Winter and summer reincarnate in the mortal world, and the first snow falls in the dusty sky. Wrapped tightly in clothes, I don't feel warm, and the running water soaks me in the cold.

The four of them had a simple breakfast. Wang and Queen drank milk, ate eggs, and a piece of lean meat with soy sauce.

When she was in the palace, she sent people to get food from heaven and earth according to the nutritional formula written by Li Yi.

When she arrived at Zhuangzi, she didn't have to worry about it at all. She could eat whatever her uncle arranged.

When we finished eating, the weather changed and light snow began to fall.

Song De came over and said, "Proprietor, do you want to start turning on the heating?"

"It's still early. Will the charcoal reserve be enough in a few days?" Li Yi looked at the sky. He didn't want to use the heater now. It was too hot in the room and he would get angry.

"Enough to burn until this time next year, including the kiln." Song De said this and felt that he had done a good job.

Charcoal is cheap and most people don't use it, they just burn firewood.

Zhuangzi hired people to dig and transport the coal, but he only paid for the labor, and there was no money for the coal.

"Brother Yi, it would be better to bring more coal. After this winter, there will be more coal to use." Li Chengqi thought of something and said to Li Yi.

"That's right." Li Longji smiled: "I heard that the Shaofu Superintendent has made many stoves according to the drawings you drew, Brother Yi. There is snow now, which is a good time to promote the Fire Wall Tao."

Li Yi understood that the picture he gave his two brothers actually entered the palace.

He also thought of something: "Doesn't that mean we all use lump coal? What to do with pulverized coal?"

"Uncle, did you mean coal blocks? Of course you have to use blocks, as the powder won't burn."

There was already a fever in the queen's harem, and she was afraid that the cold would harm her children.

"Oh my god!" Li Yi slapped his forehead.

He greeted Song De: "Quickly, bring the pulverized coal from the charcoal pile. We are looking for a craftsman. If you are a good carpenter, bring a few wooden boards and send them to me here."

After a while, a basket of coal powder that naturally fell off from the place where the coal was placed was brought over.

The craftsman made a rectangular frame according to Li Yi's instructions.

Pour pulverized coal with water and turn it into slime.

Li Yi rolled up his sleeves, put the wooden frame on the ground, threw a ball of slime into the frame, and patted it with both hands.

Keep patting it flat, hold the sides of the frame and lift it up, and a brick-like coal will come out.

"Brother, third brother, sister-in-law, look at this. After it's dried, it can be burned, or you can make a pancake directly, or use a dustpan to shake the briquettes."

Li Yi said that he didn't want everyone to join him in grabbing lump coal. Why use bright lump coal for his own home use? It would be better for us to make coal briquettes.

The maid next to him brought water for Li Yi to wash his hands. Li Longji and the other three looked at Li Yi and wanted to laugh.

They guessed what Li Yi meant. At the critical moment, they would have a solution immediately.

The question is, why do others have to make their own coal? It doesn’t cost money to dig coal.

"It costs money to burn firewood. There are many people but few mines, and coal powder accumulates. It has to be used." Li Yi said to the three people and looked at Song De.

Song De nodded, indicating that he understood, and ran away to find someone to bring back a large amount of coal.

Li Longji thought for a while: "We will see later."

He wanted to discuss with the minister whether he should pay for coal mining.

"Brother, after the coal is burned, it can be used to make bricks, burn cement, or pave roads. It is the coal residue that makes a good road."

Li Yi came up with another idea, hoping that his eldest brother would continue to use his identity to persuade the court.

"Is that so?" Li Chengqi said to note it down.

The four of us were strolling in the light snow again. The village was still busy and there was always something to do.

The rice has not been harvested yet, crabs continue to be caught, and the ingredients for making drunken crabs are purchased and made.

Walking to the edge of Bashui River, a group of people from Zhangjia Village were fishing for hemp from the shallow water.

The hemp you sow is harvested and soaked in water. When it is almost done, you can just take it out.

Next, you need to scrape and shell the hemp. The retting hemp is not yet twine.

In the past, when harvesting hemp and splitting it, the hands were easily injured. Just break the position of the hemp pole, make a hole, and slide your hand up and down along the hole, and the hemp skin will come off.

In this process, it's like drawing a hand on paper, and a cut will be made if you are not careful.

Fortunately, those who chop hemp can wrap cloth around their fingers.

Problems were avoided.

After retting, you need to continue scraping while the hemp is still wet.

Hold the knife in one hand with the blade upward, wrap your thumb around the cloth and press the blade, and pull the hemp out from between the blade and thumb.

People from Zhangjia Village were fishing hemp from the water and standing on the shore to scrape the hemp live, with children also helping.

"Yeah!" A kid of twelve or thirteen years old shouted and put his thumb in his mouth.

"Uncle, his hand is injured." Queen Wang said quickly.

Without Li Yi saying a word, the palace maid Cuiliu ran over and brought the child over, while Qingsong unloaded the medical kit on his back.

Li Yi raised the child's right hand to look at it, wiped it with alcohol cotton, and the child grinned.

"It's okay. The wound is less than one centimeter long and not deep. No sutures are needed." Li Yi said and wrapped gauze around it.

"Don't touch the water recently. Take it down in two days and check the situation. Remember to find me." Li Yi said to the child softly.

The child looked into his eyes, as if he was making a decision.

After a few breaths, the child clenched his fist with his left hand and took a deep breath: "Dr. Li, they all say that you are the most powerful and can do everything, right?"

Li Yi shook his head: "No, the more you learn, the more ignorant you will find."

"Then can you think of a way to make it faster for us to shave numbness? Every year, people hurt their fingers, some get fever, and then die." The child looked pleading and expecting.

Li Longji looked at Li Yi, waiting for the omnipotent Yi brother to say "yes".

"Yes." Li Yi actually said the words Li Longji expected.

Turning around, he ordered to Brown Rock: "Look for a craftsman and ask for a long stool, a few pieces of wood, two razor blades, and two pieces of smooth leather."

Li Yi said to the child again: "I can only make a simple one now. Making a better one is troublesome and too late."

The child smiled: "I knew that Mr. Li could do it."

After saying that, he turned around and ran over there, shouting as he ran: "Dr. Li has something good, something good for scratching numbness."

Li Longji and the other three also smiled.

Li Chengqi patted Li Yi's shoulder, and Queen Wang's hand was naturally put on Li Yi's head and rubbed.

"Brother Yi, you really never disappoint anyone." Li Longji sighed.

"One day I may not be able to do it." Li Yi tied his hair again.

"It must be God forbid, it's against heaven." This is Li Longji's position.

As long as it does not offend the power of Heaven, Brother Yi can do it. If Brother Yi cannot do it, then the matter cannot be done because manpower is limited.

Soon, all the craftsmen and things were brought over by Brown Rock.

Li Yi began to direct.

A wooden stick was erected on each side of the bench. A hole was cut in the middle of the wooden stick. One side of the hole was placed with a blade and the other side was padded with smooth leather.

The wooden sticks connect the wood pieces on both sides at right angles. The openings on the outside of the wood pieces are large and go into the gaps.

Take a strand of wet hemp, hold one end of the hemp with your hand, put the other end through the big opening easily, and then pull it.

The hemp enters from the large opening and passes through the blade and the smooth skin to the small opening. The smooth skin is elastic and presses tightly against the blade.

As soon as the hemp was pulled out, the hard shell was stuck.

With the other hand, he took the piece of hemp that had been peeled off, put it into the opening on the other side, and pulled out the entire piece.

"This is faster, mainly because it doesn't hurt your hands. Let's try it." Li Yi said to a group of people who gathered to watch.
Chapter completed!