Chapter 209 The Lei Family Returns from Hunting
Compared with the ground dragon, the fire wall can heat a limited area, but it is much larger than the kang, at least it can heat the room where it is located.
Moreover, the fire wall is also connected to the stove, so there is no need to light a fire separately. You can heat it while boiling water and cooking, which is very convenient.
Unlike ground dragons that require bricks and slabs of stone, fire walls can also be made with thin adobe bricks. There is no extra cost, and the only labor cost is very low, at least much less than building a stove or a kang!
Carpenter Guan immediately decided to build a fire wall.
My daughter is getting married in two months. She basically doesn't need to stay overnight at home in the same village. The kang and the fire wall can be placed in one room. If Xiaoshan is lucky enough to get married in the future, he will build a new kang in another room.
Anyway, he doesn't have a firewall.
After hearing about the benefits of a firewall, especially that there was no need to buy extra bricks and slabs, and the labor cost was not much higher, the other families whispered to each other and then loudly added one!
Craftsman Li and others were originally remembering that there was an extra firewall in Guan Carpenter's house. When they heard the sound of adding more, they tried to remember it carefully at first, but later they found that every household had added one. Well, there was no need to remember it anymore!
Just do it and it's done.
Anyway, every household on the other side of the river has it, so there is no need to worry about making the mistake.
After learning what they wanted to know, the crowd dispersed.
Six craftsmen continued to work around the room.
They first determined the location of the cave entrance, then divided the chimneys of each room according to the cave entrance, and then they started digging with hoes in full swing...
The craftsmen were working, the men were helping out, and Shen Qing and the others were not idle at all.
There are many old men and children in her family who help carry bricks and tiles back and take care of lunch. Although the food is simple, there are many people and the amount of ingredients is large, so washing, cleaning and cutting... are not easy tasks.
Now that there are six more craftsmen, the food portions will of course be larger.
Especially now that every household is busy, it is impossible to hire anyone. Fortunately, Jiang Yu and Jiang Shui are there to help. The three of them have no time to divide the work, so they wash and cut together, and finally cook at the same time.
Their vacant land was full of potholes and pits, and bricks, wood, and stone slabs were piled everywhere. Not far away, there were various poultry and livestock, as well as the live rabbit that Liu Cuihua had sent a few days ago.
Shen Qing was worried about her two little granddaughters, so she didn't assign any work to Huo Bing. She only needed to keep an eye on the two kids - the more chaotic the time, the more important it was to keep an eye on the children!
The six craftsmen over there had a clear division of labor. They skillfully dug out the flue, laid the bricks carefully, filled the gaps with mixed soil, and finally laid a thin layer of stone slabs on top.
Jiang Xiangdong and his brothers looked at the earth dragon that was gradually taking shape. Thinking that they would no longer be cold in winter, they felt a slight warmth all over their bodies and had endless energy!
Here, Shen Qingjiang Yujiangshui put the cut fat into the pot at the same time.
Swish.
The fat is quickly stir-fried in the boiling iron pan, and the clear fat becomes more and more, gradually emitting a meaty aroma.
Shen Qing shoveled the almost cooked fat aside, added ginger and garlic to stir-fry, poured in a small bowl of soy sauce, added lean meat and continued to stir-fry, poured in boiling water and added the seasoned noodles and cleaned tender green vegetables.
After they arrived, they immediately sowed vegetable seeds on the reclaimed wasteland. After twenty days or so, although the small green vegetables had not fully grown, they were tender and tasted better. In addition, if they were sown too densely, they would not be able to grow well, so the thinned seedlings were just right for cooking.
The same type is made in the Jiangshuijiangyu big iron pot.
After the first batch was made, it was all scooped into a bucket, and then the second batch was made. At the same time, people who came back spontaneously used large iron spoons to scoop it into bowls to eat.
When Li the craftsman and his six companions came over under the leadership of Jiang Xiangnan, they were shocked by the scene and the food in the large earthenware bowl.
"Brother Li, there is so much meat in here. I see the boss scooped it out directly without picking it out. Does that mean there is a lot of meat in it?" They had eaten food with meat before, but never this much?
And it's not just the six of them, all the helpers are the same, they all have meat!
"Look at all the fat, and even more floating fat. The fat hasn't been removed!"
"These dumplings don't even have corn flour or other grain flours! They're all white flour, so smooth. Brother Li, how expensive is all white flour? With so many of us, why doesn't the owner add some whole grain flour?"
Shen Qing: .....It’s because coarse grain flour is much more expensive than wheat flour, so it’s not cost-effective.
Craftsman Li looked at Shen Qing and the other two who were busy preparing food, and said with emotion: "Of course the boss is kind! He doesn't look down on us who do rough work, and he treats everyone with the same courtesy.
We can't let our boss down! We have to show our best skills and be worthy of this meal!"
"Yes!" The five people nodded solemnly.
On the sixth day, Shen Qing was worried.
The fresh meat was finished two days ago, and now we are using smoked meat.
Not to mention that the smoked meat is dry, its biggest drawback is that it doesn't have much oil or water, especially when used to make dumpling soup. You eat more than fresh meat, but you can't see much meat or oil.
But it takes a whole day to go to the city and back. This is not the point. The point is that every household in the village is busy, and the Lei family has gone into the mountains to hunt. There must be more victims in the city. Only a few women driving carts carrying pork back is tantamount to inviting people to rob!
Too dangerous.
Oh, so sad...
On the mountain, the backpacks of young men like Lei Dafu were filled with prey.
Fat hares, pheasants, roe deer, musk deer... were piled up to the point of overflowing.
They were also carrying wild sheep, wild boars, and a deer in their hands!
Lei Xiatian had sharp eyes and saw his relatives coming down the mountain from afar. He shouted, "Mom, Daddy, Second Uncle, Third Uncle, and Big Brother are back!"
The Lei family was overjoyed and ran up to greet them.
"Are you all okay?" Liu Cuihua asked as she looked at everyone.
Boss Lei smiled and said, "Everyone is fine, no one is seriously injured."
A minor scratch is not considered an injury.
Everyone who stayed behind breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at the prey: "Wow, so many prey, this trip is a big harvest!"
"This rabbit is really fat, much fatter than the ones we catch here, it must weigh four or five pounds, right? The wool is much richer too, it looks very warm."
It’s just right to make a snow hat for Shen Qing.
Boss Lei laughed and said, "Indeed, the ones in the mountains are also clever, but there are really a lot of them, much more than here. This time, they are the ones that have been killed the most."
Liu Cuihua stopped her horse and Pan Di heard that there were many wild rabbits. At the same time, she thought that she could make a padded jacket and a cloak for Shen Qing.
It’s a pity that I couldn’t catch him alive, otherwise I would have been happier to be able to support Shen Qing.
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