Wilderness Survival 365 Days

Yun Xin asked curiously, “Then Chu Feng, what are you doing with cement?” ”

“Do the clay kang.” The corners of Chu Feng’s mouth raised and said softly, this is the reason why the cement is urgently made.

With the earth kang, the winter will be much more comfortable, at least when sleeping, it will not be cold in the middle of the night.

“Huh? Chu Feng, you can still do earth kang? Liu Yiqiu was surprised.

There are many earth kang in the north and is a sharp tool for heating when it snows in winter.

“It’s very simple, it’s not hard to do with cement.” Chu Feng said softly.

“How?” Yun Xin was also curious.

“Remove the big bed first, otherwise there is no place to build a kang.” Chu Feng said softly, the two large beds already occupied a lot of space.

“Okay.” The three women responded in unison, divided their labor, and moved the two large beds to the wooden table and vacated the corner of the wall.

“The space is just the right size.” Chu Feng said softly that the earth kang he wanted to build was very large, and it would be enough for four people to sleep together.

“What else to do?” Liu Yiqiu asked softly.

“Carry some stones and silt.” Chu Feng thought about it and said softly, picked up the sapper shovel on the side and walked outside the shelter.

“I’ll help you.” Liu Yimeng rolled up her sleeves and followed her out of the shelter with great interest.

Chu Feng came to the courtyard, braved the light snow, used a sapper shovel to cut the snow layer, and then began to dig up the soil.

Liu Yimeng rummaged through the courtyard for stones, and after a while, Liu Yiqiu also came out and helped move the stones she found into the shelter.

The girl came out wearing a bucket hat, holding a bamboo basket in her hand, crouched down to load the soil dug out by Chu Feng, and then moved into the shelter little by little.

Time passed slowly, more than half an hour later.

“Okay, let’s go first, it should be enough.” Chu Feng put away the sapper shovel, and next to him were two bamboo baskets, both filled with dirt and rubble.

“Okay.” The Liu sisters answered casually, holding stones in their hands, and stepped on the thick snow to return to the shelter.

The large bed was removed and placed on the side against the wall, leaving room for walking, and the ground was full of rubble and dirt, as well as many large and small stones.

“So what’s next?” Liu Yimeng couldn’t wait to ask.

“Let’s make a few cement slabs first.” Chu Feng put down the bamboo basket and said softly.

He turned and left the shelter, went to the warehouse to fetch two pieces of bamboo, and cut them all into pieces of bamboo with a wood knife, and cut them into fifty centimeters in length and four centimeters in width.

Chu Feng squatted down and took out the rope, and every four bamboo pieces were connected to form a square frame and fixed with a rope.

He then found dried banana leaves to spread on the ground, put the box on it, and then used a sapper to shovel the earthen cement and pour it into the box to flatten it.

“Well, when it dries out, it’s a cement slab.” Chu Feng said softly.

“Chu Feng, how many pieces will you make?” Liu Yimeng squatted down to help, fixed the bamboo pieces with a rope, and then poured them with cement to form them.

“Twenty pieces.” Chu Feng said softly that the earth kang he was going to do was two meters by two meters and five meters, so that it was enough for four people to sleep together and it was not crowded.

Each clay slab is fifty centimeters multiplied by fifty centimeters in size, which means that twenty such cement slabs are needed to cover the earth kang.

“Howler.” Liu Yimeng was busy with great interest.

It took the four of them another hour to get twenty cement slabs ready, and the cement slabs occupied the ground, leaving only a small area to walk.

“There is still some cement left, which should be enough to build the Kang wall.” Chu Feng said softly, holding those bamboo pieces on the wall and began to measure the distance to determine the location of the Kang wall.

The earth kang was built next to the corner of the wall, so only two other kang walls needed to be built.

After determining the location of the clay kang, he began to build the wall with stone, the same method as the wall of the shelter, except that this time the clay was replaced by the clay cement, which was faster.

With the help of the Liu family sisters and maidens, Chu Feng spent more than an hour building the two Kang walls of the earth kang, with a height of eighty centimeters.

Two Kang walls, one of which faces the fireplace, has a ten-centimeter-long and wide hole near the corner, which is used to connect the fireplace and is also the entrance to the earth kang.

Liu Yimeng pouted, looked at Chu Feng’s Kang wall and muttered, “It looks like a pigsty…”

“Liu Yimeng…” The corners of Liu Yiqiu’s mouth twitched, and she rolled her eyes in disgust.

“If it’s built, it’s not like that.” Chu Feng laughed bitterly, carried the bamboo basket, and poured all the sediment inside into the position where the Kang Wall was enclosed.

He stepped over the kang wall and went inside, using a sapper shovel to carefully flatten the soil and step on it, and then used cement to evenly cover the surface of the soil to prevent the heat from spilling out too quickly.

After covering the cement, Chu Feng carefully stood outside the Kang wall and built a flue with stones.

The flue is built in an ‘S’ shape, starting from the entrance of the heating, and surrounds the earth kang in a circle, and the height is flush with the outermost kang wall.

The reason why the earth kang will be warm is to rely on hot smoke to carry out heat circulation under the earth kang, and the ‘S’ shaped flue can make the hot smoke stay longer in the soil kang.

Most importantly, the flue can also play a role in supporting cement slabs, just as pillars.

It took Chu Feng more than half an hour to finish the flue, and all the cement in the water tank was used up.

“We have to wait until the cement is completely dry before proceeding to the next step.” Chu Feng said softly, rubbing his hands on the cement of the finger seams, and the earth kang in front of him was already half completed.

“Then I’ll go to dinner.” Yun Xin smiled, reached out to wipe the cement from Chu Feng’s face, and then turned and ran away.

“It’s dark.” Chu Feng smiled lightly and looked out the window, the sky outside had already darkened.

“Chu Feng, go wash your face first.” Liu Yiqiu said softly.

“Okay.” Chu Feng looked at his hands stained with cement, turned around and went to the water tank to scoop up some water, and went into the toilet to rinse.

“I’ll help make dinner.” Liu Yimeng ran to help the girl.

Liu Yiqiu found a broom made of branches and hay, and simply cleaned the ground where the dirt and stones had just been piled up, and vacated the position for the big I bed tonight.

“Be careful when walking.”

She whispered to the two women that the ground was full of mud slabs, and it was easy to step on them if you were not careful.

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“One more,( ̄▽ ̄). The production of soil cement, the author also searched for information. ”