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

Chapter 66: Falling asleep with the smell of sweat?

Su Meng is a person who insists on sustainable development, so she decided to directly build a reusable charcoal kiln.

After clearing a flat ground as usual, she piled the firewood in the center of the kiln.

The method of stacking firewood is just the opposite of the pile burning method. The pile burning method is to place the cut wood in a pile, the largest piece of firewood is placed in the middle, the small pieces are placed in the outer circle, and the outermost layer is placed with small branches and leaves.

However, the firewood in the charcoal kiln is placed with small pieces of wood in the middle, and the larger the wood is, the piled firewood looks like a cone with a diameter of about 1 meter and a height of about 80 centimeters.

Most of the firewood Su Meng picks up is the kind of wood with higher density, because the high-density wood stores more energy, and she piles up these firewood very densely, so that the charcoal produced will be more. The quality is good again.

Then she added water and mud to the ordinary clay loam dug on the spot, and then spread the reconciled mud evenly around the firewood. This is to build a charcoal kiln.

The thickness of the wall of the completed charcoal kiln is about the width of the palm. There are 8 air intake holes around the bottom, and an opening for ignition is left on the top, which looks like a hemisphere buckled upside down on the ground.

"Ignite the fire from above, will it really burn inside?" Du Jiayue couldn't help asking herself when she saw Su Meng lighting the fire, she thought she was going to start the fire in the hole at the bottom.

"Well, when the fire is ignited from the hole at the top, an updraft will form inside the charcoal kiln, and the fire will spread downward against the direction of the airflow, and the continuously moving downward flame will consume the oxygen in the updraft."

Su Meng took a sip of the moss root water, moistened her throat, and continued to popularize science:
"So the charcoal that has been burned on the upper layer will not be burned to ashes. After the volatile components in the wood are driven off by the heat, they are discharged from the top of the kiln. Look, the flame in the midair is the volatile gas that is discharged."

Du Jiayue nodded half-understood, and today is another day that she admires Su Mengmeng even more: "Then just wait now?"

"Emmmm... almost, but you still have to pay attention to the air intake holes at the bottom at all times. When you can see a flame in an air intake hole, you must seal that air intake hole with thin mud in time, and wait for the 8 air intake holes at the bottom After everything is sealed, just seal the hole at the top as well."

"Ah? It's so troublesome. How long does it take to burn it?" Du Jiayue frowned, but she understood this step.

Su Meng looked at the charcoal kiln, thought carefully and said: "It should probably burn for five or six hours. The exact time is hard to calculate, but the kiln can't be opened until it cools down the next day."

"So long?!" Du Jiayue's eyes widened. She thought she would be able to use charcoal to eat hot pot grilled fish tonight.

Thinking of this, a thought suddenly flashed in her mind, so she asked with some trepidation: "Then... the clay kiln... won't it take that long to fire pottery?"

"Basically, it takes about four or five hours to fire pottery. We should be able to start the furnace at about five or six in the afternoon, and then let the kiln cool down for about an hour. That is to say, we can put the pottery at seven o'clock at the latest. Take it out."

If the temperature is not lowered, the kiln must be dismantled, which is not in line with her sustainable development route.

Although the five earthen kilns are built with mud and are not very durable, they can still be fired several times.

in the live room.

"Suggest Su Meng the whole Tang Sancai in the future"

"It's crazy, I don't believe this is a wilderness survival show, it must be a wilderness construction show!"

"No way, no way, no one really thinks that Su Da's vase can be fired successfully."

"Hi everyone, I'm Sima Guang, and my hobby is tank smashing"

"Tang Sancai, porcelain is porcelain, pottery is pottery, it's different"

"Why burn charcoal? Do you want to grill skewers?"

"Ah, my brother is so pitiful, he has been working hard, and I feel sorry for my brother, woo woo woo"

"Set fire to the bottom of the prison to learn more about it"

"Smoke in the forest fined [-], please settle the bill"

"I'm the only one who thinks that the charcoal kiln needs a barbecue grill?"

"I can't remember my notes"

"Su Meng's group of landing points is really great. It's the beach, the grassland, and now the pine forest. Is it true that she has encountered all the good things by herself?"

"Tsk, so sour"

"..."

Su Meng rested for a while, seeing that it was still early enough for her to go to the pine forest again, so she strode into the forest with her back on her back.

There was still not enough firewood.

She had to collect some more pine cones, pitch, and firewood.

When dusk fell, Su Meng carried two bundles of firewood on her shoulders, a barrel of pine resin on her waist, and a basket of pine towers on her back, and she appeared at the camp sweating profusely.

"You're finally back. Why have you been away for so long? If you don't come back, we'll go in and look for you." As soon as Du Jiayue saw Su Meng, she hurried over to help her unload the firewood and straps from her body. Still muttering all the time, with a bit of concern and worry.

"It took a while to build the pine tower." Su Meng smiled and looked at Su Xiang.

She happened to meet Su Xiang's eyes, so Su Xiang snorted coldly, turned his head away from her, and continued to prepare dinner.

But Su Meng was still keenly aware that Su wanted to breathe a sigh of relief.

What an awkward kid.

The night completely enveloped the island, and the chirping of insects and mosquitoes could be heard endlessly, mixed with some strange roars of animals and birds from time to time.

At this time, Su Meng was scraping sawdust with a hatchet.

Du Jiayue, who saw this scene, leaned over and looked curious: "Mengmeng, why are you scraping sawdust? To make fire starters?"

She knows that sawdust is a good kindling material. In the wilderness tutorials she watched, many bigwigs used sawdust as a primer to drill wood to make fire.

Su Meng shook her sore arms, and said with a smile, "We're going to open a kiln later. I just picked up so much turpentine this afternoon, so I plan to make two torches out of sawdust and turpentine."

"Eh? Isn't turpentine alone enough? Wood chips are also added together?" Du Jiayue looked thirsty for knowledge.

"It's not enough. If you just use a wooden stick to dip in turpentine, the torch will burn out quickly. We have a limited amount of turpentine, so we can't help wasting it like this. But if we mix turpentine and sawdust in a certain proportion, it can burn for a long time. This scene is also very common in film and television dramas, but they use cloth and grease, we don’t have that luxury, so we can only keep everything simple.”

"Mengmeng, you are so amazing, why do you know everything?" Just as Du Jiayue was saying rainbow farts, Su Xiang brought today's dinner to the table.

Dinner was as simple as ever——

A dish of fried rabbit with fungus, a dish of fried venison with slate mushrooms, a pot of fish soup with wild vegetables, and five pieces of grilled fish golden on both sides.

Su Meng, who smelled the fragrance, immediately dropped the wood and hatchet and ran to wash his hands, then sat on the armchair obediently and waited for everyone to eat together.

This is also the default rule and etiquette of the five people. No matter how hungry they are, they have to wait until everyone is at the table before using chopsticks to eat.

When the five of them had enough to eat and drink, and were lazily resting on their chairs, a gust of mountain wind blew by, causing the bonfire in the hut to flicker a few times.

Du Jiayue shivered, and suddenly said, "Mengmeng, did we forget to take a shower today?"

It's so cold now, if I take a cold shower again, I'm sure I'll catch a cold.

So she had to go to sleep today smelling like sweat? !
(End of this chapter)