Chapter 11 Origin, Xiaorou and Yusheng
Xiao Rou: "Can the sea water be detentionated?" The sea water in our place is not ordinary seawater, and the salinity is very high. Some people have tried boiling seawater repeatedly, but the seawater is still not drinkable. If you drink it, you will be thirstier. Yusheng: "I know this, but I have a way to desalinate the seawater." How about it, would you like to give it a try? ”。
Xiao Rou looked at Yu Sheng and blinked his eyes, and Yu Sheng's serious expression didn't look like he was joking. "Then you go with me to my father and tell him that you have a way to make the sea waterless. Then let my father send someone for you, and come with me." Before coming to the throne, Xiao Rou bowed to the king: "Father, this Ying Guoren said that there is a way to desalinate the sea. Father may send someone to try with him. The King: "My princess, since you have agreed with him." Then this matter will be left to you, and Father has full authority to support you! Xiaorou: "Thank you, Father!" ”
Leaving the throne, in Yusheng's room, Xiao Rou: "Okay, now you can start your method." How? How many people are needed? Yusheng: "I saw that your country has pottery, did you fire it yourself?" ”。 Xiaorou: "Yes, there is a place where the ore is exposed in the south. It's been around for a long time, and it's a very large mining area. There is bare ore everywhere. At most, it is a stone that can be burned. So we have no shortage of materials to burn, and the soil used to make pottery is on the coast next to the mine. How? Do you want to make pottery? ”。 Yusheng: "It's not that I want to make pottery, it's me who designs it, and you do it." Do you have paper here? I draw the shape of the pottery and specify the size when I make it. You follow my instructions, make this pottery. This pottery is the key to desalination of the sea."
Xiao Rou: "Hmph, the one in front of you right now is the best potter in our Blazing Nation. How to do it, you don't have to draw. Just tell me. I will make this pottery perfectly! Yu Sheng asked with a suspicious face: "Really fake?" Don't make a pile of slag coming out." Xiao Rou rolled her eyes, "Follow me, I'll take you to the pottery room." ”
Yusheng and Xiaorou came to the pottery room, which was actually inside the loess house. There is a turntable for making pottery, and the turntable is manual. When making pottery, you have to use your hands to rotate it. Xiao Rou rolled up her sleeves and did it, she put the clay on the turntable. Yusheng sat down to help her turn the turntable, Xiao Rou: "It's too fast." Slow down, slow down. Right! Keep it up at this rate." Xiaorou asked, "Now what do you say you want to do?" Then Yu Sheng replied: "Your turntable is not big enough, what I want to do is at least twice as big as this turntable", Xiao Rou almost slapped the clay that had just been placed on the turntable on Yusheng's face: "Then you didn't say it earlier!" Yusheng said expressionlessly: "You didn't ask." Xiaorou: "You! .......”
After the episode, Yu Sheng said: "Okay, the water storage capacity that is too small is too low." Of course, the bigger the better, how about it, can you do it? Xiao Rou: "Then you have to use that big wooden board, that wooden board was originally used to put sacrificial cattle and sheep." It's very big, but then it's gone. Now it is being held up by people as a shade. I can't hold it, can you? ”。 Yusheng: "Take me with you." Xiaorou took Yusheng to a place where many people enjoyed the shade. A large circular plank is held up by four stone pillars and used as a sunshade. Yusheng: "Everyone get out of the way, I'm going to borrow this plank." Let's change places and cool off." Although everyone came out from under the plank, everyone gathered around to see how Yusheng was going to get rid of the huge plank. At the beginning, it took eight people to be able to lift it.
I saw Yusheng drag one end of the wooden board out of the four stone pillars with his two hands, slowly turn the wooden board sideways and land on the edge, and then slowly erect it. He held the plank with both hands and rolled it on the ground so that it wouldn't tip over. In this way, many people watched along the way as Yusheng rolled the huge log board to an open space. Yusheng: "That pottery house is too small, this place is just right." Xiao Rou then made a base that could rotate the huge plank. And then under the watchful eyes of the people. The production of the pottery that Yusheng wanted began, and this time Xiao Rou did not succeed. She called a few potters to start making the huge pottery according to Yusheng's instructions.
The main body of the pottery is a cone, and this cone is very high, so the slope of the cone is very steep. The conical outer wall is made with a hook that can be used to hang this thing. Yusheng said that the inner wall strives to be smooth, and the smoother the better! Then the underside of this cone is not horizontal, but oblique. Then the bottom edge is made into a sink that curves inwards so that the water flowing down from the inner wall of the cone does not drip directly onto the ground. Instead, it is retained by this inward-curving cistern. Because the bottom surface is also sloping, the water in the tank flows lower with the slope. Then open your mouth at the lowest point and catch the water that comes out with a vessel that stores water.
It took the little gentlemen and the potters for most of the day to make this huge thing according to Yusheng's instructions. Then the firing was completed immediately. The night passed, and when the sun rose the next day, this huge pottery officially came out of the pottery kiln. It's done pretty well.
On this day and night, the rain was born, and Xiao Rou and the potters were busy sleeping for only one or two hours. Sleeping next to the pottery kiln was also slept, and Yusheng and Xiaorou slept on this huge log board almost on top of their heads.
The pottery was successfully made, Xiao Rou blinked her eyes and asked, "Now that the pottery is ready, you can start." Yusheng looked at Xiao Rou's face occupying clay and kiln ash, gently wiped her with her sleeve, and said, "The next step is simple." Set up a pot to boil water, set up the largest pot, to boil seawater. Hang this thing up, and then put the cauldron under the thing to boil water. Hang it as low as possible so that the rising water does not escape." Yusheng instructed everyone to move the largest water tank, which was so large that it could cover four large water tanks. Yusheng asked everyone to set up the water tanks first, put them together, and put them under the bottom with the kind of stones that could burn and start burning. Then the huge conical pottery was hoisted up and slowly placed on the four boiling water tanks. Yusheng directed the height until the tank was almost covered, but the conical inner wall was still a little away from the tank.
Then Yusheng asked people to put the water storage vessel at the outlet at the lowest point of the cone slope bottom to receive water. At first, the water in the tank was not yet boiling, and there was no water coming out of the outlet. Xiaorou asked, "Okay, this." Yusheng said, "Don't worry, wait for the water to boil." There was water at the outlet." Sure enough, the fire was blazing. The water soon boiled, and a large amount of water vapor condensed on the inner walls of the cone. It flows into the sink with the smooth inner wall and then to the lowest outlet. As the boiling intensified, the spout really began to come out.
After burning all morning, a large vessel was already filled with water. An old woman couldn't wait to scoop a scoop of water with a pottery scoop. The old woman was well-known in the village, as she went out with the caravan to find water when she was young. Later, he also taught the people to dig wells and plant cacti, and was very prestigious among the people.
The old man brought the scooped water to his mouth and took a sip first. Then he quickly began to gulp down, not a drop of water spilled in the process. Then she tasted the water she had just drunk. Excitedly said: "It's fresh water, it's fresh water!" And it's even better than the water coming out of the well after it is boiled! I didn't expect to get such good fresh water in this way. I've worked with water all my life, and I dare say it's comparable to the sweet springs that are hard to find in an oasis! ”
The old man came to Yusheng. Although she is old, the heroism of her youth is still the same. She patted Yusheng on the shoulder heavily, "Young man, you brought me what I have dreamed of all my life. You have the courage and wisdom that ordinary people don't have, and if you have anything to do in the future, you can come to me to discuss. For you to settle the matter of fresh water for you, I will ask for a rich reward for you from Your Majesty. And, you're going to take my place. to become the next Marquis". The old woman smiled and looked at Yusheng again, the more she looked at it, the more pleasing it became. Later, she smiled and said, "What do you think of the princess?" Wait until you take over the position of Blazing Marquis. is qualified to marry a princess. Xiao Rou on the side, hearing this, screamed and grabbed her mother-in-law's hand, and said coquettishly: "Mother-in-law, don't talk nonsense." Who is going to marry him. I don't want to marry him." The mother-in-law smiled and touched Xiaorou's head: "Little girl, mother-in-law doesn't know you yet." Are you already in love with Yusheng? Xiaorou blushed: "Mother-in-law, you just talk nonsense, I ignore you!" As he spoke, he shyly ran away.
Yusheng scratched his head, slightly embarrassed. When that quirky girl is also harmful, it seems that it is really a thing to drop a thing.
Later, many of these pieces were made together. And then from that day on, blazing foreign seashores. There was a place like this where the sea water was boiled, and the fire was boiling the sea water without sleep. From now on, everyone doesn't have to worry about survival for water, and everyone's smiles are a little brighter.
So in front of the throne, His Majesty personally presented Yusheng with the token of the Blazing Marquis. Since then, he has succeeded his mother-in-law and become the youngest Marquis in the history of the Blazing Kingdom. And then also got a position, the princess's personal bodyguard. He watched Xiao Rou stick out her tongue at him beside His Majesty, and he couldn't cry or laugh for a while. In addition, he was given the right to send guards under certain conditions. You can then own all the ore you dig from the mine yourself.
In the blink of an eye, it had been three months since Rain was born in the Blazing Nation. He started by teaching people how to get fresh water, and he taught everyone how to dry the salt out of the seawater. And occasionally, I take someone to the mining area. Find some precious ores. Of course, Xiao Rou is indispensable every time. Xiao Rou seems to have never left Yusheng's side from the beginning. And Yusheng also puts her safety first in everything. Every time I go to a more dangerous place. He always persuaded her not to follow, and every time she said anything, she had to go and see. Although Yusheng said that she was cumbersome, in fact, every time he had her by his side, he was happier than anyone else.