"Ah!" Tong Wenyao looked towards the source of the sound! It was Guan You, covering his eyes and sobbing violently! Seeing that he was about to wash his eyes with water, she hurried over to grab him, "Hu Zhi, quickly go to the kitchen to get some cooking oil. I need it." At the same time, she asked Tong Bo to hold him back and not let his hands touch his eyes. After seeing this, Hu Zhi quickly ran to the kitchen to get cooking oil. At this moment, Tong Wenyao said sternly, "Guan You, hold it in, or you will go blind!" Fortunately, Hu Zhi didn't delay too long and brought her cooking oil.
She poured vegetable oil into his eyes and blew the powder out. Tears mixed with the vegetable oil flowed out, carrying with them the remaining lime powder.
"Guan You, how do you feel?" Guan You blinked his eyes, rubbed them with his hands, and then said, "It's a little stinging, but I can still see the scenery in front of me clearly." Tong Wen Yao breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. Fortunately, his eyes were not blind.
After they calmed down a bit, Tong Wenyao spoke, "Quicklime reacts with water, so the burned quicklime in the kiln must be carefully cared for. I'll send wolfhounds to help watch over it later. Next time you get quicklime in your eyes, wash them with vegetable oil. Never use water, otherwise you'll go blind."
Guan You nodded instantly after hearing this, and even explained, "It was a bubble from the puddle that splashed into my eyes." Tong Wenyao looked apologetic after hearing this, "It was my negligence to keep you away."
After this round, several people watched the steam rising from the puddle not far away. Tong Wenyao said, "We have to wait until the steam disappears and the temperature slowly drops before we can use it."
"Hu Zhi, find someone to guard here for a while and make sure no one falls. If someone falls accidentally, it will be no joke." Hu Zhi nodded and said, "Okay, little boss."
This time she went into the mountains to hunt. Xiaoxue and Guaiguai had almost eaten the deer, so she had to hurry into the mountains to get food for them. This time she planned to let Xiaoxue out to gain some experience, and then let it hunt on its own when it grew up a little.
Back in the study, Tong Wen Yao sat at the desk. This time she planned to draw two scrapers and scrapers. After the lime cooled, she could scrape the lime on the kiln wall.
She was not used to using a brush, so she secretly took a pencil from the space to draw. Tong Wen Yao remembered the general shape, so she only drew a rough outline.
"Second brother, come here and take a look." She waved her hand to signal her second brother to come and see what she painted.
"Brother, these are tools for scraping lime off the wall. I only thought of two. Can you see if there's anything else you're missing?" She took out a piece of paper and handed it to him.
Tong Bo wiped the water off his hands with a handkerchief, took the paper and started looking at it, then pointed to one of them and said, "I remember they used this scraper when they were building the kiln. They used it to smooth the surface." After saying that, Tong Bo pointed to the surface of the kiln.
The surface of the kiln was covered with a layer of mud mixed with straw. It was not uneven, but rather smooth. Tong Wenyao saw that it was just right for applying lime. She had originally thought that the uneven surface would affect the appearance, but their method was to apply lime after scraping the mud!
She patted Tong Bo's shoulder excitedly and said, "Second brother, the kiln will use lime to paint the walls. I will go to the county town in a few days to find someone to customize the paper scraper. Uncle Du is also making bricks. When I go out in a few days, I will ask them to bring them back to the village, and then we can build the house."
Near dusk, Tong Wen Yao went to the foot of the mountain with a small bucket and a shovel. There was still water vapor coming out of the pit, but most of it was in the middle. She carefully dug the lime next to the pit into the bucket. After the bucket was one-third full, she carried it to the kiln. At this time, most of the workers had stopped working, and Tong Wen Yao hurriedly called them over to take a look.
"This is slaked lime. I believe Hu Zhi has already told you about the dangers and precautions this afternoon. So today I will paint it to show you how to use slaked lime. Tomorrow you will paint the kiln where you live with lime."
She picked out the lime with a scraper and used another scraper to wipe it on the wall, then smoothed it out. After a while, she had used up all the lime in the bucket. She had touched about two square meters of the wall. After scraping, that side became much whiter, neat and clean.
Tong Wenyao was quite satisfied with it, and even many people in the crowd said, "After this is done, it feels like the place is much brighter."
"Yeah! If I could get some home to shave, the house would be a lot brighter."
Although there were many people in the crowd who wanted to take it home, they were still sensible. If they were discovered taking it home, wouldn’t they lose their jobs?
That's really picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons.
Tong Wenyao also heard the voices in the crowd. After she finished scraping, she said, "After painting the wall tomorrow, if there is any slaked lime left, you can take it back to paint your home. Next time you need lime, I can give it to you at a price lower than the market cost!"
Tong Wen Yao knew very well that if she gave it to them for free, they would become even more aggressive in the future, so she couldn't bring herself to ask for it.
Early the next morning, Tong Wen Yao went into the mountains alone. The mountains here were different from the mountains on their side. There were many rocks in the forest, so Tong Wen Yao let Guaiguai and Xiaoxue out. With Guaiguai around, the poisonous snakes did not dare to come out. Although it was winter, the temperature here was relatively humid and there were not so many fallen leaves on the trees. She guessed that it might be because it was close to Cangzhou, which flows to the sea along the river.
She walked into the mountains with a hatchet, and Xiaoxue jumped in front to lead the way. Xiaoxue probably hadn't been out for a long time. Sometimes it went to dig insects, and sometimes it hid in the thorns. Tong Wenyao asked her to be careful. In the mountains and forests, one should not only watch out for wild beasts, but also watch out for traps set by hunters. However, there are usually obvious markings on the traps, but Xiaoxue can't read them, so she had to remind Xiaoxue not to run around.
There are many ferocious wild animals here. Not long after walking, you can see wild boar feces on the ground. So Tong Wen Yao didn't dare to shout Xiaoxue loudly, for fear that the wild boars would hear the sound and come over.
She carefully avoided the wild boar feces, and then climbed up a hillside obediently. This place was not high, but she could clearly see a group of wild boars drinking water in the stream at the foot of the mountain. Tong Wen Yao did not intend to provoke the wild boars. This place was only more than 50 meters away from the wild boars. If she failed to beat the wild boars, the wild boars would beat her.
There were footsteps coming from behind. Tong Wen Yao's attention was all on the wild boar. When she heard the movement behind her, she thought it was Xiaoxue and didn't turn around. Unexpectedly, someone pushed her from the back. In a panic, she grabbed anything she could hold. After getting a little support, she grabbed the corner of her clothes. She wanted to look up to see who pushed her, but her hand was hit hard and she fell straight down.
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