Qi Jiuli searched for a few pieces of wood that had been buried in the brazier before, picked it up with tongs, and broke it with a little force.

"Isn't this just gray?" Qi Shiyi said bluntly as he looked at the wooden stick that was crushed by the tongs.

Qi Jiuli twitched the corner of his mouth and couldn't resist it. It was really ashes, but Qi Jiuli didn't give up. Then he searched. Finally, after two more failures, he grabbed a piece of wood about the length of two fingers. He used some force, but it didn't break, but just fell off some black and gray. Hehe, Qi Jiuli was a little happy, it was done.

Qi Qizhu looked at Qi Jiuli's series of operations and saw some of her reputation, "Jiuli, didn't you say you wanted to use water before? Why is it useless?"

"Then let's get some water." Qi Jiuli replied.

Qi Qizhu went to the utility room to get a wooden bucket, and also took an old straw mat, scooped half of the bucket of water from the water tank with a scoop, and carried it to the edge of the stove to put it in.

Qi Jiuli came out of the stove with red wood, buried some in the pile of ashes, and put some into the bucket.

"Wao--" The sound of hot and cold meetings. When the wood in the water disappeared from Mars, Qi Jiuli grabbed the wood and put it on the straw mat.

Looking at the black wood stained with water on the straw mat, Qi Qizhu laughed, "Jiuli, you have made up your mind to wash your hair today, right?"

Qi Qizhu still remembers that Qi Jiuli said before that charcoal stained with water must be dried, which means it cannot be used before drying. Looking at the pot of ash and the fiery red wood that Qi Jiuli buried in from time to time, Qi Qizhu didn’t understand anything else.

Qi Jiuli looked at Qi Qizhu pitifully, "Brother, I feel uncomfortable, it smells bad."

He also deliberately put his head closer to Qi Qizhu.

"Sister, you haven't acted coquettish for many years. I'm so goosebumps that I'm so stingy." Qi Shiyi rubbed his arms.

Qi Jiuli rolled her eyes. She was called acting coquettish. The child was too young and had never seen him really acting coquettish.

"What meat?" Qi Shixiang walked into the kitchen with surprise on her face, "Does there be meat at home?"

Qi Qizhu looked a little depressed when she heard this, and her eyes felt distressed.

"Second sister, you must know the best whether there is meat at home. Why, are you greedy for meat?" Although Qi Shiyi said that, he couldn't help swallowing his saliva after he said it. It's true, who is not greedy for meat?

"I'm not greedy." Qi Shixiang retorted. She just heard the meat at first, and her first reaction was to nourish her sister. But after asking, she calmed down. Since her mother left, her sister was sad and was quitting by the Yu family. Now she is the food at home, and she knows the food at home. She really knows whether there is meat or not.

Qi Shixiang lifted the lid and carefully put an egg down.

"Wow, egg, second sister, did the hen lay eggs at home today?" Qi Shiyi asked with his eyes lit up.

"No, I only laid two yesterday." Qi Shixiang sighed, "The eggs have to be saved. I will pay back the fifty penny that I owe my uncle's family first. My aunt said that I can pay the eggs, but I can't move them."

"This one was given to my sister by Aunt Tianhua in the morning, so I cooked it for her to nourish her body." Qi Shixiang explained the source of the egg.

"I'll go dig later to see if there are any earthworms. Hens can eat them to lay eggs." Qi Shiyi said.

"I'll go with you." Qi Qizhu said.

"The weather is so cold now that the soil is frozen. Can you dig earthworms?" Qi Jiuli said in surprise.

"It's better to burn more charcoal. Now it's still sold in this weather, but it won't be hotter." Qi Jiuli suggested.

"Can this be sold for money?" Qi Shiyi said at the black wood of different sizes and different lengths on the straw mat, "I see that the charcoal sold in the shops in the town is not like this. It looks much better than this, although the colors are all black."

"Then we just started to tinker with the heat. We are not sure enough. Next, we will get better and better." Qi Jiuli said confidently.

"Sister, how do you know that charcoal comes from this?" Qi Shiyi asked curiously, picked up the black wood soaked in cold water and said, "Sister, you have only been to the town two or three times. Have you ever seen charcoal?"

"How could I know?" Qi Jiuli said innocently, "I don't remember this anymore, but I should have seen it, because I remember that charcoal is black, and I still remember one sentence: charcoal is made of wood, and I don't know who has heard of it."

When I heard that I had been to the town, what else could I do to lie? Qi Jiuli blurted out this lie, without any need to write a script. "You said I have been burning for a few years. How can this wood turn black if it burns, you can't know? Look, that's it."

While Qi Jiuli said, he also searched in the pile of dust and found two pieces of successfully burned charcoal, "Hehe, look better than before."

When Qi Shixiang saw the charcoal that Qi Jiuli had successfully burned, she felt happy. "Sister, teach me how to do it. I will also burn this stove. We will use the water to take a bath, and we will not waste it."

"But sister, why did you need to take out this fire stick like this? That's it?" Qi Shiyi asked, pointing to the brazier and the bucket.

"If this is not the case, the wood will be burned to ashes." Qi Jiuli said naturally, "How to put out the fire? It's just put it in water or in a pile of ashes. In the past, the remaining ash burned in the stove would always bring one or two pieces of wood with sparks. Are they all put in the pile of ashes?"

Qi Shiyi suddenly realized, "Isn't that the only thing I did, I didn't expect that the remaining burned was charcoal. I thought there was too much charcoal."

"It's still amazing. There is a certain technique to burn this charcoal successfully. If it is burned too much, it will turn into ashes. If it is not burned thoroughly, it will still be wood inside." Qi Jiuli said, "We have to try it a few more times and choose the good ones to sell. It's just that we keep burning, which costs firewood."

"My cousin just cut a lot for us. I'll pick up some later." Qi Shiyi said.

"The small ones are not good enough, and they will turn into ashes as soon as they are burned, so they will have to be bigger." Qi Jiuli said.

"I'll go chopping later." Qi Qizhu echoed.

"Brother, you hold a pen in your hand, where..."

Before Qi Shixiang could finish her words, she was interrupted by Qi Qizhu. "Hands are used to work. Can't you hold a pen after working?"

"I used to be studying. I didn't have as much work as you do at home. I will do more work at home in the future." Qi Qizhu's eyes were firm. His parents had already left. He was the eldest son and the oldest in the family. This should be the case.

"But you can't be distracted by studying. If you care about your work, you will have less time to study. How can you take the exam for a scholar?" Qi Shixiang said worriedly.

"It doesn't take much time to chop wood." Qi Qizhu touched Qi Shixiang's hair and smiled, "Don't worry, you don't have any conflicts between working and studying, I know."
Chapter completed!