shock!Empress Dowager

Chapter 129 Building an Iron Furnace

Uncle Ge and Gu Ao were also very efficient. Uncle Ge brought back a lot of fruits. Among them, some of the freshly preserved peaches and apricots were dried and dried in bamboo tubes by Liu Ailing in her spare time. After a while, I made canned fruit and put it in a bamboo tube to seal it tightly.

The fungus mushrooms and other wild vegetables brought back by Gu Ao were also dried in the sun, and finally, under the arrangement of Liu Ailing, they were hung on the wall one by one with a rope.

Now that there is a lot of food, it is almost ready for the winter, and everyone is full of hope that they can easily spend the first year of the new star.

end of August.

An autumn rain hit, and the weather suddenly cooled down. All the plants turned yellow and withered as they should have, and the outside world began to turn into a golden color.

"Ah!"

On the second day after the rain, Shi Miao walked out of the room and couldn't help but sneezed.

After the basic work is done, it is time to consider improving life and do the next thing well.

"Shimiao, you are finally ready to deal with these baskets of potatoes and sweet potatoes, what do you want to do? Potato chips?"

Seeing that Shi Miao asked Gu Tianjiao to help move the five baskets of potatoes and sweet potatoes to the pool under the waterfall, Liu Ailing who was called to help said slowly.

It's good to fry potatoes and sweet potatoes for snacks.

In order to have enough cooking oil for the winter, Uncle Ge brought back several baskets of olives with Jin Jin for several days in a row, all of which were fried into oil by Gu Tianjiao. Now they still have some extra oil for frying potato chips. of.

"I don't have that plan. Doesn't it mean that the staple food is not enough? We don't think we can eat rice and noodles. Winter is over, so I thought of making potato flour and sweet potato flour, and using vermicelli to replace part of the pasta. Our noodles should be barely enough to eat. winter."

Shi Miao opened her mouth softly to express her thoughts.

"It's a good idea! Use powder to replace part of the flour, and the staple food is almost enough!"

Hearing Shi Miao's thoughts, Liu Ailing couldn't help but her eyes lit up.

Just as she was talking, Gu Tianjiao brought four or five wooden basins for washing vegetables, as well as a cutting board and a kitchen knife.

Shi Miao scooped up most of the water in the wooden basin.

"Okay, next, Tianjiao and I will wash the potatoes. Aunt Liu, please cut the potatoes into shreds. The thinner the better, then put these shredded potatoes in the water basin."

The first step in making potato flour and sweet potato flour is to cut them into shreds and rub them with water to get out the starch inside.

The soaked starch slowly precipitates. After the upper water becomes clear, scoop out the upper water, and then wait for the remaining water to dry slowly, and the potato and sweet potato starch will appear.

And this is just a simple process, and it took three people more than half a day.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, five baskets of potatoes and sweet potatoes were cut up, and then Shi Miao washed out the starch.

After kneading, the potatoes and sweet potato shreds are already messy and out of shape.

But these foods are still edible, so Liu Ailing boiled all these bits and pieces of potatoes and shredded sweet potatoes in a pot, then crushed them into puree, mixed them with egg liquid to make cakes, put vegetables in them and served Everyone makes cakes and eats.

Everyone is very novel about this way of eating, and they eat it with relish.

It took a day for the starch to be air-dried, and then it was time for the next step.

Mix a certain amount of flour with warm water at about [-] degrees, and then pour in a large amount of potato or sweet potato starch, and let Gu Tianjiao, who is the strongest, speed up and mix them evenly.

After the starch and flour are mixed and kneaded into a dough, because there is no machine, Liu Ailing and Shi Miao will cut the dough into strips and pull them into pieces, and then put these noodle slices into boiling water for a while, and wait for the vermicelli to float After they surfaced in the water, they were fished out with chopsticks, and they were placed on the open space to dry the vermicelli.

Although some noodles were consumed in the middle, a lot of fans came out, and Shi Miao was very satisfied with this.

The rest is to wait for the vermicelli to dry and tie them up, and then soak them and use them when you want to eat them later.

Uncle Ge also helped Shi Miao make the bellows and furnace on time and on time these days, and now they can be put into normal use.

Shi Miao chose an early morning to let Xu Yi and Zhou Youcai go out to carry a few baskets of hematite ore, and then officially opened the chapter of wrought iron.

With Gu Tianjiao helping to light the fire and pull the bellows, Shi Miao put the hematite into the fire and slowly melted it.

After the iron ore melted, Shi Miao used a shovel to draw out the molten iron, poured the molten iron on a flat surface and poured water to let the iron ore cool down into iron plates, then Shi Miao took out the small hammer and started beating against the iron plates.

The Neptune did not fool Shi Miao.

The iron sheet became very soft under the quenching hammer, and it was not easy to break. Shi Miao patiently knocked a piece of iron sheet thinner and thinner, and added molten iron again and again to cool and polish it. After an hour of work, a piece of 1x1.5. 0.5 long, [-]cm thick flat iron plate was polished by Shi Miao.

The first piece of iron was struck successfully, and Shi Miao was very satisfied with it.

Relying on the traditional iron stove building method in memory, it took a day to make an iron stove first. The iron stove is pitch black and looks very nice.

In order to bake potatoes or sweet potatoes in winter, Shimiao also added a small oven with little space on the side of the stove. When the stove is lit, put the potatoes into the oven, and the potatoes will be cooked in an hour or two.

Everyone was very excited when the first stove was built.

It's already September now, and it's almost November when it's time to start the stove to keep warm. Now that the first stove is coming out, it's rare good news for everyone.

In the next few days, Shi Miao leisurely built a stove every day.

Another exciting news for everyone is that the silkworms raised by Liu Ailing are very competitive, and at this time, a small batch of cocoons have been completed and can be used for spinning and weaving.

Although this batch of silk is not as much as the previous batch, it is more than enough to make a pair of cotton trousers for each of us.

The good news one after another made everyone excited.

After building the six stoves, Shi Miao started to open the furnace again. Coal burning will produce a lot of carbon dioxide and some harmful gases. After burning coal in winter, these gases need to be discharged outside the house to reduce the threat to everyone’s body. .

Although the furnace tube is much simpler to build than an iron furnace, it is still a test for Shi Miao, because the furnace tube needs to be made very thin, and it will have to be rolled up when the time comes. Instead, the center of a thigh-thick bamboo is opened and leveled, and then molten iron is poured down the inside of the bamboo.

Not to mention, the furnace tube poured in this way is really good, which made Shi Miao very satisfied when he split the bamboo and took out the furnace tube for observation.

　Thank you for your votes, I wish you all a happy new January.

　　good night everyone~

　　
　
(End of this chapter)