Chapter 195: Heating Artifact
Su Qingmei and Lu took a tour of the village and found out how the villagers kept warm in winter. Read М
Every family has a fire basin, fire bucket, fire basket or other heating tools.
When winter comes, the fire basin is moved into the house and the whole family sits around it to keep warm.
The fire basin is made of yellow mud that is repeatedly beaten and kneaded. When winter comes, firewood or charcoal is put into the fire basin to keep warm with the heat from the fire basin. Some fire basins have rims and some do not. The base is three-legged or four-legged.
Su Qingmei also saw that some villagers would embed a wooden rack outside the fire basin for easy transportation and to place things, such as cups.
Some villagers would make the fire basin taller and bigger, and make it into a fire barrel style, with a fence on top so that people can sit on it to keep warm.
If you need to walk outside, you can carry a fire basket and put the brazier in the basket. The basket is made of bamboo or wood. You can carry it while walking, and it is a walking heating tool.
It is similar to the hand warmers and hot water bottles held in the arms of wealthy people.
Su Qingmei has never seen these, but she watched them with great interest in the villagers' homes.
The villagers in the mountains also tried all kinds of ways to keep warm.
Lu was very interested and watched very carefully. She immediately thought of the masons and carpenters' homes and prepared to make a few braziers and various tools for heating for the family.
Su Qingmei held her back.
When the two returned home, Su Qingmei drew a few pictures and asked her to find masons and carpenters to make them.
Whether it is burning firewood or charcoal in the brazier, there is smoke. Putting it in the house, it is smoky and choking, and it is easy to cause carbon dioxide poisoning.
Xiaobao is still young, and she has to eliminate these potential dangers.
Seeing that Xiaobao didn't run outside because of frostbite, Su Qingmei felt very uncomfortable when she saw him clinging to the door frame and looking out.
The child was very obedient. He knew that if he ran outside, his hands would itch and he would feel uncomfortable. When the adults told him not to run outside, he would stay quietly in the house.
Xiaobao was a lively and active child. She couldn't let him stay in the house for the whole winter.
Moreover, in this mountain, the temperature inside and outside the house was almost the same. The child couldn't stay in bed all the time.
Su Qingmei then found a bricklayer and asked him to bring a few people to make a kang bed.
There was not only Xiaobao in the family, but none of the others had lived in the mountains. The winter in the mountains was not only cold, but also damp and wet. Su Qingmei was afraid that everyone couldn't stand it, so she planned to make a kang bed.
The bricklayer in the village brought the two half-grown boys in the family and several experienced old people in the village.
Everyone was very concerned about Su Qing'an's matter. When they heard that her family was going to do some work, everyone in the village who could do bricklaying work came.
When they heard about making a kang bed, everyone was confused.
They had never made one before.
Then they heard that it was like a fire barrel, with fire burning underneath and people sleeping on top, and they seemed to understand. Just make the fire barrel bigger, so that people can sleep on it instead of sitting to keep warm.
No, can it be made into a fire barrel that people can sleep on to keep warm?
Everyone was interested.
Village Chief Zhong ran over in his busy schedule.
Su Qingmei smiled and explained: "It's not called a big fire barrel, but a kang bed. We use fire basins, fire barrels and fire baskets for heating in the south, while in the north, we build kang beds in the house, and the whole family sits on the kang bed to keep warm in winter."
"There is a flue in the middle of the kang bed, with a stove mouth and a smoke outlet. Firewood is burned in the stove mouth, and the smoke and heat generated by burning firewood heat the whole kang, making the kang generate heat to achieve the purpose of heating. And the smoke is discharged from the smoke outlet through the chimney to the outside."
After she said this, everyone understood.
This thing is great!
The fire barrel can only sit one person, and if there are many people in the family, you have to make a lot of them. If this can be made into such a big fire bed, the whole family can sit on it, how great it is.
You can sleep warmly, without worrying about the firewood in the fire basin burning out. And you don't have to worry about the smoke in the house choking people.
This is great!
They gathered around to ask how to do it.
Su Qingmei gave the drawings to the mason. The drawings are clear and understandable. The mason understood it at a glance and started to work immediately.
The other villagers who were interested saw that the kang had to be connected to the earth wall. Their houses were all wooden houses, and it seemed that it could not be done, so they were very frustrated.
Su Qingmei said: "The kang does not have to be connected to the wall. It can also be made in wooden houses." She comforted them. She drew another picture and explained it to the villagers.
It is equivalent to building a large fire bed in the wooden house, made of mud instead of wood.
But you have to build a flue and chimney. And there is an advantage, the stove door does not have to be built outside the house, it can also be built inside the house. If you don't want to go out to add firewood to the stove in the middle of the night, you can move the stove inside the house.
You can also connect a flue to the fire bed and connect it to the brazier rack. The brazier rack is also built with mud, fixed in the house, and the stove mouth is built away from the bed. The brazier is placed on this mud rack, and the stove mouth is connected to the brazier and then transmitted to the kang bed through the brazier's flue.
This does not require the kang bed to be built against the wall.
Su Qingmei walked around the village and found that most of the houses were made of wood. Some people dug a pit in the house as a stove for heating in winter.
Firewood was placed in the stove for heating, and a pot was hung on it to boil water or stew a pot of food. The family sat around and ate together. They kept warm and ate at the same time.
It looked very convenient.
However, the house was dark because of the smoke from the fire.
The furniture and clothes in the house were also gray, with a layer of gray on them, which made them look dark and dirty.
This is a good idea, it can do many things at once. But the smoke exhaust is not done well.
Su Qingmei explained to everyone while drawing pictures, which made everyone so excited that they wanted to drag the mason to their homes to make some improvements.
Su Qingmei also drew a fire table based on the fire basins of the villagers. He planned to put it in the dining hall.
This winter, eating in the dining hall is probably a hardship.
When the rice is served from the pot and put on the table, it is estimated that in less than a moment, the oil will coagulate and the dishes will be cold. There is no use having a fire basin, it is too local.
It is just right to make a fire table.
In the middle is a fire barrel, which is covered with a wooden round table. The whole round table is equivalent to the edge of the fire basin, and the base and stove are made below, so that firewood can be burned. Dig a hole in the middle of the round table and use iron bars to block it. You can put pots and utensils, boil water and cook.
The heat from the fire barrel in the middle will be transmitted to the table. First, it can keep the food warm, making eating more elegant. You don’t have to eat while it’s hot, like fighting a war.
Second, when sitting around the fire table, the legs can also get the heat from the burning fire barrel to keep warm. You can eat, drink tea, or do needlework on the table. If you want to be warmer, you can add a layer of cloth along the edge of the table and put your legs inside, which is warm and comfortable.
Then make a pipe on the side to exhaust smoke. Not only is there no smoke in the room, it is also clean and warm, and the whole room can be kept at a relatively high temperature.
This is definitely a magical tool.