After I crossed the interstellar space, I survived in the wilderness and engaged in infrastructure c

Chapter 65: She Wants It!
The three of Su Meng returned with a full load.

After returning to the camp, lunch has been prepared, and it is still wild vegetable fish soup.

No way, the ingredients are still too scarce.

"Eh? Didn't you go to collect firewood? How did you get so many things back?" Du Jiayue picked up the backs of the three of them, with a look of surprise: "Is this sticky gum?"

"Almost, we found a pine forest over there. There is a lot of resin in the trunk of the pine tree. I plan to use it to make candles or torches." Su Meng sorted out the things in the back sling.

It was agreed to go to collect firewood, but there was only half of the firewood in the three backs, so they had to go again later.

"Candles?!" Du Jiayue's eyes lit up, as if thinking of something, she looked longingly: "Then can we have a candlelight dinner tonight?"

Most girls are emotional, with yearning and longing for beautiful and romantic things.

"Then I will try to let us have a candlelight dinner tonight." With a gentle smile on the corner of Su Meng's mouth, she looked at the already crowded shack, lost in thought.

Do you want to build a firewood room?So much firewood, can't fit in the shed?
Moreover, snakes like to burrow into the pile of firewood. If you startle the snake hiding inside and get bitten when you go to hold firewood, it will not be worth the candle.

Su Meng quickly convinced herself that there was nothing to do in the afternoon anyway.

The five finished their lunch talking and laughing, and after resting for about half an hour as usual, they started to get busy again.

The pottery made in the morning has almost been dried, and the walls of the earthen kiln have also been dried by the scorching sun and become firm, so that the pottery will not be soaked by the wet mud of the kiln wall when it is put in.

"The sun is so hot today, and I don't know what time it is." Su Xiang wiped the sweat from his forehead, picked up the bamboo tube on the table to drink water, and went out with a sleepy look on his shoulders.

Although the island was hot a few days ago, it was not so hot. Even the occasional wind was mixed with heat waves, making people feel like they were in a big steamer at the moment.

Su Xiang's words reminded Su Meng of something she had forgotten - a few days ago, she seemed to say that she wanted to make a sundial.

So someone started playing with mud again.

Su Xiang, Zhang Lin, Bo Jing, and Du Jiayue all went to the pine forest with their backs on their backs. This time they simply went out to collect firewood, because the firewood stored in the camp is really not enough now.

After Su Meng finished making the sundial plate, she took out the small water tank she made, and put it upside down at the bottom of an earthen kiln, and then she put a few small pottery in it.

The second kiln...the third kiln...the fifth kiln is still the same.

A large piece of pottery is paired with several small pieces of pottery to maximize the use of limited resources and time.

It's not because I'm afraid that some people will lose.

After placing the pottery, she quickly started the fires of the five earthen kilns. In order to make the flames of the earthen kilns more vigorous, she specially made an air inlet with stones under the firewood.

Fiery flames rose from the top of the kiln along with wisps of smoke, enveloping all the pottery inside.

Then she buckled the dried clay board above the kiln, sealed the top of the kiln, and pressed all the rising fireworks back into the kiln wall.

This is to effectively lock the temperature of the flame and avoid the heat loss of the kiln, resulting in insufficient firepower, so that the fired pottery will not be thorough enough. If it is not thorough, it will leak water and be a failure.

From time to time, Su Meng pokes a stick at the burning firewood, or lays down on the ground and blows at the burner under the kiln. These two methods can make more air flow into it.

As the oxygen increases, the flame will become more vigorous, and correspondingly, the temperature in the kiln will also increase accordingly.

During the period, Su Xiang, Zhang Lin, Bo Jing, and Du Jiayue brought back a pile of dry firewood, which temporarily relieved Su Meng's distress of lack of firewood.

"Anyway, I've been building an earthen kiln today, and I've picked up so much firewood, why don't I make some more charcoal?" Su Meng looked at the two-sided drafty hut, and a look of entanglement flashed in his eyes.

The burning temperature of charcoal is higher than that of firewood. It should be known that in a naturally ventilated furnace or kiln without a bellows, the firewood can only reach 1400 degrees, but with charcoal, it can reach 1600 degrees, because the initial stage of wood burning needs to absorb energy. These steps are pre-finished when firing charcoal.

The volatile components in the wood are driven out, and what is left is almost all carbon, so the charcoal burns at a higher temperature and with less smoke and flames.

Obtaining a higher temperature is the key to material upgrading and technological evolution.

Most importantly, firewood really takes up too much space!

So Su Meng put down the engineering shovel for digging clay, and stepped into the jungle around the camp.

When Su Xiang, Zhang Lin, Bo Jing, and Du Jiayue returned to the camp with four backs full of firewood on their backs, they saw that Su Meng was sweating profusely, throwing a head-sized boulder to the ground.

There were also two boulders on the ground, and a wooden stick the thickness of a calf was lying between the two boulders.

"Snapped!"

There was a crisp cracking sound of wood.

Su Meng bent down expressionlessly, pulled away the stone that was used to smash the wood, picked up the wood, and with a little force in both hands, the wood that was still a bit broken was completely broken into two pieces, and she threw it on the ground at will. aside.

At this time, the four people discovered that a lot of firewood had been piled up next to Su Meng, and the firewood was stacked together like a small mountain bag.

Emmm...so the four of them collected more firewood than Su Meng did alone.

Well, it's embarrassing.

"Are you back?" Su Meng raised her eyes and looked at the four people standing in a daze under the sun, with a gentle smile on her face: "It's hard work for everyone to travel so far to collect firewood. Let me arrange work for you again."

Zhang Lin and Bo Jing subconsciously took a step back.

Appeared, and the big Su capitalist who made Zhou Papi kneel down and cry begging for apprenticeship is going online again!
"Jiayue, you will be in charge of the firewood for these five kilns and five fire pits."

Du Jiayue nodded, indicating that she understood the job requirements.

As for firewood, it is to collect firewood and add firewood, but she only needs to pick up firewood that can support the burning of the earthen kilns and firepit, so as to ensure that the fireworks in these earthen kilns and firepit will not be extinguished and will continue to burn.

"Su Xiang, Zhang Lin, and Bo Jing, the three of you are responsible for digging drainage ditches around the shed. The soil you dug out is just used to paste the walls. You decide the specific division of labor. By the way, add some thatch to the mud. I have already dried the thatch, adding it can make the wall stronger."

"It's even easier to paste the wall. I've already weaved the back wall of the shed with rattan. You can add some stones to the outside to build the wall foundation to block the moisture, and then just paste the reconciled mud on it."

That's right, children make choices, she is an adult, so she has to burn charcoal and perfect the construction of the shed!
(End of this chapter)