Chapter 121121. School
The snow finally stopped.
The ice on Moon Lake began to melt.
The temperature seems to have warmed up a bit, and taking advantage of the rare good weather, Donggang City quickly became busy.
Today is the first day of school.
The new red brick house stands alone on the road from Fulinbao to Donggang City. The nearest building is the animal-powered mill, about 500 meters away.
There were only seven students in the first term, and there was only one teacher, Su Ya.
Despite this, Lowe still equipped everyone with tables, chairs and benches. The wooden boards were painted black to make blackboards. To make chalk: just add slaked lime and water to make a paste, pour it into a mold, bake it or dry it in the sun, and it is the finished product.
Today, the writing technology of chalk and blackboard is used simultaneously on bulletin boards in executive offices, and is widely praised and acclaimed by the scholarly class.
In the past, every time a bulletin was published, a piece of wood was wasted, which was very costly, especially when several bulletins needed to be published in a day.
Now, since the invention of the blackboard, a piece of wood can be used repeatedly, which invisibly saves a lot of wood resources.
In the school classroom, Su Ya opened the window to let the light from outside shine into the room.
The cold wind rushed in, making people shiver uncontrollably.
The children ignored the cold and looked excited because the class was about to begin.
Su Ya picked up the chalk and wrote her name on the blackboard: "Today is the first day, let's get to know each other.
My name is Ya Su, you can just call me Teacher Su Ya. Then, please introduce your names. "
"My name is Shudie." The first thin green-haired girl on the left hand stood up confidently at Su Ya's signal.
Common people do not have surnames and do not pay attention to them.
For people with a surname, it is an honor but also a shackle if their ancestors include at least scholars or professionals.
While inheriting fame and wealth, you will also inherit the cause and effect brought by the surname.
Su Ya turned around and wrote the words "Tree and Butterfly" on the blackboard. The writing in this world is also hieroglyphics. The combination of various characters is quite complex and difficult to learn.
The second girl on the left is a little chubby, with flaxen hair that is very neat, like flowers and plants trimmed by a gardener.
She stood up and bowed gracefully to all around: "Laurie Cullen."
"Danielle"
"Lizbella."
"Chijie Intes." The only boy present.
"Rosanara."
"Corinna"
Seven students reported their names in this way, and Su Ya wrote the corresponding characters on the blackboard: "Can you write your complete name?"
The students in the audience shook their heads.
"Then let's start by learning to write our own name."
East Point City, Fulin Department Store.
Several new products were placed on the shelves, quickly attracting the attention of citizens.
The blackboards and chalks were sold out in the shortest possible time. The scholars who arrived late could do nothing but beat their chests and stamp their feet.
Leah was very interested in the blackboard and chalk, and asked Lowe for some. In addition, she praised the price of kerosene.
She was puzzled as to why Donggang City had undergone such drastic changes in less than a month since she left.
Some novel and practical products are popping up in large numbers.
"What is this?" Leah raised her hand and pointed at the red solid block in the jar.
"The lord says brown sugar is poisonous. Don't eat too much. Purchases should be limited." The skinny salesperson answered meticulously.
"Why are you selling it if it's poisonous?" Leah was puzzled.
She waited for a while and found that brown sugar was selling very well and more and more people were buying it.
A wealthy businessman with a ferocious face called on his servants to line up.
"Ma'am, you have just used up your purchasing qualification." The salesperson said in a cold voice.
"I knew you would say that. My servants will buy it for you." The rich businessman stood aside with a smile.
"Isn't it poisonous? Why did you buy it?" Leah interrupted.
"How can it be poisonous? It's very sweet and tastes better than honey." The rich businessman encouraged Leah to buy some to try.
Leah actually bought some, carefully cut a small piece and put it in her mouth.
Sweetness and happiness permeated between the lips and teeth. It was a purer sweetness than any fruit. The same weight, but the price was less than one-tenth of honey! There must be side effects for it to be so cheap. Leah quietly waited for the side effects, but nothing happened. She felt that today was better than before.
In the afternoon, she distributed the brown sugar she bought to the crew members for tasting, and everyone thought it was very good.
Some people also said that after eating brown sugar, the abdominal pain disappeared and the dizziness was gone.
Despite the rave reviews, Leah informed everyone that brown sugar may be toxic.
Even though she issued a warning, everyone stubbornly believed that it was the lord's conspiracy, just an excuse to prevent the candy from being sold too quickly.
Sure enough, when I went to the grocery store to buy groceries the next day, the brown sugar was sold out.
Everyone regretted it deeply.
"Captain, why don't you buy more?"
"I clearly saw there were still a lot on the shelf yesterday! I'll just go buy them from Lowe."
Two kilometers north of the city, there is a pottery workshop.
Due to increasing market demand, Lowe Charter approved the expansion.
Each experienced veteran will bring three novices to form a working group.
On the surface it was just an expansion in quantity, but in fact he also arranged two special experimental groups.
Among them, Sharon led the experiment on quartz and porcelain clay. The general method has been mentioned by Lowe, that is, the glass needs to be melted at high temperature and poured into the mold.
The firing process of porcelain is similar to that of pottery. The sintering temperature is increased from 800 degrees to 1,300 degrees, and the sintering time is doubled.
Actually, it was also good luck. Apart from being a little cold, the territory was basically not short of resources.
A child picked up a white, translucent pebble by the river, which was the quartz needed to make glass. Of course, it could also be calcite.
The verification method is to use a knife to cut the surface of the stone. If it can be cut, it is calcite. If it cannot be cut, it is quartz.
After Lowe placed the bounty, he easily collected a large amount of quartz from the Xiaoqing River.
Quartz sand can be made into high-purity quartz sand by crushing quartz stone and subsequent processing such as magnetic separation, flotation, and acid leaching.
Due to the current lack of industrial equipment, we have to keep everything simple.
The original quartz stone is calcined, and the glass produced in this way will contain a lot of impurities. The iron impurities in the stone will make the glass appear green.
Lowe didn't have much hope of finding porcelain clay.
As usual, a reward was posted on the bulletin board of the Administrative Office for finding a kind of white clay, which was later discovered in the hilly area where the Adventure Town is located. The side of a small mound was all white porcelain clay.
Once the two raw materials were found, it was only a matter of time before porcelain and glass appeared.
Lowe is looking forward to tomorrow.
As a result, a huge snowstorm and a howling cold current swept across the entire territory, freezing lakes, streams, and rivers in a very short time.
So sudden.
So unexpected.
(End of this chapter)
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