Mountain Wild Clouds

Chapter 34 Burning Pottery, Stir-frying Tea

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When he woke up the next morning, Yun Buliu was already fully engaged in today's life without the need for the little hairball to give him electrotherapy.

Today's goal is to fry tea, dry the tea, and then fire clay pots and cups.But I just chopped the firewood yesterday, so it is definitely useless. I still have to go to the forest to find some dry firewood.

After the meat was stewed, he went to the woods behind the high cliff and brought back a large bundle of dry firewood. The water in the clay pot had just boiled for a short time.

He planned to exercise for a while and come back for breakfast later.

Let’s start with a sprint of 5000 meters. The distance of 5000 meters seems to be a long way, but on this piece of greenery, it means running back and forth ten laps along the mountain wall outside the cave.

With his current sprint speed, he can basically complete the task in 4 minutes.

Under the frantic sprint, his heart was beating violently, stimulating his body crazily, but it did not exceed the load on his body, it just made him feel a little dizzy, his breathing was like pulling a bellows, and the uncomfortable feeling crazily stimulated his nerves , but he still endured it.

Over the past few days, he has stimulated himself in this way from time to time, and he is used to it.

After resting for 3 minutes, waiting for his heartbeat to gradually calm down, he began to do push-ups, squats and jumps in place again. He didn't stop until he was dizzy from exhaustion, and then he had this dizzy feeling of vomiting , doing ligament stretching.

This kind of exercise that breaks the limit is actually very easy to hurt the body, but Yun Buliu feels that his body has mutated, and at worst he will give the hairball a few more electric shocks for treatment.

When the stretching is over, call the little hairball over and tell him to perform electric shock therapy.

After lying on the ground and convulsing for a few minutes, he got up looking refreshed.

This is basically what the little furball has to go through every morning, so now there is no need for Yun Buliu to shake its tail.

After breakfast, he moved the dried earthen pots, earthen cups, earthen stove, etc. to the small pit where the pottery was originally fired, spread the prepared hay to the bottom of the pit, and then put the earthen products on it.

After stuffing the earthenware with hay, add a pile of dry firewood outside, then cover the dry firewood with hay, paste a layer of mud on it, and seal it up.

He didn't seal the ignition port until the fire was burning to Dawang.

After returning to the cave, he put the green tea leaves into bamboo baskets, filled the largest pottery pot with plant ash, carried it to the lake to wash off the grease in the pot with plant ash.

After washing, he carried a clay pot of water back to the cave, poured out the water that had been in the stone mortar for two days, poured the water in the pot into the stone mortar, and lit the stove.

After the water in the clay pot was dried up, he put his hand into the pot, felt the temperature in the pot, and then removed the firewood, leaving behind the charcoal fire.

After feeling the temperature inside the pot again, he poured part of the green tea in the bamboo basket into the clay pot, and stirred it in the pot with a bamboo slice.

Not long after, the sound of crackling came from the clay pot, and at the same time, there was a unique fragrance of tea, and a little bit.

This step is also the finishing step in hand-fried tea. The purpose is to use high temperature to remove the green gas in the tea, so that the fragrance of the tea can be released slowly.

After frying the green tea until it felt almost cooked, he used rabbit skin to cushion the wall of the pottery pot, poured the green tea that was fried in the pot onto the deerskin, and spread it out to cool.

But the buckskin is too small, it's okay when it's cold and green, so it doesn't matter.

However, the green tea that has just been fried is not enough.

At this time, the heat in the green tea must be dissipated, otherwise the green tea will turn red and the taste will be bad.So he had no choice but to stop for a while, fork the tea green with both hands, lift it up, and let it go, letting the tea green fall naturally on the deerskin, so as to make the tea green evaporate faster.

In this way, when he finished frying all the green tea, it was already more than an hour later.

After the cooked tea is almost cool, put all the tea on a piece of deerskin and rub the tea with your hands. This is the second step of frying tea, kneading.

Kneading can also be divided into cold kneading and hot kneading, but the tea leaves picked by Yunbuliu are relatively tender, so it is better to use cold kneading, that is, kneading after cooling, so that it is not easy to form debris.

The process of kneading is to knead the tea juice in the tea leaves, soak the surface of the tea leaves, increase the taste of the tea leaves, and make them easier to soak.

At the same time, this also reduces the volume of tea leaves, making them easier to store.

The third step is drying, drying and natural drying.

Drying requires drying tools, so the best thing to do is sun dry.

Yunbuliu is no stranger to fried tea, as there are many tea hills in his hometown.

Wrap the kneaded tea leaves in deerskin, and spread the tea leaves on the deerskin to dry before taking them to the cave.

Because the area of ​​the deerskin is not large enough, it can only be spread thicker.

In this way, it is estimated that it will take a few more days to dry.

After drying the tea leaves, it's time to prepare lunch again.

After lunch, he took a short rest and went outside the cave to dry the tea leaves.

Then take the wild boar's tusks and prepare to start cutting bamboo to build a bamboo house.

He has never built a bamboo house before, so he has no idea, he can only imagine that it will be done in the way of building a house with earth and wood tiles.Of course, he has never built a wooden tile house, but he has seen it, because there are many wooden tile houses in his hometown, and the one in his house has a history of more than [-] years.

The older one has a history of more than 200 years, but their house only occupies one room, because it was handed down from the generation of the wife, and it is no longer habitable.

Building a wooden house requires the use of wooden tips, tenons, etc., as well as axes, planers, and so on.

For Yunbuliu, these are too complicated and cumbersome.

Moreover, he still lacks tools, how difficult it is to make a bamboo house.

But he wasn't worried, and he wasn't in a hurry. If it didn't work out, he could continue to live in the cave.

He wanted to build a bamboo house just to improve his living environment.At the same time, it is also a challenge to your own hands-on ability and to give yourself a sense of accomplishment.

Otherwise, he could go exploring in the mountains and forests and fight those beasts.

Of course, he will do this kind of thing in the future.Now he had to practice again, lest he would be too frightened to move when he encountered some more powerful beasts, his muscles would become stiff, and his head would plummet.

He experienced this most profoundly when he met the giant leopard.

He plans to build a stilted building, cover [-]%, the second floor will be used as a bedroom, the first floor will be used as a hall and kitchen, and even a storage room for sundries.

The hanging feet can be raised higher, and a terrace can be built, and two simple bamboo chairs can be placed on the terrace for reclining.

Then lie on the bamboo chair on the terrace, drink tea, smell the fragrance, watch the stars and the moon...

Thinking of this kind of leisurely life, he felt a burst of comfort.

And this kind of life needs to be created by himself.

With tea, incense, bamboo buildings, bamboo chairs and tables, etc., he still needs to work hard.

Silently writing the manuscript in my heart, I ran to the bamboo and picked the three largest bamboos, with a diameter of fifteen to six centimeters and a height of more than twenty meters. I scraped along the bottom with wild boar's fangs.

After scraping off the three bamboos, removing the branches, and carrying them back to the grass in front of the cave, Yun Buliu cut off a bamboo stake about 1.5 meters long from the bottom of one of the largest bamboos.

He scraped the bottom of the bamboo post with wild boar's tusks, and then used a wooden stick to pierce all the bamboo joints inside the bamboo post, turning it into a hollow bamboo tube about 1.5 meters long.

Next, he needs to choose a place to build a bamboo house.

(End of this chapter)