143 Ironmaking
Huzi was about to get up, and Ye Mu grabbed him.
"This is my business for you, help me get something, and I'll pay a thousand yuan if you hit it!"
Huzi's face suddenly turned ugly.
"Why do I still have to charge you money? Don't scold people, okay, if you give money, you can find someone else, and don't mention money if you look for me!"
After saying that, he angrily carried his things and went to light the stove.
Ye Mu didn't speak again, Huzi's character was still so loyal, which moved him very much.
When he got outside, Huzi was busy, and the stove had not been lit for a long time, and it was full of dust.
He took a piece of cloth and scrubbed it very carefully.
Looking at his love for these tools, it can be seen that Huzi has a lot of affection for the work of a blacksmith.
After all, it was his family's ancestral craft, but he had to give it up in order to make a living.
After scrubbing, Huzi cleaned the hearth again, and went into the house to carry a whole snakeskin bag of coal.
Ye Mu asked in surprise, "Do you need so much coal to refine such a small piece of iron ore?"
Huzi said with a smile while busy, "Muzi, you don't understand, iron training depends on fire, the fire must be strong and hot enough, this is not coal, but coke, if it is coal, ten pockets are not enough." ”
Huzi first stuffed a lot of corn pulp into the stove, and then stuffed a lot of thatch to start a fire.
After lighting the fire, the stove slowly heats up, and there is a container like a pot lid on the top of the stove.
Huzi opened the lid, and inside were two buckets, one for charcoal and one for iron ore.
The structure is so complex that the entire furnace is empty, allowing enough heat to melt the ore.
There is a long trough at the bottom, and after the iron is refined, it will flow down from the dregs and directly into a square mold to form a pig iron block.
Next to the stove, there is also a high-power blower, which needs to be constantly blowing on the furnace mouth to make the fire burn more vigorously.
Huzi poured the coke into the bucket at the mouth of the furnace, and then put Ye Mu's few pieces of iron ore into it.
After ignition, the blower was turned on and soon the stove was burning.
After burning for a while, Huzi's brows furrowed.
"This charcoal may not be enough, you wait a while, I'll go to the second uncle to borrow some coke." ”
Huzi said that he was leaving, but Ye Mu grabbed him.
"Try the packet of charcoal I brought, those are easy to use!"
Ye Mu said.
Huzi shook his head, "You're coal, and you don't use it, no." ”
"You try! You try it!" Ye Mu insisted.
Huzi said helplessly, "You can know as much as a layman, okay! I'll try to show you." ”
He threw the coal that Ye Mu had brought into the furnace.
I saw that the moment I threw it in, a blue demon fire rushed out of the sky, almost lifting the top of the furnace.
"Ouch, I'm here for my mother!"
Huzi was so burned by the fire that he sat on the ground and fell on all fours.
Ye Mu hurriedly helped him up.
"This!!Why is this charcoal so vigorous!I haven't seen it!It's too fierce!!"
Huzi exclaimed excitedly.
Ye Mu smiled and said, "I'll just say it's okay." ”
Huzi gave a thumbs up again and again, "Awesome! Awesome!
He got up and adjusted the blower to turn the wind up to the fullest.
"Don't worry, it's okay to burn this charcoal for a month. ”
Ye Mu said.
Huzi now has complete trust in Ye Mu, "Really, that's great!
Under the full firepower, the temperature of the entire courtyard has risen a lot.
Coal is an underground thing, absorbing the essence of the earth, and many essences in the aura have been integrated into it, so the power has also increased many times.
"How long will it take to smelt raw iron?"
Huzi looked at the thermometer carefully, "Just such a small piece of ore, I estimate that it will melt in half a day." ”
Ye Mu said, "I'll go buy something first, and I'll come back later." ”
Huzi nodded and said, "You go first, by the way, what are you going to fight?"
Ye Mu took out the fish dart in another plastic bag and handed it to Huzi.
"Help me hit one more, or two. ”
Huzi picked up the fish dart, stared at the tooth marks on it, and said strangely, "Why are there so many pits on this, it feels like something bites?"
Ye Mu scratched his head and said, "Don't ask, the quality of this thing is not good, you can help me make a better one, can it?"
Huzi nodded, "Okay, but it shouldn't be bitten, this is also steel, what can bite steel." ”
After that, he continued to be busy adjusting the hopper and air intake.
Ye Mu went out and walked to the town.
He wandered around and finally found a blacksmith shop.
There are a lot of farm tools, sickles and hoes.
Ye Mu walked directly to the corner and took a mini well water press.
Although this thing is not big, it can press up dozens of meters of water.
"Boss, how much is this?"
Ye Mu asked.
The boss was a middle-aged woman, and she came over and stared at Ye Mu for a while.
"Your surname is Ye, right?"
Ye Mu was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes." ”
The proprietress laughed.
"Your name is Ye Mu, I am your former neighbor, you forgot, Aunt Xu. ”
Ye Mu thought about it for a long time, but he still didn't think about it.
Aunt Xu was not surprised, she still patted Ye Mu with a smile and said, "I heard that you have entered the city, how are you doing, are you doing well?
Ye Mu saw that she was about the same age as her mother, she was kind and kind, very kind, and had a good impression.
"Yes, I'll come back for a few days and take care of my mom by the way. Ye Mu said with a smile.
Aunt Xu nodded, and asked gossipily, "Why don't you take your mother to the city to enjoy the blessings?
Ye Mu smiled and said, "Yes, my mother said that after she entered the city, she couldn't tell the difference between southeast and west, and she would be dizzy and refused to go." ”
"Oh, hahahaha... Aunt Xu laughed heartily again.
Ye Mu carried the water pressure in his hand and said, "Auntie, look at how much this is, I want to buy one." ”
Aunt Xu looked at her and said, "You take it, child, come to Auntie, what money do you want." ”
"No, no, no!" Ye Mu said resolutely.
Aunt Xu is doing business here, unlike Huzi, Huzi can help without charging money, but Aunt Xu is here to open the door to do business, Ye Mu must give her money, otherwise she will be ignorant.
Aunt Xu saw that Ye Mu was very sensible, so she whispered, "This purchase price is two hundred, you can give a purchase price." ”
Ye Mu immediately took a two-hundred-yuan bill to Aunt Xu.
Aunt Xu said politely, "Then Aunt will accept it." ”
Ye Mu nodded and said, "You take it, you take it! Come back to my house to eat wontons, my wontons are delicious." ”
Aunt Xu pursed her mouth and said jokingly, "Yo, you can still make wontons, brag!"
Ye Mu was amused and felt a little angry, "Then you must come, auntie, and then see if I am bragging." ”
"Okay, then I really have to taste what the wontons in the city taste like, hahahaha... ”
The people in the town like to call Ye Mu the people of the city, but this is actually just a friendly joke.
In their eyes, the people in the city showed that Ye Mu was mixing well, not a malicious joke.
Ye Mu will not be surprised.
Out of Aunt Xu's shop, Ye Mu thought for a while.
Carrying this thing, after all, is not a way, it is better for him to send it to the vegetable field first.
Huzi's side is estimated to be fine from afternoon to evening, and he may not be able to help in the past.
Thinking of this, Ye Mu trotted all the way to the vegetable field with the water press.
In the mountains during the day, the breeze is gentle, the sun is shining, and the scenery is good.
However, in the depths of the mountains, there are occasional flocks of birds that are startled, as if they are frightened by some large beast or monster.
Ye Mu jumped into the cave, and the two little pigs were sleeping.
They were in the cave, and although there was fire, they could not distinguish between day and night, except for eating and sleeping.
But this may affect their health.
Ye Mu walked into the pig pen and slapped the buttocks of the two little pigs.
"Don't sleep, go out to sleep with me and the sun will go!"
Ye Mu took the water pipe in his hand and jumped up to the hole with two little pigs in his arms.
The vegetable patch is flanked by streams, behind by cliffs, and in front of which is a steep slope.
Since the last time they saw the man-eating fish, the piglets were afraid when they saw the river, and they only dared to run around in the vegetable patch, but did not dare to go to the river.
This also saved Ye Mu snacks, and he was not afraid that they would be lost.
Xiao Hei is obviously a little stupid, but he has a lot of strength, and often arches Xiao Bai to roll on the ground.