Traveling through the mountains and farming

Chapter 141 Digging the Earthen Kiln

Time flies, and six days have passed in a flash.

These six days were the most relaxing and comfortable days for Lin Wan since she traveled through time.

Without the protection of modern sanitary napkins, she took a few days off from her morning exercises.

Every morning, Lin Wan is busy making traditional skin care products, and in the afternoon she takes a nap and makes a facial or hand mask.

In addition, I have been applying hydrosol every morning and evening and started using facial cream recently.

She felt that the skin on her face had become much smoother recently, and someone even praised her for her fair skin yesterday.

She couldn't see whether her face had turned white or not, but she could see that her hands hadn't turned white, her skin just felt smoother.

It seems that these secret palace recipes such as Yujisan and Wu Zetian facial cream are indeed very effective.

Looking at the complete range of skin care products on the table in front of her, such as camellia hydrosol, talc-free jade powder, Wu Zetian facial cream and lard ointment, Lin Wan felt a great sense of accomplishment.

This is all thanks to the fact that before she came here, she had just been researching and making ancient skin care products on the farm, and was planning to select a few simple and easy-to-make recipes to include in the parent-child study class.

After this research, she came up with the idea of ​​creating a set of skin care products and cosmetics.

I just made myself a complete set based on various ancient recipes I collected, but before I had the chance to experience it, I traveled to this strange ancient world.

Fortunately, with her previous research foundation, she roughly memorized the recipes of these skin care products and cosmetics.

I also have to thank Dr. Zhong, who equipped Lin Wan with all the medicinal materials she needed to make skin care products and also provided her with grinding tools.

It is said that he made these tools in order to facilitate the preparation of medicinal materials. He asked Li Changyi to help find stones and made a complete set of pestle and mortar, impact cylinder, grinding boat, etc.

I heard that in order to get Li Changyi and others to help him make these tools, Doctor Zhong provided them with a lot of tonics, saying that it was to replenish the energy they had expended working for him while also strengthening their bodies.

Wu Zetian's facial cream required all the medicinal materials to be soaked in a small amount of wine overnight. Lin Wan specifically asked He Lizheng for the wine, and He Lizheng generously gave her a small jar of rice wine.

Lin Wan thought that once she had collected all the necessary materials, she would make cosmetics such as ancient rouge, goose egg powder, and lip balm.

Maybe these will be her tools to make money in the future. After all, in this ancient world, women's pursuit of beauty is just as great.

"Sister-in-law, are you ready? We have prepared the hoe, shovel and backpack you mentioned, and we are waiting for you." Li Ke's voice came from the main room.

Lin Wan picked up the lard paste and walked out of the house, and saw that the two siblings had already prepared their backpacks and machetes.

She walked over, scooped out a lump of lard ointment, and smeared some on both of their faces.

"Apply it evenly yourself. Your faces are about to be covered with eczema from the cold wind."

"Hey, I forgot because I was busy this morning. I apply it every day, but you always forget."

Li Ke obediently applied makeup on his face while talking to Lin Wan with a smile.

"That's something girls use. I, a man, don't need it."

Although Li Chongle resisted verbally, his hands were honest and he spread the lard ointment evenly.

"Hey, you little boy still have eczema on your face, but thanks to this lard cream, your face is cured."

Lin Wan placed the lard on the table in the main room, carried the empty backpack into the kitchen, and put the rice, bacon, dried mushrooms, small wooden basin, etc. that she had prepared earlier into the backpack.

After coming out of the kitchen, he called the two brothers and sisters to go to the entrance of the cave to meet Li Chongwu and his wife.

It's really winter now. It's so cold in the mountains at night that Lin Wan feels like she can warm herself by the fire.

After feeling refreshed yesterday, she made an appointment with Li Chongwu and his wife to go out and burn charcoal together after breakfast today.

At the same time, I also confirmed with them again that the people here really don't know how to use earthen kilns to burn charcoal, and the method of making fire in winter is the same as the original body's memory.

As soon as they met, Luo Fang pulled Lin Wan aside and asked, "Lin Wan, do you really know how to burn charcoal?"

Yesterday when Lin Wan went to her house to arrange today's itinerary, she happened to be away. Later, when she heard Li Chongwu say that Lin Wan wanted them to burn charcoal today, she was very happy.

They thought that if they learned how to burn charcoal, it would be more convenient for them to keep warm during the winter, and they could also sell charcoal in the winter to increase their income after leaving the mountains.

"Yes, I know a way. We'll try it later. It shouldn't be a big problem."

She had only followed her grandfather once before to watch him place the chopped wood in the earthen kiln he had built, and then he would light the fire and seal the kiln. After the kiln was done, she followed him to help carry the burned charcoal out of the kiln.

I can still recall the appearance of that earthen kiln.

Luo Fang took Lin Wan's hand and walked forward, "Okay, I'll follow your instructions today. Hey, your hands are so smooth, and why do I feel like you've become a little whiter recently."

As she spoke, she used her hand to straighten Lin Wan's face and looked at it carefully. She felt that Lin Wan was a little paler, although it was not that obvious.

Lin Wan was a little suspicious. She had only been using the facial mask for five or six days. Could it be that the result was the combined effect of multiple factors, such as not getting enough sun exposure recently and using pure water for a while?

"I think your skin has improved, and it looks smoother than before."

"Yeah, I also feel that I've gotten better. I use your camellia hydrosol every day, and I've also started using the lard ointment you gave me in the past two days." Luo Fang was immediately distracted by Lin Wan's words.

Lin Wan only gave some lard ointment to a small number of people. This ointment uses much simpler ingredients than Wu Zetian's facial cream and is easier to make.

They chatted all the way and were taken by Li Chongwu to the place he had chosen.

Because Lin Wan told him yesterday that they wanted to find a place where it was convenient to chop firewood and had a slope and open space for digging an earth kiln.

When they arrived at the place, Lin Wan looked around and found that this location was indeed suitable for digging an earth kiln. As for chopping wood, Li Chongwu was more professional than her and she didn't need to worry about it.

She selected a location for digging the cave, demonstrated it on the spot, and explained the steps of digging the cave one by one.

First dig the cave. Lin Wan first used branches to circle out the scope of the cave, which was about two meters in diameter.

Everyone picked up their tools and started digging hard according to the area marked by Lin Wan.

After they dug the cave, which was about one meter deep, the next step was to dig the cave door.

They continued to dig a hole along the position of the cave door extending outwards from the cave as drawn by Lin Wan.

"This kiln door will be convenient for us to store firewood later on." Lin Wan explained.

She walked to the bottom of the gentle slope, marked the location of the crater, and directed everyone to start digging.

"The crater must be lower than the cave dwelling so that the flames can burn upwards, so the crater is dug at the bottom of the slope."

Lin Wan explained to everyone while joining in the digging.

After digging the crater, she picked up a wooden stick, climbed up the gentle slope and stood in the cave. She poked hard at the crater to connect the cave and the crater.

She turned around and marked the location of the chimney on the opposite side. She squatted down and started digging, and the others immediately followed to help dig the chimney.

Lin Wan took the small stone slabs she picked up on the road and the clay that Li Chongwu had just mixed, and sealed the chimney, leaving a hole at the bottom for the smoke to escape.

Others, under her command, were digging the sewers inside the kiln.

This ditch is a small shallow ditch dug along the chimney and the crater. Its purpose is that when the firewood becomes wet during the burning process, moisture will flow out and it will flow out along this ditch.

Finally the earthen kiln was dug. Everyone was sweating after all the hard work.

"Let's take a break. We can then chop firewood, load it into the cave, and then light a fire." Lin Wan said as she found a stone to sit on.