Chapter 048 Cub Ayun

On the first night in the Huoyan Tribe, the Patriarch Caogen thought that she would think about a lot of things and was so nervous that she couldn't sleep, but the truth is...When she lay on the kang where the big stove was turned off after nightfall, there was still remaining warmth, she just remembered.After dinner, the delicious lamb bone soup dish went to sleep.

No matter how poweful a snow werewol is, it's not hard as an ironman. Patriarch Caoigen over the age of seventy led her tribe on the road for a whole day and night, and worked hard to make food for a hundred people, and she hasn't energy to think about it too much. ...　　

In her sleep, she doesn't know how time has passed. The Patriarch Caogen who was sleeping sweetly was suddenly awakened by the ear-piercing magic sound, and sat up in panic with his eyelids, but saw that… the other people who slept in the same room were not as flustered as they were. On the contrary, they yawned calmly and went down to the heatable bed. The Patriarch Huoyan next to her still talked to her in a natural way: "Thank you for having you here, I didn't need to be awakened again in the middle of the night last night. Sleeping much more comfortably." 　　

Patriarch Caogen: "...?" 　　

The bewildered Patriarch Caogen followed the Patriarch Huoyan. The stone bonfire on the outer square was already on fire, and five large iron pots lined up. The cubs and manuls of the Huoyan Tribe are already holding the pottery bowl to scoop food there.　　

"Come on, Patriarch Caogen, eat a bowl of work in the morning and be energetic." 　　

The Patriarch Hoyan took two bowls and handed one of them over. The Patriarch Caogen took a look and found that the bowl was filled with the soup that I had eaten last night. There were a lot of enoki mushrooms, radishes and green vegetables. There were a lot of deposited noodles at the bottom of the bowl.

"Before there were few people, you could eat wheat cakes in the morning, but now there are too many people and it's too late to make wheat cakes, so everyone just use noodle soup to make do with it." The cub who was copying a large spoonful of food shouted to the person who reached for the wheat cakes. Explain, the others are fine, the grassroots patriarchs who came after this wave have a dim, and honestly bow their heads to drink the noodle soup. Not to mention, the noodles boiled in the reused lamb bone soup are really delicious, but the portion is a little bit smaller, and it always feels like it's still not enough.　　

Patriarch Caogen snorted the noodle soup cleanly, licked the bowl once, and the rabbit Xi came up to collect the pottery bowl. A little bit reluctant to give the pottery bowl to manuls, Patriarch Caogen turned his head to look at chief Huoyan, waiting to hear his words to arrange work, but he didn't expect... Patriarch Huoyan waved at her and walked outside, there was no work arranged at all. Meaning; Patriarch Caogen was surprised, and quickly looked at other people, only to see... his own people had been yelled to take out, and even Yu was one of the leaders.

"There is no need to arrange the work? Or is it already arranged? When I didn't know it?" The Patriarch Caogen was instinctively uneasy. The people in her stupefied a while square had all been taken out as if they were urging, and only the manuls were left to clean the battlefield there, she had no choice but to quickly follow in the footsteps of Patriarch Huoyan.

The two patriarchs went straight to the sheep pen one after the other, the fire patriarch picked a ram and pulled it out, and by the way introduced the experience to the new grassroots patriarch: "We don't have to keep so many rams in the flock now. The unmarked rams were sifted by the rabbits and can be killed and eaten. The cattle and sheep you brought are now locked at the other end. They have not been sifted, so they can't be killed first. Let's talk about the ones that can be killed here."

Patriarch Caogen was stunned. When did the Snow Werewolf eat or not eat the sheep, it was the rabbit's turn to take care of: "Screening? What to screen for?"

"It's the wool on the sheep. The inner layer of fluff grows better and is much longer to be used as a breeding sheep, and the less fluffy ones are eaten." 　　

Patriarch Caogen: "...?" 　　

Took the ram back. In the tribe, Huo Yan motioned to Grassroots to help him hold the sheep, and placed an open earthenware pot under the sheep's neck, and cut the throat with a gleaming steel weapon; while pressing the sheep's head to let blood, Huo Yan also licked his lips, happy The ground explained to the grass roots: "Lamb's blood is put in some salt, cut into blood clots and boiled in lamb bone broth. It is delicious. It is better than sheep's offal. Unfortunately, there is not much blood in a lamb. It can only be used to kill the lamb time we can eat a little bit." 　　

Caogen: "..." 　　

"Lamb blood and haggards are given priority to our older and cubs. Although they are small, we can get them. Don't worry." Huo Yan thought she was worried about not having to eat.　　

Caogen: "..." 　　

The ram was slaughtered here, and the two big stoves have been burned by the manuls over there and the iron pot racks have been set up. Huo Yan held the goat's blood to add salt, and several adult rabbits brought out the iron pan filled with hot water together.

Caogen can't even look at the manuls who are only on her chest doing heavy work. She hurried over to help lift the iron pan; the manuls smiled at her, and they all drew out their cold and gleaming fine iron weapons--iron kitchen knifes, and skillfully drew the sheep open the intestines and break the belly, take the sheep offal and wash it with hot water, peel off the skin, cut off the mutton fat, cut off the thicker fat layer on the belly of the sheep, sort the wool on the sheepskin... The operation of slaughter is dazzling Caogen's eyes, she can't help but she showed a shocked expression of "There are so many tricks to slaughter a sheep."

　　When the manuls were struggling to divide the ram into two, Caogen hurried to help... the strength of the manuls were not enough for an adult snow werewolf.　　

The mutton was divided into two halves, and the two rabbits carried them to the lower reaches of the canal for soaking. The rest of the manuls washed the sheep's offal and went out to work with others. Caogen is the same as yesterday, fighting with Huoyan with more than two hundred kilograms of flour...　　

First time meeting is at stranger, but the second time would be familiar, the efficiency of making wheat bread of Caogen has increased a lot this time. Of course, tired still very tired... will be very big. After putting the wheat cakes in the steamer, Caogen rested against the wall, and her eyes turned to the pottery pots with clean fillings, thoughtfully.

The weight of an adult ram is about 200 kilograms, and the meat obtained is only 300 kilograms after the hair is removed and the bones are removed. With this amount of meat, even the tribesmen of their own tribe can only eat two meals, but they are wrapped with slices of mutton. Into the wheat bread, half a slice of sheep can actually pack the wheat cakes needed for two meals, and these wheat cakes are enough to fill the more than 90 snow werewolves, a group of manuls, goblins, and the stomachs of a human. They are also very delicious—— No wonder the Huoyan tribe has the confidence to raise sheep in captivity and slaughter excess rams. They have reduced their meat consumption a lot.

"As long as their fields can continue to produce food, they really don't have to worry about getting hungry. No wonder...it's no wonder that the Huoyan tribe is determined to learn tauren farming and abandoned the grazing habits of our Snow Werewolf tribe for many years."

Squatting in front of the big stove and adding the flames of the black stone, she is also the patriarch. She admires and admires the courage of the patriarch Huoyan. If it is her, even if she knows that imitating the tauren tribe's planting methods can get more stable food, She didn't have the courage to try-if the farming fails, the future of the whole family will be ruined in her hands.

Patriarch Huoyan solemnly finished adding the black stone, took two rapiers that served as tongs, and pulled them in the stove. He smiled suddenly, and pulled out a section of the vine roots that were scorched on the surface of the flue.

"Ha, I don't know which greedy ghost hid secretly here to bake it, I found it~" Patriarch Huoyan exhilarated a few breaths, took his claws to cut through the bulging skin from the roots of the vine, and caught the hidden inside and was roasted. The cooked, fragrant fat insects happily stuffed them into their mouths, "Hmm...It's really fragrant, the Patriarch Caogen, would you like something too?" 　　

Caogen: "..." Muran shook his head.　　

"Then I will eat spicy food by myself~ Hmm, add some salt~" 　　

Caogen: "..."

This time when she went to pick up enoki mushrooms from the shed where the supplies were piled up, Caogen met the human taken in by the Huoyan tribe. This human is about the same size as the cubs, but thinner than the cubs. When the snow werewolves were bare-chested, he put on neat cloth clothes in the winter. When Caogen followed Huoyan into the shed, he was putting a big bundles of enoki mushrooms wrapped in straws are stacked on the ground.

"Sal? Why did you move by yourself again, and ask someone to help you move!" Huoyan yelled at the human reproachfully. The tribe's enoki mushrooms depended on him for supply. What if this fragile human is exhausted? .　　

"I'll do it myself, patriarch." Sal smiled and shook his head, so that he wouldn't let others approach his mushroom house. Nodded his head to Caogen as a tribute, and immediately ran out in a hurry.　　

"That is the human who grows enoki mushrooms?" Caogen glanced at Sal's back curiously. "Yes. After he started planting enoki mushrooms, he became more and more weird. He used to be willing to deal with the cubs, but now he rarely leaves his mushroom house. By the way, the two houses next to each other behind the mobile house. It's his mushroom house. It's better not to lean over." Huoyan picked up the enoki mushrooms that had been stored for a long time and the roots were a little yellow, and said to the grass roots. Caogen was nodding, and suddenly heard the human out-of-control yelling from outside, and the hair on his ears stood up: "This, this is?" 　　

"The cub of the rabbit ran over and peeked." Huoyan completely improperly, "So I said Sal is getting weird...Ayun said that the mushroom house is very important, but he didn't say that it was so important that no one could get close." 　　

"Ayun?" Caogen remembered that Yu also mentioned this cub's name several times.　　

"I really want to eat fried pine nuts. It is also the season for pine nuts. Alas, when I have time, I must go and get some pine nuts back." Huoyan muttered and walked out holding the enoki mushrooms.　　

Caogen: "..."

Why does she always feel that Patriarch Huoyan is different from what she thinks, always feels he is weird! What's wrong in the end!

Waiting for the space between the steaming of the wheat bread to have some rest, Patriarch Huoyan walked to the activity room where the cubs are always stationed without hesitation, and shouted as soon as he entered the door: "Who has delicious food?"

Coagen who fellow with Huoyan came: "..." 　　

Seeing the situation in the activity room clearly, Caogen was taken aback. The room was filled with slightly yellowed wool. Four manul cubs stayed in it, using a weird tool. Spin wool into threads.

Caogen has been to the tauren tribe and saw tauren spinning flax, but she has never seen wool that can be processed into thread. Her eyes showed exied as she saw these manuls were suddenly different. The back of the Patriarch Huoyan was in her eyes that is also getting taller and taller-no wonder they have taken in so many manuls, except for the waterwheel that Yu said, this ability to spin wool into threads is enough to protect these manuls.

"Ayun gave us some fruit, and there is still this little bit left." A little manul cub took out a small bag made of bark from the pile of wool (provided by the goblin), and there were still a few red wild fruit inside.

"Only this? Ayun didn't give you anything else?" The patriarch didn't give up. Now he doesn't like this kind of wild fruit that he liked very much previously. The radish he grows is much better than most wild fruit now, eating too much makes people hungry easily.　　

"No more." The manul cubs shook their heads. Ayun likes to stuff them with delicious food before, but Ayun is very busy now.　　

Huoyan Patriarch downheartedly... distributed his collection of sour radish slices to the cubs, and strayed back to guard the fire. Vinegar is used to soak sour radishes. After sowing black beans in the tribe, they don't even have to eat bean sprouts. Naturally, there will be no beans to make vinegar... The existing vinegar is used to process wool, and the soaked sour radishes are pitiful.　　

Caogen: "..." 　　

"Patriarch Huoyan, I don't think you seem to be short of food." Caogen can't hold back to say.

"It's not lacking... I was able to find a lot of work outside before. If you want to come, Ayun will let me come back and take you to take care of the food. Although it is easier than before, but it is still being used all day long and trapped in the tribe." The Huoyan patriarch sighed and glanced sadly at Caogen... In the autumn, there is food everywhere in the wild. When did he lack snacks, it made him as greedy as Oxhorn, after all he was forced to stay here, he gave a sigh...

"...You mean, because we are here, you are in charge of the food?" Caogen ignored the shock and said that the job was easy, and her shock was not enough at this moment.

"Yes, before the manuls can make enough food for us." 　　

Caogen: "..." No wonder those rabbits clean up the lamb so neatly, wait, how do you feel that something is wrong, "Isn't you doing the work in the tribe, Patriarch Huoyan?" 　　

Huoyan was more shocked than her: "What are you talking about, I am not Ayun." 　　

"Ayun?" Caogen did not understand.　　

"Ayun, Mao Mao...Yu never told you about the work arrangements in our tribe is distributed by cub Ayun?" Huo Yan was surprised.　　

"..." Caogen thought for a while, it seemed that Yu had really said...but at the time she was thinking about whether all the people of the tribe would move in, and she didn't think about it.　　

"Then why are you and I responsible for making food when we are merged here?" Caogen couldn't figure it out.　　

Patriarch Huoyan put on an innocent face that made Xiao Yun vomit blood countless times, how did he know!　　

Caogen bewildered and squatted to front of the door and hugged her head with her hands. It was too weird for the Huoyan Tribe! All of what happend in here it doesn't match her experience and what she has heard from the dead elders—not to mention the snow werewolves. The tauren tribe, whose head is the sage, has never heard of letting the cubs arrange the big deals in the tribe!

She was skeptical of life, but saw a group of snow werewolf cubs and a few goblins dragging a lot of stones into the tribe with vines and grass trawling...　　

Caogen suspected that she was dazzled, closed her eyes and looked again, these cubs and goblins dragged The ones that came back were indeed stones, gray-white stones, but they were all stones no matter how they looked. The cub walking in the front seemed very happy, as excited as the fattest wild boar. Seeing Caogen squatting at the door of the sharing room, he greeted her enthusiastically: "Patriarch Caogen!" 　　

Caogen nodded in response. This is not a cub of her clan, she can't recognize him.

The joyful cub asked the other cubs and goblins to put down the stone, entered the activity room and said something, the manul cubs walked out holding wool and textile tools, and sat on the square to continue spinning.　　

Caogen: "??"

The cubs instructed everyone to send the stones to the strange clay room (pottery kiln) on the other side of the activity house, and brought a lot of black stones into the activity house. After a while, she saw the chimney above the soil bag emits black smoke with squatting in front of the sharing room.

Patriarch Caogen was really curious... simply walked over and circled the weird soil pack, and then ran to the door of the activity room to look inside, and then she discovered the fact that she was just outside and tender inside: this Helping the cub is actually burning the stone solemnly!　　

"Huh?" Xiao Yun turned around, and the door to the activity room was empty. The Patriarch Caogen had already staggered back to guard the big stove, and he didn't see her.　　

"Ayun, what's the use of burning stones like this?" The girl Fleece asked curiously.

"The effect is great!" Xiao Yun said that his desire was strong, and he didn't hurriedly share the difference with others after winning five million. He immediately raised the small piece of gray-white limestone in his hand...　　

This stone is like ordinary stones were almost the same with no difference, anyway, Xiao Yun didn't recognize it at first. It was not until I accidentally stepped on a piece and found that the hardness of this thing was extremely low, and then I thought of limestone—limestone is a sedimentary rock with low density and low hardness. The surface may have a clastic structure or a grain structure, and the root is harder. It's not difficult to smash the limestone with the wooden stick.

"This kind of stone is called limestone. At a high temperature of about 1000 degrees, it becomes a white solid after calcination at a temperature similar to that of a brick. The quicklime is made of soil cement, which is better than the kind we used to bond mud bricks. Black mud mixed with yellow mud is easy to use, and it is countless times better than the mixed mud!"

"This kind of stone is gypsum." Xiao Yun held up another piece of gypsum stone. Compared with limestone, which is easy to miss, the gypsum stone is much more obvious, colorless and translucent. The shape has a little gray and yellow variegated color, and the cross section has the characteristics of shell-shaped monoclinic crystals with a slight pearly luster. "This does not need to be burned in a kiln. It can be used by burying it in the soil and setting up a firewood to burn the stone core. It's useful to make new cement." 　　

Fleece put on a face that I didn't understand I have the rationality: "Isn't the soil and cement that we used before is very good? It's so troublesome to burn stones?"

"Hey, who told you that this is troublesome? Think about it carefully. The soil and cement used in the past have to dig a lot of yellow clay, pick up marsh mud, and cut the reed pole back into sections, add water to trample it, and it's costly. Compared with the strength of bringing this kind of stone back and burning it, how much worse?" Xiao Yun glared at Fleece, "Moreover, the new cement is more durable than the old one, and will not be broken by blisters. Bricks can also be used as adhesives, and they can also be used to paste walls. They are more robust and reliable. They are completely good for the sky and the earth!" 　　

"Well...it seems reasonable to say that. It is troublesome to deal with reed poles." Fleece ignores the second half and just listens. After the first half, "But we obviously went to help transport the stone mill, you found us a job to move the stone again...Oh!" 　　

Xiao Yun couldn't laugh, he curled his fingers and flicked her head on the Fleece-Do not learn to be lazy and follow Dahe!

In order to find a suitable stone that can be used for hydraulic stone grinding, the three goblins dug the low mountain where the stone was taken into pits and pits. Thanks to the obedience of the goblins, Xiao Yun accidentally discovered that there are limestone and gypsum so close to the tribe... …These two kinds of rock mines are originally extremely extensive rocks, but you can't find the rock layer in that place, right? After teaching the wool, Xiao Yun looked at the three goblins and looked at how pleasing to his eyes. Why didn't he think this kind of little creature was cute before~　　

Old Shadmen & Baron & Gal: "..." What's going on, Ayun's eyes are weird and a bit scary...　　

Limestone requires a lot to be put into use. Xiao Yun also ambitiously wants to paste the previously built river embankment with cement, and the dug canals are also very good. It should be reworked again...Well, don't rush to say it now so as not to frighten the tribe, let's finish the project in the tribe first. There are limestone and gypsum.

It is more convenient, quick, time-saving and labor-saving to make cement bricks by calcining primitive cement than mud bricks. When the lunch people came back for dinner, Xiao Yun called off the brick-making work. The brick-making team led by them all called back to participate in the cement project.

The nine goblins, whether young or old, were all deployed to dig out limestone. Dahe and other first-level laborers were divided into half to drag the stones, and the other half and Xiao Yun built a kiln specially used for calcination of cement. Limestone burning into quicklime has no technical content. In other words, the simplest shaft kiln and the original kiln that burns wood directly under the kiln can be burned.

A row of ten vertical kilns with a diameter of two meters and a height of half a person, similar to a fire-stove structure, were built outside the tribe on a place not occupying the ground of the square. The top opening is used to put in and take out limestone and quicklime blocks, and there are outlets and digging underneath. The semi-concave surface is used to add coal as fuel.

The proportion of limestone and cement for making bricks can be slightly reduced. 70% limestone (limestone accounts for more than 80% when used as a binder) and 30% clay blocks (with yellow clay, if not, ordinary soil blocks are fine). The top opening is stuffed into the shaft kiln, the lower fuel port is put into the red coal taken out of the large stove and burned directly, or it can be burned with wood fire without coal...　　

The temperature in the kiln rises to 1,100 degrees, and the limestone raw meal is gradually melted. State, sinter the mature material, extinguish the fire, take out the soil and quicklime after the kiln cools... At this time, the lime has become a white lump, which is brittle and can be broken with a handle.

The burnt quicklime and soil are crushed with wooden sticks, mixed with about 3% gypsum (gypsum stone can be cured at a temperature of only 200 degrees, and it can be used as it is), and it is ground with stone (additional product when making stone and grinding. ) After grinding back and forth, as much as possible into powder, it becomes soil cement that can be put into use immediately; adding coal slag (residue after coal combustion), adding gravel, sand, and mixing with water can be used...Strength Performance indicators in all aspects are definitely not comparable to modern cement, but cement is cement, and it is the kingly way to use it.

Take relatively small sand from the river bank, mix it in the proportion of sand 2 soil cement 1, add water to mix, and fill it into the brick mold. Use a wooden stick to poke the cement sand in the brick mold tightly to ensure that there is no air in it. Lift the brick mold up carefully, don't damage the shape of the cement brick embryo, leave it in the open for twenty-four hours-fresh cement brick, out of the oven!　　

No need to add any cut reed poles, no need to wait for days to dry in the shade, no need to open a kiln to burn! It's that simple and rude!　　

Cement, even if it is a crude cement that has a rough processing process and is primitive enough to make all civil engineering students cry, it is also a construction artifact!

In just three days, the ten original shaft kilns that burned for three days and nights burned out eight...When these shaft kilns that had undertaken the historical mission finally stopped and rested, the place used to stack forage in the northwest of the tribe The rows were neatly filled with blue-gray cement bricks; Xiao Yun stood in front of the burned shaft kiln, akimbo facing the cement brick clusters as if they were holding a military parade, and his mood was refreshing-creation is really beautiful. Thing! The sweat paid is sweet at the moment of reading and harvesting!

"Did you see, everyone, these are not concrete bricks, these are houses!" Xiao Yun seemed to be back in the third year of college graduation when he was applauded and promoted to management by his boss, with infinite energy from the depths of his soul. Born endlessly, even if you add another ten and a half months of work immediately, there is no problem—however, no one can understand his surging emotions. When he turned his head, the Dahe Building Brick Team had already been "corpses" all over the field...　　

Dahe raised his upper body tremblingly, and raised his heavy eyelids with difficulty: "Ayun... can we sleep..." 　　

"...Yes, you can." Xiao Yun feel bored(nobody listened to him...).　　

Dahe exhausted her last strength and pushed her body to the side, pressing her head on the Oxhorn's belly, and fell asleep as soon as she closed her eyes.　　

"Just sleep here? Don't you think it's dirty!" Xiao Yun dissatisfied, just pouring directly on the place where the cement is mixed, not afraid of colds, it's not like this manner.　　

... But these guys are now as dirty as clay figurines, and Xiao Yun doesn't really want to move them back... just forget it. He was also very tired. He didn't close his eyes when the brick-building team worked day and night.

Bypassing these unspecialized guys, Xiao Yun walked into the tribe with yawns and glaring bloodshot eyes, relying on perseverance to support through the square in the center of the tribe and into the bathroom to wash away the mud on his body. Then he staggered into the activity room and fell asleep.　　

The manul cubs who were spinning looked back at Ayun, who was so tired to lay on the floor, and took the knitted blanket very kindly to cover his stomach.　　

The two patriarchs who came back from going out to wash the vegetables silently looked in the direction of the activity room, and then turned their heads to look outside the tribe. The group of clansmen whose "corpses" could be seen in outline.　　

"Look, I said that it would be easy for us to be responsible for making food." The Patriarch Huoyan said solemnly.　　

Patriarch Caogen: "..."