3. The craft of making earthen stove
You have to figure out how to plant the fields? Du Ruo thought it was good, but he knew nothing about farming. He could only count on the Yama: "This land has been prepared, but you have to plant rice. Where did the seedlings come from? Do Yama have an idea?"
The mute woman pointed at herself, and Du Ruo was overjoyed: "The mute woman is saying you have a trick." The mute woman nodded, washed her hands, found a guy, and took out some rice sent by Erxi and soaked it in water.
Du Ruohu understood, yes, why did she forget that this rice is just a ready-made seed? She has never planted the land, but she has planted vegetables and rapeseed can be planted just by soaking it into sprouts. Is this kind of vegetable different from planting rice?
After the seedlings were prepared, Du Ruo began to think about building a stove. Always burying fire in the pit and cooking is not a long time. After all, you can’t eat all kinds of food and porridge every meal, so there is a must-have stove. But if you build a stove, you can’t just use your mouth. If you want to use it firmly, you have to use bricks, but here…
Du Ruo looked around and saw that there were no bricks in the place where there was no one. If it was burned now, I wouldn’t tell you if it would. Even if it did, it wouldn’t be able to burn it in one or two days. And you have to use fire to cook and boil water in front of you.
So you have to slowly build a serious stove. Now you have to make a person who can cook and boil water first. Just as you were thinking about seeing the pile of soil on the edge of the rice fields, you suddenly had an idea. If you don’t have the conditions to build a stove, you can build a stove first.
This earthen stove is made without bricks and mud. As I thought about it, I found a basket to dig the dredge and transported it to it. Although the mute lady didn't know what Du Ruo did, she also helped.
After a while, a pile of them came over, and Du Ruo: "Don't dig it, it's almost enough." The mute came back and stood beside him and looked at Du Ruo with curiosity.
This is really a laborious job with Ni. After a while, Du Ruo was so tired that he straightened his waist and looked down. This laborious job was far from that. He couldn't help but sigh. He thought it was simple, but only after he did it, he realized that it was a laborious job.
Fortunately, the mute lady understood and knew that Du Ruo wanted to get along with Ni, so she started to do it. Although the mute lady was older, she was much stronger than Du Ruo, and she knew how to do it. She soon reconciled the mu and looked at Du Ruo.
Under the eyes of the mute lady, Du Ruo felt that she was too useless and coughed: "My mute, I want to use this mud to make a stove. It will be much easier to boil water and cook in the future. Therefore, you have to add some straw to the mud."
The mute woman nodded, turned around and left. After a while, she hugged the dried straw and got it from somewhere. Du Ruo picked up some broken ones and mixed them into the mud and started making a stove.
Du Ruo first pinched a bucket, then poked a hole in the middle, then lit the dry straws, stuffed a few pieces of firewood, and when the moist mud was dried, a most original mud stove was made.
Du Ruo looked at the mud stove in front of him and felt that his sense of accomplishment was no less than the largest order he signed when he entered the company.
Du Ruo couldn't help laughing, and looked up at the mute lady looking at him strangely. He probably smiled so happily at an ugly mute stove in the mute lady's eyes, almost like a lunatic.
Once you have a stove, you have to think about eating some good food. You can’t eat some porridge again. However, at present, the ingredients are limited and there is no oil. Even if it is salt and these dishes, Erxi just sent them today.
So don’t think about what’s delicious. Scald the dish with water and mix it with salt. It’s at least better than the porridge. Du Ruo thought about where to get some advice. Although it’s healthy to eat vegetarian food, it’s too vegetarian. After all, the feeling of fullness given by oil and fat cannot be replaced by anything.
Du Ruo looked up at the mountain not far away and said, "Yan Po, are there any pheasant and hare on this mountain?"
The mute woman was stunned and shook her head.
Du Ruo: "No? It's impossible. The mountains are lush with plants and trees. According to common sense, animals should be reproduced. Haven't the mute seen hares and pheasants or something?"
The mute woman nodded and shook her head, and gestured toward the arrow.
Du Ruo: "You mean there are hares and pheasants on the mountain, but we can't hunt without bows and arrows." The mute nodded.
Du Ruoxin said that even if there is a bow and arrow, he would not use it himself. It would be great if he could shoot the arrow out. It was impossible for pheasants and hares to do so, so he had to think of other ways.
I slowly thought that I didn’t have to worry about getting here anyway. I had plenty of time to let Du Ruo plan his future life. Du Ruo liked this feeling very much. He got rid of the hustle and bustle of the city and immersed in this green mountains and clear waters, allowing her to find the fun of returning home to the garden and the process of running a home from scratch made Du Ruo extremely expect.
It rained at night, but it had not yet cleared until dawn. Unfortunately, the mute lady moved the mud stove to the shed yesterday. Although the shed was ragged, it could hide the rain and not get damaged.
It doesn't work even if it rains. After dinner, Du Ruo pulled the straw mat to the door, sat cross-legged on it, and enjoyed the rain outside. The small fine hairs under the rain were like smoke and fog, which wrapped the mountains and rivers far and near in the mist, gathered and dispersed, and blew into a vivid and beautiful scenery, and it was dynamic, changing constantly, very slow and real, and you won't feel bored for a day.
The mute lady took a bowl of water and placed it on the ground next to Du Ruo. The water was a mountain spring. Du Ruo guessed that the mountain spring should not be far away, because you could vaguely hear the sound of water while sitting here.
Du Ruo took a sip and it was sweet and sweet. Unfortunately, there was no tea. If she used such spring water to make a pot of tea, it would make it more comfortable. If she found a few ups and downs, she would not get tired of sitting like this for a few days.
The rain fell for three days before it cleared up. The water stored in the fields had become a veritable paddy field. The rice soaked out tender rice buds. The mute wrapped a piece of land beside the rice fields to farm and planted the newly produced rice buds in it. Du Ruo was afraid that he would not help, so he went there to clean the vegetable garden.
Although I don’t know what rapeseed Erxi will make for him, I always have to clean up the place first. Once the rapeseed is delivered, it will be planted. When the vegetables grow, there will be something to eat. I don’t know when Erxi will come.
Just as I was thinking, I saw a ox cart coming from the road and getting closer. I saw that the car was sitting on Erxi, and there was an unknown farmer next to me.
Du Ruo was overjoyed. He looked at the full ox cart and thought that he should have all the things he wanted. Because the road that could walk to the cemetery was only at the edge of the cemetery, the carriage stopped at the bottom. Erxi ran over and said, "I'll pay my respects to my second grandma."
Du Ruo: "Brother Erxi, you see, I have fallen into this position and I can't go back to the mansion anymore. Don't call me second grandma. I'm a few years older than you, so you can call me sister from now on."
Erxi hurriedly said, "How can this make you the master even if you don't go back to the mansion."
Du Ruo: "What kind of master? How can you be like me? Of course, it would be fine if you dislike it."
Erxi hurriedly said, "How can you dislike the young? Then when there is no one in the future, the young will call you sister."
Du Ruo: "Where do you come from this wilderness ridge?" He said, and glanced at the carriage: "Brother Erxi, you bought this car?"
Erxi: "These are all things my sister wants, such as hoes, axes, hatches, and some pots, tiles and pots. According to what my sister said, they didn't buy them well, and they were all made by ordinary people, not a bit thicker than the mansion."
Du Ruo: "What are you afraid of? You can use it if you can." He pointed to a pack of things over there: "What is this?"
Erxi: "This pack is rapeseed, which belongs to this uncle's own home. He is a blacksmith in the village of Shanxia. He bought these hoes, axes, and hatchets from him. He knew that I wanted to buy rapeseed, and said he didn't need to buy some, so he took some from his house."
Du Ruo looked at the man, looking at him in his forties, big and thick, honest and honest, and he could not help but say, "Are you a blacksmith? Your home is at the foot of the mountain?"
The man nodded: "My family lives in Fengjia Village at the foot of the mountain, and the village head is the one at the entrance."
Du Ruo was stunned: "Fengjia Village? It turns out that there is a village at the foot of the mountain, why didn't anyone go up the mountain?"
Erxi: "How can there be no village? But the villagers know that this mountain is the cemetery of our Lu Mansion, and this mountain is also the private property of the Lu family, so no one comes up."
Du Ruoxin said that people at this time take the truth. Even if they are the private property of the Lu family, they will come to worship during the Qingming Festival. No one will guard them on ordinary days. Who can know who comes to chop firewood and hunt prey?
However, it is better to be more regular, so no one will disturb you. The road to the car only leads to the cemetery. There is still a mountain road of more than ten meters away from the thatched hut where Du Ruo lives, so everything on the car has to be moved up by manpower.
Fortunately, Erxi and Feng Blacksmith were there. Although there were a lot of things, they moved over soon. Du Ruo asked the mute lady to pour two bowls of water to quench Erxi Feng Blacksmith's thirst.
Seeing the two of them drinking water, Du Ruo suddenly remembered something: "Feng Blacksmith, where can you have a hunting clip?"
Blacksmith Feng was stunned and shook his head.
Du Ruo was quite disappointed. He thought that this hunting clip was not a very ordinary thing, why didn't it be there?
Erxi said: "If my sister wants to catch prey on the mountain, she has to use a bow and arrow. Otherwise, Erxi will touch her sister."
Du Ruo: "Even if you touch me, I won't be able to call you."
Feng Blacksmith: "Although I don't have the clip you mentioned in my house, as long as you say something roughly, I can make it."
Du Ruo's eyes lit up. Yes, why did he forget this? This is a blacksmith and there is no finished product to make. Thinking of this, he found a firewood stick from the side, stroked his memory and drew a rough look on the ground: "That's it. Can you see if it can be made?"
Chapter completed!