Chapter 33 Building the Stove

As for whether people would whisper or say unpleasant things behind her because she was walking so fast, Yunxi didn't care.

No matter how well someone does, there will always be people who disapprove; but no matter how bad someone is, there will always be people who like them.

When we arrived at the river, we found that there were indeed some large stones. We selected some relatively flat stones that were suitable for building a simple stove.

When no one was around, I put a few stones into my spatial storage. Originally, finding six relatively suitable stones would have been enough, but after arriving at the riverbank, I subconsciously found a few more.

After selecting enough stones, I wanted to check if there were any fish in the river, but remembering that water was boiling in the kitchen, I could only glance at the river before leaving.

In just one glance, Yunxi saw many small fish swimming around in the water.

Although the fish are all quite small, they seem rather clumsy because few people probably have the tools to catch them.

Yunxi made a mental note of this, adhering to the principle of "plucking feathers from a passing goose," and decided that when she had time next time, she would prepare a very fine fishing net and catch them all.

Yunxi had another idea in her mind: since those fish love to eat grass so much, could she extract the essence of the grass that the fish especially love to eat?

If we put those essences into the river, will it attract all the fish?

Keeping this thought to herself, Yunxi hurried home.

When I got home, I locked the door and went to the kitchen. I saw that the pot of water had already boiled.

They cut the pig's blood, which had already been salted and coagulated, into pieces and boiled them in water.

After about five minutes, the pig's blood had turned a very dark color, and it was clear that it was ready.

All the cooked pig's blood was scooped into a water vat, and then fresh pig's blood was put back into the pot.

They cooked the pig's blood alternately, one pot every five minutes. Excluding the time lost in the middle, it took about an hour to cook all the pig's blood.

As for the remaining sheep's blood, Yunxi didn't make it into blood tofu; she planned to use it to attract prey when going up the mountain.

When she was ready to go deep into the mountains, she dug a trap and sprinkled some sheep's blood into it, which would definitely attract prey very easily.

Anyway, the blood tofu made from pig's blood is enough for her to eat for a long time, so there's no need to cook sheep's blood as well. She just feels that sheep's blood is weird, so she'd rather not eat it.

Pour all the water from the pot where the pig's blood was boiled into the ditch, and then wash the pot again.

After Yunxi washed the pot clean, worried that there might still be some residual grease, she poured the vinegar she had bought that day into the pot and boiled it for about five minutes. She then washed it several times until there was no residual grease left.

Yunxi prepared this pot specifically for boiling water, whether it's hot water or bath water, since she doesn't plan to cook anything that produces a lot of oil and smoke here.

After washing the pot, fill it with water and continue boiling.

Prepare to boil more warm water and boiling water, and store them all in the space so that they can be used directly when needed.

Yunxi came to the well, took out the five large vats that had just been filled with pig's blood from her space, added some cold water, soaked them for about two minutes, and then put them back into her space.

In fact, she herself did not know why she did it; she just did it according to her memory.

When making pork stew in the village, the pig's blood is boiled and then soaked in cold water.

After a busy afternoon, and with darkness approaching, Yunxi went straight to the backyard and set up the makeshift stove.

Three large stones were piled up in three corners. The stones were particularly flat and tall, and were all carefully selected by Yunxi.

Then I took some soil from the ground, added some water, and mixed it into mud. I used this mud to fill in the gaps between the stones so that the heat from the fire wouldn't escape.

In less than half an hour, two makeshift stoves were ready. He rubbed his slightly hungry stomach and went straight back to the front yard to eat first.

Anyway, it's still early, so we should wait until most of the other villagers are asleep before we start.

While eating, Yunxi kept glancing at the pile of things in her space and then at the mushrooms hanging in the corridor, her smile impossible to hide.

She felt she had done something amazing, that she was incredibly awesome for accomplishing so much in just a few days.

Then I started thinking about how to make some shelves to put things in the space so that it wouldn't be messy.

Yunxi suddenly felt that if she had to do everything herself, there was so much to learn. She thought it would be better to go to the library and find more books to read. If she could learn them, she would consider herself exceptionally talented. If she couldn't, it would mean she had to pay for them.

I suddenly remembered that my sixth grandfather, Yun Deyi, seemed to know a little bit of simple carpentry. My sixth grandfather was also Grandma Cheng's husband, but he had some difficulty walking, so he spent most of his time at home.

However, making shelves is a simple task that shouldn't be a problem. When asked, I just said that things were too messy and I needed to make shelves to organize them.

However, if you ask someone else to help you, you can't do too much, otherwise it will seem too strange.

For now, I'll just make three or four to use. When my sixth grandfather is making the frames, I can go and take a look when I have free time and see if I can learn a trick.

After finishing her meal, Yunxi thought about how she should isolate the four hens.

She wanted to see which hen was being lazy, not laying eggs for two days in a row, to see if it wanted to hatch chicks or simply didn't want to lay eggs, so she could decide its future fate.

I went straight to the backyard, and only when I saw the vegetables there did I realize that I had forgotten to pick them today.

I patted my forehead. When I get busy, I always have this feeling that I've forgotten this or that.

I'm going to come back to pick them later. Anyway, whether it's dark or not won't affect my eyesight at all.

Carrying four old baskets from the past, I went straight to the chicken coop. In one basket, I put a hen, along with some vegetable leaves and water.

Once I was sure they wouldn't go hungry, I stopped caring about them.

Yunxi decided to give the four hens two days. If it was the same hen that didn't lay eggs for two days, then the problem would be solved. If it wasn't the same hen, then it would be normal, since hens don't lay eggs every day.