Chapter 416 This blessing is for you
Is this little girl trying to scare him the same way she would scare children?
Cheng Qingyan was tickled by her and put his fist to his lips, laughing softly a few times.
"What are you laughing at? Don't you believe what I say?" Qi Xu was puzzled by his laughter.
"Ahem, no, I just think the injuries on my body are just superficial, they shouldn't be that serious." Cheng Qingyan also realized that he had lost his composure.
"I'm a doctor. I have the final say on whether the injury is serious or not!" Qi Xu pressed the porcelain bottle into his hands. "This is excellent wound medicine. First, clean the wound with clean water, then sprinkle this powder on it. It's best to wrap it with a clean cloth."
Cheng Qingyan looked down at the two small porcelain bottles in his hands and said, "Okay, I'll take them. Thank you, Miss Qi Xu, for the medicine."
"Mr. Cheng, you're welcome. After all, we've been through this together." Perhaps because of what happened in the mine, Qi Xu no longer felt so unfamiliar with him. "Is your back injured as well? Let me apply some medicine on you!"
The wound on my back is invisible, and it’s too troublesome to do it myself.
Cheng Qingyan quickly stepped back and waved his hand: "No need, men and women shouldn't touch each other."
"What do you mean by men and women shouldn't touch each other? I'm a doctor. In a doctor's eyes, there is no distinction between men and women, they are all patients." Qi Xu and Yun Fu have been together for a long time, and they have been influenced by each other, so their tempers have become similar.
"If you feel embarrassed, then we can just close the door."
Qi Xu pushed him into the house and closed the door behind him.
Cheng Qingyan: “???”
The key question is whether he is embarrassed?
But when he met the little girl's clear and pure eyes without any distractions, Cheng Qingyan felt that there was something wrong with his thinking.
Qi Xu treated his wound skillfully, her fair little hands were slightly cold.
When his eyes fell upon the large, old scar on Cheng Qingyan's face, he asked, "How did you get that scar on Mr. Cheng's face? Was it a burn?"
Cheng Qingyan didn't expect her to suddenly mention the scar on her face: "I guess so."
"Oh, that must be very painful." Qi Xu compared the scars on his face with the scars on his own face before, and found that Cheng Qingyan's injuries were more serious than his own. He was in terrible pain at that time, so he should be in more pain than himself.
"I forgot." Cheng Qingyan didn't forget, but he didn't want to recall that past memory.
Qi Xu had no intention of asking about other people's past. He just wanted to help him seek medical treatment from Yun Fu. "I also had a serious burn on my face before, and Yun Fu cured it. You can also ask her for help with your injury."
Unexpectedly, Cheng Qingyan refused without even thinking: "No, I don't care about appearances."
Qi Xu is not such an ignorant person. She knows very well the distance between people and she should not interfere too much in things that are not her business.
Shut up and say no more.
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Qi Xu's problem has been resolved.
Yun Fu returned to the same place and continued to tinker with her hydraulic blower.
After some necessary parts and components are made according to the drawings, the next step is installation.
A wooden frame is erected beside the turbulent stream, and then important components such as the rotating shaft, horizontal wheel, and impellers are installed.
Then install a drum-shaped small wheel, strings, cranks, connecting rods, etc. on the horizontal wheel.
These parts are not considered complicated objects in the eyes of modern people, but for the craftsmen of the five countries, they are unheard of. In addition, due to the limitations of the tools at their disposal, it is not that easy to make them.
Some parts went through more than ten rounds of revisions before reaching the final version.
It took them a whole day just to install these parts.
But when everyone saw the exhaust fan of the blower opening and closing under the action of the water flow to blow air, they felt that all their efforts over the past few days were worth it.
"It worked! It really worked!"
“This blower really blows air.”
"Having built something like this, I can still boast about it in front of my ancestors even after I die."
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The blower link has been completed, and the next step is to build the blast furnace based on the location of the blower.
According to previous plans, refractory bricks were needed to build the blast furnace.
During this period, kaolin and quartz, important raw materials for firing refractory bricks, were found one after another.
The Guanyin clay mentioned by Cheng Qingyan is kaolin, one of the raw materials needed to make refractory bricks.
As for the search process for the other raw material, quartz, it was quite dramatic.
Xuanji Zhang and his men searched the nearby mountains for nearly half a month, but they couldn't find even a trace of quartz.
When he came back, he had his head hung low.
Just when everyone thought that quartz might not be found.
Unexpectedly, Cheng Qingyan discovered a grayish-white stone with a smooth surface in the dark cave where he and Qi Xu fell. The texture was very hard and brittle. Judging from some of the surface features, it was very similar to the quartz stone mentioned by Yun Fu.
He knocked off a small piece and took it back with him.
After Yunfu's identification, it was indeed quartz stone.
Xuanji Zhang couldn't help but complain: "I've been running outside for so long that the soles of my shoes are about to be worn out, and I haven't even seen the shadow of the quartz stone. Old Cheng, you are so lucky. You just fell and it broke out."
The two of them have very different luck.
Cheng Qingyan glanced at him and said leisurely, "You're so envious, then this blessing is for you. Next time, it's your turn to fall."
Xuanji Zhang waved his hands repeatedly: "That's not necessary."
He heard that several people fell down.
Only Cheng Qingyan and Qi Xu were rescued.
Xuanji Zhang thinks that he is not so lucky. If it were him, it might be a different story.
Now that all the raw materials have been found, the next step is to arrange people to mine them.
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The weather is getting colder.
The temperature also has a certain impact on the firing of bricks.
In order to speed up the progress, the ironworks should be built before winter.
Yun Fu took out a small portion of supplies as a reward.
Encouraged by the supplies, everyone worked hard.
Who doesn’t want to store more supplies to get through the winter?
However, in such a busy situation, there are still people who are too idle to do anything.
Gossip about Qi Xu and Cheng Qingyan spread.
"When that girl named Qi Xu was rescued from the mine, she was wearing Master Cheng's clothes. A man and a woman alone in that pitch-black cave, would you believe me if I said nothing happened?"
"Is this true?"
"I saw it with my own eyes, how could it be fake?"
"According to what you said, that woman is already Mr. Cheng's woman."
"Mr. Cheng has a wound on his face, but it's not in that specific place. How could he not be tempted by such a beautiful girl in front of him?"
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