The earthen kiln recently built for burning charcoal was modeled on the simple mud-pasting method used to burn pottery. Han Cheng did not finish it, so it would be too troublesome to have to re-paste it every time.
Based on the previous method, he made slight changes to the mud-paste method.
That is to make a hollow cylinder on the ground with the reconciled mud.
Twelve ignition holes are evenly spaced where the bottom of the cylinder is in contact with the ground.
When burning charcoal, first place the wood that has been stepped on or broken on the stone firmly inside the cylinder, and then mix it with the mud to create a cone-shaped top.
When it's time to open the kiln, you only need to break off the cone-shaped top. The cylinder below does not need to be moved and can be reused. This can greatly reduce the workload and improve work efficiency.
Han Cheng and Hei Wa arranged the firewood they brought upright in the column.
"Son of God, why are you doing this?"
Seeing Han Cheng place the thickest firewood in the middle of the column, Heiwa asked with some confusion.
Because the fire was lit from the edge of the cylinder in the past, in order to minimize the situation where the firewood on the edge has been burned to ashes and the firewood inside has not been burned, Han Cheng used his brain to use the thickest firewood.
Place it at the very edge.
Facts have proven that this approach does have some effect.
So when Hei Wa saw that Shenzi was acting out of the ordinary this time, he couldn't help but give a warning.
Han Cheng told Hei Wa about his plan to light a fire from above.
Hei Wa was very puzzled when he heard this. This was the first time he heard that the fire was lit not from below, but from above.
I wanted to ask the Son of God carefully about the reason behind this, but seeing that the Son of God was unwilling to talk more about this aspect, I stopped asking more questions and instead placed the wood according to the Son of God's instructions.
Of course Han Cheng wouldn't talk to Hei Wa in detail. He couldn't tell him that this was his own way of breaking the rules, right?
The weather here is already very cold, and the mixed mud needs to be mashed as soon as possible, otherwise it will freeze after a while.
Han Cheng and Hei Wa, as quickly as possible, put the mud that felt like ice cubes on the cylinder, and then couldn't wait to put their frozen and numb hands into the steaming pottery pot aside.
inside.
Only then did I feel that my hand was my own.
Huoyi insisted on following him out, and had been fanning the flames for a while. After receiving the instructions from the Son of God, he first stuffed a piece of dry grass that was easier to ignite into the hole left in the middle of the cone, and then picked up a stick and burned it.
Hold the wooden stick and light it on fire.
Green smoke rose and the flames quickly burned.
Han Cheng took his hands out of the pottery pot that was about to become cold, went to the charcoal kiln, stood upwind, and stretched out his wet hands to bake them in the fire.
There was no cloth at this time, so wiping his hands with fur always felt a little uncomfortable, so when there was a fire in cold weather, Han Cheng would put his hands next to the fire to dry them.
This is very comfortable, but it tends to leave a smoky smell on your hands.
People with dreams are always full of energy and passion when doing things.
Not long after Han Cheng's hands were dried and most of the contents in the kiln were still unburnt, the senior brother and others had already returned from a distance.
Junior Brother Sha, who was walking among the crowd, was carrying a freshly cut mulberry tree as thick as the mouth of a bowl on his left shoulder.
Some unnecessary branches on the mulberry tree had been cut off, but they were not thrown away, but were tied into a bundle and pulled back.
Of course Junior Brother Sha doesn't have that much strength to directly carry a mulberry tree as thick as the mouth of a bowl, and he is not Lu Zhishen.
It is said that it is carried, but in fact it is just carrying the thick end of the tree trunk on the shoulders, and dragging the rest of the tree trunk on the ground, half carrying and half pulling, which will save a lot of energy.
Although Han Cheng desperately wanted to light a fire from above and burn charcoal once, he didn't have much hope for the result.
Human thoughts are sometimes so strange and complicated. It's like coming in with excitement and then returning completely exhausted.
Therefore, after seeing Junior Brother Sha coming back carrying mulberry trees, he took a look at the kiln which would not be sealed for a while, and after explaining it to Hei Wa, Han Chengcheng happily became the shopkeeper and went to make bows and arrows out of mulberry wood.
In fact, the best wood for making bows and arrows is yew. It is said that because of its different hardness, the bows and arrows made will naturally have the effect of a compound bow.
Han Cheng did not see any yew trees, but the second-class mulberry trees were not too lacking.
The bow Han Cheng wants to make this time is not the simple bow made by bending a branch in the morning. Instead, he is going to make a bow from the trunk of a mulberry tree according to the image of the bow he saw in the film and television works in his memory.
Come out.
Because the trunk of the mulberry tree is wide enough, as long as it is not caused by man-made factors, the bow made will not be like the bow and arrow made with the unusually thick stick at both ends in the morning.
The middle part makes the bow uneven and affects the shooting effect.
Han Cheng used a ruler to measure a length of 1.2 meters. After marking it, he asked Lai to cut it off with a stone axe.
It is easier to chop down a freshly cut tree with a stone axe.
While Han Cheng and the others were here, Hei Wa had already begun to mix mud to block the hole left under the mud kiln.
Because the fire can already be seen from the lowest openings, this means that the flames have burned here.
At this time, the vents must be blocked, otherwise the firewood inside will be completely burned over time.
Although they had failed many times when burning charcoal before, Han Cheng and Hei Wa also summed up a lot of experience from this series of failures.
Now that the Son of God is gone, Heiwa will of course be too concerned about the kiln charcoal. After blocking the ventilation holes around one by one, he directly blocked the top of the conical kiln with mud. It was not like before.
That way, before blocking it, take advantage of the fire to get smaller and get closer to take a look at the situation inside.
Therefore, I did not find that the wood at the first place where the fire was ignited this time was not like before. After all the wood elsewhere burned, it had turned into ashes. Instead, it was red and still maintained its previous shape.
It is true that Hei Wa loves kilns, but he also needs to know what is in the kiln.
If it's pottery, you can keep him up all night, but it's different if it's firewood.
And he also wanted to see the bows and arrows made by Shenzi again.
Because he has dealt with clay and pottery the most in the past two years, and is not very good at throwing. In the morning, he saw the bow made by the Son of God that can shoot arrows far away by just opening the rope.
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He felt that such a thing was just right for him to use, even though the three arrows he shot in the morning were all far away from the wooden stake...
The neglected earthen kiln no longer even smoked, and was left there alone, nurturing the baby.
