Chapter 108: Boredom

However, no matter how urgent this matter is, it will take at least half a year for the flavor of soy sauce, mustard and kohlrabi to come out, and it will take a year for bean sprouts.

Being busy all the time, Su You missed a lot of customs before New Year's Day, so Su You participated in a ceremony of "Photographing Silkworms" on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, and Hachigong did the rest.

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month in the countryside, a long pole and torch illuminated the southern acres.

It is similar to the stars of Yunkaisen and far away like fireflies drifting in the wind.

There are few cocoon threads due to the rain and hail this spring, and the rice piles are small during the thunderous autumn days.

The Nong family is the brightest tonight, and I know that the field silkworms are good in the new year.

In the late night, the wind and flames come to the west and return to the east. This is the most auspicious horoscope, and it is difficult to share it with others.

Not only are mulberries and grains cheap, but also ramie has no joints and no insects.

This custom is to pick up tall firewood on the ground and light it, and according to the gray color of the fire, it is predicted whether the harvest will be good or bad in the coming year.

Su You was an expert at setting fires, so the firewood pile he lit made Hachigong happy and the villagers were stunned.

On the eve of the New Year on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, the Kelongli copperware production process took initial shape. If there is no limit on the copper skin, it can easily produce 500 pieces of copperware per day.

Correspondingly, the trial production of the roller waterwheel, the original forging punch, and the original lathe was successful.

The things that came into being include new smelting furnaces, wrought iron, high, medium and low carbon steel, iron nails, metal plates, metal wires, gears, flywheels, bolts, nuts, stamping parts, precision castings, soda ash, refractory bricks,

A series of rich peripheral products such as high-temperature glue, waterproof sheets, grinding wheels, abrasive belts, carburizing boxes, ball bearings, high-hardness turning tools, vise, needle nose pliers, hexagonal screw wrenches, pedal workbench, etc.

The most critical ones are technological processes, dimensional standards, precision measuring tools, precision measurement methods, scientific experiment records, and a series of other things that are crucial to industrial development.

Now Shi Fu still doesn't understand the meaning of the word science and engineering, but he can vaguely feel that Su You's path is definitely different from the traditional handicraft industry where a master leads an apprentice!

But Su You didn't think so far ahead, because the most important group of skilled workers, including himself, now totaled three.

If you consider yourself a designer and technician, Shi Fu is a qualified fitter and lathe, and Shi Tong is qualified as a lathe and fitter apprentice at most.

Things can only come step by step. The most important thing now is to celebrate the New Year!

Thanks to the launch of several projects, the folks in Kerongli have gained purchasing power for the first time this year.

In the past, when I left the village, all I brought back was salt and ironware, and the rest was basically self-sufficient.

This year is different. We have money now, and we have closed down in recent years. It is unreasonable not to visit the city once.

It's a pity that the youngest is so old and hasn't even worn new clothes. The copper money cloth has been worn by several babies. What has become of him?

First, count how much money there is. The mountain pond has been built for fifteen days... here is one and a half. The terraces Youwa mentioned are connected to the first few levels of slopes, and another fifteen days... this is three.

Mother-in-law, the chickens and ducks you raise lay beautiful eggs. During this period of time, you also paid a lot of money for the oil babies, right? Five hundred yuan for everything?! You are the one who did it wrong. Several of the babies followed the oil babies, and finally

Didn’t those eggs get into the bellies of these puppies?!

The mother-in-law refused, and Youba insisted on giving it, saying that it was a long-term business. Don't worry, the head of the house, every rooster in the house has been stabbed by the butcher. Now it no longer crows, and the comb has shrunk. They only know how to grow fat and big.

It weighed five pounds, so I brought one to Bagong Youwa during the Chinese New Year. I’ll remember it.

What are you carrying? You can’t carry it clearly! Will Youwa lose chickens and ducks during the Chinese New Year? What happened last time you moved? In this way, this year’s camellia oil and glutinous rice, you can send it to him when the time comes, and I guarantee that it will be different from other houses.

Same!

Youba is a noble person, do you know what a noble person is? Those who don’t like to eat fat meat these days are all noble people! I miss your two fat capons!

Are you unable to carry it or am I unable to carry it? Let me tell you that I haven’t taken care of my parents’ family for so many years. Life has become easier this year. I want to leave some good things for my parents.

I'm so stupid, I can't bear to see you being so picky! Why don't you just give all the egg money to your mother-in-law? You can buy whatever you like! Hachiko said that there will be more life after the new year, so he told me in advance when he saw me working hard this year.

Ah... there is still money to be made!

There are also fish in the fields. Let your child catch a few. You can give them chicken and duck eggs as you see. I will make sure your parents will be happy when you come back this year!

At this point I have to ask, why are you raising so many chickens and ducks? You can’t even move your feet in the yard, are you really using Youwa’s distiller’s grains for free?!

Wait, sir, aren't you planning what to buy when you go to town this time? Tomorrow Hachiko will send a mule cart to bring them back together, but you missed it and you went to carry it?!

oh……

So the couple returned to the topic and discussed what they should buy tomorrow, salt. Youba had already bought it and divided it up last time when she made pickles. I don't want... sugar. Forget it, I'll go to the mountains to find some rock honey when I have time. I don't want...

...Wine, you can get two kilograms of wine, one kilogram to give to my father-in-law, and one kilogram to drink by myself...what else? Should I buy linen? Spin it by yourself? Spinning by yourself wastes time, and it is not as cost-effective as raising pigs and chickens. Well, then

Here are two! Let Yao Wa change into clothes! What next?

What happens next? Then the couple stares at each other, unable to think of what else to buy!

Finally, the man slapped his thigh and said, "Don't worry about it. We'll talk about it when we get into town tomorrow!"

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Su You got up in the morning and walked around the village. He found that the village was extremely quiet. Apart from himself, there were only two or three old cats and mangy dogs left.

Shi Wei and Shi Fushi have returned to Shijia Village, and there is no reason for their daughter-in-law to spend the New Year at the Su family.

After opening the book and reading two pages, Su You discovered a problem. Without the sound of machines dinging and clanging every day, he couldn't read it!

I left my book behind and went to take a look at the pig pen. The two pigs were still eating their last full meal. The butcher also followed Hachigong into the city. The pigs had to be killed in the evening.

The water tank and food trough in the chicken shed are full, and the team went back to pick up people today. The pier, which has been busy for a year, has finally calmed down. Today, the children will come to Kelongli to celebrate the festival, and the earth temple is left to the old army to help guard it.

The ducks have moved to the swamp, and the fish are catching grass in the pond at the door. When the children left, they threw the grass into it.

Everything is done by others, it’s so boring...

Feeling really bored, Su You came to the workroom.

There is a foot-operated workbench here, and on the workbench is a table mill.

There is a clamp on the table grinding head, which is level with the table. The foot pedal drives the belt, and the belt drives a large flywheel to provide continuous and even power to the clamp.

The clamp is covered with a threaded thread opening, which can be adjusted by a small key with a bevel gear. Turn the key, and the three clamping mouths will open or close in an equilateral triangle shape, making it convenient to clamp and remove various grinding needles and grinding heads.

Opening the tool box, there are densely packed various abrasive tools hanging on one side of the box, including grinding discs obtained by sandblasting quartz sand on steel sheets, small circular saws, and various steel-handled grinding needles cast from water glass jade sand.

Grinding head.

I chose a bristle round brush head and installed it, took a bamboo tube, put on a gauze mask, stepped on the pedal, and the brush started to rotate rapidly.

Put the bamboo tube up and turn it, and the dirt on the bamboo tube's buds, knots, and dry moss marks will soon disappear. They will be brushed clean, and the bamboo tube will be brushed gradually smooth.

Then replace the sandpaper wheel and polish the fracture of the bamboo tube. After a while, the cut will be smoothed.

Afterwards, the sandpaper became thinner and thinner, reflections began to appear at the fracture, and dense caviar patterns were exposed.

Stopping the machine, Su You looked at the bamboo tube with satisfaction, took a dry cloth and wiped it clean, then took a porcelain bottle, mixed a dish of acid with the hydrochloric acid inside, dipped it in with a brush, and wrote a couplet on the bamboo tube:

"Knowledge of worldly affairs is knowledge, and understanding of human feelings is writing."

I took a strange brass lamp, first poured alcohol into the lamp chamber, and poured some into the preheating chamber of the concave plate on the lamp surface. Then I took a wooden skewer and lit it with a flame from the coal stove nearby.

The alcohol inside the quick lamp began to volatilize due to heat, spurted out of the lamp, and was then ignited.

There is a knob under the lamp to adjust the air volume. Su You adjusts the air volume to the appropriate level and adjusts the flame to the best.

Brass has excellent sealing properties. It can achieve a good seal with only threads. This is an alcohol blowtorch.

If you connect a pressurized pump to the flame position of the lamp head and use a thin nozzle to blow the flame flat, the flame temperature can reach 1,400 degrees. This lamp is much more advanced than the previous clumsy coal blowtorch. This was designed by Su You for his obedient apprentice.

An upgraded version of the welding artifact.

But he didn't need a pump now. After lighting it, Su You used the flame to bake the place where he just wrote on the bamboo tube.

The concentration of the acid solution increased rapidly, the bamboo skin was carbonized, black writing appeared, and the bamboo flesh was eaten into and could no longer be wiped off.

After extinguishing the blowtorch, Su You clamped a wool wheel with a clamp, covered it with beeswax, and turned it to polish the bamboo tube.

After a while, a bamboo pen holder with a discernable light was produced.

The materials are simple but the workmanship is exquisite, the calligraphy is elegant and clean, the charm is noble, and it is full of literary talent.

The experiment was successful, and Su You became interested. He then used the same method to make an armrest from bamboo boards, a paperweight from old cypress with knots, a pen holder from Qinggang wood root nodules, and a small car made from oak roots.

Incense insert.

After cleaning the studio, Su You took the things into the study and replaced all the original ones with items made by himself.

Then he went to the warehouse to get some dried lotus pods, inserted them into the jade porcelain jar behind him, and looked around: "This is much more elegant."

Looking at the bare walls, well, Sansu still lacks calligraphy and painting. Dasu has a set of bamboo paintings that must be hung up when the time comes.

I only learned how to paint orchids from the inheritors of intangible cultural heritage. Apart from orchids and stones, I know nothing else in traditional Chinese paintings.

I didn't want to think about it, but my hands itched when I thought about it. I took out the brush on the desk and drew a picture of a blue stone. After thinking about it, I wrote a little poem.

Phoenix leaves carved into cold stone,

Dragon roots penetrate through the green moss.

The fragrance of nature is self-contained,

Don't wait for someone to explain.
Chapter completed!