Looking at the cheerful appearance of the little old man, he seemed to be in the state of finding a new job with great difficulty after two weeks of work. This image made Gao Wen's previous impression of him an outsider. Make sure, the other party's shabby cloth robes, holes, soft hats, and unshaven appearance are really not because of some hermit life, he is really poor...
This situation made Gao Wen couldn't help muttering to Amber in a low voice: "You found this person...is it really reliable?"
"Oh, don't worry, although your personality may be a bit strange, but you have seen it, right? At least the ability of a druid is true—you are not the kind of pedantic nobleman who will judge people's origins and insist on rules. Don't you always say that talent is the most important thing?"
Unexpectedly, what he usually muttered would be heard by this half-elf, and at this time he took it out to lead his army. Gawain could only twitch his lips helplessly, and asked curiously by the way: "By the way, what do you mean?" Know him?"
A little old man who seems to be the shame of a druid and the shame of an elf like Amber are not against each other, but Gawain is still very curious about how the two met, is it just because they are the shame of their respective groups? So it's like that
Unexpectedly, what Gao Wen muttered in a low voice was heard by the little old man next to him, and the druid with good ears turned his head and smiled: "My lord, I have known Amber's adoptive father for a long time, but this little girl I watched it grow up, she had to call me uncle in terms of seniority... "
Amber immediately rolled her eyes: "Just you, who doesn't look like an elder, want me to call you uncle?"
"I see, you still have this relationship." Gao Wen nodded clearly. He heard Amber mention her adoptive father, and he knew that it was a human stalker—in fact, a thief at the bottom.
Amber shook her head and said, "This guy used to know my adoptive father very well. Back then, they used the banner of some kind of night walker and planned to become the most powerful thief in the southern region, but they didn't have any reputation."
Gao Wen frowned subconsciously, and looked at the little old man: "Have you ever been a thief before?"
"It's what happened back then, it's what happened back then," the little old man waved his hands again and again, "Now I don't do it anymore, what I have been doing all these years is to make a living."
Gao Wen found it interesting: "Is it also because you can't get along as a thief, so you changed your career?"
"Because the craftsmanship is too trendy." Amber rolled her eyes at the side, with a look of disdain on her face, "He was found stealing things from the dead, and he was beaten up. He was not born to be a thief, and of course he was not a thief Now it seems that druids are not qualified to be antique experts and cooks."
Gao Wen was stunned: "How did you find out about stealing things from the dead?"
"The main reason was that there were more than 200 grave sweepers standing beside me..."
The little old man could only smile embarrassingly at the side. Obviously, even though he was an elder, his attitude towards Amber was very easy-going. I am afraid that it was not once or twice that he was complained like this by the other party, especially now that on this topic, Amber You especially have the confidence to ridicule his thieves skills: After all, he was beaten up for stealing the dead man, and Amber not only stole the dead man out, but also brought the dead man back to life...
Although it wasn't a "steal" at the time...
After chatting for a few words, Gao Wen suddenly realized that he had forgotten one very important thing: "By the way, I still don't know what your name is?"
The little old man put his hand on his chest and performed nondescript etiquette: "Pittman Lauren is happy to serve you. You can just call me Pittman."
"Very well, Pittman, you can take a rest first, and I will arrange someone to take you to your residence later. You have seen this place, everything is still in its infancy, and the living conditions may not be very good, but as long as you and I As hard as the people of the country, this place will soon be a prosperous and comfortable new home."
Pittman Lauren smiled brightly: "For those shiny cuties, I will do my best."
The miscellaneous druid left the tent with the escort arranged by Gawain, leaving Amber and Gawain looking at each other. After paying attention to the surrounding atmosphere for a while, the half-elf lady smiled awkwardly and was about to flee, but was caught. Gao Wen grabbed it: "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to help patrol the perimeter of the camp!" Amber jumped on her feet and yelled, "Hey, let me go!"
"Let me first explain what it means to 'dig up a seven-hundred-year-old antique'—I haven't forgotten that."
"Alas-"
Everything is on track at camp, but not everything will be smooth sailing.
In a courtyard on the west side of the workshop area, Rebecca was staring at the things in front of her in a daze.
In front of her was a strange kiln. The kiln was built with refractory bricks and mud mixed with quartz sand. It looked like a huge bowl turned upside down on the ground. There are simple runes on it, and at the bottom is a kiln door that has just been opened and was originally sealed with mud. It's shaped a bit like a brick kiln for firing bricks, but the things fired inside are not bricks.
Stones are fired, or limestone powder and clay are mixed together to be fired. The ancestors said that the calcined things can be mixed with the slag brought from the blacksmith's shop, and after being ground into powder, they can become a new kind of stone. of building materials.
But no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a success.
In the basket in front of the kiln are some finished products. The finished product is a kind of gray-black hardened substance, which looks dirty and ugly. There are many hard and brittle agglomerates mixed with large and small debris. Rui Beka has tried to forcibly grind some of the debris and slag into powder, and then mix it with water according to the instructions of the ancestors. Now the first batch of test mixtures has dried, and they have become shattered, Something like rotten wood.
It is impossible to build a house.
Rebecca rested her chin with her finger and was deep in thought, her face was so dark and dirty that she didn't bother to wash it off.
In the past two days, she was either supervising the installation of Magic Net One and the new furnace in the blacksmith shop (now it has been renamed Cecil Iron Works), or came here to burn stones. The Viscountess spends more than half of her time every day. It's so dirty, but the knights and soldiers on the territory are not surprised by it - after all, the viscountess in the past has a similar style of painting all day long, and it is common to practice fireball to blacken one's face. He also ran to the woods to fight with wolves and came back covered in mud. Everyone is used to it...
And as for those commoners who rarely had the opportunity to see the nobles in the territory, now they can often come into contact with Heidi, Rebecca and others, but they have a feeling for this viscountess who is always running around. There is a lot of goodwill and closeness: Gao Wen is a strong pillar and backer, but he is too coercive to the common people, Hetty is smart and kind, but somewhat unsmiling and too strict, only Rebecca, This girl who runs around to help, has no airs at all, and treats everyone with a smile, almost makes everyone subconsciously ignore her aristocratic status.
Another important reason is that Rebecca's big fireball is really good at burning wasteland and blasting stones...
Seeing Rebecca lost in thought, the few civilians who helped beside her didn't dare to disturb her. They also didn't understand what the duke ordered to build such a place to burn stones, but the waterwheel ordered by the duke has shown its magic, and the planning of the camp is quite clever, plus the land reclamation work went smoothly With regard to the development and the existence of the newly recruited druid, everyone is quite convinced of what Gawain arranged. Although they don't see the use of burning stones... But it's always right to do it.
After thinking hard for a while, Rebecca finally raised her head and came to a conclusion:
It's not my place to think about this.
So she waved her little hand: "Carry these things up and show them to my ancestors!"
After a while, Gawain saw the pile of...indescribable objects lifted in front of him.
"Is this what you burned...'cement'?" He looked at Rebecca in astonishment. If he hadn't personally ordered it to go down, he could hardly connect those gray-black lumps with the "cement" in his impression Together.
"Hey? So this thing is called cement?" Rebecca's eyes widened, "What a strange name."
Gao Wen didn't have the time to explain the meaning behind this noun. Although he was psychologically prepared to be frustrated, he still felt a subtle sense of frustration at this time, and when he saw Rebecca taking it out from another basket, it looked like After the "rock" like porous rock, he thoroughly confirmed the failure.
"This is the product after mixing the finished product with water according to the method you said." Rebecca blinked her eyes. "It does condense very quickly, and after condensing, it looks like a stone on the outside, but in fact Loose and crunchy...”
Before Rebecca could finish speaking, an amber came out of nowhere: "What's loose and brittle? I'll try it!"
Gao Wen conveniently pushed the other party back into the shadows, turned his head and sighed at those black lumps: "It seems to have failed."
He repeatedly confirmed Rebecca's operation process, confirming that there is no problem from the raw materials to the production process, and he also learned that Rebecca herself specially adjusted the ratio of various raw materials, firepower, calcination time and other parameters, Several cross-tests were also carried out with four kilns, and even limestone and clay of different textures and origins were changed, but the results were similar.
This world once again showed Gao Wen its peculiarity and maliciousness.
The nature of the substance does not match, how many of the well-known earthen formulas in memory can be used
Gao Wen decided to test all the things he knew in his mind that could be verified by simple methods if he had the conditions, and when he made this decision, he was mentally prepared to fail all the tests.
At the same time, Rebecca was still looking at him eagerly. This girl who finally managed to help everyone but failed didn't seem to have thought that there was something wrong with the "recipe" provided by Gao Wen, and subconsciously Bring the question down to yourself: "Master Ancestor... Did I let you down?"
"No, any experiment is a long process, especially when looking for a new material," Gao Wen shook his head and sighed, "You continue to try to use various stones and soils for calcination, and I will give you a few more A possible formula. Just treat this as a long-term job that you can try if you have time, and don’t affect the progress of the steel plant.”