Back in the 1980s, hiking in the mountains was also a way of life

Chapter 1008: Gold Carving
Therefore, Wang An now regards Three Whip Wine and Tiger Bone Wine as forbidden delicacies, and they are directly hidden by Wang An.

In addition to these two items, the most precious is leopard bone wine. It is said that the bones of the Northeast Leopard are second only to tiger bones.

Besides, although leopards are easier to get than tigers, this is only relative to tigers. Compared with other animals, leopards are rare. Some mountain people have never seen a living leopard in their entire lives.

However, since moving into the new house, the leopard bone wine has been kept in Wang Dazhui's house, but Wang An has never paid any attention to it.

Below the leopard bone wine, there are ginseng, deer penis wine and deer bone wine. However, these two kinds of wine are also in Wang Dazhu's house, and are basically managed by Wang Dazhu.

Although Wang An's family now raises sika deer, these sika deer are now raised as material and it is absolutely impossible to slaughter them in a short period of time.

Therefore, these two things are somewhat precious when used to make wine.

In addition to the above-mentioned wines, the most precious wine may be deer blood wine. Although deer blood wine is precious, for Wang An's family, it is only slightly more precious than the wine just bought.

After all, there is no problem in drawing blood from the deer in Wang An's family two or three times a year, or even three or four times.

This time when he bought wine, Wang An planned to soak the fake tiger bones, that is, the blind bear's radish, and the broken-beard ginseng in his home in wine, so as to avoid missing the time to soak them when he needed them in the future.

After tinkering with making wine, Wang An built a small stove in the backyard and then embedded the crucible on the stove.

The reason for doing this was that Wang An wanted to melt the 12 kilograms of gold powder that he had been given when he was panning for gold.

In addition, the 6 kilograms of loose gold that everyone had taken from the dead had to be melted down and made into 10 pieces of jewelry.

After all, these more than 6 kilograms of loose gold belong to the ten people who went to pan for gold. It would be a bit inappropriate to keep them with Wang An.

Although the other people who went to pan for gold conceded that the scattered gold belonged to Wang An, and no one even mentioned it, Wang An really didn't want to take advantage of it.

Putting the gold powder into the crucible and using the charcoal accumulated from cooking every meal, Wang An pulled the bellows to start alchemy.

In fact, whether it is gold powder or those golden eggs, they cannot be called pure gold. There are many impurities in them. However, purity is just a matter of fact. How can folk alchemy be so pure?

Under the blowing of the bellows, the temperature of the charcoal fire was very high, and it quickly turned the gold powder into gold water.

After the molten gold cooled down, Wang An got a lump of gold weighing more than 11 kilograms.

Then, Wang An put the scattered gold nuggets into the crucible.

After the same operation, these small gold nuggets melted into one large block.

Use a hammer to smash the gold into a long strip, and then use a knife to divide the gold bar into ten even small pieces, each weighing about 6 taels.

Then, Wang An melted all the small gold nuggets into round cakes, and after hitting them with a hammer, the gold became 10 real golden cakes.

The 6-liang gold cake has a diameter of a little over 5 cm and a thickness of only about 1 cm.

Only then were all the preparations completed.

But it must be said that even without carving, these gold cakes actually look quite beautiful. Anyway, when Wang An took these gold cakes, he immediately felt that he couldn't let them go.

But if I give it to the other nine people, I guess they will definitely not want it. Wang An found the various carving knives and small files of various shapes that he bought at the supply and marketing cooperative, and started the carving work.

Maybe it’s because most things in that era had to be done by hand, so things like carving knives, files, and other tools were sold in supply and marketing cooperatives.

In fact, gold carving is a very simple job, because gold is very soft, just a little harder than aluminum, but not as hard as lead.

Even though the gold in Wang An's hand contained impurities, its hardness was quite average, so Wang An's carving speed was also very fast.

Of course, the reason why the carving was fast was that what Wang An carved was not complicated, and Wang An had this thing at home, not only that, but there were 4 of them.

That’s right, it’s an eagle. Wang An is carving an eagle.

On one side of the golden cake is an eagle spreading its wings ready to fly, and on the other side is an eagle flying freely in the sky.

The reason why he chose to carve an eagle instead of other animals such as a dragon or a tiger is that in recent days, in addition to practicing the scorpion crawling technique and the eighteen grappling techniques, Wang An has been training the four eagles at home.

Therefore, the various postures of the eagle have long been deeply imprinted in Wang An's mind. Now, carving an eagle on the gold cake is a piece of cake. He doesn't even need to draw a sketch before carving.

In this way, Wang An immersed himself in carving.

In the next few days, Wang An did not leave the house and was concentrating on carving.

By the time Wang An had finished carving all 10 gold cakes and left the house, those who had signed up to lay electric wires had already started burying electric poles in the yards of each household.

You know what, these people work very quickly.

The reason why the electric poles had to be buried in the yard was that at that time in the local area, the yards of every household were very large, and a yard of two or three acres or three or four acres could only be called a small yard.

The yards of most families are around five or six acres. Some families whose houses are next to wasteland or woods have yards of seven to eight acres or even more than ten acres.

Of course, this is also because at that time no one cared about people living in the deep mountains and forests. Whoever occupied the largest area owned all the land.

That is why Wang An’s yard is so big, enclosing an entire small hill.

The telephone poles of this era were all made of pine trunks. Compared with the later cement poles, such telephone poles were much lighter in weight.

Due to the distance, there is a telephone pole in each of Wang An’s old and new yards.

Fortunately, the engineers who came down from above knew the dangers of using electricity, so the electric poles were erected in the yard near the wall.

Wang An watched for a while and felt that there was nothing interesting about erecting the electric pole, so he took a gold cake and strolled towards Wang Li's house.

When Wang An arrived at Wang Li's house, Wang Li and Li Xiu Yu were drying mushrooms.

To be honest, Wang An was quite surprised to see Li Xiu Yu at Wang Li's house.

The main thing is that although these two people are engaged, the girl ran to the boy's house before they got married. Isn't this a bit inappropriate?
(End of this chapter)