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Xie Yu could only cook for herself, and was going to the vegetable market to buy vegetables. Of course, she also wanted to buy some meat. Xie Yu had always been a fan of meat!
But when he arrived, in front of the butcher shop of Cheng Tieyi, the head of the Second Young Master Cheng Bureau in his memory, Xie Yu found that there had been a change of people, which was a little strange!
In my memory, every time I came to Cheng Er Shao Bureau's main meat stall to buy something, I saw that it was the face of Changfeng Escort Bureau when I came out of Cheng's house.
Not only is it affordable, but it’s also a great addition!
Naturally, Xie Yu would not think that Cheng Tieyi was avoiding her because he did not attend his father's funeral.
It's just that Cheng Tieyi is avoiding Changfeng Escort Agency!
After cutting the meat at this stall, Xie Yu found out that Cheng Tieyi, who originally bought meat, had now switched to selling charcoal!
That's good, since it's already late autumn and it's starting to get cooler, so it's a good time to buy charcoal.
After asking for the location, Xie Yu went home and used the dead and rotten wood he cleared yesterday as firewood to stew meat.
During this process, Xie Yu went to add new oil to the lamp oil used in the original Xie family's altar, and put on a few sticks of incense to express respect.
He started sorting out the fitness, no, weapon training equipment left by his original parents. Although it is a bit unnecessary for Xie Yu now, leisure is also idle. As a martial arts practitioner, the semi-solidified panel profession is locked.
It seemed to Xie Yu that from now on, she would really have to rely on the escort agency.
The meat was stewed very fragrantly, and suddenly several children, whose clothes had been washed and torn, ran over from outside. After sniffing hard, they ran out again!
After a few moments, Xie Yu even sighed with emotion. Although it is true that the poorer you are, the poorer you are, the poorer you are, the children of poor families make people feel sorry for them!
After the meat was ready, Xie Yu cut some, washed some clean leaves with water, and wrapped them in leaves. When the children came again, Xie Yu would give them a piece!
Then, as if attracting thieves, many children came, making Xie Yu's food uneasy. Fortunately, a sensible adult came forward and drove away the children.
Xie Yu could only smile bitterly, almost forgetting that during the escort trip, a "kind-hearted" escort gave the victims dry food, which almost caused the escort car to be robbed by the victims.
Of course, it’s not the same!
This day has passed again!
The next day, Xie Yu went to the cart shop to rent a flatbed mule cart, put some straw mats on it, and went to visit Cheng Tieyi, the chief of Cheng Er Shao Bureau.
If you saw him quarrying coal, not to mention his attire, it looked like the real thing. If you didn't know the details, you would really think of him as a poor boy quarrying coal.
Seeing Xie Yu coming over, Cheng Tieyi was also slightly surprised. It seemed that he really didn't care. He didn't know anything about the Changfeng Escort Agency or his father's death.
Naturally, Xie Yu didn't bother to mention it. For some things, it really made sense to go to an acquaintance.
The weather hasn't turned cold yet, so people only buy charcoal for daily cooking.
Large-scale advance purchases are still relatively rare.
With Cheng Tieyi as an acquaintance, Xie Yu naturally got a preferential price. Plus, bringing his own car, he could save a lot of shipping costs.
Xie Yu directly purchased three loads of coal and two loads of charcoal.
Although the price of charcoal is about three times that of stone charcoal, it burns completely, has no odor or odor, and is not easy to bake. Naturally, only people with some wealth in the city will buy it.
However, Xie Yu's current status required him to buy two cars. Cheng Tieyi was a little confused, but he didn't ask any more questions!
Naturally, Xie Yu would not tell him that he was going to start making iron.
Yes, iron smelting. After this month, Xie Yu even developed a habit of using a magnet to attract iron on the roof of a house, hoping to get more meteorite iron sand.
Xie Yu’s collection over the past few months was not in vain!
It just so happens that the original "boss" is here, selling charcoal, and burning charcoal to make iron.
Previously, Xie Yu had already prepared an indigenous steelmaking method suitable for this era based on a low carbon steel content report recorded by Muchen Zhu and other records.
After all the coal and charcoal were delivered home and the money was settled, the children came again.
But this time Xie Yu was prepared and immediately bought maltose from the grocery store, which is maltose boiled after germination of rice. In fact, it has different properties from maltose.
Although the sweetness is average, the children were very happy when it was given to them.
There are even some poor people who have grown up without even eating this kind of candy!
One day, the people at Yaxing were interested and found a "bankrupt" blacksmith shop.
Xie Yu went there, not to buy the blacksmith shop, but to be interested in her land deed, but to be interested in some of the iron-melting and blacksmithing tools in the blacksmith shop!
In particular, there are a lot of unused iron materials left, a crucible that can melt iron, an iron chain for boiling molten iron, anvils, clamps, hammers, sand molds, iron molds, etc., all made by myself. , I don’t know how much effort it will take.
Two days later, with the help of another person, Xie Yu built a semi-basement in the backyard of his home, with thick-coated walls and sound insulation, and a small cast-iron workshop that was different in this era.
Speaking of which, before Xie Yu didn't wear clothes, he worked in various departments to make screws, and he also developed some skills as a manual technician.
In particular, I have worked for a period of time in a steel structure factory that provides supporting equipment for substations, and I understand the basics.
Come and put the charcoal on the fire and the molten iron crucible.
Outside the simple shed, a blindfolded donkey is pulling in circles, a wooden device with a chain rod on it. This wooden rod device is interlocked through various wooden rods. Here is the iron furnace crucible. Xiaonian, here is the qualified blower made of wood by Mr. Xie Yu. , the charcoal under the iron furnace crucible is getting worse.
Simply raising the temperature inside the iron furnace is not enough. In order to keep the furnace inside, Xie Yu sealed the iron furnace throughout the entire process and even had a perforated stone pipe and a rabbit skin bag to waste some internal energy and try to separate as much oxygen in the air as possible. The effect of adding oxygen and pressurizing to support combustion.
In this way, although the furnace temperature of 1,600 degrees or even 2,000 degrees for blast furnace steelmaking cannot be reached for a while, it can be rushed to above 1,400 degrees first.
In addition, Xie Yu had also been a great cultivator in other worlds before and knew various methods of refining magic weapons.
Although this internal power is extremely low-end compared to mana and spiritual power, it finally solves the problem of whether or not.
Sure enough, with this method, the molten iron that originally took at least three hours to dissolve completely melted in just over ten minutes!
Then open the furnace, use the iron lock to drop the crucible, first pour the molten iron with ten arrowheads into the prepared arrow mold, and then put the crucible back into the iron furnace.
Then, Xie Yu put on rabbit skin gloves to spread his inner energy and feel the composition of the molten iron up close.
Then, add beneficial ingredients to the crucible that is placed back into the iron furnace.
After several adjustments, it turned out that there was not much molten iron left in the iron furnace crucible.
At this last point, the molten iron for the debugging experiment was guided by Xie Yu into the short, thin iron spineless sword mold that had been prepared long ago, and the molten iron was poured into it.
It is protected by inner energy. Although it is a bit wasteful, it is not necessary. Too much forging with a hammer will remove impurities and affect the rest of the neighbors.
