Chapter 123 Another kind of heated kang (two in one)
There were some footsteps mixed with the patter of rain, and soon another person appeared in front of Han Cheng's house and walked towards the door.
This man was wearing a raincoat and had a rope tied to his chin.
Ears, hair, and other things were all covered by the hat, with only one face exposed.
He came to Han Cheng's house, took off his raincoat, and hung it on the wooden stick nailed to the wall at the door.
It is under the eaves, so it is not protected from the rain.
After all, at the eaves, not only the tiles are exposed to the outside for ten centimeters but also a little more. When the wall is about to reach the top and the tiles are about to be laid, the two or three consecutive floors begin to consciously expand outwards.
After going down to the third floor, there is not even an extra ten centimeters outside.
Including the tiles that are ten centimeters beyond, the total width of the eaves is twenty centimeters or more.
With such a wide distance, a lot of rainwater can be avoided from hitting the wall.
"Son of God, Wu, what should I do with these mutton slices?"
After the eldest brother came into the house, he started to talk. He was also concerned about the mutton slices that could not be dried because of the cloudy and rainy weather.
"How about wrapping these slices of meat with a thick layer of salt, threading them with large needles and strings, and hanging them in rooms and under ventilated eaves to dry and make bacon slices?"
After the elder brother finished speaking, he spoke again and expressed the solution he thought of.
The shaman sitting next to him suddenly lit up when he heard the solution mentioned by the senior brother.
This is indeed a good way, much better than what I thought!
Although after such an operation, these mutton slices will definitely not become the dried mutton that I and others thought of, but compared to letting the people in the tribe eat these mutton slices as rice in the past day or two, they will try their best to
This is indeed a very good way to finish eating quickly!
At least under such circumstances, these mutton slices can be preserved.
"Son of God, how about doing this?"
Wu turned his attention to Han Cheng and asked.
It was obvious that he was very pleased with the method his senior brother had come up with.
Unexpectedly, after hearing Wu's inquiry, Han Cheng actually shook his head and refused to agree.
Such a reaction made the witch and senior brother couldn't help but be stunned.
"I thought of a better way. Under such circumstances, the mutton slices can also be dried and turned into mutton jerky.
It can even make the mutton jerky taste better.”
Han Cheng said.
Wu and his senior brother couldn't help but smile with joy when they heard this.
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Under the shed of the outside tribe, the masons from the tribe are working quickly with adobe bricks and reconciled mud.
As they were busy, simple buildings were built one after another.
These buildings are indeed very simple and look like bookshelves.
After the bricks are built to a certain height, a layer of bricks is built, a layer of yellow mud is applied on top, and then many twigs as thick as chopsticks are used to evenly spread a layer on top to serve as a partition.
After doing this, a piece of brick will be placed on each end. A layer of yellow mud will be applied on the brick, and then small wooden sticks one meter long will be evenly spread to serve as partitions.
Of course, the bricks are laid vertically, which can make the distance between each compartment larger.
After building up the buildings layer by layer in this way, the height was about 1.8 meters before being capped.
At this time, this thing has a total of thirteen floors.
The distance between layers is about ten centimeters.
Of course, the overall look is similar to the large bookshelf style in the library, but in fact there are still big differences.
Such as the width of the compartment.
The width of each compartment is 1.4 meters.
This thing was built based on Han Cheng's opinions to solve the problem of mutton slices in the tribe.
This thing is nothing but a kang.
Different from the kang used for sleeping and keeping warm in the tribe, this kang is used to knead things, to be precise, it is used to knead dried mutton.
The method Han Cheng came up with was to use the heated kang to dry the mutton slices that had no time to dry and turn them into mutton jerky.
The direct inspiration for this method comes from Han Cheng's childhood experience.
As mentioned before, Han Cheng grew mushrooms at home when he was a child.
After the mushrooms are picked, they will not be sold directly to the mushroom market. Instead, they need to be dried at home and then sold with the dried goods.
At this time, a thing will be used, and this thing is a kang.
At that time, the scale of Han Cheng's mushroom cultivation was not very large. They planted mushrooms in two houses and three greenhouses. Such a kang was completely sufficient.
At this time, something like this happened to the tribe, and Han Cheng suddenly remembered this kang.
He immediately asked the people in the tribe to build it, just like he remembered.
In fact, in addition to this simple Kang, Han Cheng also saw other styles of earthen Kangs when he was a child.
It was a kang used for kang tobacco leaves.
It covers an area as large as a house, but is much higher than an ordinary tiled house.
The roof is relatively steep, the chimney is higher than the roof, and it is paved with small gray tiles.
The outside of the tobacco kang was smeared with a layer of yellow mud mixed with crushed wheat straw.
However, by the time he remembered, these cigarette kangs were no longer in use, and there were far fewer people growing tobacco and selling tobacco leaves at home.
Because this kind of kang is more troublesome and requires the construction of a special house, and Han Cheng has basically never seen its interior and is not familiar with it.
It would take a long time to fumble it out, which did not meet the tribe's urgent need to turn mutton into mutton jerky.
There were a lot of people in the tribe, and it was raining at this time, and there was also a slack season, so there were a lot of manpower available.
In just half a day, two rows of ten-meter-long kangs were built.
The reason why they are built in rows is because if they are built in this way, except for the two walls at both ends, the rest of the walls located inside can be used as two walls.
It can save energy and time to the greatest extent.
This is the same as the houses built in tribes for ordinary people to live in rows.
After the construction was completed, the tribesmen took the undried mutton slices and began to place them on the compartments of the fire pit.
After placing them, put charcoal in the simple stove under the fire pit, light the fire, and use animal skins to cover the outside of the compartment with the mutton slices on top.
As the flame burns, the temperature gradually rises. Standing at a certain distance from the fire kang, you can feel the temperature coming from inside.
Using such tools and methods to process mutton slices would basically not cause any problems, but for the sake of safety, Han Cheng did not let all the kangs fire, but only let two kangs light up first.
The purpose is to gain experience and see the effect, lest any accidents happen and many mutton slices are ruined.
Han Cheng is waiting here now, and pays attention to the heat of the fire.
At the beginning, the fire was relatively large. After a while, Han Cheng opened the curtain-like thing and used chopsticks to take out a piece of mutton from the bottom layer. After feeling it, he found that the mutton was moist.
It became much smaller and was already relatively dry, so someone adjusted the fire below and made it much smaller.
"Let's light the rest of the fire pits, that's all."
After Han Cheng put the piece of mutton back, he said this to the other people present who were responsible for lighting the fire.
From the half-finished piece of mutton just now, Han Cheng was able to confirm that the kang and the method were easy to use and there would be no problems.
After Han Cheng's order was issued, everyone present who was prepared began to take action.
"Don't make the fire too big, it's almost done. If it's too big, it will burn the bed and it won't be good."
Han Cheng spoke up to remind people.
The flames were burning, bringing with them the warmth of the mutton slices that had not yet been dried.
As time goes by, the unique aroma of mutton jerky has begun to spread here.
Many children couldn't help but started to swallow their saliva, and the adults couldn't help but beam with joy.
When the first two burning stoves were opened, the dried mutton inside was taken out and placed in the bamboo woven dustpan. He picked up a piece of dried mutton, tore off a little bit, and tasted it in his mouth for a while.
He warmly greeted everyone present, and after everyone had a slice, the laughter here became even more lively.
“Yummy! So delicious!”
Some people couldn't help but praise him repeatedly.
Wu lost another tooth, and it was obviously more difficult for him to eat.
But this didn't stop him from tasting these mutton jerky.
Because besides teeth, he also has hands.
Break off a little bit of the dried mutton with your hands, put it in your mouth, let the saliva slowly soak it, and taste it slowly. When it is almost soaked, chew it gently with your teeth, and it will taste different.
Savoring the smell of the dried mutton cooked on the heated kang, Wu couldn't help but smile on his face, and he couldn't help but give a thumbs up to Shenzi who was also eating the dried mutton!
This method is indeed as effective as the Son of God said!
Not only can mutton be turned into mutton jerky in a short time, but the taste of the mutton jerky can also be made no worse than the previous mutton jerky. This is really happy from the bottom of my heart.
Those who kept praising the delicious taste of the mutton jerky couldn't help but give Han Cheng a thumbs up after seeing Wu's actions.
Han Cheng, whose vanity was greatly satisfied, had a bright smile on his face.
After eating the dried mutton, everyone worked more actively.
They put the uneaten pieces of dried mutton into their pockets and began to get the still wet mutton pieces over and place them on the empty kangs.
In a short while, it was already placed.
After something like a leather curtain hangs down to cover the outside of the kang, a new round of kang mutton jerky begins again.
Then, the dried mutton in the row of kangs was finally taken out.
Relative to the number of people in the tribe, the two kangs of dried mutton produced before were obviously not enough to satisfy everyone in the tribe.
One piece for one person is not enough.
Of course this is not possible.
Mutton jerky is being made now, and mutton jerky is made for people to eat. Whether it is for the purpose of increasing the work enthusiasm of everyone in the tribe, or to make the people in the tribe feel more happy, Han Cheng will come up with endless ideas.
The small amount of mutton jerky allows the people in the tribe to taste it and enjoy it.
This is similar to when cooking. During the cooking process, you first take out some things such as chicken and bones to let the cook and the people in the kitchen taste them.
Things like this make people feel most comfortable.
One of the happiest things in Han Cheng's childhood was when he finally killed a chicken at home. In the kitchen, he used a spatula to scoop out two pieces of meat from the pot and put them into a bowl to let himself taste the meat.
Ripe.
Eating chicken at this time, it feels really amazing. It tastes better than when the meal is all cooked and you eat in earnest.
So the people in the tribe were busy filling the empty kang with moist dried mutton and starting to light the fire. With a wave of his hand, Han Dashenzi let those who had not eaten the dried mutton before
Step forward and each person grabs a piece of freshly baked mutton jerky to eat.
The sound of laughter, mixed with a strong sense of happiness, burst out again and continued to spread here.
The autumn wind, autumn rain and the cold air are made not miserable, but become warm.
Wu slowly tasted the dried mutton in his mouth. Looking at the scene in front of him, his face was full of smiles, and even the wrinkles on his face seemed to become more numerous.
Especially when he took the dried mutton that he had eaten and brought it to the mouth of his little daughter who was holding Yuan Yuan on the side, teasing her, and her little daughter spit out a series of bubbles at him,
Then after turning his head to one side, the smile on Wu's face became even thicker.
Wu's eyes once again rested on the fire kang where something was being cooked and the dried mutton cooked on the kang.
Eyes sparkling.
Because he remembered some other uses of this fire kang.
For example, when the weather is bad, use it to cook some blanched vegetables.
Store some picked mushrooms that have been proven to be edible in the kang...
This fire kang is really a good thing, and it can play many roles in the tribe in the future!
The Son of God has come up with another good thing!
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The cold wind howled, and snowflakes hit the window paper, making a rustling sound.
There was a piece of red paper that had just been pasted on the door, with a big word "福" written on it in calligraphy, but it was blown off by the cold wind.
Immediately there were children guarding the side, yelling and screaming, and ran away to catch up.
Leaving a series of footprints in the snow, and a burst of laughter.
