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    Recently, Chen Qiao has another job, that is, drying salt.  Ada has almost eaten the salt she brought with her. Fortunately, this is the beach, so she can just bask in the sea water.  This task was still assigned to Chen Qiao, and Dilla and Maixi also followed.

    They first found a big stone with grooves, and then several people used bamboo tubes to carry seawater and pour it into the grooves to dry it. When the seawater dries, there will be a thin layer of salt particles on the stone.  , after all, they didn¡¯t need much. After a few days, they had enough salt to eat for a while.

    When the sun sets, they finish their day's work and go back with the last collected salt. A few of them go to the creek to take a bath first. It is estimated that they will have delicious barbecue when they get home.

    The water of this creek is collected from springs on the mountain. The water is cool and sweet.  The three of them directly pulled the animal skin and carried it into the water. The two children started to play in the water, and Chen Qiao also breathed a sigh of relief.

    Chen Qiao's piece of animal skin started to smell a little strange in the past two days. He wanted to soak it in the water for a while, but he was afraid of being washed away by the water, so he took a stone from the bottom of the stream and pressed it. The stones in this stream were very special.  When it is black, there are some silvery white highlights on it, as if silver powder has been sprinkled on it, and the stone is much heavier than other places.

    Chen Qiao suddenly remembered something, found a few more stones, looked at them carefully, and bumped them with his hands.  He thought, these are not the legendary meteorites, right?

    Chen Qiao has always been absent-minded in the past two days, and the thought of falling iron has occupied his entire mind.  Because if it is true as he thinks, then their lives may undergo earth-shaking changes in the future. Having metal means that there will be a lot of room for improvement in production tools.

    But he has never come into contact with these things before. He has only heard about it. Even if those things are meteorite, it is not easy to smelt them into knives and the like, so Chen Qiao has been in pain recently.  The most troubling thing in this world is not that there is no hope, but that you clearly see hope in front of you, but you can't find the way to the past.

    It took him nearly half a month to figure out the trick just to turn the lump of raw iron stone into tiny iron sand particles. He used the principle of thermal expansion and contraction of the stone, repeatedly heated and cooled it, and then used a stone hammer to make it.  tap.

    This method was stupid, time-consuming and labor-intensive, but he had no better choice, so he had to work hard for more than ten days. By the time he finished the stone, midsummer had arrived.

    "Then it's smelting. Now I can piece together my memories to come up with a probably feasible plan, but whether it can produce molten iron, who knows.

    In the past two days, Ada has been making a knife mold according to Chen Qiao's request.  After constant communication between the two, Ada finally knew what kind of thing Chen Qiao wanted. Although she didn't know the use of such a thing, it didn't matter. Chen Qiao was someone he trusted and respected.

    But this mold is a bit difficult. First of all, it is very different from the things I have made before. Then the mold must be very flat, and the surface cannot be tilted or undulated.

    It took Ada several days to make one that could be used. Now she was a little curious about what Chen Qiao wanted to do recently. She watched him playing with the stones by the stream every day. It turned out that the whole stone was used by him.  I don¡¯t know how to make it into fine gravel sand.

    Having been together for so long, she knows that Chen Qiao will not spend so much time and experience playing with useless things, so no matter what he wants to do, Ada and his team will fully support him.

    Throughout the summer, Chen Qiao has been working with those iron stones. The fire was smoking, the sun was shining, and the whole body was black and red, but everything was rewarded. They had the first knife in life.  However, the most important thing is that Chen Qiao figured out the smelting process.

    He sharpened the kitchen knife that day. When everyone came back in the evening, he asked Ada to catch a chicken and performed the whole process of killing the chicken with the kitchen knife in front of everyone. Seeing the admiration in everyone's eyes, he also  I can't help but feel elated.

    At the beginning, everyone was a little in awe of this "kitchen knife". After all, they had never seen such a sharp thing. It cut off a piece of meat. It was too powerful and terrifying.  But after getting used to it, everyone stopped making a fuss.  Ada and Kevin use it to cut vegetables and meat every day, and they become more and more comfortable with it.

    Chen Qiao even made a small scimitar for Dila to use to cut pig grass. Dila couldn't put it down with the knife. Then he followed Chen Qiao's advice and made a sheath for his own knife out of bamboo, which he used every day.  Hang it around your waist and want to show it off to all the little animals in the mountains.

    Maixi was very jealous when he saw it, and everyone unanimously prohibited him from getting close to the knife, which made him very unhappy.After crying and fussing for a long time, Chen Qiao and the others did not show any compromise, so they had no choice but to accept the fact that they were still young.

    Before the arrival of autumn, he got another machete for Ada and Kevin. It looked rough and heavy, but it was full of materials. Chen Qiao felt more at ease when they went hunting in the future.

    Seeing that the weather is starting to get cooler day by day, the chestnuts on the trees are about to ripen again, and the pheasants at home are laying a lot of eggs one after another. I picked up the eggs and looked at them carefully in the sunlight. Those with black spots inside are good for hatching.  Maisie often spends a long time watching the chickens alone in the yard with the eggs.

    When the first hen laid the nest, they had little experience. They laid more than a dozen eggs, but only five chicks hatched out in the end.  Dilla and Maixi looked full of pity. Chen Qiao told him that they should learn from experience and try to hatch more chickens next time. They started looking forward to it again, hoping that one of the hens could have a nest soon.

    Leaving these chores to the two children, the three adults started working on building the house again.  This time there was more time. Both Dila and Caesar wanted to build a larger house, but Chen Qiao expressed his own ideas.

    "Dilla and Maisie are still young now, but they will grow up soon. There is no one else here, um no women, so we will probably leave here in the future."

    What Chen Qiao did not say was that if there were any survivors in the tribe, they would probably find this place to join them.  Regarding the house matter, Chen Qiao wanted to wait until then to see the situation before making any plans.

    The two of them were silent for a while, but they also felt that what Chen Qiao said made sense, so they changed the big house they originally planned into a small house next to the original house.  But this time the house was built much more comfortably because they had knives and could cut down the trees.

    By the way, they can repair the original house and re-roof it, so they can start storing food for the winter.

    The two brothers happily carried baskets to the hillside to pick up chestnuts every day. After picking up the chestnuts, they picked some fruits and brought them back together.

    Recently, they helped Chen Qiao dig taro. Because they did not plant it carefully, the harvest was not very good, but together with the ones dug out from the land where they originally grew, it was enough for the few of them to survive the winter.

    Worried that the pigs and chickens would not be able to survive the winter because of the cold weather, they built a thatched house in the pig pen and chicken pen.  Chen Qiao asked Ada to cut some tall weeds and dry them. Then he went to get some bamboo vines and came back. He grabbed one end of the weeds and tied them firmly to the bamboos one by one.  Get a few more of these straw shawls and it will become easy to build a thatched house.

    Finally, after everything was busy, they could eat roasted chestnuts around the fire again. The two brothers were still wearing the same onesies from last year, and they were still so cute.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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