Chapter 112 Digging a kiln to burn charcoal, making iron and building molds
Confirming again that the soybeans had indeed sprouted, he whistled happily, carrying a simple shower head made of bamboo tubes, and started watering the two vegetable gardens before the sun rose.
This makes him feel more satisfied and accomplished than hunting prey.
After watering the two vegetable gardens, he ran to look at the tea beds.
The growth of the tea seedlings is very gratifying. The land is very fertile. Although they were cultivated last year, they are now ten centimeters tall.
But it will take another two or three years to truly become a tea. Even after two or three years, it would probably be too much if you want this newly grown tea to be enough for you to drink.
Therefore, Yun Buliu thought about it and thought that he should go to the place where wild tea grows.
At the same time, he also wanted to bring back more hematite.
So after breakfast, he took the little furball and the little gold, and carried the bamboo basket on his back, left the small bamboo house, walked through the bamboo forest, jumped over the river, came to the other side of the river, and started on his way.
He didn't say goodbye to Xiao Bai. This white snake has been feeling more and more mysterious recently. He leaves early and comes home late. Sometimes he doesn't even come back for lunch.
Although snakes are fine if they don't eat for several days or more, they used to be unwilling to miss three meals a day.
As for Xiao Jinzi, although he is now a powerful tiger cub, if he really encounters other ferocious beasts, he will probably become their food in no time.
Therefore, Yun Buliu had no choice but to take it with him.
As for Mao Qiu, Yun Buliu has never been able to control this guy's actions.
The place where the wild tea is located is less than twenty miles away from here in a straight line, and the hematite ore is less than thirty miles away. At Yun Buliu's speed, if he goes at full speed, he can reach it in less than a few minutes.
However, he did not move forward at full speed. Instead, he took Xiao Jinzi and slowly jumped on the tree. Xiao Jinzi followed behind him and chased with all his life.
It couldn't easily jump tens of meters away like Yun Buliu. It could only keep running on the branches, jumping short distances, and running again.
After running for less than ten miles, Xiao Jinzi came down from the tree tremblingly, panting heavily on the ground, walking slowly like a cat while looking at Yun Buliu with resentment.
Yun Buliu didn't urge her, she just waited silently on the tree.
It wasn't until he rested for half an hour that the little guy climbed up the tree again.
Not long after, they came to the small wild tea forest.
While Xiao Jinzi was resting, he started picking tea. Half an hour later, he stuffed the bamboo basket under the tea forest and continued on the road with Xiao Jinzi and Xiao Maoqiu.
After a few more minutes, they finally arrived at the place where the hematite ore was.
This time, Yun Buliu directly cut off a piece of hematite that weighed about five to six hundred kilograms, and carried it away. Of course, it was difficult for him to continue jumping on the tree with such a heavy thing on his shoulders.
If you continue to do this, your ankles will be easily injured and you won't be able to jump very far.
He carried the hematite ore and walked slowly on the ground with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
Although something weighing over a thousand kilograms seemed very heavy, to Yun Buliu, the weight was nothing. If he wasn't afraid of the inconvenience of walking, he would have really wanted to carry more.
But think about it, if the iron yield of these iron ores can be one-third, then three to four hundred kilograms of iron can be smelted. This much iron is actually enough.
And it seems that the iron yield of these iron ores should be half.
Therefore, five to six hundred kilograms of iron is actually quite enough.
Returning to the small tea forest, he put down the iron ore and continued picking tea.
Tea picking is not a technical job, but it requires a lot of patience, and Yun Buliu does not lack this.
After about an hour, Yun Buliu picked up the bamboo basket, picked up the boulder, and started on the road again.
Although the little tiger cub is almost one year old, its shoulder height is not as high as the bamboo basket. It is obviously impossible for it to help carry the bamboo basket.
If you really force it to carry it, you probably won’t even know when all the tea leaves will be spilled.
Therefore, Yun Buliu can only continue to trouble himself.
Returning to the river beside the big lake, Yun Buliu put down the huge rocks and thousands of kilograms of things he had carried back, and wanted to throw them to the other side of the 20 to 30 meter wide bank at once. He felt that it was unlikely.
If you fall into the water, you have to go down to the river to fish it out. There are piranhas in the water. If you accidentally bite your balls...
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So he used his tiger teeth to break the boulder into pieces, and then threw the pieces piece by piece to the other side.
In this way, in just over half a day, he carried back thousands of kilograms of iron ore and picked a bamboo basket of tea leaves.
He wiped the hall on the first floor of Xiaozhulou with animal skins, and dried the tea leaves in it for two or three days. When the tea leaves softened and lost most of their moisture, they could start frying.
After drying the tea leaves, he began to prepare lunch for himself and put some dried bitter herbs in the crocodile meat.
In the afternoon, he started digging a cave dwelling.
He plans to dig a long cave dwelling that is three to four meters long, more than one meter wide, and more than one meter high. He will prepare five side entrances and a main entrance.
The main entrance is a small cave, less than two meters long, wide and high.
This workload is not a small project for ordinary people.
But for Yun Buliu, it is nothing. In front of ordinary people, digging hard soil is very difficult, but here in Yun Buliu, it becomes very easy.
It only took half a day to dig a charcoal kiln for charcoal making.
It is 1.5 meters wide and 1.5 meters long, with five side entrances and one main entrance.
The front door is used to load firewood in and out, and the side door is used for lighting and ventilation.
However, this is not over yet, Yun Buliu still has a lot to do, because he wants to make iron while burning charcoal, so he must crush the iron ore.
To this end, he also had to build two clay furnaces, one to hold the crushed iron ore, and one to hold the molten iron that flows out after the crushed iron ore is melted.
Of course, it is possible that the iron ore cannot be melted.
He also didn't know how high the burning temperature in the charcoal kiln would be.
After all, the melting point of iron is quite high and it is not that easy to smelt.
Then he thought, if he could smelt molten iron, would he like to make a few sand molds?
The big iron pot is the thing he wants to build most, and even the iron spear is something he urgently needs, but in his opinion, it is not as important as this iron pot.
But making an iron pot was not an easy task because he didn't know how to do it.
He just heard that those big iron pots were made from cast iron plates that were heated red and pressed by machines.
A small iron pot can be hammered out slowly with a small hammer, but how to hammer a large iron pot?
So, he was thinking, how about trying sand mold?
But thinking about it, it seems that sand molding is not feasible and clay molding has to be used.
As for whether it could succeed, Yun Buliu didn't know, but he wanted to try.
What if it succeeds accidentally?
But this way, he has even more things to prepare for.
Moreover, how do you make a clay mold to make an iron pot?
Soon, his eyes lit up, and he thought of the Tianyan tribe's fire retardant. Because of the existence of the flame phoenix, the Tianyan tribe had a lot of research on fire prevention.
The animal skins of their tribe are all fire-resistant, and the leather armor Yun Buliu wears is also smeared with that kind of fire-retardant.
He could have dug out a model of a cauldron out of a huge piece of wood, and then coated the model with fire-proof chemicals... Although the temperature of the molten iron might be scary, I believe that the temperature of the flames on the Flame Phoenix would not be lower than that of the molten iron.
Where to go, maybe even higher.
Thinking of this, Yun Buliu couldn't help but laugh.
It is much easier to make models with wood than to make pottery, clay or sand molds!