Wild farming: I was hugged by the cold patriarch

Chapter 65 065. Stone pots and jars

The patriarch came down from the mountain and asked with great concern: "Sang, how are you doing?"

Ye Sang handed the bamboo tube to the clan leader: "I've made it. There are quite a few. These iron beads are enough to make a dagger."

The clan leader weighed it, and a rare smile appeared on his serious face: "Not bad, let's continue to make more iron, and make more iron to make weapons for everyone."

At this time, someone asked: "These are just some iron beads, how can they be turned into weapons?"

It would be very difficult to explain something that you have never seen before. Ye Sang did not explain it. He only said: "I will demonstrate it to everyone when the time comes. You will know after watching it once."

The patriarch said gratefully to Ye Sang: "Sang, thank you."

Ye Sang smiled: "Thank me after the weapon is made."

No one said anything next, they all helped to dig out the iron beads from the slag, and finally picked up more than half a catty.

Now that he could refine it, Ye Sang immediately decided to expand the scale. There was no need to go hunting today, everyone in the tribe could use it.

"Qicang, take people to get soil and bring back more. Remember, only the soil we took yesterday."

Tancang agreed without hesitation: "I'll go right away."

"Lie, take someone to get the mud and help me build an iron-making furnace and a charcoal-burning furnace."

Lie nodded: "Okay, I'll go right away."

Others cut hay, collect firewood, and do some auxiliary work.

Ye Sang went to do the most technical thing - prepare the materials for installing the bellows. Without the bellows, even if everything else is ready, iron cannot be smelted. This is a very critical part.

Others who have nothing else to do will go pick fruits, pick pine cones, dig konjac, chop bamboo shoots and dry them in the sun.

This is a good time to pick fruits, and the fruits won’t go bad if kept for a month or two. You must pick more now. If you can’t finish them all after you pick them, you can also use them as food reserves for the winter.

The tribe was busy and ten days passed quickly.

In the past ten days, Ye Sang led the tribe to refine more than 100 kilograms of iron. Of course, she did not refine it alone, it was the result of everyone's efforts.

Cao led the women of the tribe to pick all the nearby pine cones. Ye Sang told everyone how to eat pine nuts. Now pine nuts have become part of the collection.

As for the dried bamboo shoots, we are now drying the third batch. It will take basically four days to dry the bamboo shoots. Then put them in a ventilated place, and the dried bamboo shoots will basically not go bad.

Regarding storing things in the cave, Ye Sang taught everyone a way to make use of the upper space of the cave.

The cave is not big, but everyone only used the lower part, and the upper part was not used at all.

Dig a few deep holes near the side of the cave, bury the whole length of calf-thick bamboo in the hole, straighten it, fill it back with gravel, and compact it with a hammer to build four bamboo pillars.

Then tie bamboos horizontally on the bamboo pillars, and wrap vines between the horizontal bamboos to make a bookshelf, so that things can be placed layer by layer.

This method is loved by everyone, and almost all caves have bamboo frames built in this way.

The birth of the bamboo frame even changed the tribal people's habit of throwing things on the ground, making it look much cleaner.

Also, in the past ten days, the piece of konjac Ye Sang found was dug up completely, just because Ye Sang made a meal of konjac stew for everyone. While digging, Ye Sang asked them to bury the small konjac back. , to achieve sustainable harvesting.

The konjac dug up can be put on the shelf for storage, which can be considered as making the best use of it.

Food began to be stored one by one, which gave everyone some peace of mind and no longer worried so much.

Food storage is something that needs to be done all the time. In addition, clothing also needs to be prepared.

Let’s do this slowly. It’s only the end of September, so there’s still time.

On the 11th day, Ye Sang was ready to use iron to make a hoe. The original intention of making iron was to make a hoe to dig trenches to protect against wild animals, so the first iron tool must be a hoe.

Ye Sang bought a tong pot, two fire tongs, and an iron pier from the mall, and prepared the rest in reality.

First, Ye Sang brought a stone and carved a hoe-shaped groove on the surface of the stone as a hoe mold.

Because it is not a whole piece of iron, you need to put the iron beads into the tong pot to melt them into molten iron, pour the molten iron into the mold to form a block, and then forge it into shape.

After spending a lot of time on preparations, Ye Sang called Tancang Hefeng to assist, and then started to formally build the hoe.

Ye Sang made a handful and weighed it in front of everyone. He made it according to the tutorial, and the error was no more than one or two. It was quite successful.

The hoe weighed one and a half kilograms. Ye Sang weighed one and a half kilograms of iron beads and poured them into the pot, then put them in the furnace, turned on the bellows, heated them, and melted the iron beads first.

This process takes some time and requires patience.

In view of the danger involved in the process, Ye Sang only allowed a dozen or so people to watch and learn the skill in the future. This skill would definitely need to be performed by people from the tribe, and it was probably these few people who were watching.

The skill of iron-making has been eliminated in modern times, but in this world, it will definitely be the most popular skill in the future, and it can last for thousands of years.

After a long period of waiting, the iron beads finally showed signs of melting. He continued to heat them, and finally all the iron beads melted.

Ye Sang took out the tong pot with two tongs and poured the red-hot iron juice inside into the mold.

The mold was kept horizontal, and the iron juice was poured into it. In a short time, it covered the entire mold, and the red color faded and turned black.When the iron juice stopped flowing, Ye Sang poured water over it. This step was called quenching.

A sizzling sound accompanied the rising white mist, and a piece of iron began to look like a hoe. It was then heated and forged.

Ye Sang held the iron block with tongs and plunged the hoe blade into the charcoal fire in the furnace to make it red.

Heat it red and then take it out and put it on the iron pier and beat it with a hammer.

Red-hot iron has strong ductility. It is easy to thin the iron piece by hammering it with a hammer. When thinning, look in two directions, and finally the hoe blade will have a slightly scalloped shape.

Ding, clink, clank, Ye Sang held the hoe with a pair of tongs in one hand, and hammered the hoe blade with a hammer in the other hand. The hoe blade showed obvious signs of thinning.

The forged iron material gradually lost its fiery red color and sufficient temperature. Ye Sang fed it into the furnace again and burned it again.

Beating it once is not enough. It needs to be beaten repeatedly until it looks like a hoe.

After repeating this process seven or eight times, the hoe blade finally took shape.

Ye Sang put the hoe into the water to quench it. It was sizzling and the water was bubbling. When the water calmed down, Ye Sang picked up the hoe.

Ye Sang wiped the sweat from his face with his arm, then put the back of his hand close to the hoe to test the temperature. Feeling that it had cooled down, Ye Sang put the hoe aside and went to get the whetstone.

The forged hoe blade is very dull, it can be said that it has no edge at all, and needs to be sharpened with a whetstone.

Ye Sang picked up the whetstone from the pond and kept it for many days. Today it was finally put to use.

After some polishing, the key position of the hoe blade became shiny and no longer rough.

Seeing that Ye Sang was tired, Yucang took the initiative and said, "Grind it for me."

Ye Sang had been working for so long, and his arms had no strength, so he did not refuse: "Be careful, the hoe blade has been opened, you may cut your hand."

Blacksmithing is really tiring. No wonder there have been few women working in blacksmiths since ancient times. It is simply too hard a job.

"I'll be careful." Tan Cang was much stronger than Ye Sang. After sharpening it for a few times, Ye Sang felt that the hoe blade was much brighter.

Seeing this, the eyes of the onlookers became brighter and brighter. Only their tribe could smelt iron. After thinking about it, the entire wilderness didn't respect their tribe?

After about half an hour of sharpening, the hoe blade was completely sharpened. Ye Sang picked out a piece of bamboo with a head as thick as an arm and removed all the roots from the bamboo head, leaving a three-meter-long piece of bamboo pole, which he installed on the hoe. I made a hoe handle and tried it for stability, and it was okay.

Ye Sang used a hoe to demonstrate to everyone.

Not bad, can dig up the soil.

Ye Sang gave the hoe to Tancang: "You can try digging it too."

Tan Cang took the hoe and started digging in anticipation. After a while, a hole was dug in the ground. After digging, he suddenly raised the hoe and shouted: "Hoe!"

Everyone in the tribe immediately responded: "Hoe! Hoe!!"

Everyone responded, and the scene became a bit impassioned. Ye Sang was so emotionally moved that he couldn't help but want to yell. It seemed that this was the only way to express his emotions.

Wu Ning looked at the scene at the bottom of the mountain, a smile appeared on his face: wild hope!
With the first hoe, soon there was the second, and the third...

Ye Sang did not refine all the iron into hoes, but also sickles, axes, kitchen knives and other tools needed in life.

After ten days of busy work, everyone smelted all the iron beads they had smelted into various tools. In the process, Tancang and others learned the skills of smelting iron, and then they made it by themselves. Ye Sang is not going to participate.

With the tools, digging trenches was put on the agenda.

Before digging the trench, the bushes within a hundred meters must be cleared and the trees must be cut down one by one.

After cutting down the trees, you can cultivate them. There are many vegetables that are very frost-resistant, even if it snows.

Under Ye Sang's arrangement, everyone took the tools and started getting busy.

Doing these things after hunting and gathering will not delay everyone's business of finding food.

……

On this day, Shan came to Ye Sang and said, "Sang, the stone pots and jars have been polished. Come and see if it works."

Ye Sang nodded: "Okay."

There are five large stone pots and twenty large stone jars placed in the cave, almost filling the cave.

Ye Sang admired Shan's polishing skills: "Thank you for your hard work, Shan. These stone pots and stone jars are very good and can be used, but they are a little missing. Even if these stone jars are full of food, it will not be enough for the tribe to eat throughout the winter. .”

Shi immediately said: "I will find someone to polish it again and try to polish as much as possible."

"Don't be in a hurry, there's still time." Ye Sang asked someone to carry the stone pot out, and in a while he boiled the oil from yesterday and today. The oil from the intestines is just the oil from the intestines.

People in the tribe usually throw away the sewer part, but those who like to eat sewer know that there are many good things in sewer.

Such as the heart, tongue, stomach, liver, kidneys, and large intestine.

(End of this chapter)