Chapter 119: Warm House
"Flower, I heard you're building a house?
It was Flower's father, Lord Gabrie, who spoke.
He came to Linden Pine Valley today, nominally to see his children, and to comfort the workers, and by the way sent some fruits, vegetables, grains and meat.
The fruit is still left over from last year, and it is already a little dehydrated, but it is also rare.
In fact, these are all excuses, even Daile can see it, as soon as Gabrie comes, he doesn't leave the house under construction for a few words, obviously, it's for this.
It's just that Flower has been a little too tired in the past two days, so he deliberately pretended not to understand, just gossip with his father and spread out on the chair to rest.
He twisted his body and felt that this chair was not very comfortable, it was a little hard, so it was better to move Jiayi's recliner out and lie down.
He said lazily: "Yes, Jiayi said that he wanted to build a greenhouse, now you can grow mushrooms, and in the future, in winter, you can also grow vegetables." ”
"Sit down. Seeing Flower's appearance, Gabriel was a little confused, "What are you like now, your way of knighthood? Even if you become a magician, you have to be strict with yourself, are you still compared to Jiayi? ”
Seeing Daile snickering, he turned his head and said, "Don't laugh either, lie on the table like something! Don't your teachers ask for any of your etiquette?"
Daile pouted: "Dad, I've been so tired lately, I burn glass every day." ”
Flower also nodded in agreement: "Yes, and even if we don't burn glass in the future, we will use the furnace fire to calcinate our mage's hand, the teacher said, so that the strength of the mage's hand can be submitted." ”
At first, Imu only asked the Flauer siblings to help Jiayi make glass, but at that time, the comparison of Jiayi's mage touch with Flor's mage hand made him interested, and the gap between the two sides was too big. Later, he discovered that the strength of Jiayi's mage touch was stronger than his own.
After some research, he finally discovered that although the mage's hand can be eroded by the magic furnace, calcining it in the furnace for a long time can strengthen the mage's hand and make it more tenacious. The strengthened mage's hand can even be used as half a restrictive spell, and if it is strengthened deeply, the strength continues to increase, which is equivalent to having a low-cost offensive magic.
So after understanding this change, Yimu asked his students to use the stove fire to calcinate for more than half an hour every day, this is still because everyone's magic power is insufficient, and in the future, it will definitely need to be burned for a longer time.
When the mage's hand is calcined by the furnace, the mana will be constantly consumed, and eventually, you will feel like your body is hollowed out, as if it is all shot out of your hand, and there is no pleasure.
That's why Flower is so unhappy, and this will continue for a long, long, long time.
But Gabrie didn't care how they learned magic, and he thought about it, wouldn't it be hard to do anything? he used to practice until he collapsed when he was a knight, and they were just a little sorry for their little daughter.
He grasped the point of his children's words: "You mean that you also make glass? What about mirrors?"
Flower looked at his father helplessly, and said weakly: "The production of glass is very simple, most mages can learn it, but the mages look down on this a little, and it is not widely spread, this time, if it is not for the construction of a greenhouse, we will not be able to make so much glass." However, the mirrors are more difficult to make, and they are all made of glass for the teacher to use magic to plate. ”
For mages, making glass doesn't improve their magic level, and glass doesn't block or store mana like crystal, so few mages are willing to make this in large quantities to sell it for money. After all, potions and other things make money faster, and you can also improve your potion level.
"Are you really going to build a house out of glass?" Gabry's eyes widened, "where? Take me over and have a look." ”
Gabbrey also heard the foreman say to himself that his young master's teacher was going to build a house out of crystal, so he couldn't help but be curious to come and have a look.
The foreman didn't know much about glass, and when he saw the transparent one, he thought it was crystal, but Gabriel knew that he and Kaichi had worked together to sell mirrors - although he didn't come forward directly, he knew that it must be glass.
Since there is a large amount of glass, it is possible to make a large number of mirrors. After making a small profit from selling mirrors last time, Jiayi stopped this business, which made Gabbrey feel sorry for a while.
Flower took his father to the construction site, and at the bottom of the hillside, next to the herb garden, had opened up a new place in the woods, the trees had been cut down, and the main trunk of the house made of wood had been completed, and all the pieces were divided into small pieces of wood, each about a meter square.
On the left side of the frame, a part of the glass is already embedded, and the pieces of transparent glass shine in the sun, reflecting the dazzling light.
In Jia Yi's eyes, these are nothing at all, after all, he has seen a lot in his previous life - hundreds of meters of the building's exterior curtain is glass, or tens of thousands of square meters of transparent glass roof exhibition halls.
The current one can only be regarded as a small thing, and in his heart, there can only be a shoddy comment.
But in Gabby's eyes, this was the most beautiful house in the world, a house made entirely of glass, and in his eyes, it was like a gold coin. Probably only a king can be so extravagant.
In fact, he has little knowledge, although there is little glass in the Silver Sword Empire, but in the Maritime Federation on the east coast, although glass is not cheap, it is not rare.
Especially in Antarctica, near the Federation, many temples use stained glass to make their domes, which are dazzling in the sunlight.
If it weren't for the fact that Imu was a mage, and he was a powerful mage, and there were many relatives and friends, Gabri would definitely be unable to help but snatch them up, and by the way, lock them up and let them burn glass for themselves.
Gabry looked at the conservatory under construction, opened his mouth wide, and asked, "Why don't you continue to make mirrors and sell them?"
"The teacher said that if you make too many mirrors, they will not be valuable, and learning magic well is the most important thing, and always making mirrors is not conducive to improving the level of magic. Flower said.
What he didn't say was that as a mage, he always made something as low-level as a mirror, and he was easily despised by other mages.
This is not the 21st century of Jiayi, and he can throw away any discipline for money, and as a mage, it is always bad to be despised by other mages.
Flower introduced the glass conservatory to his father: "After the glass house is built, mushrooms will be planted first, and vegetables will be planted in the winter, so that vegetables can be eaten in winter." And, you know, these glasses are specially treated by us, and they are much harder, much harder than glass. ”
After these glasses are made, they are annealed first, then cut, and finally put into the annealing furnace to heat up, heated to the point of almost melting, and then quickly cooled, so that the surface of the glass will form a layer of stress, making the glass stronger.
It's just that this operation must control the uniform drop in temperature, and ensure that the temperature of all parts of the glass is uniform, otherwise stress will also occur inside the glass, causing the glass to be more fragile.
Jiayi also tried many times before finding the right temperature range. If it weren't for Eunice sending a magic furnace, Jia Yi wouldn't have been able to anneal well, let alone quench to make tempered glass.