shock!Empress Dowager

Chapter 121 Weaving Kang Mats, Advanced Lucky Draw

"It would be great if we could smelt iron, which can solve many of our problems."

Before going to bed, Xu Yi let out a long sigh.

But his idea successfully stimulated Shi Miao, making Xiao Jiujiu in her mind turbulent for a long time.

The melting and boiling point of iron is relatively high. If you want to forge iron, you can only rely on the ancient iron forging method. If you want to forge iron, they need a bellows and a furnace that can be used to smelt iron.

After thinking about it for a long time, Shi Miao decided to implement the wrought iron plan in a few days.

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Day two.

Shi Miao took Jin Jin out early in the morning because he took over the job of finding tung oil fruit.

There is gold in the tung oil fruit, and Shimiao does not need to work hard at all.

And she herself was searching for something that could be exchanged for points nearby, all of which were used to exchange points for the few remaining points before the advanced lottery draw.

"Master, there is a hundred-year-old ginseng on the right hand side 17 meters ahead of you, go dig it!"

Because the stingray I received from Shi Miao yesterday gave me a lot of experience, the Sea King is extraordinarily dedicated today.

Hearing that there was ginseng in front, and knowing how valuable ginseng was, Shi Miao walked over in a hurry, but she dug it very carefully, the quality of that ginseng was not low, one plant gave Shi Miao another [-] points.

Her luck seems to be good today, some ginseng, some matsutake, some hydrangea mushrooms, each of which is a rare and great tonic, which made Shi Miao's points increase crazily unconsciously.

Two hours later, looking at her 3000 points, Shi Miao swaggered in satisfaction to find Jin Jin.

Jin Jin picked a basket full of tung oil fruits, but also picked three or four golden wild pears the size of fists from nowhere.

Shi Miao tasted one, it tasted very sweet and full of water, it was very popular with her.

Although it was still early, Shi Miao didn't stay any longer because he had other tasks to do after returning.

This morning, Gu Ao and Miya were in charge of painting the walls, and the rest of them devoted themselves to the construction of the bath.

Fortunately, there are enough bricks fired before, and the bath is relatively easy to build and does not require a large area. Everyone built two walls for the bath in the morning.

When Shi Miao went back, he first used a stone mill to squeeze all the tung oil fruits out of the tung oil. In the afternoon, Gu Ao's job became to use a brush to brush the wooden tables, cabinets, chairs, and beds that Uncle Ge had made.

The furniture of the eight houses is not a small workload. After a whole afternoon of busy work, Gu Ao barely brushed all the furniture.

In the afternoon, Shi Miao also devoted himself to the construction of the bathing pool, and several people worked together to complete the construction of the external structure of a bathing pool in one day.

There is only one door, two windows for ventilation and the pool inside, and we have no time to do it yet.

Because there is no plan to make glass for the time being, Uncle Ge chose the way the ancients made doors and windows for the doors and windows, and temporarily used paper to paste the windows.

After another two days, two baths were built. The construction of the baths is very simple. You only need to dig a large enough area indoors. After leaving a layer below for the kang, all the places are covered with cement. , Uncle Ge also added a partition wall that can be used to burn a fire, which will be used to raise the temperature of the bath in the future.

And all the houses have been painted in the past few days, and the outer walls have become a layer of pale white, which looks much better than before.

After everything is completed, wait for three or four days to let the sun shine on the house again, and after the moisture is gone, everyone can really move in. Everyone is very happy with this realization.

Because the kang needs a layer of mats as a base, and bamboo mats are not suitable for heating the kang in winter, Shi Miao took Gu Tianjiao to the edge of the pool downstream to cut a large number of reeds when he was free.

After that, everyone worked together to split all the reed stalks into very thin strips of uniform thickness. After the strips were approved, washed, cleaned and dried in the sun, eight people squatted together and each held a pile of strips to weave a kang mat.

Because Miya slept with Liu Ailing, and Zhou Youcai slept with Uncle Ge, so the two groups helped each other to make the same kang mat.

The weaving of kang mats is a tedious and patient process. It is difficult to weave kang mats at the beginning. Except for Shi Miao and Liu Ailing who succeeded at the beginning, everyone else weaves crookedly. Shi Miao and Liu Ailing can only help a few people. At the beginning, lay it out. Although there are many patterns of weaving kang mats, Shi Miao chose to teach you the simplest three-fold border to enclose the herringbone pattern in the middle.

"Shi Miao, I still can't, teach me again."

The loose and crooked Gu Tianjiao couldn't help but continued to speak with a sad face.

"When you fold the sides and weave them back, you have to be more careful, the sides have to be neat, and the strength has to be even..."

After telling Gu Tianjiao again, Shi Miao accelerated the speed of his subordinates.

After enclosing the border, pick two strips and press two strips, change the line after walking two grids, continue to pick and press two and slowly go through the herringbone process.

At the beginning, Shi Miao’s speed was relatively slow because he wanted to teach everyone. After seeing that everyone started to master the essentials of knitting, Shi Miao began to speed up. His hands moved up and down like shuttles. In one day, a complete The kang mat was perfectly completed by Shi Miao.

Although it was the first time I made it, except for the rough corners of the mat at the beginning and a few slightly larger gaps, the kang mat woven by Shi Miao was complete and even, and it looked very beautiful.

Except for Liu Ailing's progress which is not much different from Shi Miao's, and there is still a one-meter-long corner left unfinished, the rest of the people will barely complete half of it.

In the end, on this night when the sky was slowly getting dark, everyone could only watch enviously when Shi Miao rolled up the mats she had woven and spread them on the kang of the room she had chosen.

Because the kang is to be burned in winter, in addition to a layer of mats, one or two layers of felt are needed for padding on it, and finally a bed sheet is laid on it.

But there are not enough tools here to make felt, so Shi Miao chose to use the simplest and rude method, picking a large piece of cotton early the next morning, flattening them into a thick layer, and finally wrapping it with gauze. After finishing, patiently pressed the cotton with a small hammer until it was very firm to replace the felt, rolled it up and hugged it to the kang and put it on it.

It took Shi Miao two days to finish the two layers of things on the kang, and everyone barely weaved the mat.

For this cognition, everyone can only feel heartbroken and helpless.

This night, it was finally time to draw a lottery again.

When the Neptune announced the arrival of the lottery draw in his mind, Shi Miao sat up excitedly and chose the lottery draw without hesitation.

"The advanced lottery draw is being prepared for you, and the lottery draw is in progress..."

5!

4!

3!

2!

1!

"Congratulations to the master for obtaining a tempering hammer, a high-level prop! With a tempering hammer, no matter how hard the substance is, it will become soft, and impurities will be perfectly removed after hitting it ten times. The scope of use of the tempering hammer: all touchable objects."

　Thank you baby Abai for your reward~
　　Thank you thirteen Shishao baby for your tickets~
　　Good night everyone, I love you, okay~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)