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Volume 1 We Live in Nanjing Chapter 5 How to Make Fire

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    "Squeak¡ª¡ª"

    "Che-chee-chee-chee-chee-"

    Ban Xia listened to the music with her eyes closed. Early in the morning, this group of mice screamed better than they sang, one after another, cadenced, like a symphony orchestra.

    She opened her eyes and put her hand into the messy hair for the first time. Fortunately, no mice got in last night.

    She got up from the bed, and the bed creaked, and the sound of mice under the bed stopped immediately. Ban Xia could imagine that the group of rodents who were having a concert were all staring up at the top of their heads in fear, worrying about the piece.  The black board would suddenly collapse, and the girl cleared her throat: "Dear guests, I will count to three, and I won't leave after three counts"

    Before she finished speaking, the mice jumped out from under the girl's nose, and disappeared from sight within a few seconds.

    "I will draw a few lucky guests to stay for breakfast."

    Ban Xia rubbed her hair.

    "Runs really fast."

    In the past, Banxia tried to block the mice. She searched the room carefully from top to bottom, betting on all the gaps that might pass through the mice to ensure that the needles could not be inserted, but the second time  When she opened her eyes in the morning, a pair of small black eyes were staring at her, and her pointed wet nose was probing around.

    Ban Xia secretly sighed at the time, this is not all a bad thing, at least it was resolved with breakfast.

    Now Pinellia no longer tries to block mice. These little things can appear from all kinds of unimaginable places and disappear in all kinds of unimaginable places.

    She jumped out of bed one by one, pulled the clothes cover from the back of the chair, and drew a circle on the wall with September 7th.

    When she doesn't go out, she just wears a baggy white shirt with only a pair of shorts in it, walking around the room with her long bare legs.

    Until winter, there is actually no need to wear clothes.

    Banxia was actually willing to run naked, but the teacher stopped her. The teacher said that clothes not only have functional functions such as keeping warm and decorating, but also distinguish you from wild beasts. If you don¡¯t wear clothes, one day you will blend into this wildness  world, forgetting your identity as a human being.

    Isn't Banxia saying that's good?  Man comes from nature and returns to nature. We are all hairless naked apes!

    The teacher smiled and said that you are not a naked ape, you are a girl.

    Ban Xia asked the girl what's the matter?

    Girls have to be beautiful, you are the most beautiful girl in the world, if you don't wear clothes, the world will take advantage of you.

    The teacher said so while rubbing her face round and flat.

    "Is it pretty?" Ban Xia grinned at the dirty mirror in the bathroom, "I don't know if I'm pretty, I'm face blind."

    The Colgate toothpaste on the washstand has been rolled into a layer of skin, Pinellia is still squeezing it, and puts the last bit of green toothpaste on the toothbrush.

    It seems that this toothpaste will not be usable tomorrow, so let's cut it open with a knife, and there will always be some scraping off the inside.

    First, insist on caring for your teeth!

    This is the rule set by the teacher for her, even if the world is destroyed, she must brush her teeth every day!

    The teacher once took Pinellia to raid half of the supermarkets and convenience stores in Qinhuai District, and obtained a mountain of toothpaste and toothbrushes, all of which were piled up in the downstairs room.

    Ban Xia feels that these toothpastes can be used for at least twenty years.

    After brushing her teeth and washing her face, the girl took a scoop of water from the large bucket in the corner of the bathroom and poured it into the plastic basin, then squatted down to wash her face.

    The ceramic washstand that comes with the bathroom is useless. It was damaged a few years ago. There is a big crack at the bottom, and fingers can be inserted into it, so we can only use another washbasin.

    The teacher found the big red buckets used to store fresh water. There are two in total, and they are placed side by side in the bathroom, taking up half of the bathroom space¡ªthe place used to be the shower room. These two plastic buckets are one meter high and have lids  , It is just right to store fresh water. Whether it is drinking or using, Pinellia draws water from this bucket. On average, a bucket of water can be used for three to five days.

    After washing her face, the girl casually poured water on the floor outside the bathroom to wash away the dirt and dust on the floor.

    She does not need to save water, because there is no shortage of fresh water in Nanjing.

    The main source of fresh water for pinellia is rainfall. Nanjing is a rainy city. There are regular precipitations for eight months in a year. Humid extratropical cyclones will come from the sea and bring abundant rainwater. It starts from March.  , until October, such a long time is the typhoon season in Nanjing.

    After washing, Pinelli tied up her hair and tied it into a ponytail, and thenTime to make breakfast.

    "Dad! Mom! What are you eating this morning?" Pinellia held a rubber band in her mouth, humming a vague tune, "How about cooking porridge? Cooking dandelion porridge? I picked it yesterday, and it should be fresh. If you don't speak, I will treat it as  I agree!"

    Sure enough, no one spoke.

    That means all votes are in favor, and we will have dandelion porridge for breakfast today.

    Pinellia always grasps the psychology of parents very accurately.

    The kitchen is separated by a wall from the bathroom. This is a house with three bedrooms and two living rooms, a master bedroom and two bedrooms, a living room and a dining room, and finally a kitchen and a bathroom.

    When cooking, you must close the kitchen door, and then open all the windows in the kitchen to ensure that there is no problem with ventilation. Only then did Ban Xia struggle to lift out the stove under the stove.

    "This thing is really heavy."

    The old-fashioned briquette stove, God knows where the teacher found this thing, the stove is half a meter high, it is a cylinder, and there is a vent at the bottom of the stove, covered with a cover, this thing was originally used to burn briquettes - briquettes are short  Cylinders can be put into a vertical furnace one by one, but it is necessary to ensure that all the holes of the briquettes are aligned from top to bottom. The holes are to ensure air circulation.  Align the through holes, and finally come out of the furnace, so that the coal can burn only when there is air circulation.

    Obviously Banxia doesn't have briquettes in hand now.

    But she has a wall of firewood.

    Each piece of firewood is as long as a palm and as thin as two or three fingers. It is piled up against the wall of the kitchen, as high as a person.

    These firewood were all chopped by pinellia pinellia. The most indispensable thing in Nanjing is wood. Camphor trees and oaks all over the streets are full of branches and leaves.  Drying on the balcony, fresh wet firewood can¡¯t be burned, and it¡¯s full of smoke when it burns, so the firewood has to be dried after chopping, put it on the balcony to dry first, and then put it in the kitchen to dry.  Burn it, no matter which kind of firewood it is, it should be dried when Pinellia is about to burn it.

    In this world without natural gas and coal, the only fuel for pinellia is gasoline and firewood.

    She was reluctant to use gasoline.

    So she burns wood most of the time.

    Pinellia rolls thinner firewood and dry grass leaves into a ball, which is an excellent kindling, and it can be lit at one point.

    But it is not enough to have a firelighter, it must be lit.

    How about it?

    Since the day when humans mastered fire, the way of ignition has been iteratively updated. It takes too much time and effort to drill wood to make fire, so people learned to use minerals to make flint and fire scythe. Every time it is too troublesome to get fire, people learned to use charcoal to preserve  Kindling, as long as the half-burned charcoal is covered with fine ash, the time to extinguish the flame can be greatly delayed. A dark fire is always longer than an open fire. This kind of kindling can even be carried in a box, and you can use it whenever you want.  .

    Ban Xia carefully took out a metal box from under the stove.

    This is the tinder.

    Eternal fire.

    She opened the box, took out the lighter, and lit it with a snap.
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