Primitive beast world farming and raising cubs

Chapter 11 Making Screw Shell Lamps
Yuan Jing experienced two nights of slander in the past two days, which made her feel greatly inconvenienced.

Yuan Jing has been thinking about how to find something to replace the electric light.

Yuan Jing touched her swollen belly and said to herself: "Cubs! Grandma is so worried! There is no electric light! How can I go to the toilet at night? I almost fell into the pit! Sad!"

I thought about lighting a bonfire for the night. On the one hand, it costs firewood, and on the other hand, no one is watching, and the fire will go out by itself.

Obviously lighting a bonfire overnight is not suitable for a person like her who lives alone.

Let's make a torch, and it needs to be held by hand, which is inconvenient to hold when defecation.

After much deliberation, I still feel wrong.Moreover, sparks are easy to fall from the torch. If the falling sparks ignite combustibles such as animal skins, it will be a big trouble.

The practicality is not high, and the security is not enough.Obviously not for her use either.

Yuan Jing was thinking about how to find something to replace the electric light, and usually walked around the house randomly.

Before I knew it, I walked to the storage room where the bacon was kept.Seeing a bunch of bacon baked golden yellow dripping with oil,
A flash of inspiration.I thought of making oil lamps for lighting.

Although oil lamp lighting is not as convenient as electric lamps, it is definitely more reliable than campfire lighting and torch lighting.

Yuan Jing excitedly began to observe the oil droplets on the bacon of different beasts.

According to various scientific and technological documents of the previous generation, the oil used for lighting in ancient times was generally vegetable oil, because vegetable oil is in a liquid state and is not easy to condense, so it is more suitable for use as fuel for oil lamps.

But some animal oils that are not easy to condense can also be used as fuel for oil lamps.

The raw material that Yuan Jing can squeeze out vegetable oil is sunflower seeds, but the process of squeezing vegetable oil is too complicated and requires more complicated auxiliary tools.

Therefore, Yuan Jing rejected the proposal of producing sunflower oil and then using it to make oil lamps.

She still wants to try animal oil, after all, animal oil is easy to make, maybe if you are lucky, you can get oil that can be used for oil lamps.

Besides, even if the animal oil produced cannot be used as lamp oil, Yuan Jing has no loss, because she can eat it if it cannot be used as lamp oil.

After observing for a while, I adhered to the principle that I would rather kill the wrong than let it go.

Yuan Jing began to refine all kinds of animal fat in the storage room.A total of 23 different animal oils were extracted.

These animal oils are yellow, brown, transparent, and come in various colors, and some of them emit a burst of oily fragrance, which makes Yuan Jing feel a little hungry.

It doesn't matter if you can't make lamp oil, she can really eat it.

Swallowing her saliva, Yuan Jing started to make lamps.

In her previous life, Yuan Jing watched a lot of video materials about making oil lamps.

Although the materials and production steps are different, in summary, three things are needed to make an oil lamp: an oil container, an oil float and a wick.

The oil container should be made of stone bowls. The cheap orc husband made a lot of stone bowls and put them in the storage room. Now Yuan Jing can use them casually.

It's a lot harder to get rid of the oil.Oil floats not only need to be light enough to float on the oil, but also hard to burn so they won't be ignited by the wick.

Let go of this difficult oil float first.

Yuan Jing started to make the wick. She found several kinds of animal skins that were similar to cotton and linen, cut them into strips, and then braided the animal skins into twist shapes. After tying them together, she got a simple wick.quality
There are relatively few animal skins like cotton and linen, and there are only 3 types in total.After a while, Yuan Jing made wicks of three textures.

If the oil drifts, Yuan Jing plans to go to the small river in the Black Canyon to have a look.

Because materials that float on water can float on oil to a certain extent.

Of course, this is not necessarily accurate, because the density of oil is lower than that of water, and what can float on water may not necessarily float on oil.

Anyway, try your luck.

Maybe you can have the luck that Huge picked up the Shouyuan Fruit.

Before going out, Yuan Jing touched Gao Gao's belly and said, "Cubs! Let's go out!"

Walking to the edge of the small river, Yuan Jing first observed the surface of the small river to see if there were any materials floating on the surface of the river.

To Yuan Jing's disappointment, there was nothing on the water except fish and shrimp swimming in the river.

Yuan Jing couldn't help but muttered: "Hey! There's no shit! I'm really a fake heroine!"

Annoyed, Yuan Jing couldn't help kicking her foot, but unexpectedly, she kicked something hard.

It hurts a bit, but tolerable.I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, my feet hurt a little, but luckily I didn't fall down.

Don't dare to be so careless next time.

By coincidence, Yuan Jing suddenly became a little curious about the thing she kicked.

Then he pulled that hard thing out of the river sand.

This thing is the body of a dead snail, the shape is the same as the purple clay teapot in the previous life, but it is much larger than the purple clay teapot, and it is just right for making oil lamps.

Yuan Jing poured out the sand inside the snail shell, and washed the snail shell with water from the river.

After rinsing, Yuan Jing was pleasantly surprised to find that the structure of the snail shell was really similar to the purple clay teapot in her previous life.

It has a handle and a spout, and the inside of the pot is hollow.Just open the top of the pot and add a lid.The whole snail shell is just like a purple sand teapot.

Yuan Jing slapped her head. In fact, it is enough to use this purple sand teapot-shaped snail shell to make an oil lamp.

Fill the pot with oil, and then one end of the wick sticks out from the spout, and the simple version of the oil lamp is ready.The spout is equivalent to the role of oil drift.

There is no need to look for any materials to make oil floats anymore.

It is good to learn from the experience of the predecessors in making oil lamps.

But you can't be bound by the experience of your predecessors.Wouldn't it be better to use local materials and ingeniously make oil lamps.

Yuan Jing couldn't help but praise her wit.

Yuan Jing whispered again: "I have found a little feeling of being a heroine again! I hope this feeling is right!"

Yuan Jing brought a big animal skin bag, just enough to hold these teapot shells.

In order to test the oil lamp faster, Yuan Jing directly found dozens of identical teapot shells in the sand by the river.

The material of the teapot snail shell is similar to that of a shell, and it is much harder than a shell, so there is no need to worry about it breaking.

Therefore, Yuan Jing threw all the teapot shells into the animal skin bag, and went back home.

There were many orcs on the road, Yuan Jing greeted them one by one:

"Sister, come out to play with the cubs again!"

"Wow, sister Haruko, your animal skin dress looks very beautiful!"

"Sister, I just saw your beastman carrying two big bags of sunflower seeds! I'm envious!"

Back at her residence, Yuan Jing tried 23 different animal oils one by one, and found three that could burn like oil lamps.

As for the wick, the effect of the wick made of the three materials is similar.

Yuan Jing didn't worry about which kind of wick to use.

It is recorded in the scientific and technological literature of the previous life that the flame of mixed oil burning is brighter, and the burning time will be longer.

Yuan Jing, who was doing the experiment, mixed the three types of oil that can be used as lamp oil in proportion to make a mixed oil, and observed the brightness of the oil lamp and the speed of fuel consumption.

Finally, it was found that the mixed animal oil produced by mixing No. 1 oil and No. 3 oil in a one-to-one ratio had the brightest burning flame and the least fuel consumption.

The most important thing is that this kind of mixed animal oil will not make a sizzling sound or smoke when it burns, and it will not produce a pungent smell when burned.

Yuan Jing spent seven days doing experiments, and then spent another two days making oil lamps and mixing animal oil.

In the end, a total of 30 empty oil lamps and 150 catties of mixed animal oil were produced.

Yuan Jing named this mixed animal oil as snail oil, and named the empty oil lamp as snail shell lamp.

Yuan Jing said silently in her heart: "Finally, I don't have to worry about falling into the toilet at night! Life in the beast world is not easy!"

(End of this chapter)