Desert Island Survival Diary

Chapter 165 No.90 Two days in full swing

"Little Yezi, bring the knife here..." Brother Qian yelled loudly, the yard is now a scene of prosperity, and everyone is busy.

I'm putting the tile embryos into the stove. Brother Qian and Qingchen Ye are building earthen stoves and chimneys in their tree house. At 01:30, they are weaving the branch boards. Mi Dakang and Ying Yuefeng are picking up stones with an axe. I have already told them the specific route, the hill is not very far from here, it is enough for the two of them to go with plastic baskets.

My idea yesterday was very good, none of the tortoises ran away, and they lived very well in this enclosed place, but the speed of their feeding surprised us. Looking at the speed of their feeding now, it may not take three days. One day, the grass in this fence will be almost eaten.This amount of food is simply amazing!
Even so, no matter how big the appetite is, it is not difficult to get some grass. Early this morning, Brother Qian dug a small hole for the tortoises, added some water, and made the tortoises happy. , They all rushed into this small puddle to drink water and take a bath...

I am not afraid of this kind of weather. I am afraid of rain. I don’t know if these tortoises like dry places. After discussing with Brother Qian, we reached a consensus. , Build a small shed for them. If they like to hide in a dry place when it rains, then the small shed is their best choice.

What is worth mentioning is that brother Qian and the others went to see the trap that was made yesterday, and it turned out to be intact without any harvest. The wild boar seems to have received news these days, and has never seen a shadow.

The tile embryos were placed in the furnace one by one. Before lighting the fire, I came to the front of Brother Qian’s tree house and measured the total number of tiles needed with the tiles that had been fired before. I almost collapsed later, the first batch of tiles is already very big, but if you want to install all the tiles on the roof of their tree house, you need at least more than 100 tiles!
You must know that I can only fire more than ten tiles at a time. If I add my tree house, it will be more than 200 tiles, and I have to fire at least eighteen times. This number almost scared me to stop. Knowing that these ten times of firing are not something ordinary people can bear, not to mention the high temperature that needs to be endured during firing, and the preparation work, the making and drying of tile embryos will take a long time...

Maybe I have been standing in front of their tree house for a long time, Ye Qingchen came to ask after seeing it: "Brother Luo, what's wrong?"

"Oh, it's okay, I just calculated the total number of tiles needed, and it seems to be a lot more than I imagined!" I looked at the roof and said lightly.

"Brother Luo, does it cost more than a hundred dollars?" Brother Qian also heard the conversation between Ye Qingchen and me, so he also came over.

"Yeah, the two tree houses add up to more than 200 yuan, and my stove can only put more than ten yuan at a time. Maybe I need to expand this kiln." Maybe this is the only way to speed up the progress.

"No need, brother Luo, we will be done with these things tomorrow, and then we can dig a bigger one, and it will be fine if you can burn 50 yuan at a time. It's not a big deal, and you don't need it." Worry, I don't think it will rain in a short time. "

"I hope, if it rains, it will be troublesome." Shaking my head, I walked to the stove, and I had to fire it quickly. By the way, I will make more tiles when the weather is good. First, I can start the furnace Non-stop firing.

Maybe Brother Qian's work is almost done, and the rest will have to wait for Mi Dakang and the others to bring back the stones before starting work again, so I asked Ye Qingchen to help me with the work first.It was a coincidence that I came at this time, I was lighting a fire, so I asked Ye Qingchen to help split five small tree trunks to dry the tile embryos.

At first he was inexperienced, and he wanted to use a knife to split the trunks from the top, but this method was too stupid to be suitable at all.So I crawled out of the pit and started teaching him.

Put the tall small tree into the pit first, so that one end is just right on Ye Qingchen's chest, and then split the trunk a little bit with a knife.Afterwards, as long as you put a pebble or small stone in the split gap, hit it hard with the back of the knife, and when the gap is bigger, find a branch to stick into the gap. Big enough to have been able to divide this trunk into two pieces.

After watching my operation, Ye Qingchen suddenly realized, and began to feel eager to try. He was still a little unskilled at the beginning. When he came, he split the tree a little crookedly. symmetry.

It was only when I knew how to split the fifth tree trunk that I started to become proficient. This method is very simple to say, but as long as you have seen it, you will know that it is not so easy, because each tap consumes a lot of energy. With a lot of physical strength, you have to beat hard every time, so that the stuck branches can go down all the way, and try to maintain an even force use to make the split trunk more symmetrical.

The fire in the earth stove is getting hotter and hotter, and the temperature is getting higher and higher. I started to add firewood repeatedly in and out of the earth pit like last time. After firing for nearly two hours, I saw Midakon and Ying Yuefeng also came back.

Ye Qingchen had already chopped four small tree trunks. After resting for a while, he started to make tile embryos according to the method I taught him.The matching efficiency of the two is more than a little bit higher.There is still a lot of soil from the termite nests I got last time, and I can make at least two or 30 yuan tile embryos.

This time the firing seemed to be going smoothly. The last time there was a popping sound in the furnace at this time, it should be the sound of tiles breaking, but this time there was no sound. I hope it can be maintained.

A few hours passed, and the temperature in the stove was already very high. Ye Qingchen, who was still some distance away from the stove, was sweating from the heat wave, let alone me.Thinking of enjoying this kind of sauna-like feeling, I can't help but collapse a little. I really hope that there is a big stove to fire it once and it will be the best.But it's impossible, I also thought about it, if the stove is too big, the temperature of the firewood after burning may not reach the firing temperature.All can only think about it.

The notebook mentioned the method of making charcoal. I have read that the process is cumbersome and takes a lot of time. The most important thing is that the amount that can be obtained is not very large, and it cannot be used to burn tiles at all, so charcoal has to wait until later. Free it up and do it again.

(End of this chapter)