Chapter 292 Floor Heating is Complete
When I go to bed at night, I sleep in the other half of the room where the floor is not knocked.
With the baking and the constant breeze blowing in from the open windows, and the dry weather, the floor dried quickly and was almost dry in three days.
During these three days, in addition to re-firing the red bricks reserved for the winter, the sweet potatoes also had to be moved to the storage cellar.
The chimney for the flue was also built and opened at the back of the brick house, on the outer wall next to the fireplace.
The temperature here is not particularly high, so the two used the previously melted aluminum molded pipes to make the chimney pipes.
The pipe connecting to the underground fire source is made of molten iron to ensure that it will not be melted and deformed.
Zhao Yeqing pressed on the floor a few times to make sure it was dry, and then the two of them moved the furniture back to its original positions.
Now it’s time to test the results after three or four days of hard work.
Mu Xi closed the damper of the fireplace chimney and opened the ash pit cover above the fireplace, revealing the ash pit holes embedded underneath.
Iron pipes and a homemade square stove have been laid in the pit.
When winter comes, it can not only provide heating for the flue, but also allow you to place pots and pans directly on it for cooking.
After cooking, you just need to cover the ash pit cover that originally covered the hole in the ash pit of the fireplace. The smoke will not come up from the bottom, but will only follow the flue of the earth foundation through half of the room and finally be discharged from the chimney.
Mu Xi lit the tinder and put it into the stove built with red bricks below. He then threw in the firewood and corn cobs. He continued to add firewood after the fire was fully burned. After making sure that the firewood had burned and there was enough of it, he closed the ash pit cover.
All that's left is time and waiting for the smoke below to heat up the room.
The waiting time always seems to be long. Zhao Yeqing was worried that if he stayed in the room for too long, the feeling would not be very obvious, so he planned to go outside to do some work and come back after two hours.
It’s a good time to harvest the white radishes in the field.
The white radishes I planted this time have been eaten with mutton for several meals recently. None of the radishes are hollow. They are full of moisture, heavy, and very sweet.
Zhao Yeqing is very satisfied with the vegetables he grew this year. Compared with when he just came back more than three years ago, the quality of the vegetables he grows now has made a qualitative leap.
It can be placed in the organic vegetable section of the supermarket and sold at twice the price of normal radishes.
Pulling radishes is also a laborious task. White radishes are very large and have many roots. When I was a child, I helped to pull radishes. If I encountered a "tough one" when pulling it out, I would use too much force and fall on my butt accidentally.
You have to hold the radish leaves on the top of the radish with one hand and hold the radish tightly with the other hand, twist it around, and shake it left and right to pull it out with less effort.
The more roots a radish has, the more water it contains and the sweeter it tastes.
The two of them didn't plant much, and after pulling out about 300 pounds, they moved them all to the yard first, and they could make a batch of dried radishes before the snow came.
When they were digging the storage cellar a few days ago, they thought that since they had already dug it, they might as well dig it bigger and put the stored winter vegetables in it.
You can't put it in now as the temperature in the storage cellar is not low enough. Put it outside first and move it in when the temperature inside can be controlled at two or three degrees.
If it were the same as the climate in the mountains in the past, with the high temperature in the south, the radishes and cabbages would not be able to be stored in cellars. They would become moldy and rot soon after being left at the bottom.
The temperature now is much drier than before. When the temperature drops below zero in a while, we will move the winter vegetables to a small cellar for temporary storage. When the cold winter with temperatures of dozens of degrees below zero comes, we will move them to the storage cellar.
Zhao Yeqing weighed the radish in his hand for a few times and picked out two that were full of moisture. He planned to stew some radish and lamb and fry some radish meatballs tonight.
After processing the radishes, the two of them thought about going into the room to see how effective the floor heating was.
After washing the dirt off her hands before going in, Mu Xi handed her a towel to wipe her hands. Fearing that she would be disappointed if she failed, he pretended to be unintentional in giving her a shot of prevention.
"I feel that floor heating is not as good as a warm table. It should be easy to make and it won't overheat."
Zhao Yeqing found it quite interesting. Sometimes he spoke bluntly and bluntly, and sometimes he was awkward even though he was clearly concerned about others. So he nodded in agreement, "You're right."
Mu Xi walked in front and opened the door first. Zhao Yeqing stood behind him. As soon as the door was opened, a stream of warm air rushed out from inside.
Zhao Yeqing hurriedly pushed Mu Xi in, "Quick, quick, go in and close the door, or the heat will escape!"
The wooden door closed with a bang, and the two stood in front of the door, feeling the completely different temperature between the room and the outside.
Zhao Yeqing took off his shoes and slowly walked towards the half of the room where the floor heating was laid. He pulled open the curtains in the middle and felt the burning temperature when he stepped on the floor.
She quickly put on her slippers. She could still feel the warmth from the floor through the soles of her shoes. Within a minute her whole body warmed up.
Zhao Yeqing took off his coat and felt the temperature in the room. He found that he didn't feel cold even though he was only wearing an autumn shirt and a thin sweater.
He turned back happily and said to Mu Xi: "Are we done?"
Mu Xi checked the surrounding floor and found no signs of cracks. The burning stove was also functioning normally. He leaned out to see that the smoke chimney was also functioning smoothly, with no signs of smoke leakage at the joints.
Then he nodded and smiled at Zhao Yeqing: "It should be done. If it's a little longer, it will probably be even warmer."
Zhao Yeqing pinched his throat and said sarcastically, "Oh, what if this succeeds? Then we won't be able to do the warm table anymore?"
Mu Xi was so angry that she laughed. She took two steps over and started pinching her ticklish spots. Zhao Yeqing was very ticklish. She dodged and retorted unyieldingly, "You are just angry because of shame!"
Just when Zhao Yeqing couldn't help but beg for mercy, he heard the sound of Gou Zi returning with the flock of sheep outside the door.
The two stopped what they were doing, put on their coats again, opened the door, and saw the scene that had been happening frequently recently.
A leopard that had never seen so much meat before started drooling at the huge flock of sheep so close to it.
The disgust on Zhao Yeqing's face was evident. Looking at her family's porridge and snow cakes, they had never been so useless.
But when he saw the leopard's head being slapped to the ground by Xuebing because of its drooling and obvious desire, he felt a lot more balanced.
Well, clouded leopards are rare after all, and this one doesn't look completely worthwhile.
Just make do with it.
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