After digging the stone mill, Maxine saw that Lu Bing hadn't changed all the animal skins and stepped forward to help. The next day the two dragged the raft back to the olive tree again, and today the two were retrieving the raft across the river. This time, Lu Bing found half a pumpkin who didn't know how to come here, and a tomato plant that was almost ripe and dropped. After collecting the dried seeds on the ground, Lu Bing called Maxine to come over and see what the tomatoes looked like, so that he could look for them in the forest alone.

When Maxine led Lu Bing to pick the reddish tomatoes, Lu Bing also found peanuts hidden on the hillside. There were not many peanuts collected on these hillsides, only half a bag. Lu Bing couldn't even make peanut oil enough, so he had to let Maxine know it. When I went back at night, there were tall timbers piled up on the two rafts at the back, potatoes and sweet potatoes in the front, some pine cones, walnuts and dates in animal skin bags, and four baskets of tomatoes in freshly woven baskets.

At night, Maxine made a horizontal wedge oil press with a whole camphor tree that couldn't be clasped with both hands. On the side, Lu Bing boiled the ripe tomatoes into ketchup, and then dipped them in French fries to eat. After the oil press was completed, Maxine wanted to continue making soil hullers for grain husking, but there was still one left at Lu Bing's little uncle's house. It is said that his grandfather used to do this job. My uncle's farmhouse has received many tourists. One tourist really wanted this thing, but my uncle didn't sell it. After all, it was a souvenir left by my grandfather. Later, under the soft grinding of others, his uncle promised to make a small proportion for him, and he left. At that time, Lu Bing accompanied his uncle to make a few, even though he was a layman, he still remembered the process.

This thing was very troublesome to make, and it took the two of them two nights to get it right. The next day, I didn't go to the forest to look for food with the mentality of trying. I just nested in the farmland and tried it. After the brown rice came out, Lu Bing checked that the rice yield was very high, so I was relieved. The dustpan waited for several follow-up white rice to come out. This experiment used the poor-quality bag, and Maxine came down with eight bags of millet after the experiment was completed. Eleven bags of millet were harvested this time, and one bag was reserved for seed and two bags for prevention. These eight bags of Maxine are not going to be made into rice wine. In the past, Lu Bing often said that he would leave two bags of rice for Lu Bing to eat, and the rest would be made into rice wine.

Lu Bing pushed the earth and husked Maxine to do the rest of the work, and it was not until the afternoon that all the rice was ground out. To sum it up, Lu Bing took the extra five bags of rice that Maxine said went to the opposite cave, and Maxine turned the remaining wheat seeds into wheat flour below. Standing in the cave and looking at a large pile of olives, I recalled that cold-pressed oil is the best for bathing, so I had to let Maxine take half of the olives to dry, leaving two bags for the ice and snow season. Lu Bing soaked the rice in a rice bucket and began to wash the olives. The washed olives were drained and poured into a stone pot to fry. There were a lot of olives and it was not long before Lu Bing finished frying.

After a late dinner, Lu Bing and Maxine packed up the husked wheat, and took the hot iron to the cave to start pressing oil and steaming rice. There is only a set of three-layer steamers in the cave, divided into three stone pots for steaming rice. While watching the fire, Lu Bing and Maxine peeled off the pulp of the copied olives, and put the core aside for further processing. Three pots of steamed rice Maxine poured the rice into a clean wooden basin, replaced it with soaked rice, added water to the pot and continued.

The olives were more than half peeled, and the first pot of rice was also cold to 30 to 40 degrees. The experienced Lu Bing began to add wine koji to the rice, stir it and press it, then dug a hole in the middle and poured it to cool. All the rice is steamed and fermented with koji, the olives are also peeled, and the nuts with the most oil in the core are also placed separately. It was very late now, and the two dragged their tired bodies back to sleep.

Now that the ice and snow season is only one month away, Lu Bing put on thick animal skin clothes and stood on the platform looking down early in the morning. The straw was dried and bundled up and placed in the open space of the breeding area for the pheasants to make nests. From above, Lu Bing saw that the pheasants scattered in the withered grass were very dense, and there were many chickens that had just hatched a month ago. It's a pity that these chickens were killed before the ice and snow season, or they would stay for a long time. Undecided, Lu Bing walked to the door of the east room and looked inside. The planting area was already densely packed, leaving only a one-meter-wide aisle between the two stands. If the straw is woven and laid on the aisle, it will keep warm and save space. It would also be good to build a shelf on the open space of the breeding area to stack grass or feed on it.

Look at all the stone gates that have not yet been installed with wooden doors, especially the one connecting the east room. It will not taste good when chickens are raised and planted inside. When Maxine came back from hunting, Lu Bing mentioned this matter. Maxine thought for a while and pointed to the entrance of the cave, which was connected to the aisle that was more than three meters wide, five meters high, and five meters long. "Build a shelf here to pile up straw. I'm afraid it will get wet when I water the planting area. The space above the planting area is used to put those sweet potato residues and so on. It can be used to raise chickens."

Maxine's plan like this is better than Lu Bing thought on the whole. A lot, after confirming the details, Maxine took all the soap beans that Lu Bing pulled out of the storage room to the opposite cave first, and then led Lu Bing there. Maxine used thick tree trunks piled up under the cliff to make double-open wooden doors, and installed a door at both ends of each passage, and then used animal skins to make a door curtain.

Lu Bing first checked the fermentation of the rice and made sure that the fermentation was good. Turning around, Lu Bing began to stir-fry the pork belly that Maxine cut into small pieces to make spicy braised pork and stew it on top. Put the knocked-out big bones in another pot to cook the soup, then add the internal organs to stew, and finally steamed it Potatoes in two steamers. After finishing, knead the olive meat that was peeled last night into a ball, and stir-fry the olive nuts in the pan until the surface of the nuts is oily, then pour them into a stone mortar to mash and knead the balls.

When Maxine came over for lunch at noon, he looked at the already assembled olives and nuts, and said that in the afternoon, all the wooden doors could be installed and the curtains hung up, and the wooden frames in the breeding area and various door openings could also be set up. Lu Bing thought about it for the afternoon and he could just use the dense fruit to boil some white sugar. The white sugar made from dense fruit is better than sugarcane in that it can produce white sugar at one time instead of having to process it again. The sweetness of the two kinds of white sugar is similar. "That night, I was squeezing these olives for oil."

"Okay." Maxine put down the bowl and chopsticks and burped. "Are there enough soap beans?"

Maxine had collected twelve bags of soap beans before, and now there are not enough soap beans in the woods, so he hastened to pick them. Saponaria leaves are not as good as saponins, and saponins only bear fruit during the harvest season. It is best to make more soap and save it for later use. "When you collect wood, you take it back when you see it. There is nothing to do until the heavy snowfall. I just make some soap and soap for use, so I don't have to hoard so many soap beans to waste storage room space."

In the gap between boiling sugar, use a clean stone mortar to smash the soap beans little by little, and then soak the soap beans in a wooden barrel with water. After turning the axis for an afternoon, I harvested more than ten catties of white sugar soap beans and smashed two bags. At night, Maxine made olive meat into pancakes, and Maxine did it very quickly, and Lu Bing only helped to change the pancakes when the oil was pressed. After squeezing the olives and nuts, Maxine's arms began to tremble slightly. After Lu Bing returned, he boiled a tub of water for Maxine to take a medicated bath to relieve his muscles.

The olives dried under the cliff were not yet dry and the rice had already been fermented. Lu Bing was busy for three days while boiling the collected nuts into white sugar and smashing the soap beans while distilling in the pot. Soaking tiger bone, ginseng, deer blood and herbs for treating rheumatism and tonifying the kidney in the high-grade liquor distilled to the end and putting them into the east room, Lu Bing breathed a sigh of relief and slept soundly for a night. In the past few days, Maxine has brought more than one hundred chicks and twenty brooding hens to the breeding area, together with 200 eggs that have been selected and fertilized. The pheasant under the cliff is roughly There are more than three hundred more. In order to keep the pheasants warm before slaughtering, Maxine leaned on the fence and piled up a square space with wood, and drove all the pheasants into it when it snowed heavily.

When Maxine stored wood, he also dug out all the sweet potatoes in the sweet potato field that was first discovered. These sweet potatoes that were not old were put into the stone room mixed with potatoes to preserve the old ones, and the old ones were left to make sweet potato flour. Lu Bing made rice wine, and the olives dried under the cliff can also be pressed for oil. Maxine used a stone mill to grind all the sweet potatoes into pulp and Lu Bing peeled the olive meat. After another two days of hard work, Lu Bing had a good rest and cooked a delicious meal for Maxine, who deserved the most credit.

The pace of life of the two of them began to slow down again. They built a hearth in the opposite stone room and tidied up the storage room. The vacant space was filled with bacon and sausage. When Lu Bing was making soap, Maxine put the The stone chamber expands inward.

Soap and soap all use alkali. Lu Bing poured the burned plant ash into several wooden barrels and stirred it for one night. The next day, he filtered out the yellow water with cotton cloth. Take the water and the soap beans and put them in a newly made stone pot to boil until the soap fat comes out. Use a colander to hook the soap fat to the side of the small clay pot and add cold-pressed olive oil and pearl powder to stir. Pour evenly into the stone mold on one side. These are kept for the bath. Those who wash their hair replace the pearl powder with the concentrated decoction boiled from the hoarded medicinal material Polygonum multiflorum to make a shampoo. After all the cold-pressed olive oil was used up, Lu Bing made soap for washing dishes and laundry, and made soap beans and alkali without adding anything.

Making soap and sweet potato flour one after another, Maxine called Lu Bing, who was sleeping late, to wake up early this morning. "Lu, wake up."

He muttered a few times in the animal skin quilt, before he was dug out by Maxine and put on a thin cotton coat before he got up. Maxine explained while dressing Lu Bing. "I got up in the morning to check the weather. It was very dark and there was water vapor in the air, and it would snow heavily at night." It was

snowing. Lu Bing opened his eyes and got up, put on his trousers, put on animal leather shoes, fastened on the buttons made of wood, and walked around, saying, "Have you covered the wood under the cliff?"

"It's all done, and breakfast is also ready. Maxine handed the toothbrush and water cup to Lu Bing and walked aside to bring porridge and salted egg barbecue. After breakfast, Lu Bing asked Maxine to take the wild ducks he caught the other day to the opposite cave. He went to the east room and lit two fireplaces to keep warm, and set up one if it was still cold at night. After finishing these, Lu Bing took out the two sets of snakeskin jumpsuits he had sewn, put on the small one and left the big one for Maxine.