo slices was spread horizontally on top. These bamboo slices were all fixed on several bamboo strips with bamboo nails, making them one piece like a bamboo raft and would not move easily.
This tedious project took him more than ten days. In more than half a month, he was able to build a solid bamboo platform, which was considered a remarkable achievement for him.
Stepping on the bamboo platform, he shook it and found that the bamboo platform did not move at all.
Yun Buliu was very satisfied with his masterpiece.
Then, he began to consider adding beams to the second floor of the bamboo building.
He planned to make the first floor of the bamboo building about four meters high, then use a rope to measure the length, and mark the four corner posts and two main posts.
He chose the side next to the cave as the gate and the open-air bamboo platform on the back. There was no main pillar in the middle of the main entrance, so he first used two three-meter-long bamboos as the doorposts.
First put a beam on it, tie it to the opposite corner posts with bamboo strips, then use two door posts to support the beam, and do the same on the opposite terrace.
Then a bamboo beam was set up between the main pillar and the first door pillar, and the curved bamboo pillar tied to the corner pillar was used as the top pillar to prop it up in the middle of the beam.
He used this suspended design concept to make this floor seem to support the second floor without support columns.
Viewed from the bottom up, it looks like there is an extra hexagon inside a quadrilateral.
Using this principle, he continued to shrink the hexagon, and finally reached a height of about four meters, and then erected cross beams between the main columns and corner columns.
Then just like the first floor, use bamboo cut in half to lay one layer first, and then use bamboo rafts to lay another layer. In this way, the second floor is completed.
On the second floor, it is relatively simple. Set up beams between several main columns and corner columns, then use bamboo cut in half as tiles, and use bamboo strips to fix these 'bamboo tiles'.
Then, he placed several pieces of bamboo under the beams for reinforcement.
It took him nearly two months to finally lay the frame of the bamboo building.
Next, he only needs to continue making bamboo rafts and seal the four sides of the bamboo building as walls.