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Chapter 22 Iron Making Success
When everyone returned to the valley, Aman and the others were already waiting for Li Mo and the others to return.

"Apa, you are back." A Duo who came running looked at the car curiously.

"Well, we're back, take advantage of the moment, everyone help pack up!" Li Mo hurriedly beckoned for help.

The lively division of labor started to act like this.

Luhua and other four women, together with Aqing and Aman, helped peel the soybeans from the fruit. Dahe and Batu helped to circle an open space not far from the house, plowed the ground and watered it, and planted these small wild fruits. Li Mo I also brought the ginger, chrysanthemum and rice pepper from the past and asked them to plant them.

And Li Mo brought Ying Bai, Yan and Da Zhuang, ready to experiment with those small red stones.

Li Mo didn't know how to make iron, so she laid those small stones on the ground to dry in the sun. In order to save time, she let Yingbai light a fire, made a large frame with wood, covered with huge palm leaves, and placed Put the burnt hay on it for drying.

Let Da Zhuang fetch a few bamboo plaques, and sift out the impurities from the dried stones.Li Mo thought for a while, and at a place far away from the house, built a cave with only one vent with mud, lit a fire underneath, made a large bowl with stones, and put the sieved red stones into the large stone bowl , blocked the vent, and began to add firewood.

About five hours later, Li Mo nervously asked Da Zhuang to use wood to clamp out a large stone bowl, only to see that the original red stone had turned into a liquid.Li Mo was shocked, and continued to let Da Zhuang cook it.

The few people outside the cave were very excited, and after hastily eating some food brought by Ah Qing, they took turns to watch the fire.In the end, even Luhua and Batu, who had finished their work, ran over, and then began the long shift arrangement.

Because the temperature of the fire is always the hottest, when it was dawn, Li Mo asked Ying Bai to pour the scalding liquid onto a well-shaped stone pit with dark circles around his eyes.

Li Mo dismissed the big guy, saying that it would be fine to let it take shape naturally.

In the afternoon of the next day, Ah Qing came to tell Li Mo that the liquid poured into the stone model had turned into a solid, and Li Mo ran out without even eating.

Unfortunately, the greater the joy, the greater the disappointment. I saw that although the solidified rectangles could be taken out, they were all soft and would break when hit with a stone. Unwilling, Li Mo put it into the cold water again. The effect is a little better, but it still doesn't fall.

Li Mo saw that the big guy didn't show disappointment at the black rectangle, but instead comforted her. When other materials can make good weapons, Li Mo's sense of loss disappeared instantly.

Li Mo decided to think of another way. Since this stone has the ability to be hard, it must be able to make a better texture.

"Apa, when it was my turn to fire last night, there was a period of time when the noise in the soil was very loud. Could it be that it burned out sometime?" Yan is a very heroic man, he looked at Apa disappointed When I suddenly remembered last night, I couldn't help blaming myself.

"It's very loud? What's it like?" Yingbai asked urgently.

"It just makes a loud sound of "Puff, puff, puff". At other times, you can only hear the sound of burning wood." Yan recalled and said.

Li Mo thought for a while in silence, "Let's try again, and when it burns until it makes a loud noise, get out the melted stone and put it in cold water immediately." Li Mo looked at everyone's expectant eyes, She quickly dared not look at everyone, after all, she was not quite sure in her heart.

"Okay", the big guys didn't object, they still agreed briskly, and even the silent Dahe said a word.

"Then let's work separately!" Li Mo shook off the thoughts of failure in her head, and started to move stones with everyone again.Meanwhile, Ying Bai sighed helplessly, Li Mo didn't even eat much breakfast these two days, and now she started working again, how could this work.

Seeing Ah Qing, she patted Yingbai.

"Yingbai, Luhua and I will go back and get some food for everyone. You can stay here and help Li Mo."

"Thank you." Ying Bai thanked Ah Qing for his thoughtfulness, and smiled at him.

Next, everyone took turns firing, experimenting day and night, half a car of stones was used up one-third.

God always favors those who are hardworking and not afraid of failure. In the most ordinary night, amid a burst of loud exclamations, they finally succeeded!

The success coincided with Batu's shift schedule. The stones in the soil cave had been fired for four full days. When the fiery red rectangle was poured into cold water, there was a pungent smell immediately. .The red fiery strip instantly turned into a gray-black hard substance.

Because of the previous failure, Batu hit it hard with his stone ax at the beginning, but who knew that the stone ax was split into two halves in an instant, Batu froze beside the mud hole, and even Aman and Dahe beside him They all stood there in a daze, as if petrified, and after a while, Batu let out a roar like an animal, and Aman's black eye circles moved, and then he shouted loudly: "Successful!" !Success!!"

When everyone heard the news, Li Mo waited for the black substance to cool down, picked it up tremblingly, and smelled it.Yes!Li Mo almost cried, it's iron, it's real iron.Very hard and heavy.

"Successful! Big guy, this is iron!" Li Mo said tremblingly.

"Iron! That thing that is stronger than a rock?" Lu Hua's eyes widened and her mouth opened wide.

"Really! My stone ax was shattered in half by the iron just now!" Batu explained excitedly to everyone, and Aman nodded repeatedly beside him.

Ying Bai looked at Li Mo who was crying with joy, and pulled Li Mo into his arms.

Now, everyone's enthusiasm was pushed to the highest point, Li Mo asked everyone to make stone hammers, and started to make iron knives and iron shields.

It turns out that this stone has such an ability that if the firing time is too long or too short, the best iron quality will be damaged, and the experiment by Batu and the others just proved that this small red stone was fired for four days. When it is hot, the texture is the hardest, and after passing through the water, the iron will not emit a strange smell.

The surprise of making iron made everyone start making knives according to what Li Mo said.

When the first rough but sharp black long knife was made, everyone's exclamation could be imagined. Li Mo gave this knife to Aman, and the rest of the men were extremely jealous.Li Mo smiled and looked at the men who surrounded him like they were looking at meat. The first knife was struck by Aman, so give it to Aman.

"Apa, is this knife really that easy to use?" A Duo stared at the knife in Aman's hand curiously, and said enviously.

The others also looked at Li Mo.

"Aman, you chop down that tree." Li Mo smiled and pointed to a tree half a meter thick and two people tall behind Aman not far away. It is estimated that such a tree would cost several dollars with a stone ax It takes hours to cut it down.

Aman walked to the tree with confidence, and made a few "bang bang bang", and saw that every time he cut down, the iron knife penetrated into a width of nearly ten centimeters. In no less than 10 minutes, a thick tree It fell like a stone. With a "boom", the loud noise not only spread instantly in the valley, but also viciously rang in the hearts of everyone present.

"This, this! God, thank you for your blessing." Bai Amu's hands were trembling, while the corners of her mouth were chanting prayers awkwardly.

While the others looked at the fallen tree, a great joy rose in their hearts, as if a white light was shining in front of their eyes, the blood flowed through their limbs and bones, and their heavy heads could not calm down for a long time.

"Everyone, this is the power of iron. These irons can not only make us more amazing weapons, but also create barriers to protect our homeland!" Li Mo looked back at the big guy who hadn't recovered yet and smiled. .

"Ah, Apa!!" Someone shouted, and the rest of the people also started to shout loudly.

"Apa! Apa! Apa!"

It seems to be a resounding slogan, but also like a religious belief.Li Mo looked at the darkened night, the fire flickered little by little, and then she saw Yingbai looking at her tenderly.She knew that after all this, the curtain of a new world was about to open, and they would become a thick stroke in this world, depicting a history that could never be forgotten.

(End of this chapter)