dognovel Chapter 84 Doors and Windows
Chapter 84 Doors and Windows
You know what, this obsidian is quite sharp. Lin Baiyan's carpentry tools are mostly made of obsidian, making it much easier to do any kind of carpentry work now.
You have to be careful when using it; he cut his hands several times while grinding the stone.
After the round window was finished, he placed it in the hole to test it and found that the size was about right. Then he carved notches on each section and used a stone hammer to drive a stone awl through the notches into the wall.
This work is not easy; the stone cones sometimes break due to excessive force.
Lin Baiyan wasn't angry. If it broke, he would find a sturdy-looking stone awl and grind it until he could drive it in.
After working for most of the day, he finally nailed a round window into the wall.
He took a few steps back, looking at his masterpiece with satisfaction.
The round window has a delicate openwork pattern carved in the middle. Sunlight shines through the gaps in the window like golden rays, illuminating the cave and making the originally dark cave feel warm and bright.
It was worth all the effort he put into making the window. Although it wasn't as good as a glass window, it was still much better than the dark and gloomy cave that couldn't let in any sunlight.
He'll nail a few obsidian nails around the windows, hang animal hides on them to use as curtains, and when it gets cold, he'll nail the windows shut, keeping the cave warm.
Speaking of glass, he remembered that making glass wasn't too difficult; it required sand and limestone, and what else?
It's fine when I don't need it, but when I suddenly need to use it, the knowledge in my mind is like playing hide-and-seek with me, and I can't find it no matter how hard I look.
Glass is not a necessity for now; the priority is to fire the pottery. Stone pots are very unstable when heated, and he has already blown up several stone pots in the past few days, which is far too dangerous.
Pottery requires much higher temperatures to heat up.
Moreover, he had heard from Lang Cang that after spring arrives, various tribes will start trading, mostly at a few fixed locations.
Orcs would exchange their tribe's unique food or other resources for what they needed, and on the orc continent, salt and pottery were a form of hard currency.
Lin Baiyan was quite surprised when he first heard about it; he thought that pottery didn't exist on the Beastman Continent.
Lang Cang explained very seriously, "Pottery is very precious, even more precious than salt."
Their tribe had a collection of several pottery bowls, which were usually kept carefully hidden by the old priest. He had secretly sneaked into the priest's room to see them once when he was a child.
Just as he was about to grab it, the old priest returned and grabbed him, dragging him before his father.
Little Wolf Cang got a good beating back then.
When Lang Cang said this, his expression was somewhat unnatural.
Lin Baiyan was preoccupied with other things and didn't notice.
However, it's time to put pottery making on the agenda.
This was their first migration to the north, and they didn't know where the northern trading markets were. Lang Cang had been working hard to find traces of the surrounding tribes these days.
When the trading market opens, salt and pottery will be the greatest wealth of their Azure Flame tribe.
but…
How do you make an earthen kiln for firing pottery?
Since that conversation, Lin Baiyan has been constantly thinking about how to make pottery.
These past few days he's finally had a general idea in mind, and he'll give it a try tomorrow.
After the window was finished, Lin Baiyan made a bamboo door in the same way. This one was simply used to block the opening, so Lin Baiyan didn't use wood and saved the process of sanding.
Lin Baiyan tried it out and found it quite convenient, as one side of the bamboo door was embedded in the wall and the other side could be opened and closed freely.
Yang Ye, who was sitting next to Lin Baiyan, was completely captivated. He moved closer to Lin Baiyan and said, "Priest, you did a really beautiful job."
This bamboo door is much more delicate than a large stone door, and it's also very lightweight.
Seeing his interested expression, Lin Baiyan took the initiative to speak, "This is actually quite simple, it's just..."
Lin Baiyan circled his bamboo gate and gave Yang Ye a brief explanation of the production process.
Essentially, it involves tightly binding bamboo together and then embedding it into the wall using a simple mortise and tenon joint.
This is much easier than opening the window.
The doors to the rooms are similar.
Although the process wasn't particularly difficult, it was still quite a hassle for Lin Baiyan to do it all by himself. Lang Cang hadn't returned by noon, presumably he had taken the male beastmen to training.
Lin Baiyan didn't eat breakfast and was too lazy to cook, so he simply ate some dried meat that he had roasted earlier with water.
The dried meat was roasted until it was quite dry, making it a bit difficult to chew, but it was very filling.
By the time Lin Baiyan had finished installing the doors, the sun had already set.
When Lang Cang returned, he indeed brought Lin Baiyan a large fish weighing three or four pounds.
The giant white wolf, carrying a rope in its mouth, had just reached the entrance of the cave when it saw the bamboo door of its own cave. Wolf Cang knew in its heart that this was probably Lin Baiyan's doing again.
With a flick of its paw, the wolf didn't transform into human form and went inside. But when it reached Lin Baiyan's room, it was stunned again. What was going on? Why did they install this thing in their room...?
Seeing the obstacle in front of him, the giant wolf's ears drooped down. For some reason, he felt a little wronged and his heart was heavy.
Did he do something wrong?
Does that mean he won't be able to go in anymore?
The big white wolf was squatting at the door of Lin Baiyan's room, busy being alone.
Lin Baiyan was stir-frying cured meat. The cured meat he had smoked with barbarian beef was almost finished. After the tribe finished eating the wolf meat, they were given marinated barbarian beef instead.
Lin Baiyan exchanged a large piece of cured beef from the barbarians, cut it open with a bone knife, and the crystal-clear cut surface looked incredibly appetizing.
He then fished out a bundle of pickled mustard greens from the stone jar, chopped them up, and stir-fried them with cured meat. The fragrant aroma filled the entire cave.
With windows, the fumes from cooking finally have a place to escape, and it's not so choking anymore.
The big white wolf squatted at the entrance of the room, making low gurgling sounds in its throat. Whether it was intentional or not, the sound was extremely loud.
Lin Baiyan had just poured the stir-fried cured meat onto the stone slab when he heard a noise at the door.
He went outside and saw a huge, furry creature lying at the entrance of his room, a fish in its mouth, its ears drooping down, looking rather unhappy.
With such a large, fluffy, and brightly colored creature right in front of him, Lin Baiyan felt an urge to touch it.
What to do? I want to pet the repair dog.
He restrained his restless hand and asked, looking down, "What's wrong?"
Did today's patrol and training not go well?
Or did something happen?
Upon hearing the sound, the big white wolf raised its head and gave itself a long, brooding look, its ears twitching twice.