If you want to make iron, the most important thing is to have a fire-making tool, the ancients often used a gong, or a bellows, in order to let the fire in the furnace get more oxygen, increase its flame temperature, and what I want to do now is to follow the ancients to make a bellows, and then build a blast furnace.

The blast furnace is easy to make, there is water, soil and stones, you can follow the old way, mix cement, build stones, can build a temporary, because I don't want to make it into molten iron, a little higher can save more oxygen and temperature, the difficulty is to make the bellows.

Now that Song Yingchun is not here, there is no way for her to make one for me, I can only settle, go to the outside near the manger and find a wooden trough, which happens to be spliced with five wooden boards, I washed it first, put it in the sun, measured it about three palms long, one and a half palms wide, and after noting down the data, I first drew the design on the ground.

The bellows need two air inlets before and after, which are probably set on the side, and also need a wooden hinge, as a wind tongue, as well as a rod for pushing and pulling, and two holes for placing the pole, which requires some ingenuity to make, and finally make a nozzle mouth on the rear board, and it will be done.

Probably can be designed, the next thing is to make all the parts, splicing and just doing it.

The iron saw is no longer there, but I still picked up the same kind of knife used to eat steak in the mountains, with jagged teeth, so I used it as a saw first, and it should be made of a movable board, so I went upstairs and we first dismantled some unused bed boards, first split a section with an axe, and after about the same size, I used the knife to cut back and forth to make the board as flat as possible.

Try to put it into the trough and move it twice, if it is too big, then see it and adjust it, and soon it will fit, and then drill out two holes on the side of the wooden trough, and then find two pull sticks, connect the movable plate, and use the mortise and tenon technology of Yingchun teaching, so that when I push and pull, I can fully move the push-pull plate back and forth in the trough, and the push-pull board is lower than the height of the trough and place a wooden board above, and the width of the plank is less than the width of the trough, so that it forms an air duct.

Then open the side of the trough to make two air inlets, one of which is in the same direction as the Confucius who pushes and pulls the wooden rod, and then the wooden board removed from the bed makes a board as long and wide as the top of the trough, and fixes it with tenon technology to form a whole.

Finally, I cut a hole in the back side of this, and used it as a nozzle, so that when I pushed and pulled the movable rod, the movable plate inside it moved back and forth, so that the air was sucked into the bellows, and when I pushed and pulled back and forth, the air in the box would form a pressure during the movement, so that the air in the box would go with the air duct left and pour directly into the nozzle mouth.

In this way, a simple bellows is complete.

Then I cut some firewood, put it in the stove and burn it in the fire, and after it was basically a charcoal fire, the broken hanging pot was placed in the charcoal fire under the blast furnace, and then asked Yun Wen to help push and pull the bellows, and aim the nozzle at the fire mouth.

I went and split the rest of the wooden bed with an axe, tried to clip it, and it was indeed used as a long chopstick, and dug a hole in the earth, and poured the well water in a bucket into the pit.

It didn't take long for the iron pot in the blast furnace to turn red, so I used "long chopsticks" to clip it out and put it on the stone grinding table, smashed it with the part on the back of the axe, and then soaked it in the water in the soil pit, so that it spurted and sent out hot steam.

Can be used can be, aesthetics does not matter, once is obviously not enough, after high temperature forging and hammering, cooling several cycles, finally the stainless steel field hanging pot sealed the mouth, but the bottom is no longer a flat bottom, a little crooked, the side is also concave a lot, ugly ugly, but does not affect the use, tried a few times to pour water in, but a little water does not leak.

After all this effort, nearly half a day has passed, and by the time the pot is completed, it has already sunset.

"If Sister Yingchun is here, it should be said that you are a special soldier on the surface, and you are a blacksmith part-time behind the scenes." Yun Wen said with a smile.

"Really? I'm afraid I don't dare to compliment my blacksmith skills, look at this pot let me smash, if it is in the civilized world, I'm afraid that it is not rare to collect scrap. I said.

Yun Wen smiled even more happily and continued: "I still want it, scrap iron is six cents a pound." ”

At this moment, both of us laughed, but after laughing, we were silent together for a moment, I knew what she was thinking, and she knew what I was thinking, those two annoying Song sisters, when they weren't there, actually missed them a little.

With such a day and night company, we have experienced so many ups and downs together, not like relatives are better than relatives, how can we say that we forget and forget, and we will leave when we leave? There are some more fetters in my heart, but I don't know if Song Yingchun and Song Bailu think the same thing as me.

"It's okay, there will be a chance to meet again, when the marching food is ready, let's set off as soon as possible to find the Supreme Treasure, and the sooner we can meet." I said.

She nodded, smiling reluctantly.

After that, Yun Wen used some herbs to medicine the horse's legs, and the horse seemed to be happy to eat, so she stayed near the trough, at most she walked around by herself, and did not show any anxiety, nor did she particularly resist us, and she was also very friendly to Yun Wen.

It seems that this animal also recognizes people, Yunwen people are beautiful, good eyes, these animals can always get along with it, and do not reject it, I have heard before, people have an aura, for the heart of the evil person, there is a lot of anger on the body, the dog barks when he sees it, and on the contrary, the person with a good heart has a good aura, like Yunwen, can easily win the trust of animals.

Although I don't believe in these theories, but now I see that Yunwen's friendship with foxes and horses is the same, and I have changed my concept slightly.

The horse's right leg limped and knocked a big hole, originally the leg was the most sensitive part of the horse's body, I was afraid that Yun Wen would be kicked, but then I only felt too worried, when Yun Wen gave the herbs, the dog looked at her, and licked Yun Wen's arms and face from time to time.

After dealing with the horse, the wild wheat is also washed, put the wild wheat into the cleaned stainless steel hanging pot, and then place it in the high-temperature blast furnace where the iron was smelted before, while it is still warm, it will be baked as an oven, and after the dry heat will dehydrate the wild wheat roasting, then take it out, set up a shelf on the ground with a wooden pole outside, put the hanging pot on the rack, burn the fire on the ground, and pour the wild oats that have been dehydrated just now into the water to boil.

It didn't take long for there to be oatmeal porridge to drink, and I just washed the iron spoon, so I drank it with Yunwen one by one, supplementing some fiber, which can also promote the effect of replenishing deficiency.

Just drinking porridge is a bit monotonous, and the boiled bird eggs in the military pot are also taken out and peeled and eaten, so the inside of the military pot is also a lot cleaner, and then Yun Wen also washed some raspberries to eat, and this meal can be regarded as both full and satisfying a little appetite.

Although this meal is a little elaborate, it is still much better than the perfunctory two peaches last night.

After the meal, Yun Wen was going to wash the pot, and I was going to fetch water, but as soon as I took two steps, I saw Yun Wen suddenly coughing and coughing, covering her chest, uncomfortable.

I'm nervous, is this because I just ate a meal, and the feeling of satiety has exposed the damaged gastrointestinal problems, or is it the recurrence of the black dumpling virus?

Alas, it would be better if it were white dew now.