Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

Chapter 149 149 Refining
Shan took a wooden stick, drilled a hole in it, fixed the wooden stick to the piston rod with isinglass, and said with a smile, "Try it and see if it works better."

Yao Xiaoqing tried it, and it really saved a lot of trouble in using it. The finished blower looks a bit similar to the pumps of later generations.

Yao Xiaoqing thanked the mountain, took a simple blower home, took a dustpan, and went to the pond.

I saw that the firewood pile had been extinguished, and the ore fell into the ash pile.

Pick up the burnt ore with bamboo clips, put it on a thick stone slab, beat it with a stone hammer to crush it, put it in a dustpan and put it beside the kiln.

Pick up the blower, and align the outlet with the air inlet of the kiln. After connecting, fix the blower in the pit, and paste it with clay to reinforce it.

I grabbed some clay and thickly pasted the connection between the punching bag and the air intake to prevent air leakage.

I picked up some branches and pine needles and put them into the kiln to ignite, put the charcoal into the kiln, and after the charcoal ignited, I poured half of the frame into it.

Pour the ore in the dustpan on top of the charcoal, and then pour half a box of charcoal on top to cover the ore.

Yao Xiaoqing patted the dust on his hands, went to lift the piston rod, and raised the pressure to blow the wind. With the sound of "huchi" and "huchi", the charcoal burst into flames.

After a while, red flames emerged from the stove.

While pumping the blower, she added charcoal to the stove. The red flame in the stove slowly turned into a golden orange color, and she was also sweating profusely from exhaustion.

When Hua came, Yao Xiaoqing was already out of breath, beckoning to her, "Come and help."

"Hey!" Hua responded with a smile, and went over to take over the task of pumping and pressing the blower.

Stretching her neck, she glanced at the fire in the hearth, but she didn't see anything being burned, and asked strangely, "Xiaoqing, what are you doing here?"

Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile: "I have refined something, but I haven't succeeded yet."

The two took turns pulling the blower, busy until the sun went down, and then stopped after burning the two baskets of charcoal.The ore in the hearth has stuck together and turned into a ball of crimson stone.

Yao Xiaoqing clamped it with two wooden sticks, and the wooden sticks were instantly ignited.After trying to pinch it a few times, it was finally pinched out of the stove and placed on a thick stone slab.

Let Hua hit the stone ball with a stone hammer, and when the hammer hits, sparks fly everywhere.

The residue covering the stone ball was forged and peeled off, revealing the crimson stone ball inside.

After the residue fell to the ground and cooled, it turned into black-gray gravel.

Yao Xiaoqing poured the water from the wooden ladle onto the red stone ball, and with a "chi", the stone ball turned into a black iron block.

Most of the iron ore was carried in a basket to refine a small bowl of iron lumps.She also doesn't know whether these iron ores are rich iron ore or lean iron ore.

Hua looked at the iron ball, "Xiao Qing, what are you doing with a piece of black stuff?"

Yao Xiaoqing looked at her and smiled, "It's very useful, you go back to the cafeteria to help, I'll go back later."

Hua looked at the sky and said, "Okay, the sun has set, the leader and the others should be back."

As soon as Yao Xiaoqing tidied up the bamboo shed, she heard the sound of "bang bang" knocking on the door. She hurried over and took down the door bolt. Outside.

"Why do you look unhappy?"

"Alas!" Shan'am sighed, "I met a group of shameless women who followed us and robbed us of the food we found."

Yao Xiaoqing raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh! Is there a new tribe?"

Shan Amu curled her lips, "I don't know where they migrated from. They are taller than us, and we can't understand what they say. Wow, wow, they smell bad."

Yao Xiaoqing glanced at the messy hair of several women, "Look at you, have you fought with them?"

Sam nodded, "Yeah! We had a fight with them."

Yao Xiaoqing looked at them, "Did you win?"

The woman named Ah Hong nodded triumphantly, "We won, we rode on them and beat them badly."

Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "Okay, it's good if you win." A group of people walked back happily.

Yao Xiaoqing took the iron back and put it away, and saw Mu Feng and Zhu coming back with rock salt on their backs.

"Xiao Qing, is father back?" Mu Feng asked.

"No!" Yao Xiaoqing hurried forward and opened the warehouse where the rock salt was stored, "Put it in quickly!"

He put down his back basket and came out and sat slumped under the eaves of the porch, fanning himself non-stop, "Ouch! It's so hot today!"

Yao Xiaoqing brought out the water jar and poured him a bowl, "Brother, drink water!" The water in the jar is soaked in bamboo core, which has the effect of quenching heat and thirst, clearing away heat and detoxifying.

She took a sip of it, wiped his mouth, looked at her with a smile and said, "You said you can't drink raw water. We didn't dare to drink a sip of water in the mountains. After drinking the water in the bamboo tube, we would have died of thirst a long time ago." .”

Xiong Niu put the rock salt and came out, smiled and knocked on the pig: "You boy, Xiaoqing is also for our good, you want to have a big belly!"

"You want a big belly." She patted his leg.

Spear and a few warriors came out, holding the bull in their arms, "Wood Wind, come out, let's go to the river and take a bath to cool off."

"Okay." Mu Feng came out of the warehouse, and a dozen men walked outside with their shoulders crossed.

Yaohu and the others also returned to the tribe.A dozen people captured several hares, a dozen pheasants, turtledoves, several goats, and a wild boar.Everyone is sighing, saying that compared with last summer, the number of prey is less and less.

Yao Xiaoqing said to Yaohu: "Father, Shan Amu said that they met some women who couldn't understand the language, robbed them of the food they collected, and even fought with them."

Yaohu didn't know where these people came from, he frowned and said, "We can understand the people in this area. Could it be that they migrated here from far away?"

Yao Xiaoqing thought of something, "Father, the few men I met in the bamboo forest with Yuzi couldn't understand their words, could they be from the same place?" She guessed that it was caused by the cold winter, living in the cold Local people have no living space and migrate to warmer places in summer.

Muba looked at Yaohu, "Boss, it seems that some people have migrated here from far away. Those women who dare to grab food seem to be not good people."

Yaohu nodded, "Everyone carry the prey to the cafeteria first, and then go back to wash it, and we'll talk after eating the food."

Everyone agreed and left with the prey on their shoulders.

When they were all gone, Yao Xiaoqing went into the room and took out the iron, smiled triumphantly, and handed it to Yaohu, "Father, look!"

Yaohu took it over, and it was cool and heavy in his hand, "It's dark. What is it?"

Yao Xiaoqing looked at him with a smile, "Father, this is iron, it can be very useful."

(End of this chapter)