Jiang Xue's joke frightened Mu Feng so much that his eyes popped out. He shouted in a hoarse voice, "Axue, you..." He looked at Xiao Pang and said, "What did Xiao Pang do wrong? Why are you targeting him?"
Well?
Jiang Xue was stunned, and it took her a long while to come back to her senses. She explained with a frown on her face, "Mufeng, what are you talking about? I mean, I want to use the children as an experiment. If we see results on them, we can switch to adults. Don't worry, I'm not really going to do anything to Xiaopang."
Mu Feng finally felt relieved, with a gentle smile still on his face: "Okay, then go ahead and do it."
Jiang Xue hummed and looked at the open space surrounded by the two row houses. The open space was full of weeds, gravel, dead branches that had not been cleared yet, as well as various large and small pits left when the soil was dug as adhesive when building the house.
"Please arrange for more people to make bricks. This time, the bricks I want are different and are for paving the ground."
Jiang Xue brought him to the front of the house and gestured a few times on the wall with her fingers. "The bricks we are going to make this time are called floor tiles, specially used for laying on the floor. They must be at least two or three times wider than ordinary red bricks, but at least half as thin as them."
Mu Feng nodded: "Then I will arrange for someone to do it."
"Don't be so anxious." Jiang Xue stopped him. "When we were making the bricks earlier, we had to make some molds. Just ask the carpentry team to make a mold for the size of the floor tiles you want. These bricks are laid on the ground, so they don't need to be too smooth. You can add some texture to increase friction."
Mu Feng understood: "Okay, any other requests?"
"No, go get busy first."
After separating from Mu Feng, Jiang Xue went to find Sang Yang: "Sang Yang, when will you return to the Bashan tribe?"
Sang Yang was initially overjoyed when Jiang Xue came to see him, but when she asked him this question, his heart sank. He hid the disappointment in his eyes, forced a smile, and asked her, "Xue, do you really dislike me so much that you want to send me back?"
"Don't get me wrong." Jiang Xue knew this guy. Ever since they became close, he'd been acting frivolously and nonsensically. She didn't take it personally and said, "Look, I need some sand. If you guys go back, could you please have someone bring some over for me?"
"Sand?" Sang Yang looked at her in confusion. "What do you want sand for?"
“I want to make something with it.”
"What can sand be used for?"
Jiang Xue said, "I want to use it to empty the iron pot."
She still wasn't sure if sea sand could be used to make a mold for an iron pot. If it could, that would be fantastic. She'd have the forging team forge an iron pot first, then make a mold, using the forged pot as a mold and pouring the molten iron into it. This would be much faster than forging a pot manually with a hammer.
This mold is divided into two parts, which can be closed and opened. The frame can be made of wood, but wood may not be very durable, so the best one is made of iron.
Making an iron frame is a bit difficult at the moment, but generally speaking it is not impossible.
For example, you could make a box out of wood, fill it with wood ash or sand, then put some wood in it, compact it, take the wood out, and then pour in molten iron. It might not work perfectly, but you can give it a try.
The tribe now needs a large amount of dry firewood every day, whether it is used for burning charcoal or for daily cooking, there is definitely no shortage of wood ash.
The reason why Jiang Xue asked Sang Yang to bring some sea sand over was that she just wanted to make a comparison.
If the shaping ability of the wood ash is good enough, then she won't need to ask them to transport sea sand. But if the shaping ability of the wood ash is weak, then Jiang Xue will also try to get some sea sand or even sand from the desert before the Bamboo Tribe.
However, it is clear that desert sand and sea sand cannot be used as construction materials at any time. The main reason is that these two types of sand, one with high alkali content and the other with high salt content, do not meet the standards for construction sand and are also very destructive to buildings.
The best sand is still lake sand and river sand.
Jiang Xue didn't know where to find the lake sand, but as for the river sand...
River sand. Jiang Xue looked at the river behind the tribe. It was such a big river, but she didn't know if there was any sand in it.
Moreover, even if there is sand in it, they now have a better way to transport the sand from the bottom of the river.
If possible, it is best to find a beach with a natural river sand bed. It is much easier to dig sand from the river beach than to dive to the bottom of the river.
I'm getting off topic. What Jiang Xue wants to make now is just a mold for an inverted pot, and it would be best if this mold is made with cement.
Forget about cement. Jiang Xue doesn’t know how to make it either, so the most suitable method is to use wood ash.
When using a mold to pour out a pot, the first thing to consider is the size of the mold.
The size of the mold can directly affect the size of the iron pot that is poured out. With so many people in the tribe, one or two pots are obviously not enough.
Moreover, the early rice has been harvested and dried, the stone mortar for pounding rice is being carved, and the rice pounding rack and the woodworking team's workpieces have also been made.
Everything is ready except the iron pot.
"The sand on the beach can be used for this?" Sang Yang looked at her in confusion, somewhat doubting the truthfulness of her words.
"I don't know if it will work, but let's give it a try."
"Since you said so, I can send someone to transport the sea sand right now. How much do you want?"
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