Chapter 163 This craft is so cool!

Author: round head and round belly

Chapter 163 This craft is so cool!

After finishing lunch, Li Yi returned to the open space outside the restaurant and started building a naan pit.

The most traditional naan pit is a rammed earth structure, made of clay mixed with wool, and looks like a large, upside-down water tank with a wide belly.

In some places in the southern part of the Western Regions, nitrate soil is used to make naan pits, but in modern times, most areas of the Western Regions use red bricks, which are cheap and convenient.

Li Yilei’s is this new type of nang pit.

But although it is a new style, the material is slightly different, but the shape of the nang pit is no different from the traditional nang pit.

He first laid a base with red bricks, then spread a layer of yellow mud on the red brick base, and then used other red bricks to build a cylindrical cylinder.

The red bricks were glued together with mud, and Li Yi filled the gaps between the red bricks with yellow mud, trying not to leave any gaps.

When they arrived at the entrance of the pit, Li Yi came to the second bag of yellow mud that Liu Yifei and the others had stepped on. He separated half of it and piled it into a pile. Then he took out a bag that the errand boy brought from the live sheep wholesale market in Daxing.

The wool delivered.

"Come and help tear the wool."

Li Yi called over a few people who were idle and asked them to help, and together they tore the sheared wool into strands.

"Why are you tearing the wool?"

Zhao Jinmai was puzzled.

Li Yi patted the mouth of the naan pit on the side and explained: "To make naan, you put your hand in from the mouth of the pit and stick the naan cakes on the wall of the pit inside.

So this place will often bear weight, and the naan making guys will press here or kneel here to maintain balance, so this place should be as strong as possible so that the naan pit can be used longer."

"Is there such a thing?"

Wu Lei tore the fleece apart and exclaimed: "Brother Yi, can you speak cross talk?"

"Talk about cross talk?"

Li Yi didn't understand what he meant.

"People say that a cross talker has a grocery store in his belly and knows everything."

Wu Lei smiled and said: "I feel like you are like this, you seem to know everything."

"..."

Li Yi was a little speechless by his imagination. He shook his head and joked: "This is not a grocery store, this is an encyclopedia dictionary."

As he spoke, he squatted down, put the torn wool into the mud, added some salt water, and started stirring.

Soon, the wool mixed with the yellow mud and turned into a mud full of silk.

Zhao Jinmai also helped stir it and asked curiously: "Brother Yi, can this mud become strong if wool is put in it?"

"Of course."

Li Yi smiled and said: "This kind of animal hair and plant silk thread are very tough. In the past, when there was not so much iron, wool and cotton were used as armor.

Including modern bulletproof vests made of wool, the effects are very good."

"That's awesome."

Zhao Jinmai lamented: "I feel that a lot of wisdom from the ancients can take on new vitality if it is studied again with modern technology."

Wu Lei heard this and sighed: "That's right! I have always suspected that the invention of roller shoes was based on the armor and horse talisman used by Dai Zong, the magical eunuch. Dai Zong might be wearing the world's first pair of roller shoes."

"..."

Li Yi looked at him speechlessly: "Even if you say it's stilts, I still have some culture."

"Isn't it?"

Wu Lei was not convinced.

Li Yi sighed: "If they are really roller skates, then Dai Zong's nickname shouldn't be Shenxing Taibao."

"What is that?"

"Nezha is the god of heaven!"

"..."

Liu Yifei, who was on the side, was speechless after hearing the black line: "You two can really talk together! I thought you would say that the road conditions are not that good! It turns out that it was based on the nickname."

The audience in the live broadcast room was also enlightened by this topic, and they posted comments one after another to discuss it.

"I think it makes sense. I have always suspected that Hongtianlei Lingzhen traveled through time!"

"Haha! Is Shenxing Nezha still okay? But I also think it's most likely to be on stilts."

"How could it be stilts? You can't walk steadily on flat ground. Wouldn't it be even worse if you climb mountains and climb over obstacles?"

"Why did we go from talking about Wool to Water Margin? Isn't this span of thinking too big?"

The audience was having a heated discussion, but Wu Lei was still pestering Li Yi and asked: "Then tell me, why can Dai Zong travel eight hundred miles a day?"

"That's a novel, it's exaggerated. You can't take it seriously!"

Li Yi explained with a smile: "But Dai Zong has a prototype, which is an information transmission system in the Song Dynasty called Jipiaodi.

In Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Bi Tan", there is a record of urgent delivery.

The original text is: In Xining, there are gold-lettered plaques being passed around in a hurry, just like the ancient feathers. The wooden plaques are made of red lacquer and gold characters. They are bright and dazzling. They pass by like flying lightning. Everyone who looks at them avoids the road. They travel more than five hundred miles a day.

If there is an army in front of the army to deal with it quickly, it will be sent from the imperial front, and the three provinces and the Privy Council will not be able to cooperate.

At that time, Zhao Gou, Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, used 12 gold medals to send Yue Fei back to Beijing in a hurry, which was the imperial edict delivered through hasty feet.

Being a messenger was a real occupation in the Song Dynasty for transporting information. It was possible to travel more than five hundred miles a day. In the novel, the fictional Dai Zong was able to travel eight hundred miles a day. Although it is a slight exaggeration for the sake of art, it is understandable."

Hearing Li Yi tell the origin, Wu Lei was disappointed and said: "Well, I thought roller shoes were invented by Dai Zong!"

While talking, Woolen Mud had already reconciled.

Li Yi stood up and covered the mouth of the naan pit with wool mud.

Wool mud mixed with wool has a better ability to retain water than ordinary yellow mud, so just wipe it with a spatula and the surface will quickly become even and delicate.

However, in order to make it stronger and stronger, after Li Yi finished plastering the pit entrance, he also used a wooden hammer to pound the yellow mud at the pit entrance again to make it more compact.

The outer layer of yellow mud was relatively simple. Some straw residue was added to the remaining half of the yellow mud, and Li Yi spread it on the outside of the naan pit.

He could only do this job. Wu Lei and Huang Xiaoming were helping him pass the mud, while Liu Yifei and Zhao Jinmai were fanning him, feeding him water, and wiping his sweat.

Seeing this treatment, the viewers in the live broadcast room were envious.

"Damn! I'm plastering on a construction site, why don't I get such good treatment?"

"A master with four workers? There are two beauties among them? Why don't you come to me for this job?"

"Brother Yi, this plastering technique is not good! Let me do it instead! As long as Mai Mai feeds me a drink of water, fans me, and calls me good husband, no wages are required!"

"Who has urine? Help me wake up the kid upstairs?"

"I'll do it!"

"I come first! My urine is yellow!"

With everyone's cooperation, it only took two and a half hours to complete the naan pit.

Jumping out of the naan pit on a ladder, Li Yi lit a piece of paper and threw it into the naan pit. Then he leaned down and listened to the burning sound of the paper at the vent below.

The heat brought by the burning paper will cause the air in the naan pit to be heated and rise, while the cold air will flow into the naan pit from the vent below due to the air pressure.

This step tests the ventilation effect of the nang pit.

If the ventilation effect is good enough, the firewood in the naan pit will burn faster.

After the paper was burned, Li Yi took Wu Lei to the warehouse to find a rainproof tarpaulin, and used a ladder and wooden frame to set it up over the naan pit.

Seeing this, Zhao Jinmai asked curiously: "Brother Yi, wouldn't it dry faster if it is exposed to the sun?"

"It won't work."

Li Yi explained: “The nang pits in the Western Regions can be exposed directly to the sun, because the air humidity in the Western Regions is inherently low, and the moisture in the soil will evaporate quickly.

However, the air humidity in the capital is much higher than that in the Western Regions, and we use yellow mud, not cement. If the sun is allowed to be exposed, the water on the sunny side and the shady side will evaporate at different rates, and the degree of dryness and humidity will be different.

, thus forming cracks.

It’s best to let it dry in the shade. When the dryness is almost the same, then light the fire and burn it through, and the naan pit will be ready for use.”

Zhao Jinmai listened and nodded in understanding: "I didn't expect that this nang pit looks so ordinary, but it has so many details."

"Is it normal?"

Li Yi looked back at the round nang pit with a smooth and delicate surface, feeling very accomplished: "This craftsmanship is so cool!"

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