Husband and Father Youwei

Chapter 9 Charcoal Firing

 Not long after, the sky had completely darkened, and the matter of family separation had been discussed until there was nothing wrong with it. Although Tu Lin wanted to take this opportunity with Ruan Tang to look at the stars and the moon and talk about their ideals in life What, but seeing that Ruan Tang already had an unconcealable tiredness on his face at this time, he stopped thinking about it.

Back in the house, Tu An was already sound asleep, and the two couldn't help but relax their hands and feet. The bed in the old house is said to be a bed, but in fact it is just a patchwork of several wooden boards, with some dry straw spread on it. Although it is better than lying directly on the wooden board, it is unavoidable to be a bit irritating. I don't pay too much attention to the left and right of the countryside, so I just sleep with my clothes together.

After laying down on the bed, Tu Lin found it difficult to fall asleep for a while, past life, present life, and future, all kinds of thoughts filled his mind, which made him unable to calm down for a long time. The night was getting deeper, and outside the window was the sound of unknown insects, and beside him were two even and gentle breathing sounds, one after another. Slowly, a long-lost peace filled Tu Lin's heart. He slowly closed his eyes, Soon fell into a deep sleep.

After a night without dreams, Tu Lin woke up when the sky was still dark in the early morning of the next day. When he turned his head, he saw the sleeping face of Ruan Tang who was lying on his right side facing him. He wanted to get up immediately. He immediately dismissed the idea.

Ruan Tang who was asleep looked not much different from him when he was awake, giving off a gentle and harmless yet reliable feeling. The eyebrows are clear, the closed eyes draw a round arc, the eyelashes are long and dense, like two small brushes covering the silkworms under the eyes.

Maybe Tu Lin didn't pay much attention to it before, it was the first time he saw a man with such long and dense eyelashes, he couldn't help stretching out his fingers to fiddle with them, but just before his fingertips touched the eyelashes , Ruan Tang's eyelashes moved suddenly.

Tu Lin quickly withdrew his hand, and without knowing why, he subconsciously closed his eyes and pretended to fall asleep. Breathe lightly, and the heartbeat in the chest, which is beating faster than usual, is obvious.

There was a slight sound in his ears, as if Ruan Tang was turning over, but Tu Lin didn't move. After a while, the sound became louder again. He couldn't help but opened his eyes, and saw Ruan Tang sitting by the bed putting on his shoes.

As if aware of Tu Lin's gaze, Ruan Tang turned his head and looked over, met Tu Lin's eyes, paused, and then said softly: "Sorry, I disturbed you. It's not yet dawn, you can go to sleep again "Because Tu An was still asleep, Ruan Tang lowered his voice.

Tu Lin smiled slightly, and said softly: "It's okay, I'm not sleepy now, let's get up with you." He sat up after speaking.

Ruan Tang saw that Tu Lin's eyes were indeed clear, and he didn't feel any tiredness when he first woke up, so he nodded and said nothing, then bent down and handed the shoes on the ground to Tu Lin, who took it after thanking him.

Ruan Tang got up before dawn every day, and then went to the Tu family to do some rough work of feeding pigs and carrying water. After breakfast was done, he returned to the old house with his, Tu Lin, and Tu An's share.

Although Tu Lin is no longer stupid now, he still prepared to go to Tu's house as usual, but after Tu Lin learned of his plan, he stopped him.

Ruan Tang brought back so many things from the Tu family yesterday, it is impossible for the Tu family not to notice, although they don't know why there was no movement yesterday, but if Ruan Tang went to the Tu family today, he would definitely not be able to please, so the Tu family would not let it go. It's good to go, at least you can't let Ruan Tang go alone. He is no longer the Tu Lin of the past, and he will no longer make Ruan Tang suffer and suffer as much as before.

Ruan Tang hesitated a bit, if he didn't say anything and suddenly stopped going, there was no one to do the work in the yard, and there might be a lot of gossip from the Tu family, although he wasn't afraid, but It is also troublesome.

However, Tu Lin was not as kind as Ruan Tang, or he was scruples, even though those members of the Tu family were his "flesh and blood relatives", so he patted Ruan Tang on the shoulder and said with a casual smile: "The Tu family's big and small add up to a small amount." There are always ten people who can work. Because of you, they have been relaxed for several years in the past, which is enough. As for other things, you don't have to worry, I'm always here." Tu Lin said so,

Ruan Tang thought about what he said to himself yesterday about getting a family, so he nodded and let go of the hesitation in his heart. The left and right Tu Lin is already healed now, and it is estimated that they will not be a family with the Tu family in a long time, and he really does not need to be as tolerant and obedient to the Tu family as before.

Now Ruan Tang couldn't help but rejoice that he listened to Tu Lin's words yesterday and took a lot of rice, meat and eggs from Tu's house for food, so he didn't have to go to Tu's house for breakfast. The earthen pot used to stew chicken yesterday is used to boil porridge today. Bacon and shiitake mushrooms are added to the porridge, and three eggs are boiled together. The three buns left over from yesterday are roasted in front of the stove.

It took some time to prepare breakfast, and Ruan Tang was enough for one person, and there was no need for Tu Lin, so Tu Lin went to the forest to see how his charcoal was doing.

To be honest, although the charcoal burned by Tu Lin in his previous life was at least one hundred and eighty kilns, tens of thousands of catties, but in the beginning, they spent a lot of time and burned several kilns of charcoal before finally grasping the soil. The precise time used to burn charcoal. But now, he doesn't have any tools to calculate the time, so this time when burning charcoal, he can only rely on the experience and feelings accumulated in his previous life. In fact, he is not sure how it will be burnt.

When Ruan Tang prepared breakfast and called Tu Lin, he found that Tu Lin was not at the charcoal kiln, and the door of the charcoal kiln was opened, but there was nothing inside, not even the charcoal.

Ruan Tang was wondering, when he saw Tu Lin coming out from behind a big tree, holding a twig woven into a cage, and inside the cage was a fat wild rabbit, when he saw Ruan Tang, he immediately smiled, He raised his hand to gesture to Ruan Tang for the cage in his hand, and said, "Look, good luck, I caught another rabbit."

Ruan Tang also laughed, thinking that he may not have gained anything in the past ten days and a half months, but Tu Lin was sober only the next day, and he caught two wild animals in a row.

"...The meal is ready, let's go back to eat first." Ruan Tang said to Tu Lin. This was also his main purpose of coming to the forest. There was a little gray-black ashes left, and he couldn't bear to ask.

But Tu Lin didn't realize that Ruan Tang hesitated to speak. He handed over the rabbit cage to Ruan Tang, and then walked to an open space with brown soil beside the charcoal kiln, squatted down and turned over the soil.

Ruan Tang was a little confused, so he just noticed that this open space is different from other places. The ground is very uneven and the soil is a little loose, as if it has been turned over. At this time, he more or less guessed that it should be related to Tu Lin. . It's just that he doesn't understand, isn't it burning charcoal, why is the soil turned up again?

Just when Ruan Tang was about to ask, his eyes widened slightly as if he had seen something strange suddenly. He took two steps forward and came to Tu Lin's side, and subconsciously asked, "What is this?"

What I saw buried under the brown sand were long white strips, which were about the size of the wood they made for burning charcoal. Thinking of this, Ruan Tang's eyes widened, apart from curiosity, there was a trace of unbelievable conjecture in his eyes.

Tu Lin had already stood up at this time, he didn't answer Ruan Tang immediately, but lightly broke the long white thing in his hand, and with a somewhat dull crisp sound, the thing in his hand broke into two pieces.

After seeing the pure black inside which is completely different from the white surface, Tu Lin nodded in satisfaction, smiled, and said in a light and joyful tone: "It's done." "This is, you burned it.

" Charcoal?" Ruan Tang didn't need Tu Lin to answer, and he already saw that this was the charcoal that Tu Lin wanted to burn, and judging by Tu Lin's appearance, it was still completely burnt.

It's just that Ruan Tang felt more doubts than joy. Isn't charcoal all black? Although the thing in Tu Lin's hand is black on the inside, its surface is white. Is this also charcoal? Ruan Tang thought about it and asked.

Tu Linsi and Ruan Tang grew up in the countryside. They had never seen this thing before, so it was normal not to know about it. They explained to him: "This is silver charcoal, also called silver frost charcoal or silver bone charcoal. It is darker than ordinary charcoal. Charcoal is lighter, more resistant to burning, has no smoke, and is much more valuable than ordinary black charcoal."

Ruan Tang really didn't know what silver charcoal or silver frost charcoal was, he had never heard of it, but At this time when Tu Lin said so, he only knew that the charcoal was really burnt, so he was very happy, and he admired Tu Lin very much, which made Tu Lin feel a little embarrassed.

After all, Ruan Tang only thought that it was the first time that Tu Lin was burned, but he didn't expect that it would be the first time. He has rich experience, so the firing of silver charcoal is so smooth this time, and it is considered normal when the firing is completed, so he can't help feeling a little ashamed.

Because it was time for breakfast, and after the meal they had to go to the county town to sell charcoal and visit their sister Tu Xinmei, so the charcoal burning had to be stopped first.

The two first took out the charcoal buried in the sand and put it into the two baskets that Ruan Tang brought back to the old house, and then Tu Lin put the wood made yesterday into the charcoal kiln, because he didn't plan to burn it. So this time I didn't ignite it, just put it inside.

After putting it away, Tu Lin carried two baskets of silver charcoal weighing about one hundred and eighty catties, and Ruan Tang carried the cage containing the rabbit, and the two returned to the old house together.