Orc Horde Upgrade System

After dealing with the fruit and stalk-leaf trees, it is the turn of the plant ash cement.

"My God, how much plant ash I wasted before!" After reading the method of making plant ash cement, Meng Yuqing cried out in pain, covering her head.

"What's the matter? Plant ash is not a rare thing. If it is wasted, it will be wasted. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't even know that plant ash has so many uses." Xuan immediately came over to comfort him.

During this period of time, he could feel that Meng Yuqing put too much pressure on himself, and sometimes he would get emotional for no reason, but when he got emotional, he just complained about the things he made and then digested silently.

I have never vented my anger on myself, and I only talk to myself after adjusting my emotions every time.

"Didn't we soak plant ash with water when making soap? Soap only needs that water, and we throw away the rest of the mortar, right?" Meng Yuqing closed her eyes and adjusted her breathing, "Plant ash cement is made with these ash It was made of scum, and we wasted a lot."

He rubbed his face, filled a jug of water with a clay pot, poured plant ashes into the pot and stirred it with wood for a while, then poured all the water into another container.

Put on the leather gloves you made before and squeeze the remaining mortar into small balls.

Xuan Ye was forced to put on gloves by him. Although the plant ash water did not reach the level of caustic soda, it was not appropriate to soak his hands in it all the time, as it would still burn his hands.

But it's better to make a colander, pour out the water, scoop out the mortar with a spoon, wrap your hands with leaves or unwanted animal skins, and pinch it.

After kneading these, Meng Yuqing soaked a few more cans of plant ash, poured the water into another container, and started to knead the mortar balls.

After all the mortar balls were squeezed, Meng Yuqing put them all in a basket, took them to her small pottery kiln, lit a fire and threw them all into the fire to burn.

"These balls can be taken out when they are burnt to an orange light." Meng Yuqing pulled Xuan away from the small pottery kiln, where it was too hot.

Xuan kept staring at the mortar ball in the fire from a long distance away, while Meng Yuqing sat next to him and began to look at the blueprint of the cotton gin. This thing is more complicated, and he needs to study it carefully.

"It should be better over there. I saw many small balls glowing orange." After an unknown amount of time, Xuan suddenly made a sound.

Meng Yuqing raised her head, put the blueprints into the warehouse, approached the small pottery kiln and clamped the mortar balls out with a wooden stick, "Let's put them aside for now, use two stone cups to pour two glasses of water, and when the balls are cold, throw them away." Two go in and try."

"Okay." As he said, Xuan took out the stone cup that was no longer used from home and went to fetch water from the big water tank.

There is a big water tank at the door of every house in the tribe. The orcs carry the water tank to the stream every morning to fill it up and bring it back.

The water in Meng Yuqing's house has always been filled by Xuan's help. Although he can fill it up with the clay pot many times, it is definitely not as fast as the orc carrying the water tank over and filling it up.

After the mortar balls cooled down, Meng Yuqing poured some more water according to the ratio, and then threw the two mortar balls into two cups respectively. Xuan's eyes widened as he watched the bubbling water in the cups.

"Aren't these balls all cold?"

"Yes what's the matter?"

"Why is it still bubbling, like boiling?"

"Hmm...it's called a chemical reaction." Meng Yuqing rubbed her head, "I can't explain it now, anyway, you know that these mortar balls will cool down after burning and then put them in water, so as to prevent people from being cheated in the future. "

Thinking of the so-called spells of many warlocks in ancient times, they were all chemical reactions, pretending to be tricks and deceiving people, Meng Yuqing made a special point.

"Well, I remember, I won't be cheated in the future." Xuan nodded solemnly.

The mortar balls quickly turned into mud in the water. Meng Yuqing found some pottery that had failed to be fired or was accidentally broken before and threw them into a cup according to the proportion.

He put some sand in the other cup according to the ratio, and after reconciling it all came out, and then squeezed them into two small cubes.

"Just put it in the sun to dry. After two days of drying, you'll know if it's done." Meng Yuqing put the two small cubes away, "I'll see what the difference is between the pottery pieces and the sand. , if the difference is not big, use sand."

"What about these unused balls?" Xuan pointed to the remaining mortar balls.

"Put it in a cool place and store it first. When you need to use it, just soak it in water and add sand or broken pottery." After speaking, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Another task has been completed. Although I don't know if it was successful or not, it should be no problem. I followed the steps strictly." He said to himself.

Xuan walked behind him, looked at him with distressed eyes, and finally just raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder lightly.

"Tomorrow we will start preparing the materials for making cotton gins. We need to make more cotton gins before the mountain tribes come." Meng Yuqing took out the blueprints for making cotton gins from the warehouse.

What he is going to make is a pure wooden cotton gin that can be operated by one person. It is almost the most suitable cotton gin in this world. It can be upgraded after finding iron.

Higher-tech ones are difficult to produce even if he exchanged them. He is just an ordinary male college student with no professional skills, and often crosses the river by feeling the stones.

He was a little distressed at the thought that suitable fabrics were needed to make cotton clothes.

"What's wrong with you, what are you worrying about?" Seeing his expression, Xuan asked softly.

"Is there that kind of animal skin that doesn't grow long but is very thick? There are also animal skins that are not long but very soft, even if you wear the fur side against your body, it won't feel prickly."

The fabric must not be counted on to use cotton to make cotton cloth, at least it will be too late this year, and the number of stalks and leaves is very small, so we can only start with animal skins.

Hearing his question, Xuan thought for a while, "Yes, many small beasts with no offensive power have short fur and are very soft, much softer than the fur on our abdomen, and there are a lot of them in the tribe, but these animal skins Can't survive the winter."

Speaking of this, Xuan paused, "Actually, the warmest thing is the animal skins after snowfall, but we can hardly find them at that time. Most of the animal skins used for winter in the tribe are in autumn hunting. If they are hunted, their fur will not be able to survive the winter at this time, so the sub-animals will be wrapped in layers of animal skins in winter, making it difficult to move around."

He carefully explained how the sub-beast survived the winter, as if he was teaching a child to survive the winter for the first time.