Don't mess with that dragon

Chapter 114 Brick Making
"Get to work, you slackers!"

"Pick up all the mud that's been made, damn Cell, hurry up!"

"Okay, put all the mud bricks in, light the fire, hurry up, if you don't burn enough bricks today, get out of here and sleep in thatched huts!"

Not far from the Dragon's Nest Tribe, somewhere beside a river, a lame kobold stood on a high place, directing a group of orcs to work with great arrogance.

On the bank not far from the river, a hill of yellow soil texture has been reclaimed, and a square quagmire was dug out. A large amount of yellow soil on the edge of the hill was dug out and put into the quagmire. An orc carried water and poured it into the quagmire, and then several tall orcs stomped back and forth in the quagmire.

It didn't take long for the soil to be stirred into lumps of mud.

And the orcs not far away came over and moved the mixed mud in batches to a simple workshop not far away. Dough-like mud balls are stuffed into a rectangular brick module composed of four planks, and squeezed hard on it, filling every gap in the brick module with soil, and then picking up the wood chips to remove the soil protruding outside the brick module After scraping, throw away the excess soil, then turn the module full of soil over, with the vacant side facing the ground, lift the wooden module up, and a brick made of clay will appear on the table superior.

With the rapid production of the orc craftsmen covered in mud, a large number of prototypes of bricks appeared on the side soon.

Then another team of orcs came over, took the bricks away, and put them in a distant space to dry.

Then another team of orcs put the dried bricks into a brick furnace not far away, and fired them with wood or charcoal. After a day or two of burning, they finally cooled down and took them out. Furnaces can be used as red bricks for buildings.

That's right, the lame kobold is directing the orcs to burn bricks.

Long before this, the goblins' manufacturing workshops had successfully fired bricks according to Austin's description, and in order to prevent fires, Austin ordered the orcs to start renovating the houses of the Dragon's Nest Tribe, replacing them with brick and grass-wood structures. A house made entirely of grass and wood.

It's just that this reconstruction project consumes too many human resources, and the reconstruction work can only be done step by step. The entire reconstruction work has not been completed until today.

Although the cold winter is approaching and the human resources of various departments are very tight, it is also very important to build enough houses before the cold winter arrives. Therefore, the number of people on the side of burning bricks has not decreased because of this, but Received a lot of human support from the tribe.

Burning bricks is not a difficult job. After the goblins in the manufacturing workshop reproduced this brick-burning technique, they handed it over to other orcs. Now the lame kobold is in charge of this aspect.

"Hurry up hurry up!"

With the cold winter approaching, coupled with the sudden increase in the population of 800 in the Longchao tribe, although the Dragonchao tribe has undergone continuous expansion, it is difficult for the sudden increase in population to squeeze out enough houses for living. In terms of work, the deadline is very tight.

Fortunately, when the smoke tower was built to recruit people, the dragon nest orcs burned a lot of charcoal on the hill where the smoke tower was located, and the fuel problem was solved to a certain extent. Otherwise, if they had to go out to cut wood, then It's even more troublesome.

"Uncle Ge, the teacher asked us to bring you drinking water."

Not long after, a few young orcs walked over with difficulty carrying a half-human-height wooden barrel with a lid, and the leader was the kobold who had grown to half-human height. nina.

"Okay, let's all stop and take a break."

Looking at the skylight overhead, the lame kobold felt that he had been working long enough, so he announced a break.

The entire tense team then loosened up and gathered in twos and threes in the open space. Nina quickly assigned her companions to distribute the wooden bowls to the tired orcs, and then used a spoon to pour the soup in the wooden bucket into it .

All of a sudden, the whole open space was filled with the sound of drinking water.

The soup that Nina and her companions brought was not simply boiled water. It added a kind of fruit the size of a peppercorn that could precipitate white salt grains on the surface after ripening. The main source of salt for orcs.

With the increase of the orcs in the Dragon Nest tribe, the demand for salt fruit is gradually increasing. Therefore, after collecting the salt fruit, the orcs will even remove the weeds around the salt fruit tree, cut down the surrounding trees, and loosen the fruit by the way. Loosen the soil and apply some fertilizer, in the hope that in the future they will be more lush and produce more salt fruits.

At the same time, Pooh also plans to open up a forest and plant salt fruit trees in it, but it takes too long for the salt fruit trees to grow, and in the end they have to plant a little bit, just like those blood-red fruits that Austin found in the blood wolf's lair. The core of the fruit is average, and there is no need to manage it after planting.

After the salt fruit is boiled in water, it becomes a kind of brine with light sour and salty interlacing. The salty brine is very important for restoring physical strength.

Burning bricks is a physical job, and the orcs who sweat a lot are best supplemented with salt water.

"Little Nina, do you usually listen to what the teacher says?"

The lame kobold was sitting on a piece of wood, when Nina handed over the wooden bowl and touched her head with rough hands.

In the Dragon Nest tribe, newborn orcs and orc children are managed by an independent department. This is because their parents are usually responsible for work and cannot spend too much time on the children. It is to organize all the young children of the Dragon Nest tribe together, and be managed by several orc aunts.

Those orc aunts not only manage a group of orc cubs, but also teach them various survival skills, simple knowledge, and simple cultural knowledge that Austin needs to popularize. Of course, more are practical activities, helping the tribe to do what they can Things, such as leading a team to deliver soup today.

Even if this kind of system is placed in the entire Kava Forest, it is a pioneering work that has never appeared before. Therefore, the orcs follow the name of Austin and call the orc aunts who manage the young children teachers.

"Of course I'm obedient, the teacher praised me yesterday, and Uncle Ge, can you stop touching Nina's head, I heard that children will not grow tall if they are often touched!"

Nina pursed her mouth in dissatisfaction, but still handed the wooden bowl full of soup to the lame kobold.

"Hahaha"

Listening to Nina's innocent words, all the orcs present burst out laughing, and the exhaustion from the previous work was swept away, and the entire open space fell into a sea of ​​joy.

　In fact, the kind of fruit that will precipitate salt is not fabricated. The author often saw it when he was living in the country when he was a child, and he often picked it and ate it. At that time, there were barren mountains and wild ridges everywhere, and many wild fruits were available. , but later the surrounding hills were entrusted to those big bosses, and after all the eucalyptus trees were burned, many things disappeared.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)