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Chapter 575 Homemade Nest Foundation

Chapter 575 Homemade Nest Foundation

These days, cask hoop is a technical job.

Wooden or bamboo nails have to be used to connect the pieces of wood tightly together, and they are hooped with bamboo strips or rattan.

It is not a simple matter to be watertight and durable, it requires superb skills.

This is not comparable to things made of glue adhesion and stainless steel hoops.

Lu Lu joined Chen Xiuyu's family in his last life, and once took apart a wooden water bucket that hadn't been used for a long time and became loose. He thought it was an old object and planned to restore it, but he tried to assemble it again, but failed. In the end, only the pieces of wood can be turned into firewood.

When the cedar wood was delivered to Zuo Songling's home, Lu Lu saw that Zuo Songling was busy making furniture.

After asking, I found out that Liang Kangbo asked him to make it, following Lu Lu's method.

Wang Dalong and others were already busy building a house for Liang Kangbo, and it was still the template carved by Lu Lu.However, the chosen location was not in Huilongtun Village, but in a private plot in the mountains behind him.

Ever since Lu Lu's woodcut was built, everyone who saw his house thought it was beautiful and easy to use, and almost all wanted to build a similar one.

This made Wang Dalong lead the group of people to work all the time. As a well-known carpenter in the village, Zuo Songling hasn't had a lot of free time in the past year. He has always been busy with building houses.

Zhang Shaofeng also came to say hello. After Liang Kangbo’s house was built, he would also build it. Meng Zhaohua, Feng Dezhu, and Zhou Fangjing all came here to see the furniture he made. Although they didn’t say anything about building a house, But they probably already have ideas.

Lu Lu is more concerned about Lei Meng. The family lives in a house in the deer farm, which is really crowded. Now that they have money, they should think about it soon.

After asking Zuo Songling if he could make a bathtub, Lu Lu directly explained the size he wanted, and there was enough wood. In addition to Zhang Shaofeng and others, Lei Meng's Lu Lu also asked him to help build one.

This is delicate work, and it cannot be completed in a short while, it will take some time.

After the work was done, Lu Lu drove the carriage to the bee farm by the way, and brought back all the remaining honeycomb and honey dregs that had been cut off.

Every year, there are always old nest foundations that need to be replaced and eliminated. In addition, there are quite a lot of honey dregs. The beeswax in these honey dregs must be extracted to make new nest foundations for future use.

You know, by next year, the bee farm can be expanded.

There are so many mountains and fields, and some of them are places to play.

There is nothing else to be busy at the moment, Lu Lu intends to find time to do this matter.

When the honey dregs are smelted, the remaining honey and beeswax in it will emit a strong fragrance. Obviously, this matter cannot be carried out in the bee farm or Lulu's meadow.

Otherwise, under the influence of this smell, bee colonies will inevitably flock to it, which is easy to cause chaos, which in turn leads to a series of problems such as theft.

After much deliberation, Lu Lu chose to directly send these honey dregs, together with those left over from cutting the honey at home, to Zhao Yongke's home, which was further away.

Zhao Yongke, Zhang Shaofeng and others were also busy dealing with the forest frog wintering pool.

Along the nearly [-]-meter length of the mud ditch, there are more than a dozen large overwintering ponds, each with an area of ​​three to four hundred square meters, and Lu Lu required that the mud be cleaned up, and the depth should be at least [-] meters. The yellow mud will smooth the bottom paste, and the edges will be sloped to prevent water leakage, and drainage and other issues must be considered.

When the forest frogs go down the mountain to overwinter, they have to spread some branches and grass leaves on the bottom of the pond in advance, fill the pond with water, and let it bask in the sun for a period of time, including disinfection with quicklime.

There are quite a lot of things to do, and they can't be completed in a day or two. They have nothing to do for the time being, so they take the time to start preparations in advance.

They are all working hard to make the farm better.

Since he chose to go to Zhao Yongke's house, Lu Lu really needed help, so when he went back, Lu Lu also called Zhao Yongke.

After Lu Lv and his gang came back with their clubs, Zhao Tuanqing went to Jiayin to help Lei Meng, Zhang Shaofeng and Liang Kangbo pick Oroqen horses.

But in fact, Lu Lu and the others can also see that Zhao Tuanqing has been trapped at home for too long and wants to go out for a walk

In that family, only Unakan was at home doing housework, doing things in the field, and taking care of two children who went to school.

Lu Lu is a big man, but he can't just pass by like this.

The two returned to Zhao Yongke's meadow with the honey dregs, and saw five or six half-sized roe deer in the small meadow.

"Sister-in-law, when did you get it and raise it?" Lu Lu couldn't help smiling and asked Wu Nakan who was tending the vegetable field.

After carrying the mallet back, Lu Lu was very tired and busy these two days, so he hadn't had time to come and see.

Even if Zhao Tuanqing went to Jiayin, it was just a simple mention from Zhao Yongke during the Teeth Ceremony.

"Ama said that the fence in the meadow is fenced, and I always think about raising something in my heart, but after much deliberation, wild boars, blind bears, hares, sand chickens, and dragons are not easy to raise, and they end up in the mountains. While wandering around, I met roe deer, so I brought a few back to raise them.

When Amma was at home, he went to see and feed these roe deer every day. There were two little roe deer who would follow him around. If it wasn't for the fear that the grass inside would not be enough to eat, he would have thought about raising a few more.Amma is happy! "

Una Kan said cheerfully.

For the Oroqen people, roe deer is closely related to their daily life. Roe deer can be seen everywhere. Roe deer skin is used to live in the roe deer, and Suen is made of roe deer skin. Roe deer meat is their food for entertaining guests... Zhao Tuanqing finally chose to get roe deer to raise, and Lu Lu was not surprised at all.

As Wu Nakan said, as long as Zhao Tuanqing is happy.

This unfettered old hunter, who has been wandering in the mountains all his life, actually has a deeper understanding of the mountains and the animals in them than anyone else, and even just looking at them makes him feel comfortable.

After removing the honey dregs from the car, Zhao Yongke moved three stones left over from the foundation of the house and built a stove. water, and then put those honey dregs into it, and started to boil.

Zhao Yongke didn't have enough buckets and basins here, so Lu Lu brought his own buckets, basins, gauze to filter and squeeze beeswax and other tools when he went home.

There are more than 180 peaks, and there are a lot of honey dregs left over from the two honey extractions, as well as honeycombs that have been blackened and eliminated, and there are a lot of superfluous spleens, which have been boiled in three large pots.

During the cooking process of the honeycomb, it exudes a strong aroma of honey and beeswax, which attracts many black bees and bumble bees, and even landmine bees.

Buzzing and flying around the boiling cauldron, they also took the opportunity to eat the remaining honey in the bag.

The honey dregs are fully melted in the big pot, and after stirring, they are scooped into the filter gauze for filtering and extrusion, and then put into the barrel. The beeswax floats on the water surface, and after cooling in cold water, the yellowish wax cakes are taken out one by one. out.

This matter alone kept the two of them busy all afternoon.

The next day, Lu Lu came to Zhao Yongke in the morning and brought the nest foundation machine, wax dipping board and wax dipping pot left by Sun Hanwei at that time.

It's still yesterday's big pot. After melting the beeswax, put it into a dipping wax pot.

This is a rectangular iron container, and the melted beeswax is put into it, just like a pot of oil, it will not be so easy to cool and solidify in a short time.

The wax-dipping version is polished and polished with Chinese fir, the same size as the nest foundation, dipped in cold water, and then put into the wax dipping pot to dip in the wax, requiring the wax dipping plate to be covered.

After dipping in the melted beeswax, after taking it out, there will be a layer of beeswax attached to both sides of the wax dipping wand, then put the wax dipping wand into a wooden basin filled with cold water for rapid cooling, and then stick it on both sides Take off the wax film, then put the wax film into the nest foundation machine equipped with two roller molds full of nest holes, shake the handle once, press the nest holes, and it becomes the nest foundation.

Things sound simple, but it also requires a little technology.

Lu Lu also invited Wu Nakan to help, three people, one dipped in wax, one removed the film, and one pressed the nest hole.

Even so, it took Lu Lu a lot of time to teach Zhao Yongke and Wu Nakan, two Oroqen people who had never been exposed to this series of things, how to operate, and things proceeded in an orderly manner.

It took a whole day to prepare the nest foundations needed for the coming year, and then stacks of nest foundations were separated by newspapers, and Lu Lu brought them back to his warehouse for storage.

It can be regarded as one thing completed.

The next step is to frame the nest foundation, which will be done when needed.

After two days of rest, Lu Lu wandered around the meadow with his baby all day long.

That is, in the past few days, the four sticks that were dried in the sun during the day and dried with charcoal at night were finally dry. Lu Lu took four jars that had also been soaked in sesame oil for a few days, and wiped the inside and outside of the sticks with a cloth. Clean it, and then add Huayin Asarum to it. In order to prevent it from being damp, Lu Lu went to the district to buy some glutinous rice and came back. After frying, mix it with Asarum, put it in the tank together with a stick wrapped in yellow paper, and carefully clean it. storage.

Four mallets, used four jars.

After sealing it, Lu Lu opened the entrance to the floor in the bedroom, put the four jars in a wooden box, and placed them upstairs.

In fact, Lu Lu still felt a little uneasy about this method of preservation. As for the effect, we will know after a while.

Of course, Lu Lu didn't plan to keep it for a long time. He had already thought about it. After two or three years, he had almost saved up the musk on hand, and then sent it to the coast together.

At that time, the reform and opening up will be more comprehensive, and the economy will also develop rapidly. Find an opportunity to sell all these precious things.

But now, Lu Lu is more concerned about another issue, which is about the animal skin book.

In his spare time these few days, he kept thinking about the matter of meeting Cao Shu and Long Ye three in the mountains. They seemed to know the location of the old sign marked on the animal skin book more clearly and more carefully.

In these years, the situation of Shenbang is complicated.

If it's just a general gang, then there's nothing to worry about. The key is that the gang formed in the early years shouldn't be able to disappear completely. It has risen quietly. Although after so many years of ups and downs, Lu Lu also firmly believes that many still exist.

If there is a foundation, it is not so easy to disintegrate, and if it is organized, these people have a stricter division of labor, and they tend to be more ruthless in doing things. This is not comparable to ordinary gang members.

Lu Lu felt that it was necessary for him to go to Jiang Zewei to chat and learn about this, and he also went to see the old man by the way.

Now that he has mastered the essence of lifting the stick while watching the mountain scenery, it is more accurate to judge the position of the stick, and having the animal skin book is even more powerful.

And all of this is thanks to Jiang Zewei.

Whether it is morality or affection, it should be respected.

On the morning of the third day, Lu Lu rode Chasing Wind into the mountains, ready to see if he could hit a few flying dragons. Uncle Jiang was very rare about this thing.

(End of this chapter)