Chapter 203 [Winter and Spring Interaction House Building Opening]
Winter does not affect the square length construction.
After all, the walls of his several main halls have been completed, and the rest is carpentry work.
In fact, the decoration can also use hot water to melt various materials, or wait until the beginning of spring, but there is no rush for these, he still plans to get the roof done first.
Anyway, winter is almost over.
The people at the foot of the mountain have also started buying new year's goods, preparing for the new year.
The new year means that the coldest time has passed, and the whole land is very close to the time when spring flowers bloom.
The snow water is gradually melting, and some snowmelt creeks that originate from the top of the mountain and do not rely on mountain springs have gradually left the dry season and started to have runoff.
Fang Chang put the last beam in place, nailed it with bronze nails, then jumped to the ground lightly, and looked up at his work.
The five main halls are bathed in the late winter sunshine, and the beams are laid on them like a grid. Next, you only need to nail small pieces of wood, and then cover with thin straw mats, and then you can lay mud and tiles.
It is estimated that when the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, the five halls will be completed, and I can slowly decorate them, and then move in.
Since he has accumulated enough food and fuel in autumn, he does not need to move too far in winter. In addition to building a house, Fang Chang continued to dig copper ore and collect the associated ore of copper ore. Occasionally, he would open a furnace for smelting, casting, making some gadgets, or simply accumulating some copper ingots.
This high-value metal is not only a raw material for tools, but also a must-have item when going down the mountain. Copper can be exchanged for coins with a higher weight. This made Fang Chang go down the mountain several times without going to work to make money.
At the same time, the tin associated with copper ore, in addition to being used as an alloy additive, is also a very good material itself, but it is not resistant to cold.
Not to mention, sometimes you can find silver nuggets, which are more stable than tin, and the hairpin on the top of the square long head is made of this material.
Although silver cannot be directly used as currency due to Yamashita Law, the gold and silver shop welcomes this very much and is willing to exchange it with a large amount of copper coins at a fair price.
He also plans to use them to make tableware, such as silver plates, silver bowls, and silver spoons, when he has saved enough money. After all, he can't burn porcelain now, he can only make all kinds of pottery.
Fang Chang also went to the red hills that may have iron ore. Although it is a bit far away, the reserves seem to be good.
Yunzhongshan is really rich in products.
However, he did not start mining, but found a lot of quartz, packed it in a basket and moved it back to the cliff.
For the rest of the time, Fang Chang searched for places with alkali in the mountains.
Because it is easily soluble in water, trona stone is not easy to find, but there is abundant precipitation in Yunzhong Mountain, and it is even more difficult to have any saline-alkali land. If there is no result, he can only extract it from plant ash.
Going down the mountain to look for it is only an alternative, but in this era, most of the alkali is transported from the natural alkali lakes in the north, and the amount used in various places is not large, so you can't buy much, and it is not advisable to travel far to the north for alkali.
For this reason, he even carried bronze tools, looked for a suitable place in the mountain, and then — dug down.
"Maybe there will be some gains today."
After being sensed by the spiritual sense, Fang Chang murmured to himself, and then he bent down and tried his best to dig down.
If the image problem and the tool wear speed are not considered, relying on the bronze tools and extraordinary physique, Fang Chang's drilling speed is faster than the drilling equipment of the previous life. A talented demon can be compared.
During the excavation during this period, although no alkali layer was found, he discovered some other mineral deposits, such as coal seams and so on.
However, he has his own goals. He just writes down the location, hides the hole he made, and continues to dig in new places to find alkali.
"Well, brine is not bad."
Moving back a long way, watching the liquid inside the hole seeping out from the wall rapidly, and gradually rising, he dipped it in and tasted it, then laughed.
Although it is not an alkali stone, this kind of alkali-containing brine is also very convenient to use, and it is better than boiling alkaline soil or spraying plant ash.
Of course, this kind of brine can't be used to order tofu, it's not the same thing. If Fang Chang has enough beans, he can go to the salt mine to dig some associated gypsum and turn the water into tofu.
But Fang Chang has no container at hand now, and the bamboo basket behind him is not suitable for holding liquid, and he doesn't want to cast spells, so he simply waits a day or two and brings a bucket or tank.
Anyway, its origin has been found, so it cannot escape.
Climbing out of the ground, Fang Chang raised his head to look at the sky. The sun had already slanted to the west, dyeing the scattered clouds in half of the sky orange.
It's time to go back to the cliff.
After putting the badly worn tools into the shed together with the basket behind him, Fang Chang took some sweet potatoes from the cellar, picked two bundles of wild vegetables, and started cooking in the kitchen.
Although Yashang also had a bumper harvest last year, because he didn’t reclaim much land, the food stored was limited, so he couldn’t eat it often. What's more, Fang Chang eats now just to make himself more comfortable. He doesn't really need food, so he doesn't choose it.
Sometimes he also feels that he is no longer a mortal.
After all, if he is free to eat, he can eat all the food in his cellar at once, and he has good teeth, is not picky about food, and regardless of the taste, he can eat the house, bed, rocks and soil. If you don't care about your image at all, and don't consider the issue of practice, it's okay to gnaw out the hole of one or two hundred feet just now.
It's just that the picture is a little broken, he thought.
As for where is his limit... Fang Chang estimated that if the back mountain is removed, roughly one-third of this fairy cliff can be eaten from top to bottom.
The water in the tripod boils.
Hot air emerges from the gaps in the square cage above and diffuses into the room.
The aroma of steamed sweet potato is also slightly rippling.
Fang Chang's incomparably keen hearing sensed the sound of firecrackers in the distance down the mountain. It should be that the children got their own New Year's goods and started playing around.
New Year approached.
...
When the spring was warm and the flowers were blooming, Fang Chang built a new furnace.
The location of this furnace is just in front of his original houses, next to the copper smelting kiln.
The five main halls next to it are nearing completion. They are paved with the tiles he has accumulated during the past few years while firing bricks.
The main hall is built on a high foundation, which is the soil taken out when the pond was excavated, surrounded by stones, and even the steps are paved with stones, flat and solid, not afraid of water flow. The beams, rafters and eaves on the cliff, combined with the surrounding scenery and the extremely wide distant view, are somewhat extraordinary.
Thank you Wang Banxian, SSWG, and Alloy Niu Niu for your rewards.
(end of this chapter)