National Games competition, what is that Daxia man doing?

Chapter 108 Loquat and Copper Ore
After Yang Chuan ate a few handfuls, he stood up contentedly.

"Friends, although the earth is delicious, but... you must eat more, because the storage time of this thing will not be too long. Therefore, I must find a way to collect more now, otherwise if it rots, it will be destroyed. Very distressed."

As he spoke, he walked towards the forest area above. He had noticed just now that there were a lot of bamboos there.

Everyone knows that bamboo is a very good thing. It can be as small as chopsticks, spoons, cups and bowls, as large as boxes and cabinets. It can be used to build houses and weave baskets. It is tender and edible.

Even if you can't find water in the wild, you can find a bamboo and knock on it to see if there is water in it.Bamboo water is a very clean water source, and it is no problem to drink it directly. In the wilderness, it is a rare source of fresh water.

Of course, now he just wants to cut off a stalk to weave a few baskets.

His movements are very fast, although limited by the knives, due to his great strength, the speed can only be said to be slightly slow.One divided into two, two divided into four, four divided into eight, little by little cut into thin bamboo strips.In his hand, a small stone knife was flying and jumping like a peerless magic weapon.

Making the base, starting the citron, fixing the circle, weaving the flowers, tying the edge, finishing the end, the thin bamboo threads were quickly interspersed in his hands, and after a while, a beautiful bamboo sieve appeared in front of everyone.

Although the color is still tender green, this fresh color is more popular.

"Hey! Young brother Yang Chuan's skills, don't you have to talk about it?"

"Haha, my grandpa squatted next to me and praised my little brother for surpassing him. My grandpa has been engaged in bamboo crafting all his life. Although he is not very famous, my little brother is really good."

"Brother's hands, I suddenly want to borrow them and use them, blah blah!!"

"Whoa, I want to too! I want to too!!"

Soon, two large baskets with shallow openings appeared again. This was because they were afraid that if the weaving was too deep, the bottom one would be crushed after the ground loquats were put in.

Carrying two baskets and a sieve, Yang Chuan walked back excitedly. Suddenly, he tripped over his feet and almost fell out.

Standing firm, Yang Chuan stared curiously, wanting to see what almost tripped him.

But when he saw it, his eyes narrowed, and he walked back in two steps. He knelt down and looked carefully.

After frowning for a few moments, he found that it was a piece of metal, to be precise, it should be said to be a piece of copper ore!

This is a large reddish-brown stone, with pits and pits on the surface, and it is not smooth and round at all.This is not the point, the point is that many parts of this stone are covered with a layer of green film!
After confirming again and again, his eyes widened: "I'm going, it turned out to be a large piece of copper ore??"

Everyone in the live broadcast room was stunned when they heard the words, and then a lot of doubtful questions were asked.Before Yang Chuan could answer, a netizen who knew the answer had already answered it for him.

The discovery of this copper ore is much more important than the ground loquat. However, only a small part of this ore is exposed on the ground, and Yang Chuan has no time to dig it for the time being. Collect the food first, and the ore will come again when he has time. done.

He wanted to smelt copper, but he didn't have a suitable stove and fuel.

It seems that the priority task in the future is copper smelting. If you want to be able to smelt copper, you have to build a special furnace, otherwise ordinary flames will not meet the temperature requirements at all.

While collecting loquats quickly, Yang Chuan told the audience how to deal with the copper mine.

"No brother, your idea is wrong. To melt metal, you need a high temperature. Coal is the best, but I don't have it now. Besides, I can think of the best combustion ratio, That’s charcoal, and a stove needs to be specially made.”

"No, we usually burn firewood, the temperature in the air is at most 800 degrees, and the melting point of copper ore is around 1100 degrees. Without a stove, it can't be melted at all."

"What? Induction stove? Brother, are you here to mess with me? I'm in the wilderness, I don't even have electricity, what kind of induction stove..."

"It's useless to hammer directly. Before the molten copper is fused, it will be shattered by the hammer and will not be connected together, so this trick is useless."

"Yes, this friend said it very well. For me now, charcoal is not expensive to make, and it is also the easiest to obtain. When I smelt copper and make metal tools, my test in this world is almost It’s 80% and I’m looking forward to it too.”

After not much effort, Yang Chuan's basket was already full. Looking at the sky, it was still very early. Yang Chuan took the basket and cleaned it by the river.

After washing, the color of the ground loquat was even more attractive, and Yang Chuan couldn't resist eating several more handfuls.

Back on the platform, he put the basket on the edge to let the wind blow, then he returned to the bamboo forest, cut down a few bamboos and came back.

Remove the bamboo joints, split the bamboo, cut the pillars, lay the panels, and tie the vines. A five-meter-long and two-meter-wide balcony appeared.After dumping the ground loquats in the basket and spreading them out, Yang Chuan set off again with the guys.

After doing it four times in a row, that is, eight baskets in total, Yang Chuan stopped.It's not that he thinks it's enough, it's because there is no place to put it anymore.

This kind of fruit can be dried in the shade or used to boil sugar, which is very good.It's a pity that he doesn't have anything now, so he can only collect as much as possible.

In the afternoon, he began to search for dead wood and dry firewood in the woods, and dug a water diversion channel at a position on the highest platform. After laying bamboo, the water slowly flowed along the bamboo to the middle platform.

The water is not large, after all, it is only seepage from the ground, and I dare not drink it, but it is no problem at all as water for construction.

In less than three hours, Yang Chuan made a muffled furnace that can be used many times, using it to make charcoal.

Cut off the dry trees with stones, stuffed them into the stove, and Yang Chuan started to light the fire.There are more than a dozen small holes left under the stove, and when the flame in the stove is balanced and fully burned, all the air inlets are directly blocked.

The high temperature and oxygen-deficient environment will allow the wood to be charred to form the charcoal he needs.

After waiting for about [-] minutes, Yang Chuan observed carefully and sealed the stove's air inlet completely with mud.

The next step is to wait quietly. Before the furnace cools down, it is not suitable to open it. Therefore, he put his mind on the smelting furnace.

Yang Chuan has never seen such a furnace, and the machines in the factory all use electric energy to melt.He is not very sure about the primitive skills he will use now, but referring to the knowledge of pottery making skills exchanged from the emotional value system before, he knows a lot about pottery stoves, so he learned by analogy. This kind of stove can better focus the heat.

To burn pottery well, he knows almost everything about the temperature in the furnace, whether it is even, ventilation, and combustion efficiency.

Presumably, smelting metal should be similar, right?

With this in mind, he started to make the stove at the corner of the platform, and believed that the stove would be built almost tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.At that time, the charcoal was already ready, just in time for use.

The newly built stove is not suitable for direct fire. It has to wait for it to dry slowly, so that there will be no problems such as cracks inexplicably.