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Chapter 118 Sealing the kiln

He held Qingcai and pulled Tan Dasha's clothes in and walked in: "Let's go, Dasha, go in first. Your sister-in-law is cooking tea, drink a few cups of hot tea before entering the mountain. The boy from Qingshan has just gotten up, so you don't need to go so early."

After entering the room, the kitchen was filled with a warm stove.

Wu Cuimei sat on a small stool beside the stove, holding a tea hammer. When she saw Tan Dasha coming into the house, she showed a warm smile like the stove fire: "Dasha, why are you so early? We just got up."

Tan Dasha sat down and replied: "My mother said I was working slowly and asked me to get up early and go into the mountain early, so I got up before dawn."

"Uncle Dasha, you don't have to get up so early in the future." Liu Qingshan walked in from the side door of the courtyard, holding a plate of chopped green onions and a plate of coriander in his hand. These were all brought in by Tan Dasha yesterday morning.

He put two plates of ingredients on the table and sat down: "You are so tired during the day, so you can sleep a few more hours at night and have a good rest. It doesn't matter. You will wait until dawn before getting up. There is no need to work so hard."

"Yes." Liu Yuanhe echoed, "Damn it, I'm not bragging. I've been hardworking than you a few years ago, but in these few years, my body can't do it anymore, so this person should pay attention to rest."

"Dasha, you haven't married yet. Don't work so hard, otherwise you will feel tired and regretful in the future." Wu Cuimei also advised.

Listening to the care of Liu Qingshan and his family of three, Tan Dasha was not very smart, but his heart was warm.

However, he can't speak, he will just smile foolishly.

Seeing him laugh, the other three laughed.

Oil tea is ready.

Today's oil tea is as ordinary as before. However, this is for Liu Qingshan's family. For Tan Dasha, it is really a luxury to have both chopped green onion, coriander, fried rice, peanuts, and biscuits.

Liu Qingshan took a spoon and divided the green onions into each bowl. When he was assigned to the last bowl, he looked at Tan Dasha and asked, "Uncle Dasha, do you want green onions?"

"Yeah, I want it."

"Do you want cilantro?"

"want."

"Do you want peanuts?"

"want."

"Where are fried rice and rice cakes?"

"No." Tan Dasha shook his head, "My mother said that you should not eat too much food when you work in the mountains, otherwise you will have to drink water and delay your efforts."

Seeing Tan Dasha talking so hard that he was serious, Liu Qingshan couldn't help but smile and add some fried rice and rice cakes to his bowl: "It's okay, Uncle Dasha, the workload today is not big, I guess I can finish the work before noon, so it doesn't matter if I eat more."

Before noon, the two did put all the wild wood they carried back yesterday into the charcoal kiln. However, the next work made both of them difficult.

"What should I do?" Tan Dasha looked at the mountain with only wild trees and weeds around and couldn't help but shout, "Why do you have any stones? How can you seal the hole?"

After Liu Qingshan put the last piece of wood into the charcoal kiln, he also looked around: "Do you have to use stones? Can't you just seal it with wood?"

"Of course not, it must be a stone. Only stones can withstand high temperatures."

"That's right." Liu Qingshan smiled. Everyone said that Tan Da was stupid, but in fact he was not stupid. He knew that wood was not resistant to high temperatures, while stones were resistant to high temperatures.

"Then let's go around the surroundings. Each of us took a snakeskin bag and put it back after finding the stone." Liu Qingshan said.

"Okay, I'll go here."

"Then I'll go there."

The two of them acted separately and walked towards the side of the mountain.

Stones are still very common in the mountains. Although there are not as many stones in the sandy mountains as in the stone mountains, they are not small. However, suitable stones are hard to find.

Fortunately, the two of them worked together and within a short while, they found many large and small stones.

With stones, the next work will be easier.

First dig a sunken trench at the entrance of the charcoal cave, then fill it with a layer of stone, and knock it down with a hoe to keep the surface of the stone flat with the surface of the hole, and there are no edges and corners protruding from the ground.

Afterwards, the wall was built with the picked stone on the stone foundation according to the method of building the wall.

Although it is just burning charcoal, the stone wall must not be careless. It must not only be firm, but also have good sealing properties.

If it is not solid, the stones will be poured inside when the kiln is opened, and the damage will be charcoal.

If the sealing is not good, smoke may leak at the hole, which will be bad for the charring of the wood.

Therefore, this stone door must be built firmly and sealed.

Of course, no matter how sealed the stone door is, it cannot be said that the wind is not clear at all. Therefore, after the stone door is lifted, you must use the sand and soil dug out to face it outside the stone door, so that the sand and soil completely cover the stone door. The thicker the sand, the better.

However, sand and soil can be stacked like stones, so if you want to pile up these sand and soil, you need to use wood.

A wooden door is reserved at the outermost edge of the cave entrance. While stacking the horizontal stems of wood on the ground one after another, sand and soil are filled in between the wood and the stone. After the sand and soil completely submerge the stone on the inside, the wood is completely wrapped around the sand and soil. Then, the work of the kiln sealing is completed.

Then, a fire was created.

This job does not require two people to do, so Tan Dasha stayed to burn the fire, while Liu Qingshan went to clear the land while cutting down wild trees.

At his speed and strength, if he specializes in cutting wild wood, it will not take a day to cut all the wild wood needed for a kiln of charcoal.

However, this requires both land reclamation and wild wood cutting, so the speed is naturally not that fast.

Refining land and cutting wild trees seem to be the same thing, but their nature is different.

Cutting wild trees is to selectively cut down some trees as thick as arms, but it is different to clear the land. No matter how big or small it is, whether it is a tree, shrub or weed, all of them must be cut off.

After cutting off all the wild wood shrubs and weeds on this piece of land, we will dry the plants in the field in the dry and scorching sun in winter, and then choose a rainy day to burn them all, then the land reclamation work will be completed.

While Liu Qingshan was driving the wasteland, he occasionally glanced at his father.

Seeing that my father was abnormal today and hadn't looked at his cell phone for a long time, Liu Qingshan couldn't help but jokingly at his father from afar: "Dad, have you been kicked out of the group chat? Why didn't you see you playing with your cell phone today?"

Liu Yuanhe was attacking a stolen Nogi, and while waving his hatchet, he replied: "Why do you talk so much? Can't you cut down your tree well?"

I really don’t have any eyesight. With your father and me, I’m so good at playing with me, are they willing to kick me?

Liu Yuanhe did not look at his phone today because he was abnormal. He mainly felt that his wife and son were right yesterday.

This time, the wasteland was opened, and orange trees were planted, and the orange trees were formed into a forest. That face was his face, and no one would snatch it from him.

In this case, of course, the sooner this great work is completed, the better.

In this way, you can brag early if you are awesome.

However, Liu Yuanhe also found it strange. He looked back at Tan Dasha, who was carrying a large wood as thick as a man, and then looked back at his son, asking, "Qingshan, has the charcoal kiln been sealed?"

"Sealed."

"Then why don't you burn the fire with Dasha?"

"You didn't teach me about burning fire before, and I can't. It's just that I'm in a way that I stayed there."

"Qingshan, it's not me who said you. Since you and Dasha are burning charcoal together, you can't leave Dasha and work alone. You said you are so old, why don't you understand anything?"

"Yoyo yoyo." Liu Qingshan looked at his father with a funny face, "Who said that Dasan took advantage of me last night? Oh, after only one night, someone's thoughts changed 180 degrees. It's really strange."

This made Liu Yuanhe's old face tense, and he stared at his son and said, "Who said that? You must have heard it wrong. Don't slander people."

If Tan Dasha listens to such words, it will be detrimental to unity.

Liu Qingshan smiled and said, "I didn't say it was you. Why are you so anxious? Besides, I am opening up the land on the surface, but in fact I am also preparing wood for the second kiln charcoal."

Only then did Liu Yuanhe straighten up and look clearly in his son's direction.

It was true that after this kid came up for a while, he actually cut down a large area of ​​wild wood.

Seeing that the results of my busy work for most of the day were as much as my son's, Liu Yuanhe suddenly felt that he was really old.

However, he didn't care. Anyway, his son would help open up the land, so he just did it slowly.
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