Wentang

Chapter 229 Glass Shaping
Yue Shan scratched his scalp, feeling really helpless.He only cared about burning glass, forgetting that he had no handicraft expertise in his past and present lives, and he had nothing to show for it except writing.

Now that there is glass, how can it be shaped?Take this pile of things to see Li Shimin, and you won't be laughed to death.

At this moment, Bao Dalin suddenly heard Bao Dalin say: "Da Lang, why don't you let me try?"

Yue Shan glanced at him, didn't speak but directly gave up his position, let's treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

After sitting on the workbench, Bao Dalin did not blow molding like Yue Shan, but released all the air in the glass.Then use a copper tube to insert glass liquid and beat it hard on the workbench until it becomes a ball.

After that, he held the copper pipe with one hand to fix the glass liquid, and with the other hand, he picked up the scissors and began to operate on the glass.

At first, Yue Shan didn't pay much attention to it, but slowly he showed a surprised expression—the ball of liquid glass gradually revealed a human shape under the modification of scissors.

This... how could he shape glass?Yue Shan couldn't believe his eyes.

But after looking carefully for a while, he finally understood what was going on. Bao Dalin just regarded the glass liquid as clay, and what he was doing was shaping the clay.

Also known as clay figurines.

It's just that people make clay figurines with their hands, while he uses scissors.

Soon a meditating Taoist priest appeared in front of Yue Shan.Bao Dalin's ability to make clay figurines is probably not very good, and the tools are scissors that don't fit well, so this Taoist priest looks very rough.

The facial features are not so clear, and the texture of the clothes is very simple, but it can still be seen that he is a Taoist priest.

Bao Dalin used scissors to cut off the part where the glass liquid was connected to the copper pipe, which just formed the base.Looking at this imperfect work, he felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

But he quickly came back to his senses, and said with a sneer: "Da Lang, do you think this is okay?"

Yue Shan gave a thumbs up: "Yes, it's great to be able to do this for the first time."

After being praised, Bao Dalin scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly.

"Come on, let's make the remaining glass into a portrait." Yue Shan pointed to the crucible.

Bao Dalin responded and acted immediately.Yue Shan did not continue to watch his operation, but took out the unburned charcoal from the stove.

After confirming that all the charcoal was taken out, a copper plate was placed inside to form a platform.Then he carefully placed the glazed Taoist priest on the copper plate.

This procedure is called annealing.

Listening to the introduction in the documentary, it seems that the glass is unstable or something, and it contains a lot of energy... and it seems that the rapid cooling will cause the glass to shatter...

He didn't understand the principle at all and didn't remember it, so he just remembered that the glass needs to be annealed.It is best to prepare a special annealing furnace to let the temperature drop slowly, so that the quality of the glass produced in this way is qualified.

Yueshan did not prepare a special annealing furnace, so he could only make do with a glass-burning stove.

Anyway, this stove has been burning all day, and the residual temperature inside is very high.Put the glass into the air vent and seal it, and the temperature will not disperse until tomorrow.It is no problem to act as an annealing furnace for a while.

Here, Yueshan has tidied up the annealing furnace, while Bao Dalin has already finished the second glazed man, which looks much better than the first one.

For the remaining glass liquid, Yue Shan asked him to make two marbles and put them into the annealing furnace together.Then seal the furnace door, and today's work is finally completed.

The next step is to wait. After ten hours, the annealing is completed, and the glass man can be taken out.

Glancing at Bao Dalin, Yue Shan thought for a while and emphasized again: "Remember this and don't tell anyone, including your family and my parents."

Bao Dalin immediately said solemnly: "Don't worry, Dalang, I promise I won't tell anyone about this matter. If I tell others, I will beat you..."

Seeing that he wanted to swear, Yue Shan immediately interrupted: "No need to swear, I asked you to do this with me to believe you, and now I just remind you not to slip up."

Bao Dalin was moved and said: "Thank you Dalang for trusting me, I...I am willing to do my best for Dalang."

Yue Shan smiled and said: "Okay, don't live or die, you can serve the Yue Mansion only if you live well. Stay here tonight and don't let anyone in. I will send dinner and bedding to you later. come over."

"Yes, Dalang."

After ordering the follow-up things, Yue Shan opened the door and walked out.At this time, the sky had already completely darkened, and everyone in the Yue Mansion was wrapping up their day's work, which seemed very lively.

After asking the guards to deliver food and bedding to Bao Dalin, and reiterating that no one should approach without his order, Yue Shan left the courtyard.

He went to his own yard to take a bath first, then had dinner with his family, and read a book for a while before Yue Shan lay down to rest.

The next day, he took care of other work first, and after calculating that it was almost time, he returned to the small courtyard where the glass was burned.

Bao Dalin was very dedicated to his duties, never took a step away from the room, and all eating, drinking, and messing around were carried out in the room.So one can imagine the smell in the room, Yue Shan almost didn't spit it out.

But considering that the finished glass will soon be seen, this smell seems insignificant.

Under Bao Dalin's eager eyes, Yue Shan opened the furnace door carefully.A heat wave hit, and Yue Shan estimated that the temperature inside was at least [-] or [-] degrees.

After adapting to the light in the stove, two crystal-clear glass figures suddenly appeared on the eyelids.Yue Shan secretly said in his heart, it's done.Then impatiently reached out and took them out.

It feels hot when you start it, but it's not unbearable.His estimation was correct, the temperature of the furnace and the glass man remained at more than 40 degrees.

After taking out the glass man, Yueshan observed it carefully, not to mention the workmanship, but mainly to see the quality of the glass.

It is indeed crystal clear, and it is a serious glass, but it is not as perfect as imagined.If you look carefully, you can still see a trace of greenery. Although it is not obvious, it does exist.This shows that the neutralization of iron is not clean.

But Yue Shan also knew that without accurate measurement methods, it was already the limit to be able to achieve this level.As for pure glass, I'm afraid it can only depend on luck.

Moreover, glass of this quality is enough to deal with the natives of the Tang Dynasty, and no one will care about the greenery that can't be found without looking carefully.Some people may even regard this greenness as a unique quality.

However, what Yue Shan didn't know was that even in the 21st century, colorless glass is allowed to have light blue and light green colors.The glass he makes now is completely qualified.Fortunately, he wasn't obsessed with this bit of greenness, otherwise he would have fallen into the pit and couldn't get out.

From the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Bao Dalin staring at the glass man with shining eyes. Yue Shan smiled, then handed it to him and said, "You also have a part of the credit for this, so take a good look."

When he took the glass figure in a hurry, Yue Shan's thoughts began to drift into the distance.

It's time to go to the palace.

(End of this chapter)