The Infrastructure’s Guide

Chapter 43

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Meng Sheng spent half an hour picking up half a load of copper ore. After all, the ore is a natural mine, and all the quantities are not like the stones everywhere, even if it is in the primitive.

He ran back and forth three times, scooped up all the ore in this area, and finally dug a lot of fine sand by the river to go back.

Before looking for ores, he put charcoal fire in the stove to warm the furnace wall. Now that the outside of the yellow mud is warm, he put more than a dozen pieces of ore into the stove, and then poured air into the two air inlets. The flames floated out of the stove, the bright fire color turned into a faint blue after a while.

Qiu Juan was still burning charcoal with wood, but when he saw the color of the fire changed, he was very surprised: "What's going on here?"

"It means that the copper mine is already burning."

Meng Sheng's arm strength is astonishing, he poured the wind continuously without resting, with him pouring the wind and heating it with malachite, the temperature in the stove was extremely high, after an hour passed, the blue light of the fire was already too weak to be seen, he didn't stop, and then Filled for half an hour.

After that, I didn't manage the fire stove anymore, but put the fine sand I brought back into a big bamboo tube and put it aside tightly.

After doing this, he dug open the fist-sized hole left at the bottom of the stove, and used bamboo tongs to dig out the contents of the stove. With this planing, the bright yellow charcoal and malachite that had not been completely burned were all gone. It was dug out, and the temperature was very high. It was too hot even for him to touch it, and he had to try to dig out everything in the stove.

Qiu Juan was called by him to fetch water from the river, and when he came back and saw that he had already started digging coals, he quickly ran over with a bamboo tube in his hand: "Is it all right?"

"It's still far away."

He almost dug out the fire stove, and all the burning coals and copper mines that gave off dazzling light were piled up together: "Pour the water on it."

"Ah?" Qiu Juan hesitated for a moment, guessing that his eyes were darkened by the light, obediently poured a bamboo tube of water on it, and with a snort of coals, it instantly turned gray-black, and Qiu Juan poured another bamboo tube on it. The buckets were scattered and poured on it, and the fire was evenly extinguished.

Meng Sheng couldn't wait to use the burnt wooden tongs to scrape the charcoal on the ground, and pushed away the black charcoal. Small, long or round golden hard objects lay quietly on the ground. He was not afraid of burning his hands, so he quickly picked them up. stand up.

"What is this?" Qiu Juan squatted next to the male, and seeing the surprised look on the male's face, he knew it must be a good thing.

"This is extracted from the stones that were picked up, and can be used as tools." Meng Sheng said concisely: "You look for these extinguished charcoal, and I will get other things."

Qiu Juan nodded, took over the male's rotten bamboo pliers and continued to search for small pieces of hard charcoal.

Meng Sheng is now going to use mud to make the tool models that need to be made. He first made a knife, then an axe, and diamond nails, etc., and put the yellow clay models on the stone to dry. He also chose a small stone and chiseled a small stone bowl.

After finishing these, Qiu Juan has already picked up a small bamboo tube for refining, he poured the small pieces into a stone bowl, sandwiched two pieces of wood and sent them to the fire, waiting for the refining to burn .

I don't know how long it took, but anyway, I circled around a small group of terrain in a day. It was dark early in winter, and it was gradually getting dark. The water was poured into the sand, and the bright red copper water was still boiling on the sand for a few times. When the red light gradually dimmed, a bamboo tube of water was poured on it, and the copper water took shape with a snort.

He excitedly picked up the tool in the shape of a kitchen knife, took it to the stone and sharpened it several times until it was sharpened.

Qiu Juan stood beside him, with a bright smile on his face, he handed the knife to Ya'e: "Go and try chopping something."

Yanu took it over happily. The weapon in his hand was far lighter than the stone tool, and most importantly, it was very strong. He found a nearby tree and chopped it on a branch thick enough to his wrist. Fearing that Meng Sheng's new tool would break, he first He cut it with two cents of strength, but there was a crack on the branch. He was very surprised. If he used such a little strength normally, even the bark of the wood would not be broken at all.

"Are you hungry? Can't make any effort?"

"I'm afraid I'll break it for you." Meng Sheng laughed: "Don't worry, try your best."

"That's broken, don't blame me for wasting your afternoon."

As soon as the words fell, Qiu Juan raised his arm and waved it towards the tree intently. With a cracking sound, the wood chips flew out together, and the branch with the thickness of his wrist was cut off abruptly.

Meng Sheng was stunned for a moment, this hand is so strong that he doesn't have a husband~

"It's not broken!" Qiu Juan's eyes showed surprise, and he looked at the tool, and his joy was beyond words for a moment. This tool is so easy to use. With such 90% of his strength, he managed to split the wood with the force of the tool If it is broken, if you use a stone tool, it is absolutely impossible to cut it off so quickly, and the force is too great, the stone tool is brittle, and it will be easily shattered.

"If it was so easy to break, it wouldn't take all the effort to make this knife."

"Knife? Did you name it? It's not a waste of time. It takes longer to grind a good stone tool than this." Qiu Juan held the knife Meng Sheng said in his arms: "I'll take it in and show it to my mother. Look."

Meng Sheng felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart, mainly because seeing Qiu Juan as if he had found a treasure, his satisfaction increased a lot.

Seeing Yafei running into the cave, he didn't stay idle, he already had a finished product, and continued to boil the remaining copper lumps that were extracted.

The first time is raw and the second time is cooked, and the subsequent procedures are the same, just change to different clay molds. Qiu Juan didn't stay in the cave for a while and came out again: "I also want to try to make a weapon."

After Meng Sheng successively made an ax and a stone-chiseled nail, he handed over some of the remaining copper water to Ya Female for tossing, and he didn't bother. The copper ore picked up today is still useless in a basket. Although the copper ore looks large, there are not many things that can be extracted from it. After refining half of the ore in the afternoon, there are only three finished products. Tired of an unformed piece there.

Among the three finished products, the copper used the most is the axe. After all, this thing needs a certain weight to work well. These rough tools are far inferior to those weapons in his private collection, but compared with stone tools, they are already a qualitative leap. up.

To have more advanced tools, you have to make alloys, but everything has to be done step by step.

When Qiu Juan was tinkering with the copper water, he used the remaining yellow mud to make several containers and jars, and put them in the stove. The temperature in the stove was high, and there was a lot of residual fire. He wanted to try his luck and see if he could Bake something out.

"Brother Meng! Look, mine is ready too!"

Qiu Juan's ending was fast, and he could hear his joy. He hurriedly packed his things and went to see the boy's finished product. What he made was a small knife, which was similar in shape to the sharp knife he gave him, which was not bad.

"If you learn one thing, you are smart."

Qiu Juan slid his fingertips across the blade, and tried again to see if the knife was sharp enough: "The one you gave me is too delicate, I'm not willing to use it."

"I will be able to use this in my hand in the future!"

Meng Sheng patted Yayu's head, and the sky had completely darkened: "Okay, let's try to make some other weapons tomorrow, let's go back to the cave now."

Qiu Juan nodded. The two of them had been busy and their bodies were moving. They didn't feel cold, but they couldn't see clearly. The sheep and chickens in the pen are cheaper, and today there is a fire to keep warm.

Luo has already prepared dinner and hot water for the two to wash their hands.

"Meng Sheng, how do you know so much? The tools Ah Hu showed are really useful."

"I was struck by lightning before, and my spiritual wisdom was opened." Meng Sheng replied in a neutral manner.

Luo scolded: "Talking nonsense."

Qiu Juan echoed Meng Sheng: "Mother, it's true. He didn't lie to you. The first time I walked with him was when he was struck by lightning. A pile of branches pushed him to the ground. The child jumped out and scared me, I thought it was a chimpanzee."

The three of them talked about the incredible encounter while eating. Luo Jiang was skeptical, but after thinking about it carefully, he remembered that it was indeed Meng Sheng who sent Qiu Juan home that day. It's true, otherwise, relying on the previous Meng Sheng, it is impossible to become so powerful, and there will be no such weird things.

After dinner, Meng Sheng gave Luo the prepared kitchen knife: "Mom, it's inconvenient for you to use stone tools to cut meat every day. Now that you have a sharp one, you can use this knife for cooking. Can save some effort."

Luo's eyelids stretched: "Give it to me? It's too wasteful to use such a good weapon for cooking, so you should keep it for hunting!"

"There are long idle days in winter, we can still do it, so you can accept it."

"Yes, mother can keep it." Qiu Juan helped persuade.

Luo smiled helplessly, and took the kitchen knife with indescribable joy. She has enjoyed a lot of glory with her son, and she can live with his son, eat and drink all day long, and there are not many things to do. , the children are filial, and all good things think of her.

"Okay, mother listens to you."

After a busy day, the couple nestled on the bed after soaking their feet in hot water.

The two were already well-known, and Meng Sheng was not afraid that Qiu Juan would be scared away, so he fell on the bed just like when he was sleeping alone before, taking off the animal skin and covering his upper body. As for Qiu Juan who said yesterday that he was seducing him, To be honest, he really didn't mean that, it was just his own nature.

He fell on the bed, stretched out his arms, let Qiu Juan pillow on the crook of his hands.

Qiu Juan pushed him, blushing, "Put on your clothes quickly."

"What are you thinking, silly boy, you don't feel comfortable sleeping in your clothes, what are you afraid of, I don't like you." He pulled the person who sat up straight and refused to lie down.

Suddenly, he remembered that he had clothes, and turned over: "By the way, did you bring the clothes I gave you before?"

Qiu Juan nodded: "I brought it."

Meng Sheng got out of bed and tried to dig out his original clothes from the foot of the bed, but he found nothing, so Qiu Juan followed, "Are you looking for clothes?"

He took out the bundle on one side: "I packed it in another place."

Meng Sheng hugged him and kissed him: "It's really virtuous."

He took out his short sleeves and put them on his body, and took out his knee-length pants, and unbuttoned the animal skin like no one else was there, Qiu Juan blushed, and hurriedly turned away.

"Put it on too." Meng Sheng urged after seeing Ya Nu sitting on the bed blankly after changing.

When Qiu Juan got the dress earlier, he felt that the material was very special to the touch. Although it was not as smooth as fur, it was very light. He never felt embarrassed to wear it, so he always folded it and put it on the bedside.

"Huh?" Meng Sheng took the clothes and sat down beside Ya-feu: "Shall I change for you?"

Before he could speak, the male hand stretched out first, Qiu Juan slapped the uninvited paw away: "I will do it myself."

Meng Sheng withdrew his hand angrily, and looked at Ya female pitifully.

"Don't watch." Qiu Juan pulled up the animal skin quilt and covered the male from head to toe.

Meng Sheng's eyes darkened, but he didn't turn Yafei's face, fearing that he would offend people and stop sleeping with him.

"Are you ready? I'm going to open it."

"Wait, how can it be so fast!"

Qiu Juan quickly took off the animal skin, imitated the man's appearance, put on his clothes, and put on shorts again.

"I opened it!" Meng Sheng raised his voice, and then he was a little disappointed that Ya Nu had already put on his clothes.

Qiu Juan's body was not as tall as his, and the clothes were obviously bigger on his body, loose and baggy, but it had a different taste, and the white short sleeves set off his fairness even more. He rubbed against it, then pecked at the corner of his mouth.

"I will wear this to sleep at night from now on."

Qiu Juan didn't refuse either, anyway, he wore it when he was sleeping, and no one saw him, and it was indeed much more comfortable to sleep in clothes than in animal skins, at least it wouldn't hurt people.

The two huddled under the blanket, Meng Sheng stretched out his hand again: "Come here."

Qiu Juan hesitated for a moment, but finally moved his body and rolled into the male's arms.

Meng Sheng hugged the person, his voice was a little sticky: "If you have cold hands and feet, you must have never been hugged to sleep."

"Who wants to hug and sleep, I slept alone when I was a child."

Meng Sheng smiled lightly: "Little poor, I will sleep in my arms from now on, and my body will be warm."

Qiu Juan's body moved unnaturally, the male's words were far warmer than his body.