Chapter 391 [Busy weaving and blacksmithing]
The cocoons that Fang Chang harvested were not of good quality, because there were holes in them, but silk could still be produced.
Because he wants to use it as long as it is available, and does not pursue the perfect "one cocoon and one silk", so he allows the silkworms that have spun silk to transform their wings, mate freely and give birth to offspring before they die.
Boiling water in a large pot, Fang Chang soaked the peeled cocoons in the boiling water, carefully found the end of the silk thread, and then made seven or eight silks into one raw silk, wrapped it on the small bamboo basket of the silk reeling car, and lightly Lightly drive the handle on the top, and the raw silk will be wound on it.
Because the quality of his silk is not very good, it is necessary to always pay attention to keep the number of stretched silk within this range.
This is a water grind, but he has done it before, and he is very skilled.
Fang Chang has already tried the work of weaving silk thread into silk on the loom he made. He plans to weave a piece of silk handkerchief for the raw silk produced this year. Sandbag wire will come in handy.
The process of processing these silkworm cocoons is very long and repetitive, but Fang Chang does not feel bored, he just keeps reeling and spinning silk, and then continues to operate the shuttle to weave.
In his spare time, he kept using the newly acquired iron pot to experiment with various delicacies.
Fortunately, the rich Yunzhong Mountain, the well-stocked cellar, and the lush vegetable garden next to it provided him with a lot of easy-to-obtain ingredients. The two old hens in the henhouse worked hard, so they could always get some corn Extra meal.
He also made a small mill with a stone, soaked a bowl of soybeans that had accumulated a lot, then ground the soybean milk, and cooked it for breakfast.
It's just that I've been really busy recently, otherwise I can soak more beans, grind two buckets of soy milk, and use brine to make tofu, so that there will be more tricks.
Whether it is mixed with wild onion or stewed with meat and vegetables, it has a unique flavor. It can also be made into tofu skin, dried tofu, and tofu rolls. It can be stored for a long time and tastes good.
If it is made tender, it can also be made into tofu nao or bean curd, and it is an excellent food with various seasonings. Xianqi Cliff has a complete range of ingredients, no matter the taste of the world, you can try it.
Of course, the brine used to order tofu is not the alkaline brine he dug out in the mountains, so he can only prepare it himself. In the salt mine in the mountains, there are many cold water stones, that is, gypsum, which can be used here.
Putting down the shuttle in his hand, Fang Chang walked out of the Unnamed Hall.
It is sunny outside, but there are also scattered white clouds in the sky, embellishing the blue sky very beautifully.
The surrounding mountains have all returned to green. It has just rained a few days ago, and there is plenty of water vapor in the mountains, and there are thin mist floating in the mountains.
The amount of water gushing out from the Lingjian Spring increased, and the trickle in the mountain became more active, so the Huanhua River in the Wuming Temple was injected with more water, jumping happily, raising the water surface of the Biyutang, and turning the waterfall into a beautiful place. Wider and more powerful.
The area around the open space of Xianqi Cliff, not facing the forest and the edge of the back mountain, was surrounded by a half-person-high stone wall, and plant seeds were sprinkled inside and outside, and they had already begun to sprout. Of course, the side facing the edge of the cliff remains open, so that the extremely far distance can be seen from the Hall of the Unknown.
The kilns used to burn lime bricks and pottery next to the work shed were used by him again. He chose one and modified it in Dali, making a plausible round kiln for firing some porcelain. Thanks to coke, it is now easy to get high temperature, just be careful not to burn the kiln down.
There is good porcelain clay in Yunzhong Mountain. I took it through a sieve made of gauze, molded it with clay and dried it to make a blank, including bowls, plates, pots, cups, bottles, etc., and then used some materials I found in the mountains. Four or five recipes were tried and put into the kiln neatly after glaze application.
Since there is no need for blowing air, Fang Chang just keeps the fuel in the kiln uninterrupted, and puts his energy on the silk weaving, adding some coke to the kiln every now and then.
But now, the fire inside has been extinguished, but the temperature inside the kiln is still significantly higher than outside.
Fang Chang opened the kiln and drilled into it to check.
The yield rate is not bad. It can be seen that 90% of the utensils have remained intact. After firing so many pottery, he succeeded in changing the craft for the first time, which can be regarded as a kind of accumulation.
The fired porcelain was carefully taken out one by one by him and placed outside.
Under the sunlight, these vessels with mottled glaze and different colors due to formula problems also have a unique aesthetic feeling. They reflect different colors, but they are also smooth and crystal clear, which proves that this time, at least in terms of structure, it is successful.
Fang Chang had never verified the effect of the glaze formula, so he applied solid colors. He silently recorded the effects of various glazes, thinking that he could write or draw on the utensils in the future, and the porcelain fired in that way would be more beautiful. Strong artistic atmosphere.
After cleaning these burnt utensils and putting them in the kitchen and bedroom according to their functions, Fang Chang cleaned up the kiln and sealed it up like the kilns next to it. Now there are a lot of lime, charcoal, coke, bricks and tiles stored on the cliff, and there is no need to open the kiln again in a short time.
He jumped to the top of the Hall of the Unknown, looked at the cliff from this commanding height, and decided to go to the blast furnace.
The steel bars smelted last time are still piled up in the shed, and he hasn't processed them, so the only steel tool on Yashang is the hammer that was cast.
Gathered a few pieces of good coal, took out the fire pocket and ignited it with hay. When the fire in the small furnace was booming, Fang Chang picked up a thin steel bar and put it in, waiting for it to slowly burn red.
The largest piece of steel was formed in the widest trench specially dug by Fang Chang, and now it is placed beside it as an anvil.
He didn't need tongs, he directly picked up the steel bar in the furnace with one end burnt bright red, picked up the hammer and began to beat it.
Dangdangdangdangdang—
The sound resounded on the cliff, with a little trill and echo of steel vibration. Fang Chang was very fast, and the small hammer was left behind by him, and he kept hitting it quickly.
The bright red steel bar braved clusters of sparks from being hit, and gradually deformed under the hammer.
Fang Chang kept putting the steel bar back into the furnace to heat it to maintain the temperature. After the steel bar was hammered into a rectangular section, he made a groove on it with a hammer, and then bent it along the groove with his hands. The openings of the steel billets are knocked together to form the blade of the axe, and the rear part is reserved for the handle of the axe.
In fact, if he fried a few more furnaces of steel, he could use good steel to try the steel clamping process, but it is just an ax, which can be used and is better than the previous bronze ax.
After it was fully formed, Fang Chang used a copper wire brush to remove the sundries on the surface of the axe, and then burned it to red heat for the last time, and then put it into a bucket of water to quench it.
呲—
Amidst the steam, he has a new axe, and the old bronze ax can be officially retired.
Next, after weaving silk, he plans to replace all the tools in his hand, whether it is an ax and shovel, or a kitchen knife and spatula.
(end of this chapter)