Chapter 473: Latex

Zhou Heng paused, his eyes widened instantly, and he glanced at Bai Qingyun.

Bai Qingyun naturally knew that Ah Chang left Beishan to look for something very important, and he should have found it, so he was in a hurry to send it back to identify it.

She hurriedly urged: "Son, go quickly, our problem here is almost over, we will solve the rest by ourselves, and you will come and watch it when the rehearsal is finished." ”

Zhou Heng nodded, Bai Qingyun is definitely a good assistant, and she is very relieved to leave the affairs of the theater to her.

"Okay, someone has something to ask me, I'll go take a look first, let's go, Shizi!"

After speaking, the two followed Boss Xue and walked quickly towards the pharmaceutical workshop.

As soon as I entered the workshop, I saw a black and thin boy, sitting in the middle, surrounded by a group of people, listening to him constantly tell about the encounters and customs along the way.

Zhang Ergou's eyes were good, and when he saw Zhou Heng and them coming in, he hurriedly shouted:

"Okay, people have seen it, let's go and get busy!"

After ordering everyone to scatter birds and beasts, Zhou Heng carefully identified this kid who seemed familiar, it should be someone from Qingping County, obviously Ah Chang's cronies.

The man almost cried when he saw Zhou Heng, and hurriedly gave Zhou Heng a salute.

"Huzi has seen the son, and he has seen the son!"

Zhou Heng hurriedly pulled him to sit down, "No need to be polite, you have worked hard all the way, I heard Brother Xue say that you brought things back?" ”

Huzi nodded hurriedly, took out a letter wrapped in oiled paper from his arms, and presented it to Zhou Heng with both hands.

"This is a letter from Steward Chang to Gongzi, the things are outside, and I will let them in."

As he spoke, he was about to get up, but Boss Xue held him down.

"You sit honestly, and I'm going to get those two huge boxes from the carriage?"

"Exactly."

Boss Xue went out to get something, Zhou Heng opened the letterhead, and it was indeed Ah Chang's handwriting, and the front was all along the way.

Zhou Heng turned to the back page, which said that they searched a lot of areas, and finally found rubber trees around Lingyuan Mountain in Quanzhou, Fujian, where there were few people and mostly jungles, they chose fifty trees, cut the bark and took latex with the method taught by Zhou Heng.

Then the low-temperature boiling was mixed with white sand powder for anticoagulation, and two boxes were concentrated and sent back first, so that Zhou Heng could identify it first, if there was no problem, they would start the next step, and the rubber forest had been circled by them, and a wooden house was built on the side, everything was settled very well, don't think about it.

Zhou Heng was nervous for a while, the rubber tree was found, and if he got the latex, wouldn't a lot of things be able to be made?

At this moment, Boss Xue's voice sounded, "What are you doing standing stupidly, come here and take a hand, come and follow quickly!" ”

Zhou Heng was stunned, how many things did he take back, so many people carried it?

Turned around and walked out of the door of the workshop, just in time to see the things lifted down from the carriage, Zhou Heng was stunned, this is too exaggerated, he actually made such a big bucket, so calculated.

Boss Xue led four people to pull a huge iron bucket of about one cubic meter, constantly moving, and Zhou Heng hurriedly stopped.

"Don't move yet, I'll see how it goes, and then decide where to put it, or I'll have to move it again."

Boss Xue stopped their movements, reached out and brought Zhou Heng up, the top of the bucket was a lid, which had been sealed, Boss Xue quickly pried the lid open, and a pungent smell came out.

Zhou Heng didn't dodge, he sniffed it carefully, obviously the latex already had a very low water content, and the impact on the barrel body was only slightly shaking.

Zhou Heng was surprised for a while and waved his hand towards Boss Xue.

"Open another one and take a look!"

Boss Xue hurriedly opened another iron bucket, there was a layer of hard shell on the surface of the latex inside, Zhou Heng quickly put his hand in it, grabbed the layer of hard shell and was directly taken out and placed on the lid.

Boss Xue was in a hurry, although this thing was in a hurry to find it, but now he didn't know anything and grabbed it with his hands, wouldn't it be careful to move up.

"What's wrong with Childe?"

Zhou Heng was extremely excited now, looking at the latex on his hands, he raised his hand, stretched out his fingers, raised his other hand and waved at Boss Xue.

"Hurry up and close the lids of the two barrels, this thing will freeze quickly when it encounters air, Zhang Ergou went to call someone to let Steward Zhou and Yao Blacksmith come over, the wooden hands I asked you to make before, hurry up and prepare them for me, as well as the injection mold carved before, quick!"

After an order, everyone knew that Zhou Heng was in a hurry now, so they hurriedly prepared according to the arrangement, but Boss Xue stared at Zhou Heng's hand, but after a cup of tea, he saw that the layer of latex on Zhou Heng's hand was a little condensed.

Zhou Heng squatted down, rinsed the glued part with the cold water in the kettle, and moved his fingers for a moment, as if the latex at the wrist was peeling.

Zhou Heng pinched the edge, moved quickly, and then pulled upward, the gloves formed by the latex were directly peeled off, and the people around were stunned, but Boss Xue understood it, wasn't this the kind of gloves that Zhou Heng wore at the earliest?

It seems that this thing is really good, "Done, after that we can make our own gloves?" ”

Zhou Heng nodded, his face looked excited, but he tugged at the position of the fingers of the glove, and quickly shook his head again.

"It also needs to be improved, this latex needs to be vulcanized, so that it is more elastic, and the water in the latex transported along the way has evaporated a lot, we have to readjust the ratio and send two barrels to Yao Blacksmith."

When everyone heard this, they hurried the carriage to Yao's blacksmith's workshop, these little guys had already heard Yao's blacksmith's shouting, rushed out, and when they saw the lifting of things, they all came up to help, these people were amazingly powerful, carrying large barrels and shouting and moving into the workshop.

Zhou Heng followed into the workshop, and the wooden hand that had been prepared before had been inserted into the iron frame.

Zhou Heng stretched out his hand towards Zhu Yunmo, Zhu Yunmo understood very well, and hurriedly handed him the notebook and charcoal pen he had just written, Zhou Heng listed a list, and a detailed dilution and vulcanization process, and then said to Yao Blacksmith.

"You follow personally, we prepared the cauldron under the heat, the temperature should be controlled, not too hot, and then add according to the above process and proportion, the first time to do less, this thing is too precious, remember that the tire mold should also be made, the position of the inflator should be sent to be watched, don't waste the raw materials."

Blacksmith Yao knew what Zhou Heng was worried about, Ah Chang was able to send this thing back from Fujian thousands of miles away, and he knew how precious it was without asking.

"Don't worry, Childe, I'll do it myself."

As he spoke, he took the list, looked at it carefully, called a few clever men, and began to prepare the pot and the iron trough for dipping, which had been prepared in the morning, and now it was just assembled without much effort, and then began to heat and prepare the sulfur powder.

In an instant, the pungent smell filled the entire workshop, and Boss Xue opened the small bag on his body, took out a stack of masks and distributed them to these people, and a kid grinned his teeth.

"Brother Xue, we rough men don't need this thing."

Boss Xue glared and stuffed the mask into him.

"There is so much nonsense, let you wear it, where is there so much nonsense, these things are such a pungent smell, do you know if it is harmful to the body, it doesn't matter if you die, your family, don't feed it?"

Zhou Heng almost laughed when he took a fancy to Boss Xue, although his words were rough, but he did get to the key point.

"In the future, anyone who comes into contact with latex must wear a mask, not only the smell is pungent, but it is irritating to the respiratory tract, and it is extremely bad for the body to inhale too many of these things, so it is necessary to keep the ventilation and heat dissipation in the workshop, okay, you start the experiment, I will go to the women's medical college to find me first."

Zhu Yunmo hurriedly blocked in front of Zhou Heng, "You go, I'm here to watch, and then I don't want to go to the palace to report to the imperial uncle, I also need to understand some processes to make it clear." ”

Zhou Heng nodded, Zhu Yunmo thought very thoughtfully, and he couldn't say that Ah Chang and they would die there.

As long as the factory is ready to be built, the management and technical personnel will be left behind, and they must be withdrawn quickly, after all, there are follow-up plans.