A Farm Girl Traveling Through Time: Raising a Stunning Husband

After lunch, Shen Wu no longer cared about what happened during cooking. Seeing that Gu Zhou looked normal, she no longer cared about it. The two of them cleaned up the kitchen one after the other and began to deal with the yellow mud bricks.

Shen Wu first cleared the space at the door to be used as the incense burner before he planned to help Gu Zhou get some hay, when he suddenly remembered something.

She quickly ran to the woods behind the yard, where Gu Zhou was making hay: "Wait! I'm the one being stupid!"

Although it was already autumn, it was already past two o'clock and the sun was scorching. Gu Zhou had already filled a basket of grass by himself. He stood up when he heard her voice.

"No! I forgot that you can make a stove with stones and yellow mud!"

She hurriedly pulled the child to rest in the shade at the edge of the woods. Seeing the child's face covered in sweat, she felt so distressed.

"Stone? You mean stone and mud?"

Gu Zhou also suddenly remembered that the stove at home was made in this way. It was not his fault that he had no memory of it. It was mainly because there were too many things going on at home at that time. He and his parents were too busy after returning from Yuncheng, and for a moment he did not remember the stove that was built at home.

The stove was built with the help of the villagers. When the village chief learned that his father was a scholar, he found some people to help with the house and yard. At that time, his father went to the government office to do some work, and his mother was pregnant with his younger sister, so he was the only one taking care of the fields and the house.

"Then I'll go find some stones, and we can build a pile of them in the afternoon. Then we can burn them with firewood in a day or two and they will be ready for use."

Gu Zhou said he was going to get the backpack and look for stones, but Shen Wu hurriedly grabbed him by the clothes.

"Don't go yet, it's too hot. I thought it would be no problem to make yellow mud bricks on this day, but I didn't expect it to be so hot..."

Shen Wu pondered for a moment and then said, "Let's go back first. You can rest at home for a while. Then, when the weather cools down, we can use the hay in the backpack. Eight yellow mud bricks will be enough. We don't need that many. As for the remaining stones, I'll go out with you to find them in the afternoon when it's cooler. It will be faster with two people. When we come back, we can start the fortification."

"Are eight dollars enough?" Gu Zhou was a little confused.

Shen Wu stamped her feet suddenly. Seeing what she was doing, she forgot to say what kind of incense burner she was going to make.

She pulled the man's sleeve and backed away, found a place with a lot of soil, broke off a branch, and squatted on the ground to draw a simple diagram of the incense burner for the man.

In order to save materials, she planned to use the courtyard wall as the back of the smoker, which was about 90 centimeters high. If it couldn't be square, she would make it into an arc-shaped pointed top, with a width of about 60 centimeters. At that time, the lower layer would be filled with yellow mud to make two layers of partitions. The upper layer would be left with a place for passing through depending on the situation. Every time the meat was smoked, wet branches could be passed through and hung.

In this way, the smoked meat can be hung on the layer of yellow mud bricks below and can also be used to grill fish or something.

If the oven survives long enough, she might also consider making some grilled food.

Shen Wu's sketch was extremely simple. She drew a wall and then drew the rough shape of a stove on it. Gu Zhou understood it at a glance.

"Then why put the yellow mud bricks in there? It gets in the way when you're smoking something," Gu Zhou asked, pointing at the position of the yellow mud brick that Shen Wu had drawn in the center of the stove.

Shen Wu thought: "I mainly wanted this position in case I need to smoke other things in the future, this place can also be used to store something." As she spoke, she denied her own thoughts and wiped off the painting on the yellow mud brick with her hand.

"How about making a few raised layers inside the stove? If you want to smoke fish or meat in the future, you can put some bamboo strips on top and then put the bamboo basket on top without having to hang it up."

The style she drew was like a modern steamer, except that the grooves were replaced with raised circles so that some bamboo strips could be placed on them to bear the weight.

"I see." Gu Zhou understood her thoughts and pointed as he continued, "You leave holes so that bamboo pieces or branches can be inserted easily. It's not easy to insert them inside. If you leave a hole, you can insert half of it first, and then pass the rest through the stove from outside."

"That's right!" Shen Wu thought: "In this case, we can save the yellow mud bricks. We can just pick up some stones in the afternoon and then pile them up."

She was worried that the children would spend a lot of time working on the hay and not use it, so she said, "We can just hammer the hay and paste it on the outermost layer of yellow mud, which will help block some rain."

Gu Zhou thought it was possible, and nodded at her with bright eyes.

After talking about this matter, there is also the toilet that Shen Wu mentioned. Although he had vaguely gestured in the yard before, he did not explain it in detail to Gu Zhou: "I still have to explain the dry toilet to you clearly."

As she spoke, she wiped the painting of the incense burner and began to draw her imaginary toilet: "We are all children and don't have that much strength. We have to sell buns on weekdays and don't have much time. We pick the ones that save effort.

"This is the corner of our courtyard wall. We can use the two sides of the wall to build a small toilet here. We only need to dig a rectangular ditch that slopes downward toward the outside of the wall. I have seen that the ground in our yard is solid, so it may take some effort to dig. But once it is dug, we don't have to go out to the toilet in winter. There is just one problem: the dry toilet does not smell good."

Gu Zhou shook his head: "It's okay"

To him, this is no big deal.

Shen Wu continued: "When the time comes, we will build a wall on one side and a bamboo door on the other. It will just be able to protect against wind and rain."

"What are you going to do?" Gu Zhou couldn't figure out how the bamboo wall she was going to build could protect against these two things.

Shen Wu chuckled, "Here's what I was thinking. We'll cover the inside and outside, even the ground, with yellow mud. For the wall, we'll cut some old bamboo and weave it like a mat to make a bamboo sheet that's taller than the wall. Then we'll cover the inside and outside with a layer of yellow mud and a layer of hay. It will definitely be windproof. We'll make the top a little more spacious and a little slanted to let the rain go outside."

"Good idea!" When Gu Zhou heard her say this, he felt that the toilet was right in front of him.