hotmtlnovel Chapter 274
Chapter 274
The three of them sat around the campfire, and Chu Yang explained the plan to build fortifications.
"I plan to build a wooden wall to surround the cave and the stream, so that everyone's daily activities and bathing will be safe, and there will be more free space during the day or at night."
Xia Ruoyan thought, "In this way, there is indeed no need to worry about wild animals, but is the wall easy to build?"
Chu Yang smiled: "It's not difficult, the wood is ready, and we don't have anything to do during the day anyway."
Although the task is halfway through, there will be danger even at the last moment.
And the duration of the task may be advanced or delayed...
It is necessary to build a courtyard wall.
Yoko smiled and said: "I'm in better shape, we will help you build it together!"
Everyone longs for a wider living space, and everyone plans to build fortifications as quickly as possible.
After dinner, the three of them moved the dried meat back to the cave.
Then go to the stream to take a bath.
Chu Yang pulled meat several times during the day. Although wrapped in crocodile skin, his back was still soaked with sweat and it hurt.
Lying in the stream at this moment, I feel comfortable all over, and the birds are happy.
Xia Ruoyan and Yangzi rub each other and play in the water.
"It would be nice if there was soap."
Women are born to love beauty and cleanliness.
This is not difficult for Chu Yang.
He has liked handicrafts since he was a child, and he successfully made soap in college chemistry class.
Do it right away!
First, you need the necessary alkali solution.
You can only use wood ash instead.
Under his command, Yangzi got some wood ash from the campfire, mixed it with a certain proportion of clean water, and started heating it.
Xia Ruoyan was responsible for boiling the fat with wild boar oil.
After the two are made, they need to be left overnight.
At night, they spread the dried wild boar skin and wormwood in the cave.
Yangzi took the initiative to sleep over, leaving Chu Yang and his friends a private space to play...
On the morning of the eighth day, the dawn broke, and Chu Yang got up early.
The lye in the stone basin had turned pale yellow, so Chu Yang reheated it.
While Yoko was cooking breakfast, Xia Ruoyan came to the stream to pick wild flowers.
There is a small wild flower in the Asteraceae family called Spring Flying Fleece, which looks like a small sunflower, is everywhere and smells very fragrant.
In addition, she also found rosemary, a famous spice, by the stream.
After picking the two, they were ground and mashed, exuding a strange fragrance.
At this time, Chu Yang mixed the oil and lye, and added the wild flowers and spice powder.
In order to increase the hardness of the soap and make it easier to solidify, he added salt powder.
After all the materials were mixed, Chu Yang chiseled the wet wood into rectangular grooves and made four molds.
Two hours had passed since the completion.
"It's time to witness a miracle!" Chu Yang shouted arrogantly.
Xia Ruoyan and Yoko both ran over, eyes wide open, faces full of excitement.
He carefully poured the liquid into the mold.
The next step is to wait patiently for cooling!
During this time, everyone took the meat out to continue to expose it to the sun, and applied salt and spices.
Xia Ruoyan and Yoko kept running to look at the mold.
Until the white soap liquid had solidified.
They carefully picked up one, tapped it lightly on the ground, and the solid fell.
"Ah! It smells so good!"
Chu Yang also ran from the stream.
If it was in the past, let alone this rough primitive soap, they rarely used even soap, basically using shower gel and hand sanitizer.
But at this moment!
These four pieces of soap are like treasures, making the three people excited!
Xia Ruoyan and Yoko couldn't wait to run to the stream, wet their hands and legs and tried it.
"These days, my whole body is sticky, but now it feels much more comfortable, very refreshing, and there is a faint fragrance!"
The two women were very excited.
Chu Yang lit a cigarette and looked at this scene.
Warm and harmonious.
Soap is not a necessity for him.
As long as there are cigarettes...
The women then took off their outer clothes, leaving only their underwear, and washed them with another piece of soap.
"Chu Yang, wash yours too!" Xia Ruoyan shouted.
Chu Yang changed into another short skirt and took the dirty one over.
How he wished he could be rewarded with a set of clothes!
Wearing animal skins all day, drying people and grinding eggs...
The lean meat of the wild boar has been taken out to dry, and the fat part is still in the cave.
This time, they are going to boil lard, and their lives will be greatly improved.
When they were young, he and Chu Xiaotong were most looking forward to their mother refining lard.
Because there will be a bowl of crispy oil residue in the end.
Super delicious!
"Will lard never go bad?" Yangzi had never seen lard boiled.
"Yes, doesn't lard solidify at low temperatures? The temperature here is so high!" Xia Ruoyan also asked.
Chu Yang smiled and said, "Don't worry about this, the islandThe temperature difference between day and night is very large."
Yoko was puzzled and said, "After the lard solidifies at night, won't it melt again when the temperature rises during the day? It will probably go bad in a few days if it repeats over and over again."
I haven't thought about this problem.
However, it still doesn't bother Chu Yang.
"Haha, we can dig a special storage cave. This is a forest, and it will be very cool underground and easy to dissipate heat!"
Xia Ruoyan was very curious and said, "Chu Yang, you are a young man, how can you know so much common sense in life?"
Chu Yang scratched her nose lovingly: "I am a special case among rich people!"
In fact, Xia Ruoyan didn't know that Chu Yang helped his mother with housework when he was a child.
As the only "man" in the family, he knew how to change fuses, repair sewers, and make coal balls when he was in junior high school...
And these seemingly miserable experiences have become precious wealth in the future!
Chu Yang waved his hand: "Let's go to the bamboo forest next to us to find some bamboo tubes. ”
“Why are you looking for bamboo tubes?” Yoko asked.
“There is too much pork this time. In addition to the pickled pork, we will fry some fresh meat and soak it in lard…”
“Ah! I understand. You want to let the pork solidify in the lard to keep it fresh? In this way, you don’t have to eat pickled meat all the time, but can eat fresh pork at any time?”
“Right! What a smart baby!” Chu Yang laughed.
When there was no refrigerator at home when I was a child, my mother used this method to preserve pork.
“Chu Yang, you are so smart. In your Canglong language, my admiration for you is like a surging river! "Yoko also learned to joke.
Getting the praise from the women, Chu Yang was very happy.
Then the three of them went to the forest to look for bamboo.
The temperature here is high and the rainfall is abundant, which is the most suitable environment for the growth of broad-leaved bamboo.
Chu Yang cut down two bamboo poles, and Xia Ruoyan and Yoko served as assistants to split the bamboo tubes one by one.
The three of them were in high spirits, talking and laughing.
It took more than two hours to get more than 30 bamboo tubes.
The bamboo tubes were transported back to the camp by pulling a sled.
After a short rest, they started to fry the meat without stopping.
It is best to put all the meat and lard into the bamboo tubes.
But the weather is very hot at this moment, and the lard cannot solidify yet.
Chu Yang dug a big pit under the big tree in front of the cave.
Then he buried all the bamboo tubes and marked them, so that the pork stored in the cool underground will never deteriorate!