[Crossing the Farm] The witch doctor rises up

To be honest, it is indeed very, very difficult to turn iron-containing ore into molten iron, condense the molten iron into iron nuggets, and then turn the iron nuggets into various weapons.

Just changing from iron-containing ore to liquid iron wasted a lot of Wu Di's efforts.

Wu Di remembers that the melting point of iron is more than 500 degrees, and now, even if Wu Di dies, he can only rely on the boring kiln to reach the temperature of just a little over [-] degrees—of course, Wu Di doesn’t know whether there is how tall.

In the end, Wu Di thought for a long time, turned the rest of his high school chemistry knowledge upside down, and then combined the stones containing sulfur, phosphorus, silicon, manganese, etc., especially carbon, with iron ore Smelting - which can bring the melting point down to about a thousand degrees - with bellows and charcoal and enough oxygen, finally barely reached the standard.

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The bellows was popularized by Wu Di to the tribe at the beginning of winter.

This thing, which basically consists of a wooden box, a push-pull wooden handle, and a movable wooden box, is the best tool for increasing the fire when burning a fire, reducing the amount of wood used, and increasing the utilization rate of wood.

When Wu Di went to play with relatives in the countryside when he was a child, what he liked to do most in winter was to sit by the stove hole and pull the bellows—without much effort, the flames would grow bigger, not only warm, but also very interesting to watch.

To this day, after filling the pot with water, lighting the firewood and putting it into the mouth of the pot, holding the bellows with his left hand and holding the firewood with his right hand, Wu Di still has a fresh memory in his mind.

And the bellows is also very easy to operate, you only need to pull the push handle back with your hand to open the movable wooden box, and the air can be sucked in through the air inlet; then push the push handle forward to compress the wooden box The air in the box enters the air duct through the exhaust port.

The interface of this air duct can be connected to the inner side of the stove hole or the inner side of the boring kiln.If it is the latter, then a large amount of propelled air will enter the smelting furnace, so that it can be used for ironmaking.

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Although molten iron came out, the people in the tribe were all in awe of it, and no one dared to move it. In the end, Wu Di had to fight by himself.

Blacksmithing is a labor-intensive job, and Wu Di does not have the kind of sledgehammer and small hammer in the blacksmith shop, so he can only ask Gong to help him tie iron ore stones to a large wooden stick as a "hammer", and make a clamp out of raw wood.

Wu Di saw blacksmithing in the village when he was a child, but he still didn't quite understand how to do it.I vaguely remember that the old man would "jingle" the red iron block for a while, and then put it in the sink filled with water at the side—followed by "嗤啦~" a burst of white smoke rose, and then threw it again. Go to the red-hot charcoal pile on the side, pick up another piece and start "clinking". After repeated several times, things will be done.

It is said that the first time is raw and the second time is cooked, but Wu Di, a fake blacksmith who drives ducks to the shelves, holds a piece of red-hot iron in a wooden clamp, and he can't stop drooling—this is not greedy, if one accidentally falls on it I'm afraid I'm going to wear a hole.

Because the raw wood clips contain moisture, they are not as easy to be blackened and broken by the high temperature of iron as dry wood, but Wu Di dare not be sloppy—especially when he is facing so many people’s expecting eyes—although his heart is beating. , but when he clamped the iron block with a wooden clip and put it on the big rock, he still smashed it with a hammer.

But after dozens of hits, Wu Di felt that his arm was filled with lead, and it didn't feel like his own.Seeing that the former Yanhong has turned into a dark red iron block because of the rapid temperature drop in winter, Wu Di saw the timing and filled the iron block with seawater - the seawater contains salt, and the cooling speed is faster than water , using it as a quenching cooling medium, the quenched iron is harder than the iron quenched with water - quickly cooled in the stone tank, and then thrown into the charcoal pile aside, waiting to burn red again.

"It's so amazing..." Rao Shigong is the closest to Wu Di, and he can clearly see how everything happened, but he still thinks it's really unbelievable—that kind of thing that looks hot and hard , How did it change from a fist-sized lump to two palm-sized, flat lumps?

"Would you like to try it?" Seeing Gong's curious look, Wu Di moved to the nearest position.

"I, can I really try?" Gong was so excited that his ears on the top of his head moved twice.

"Of course, everyone can try it..." Wu Di said, noticing Gong's somewhat disappointed eyes, and leaning into Gong's ear by standing up, "But Gong is the first one."

Gong was taken aback by Wu Di's words, then pursed his lips in embarrassment, and sat down directly.

When those people saw Gong, they started to attack, probably because they thought that the other party was not an "angel", so they got closer.

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The people of the Youhe Tribe here are learning how to blacksmith in full swing, while the Bear Tribe over there is covered in snow.

"Patriarch, are they going to lock us up all the time?" Speaking of which, in the clan, the status of the witch doctor is higher than that of the patriarch, and the patriarch of the Jiejie clan is so old and has "deification" "—referring to the sign of the horns on the head—so everyone dared not disturb her hastily.

The chief of the Jiejie clan opened his eyes and looked at the clansmen who gathered together shivering from the cold, with a forced smile on his face: "It's not that bad."

"But even if they don't care about us, we don't have many ways to survive... Including the patriarch, we have so many people with babies in their stomachs, but it's so cold, and those bear tribes only feed us raw meat and lettuce... Huh Woooooo...we, if we go on like this, we will only die..." A woman with long hair covered her face and cried, and when she cried like this, the gloomy and desolate atmosphere that surrounded everyone became even more intense.

The patriarch of the Jiejie clan rubbed his belly, impatient with the crying, but she knew that if she forcibly suppressed it, it would make things worse.

"If only I didn't have a doll! I should have known that I shouldn't have slept with that man from the Youhe Tribe!" A woman with sunken eyes and a pale face resentfully looked at her bulging belly—if she didn't have this belly , maybe she can be like other sisters... Even if she is insulted by the men of the Bear Tribe, she can barely fill her stomach, instead of being locked up here to starve and freeze!

"Shui Shui! What nonsense are you talking about!" The Jiejie clan witch doctor, who had been closing his eyes to rest his mind, opened his eyes and looked sharply at the woman who had just spoken.

"I...I'm just scared...I'm sorry..." The woman named "Shui Shui" lowered her head, showing a panicked look.

"Hey, what are you guys doing?" Xing'er, who was wearing warm animal skins and tied a thick animal skin on her head, completely protected from the wind and cold, pushed open the door and looked at the person who was caught by her because of her action. The women of the Jiejie clan shivered in the cold wind that rushed into the room—oh, really, she had no idea why her brother kept these pregnant women, even if it was raw meat and lettuce, it was still food, right?Not being able to have a baby and not being able to work is really troublesome.

To Xing'er's question, none of the women from the Jiejie clan answered.That Shui Shui seemed to want to speak, but was stared at by the witch doctor's eyes, and immediately fell silent.

Xing'er didn't expect them to answer, anyway, she just came to see how the women in this place were doing - her sister was right, if she looked at the situation of these women, and compared herself, she would find that the women in the Bear Clan Under the leadership of the tribal brother, life is so happy.Really, why don't these women know how to please for a better life?

Curling her lips boredly, Xing'er turned around and went out again, the hooked nose behind her closed the door.

"Ouba, you said those women are useless, why do you keep them?" She saw just now that several women were so thin that they were out of shape, and almost all their hands and feet had chilblains, tsk tsk, bruises The blue and purple frightened me to death, I might as well die.

"Return to Miss Xing'er, the patriarch said that the stomachs of these women are all from the Youhe Tribe. If it is true, those who escaped from the Jiejie Tribe must go to the Youhe Tribe." Ouba listened to Xing'er A flash of something flashed in his eyes, and then he put on a gentle and loyal smile.

Although Ouba has a big aquiline nose, but his appearance is not bad, so Xing'er nodded: "Xing'er 'Miss'? Hey, every time I hear you say that, I find it very interesting, this is Is it your statement? However, the Youhe tribe...you mean the tribe where the man who said he liked men last time belonged?"

Although Xing'er still feels a little uncomfortable thinking about that man who didn't give her that hat and said that she likes that thin man.But thinking of seeing that man again, Xing'er is still very much looking forward to seeing these tribal men who are big and thick, Xing'er always feels that there is something very special about that man.At least, it is very attractive to myself.

Ouba nodded: "Although that tribe is not big, the patriarch thinks that they must be on guard."

Although the things that the Youhe tribe brought to trade last time did not surprise everyone, but thinking about it carefully, being able to come up with those things is already much more special than other tribes and clans.

If they are allowed to develop freely for a long time, who knows if they will become a big hidden danger?

Therefore, it is better to nip the danger in the bud earlier.

Of course, if the Youhe tribe really develops very fast, it will be fine if they can compete with the Bear tribe - if the strongest tribe and the fastest growing tribe with the most potential are both losers, then... hehe.

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They didn't know that the Xiong tribe had such calculations, and they didn't know that they had fallen into the conspiracy. At this time, the Youhe tribe set up a bonfire, and all the people in the tribe danced and cheered around the bonfire.

Because, they finally have their first iron knives, which is definitely a great event!

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The author has something to say: ... Shazi recently felt that things were unlucky!

In the area where the Shazi Campus is located, it was said that there was a voltage problem, and suddenly the power went out at ten o'clock this morning during class!I just came here, and it's still a temporary supply. It's really... from the beginning to now, it has been stopped three times. This is a school, a school!I feel that the whole person is going to die of depression QAQ... So, if the sand doesn’t change one day, it’s definitely not that the sand is lazy, it’s probably because the school has a power outage again=皮=……

I hope this is the last time. I really don’t want to make any more troubles, which makes the code words even frightening. No Xinghu!