The bamboo stilted building has very poor fire protection capabilities, and the entire house may be set on fire if you are not careful. But after all, it is a house made of bamboo, and its value is very low. If it catches fire, just build a new one.
There are also a lot of bamboos in Guangnan, especially during this season. Around the Qingming Festival, the Nong people don’t go to the Qingming Festival, but like the Han people, they go up to the mountains with hatchets, cut off the newly sprouted bamboo shoots, and take them home to make dried bamboo shoots or bamboo shoots. Pickle bamboo shoots and prepare them at home for later consumption!
Bamboo is one of the Nong people's greatest wealth. This plant can provide them with food, raw materials, fuel, and weapons, meeting all their needs in life!
Liang Chuan bent his feet with difficulty and squatted beside the simple stove next to the bamboo building. He puffed up his cheeks and blew air between several stones. A large flow of air was sent into the cracks in the stones, and the dry bamboo inside burned. There was a bigger flame, and a black iron pot hung directly above the stone.
Next to it is a pile of chopped dry bamboo slices.
Bamboo leaves are one of the most powerful fuels for fire, but the fragments chopped from dry bamboo tubes are the main force in making fires. They are extremely resistant to burning and are very easy to obtain. The only trouble is to split them.
And this pile of bamboo pieces was chopped by Liang Chuan himself!
What surprised Liang Chuan was not that the bamboo pieces were easy to chop, but his hands!
He couldn't even straighten his legs, but once his hand grasped the sharp hatchet, it was like an extension of his hands. He raised the knife and lowered the blade to split the bamboo slices as thin as he wanted. How thin it is is entirely up to him, and the knife is very obedient to his will!
He didn't know that this body had such a talent!
After cutting for a long time, a pile of bamboo slices were evenly spaced and neatly arranged into a hill!
It turned out that there were only a few dry bamboos on the ground, and the rest were green bamboos that Liang Chuan had just cut down from the bamboo forest. A clear liquid flows out from the cutting edge of the bamboo, attracting many ants and other bugs!
These bamboos are enough to burn this house for two months!
Little Ah Yue has to be responsible for her own food when Anon is away. What she can do is to use a hatchet to chop some small bamboo leaves and branches. Although the dried bamboo leaves can be burned, the cooked rice is often half-cooked. The little girl has no choice but to make do with such rice. Dealing with your own life.
It's fine now. Liang Chuan helped her solve her biggest strength problem.
After cutting the bamboo slices, the next step is to boil water in a pot.
The blackened iron pot is ugly and crude!
After adding water to the pot, Liang Chuan took out the black coarse salt he bought at the market during the day and poured it into a thick bamboo tube that he cut himself.
Without porcelain, the best thing is these bamboo products. Cut off a piece of bamboo, remove one head, and leave the other half, which is the best container.
The water hasn't boiled yet.
The black coarse salt was first poured into the wide and deep bamboo tube.
Pour a pound of coarse salt into the bamboo tube, and add a lot of water to allow all the coarse salt to dissolve in the bamboo tube.
Liang Chuan shook the bamboo tube, picked up bamboo branches and stirred it into the tube to make the salt dissolve faster!
The bamboo tube was now filled with black soup, which was a bit thick.
Liang Chuan raised his knife and cut out another crisp bamboo tube immediately. The wall of the tube was very clean. The opening of the bamboo tube was covered with a foot and a half of gauze that A Yue had exchanged for his precious five cents. Liang Chuan folded it in half once and made two layers. Gauze makes the gauze mesh more fine.
Liang Chuan pulled a string from the edge of the gauze and tied it tightly so that the gauze would not fall off.
Liang Chuan picked up the barrel of black coarse salt water and slowly tilted the mouth of the barrel. The thick salt water slowly flowed along the mouth of the barrel and into the gauze on the newly cut bamboo tube!
The function of gauze is to filter!
Black brine is full of impurities!
The coarse salt shipped from Xixia is the most primitive salt purified from brine. It contains all kinds of ingredients, including soil, sand, and other elements. The large particles directly make the salt look black!
As soon as the salt water flowed through the gauze, the original navy blue gauze immediately turned into gray-brown. Those were impurities in the salt water, most of which were sand, gravel and soil.
With the naked eye, many large particles of sand and gravel were visible on the gauze. After filtering for a long time, I finally filtered a tube of salt water for the first time! The tools were too crude, which made Liang Chuan very hard for himself.
Liang Chuan took off the gauze and washed it in clean water. When the gauze floated in the water, all the impurities remaining on it were washed away by the water.
Liang Chuan not only washes gauze, but also washes bamboo tubes. The salt water must be pure. It doesn't matter if there is water, but there must be no impurities. He can only pass the water over and over again, exchanging quantity for quality.
After the first pass of filtration, the water level of the black crude brine has dropped a little, but it is basically still online. However, the color has changed a long time ago. The originally black brine has now become muddy white!
After washing, Liang Chuan covered the bamboo tube with gauze again.
This time, he folded the gauze in half three times, barely covering the mouth of the bamboo tube. The folded gauze increased the density of the gauze in disguise, and the filtration effect will be better!
Liang Chuan poured the salt water into the bamboo tube covered with gauze and filtered it for the second time!
This time, there are no large gravels in the filtration, and the brine is filtered much faster. The color of the brine that has been filtered again is clearer. Although it is still a bit muddy, compared to the black brine at the beginning, it is almost completely different now. .
The filtration effect this time was excellent. A piece of gauze was covered with mud and sand. When Liang Chuan put it in clean water and washed it, the entire basin of water immediately changed color!
After just a few more filtrations like this, the salt water you want will appear!
It was quiet in the building, as if Liang Chuan had not disturbed Ah Yue's world. The little girl was angry with someone and cried alone in the room for a long time. What made her even more angry was that Liang Chuan didn't even come to comfort her. !
Children are like this. The more you pay attention to her, the more she won't stop crying. If you ignore her, she will calm down after a while.
Although ten cents of money is as valuable as half of her world to Ah Yue, the money has been lost. Since she can't get it back, she has to face it. The nature of a child is like this. There will never be an overnight feud or even a meal. He didn't even have any grudges, and he was quite open-minded towards Liang Chuan's shameless behavior. .
Ah Yue looked around in the stilted building, but didn't see Liang Chuan's shadow. She leaned out the window, only to find Liang Chuan cooking something by the pot!
Steam was rising from the iron pot, and greedy insects immediately got into the little girl's mind. At this moment, her mind was full of guessing. It looked like Liang Chuan was cooking something delicious!
Crying had already exhausted most of the little girl's energy. Now she also wanted to eat, especially meat. Apart from meat, she couldn't imagine what else Liang Chuan could do in the pot!
Ah Yueshen unknowingly came up behind Liang Chuan, stuck out his nose and smelled it. The clear soup was watery, but there was no smell of meat!
Her nose was similar to that of a dog. She could smell even a little shredded meat in the pot, but she didn't smell it.
She only saw Liang Chuan pouring two bamboo tubes and an iron pot boiling water.
Liang Chuan filtered the salt water for the last time. The water in the salt water was already the clearest. If he could no longer filter out cleaner salt water through gauze, Liang Chuan planned to take the next step!
"Aren't you crying?"
"Hmph! I want you to take care of it, you damn liar!"
Liang Chuan said helplessly: "What did I lie to you about?"
The little girl only hated herself for being stupid. She couldn't even explain what Liang Chuan had lied to her about. In conclusion, Liang Chuan really didn't lie to her anything, because she didn't know what Liang Chuan's purpose was.
Actions that are inconsistent with purpose are deception.
Ah Yue avoided Liang Chuan's topic: "What are you cooking?"
Liang Chuan poured all the filtered salt water into the boiling iron pot. The boiling water in the pot quickly absorbed the new salt water. The water in the pot calmed down for a while, and soon started to boil again. !
Liang Chuan took a bamboo stick and handed it to Ah Yue and said, "Use this stick to keep stirring the water in the pot!"
"Why are you boiling this water? Is it delicious?"
"You just boil it until not a drop of water is left in the pot.
! "
Ah Yue's eyes were wide open. There was not a drop of water in the pot. The pot must have burned out!
If you cheat yourself out of money, it doesn't matter if you suffer the loss anyway. If you break Anon's iron pot, then Anon will really have to teach himself a lesson!
Seeing Ah Yue not moving, Liang Chuan said with a hint of threat: "I'm telling you, you are only one small step away from getting your ten cents back. If you don't cooperate and ruin my big thing, what will happen to you?" I can’t stand it any longer. My debt to you can only be postponed indefinitely. I can’t guarantee when I can pay it back!”
Little Ah Yue was convinced that Liang Chuan was lying to him, but she fell deeper and deeper step by step, and finally couldn't extricate herself!
This is the trick of scammers. Their tricks of fraud are never violent and direct at the beginning. They like to trick people into making small money first. After the person is defrauded of small money, they want to save capital, turn around, and a miracle happens. They have a mentality, Anyway, the money is given, so why not try again? If you win the bet, you will make money, otherwise if you quit, you will really get nothing!
This is also the psychology of gamblers. Anyone who wins in the end is always a liar!
Ah Yue panicked again, Liang Chuan's coercion and inducement were very effective!
She picked up the bamboo branch Liang Chuan handed him and put it in the iron pot and kept stirring!
The dried bamboo slices were burning on a very hot fire, and the salt water was rolling in the iron pot. Ah Yue felt that she must be crazy, and she actually cooperated with Liang Chuan's madness! If this iron pot is broken, a beating will be inevitable!
The water in the iron pot boiled less and less, and Ah Yue was a little anxious: "What should I do? It's going to bottom out, and the iron pot will burn out soon!"
"It's okay, keep burning. If I tell you to stop, stop again!"
The rolling white water is steaming with white heat, and the water level in the pot can be seen dropping with the naked eye. The fire is scorching the iron pot, and the salt water is finally burned into a thin layer!
"stop!"
