Five-year-old little girl: Mom has thousands of acres of material space

Chapter 58: Fire, water, and rock cutting method

"What can I do?" Li Zheng's eyes lit up.

Jiang Wei looked at Zhao Tiezhu and said quietly: "Tiezhu, please pick up some firewood and set up a fire next to the stone."

After saying that, he looked at Liu Dagang again and said, "Dagang, go to my yard down the mountain and pick up two buckets of water."

"Hey, okay!" Even though he didn't know what Jiang Wei was going to do, Liu Dagang readily agreed, turned around and went down the mountain.

"Ms. Xiaoxiao, why are you collecting firewood and burning rocks?" Zhao Tiezhu was confused, looking stupid, and did not move for a long time.

Zhao Youcai slapped him directly on the forehead, "Okay, silly boy, stop asking questions and come with me to collect firewood."

There were ready-made branches and hay on the side, and the father and son soon picked up a lot of dry firewood.

Jiang Xiaoxiao watched her mother pile all the firewood next to the big stone, then took out the firewood and lit it. The fire quickly ignited, gradually turning the big stone red.

She smiled knowingly, it turned out that her mother wanted to use this method to break the stone...

A group of people looked on with confusion on their faces, but fortunately they did not find any trouble or ask any questions like before.

As the fire burned, the big stone became increasingly red and hot, so hot and smoky that no one dared to step forward.

At this moment, Liu Dagang, who went down to fetch water, also came back, "Mother Xiaoxiao, I have fetched water, what should I do?"

Jiang Wei glanced at the extremely hot stone and pointed, "Pour water on the stone."

When the others heard this, their doubts deepened. Why should they put out the fire that had just been raised?
  Liu Dagang did as he was told and poured a whole bucket of water on the red and hot stone. The moment the clear water surged up, there was a loud "bang" sound, and the stone actually cracked open large and small gaps!

Everyone was stunned.

"This, what's going on?!"

"Why did a good stone suddenly crack?"

"..."

"This is a method of digging ore that uses fire and water to excavate the ore." Jiang Wei explained quietly, "I once read in a book that the rock wall is first burned red and hot with a large fire, and then cold water is poured on it. The heat expands and the cold When the shrinkage wall breaks, the stone splits.”

"So this is ah!"

Everyone suddenly realized that although they could not understand the principle of thermal expansion and contraction that Jiang Wei said, it did not hinder their admiration for Jiang Wei, "Xiao Xiaoniang is worthy of being a literate and well-read person. sharp!"

The few people who had just followed Li Dayong in complaining now lowered their heads in shame.

How dare they, peasants with weak legs, question people who have read books?
  Seeing everyone's expressions of admiration for her mother, Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but laugh. In fact, this method is not unpopular. In her previous school life, the physics textbook introduced the method of burning water to excavate ore, using the stone itself to suddenly Uneven shrinkage after cooling, internal stress causes it to crack.

Everyone happily picked up the tools one after another, and the cracks in the stone made the rest of the work much easier.

A few strong men used stone hammers to drive iron wedges along the gaps. After a few hard knocks, the stones cracked and scattered on the ground piece by piece like soft tofu.

The stone is broken into small pieces, so transportation is not a problem.

Everyone lifted small stones and threw them aside. After a while, the big stones blocking the ditch disappeared.

Everyone continued to dig trenches with hoes and shovels. The problem of stones blocking the road was solved, and Jiang Xiao did not go back. She was worried that if she left, the villagers would encounter other problems digging ditches, so she simply stayed on the mountain for a while, occasionally lending a hand.

Youli was supervising from the side, but no one in the villagers was lazy.

Jiang Wei took a few glances, then simply borrowed a hatchet from Li Zheng and chopped some firewood nearby to take back.

These days, I often make fires to cook ice cream and ice cream, and the firewood at home is almost running out.

Jiang Xiaoxiao was not idle either. She picked some wild vegetables and hay nearby and planned to take them back and chop them up to feed the chickens.

Soon it was lunch time, and women also carried baskets on their backs and went up the mountain to deliver meals to their men.

The men in the village had been working all morning and were already very hungry. They casually broke off a few branches from the nearby trees to use as chopsticks, and then ate from the sea bowl.

Jiang Xiaoxiao noticed that almost everyone ate corn porridge, paired with vegetable dumplings, one bite of porridge and one bite of vegetable dumplings. If the conditions were good at home, they would also be paired with pickles.

There are also those who are not in a good condition. They eat vegetable bran cakes made from their own pot stickers. Wild vegetables are mixed with buckwheat flour and bran shells are baked. There is no oil and a little salty taste at most.

Although this kind of pancake with a chaff shell is very filling, it is difficult to swallow because it makes your throat irritated.

Jiang Xiaoxiao glanced at it twice, and then silently took back the buttery sesame sesame pancakes that her mother had prepared for her in the morning.

It's too eye-catching, so I'd better find a deserted place to eat later.

"Xiaoxiao, come here." After Qiu Lianniang delivered the meal to Zhao Youcai, she noticed Jiang Xiaoxiao standing aside, waved her hand to Jiang Xiaoxiao, then took out two grain pancakes from the basket on her back and handed them over.

"You and your mother have been in a hurry up the mountain and haven't prepared anything to eat. Come on, let's eat some pancakes first to fill our stomachs."

Jiang Xiaoxiao took the multigrain cake and saw that although it was made of buckwheat noodles, there was no chaff at all. There seemed to be an egg inside the cake, which smelled delicious.

"Thank you Aunt Qiulian!" Jiang Xiaoxiao smiled sweetly at Qiulian Niang. With this thing to cover her, she could take out her sesame sesame pancakes and eat them.

She ran happily back to Jiang Wei on her short legs and gave one piece to her mother, "Mom, eat this, Aunt Qiulian gave it to me."

Jiang Wei took it and took a bite, then frowned, apparently realizing that there were eggs in the multigrain pancake, and asked, "Do you still have your sesame pancake?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded and opened the small cloth bag hanging around his waist. Inside, there were several pieces of fragrant sesame sesame cakes wrapped in oil paper.

Every time Jiang is not making cakes, he will make a lot of them and put them in the space to keep them fresh. Usually when he sells ice cream in town, he will eat them before he has time for lunch.

For convenience, Jiang Xiaoxiao would also put a few pieces on herself.

Jiang Wei took out two pieces of fried sesame seed cakes from his pocket, then broke open the multigrain cakes in Jiang Xiaoxiao's hands and stuffed the fried sesame cakes into the multigrain cakes, "If you return this piece, you will say that we two can't finish it." .”

"Well, okay!" Jiang Xiaoxiao ran to Qiu Lian Niang again with her short legs, "Aunt Qiu Lian, my mother and I have had breakfast at home. We are not very hungry yet. Just eat one piece. I'll leave this piece for you." Brother Tiezhu, let’s eat.”

"You have little arms and legs, how come you can't even finish a piece of cake?" Qiu Lianniang frowned, but before Jiang Xiaoxiao could refuse, she stuffed the multigrain cake into her hand and ran away.

The short legs ran so fast that Qiulian Niang couldn't stop shouting.

(End of this chapter)