"Old Li, this is fire oil! Dip some branches and straw ropes into it and use it as a torch for lighting. It is particularly useful. When you encounter jackals while walking at night, this torch will burn fiercely and can also be used to drive away jackals! Let's go in
You need to bring this with you when collecting herbs from the mountains," Fei Junyi explained.
Yesterday they dredged the canal together, and they had already become familiar with each other and exchanged names.
These two herb-picking boys were named Qi Xiaoer and Fei Junyi.
And the two of them called Li Chengfei Lao Li just like they called him Lao Zhang before.
Sometimes I would even call him "Lao Li Tou" if I got it right.
"Fierce oil...oil?"
Li Chengfei's eyes lit up, he strode over, took it over and looked at it, and became more and more sure.
"Petroleum? I have never heard of this name, but some people call it Shiqi, and that mountain is called Shiqi Mountain. If you say it is oil, it is quite appropriate, because it comes out of the cracks in the rocks.
." Qi Xiaoer said with a smile.
"It came out of the cracks in the rocks? Hahaha!" Li Chengfei also laughed, "I didn't expect that this place is rich in oil. It's easy to handle now."
Petroleum is not only used as energy, but also a very important industrial raw material.
Li Chengfei's Nanke brain stores more than 170 simulated memories. It is equivalent to a technological tree in itself. With oil, he can do many things.
For example, the trouble in the medicine field in front of you can be solved easily.
Soon, he smiled bitterly again - when the other protagonists arrived in the fairy world, they were all busy cultivating immortals and competing for various secret methods and medicines, but he was the only one who was looking for oil here, thinking of ways to weed weeds and be a good medicine boy.
This is true self-control! Complete self-control!
"Brother Qi, brother Fei, is there any burning gas in the place where the fierce fire oil comes out?" Li Chengfei asked.
"Eh? Lao Li, have you ever been to Shiqi Mountain? The qi there can indeed be lit." Qi Xiaoer said softly.
"I've never been there, but I've heard about it. Two brothers, could you please help me find a way to get me some burning gas? And get me some of this fierce fire oil...
…I won’t let you two work hard in vain, I will give you money.”
Transactions between mortals in the fairy world mainly use gold and silver.
Burning coins are too precious, and most of them are used by immortals.
"Old Li, you are too polite to say that. That thing just came out of the mountain and is worthless. If you want it, Old Li, we can take you there tomorrow. But, what do you want with that? So angry
Although it can be burned, it is poisonous. Birds and beasts in the mountains often pass by and are poisoned to death." Brother Qi kindly reminded.
"I understand, thank you for your kind reminder. I just want some gas to burn. However, the farm work in the medicine field is busy these days, and I can't leave, so I'd like to trouble you to get some for me. You must give me some money.
Take it, otherwise, I will always have to use your help, and I will feel sorry for it. Besides, it will also cost you money to buy some animal skin bags to hold gas."
Li Chengfei said, turned around, went into the house, and took out a few pieces of broken silver.
"This is a bit too much!" Brother Qi neither of them reached out to take it.
Li Chengfei gave it to them directly.
"If you two don't hold it, I won't be able to ask you for help in the future."
The money he gave was actually not too much, just a little more within a reasonable range.
When he was shopping in the town and at the Xianjiao grocery store, he had seen the prices here. With Nan Ke around, he just took a glance and remembered them all.
He had calculated that it would be a day's wages for the two boys to work, plus the animal skin bags, etc... The few pieces of silver he gave him could only be said to be a reasonable price.
Giving too much is not a good thing.
"Okay, we'll get it for you tomorrow." The two boys took the money, chatted for a few more words, and left.
"This is just great."
Li Chengfei suddenly felt relaxed.
"There are many methods of weeding and insecticide in modern agriculture, and pesticides may not necessarily be used. Flame spraying is very effective in weeding and insecticide."
Just now, when he saw the two young men's heavy oil torches, he suddenly had an idea and thought of using flame spray to weed weeds.
This method was used in the United States before he crossed over. A large tractor pulled a flamethrower, with dozens of nozzles in a row. The flames sprayed out could reach a temperature of two thousand degrees, and instantly penetrated ten centimeters deep into the ground, burning the grass roots together.
Bugs and eggs are all killed.
At the same time, the directional fire spray will not damage the seedlings.
This can be done!
Li Chengfei brought over his flamethrower.
It is for military use, but after adjusting the firepower, it is also suitable for weeding.
Huhu——
The flames sprayed, the weeds quickly withered, and all kinds of insects were burned to death without even a chance to escape.
The flames sprayed on the ground, and as you can imagine, all the insect eggs were killed.
This is infinitely faster than catching insects by hand.
"Using this method, the insect eggs are also killed. There will be fewer and fewer insects in the future, and my work will become more and more leisurely."
Li Chengfei was cheerful.
…
"Huh? This mortal is quite interesting!"
Li Chengfei was busy weeding with a flame jet. On a big rock on the hillside a few miles away, a thin old man with gray hair was sitting there.
His legs were spread like a dustpan, and there was a wine gourd next to him. There were still a few drops of wine on his messy beard, and his eyes were a little blurry because of the drunkenness.
At this time, he was looking up at Li Chengfei.
The distance of several miles did not seem to affect his sight at all.
The so-called protective formation that could provide some protection had no effect on him at all.
He just watched Li Chengfei busy and drinking wine. When he got tired of watching, he took a look at the small river at his feet.
It seemed like there was nothing worth taking to his heart.
…
In the evening of the next day, two boys drove a bullock cart and delivered several large bags of gas, and threatened to talk freely in the future.
Without the worry of gas, Li Chengfei started using flame jet to kill weeds and insects.
Twenty or thirty acres of land can be done in one day.
Next is irrigation.
There is an underdrain here. But the underdrain pipe is too thin, and the water flowing around the house is used to drive the formation. It cannot be diverted casually, otherwise the formation will be destroyed.
There are barrels and poles beside the fields. Lao Zhang probably used poles to carry water for irrigation.
This is too tiring.
Li Chengfei also spent money to hire Qi Xiaoer and Fei Junyi to start building waterwheels.
Ding-ding-ding-ding!
The three people were busy cutting wood tools.
When Li Chengfei was working, he always felt that his hair stood on end, as if he was being stared at.
I looked up and looked around, but I couldn't see anyone.
His eyes fell on a big tree not far away and he looked at it for a long time.
I couldn't see anything strange, so I could only suppress my doubts and continue working.
"This mortal! He is so far away, how many times do I look at him, and he can actually sense something?"
It was still the old man with gray hair, holding a wine gourd in his hand, sitting on the branch of the big tree - the same big tree that Li Chengfei had looked at carefully just now.
Li Chengfei and the others worked hard for nearly ten days, and finally a water tanker stood by the river.
Qi Xiaoer and Qi Xiaoer were both shocked when they saw the waterwheel whirring and the river water being transported up.
"Old Li, you are so capable! Are you afraid that you are not the reincarnation of an immortal?"
There is no waterwheel in their village, and this is the first time they have seen this thing.
Li Chengfei has long discovered that this fairy world is dominated by immortals, and the immortals' various methods are extremely miraculous. They not only understand immortal magic, but also have magic weapons like the Desert Boat.
However, the development level of mortal civilization is quite low, almost the same as in the pre-Qin period.
Smart people are busy cultivating immortals and following the path of immortality. No one will use their thoughts on the strange and obscene skills of mortals. This is probably the reason why mortals' technology cannot develop in the immortal world.
"Lao Li, after we go back, can you make one for our village?" Fei Junyi asked cautiously.
"Of course!" Li Chengfei nodded.
"Who taught you this water wheel?" At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded.
The old drunkard didn't know when he stood behind them.
"You old man! When did you come here? You scared me." Qi Xiaoer complained.
Li Chengfei's heartbeat accelerated sharply, and his palms began to sweat.
He couldn't feel the slightest fluctuation of mana from this old drunkard.
But he didn't dare to treat this drunkard old man as an ordinary mortal.
It was impossible for a mortal to appear next to her without him noticing.
Li Chengfei's spiritual consciousness is comparable to that of an immortal.
"Brother Qi, be polite to your elders." Li Chengfei suppressed the shock in his heart and tried to look calm.
What if this is a narrow-minded and vengeful immortal who slaps the three of them to death because of a single word of displeasure, where can he go to reason with them?
Then, he smiled and said to the old man: "This waterwheel is from our hometown. I have seen it since I was a child, and I can't say who taught it."
"Where is your hometown? I have traveled to many places in my life, but I have never seen this thing before. It does not require mana to drive, and there is no formation to be engraved. It can be pushed only by water power. Although it is rough, it is interesting.
!” The old drunkard raised his head and took a sip of wine, smacking his mouth, and surrounded the water tanker, looking up and down.
"I'm a foreigner. I just came here not long ago. My hometown is a bit far away..." Li Chengfei looked embarrassed and hesitated to speak.
"Oh, I came here on the other side of the line!" The drunkard old man understood immediately and didn't ask any more questions.
People who come here on the job are generally reluctant to talk much about their hometown.
"You are very generous. You can teach people such a good thing casually!" said the drunkard old man.
Immortals cherish their own methods for making various magical instruments.
"There is no big technical threshold for a waterwheel. Just stand by the river and a skilled craftsman can look at it and ponder it a few times, and then you can master the secrets. Even if I want to hide my secrets, I can't! This is how I learned it.
Nothing grand or grand." Li Chengfei said.
His calm gesture made the drunkard old man nod his head again and again, and he appreciated him even more.
"You are an interesting person, but it's a pity that you are too old and have poor qualifications. You will never be able to achieve immortality in this life!" After seeing the water tanker work, the drunkard old man quickly lost interest, drank and walked away.