Being fooled by fierce beasts to travel through the beginning is fleeing famine

Chapter 14 Iron Sheet
Qingyan listened to a few old ladies chatting about Yang Fugui's family gossip, she felt amused for a while, she didn't expect them to call that donkey Uncle Donkey, it was really interesting.

It can also be seen the status of this animal in the hearts of ordinary people.

After they put down all the wheat they had collected, they began to look for work separately again.

Since they were going to make a scooter, they would definitely not be able to leave for a while, so the women went home to make breakfast first, and they had almost packed their luggage yesterday.

Although they haven't slept all night, they are not sleepy, and they can't sleep because they have something on their minds, so they might as well find something to do.

The men all went to the haystack behind Yang Fugui's house.

That's right, the wheel was still standing there, and one person couldn't move it at all. They had to move the hay to get the half-exposed wheel out of it.

Qingyan couldn't help, so she was taken by Lanhua and ran over to watch the excitement.

When she saw the wheel that was pulled out, she was a little shocked. She didn't expect the wheels of this era to be so big.

It's not the kind of carriage wheels that she saw on TV before, with copper nails and copper rings.

This one is much thicker than that one, and the spokes are octagonal, not cylindrical, which should be better for force.

The reason why it is called a pair of wheels is because a crossbar has been fixed between the two wheels, and the crossbar is also very thick.

Xue Qingyan looked carefully, but she didn't see the mechanism of the wheel, only saw that it should be of mortise and tenon structure, there was no pulley bearing in the middle of the wheel, and she didn't know how it turned.

The spokes and axles are all pure wood, and the wood looks clumsy and heavy, but it is indeed very strong.

The more she looked at it, the more amazed she became, Qingyan asked curiously directly: "Master Dashan, what kind of wood is this wheel made of? It looks really strong."

Yang Dashan and others worked together to turn the wheel from the vertical position to the side, and said to Qingyan: "This is made of cypress wood, which is strong. It is most suitable for making wheels."

"Oh! How could this happen!"

Just after answering Qingyan's question, he suddenly heard Yang Erzhuang's voice.

"what happened?"

As he asked, he walked to Yang Erzhuang's side, and found that the inside of the wheel was no longer covered with iron, and only the bare wooden surface was left.

Several men looked at each other in blank dismay. It seemed that Yang Fugui and his family had removed the iron inside when changing the wheels.

The outside was not done, but the main thing was that the wheels fell apart.

The five men fell silent all of a sudden, and they all looked sad.

Yang Erzhuang sighed, "This is really a waste of joy. I thought we could save some money by having a scooter and take more things on the road."

Qingyan also went over to take a look, looked at the iron sheet outside and those rivets, and looked at the place where the iron sheet was missing inside.

Rumored to Chou Chou in his arms: "Chou Chou, do you have this kind of iron sheet in your space? This iron sheet looks quite thick."

Chou Chou replied: "No, I don't recycle such useless things, but I don't, you guys do."

Qingyan raised her eyebrows, "Where do we have this piece of iron? I didn't hear that such ironware is very rare here, so we can't melt those kitchen knives into iron sheets, right?

Not to mention that we have no way to refine it. After it is really destroyed, we will cook on the road. Is it all by hand?

I do have a dagger, but I can't keep it for them. If someone sees it, it will bring them a fatal disaster. "

Chou Chou raised his small head, and gave her a blank look, "Did you forget those Khitan swords you received earlier?"

"Oh, yes, there are those big knives!"

Qingyan really forgot that when they picked up the corpses of those Khitan soldiers, they took back all their big knives.

Presumably these people have forgotten it too, but the question arises again, how do those big knives turn into iron sheets on the wheels?

Chou Chou immediately understood the expression on her face, and rolled his eyes at her again.

"Have you forgotten your own strength? Even if your strength is not enough, you just need to burn those big knives and hammer them into other shapes, so that you can't see that they are knives, and then connect them together and wrap them inside .

Anyway, it's the inside of the wheel that's missing, not the outside, and if they're nailed to the wheel, it won't be visible from the outside at all. "

Qingyan nodded, it was true, so she opened her mouth and said to them: "Didn't we take the big knives from the Khitan people before? How about we use those knives to make iron sheets and wrap the wheels, anyway, we don't dare to use those knives." Take it out and use it blatantly."

There is a mark on this knife, if the Khitan people see it, they will die together.

Even if it is seen by the Khitan people or by the soldiers here, it will not end well.

Hearing this, the five men were stunned for a moment, and then their expressions brightened.

"Really! Why did we forget that those big knives are made of iron!"

"But we don't know how to smelt iron. What should we do now?"

Qingyan said: "I have great strength, I just need to burn those big knives red and hammer them into other shapes."

She has seen that big knife before, except for the thinner part of the front blade, the back of the knife is still thicker. If the knife is hot and hammered, it can be hammered to almost the same thickness, and it can be widened and stretched a lot. I couldn't tell it was a knife.

Of course, now is the problem of burning, firewood can't burn to that temperature.

It was only later that I realized that this was not a big problem, because coal was produced in the mountains on their side.

It's just that they are all government coal kilns, and they are sold to wealthy families in the city and places where the army forges weapons.

Common people like them can't use it at will and can't afford it.

If they can't use them, they can't use them, but they know where they are.

Yang Dashan pointed to a mountain in the west and said: "The mountain with no trees over there is just a coal mountain. It is usually guarded by officers and soldiers, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter or leave.

Now that the Khitan people have come, I don't know what's going on, but there are a few workers in the coal mines in the neighboring villages, and I heard that they earn a lot of money, but they all fell ill due to exhaustion.

One died early of tuberculosis, and the other one is also in poor health and can't do anything. We can go to his house to see.

It is said that when he was repatriated, he was not given any compensation money, but only a carload of coal. He sold some during the winter of last year's medical treatment. I don't know if there is any more. "

When Qingyan heard it, it was easy to say, if it didn't work, she asked Chouchou to go to the coal mountain to get some back, anyway, it had room.

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