Shan took a wooden stick, drilled a hole in it, fixed the stick to the piston rod with fish glue, and said with a smile: "Try it, will it be easier to use." ”

Yao Xiaoqing tried it, and it really saved a lot of trouble to use, and the blower after it was done looked a little similar to the pump in later generations.

Yao Xiaoqing thanked him for crossing the mountain, took a simple blower and went home to get a handful of baskets, and went to the pond.

I saw that the stack of wood had been extinguished, and the ore had fallen into the ash heap.

The burned ore is clamped with bamboo clamps, placed on a thick stone slab, crushed with a stone hammer, and put into a dustpan and placed next to the kiln.

Pick up the blower, align the air outlet with the air inlet hole of the furnace, connect it, fix the blower in the soil pit, and reinforce it with clay.

I grabbed some clay and put the connection between the punching bag and the air intake hole, and pasted it thickly to prevent air leakage.

I picked up some twigs and pine needles and put them in the furnace to light them, and put the charcoal in the furnace, and when the charcoal was burned, I poured half a frame into it.

Pour the mineral sand in the basket on top of the charcoal, and then pour half a frame of charcoal on top to cover the mineral sand.

Yao Xiaoqing patted the dust on his hands, lifted the piston wooden rod in the past, lifted the pressure of the blast, and with the sound of "whirring" and "whirring", the charcoal hula burned.

After a while, red flames burst out of the stove.

She pumped the blast and added charcoal to the stove, and the red flame in the stove slowly turned into a golden orange, and she was sweating profusely.

When Hua came to her, Yao Xiaoqing was already tired and panting, and beckoned to her, "Come and help." ”

"Hey!" Hua smiled and took over the task of pressing the blower.

She stretched her neck, glanced at the fire in the hearth, and didn't see anything burned, and asked strangely, "Xiaoqing, what are you doing here?"

Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile: "I have not succeeded in refining something. ”

The two took turns pulling the blower, and they were busy until the sun went down, and only after burning the two baskets of charcoal did they stop. The mineral sand in the furnace had stuck together and turned into a lump of red stone.

Yao Xiaoqing clamped it with two wooden sticks, and the wooden sticks were ignited in an instant. After a few tries, it was clamped out of the stove and placed on a thick stone slab.

Let the flower hit the stone ball with a stone hammer, and sparks will fly when the hammer falls.

The residue that encased the stone ball was forged and peeled off, revealing the crimson stone ball inside.

When the residue falls to the ground and cools, it turns into black-gray gravel.

Yao Xiaoqing poured the water in the wooden scoop on the red stone ball, and with a "bang", the stone ball turned into a black piece of iron.

Most of the iron ore in the back basket was refined into a small bowl and a large piece of iron lumps. She also didn't know whether the iron ore was rich or poor.

Hua looked at the iron ball, "Xiaoqing, what are you doing with a black thing?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing looked at her and smiled: "It's useful, you go back to the cafeteria to help, I'll go back later." ”

Hua looked at the sky, "Okay, the sun is going down, and it's time for the leaders to come back." ”

As soon as Yao Xiaoqing cleaned up the bamboo shed, she heard the sound of "bang bang" on the door, she hurriedly ran over, removed the bolt, and saw Shan Emu and Chun Eminem, standing outside with the woman who collected.

"Why do you look upset?"

"Alas!" Shan Eminem sighed, "Met a group of shameless women who followed us and grabbed the food we found. ”

Yao Xiaoqing raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh! Are there any new tribes again? ”

Shan Eminem pursed his lips, "I don't know where they migrated from, they are taller than us, and we can't understand what they say, whoa, whoa, wow, all over their bodies smell." ”

Yao Xiaoqing glanced at the scattered hair of several women, "Look at your appearance, did you fight with them?" ”

Sam Eminem nodded, "Hmm! We had a fight with them. ”

Yao Xiaoqing looked at them, "Did you win?" ”

The woman named Ah Hong nodded a little proudly, "Win, we rode on them and beat them badly." ”

Yao Xiaoqing smiled: "Okay, it's good to win." A group of people giggled back.

Yao Xiaoqing took the iron back and put it out, and saw Mu Feng and Yu coming back with rock salt on their backs.

"Xiaoqing, is Father back?" Mu Feng asked.

"Nope!" Yao Xiaoqing hurriedly stepped forward and opened the warehouse where the rock salt was stored, "Quickly put it in!" ”

He put down the basket and came out and sat down under the eaves of the porch, fanning the wind with his hands, "Ouch! It's so hot! ”

Yao Xiaoqing took out the jug and poured him a bowl, "Brother Yan, drink water!" "The water in the jar is soaked in bamboo core, which has the effect of quenching thirst and clearing heat and detoxifying.

Yu took a sip and drank it, wiped his mouth, looked at her with a smile and said: "You said you can't drink raw water, we didn't dare to drink a sip of water in the mountains, and after drinking the water in the bamboo tube, we would have died of thirst a long time ago." ”

The bull put the rock salt out and knocked it out with a smile: "You kid, Xiaoqing is also for our good, you want to have a big belly!" ”

"You just want to have a big belly." Biao slapped him on the leg.

The spear and a few warriors came out, holding the bull in one hand, "Wood wind come out quickly, let's go to the river to take a bath, cool and cool." ”

"Okay." Mu Feng came out of the warehouse, and more than a dozen men walked outside with their shoulders hooked.

Yaohu and they also returned to the tribe. A dozen men captured a few hares, a dozen pheasants, turtledoves, a few goats, and a wild boar. Everyone was sighing, saying that the prey was getting fewer and fewer than last summer.

Yao Xiaoqing said to Yao Hu: "Father, Shan Amu said that they met a few women who couldn't understand their speech, robbed them of the food they collected, and fought with them. ”

Yaohu didn't know where these people were, and frowned: "We can all understand what the people in this area are saying, could it be that they migrated from far away?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing thought of something, "Father, the few men I met with Taro in the bamboo forest can't understand what they say, could they be from the same place?" She speculated that it was the cold winter that caused people living in cold places to lose their living space and migrated to warmer places in the summer.

Mu Ba looked at Yaohu, "Chief, it seems that someone has migrated from far away. Those women who dared to grab food didn't seem to be good. ”

Yaohu nodded, "Everyone will carry the prey to the cafeteria first, and then go back to wash and eat the food." ”

Everyone should go down and carry the prey away.

When they were all gone, Yao Xiaoqing entered the house and took out the piece of iron, smiled proudly, and handed it to Yao Hu, "Father, look! ”

Yaohu took it, and it was quite heavy in his hand, "It's black." What is it? ”

Yao Xiaoqing looked at him with a smile, "Father, this is iron, it's very useful." ”

(End of chapter)