After traveling through ancient times, she became a wild woman

Chapter 357 Furnace and Blower
Xiao Se and Ye Feng came to the cave. Only the apprentice was here, and Shidai was not here.

The apprentice was surprised when he saw Xiao Se and Ye Feng coming: "Clan leader, Arthur, are you looking for Uncle Ishidai?"

"No need." Ye Feng said, "You go about your business and I'll call you when I need you."

The apprentice then walked aside, waiting for the clan leader's call. It was his honor and his joy to be able to help the clan leader.

The pit for smelting iron in the cave is also made of mud, just like a large bowl. Firewood is placed in it, and then burned, and then the iron blocks are put in and burned.

Because the temperature of firewood is low, they have to keep adding firewood and fanning the fire to prevent the temperature from dropping, otherwise it will be difficult for the iron to melt.

This was a very difficult process, but Ye Feng and Ishidai overcame it and made so many big black knives. It was really not easy.

Xiao Se was a little touched, but felt that he was being too pretentious. He sniffed and said to the tribesmen who were learning to blacksmith: "We need to make a new furnace and a blower. You go to A Fei and ask him to teach you how to make yellow mud. "

When the clan members heard that they wanted to build a new furnace, they had doubts in their hearts, but they didn't ask any more questions and just went about their business.

But they believed in Arthur. If Arthur couldn't think of anything better, how could she make a furnace again? They were looking forward to it.

Xiao Se asked Ye Feng to cut out two large wooden boards, then cut a non-breakable opening in the middle of the wooden boards, and then stuck the two wooden boards in the opening to make a connected 'cross'.

Xiao Se picked up the stick and dagger prepared next to him, but Ye Feng snatched them away: "You say it, I'll do it."

"Okay." Xiao Se pointed to the top of the wooden sticks, "Split them into eight pieces. Just split them at this position, longer than the wooden board."

The wooden stick was split into eight forks, and the eight forks were forked on the wooden board, then fixed together and tied with brown rope.

Xiao Se took the tied wooden board and rubbed it in his hands. The wooden board was like a fan blade, blowing out a blast of wind.

Ye Feng's eyes widened. This was really a good idea. Why hadn't he thought of it before?

The mud also arrived at this time. Xiao Se used the yellow mud to make a half-person-high platform with a flat bottom. Then he made a clay body as big as a gourd along the platform, leaving a round hole in the middle of the gourd's belly.

At the end of the mud blank, make a large mouth like a trumpet. The tail end can just wrap the tail of the trumpet, with the mouth of the trumpet facing outward.

Xiao Se said: "Now, carefully lift it to the furnace and bake it. This one doesn't need to be burned for a long time like a pottery pot."

Ah Fei, who stayed to help, was surprised: "It can be used without burning it like that?"

"It depends on how to use it. If you want to use high temperature, it must be fired at high temperature before use. That way it won't break easily." Xiao Se said, "But mine doesn't need to be fired at high temperature, so it doesn't need to be like pottery. The pot is fired like that."

Ah Fei understood: "Use it only if it needs high temperature, and don't use it if it doesn't."

"It's not like that." Xiao Se thought for a while and said, "It still needs to be fired when there is time. Let's give it a try."

After all, this is just a principle she came up with and has never been implemented, so she doesn't know if it will work, but it shouldn't be too bad.

Ah Fei no longer asked, but helped to bake the earthen gourd and the trumpet, and then put them on the half-height table.

"No, you have to turn it upside down." Xiao Se commanded, "When we were doing it, we were doing it right away. Now we have to turn it upside down. Be careful. Okay, don't move. I'll bring the wooden pieces over."

Xiao Se put the finished wooden boards into the upturned earth gourd with the wooden sticks outside: "Okay, then use yellow mud to seal them all around." The finished look will be on a platform half a person's height. There is a half-upturned gourd stuck on it. There is a hole in the belly of the gourd, and a stick comes out of the hole, standing there arrogantly.

It's really weird no matter how you look at it, but the more weird it is, the more amazing it is until the end.

Ye Feng didn't ask questions and just followed Xiao Se's instructions. A Fei and the others didn't even ask questions, they all followed Xiao Se's instructions seriously.

"Okay, build a big square here at the trumpet mouth." Xiao Se pointed at the trumpet mouth, "Just like the previous furnace."

The previous iron-making furnace was round, shaped like a bowl, a bit deep, and not very useful.

Now, Xiao Se made the furnace into a square shape with mud. The bottom was made very strong and high, and the middle was left empty, and the bell mouth was wrapped. Finally, the square shape was raised up.

It looks like a pool connected to a water pump.

Xiao Se looked at the furnace like this and clapped his hands with satisfaction: "Very good, now, burn the wood and put the charcoal in."

This step is like lighting a fire. A Fei and the others quickly lit the fire and then put the charcoal into the match pile.

Slowly, the charcoal was ignited, everything turned red, and the temperature in the cave suddenly rose.

Ye Feng used to make iron by himself, and he could feel the difference in temperature the most. A smile appeared on his face, Arthur was really great.

Sure enough, the temperature of charcoal is much higher than that of firewood, and there is no smoke yet, so it will not be a waste of work because the smoke will be boiled in circles.

The apprentice pointed to the gourd shape and asked, "What does this do?"

"Oh, yes, wait." Xiao Se pulled Ye Feng to the gourd mouth, "Use the principles of bow and arrow to make a wooden stick that can be pulled back and forth like this."

Ye Feng looked at Xiao Se's movements and had a prototype in his mind. He asked Ah Fei to bring the brown rope, tie it to the wooden stick and pull it back and forth: "Is that so?"

This can be regarded as a principle of playing the erhu. It is really good, but there are still some shortcomings.

Xiao Se bit his nails and thought for a while: "That's right, but if you let go, where will you put this? How about you add two more fixed ones here, so that you can do it even if you don't pull the stick."

Night Breeze thought for a moment, then drove two stakes next to the pulling position and placed the pulling sticks so that the sticks would not fall.

Seeing this shape, Xiao Se was extremely satisfied: "Yes, that's it. Ah Fei, come and try it, pull this stick."

Ah Fei pulled the stick, and the stick carried the wooden stick. The wooden stick rotated the wooden board under the gourd, and the wind blown out by the rotating wooden board blew from the gourd mouth to the trumpet mouth, and then from the trumpet mouth it was blown into the furnace.

The charcoal burning in the furnace was blown upwards by the wind. There was no smoke but the heat of the fire was felt.

Without the obstruction of smoke, I could see everything clearly, and I felt a little better.

Xiao Se carefully threw a piece of iron onto the charcoal fire...

(End of this chapter)