Chapter 1112

After breakfast, Huang Li and Liu Guilan cleaned the table together, and Wang Dazhu, Wang An, and Huang Zhong, the three of them, got busy.

The fuel for the ground fire dragon was composed of wooden lumps or tree trunks, and wet sawdust.

Of course, other fuels could also be used, such as branches, tree bark, straw, and wet leaves, as well as sorghum hats and bran.

It's just that the things mentioned later had a shorter burning time, that is, they didn't burn long; maybe in half a month, maybe in a month, the fuel in the cellar would be burned out, and the cellar would have to be opened to add fuel again, which was relatively troublesome.

So tree roots, that is, wooden lumps mixed with wet sawdust, or thick tree trunks mixed with sawdust were the best.

After lighting, as long as the air intake was controlled well, under normal circumstances, it could burn for the whole winter, during which time there was no need to add fuel again, which could be said to be quite labor-saving.

It's just that although the surroundings of Kaoshan Village were all trees, the tree resources could be said to be super awesome, but there were no wooden lumps.

Because digging wooden lumps in this era was a very time-consuming and laborious project, so in the situation where there were many trees, no one would be idle and have nothing to do to dig wooden lumps.

Besides, after knocking down the tree, as long as the tree stump was buried with soil, after the tree strips grew out, leave the two thickest tree strips, cut off all the remaining tree strips, and then it would only take a few years for these two tree strips to grow into big trees again.

Of course, trees that grew up like this were also called secondary trees, and such forests could also be called secondary forests.

In general, the practice of digging out the tree lumps after felling trees was actually completely unnecessary.

And the fuel Wang An's family added to the ground fire dragon was thick tree trunks and wet sawdust.

The thick tree trunks and thick wooden stumps left over when Wang An's family built the house were all put aside at the beginning and weren't split into wooden sticks for burning, so this time they were all stuffed into the ground fire dragon.

Wang An looked at the high-quality wood being cut into sections by Wang Dazhu with a chainsaw, and said to Wang Dazhu with a bit of heartache:

"Dad, you say this wood is so good, isn't it a bit of a pity to just burn it as firewood?"

Only to see Wang Dazhu say without raising his head:

"What's a pity about that? After the heavy snow falls, we'll go into the mountains and fell a few more trees, pull them back and throw them there, won't they be usable next spring?"

After saying this, Wang Dazhu seemed to think of something, suddenly raised the chainsaw in his hand, turned his head and said to Wang An:

"Are you wanting to use this wood to make some furniture? If you want to use it, pick the good ones and leave them for you, anyway, there's still a lot of wood in the backyard of our old house."

Wang An shook his head:

"No need, no need to leave it, I don't have any furniture I want to make, it's just that I feel it's a bit of a waste to burn such thick tree trunks as firewood."

It must be said that this pine trunk Wang Dazhu was sawing at this time had a diameter of nearly half a meter, and it was about the same thickness from top to bottom, which could absolutely be called high-quality wood.

However, such good wood was sawed into small sections by Comrade Wang Dazhu, who was always stingy in his daily life; to tell the truth, this was simply destroying precious things!

There was no other way; the main thing was that the tree resources were too good, and the local people didn't take wood seriously at all, they all just destroyed and used it as much as they could.

It is no exaggeration to say that at this time, when local people burned firewood to cook, even branches no one was willing to burn; everyone was only willing to burn wood, split the thick wood, and then just burn it as firewood.

However, what was very strange was that even if the local people didn't take trees seriously like this, the big trees around the village never decreased, and they grew better year by year; that would be strange!

Only in the forest farm, maybe because of the logging method, did patches of open space appear in the forest; after many years, they even came up with sayings like "cherish trees, prohibit indiscriminate logging, and return a home to the animals."

To put it bluntly, this kind of thing is that they themselves cut down the trees, and the money from selling the trees was all put into their own pockets, but they let others cherish trees, plant trees, and return a home to the animals...

You tell me, what should be said about this day after day?

Hearing Wang An say this, Wang Dazhu fiercely pinched Wang An with his eyelids, and then said with annoyance:

"Just delaying things, when were you so frugal? Hurry and move the wood to the cellar, just like this day after day."

Wang An smiled and didn't care, pulled the small cart and started loading wood onto it, after it was full, he pushed the small cart directly into the cellar along the slope at the cellar entrance.

Arrange the thick tree trunks one by one in the cellar, try not to leave too many gaps between the tree trunks, because if the gaps are too large, it is easy to increase the chance of producing open flames, in this way, the burning speed of the tree trunks will accelerate, leading to the ground fire dragon stopping heating early.

Of course, even if there are some gaps, it's not a big problem, because this is when wet sawdust is needed.

For sawdust, Wang An's family wasn't short of it; when building the house in the spring, Wang An's family collected a lot, a lot of sawdust.

For the fuel of the ground fire dragon, dry sawdust absolutely wouldn't work, it must be wet sawdust that has been watered, because only wet sawdust has a flame-retardant effect, preventing the tree trunks from burning with open flames.

After all the tree trunks were pushed into the burning cellar, Wang An said to Huang Zhong, who was watering and stirring the sawdust:

"Little Zhong, you push the sawdust in, just unload it to one side, push two carts first, two carts are enough."

Although Huang Zhong developed slowly and had little strength, the best thing about this child was that he was obedient, let him do whatever, and he wouldn't even say a word of rebuttal.

So after Wang An finished speaking, Huang Zhong agreed and started loading sawdust with another small cart.

Just like that, one cart after another of tree trunks was pushed into the burning cellar, and then one shovel after another of wet sawdust was also poured into the gaps of the tree trunks.

The three of them worked together, each performing their own duties, and the speed was very fast; it only took one morning for the two burning cellars to be filled with fuel.

Looking at the burning cellars filled with fuel, Wang An asked Wang Dazhu:

"Dad, when to light the fire? Or start burning now?"

Wang Dazhu thought for a moment and said:

"What day is it for Xueqing?"

Regarding the birth time of his child, Wang An remembered it quite firmly; one must know that this was the continuation of Wang An's bloodline in two lifetimes.

So Wang An said without hesitation upon hearing this:

"At the end of this month, around the beginning of next month, Dad, are you thinking of lighting the fire then?"

Wang Dazhu thought for a moment and said:

"No, it's quite cold before dark, start burning now, mix the mud, and when the fire is lit in a while, use bricks to seal the cellar door."

(End of chapter)