"squeak--"

"Squeak-squeak-squeak-squeak-"

Ban Xia listened to the music with her eyes closed. Early in the morning, these mice sang more beautifully than they sang. They sang one after another, with ups and downs, just like a symphony orchestra.

She opened her eyes and immediately put her hands into her messy hair. Fortunately, no mice got in last night.

She got up from the bed, which made a creaking sound. The noise of mice under the bed stopped immediately. Ban Xia could imagine that these rodents at a concert all raised their heads and stared at the top of their heads in fear, worried about the

The black board would suddenly collapse, and the girl cleared her throat: "Dear guests, I will count to three, if you still don't leave after three times..."

Before she could finish her words, the mice jumped out from under the girl's nose and disappeared from sight within a few seconds.

"...I will select a few lucky guests to stay and make breakfast."

Banxia rubbed her hair.

"Running so fast."

In the past, Banxia had tried to seal off rats. She carefully searched the room from top to bottom, checking all the gaps where rats could pass through to make sure that no needle could go in. 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, moist little nose was poking around.

Banxia secretly sighed at that time, this was not entirely a bad thing, at least it was solved by breakfast.

Nowadays, Banxia no longer tries to stop mice. These little things can appear from all kinds of weird places and disappear in all kinds of weird places.

She jumped out of bed, pulled her clothes from the back of the chair and put them on.

When she wasn't going out, she only wore a baggy white shirt with a pair of shorts under the shirt, and walked around the house with her long legs bare.

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 warmth and decoration, but also distinguish you from the beast. If you don't wear clothes, one day you will merge into the wild beast.

world, forgetting one's identity as a human being.

Banxia said, isn't that good? Humans come from nature and return to nature. We are all hairless naked apes!

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

Banxia asked the girl what was wrong?

Girls should be beautiful. You are the most beautiful girl in the world. If you don't wear clothes, you will let the world take advantage of you.

The teacher said this while rounding and flattening her face.

"Are you pretty?" Banxia grinned at the dirty mirror in the bathroom, "I don't know if I'm pretty or not, I'm face blind."

The Colgate toothpaste on the sink has been rolled into a layer of skin. Banxia squeezed it without giving up and applied the last bit of green toothpaste on the toothbrush.

It seems that this toothpaste won't be used tomorrow. I'll cut it open with a knife then, and there will always be some scrapes inside.

First, keep taking good care of your teeth!

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

The teacher once took Banxia 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 in the room downstairs.

Banxia feels that she can use these toothpastes for at least twenty years.

After brushing her teeth and washing her face, the girl scooped a ladle of water from the big bucket in the corner of the bathroom and poured it into the plastic basin, then squatted down and washed her face.

The ceramic washbasin that comes with the bathroom is unusable. It was damaged a few years ago. There is a big crack at the bottom that can be inserted with fingers, so we have to use another washbasin.

The teacher found the big red buckets used to store fresh water. There were two of them, placed side by side in the bathroom, taking up half of the space in the bathroom - where the shower room used to be. The two plastic buckets were one meter high and had lids.

, it is just right to store fresh water. Whether it is drinking or using it, Pinellia ternata 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 poured water on the floor outside the bathroom casually to wash away the dirt and dust on the floor.

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

The main source of fresh water in Pinellia ternata is rainfall. Nanjing is a rainy city. There will be regular rainfall for eight months of the year. Humid temperate cyclones will come from the sea and bring abundant rain, starting in March.

, until October, it is the typhoon season in Nanjing for such a long time.

After washing up, Banxia tied her hair into a ponytail, and then it was time to make breakfast.

"Dad! Mom! What did you eat this morning?" Banxia held a rubber band in her mouth and hummed a vague tune, "How about cooking porridge? Cooking dandelion porridge? The ones picked yesterday should still be fresh. If you don't say anything, I will treat it as a porridge.

I agreed!"

Sure enough, no one spoke.

That means unanimous vote, I will have dandelion porridge for breakfast today.

Banxia always has a very accurate grasp of her parents' psychology.

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

When cooking, you must close the kitchen door and open all the kitchen windows to ensure there is no problem with ventilation. Only then did Banxia lift the stove out from under the stove with great difficulty.

"This thing is really heavy."

Old-fashioned briquette stove. God knows where the teacher found this thing. The stove is half a meter high and is a cylinder. There is a vent at the bottom of the stove, which is covered with a lid. This thing was originally used to burn briquettes - briquettes are short.

Cylinders can be placed one on top of another in the vertical furnace, but make sure that the holes of all the briquettes are aligned from top to bottom. The holes ensure air circulation. The air enters from the vent at the bottom of the furnace and passes up and down the briquettes.

Align the through holes and finally come out of the furnace. Only when there is air circulation can the coal be burned.

Obviously Banxia doesn't have briquettes in hand right now.

But she had a wall of firewood.

Each piece of firewood is as long as a hand and as thin as two or three fingers. They are stacked one on top of another against the kitchen wall, making the pile as high as a person.

All these firewood were split from Pinellia ternata. The most indispensable thing in Nanjing was wood. The camphor trees and oak trees all over the streets were lush and leafy. She chopped down the trees and sawed them, then chopped them into small pieces of firewood little by little and piled them up.

Drying on the balcony, fresh wet firewood cannot be burned, and the smoke will be billowing when burning, so the firewood must be dried after being chopped. First put it on the balcony to dry, and then put it in the kitchen to dry. The first chopped wood will be burned first, and the last chopped wood will be burned later.

Burn, no matter which firewood it is, when it is time to burn it in Pinellia ternata, it should also be dried.

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

She couldn't bear to use gasoline.

So most of the time she was burning wood.

Pinellia ternata rolls up slightly thinner firewood and dry grass leaves into a ball. This is an excellent kindling material and can catch fire at once.

But it’s not enough to have tinder, you have to light it.

How to order?

From the day humans mastered flames, the methods of ignition have been iteratively updated. Drilling wood to make fire was too time-consuming and labor-intensive, so people learned to use minerals to make flint and fire sickles. Making fire every time was too troublesome, so people learned to use charcoal to preserve it.

For fire, as long as half-burned charcoal is covered with fine ash, the time for the flame to go out can be greatly delayed. A dark fire will always last longer than an open flame. Such a fire can even be carried around in a box and used at any time.

.

Banxia carefully took out a metal box from under the stove.

This is fire.

Eternal fire.
Chapter completed!