"Maxine, is there anything here that tastes sweet?" Lu Bing looked at the baskets of purple-red grapes that Maxine had picked in distress, and just ate a few sweet and sour grapes. Maxine thought for a while, he is an orc who doesn't like sweet fruits. "Sweet bar. I watched my parents eat it once when I was a child."

"Sweet bar?" Lu Bing wondered if it was sugar cane. Sugar cane is like a pole. "It's not joints, black or blue skin. When eating, you have to bite off the outer hard skin and eat the white flesh inside. And the flesh will spit out white hard residue after biting."

"Yes, yes . , green." Lu Bing's strokes are quite in place, and Maxine knew it was sweet stick when he heard it. "It's just not very sweet." Maxine organized it. "It's much worse than the honey fruit I gave you. It has hard residue. My parents seldom ate it before and didn't like it."

Lu Bing put his arms around the grape basket in front of him with a happy smile, and kissed the grape loudly. "That needs to be boiled, the juice in it will be very sweet when it is boiled dry. Then use the sugar in it to make wine for you to drink. Are there any around here?"

"Yes." Maxine has seen a lot of sweet sticks before. There are more grapes in the Grape Valley. "I'm going to get it back now."

Now the clay-sculpted ceramics have to be dried for a day, the cotton is not yet mature, but it can be picked in a few days, and the bricks fired before can be finished in one go. The grapes are not in a hurry, and there are not enough ceramic jars now. "First take the sugarcane, and we will call it this later. Bring the sugarcane back first to make sugar."

There was no important work today, and Maxine left with the animal hide rope and a large animal hide. Lu Bing put the basket of grapes into the storage room in the cave, turned around and came to the east cave and began to draw lines with charcoal, marking the reserved gaps and so on.

Draw six fireplaces on the wall, one at the front and one at the front and four at the side of the cliff. The cave is very large, and the intervals between the four fireplaces are also wide. Each fireplace is three meters wide. These are calculated by Lu Bing, and the sealed fireplace is enough to burn three fires of wood a day. Draw the position of the fireplace, and draw the vent on the ground. These air vents are as small as Maxine's fist, and one is opened on each side of the four fireplaces, and four are opened on the top and bottom, so that's about the same. The large area of ​​empty walls between the fireplaces took into account the heaviness and light, and a square-shaped window was separated between the front and rear walls, and six windows were opened in the middle of the fireplace interval. This square-shaped window will cost twenty-four yuan, and four more square-shaped windows will be opened in the living room and bedroom, and two separate windows have been opened in the bathroom before.

In Lu Bing's design, there are two doors in the bedroom, and there is one door before the living room on the west side, and two more doors are added to the original one. Now open one on the east side of the entrance and add another one to the west, and the light will be almost the same. There are a total of thirty-eight pieces of fish and bird skulls. Maxine is still relaxed, and he has enough strength to bring some salt. Lu Bing drew a good position in the living room and turned around to walk to the storage room. Now, there are mushrooms, fungus, dried shrimp, scallops, bamboo shoots, red dates, walnuts, meat pine nuts, etc. near the east. There is a stone room filled with animal skins. The other stone room is filled with various useful medicinal materials and dried seasonings such as peppers, and there is also a pantry for food such as sweet potatoes in the animal skin room, wool room, saponin bean room, and bacon and sausages in the six rooms opposite.

After looking at the six storage rooms that were already full of bacon, Lu Bing was very satisfied and closed the hidden animal skin curtain. When the wine is being brewed here, all the sweet potatoes inside are turned into sweet potato wine, and the high-quality wine will come out after several times of distillation. Maxine doesn't mention Lu Bing, but he also knows that he of the Snake Clan can't move when the temperature is low in the ice and snow season, and he is easily injured or killed when encountering wild animals, and his body is warmer when he is outside with high alcohol. And Lu Bing still has some plans, and he has accumulated a lot of precious medicinal materials in his hand. After harvesting the rice, if possible, he can get some high-grade white wine to soak some ginseng wine, tiger bone wine, deer blood wine, and medicinal wine for rheumatism.

Walking into the living room, Lu Bing tripped over the animal skin and fell to the ground without looking at the road when he lowered his head to think. "Hiss." Frowning, Lu Bing turned over and pulled up his animal skin pants, his knees and palms were not bleeding but were red. Standing up on his hands, Lu Bing clapped his palms and looked at the cold floor. "It seems that the earth dragon should be brought to the ground as soon as possible."

There were more and more things, and Lu Bing sat in front of the loom with a headache and tried to figure it out. If the earth dragon bricks are to be built, at least two cellars will be burned. It is impossible now that there is no time to lay the earth dragon and there are many things to do. I can only ask Maxin to get more long and thick bamboo tubes, preferably each one is 25 meters long. Thinking of this, Lu Bing got up and came to the platform. There was already a large pile of sugar cane Maxine was gone, and it seemed that he continued to carry it. There are too many ideas, and there are only two people who can't be busy. Lu Bing stood there for a while and then sat back in front of the loom to weave this piece of wool cloth first. When the down jacket and quilt were produced before the ice and snow season, it was just the quilt cover and inner lining.

At night when Maxine took Lu Bing down to eat dinner, Lu Bing was stunned at the densely packed sugar cane wall, pointed at the sugar cane and said, "Have you moved them all back?"

"There are still some." Maxine pulled Lu Bing and sat in front of the grill. Give him a bowl of mussel soup. "I can get them all back tomorrow morning."

Lu Bing nodded and ate a few mouthfuls of roast meat and sweet potatoes while drinking soup. After filling his stomach, he told Maxine what he was thinking about in the afternoon. Maxine planned what Lu Bing said in her heart and agreed. "I'll pick up the bamboo when I get back the sugar cane tomorrow. By the way, what is a down jacket?"

"It's the one I wore during the ice and snow season last year. The feathers of various birds are used inside, which is very warm." Explained Down jacket, Lu Bing had a full belch after dinner, and the barbecue was getting worse and worse. When I have time in the ice and snow season, I will make a good meal to enjoy. "In the evening, squeeze out the juice from the sugar cane to make brown sugar, and burn some charcoal to wash the brown sugar when the bricks are fired tomorrow night."

"What tools do you need to squeeze the juice?" Lu Bing thought for a while and dictated the appearance of the sugarcane stone grinder. When Maxine had a full stomach, he first stirred the mud in the mud pool, and then got a few huge stones and made them with the claws of panshan beasts. Stone milling, after Lu Bing inspected, the two men trimmed and cleaned the sugar cane before starting to grind. Maxine had enough strength to see that Lu Bing sometimes couldn't keep up with the sugar cane. While setting up several stone pots to burn sugarcane juice, the two discussed whether to open a cave on the cliff here to store wood and process meat before the snow season. Lu Bing didn't want to make the place where he lived smelly and difficult. Wen Maxine was also unwilling to leave Lu Bing outside alone when he was gone, and after discussing it, it was finally decided that the firewall and other things should be fixed before opening. Before going to bed, the two people squeezed less than half of the brown sugar, and the brown sugar was boiled in three large wooden barrels, and then they rested.

When the two got all the brown sugar out, the clay pots were also burned out. Except for three that were cracked and broken, the other twenty-seven were all good. Taking the hot iron, Maxine ran to the Grape Valley to bring back ripe purple grapes. Lu Bing stirred the brown sugar with water at home, filtered it, added charcoal and stirred clockwise until the honey was separated, and then poured the transparent sucrose juice into the stone pot. heating.

After picking enough grapes, Maxine was not idle. He cut down a bamboo tube of sufficient length, opened up the inner tube joints, roasted them straight, and put them aside for later use. In order to better keep warm, two people discuss a row of bricks and a row of bamboo pipes, and then put all the exhaust outlets in the bathroom. At that time, the hot air will first circulate in the east room and then go to the living room and then to the bathroom to maximize the waste. After separating half of the brown sugar road ice, stop, and the remaining brown sugar road ice wants to be used to make sugar-smoked chicken and duck, so that the bagasse can be used after drying.

Lu Bing and Maxine smell the sweet smell from the cliff made of boiled sugar, but they are determined to open a cave on the opposite side. After the white sugar is boiled, some road ice is cooled and added to the grapes. There are twenty-seven clay pots, each of which is as high as the waist of the road ice and wide enough. It is said that there are modern clay pots in all the pots. These earthenware pots are finished and there are only a dozen catties of white sugar left. Lu Bingdian will not be able to eat the white sugar for long, and then he will try to see if the dense fruit can be processed.

In the past two days, Lu Bing has been busy making wine and Maxine has made a lot of new ceramics. Pottery bowls, plates, clay pots, casserole and bricks can be fired for a cellar. After finishing these batches, Maxine will set off to fetch fish and bird skulls. While firing ceramics, Lu Bing watched the fire below while opening another small cellar to burn charcoal. This time, Lu Bing took the extra bamboo tubes and empty walnut shells to burn. In the spare time of burning the fire, Maxine brought down the loom and worked by the light of the fire. Maxine moved east to the cave first. The floor of the living room and bedroom is arranged with bricks and bamboo tubes. The thin ends of the bamboo tubes are cut off, and the splicing is thick and thin. Generally, one end can be put on the other. The bamboo tube is half as thick as the bricks. Maxine adjusted it sideways and put down the place where the two bricks were not enough, and then spread mud on it and covered it with thin stone slabs to look good. Similarly, the concave and convex parts where the bamboo tubes are spliced ​​are also covered with mud, so that the heat inside will not be released.

Maxine added heated gum to the mud, which has a high degree of adhesion. Maxine tried to use two bricks mixed with this mud and burned it in the stove for several hours. After taking it out, it still bonded well without falling apart. . It took Maxine two days to lay all the ground dragons. After a quick rest for a day, Maxine picked the cotton back overnight before the rain, and piled it up to fill the eastern half of the cave. When it rained heavily the next day after harvesting the cotton, Lu Bing was processing the cotton. Maxine first set up the fire walls in the bedroom and living room, and Maxine left after the rain.

After sending away Maxine who had lost a lot of weight, Lu Bing felt distressed and worried about Maxine's safety, but there were still too few people. It will take two more days to divert to the Salt Lake this time. One is that the cemetery of the beast is after all the bones washed out by the flood. Boil the salt there and come back. Lu Bing used the cotton gin to get out the cottonseed, and when there was almost a bag of cotton, he flicked it with a bamboo bow and piled it aside to accumulate a pile before spinning it with a spinning wheel. Even when Lu Bing was not idle for a moment, when Maxine came back, less than one-tenth of the large pile of cotton was consumed. The wine was stirred continuously for a week, peeled and left the juice, and then fermented for a week. Lu Bing re-filtered these wines, added frothed egg whites and re-sealed them and stacked them in the corner. Fifteen of the twenty-seven clay pots were empty after the wine was filtered and integrated. These wine-smelling pots are enough to hold sweet potato wine and rice wine in a few days.