The Legend of the Great Wilderness

Chapter 78 "The Book of Three Treasures"

The reason why Guyi ordered dozens of large triangular-shaped wooden buckets in [Shuiwatun] is to wash out the fine placer gold in the sand.

This kind of triangular wooden bucket is also called "golden bucket" or "gold pan". It is a tool commonly used by gold diggers in Gu Yi's world. Imitate it, after all, that thing does not have any technical content, it is just a few pieces of wood spliced ​​together.

With this gadget, Guyi and the others don't have to shake themselves to death in the water with a heavy copper vessel like last time. They just need to support the golden bucket with both hands and let it float on the water and shake it gently. The lighter sediment can be easily washed and filtered by the water poured in by constant shaking, and the heavy placer gold can be washed out.

Gu Yi just demonstrated it to others, and then handed over the job to the miners, so the miners who had just finished working as construction workers changed their jobs and became gold diggers again, let's go slowly !

As for the quartz sand that was picked out by the way, Guyi can't use it for the time being, so he can only find an open space to pile it up there to expose it to the sun. The so-called "dragon marrow jade" in this world refers to those large pieces of quartz stone, the smallest It can't be smaller than the size of a thumb, or it's worthless at all.

Even if a large piece of quartz stone is fished out, Guyi has no time to deal with it for the time being, because there are a lot of mica blocks mixed in it, and people who have never heard of this world like mica, although quartz stone and mica stone There seems to be little difference.

What really consumes Guyi's energy is the brewing process that requires him to do it himself. After all, he only has theoretical knowledge and no practical experience. Guyi has to conduct a lot of experiments to master the accurate ratio of ingredients.

Fortunately, all the distiller's koji made a few days ago can be used. Although due to the different sizes of the jars and the different fermentation temperatures, some of them were moldy and ruined, but Gu Yi made a total of [-] kilograms of koji. A part of it has been dropped and dried, and the remaining koji can weigh hundreds of kilograms.

Guyi sorted out the distiller's koji that were slightly different due to factors such as the size of the jar and the fermentation temperature during the fermentation, and sorted them into different categories. They were ready to brew them at the same time, and tried which one had the best taste.

And because Guyi is making sweet wine koji this time, he can only brew rice wine for experimentation for the time being, and hand over the work of panning gold to the miners. Miner, build a water mill according to his requirements.

It is not difficult to build a water mill. After all, the technical content of this wooden product is not high. As long as you have seen the real thing with your own eyes, you can basically draw a rough structure diagram.

And before Gu Yi came to this world, he liked to stay at home and read those "farming articles" published on the Internet. Those "predecessors" who had the same experience as him almost used these as "golden fingers" The things, research and analysis are very simple and thorough.

What makes people laugh and cry is that there are even boring people who specially sorted out the various cheats used by the protagonists in the Tiantian article, and compiled a thing called "Guide to Using Cheats", which described in detail all kinds of cheats. The method of making and using the golden finger is called the "Three Treasures Book" together with "Guide to Survival at the End of the World" and "Baby Master Pei's Wilderness Survival Book".

At that time, I just thought it was interesting, so I studied Gu Yi in "Three Treasures" in detail with a playful attitude. I have to thank those "predecessors". If it weren't for them, living in a modern city, I couldn't even tell the difference between leeks and barley Homeboys, where do you know the structure and principle of these ancient and primitive devices?
But when Guyi himself entered another world, he suddenly discovered that thousands of "predecessors" had set an example for him, and those boring people who worked hard to collect information and compile "Three Treasures" also set an example for him. He has laid a solid foundation and paved the way to become a "big inventor". This is also the reason why Guyi still retains his "confidence" despite his current difficulties.

Although the tools were primitive and crude, these skilled miners still quickly followed Gu Yi's instructions, relying on wooden wedges to fit together, without using a single nail, they made the first hydraulic mill like a small ferris wheel.

The five-meter-high water wheel is driven by the strong water flow at the outlet of the underground river, and it rotates with a creaking sound. The wooden pestle at the other end is like a chicken pecking rice, pounding into the stone mortar one after another, making a "bang bang bang" sound.

People who have never seen such a miraculous tool exclaimed again and again. The water wheel can make the stone mill and wooden pestle turn and stir by itself without manpower. The part began to smoke, and amidst the exclamation of everyone, there was a terrible "click" sound, and it broke and collapsed.

The strength of the transmission shaft is not enough, which made Guyi almost scratch his scalp. In the past, seeing the "predecessors" "invent and create", it seemed as simple as burping and farting. A few words can turn the agricultural era into an industry In this era, when you really do it yourself, you find that it is not so easy at all.

In the end, in desperation, Gu Yi had no choice but to let Ge Qiao risk his life to ask the old dwarf to help him make some metal parts. Presumably, under the guise of processing raw materials for wine making, the old dwarf who wanted to drink would probably not refuse.

Ge Qiao took the component structure diagram drawn by Gu Yi on the parchment paper, and tremblingly went to the fire hole. Fortunately, he succeeded in getting the old dwarf to agree to help, and he made a batch of key components in half a day. Finally, the water wheel was erected again.

After several hours of rotation without failure, Guyi breathed a sigh of relief and announced that the water mill was successfully built!
The excited miners even took the initiative to fetch millet and pour it into the stone mortar without Gu Yi's instructions. They looked at the wooden pestle like a donkey's head with great interest, and pounded the millet and grain in the stone mortar to remove the bran. From time to time, exclamations of "It's so powerful!", "It's fast and good!" are exclaimed.

With the first one, the subsequent ones will not be difficult. After a little adjustment in details such as strength and angle, the miners with a large number of people quickly set up the second and third ones. Even the tenth water wheel spun on the sunken river at the same time.

But after having a water mill, there is also a troublesome problem, that is, the attraction to these earth leopards is too great, and I can't help touching this one, digging that one, trying to figure out what it is. How does the slowly rotating large wooden plate flushed by the water move the stone mill and the wooden pestle? One by one, they are not working, but they are enthusiastically bringing in millet, waiting in line to pound it with their own hands.

(End of this chapter)