Traveling through time and space to achieve a well-off life with your family

The next day, Cheng Mo, who was teaching the orcs Arabic numerals, was taken away because the Long Nose Tribe sent a message saying that the mine had been dug out!

Cheng Mo left Cheng Lingqu here to teach the other orcs and left in a hurry. Xiao Baique wanted to follow him, but Cheng Lingqu grabbed him.

"Chijijijijijiji!" (Let me go, let me go!) The little white bird struggled hard, but could only watch Cheng Mo's back disappear.

"No, you can't go there, you have to stay and study!" Cheng Lingqu rejected him righteously with a stern face.

When Cheng Mo arrived there, a group of orcs were cheering around the large pile of ore they had mined. When they saw Cheng Mo coming, Xiya came over happily. He was about to hold Cheng Mo's hand, but Banmu stared at him intently. Xiya smiled awkwardly and put his hand down. He pointed at the pile of ore and said proudly: "Master Cheng Mo, this is the ore we dug out, it's all here!"

Cheng Mo looked at the ore in front of him and laughed: "Okay, okay! Then we will start smelting iron next!"

To smelt iron, you need to build a furnace first. A furnace is a hollow cylinder made of clay, usually with a side door at the bottom and a blast device. The orcs of the Rhino Horn Tribe quickly built a large furnace. Cheng Mo walked around the furnace. The craftsmanship of the Rhino Horn Tribe is getting more and more skilled. This large furnace is really beautiful!

The temperature required for iron smelting is very high, so wood with high heat is used to make charcoal. Cheng Mo asked the orcs of the Langya tribe to dig a large shallow pit in the ground, pile the collected wood blocks into the sand pit, light a fire, and cover the wood blocks with loose soil after all the wood blocks are ignited. Let the wood blocks smolder in an oxygen-deficient environment to remove moisture and decompose organic matter. When the carbon pile naturally extinguished, the orcs dug up the soil and obtained a batch of high-quality charcoal.

Because it would take some time to get charcoal, Cheng Mo asked Xiong Tai to make a blower. Xiong Tai spent several days to understand the principle of the blower. He made a blower out of animal skin and wood. Cheng Mo patted Xiong Tai on the shoulder and said, "Good boy! Your hands-on ability and understanding ability are really great!"

Xiongtai lowered his head shyly and smiled: Master Cheng Mo praised me! I'm happy!

During this period, Cheng Mo was not idle. He took the orcs of the Long Nose Tribe to look for limestone. Limestone is a common mineral that decomposes into lime and carbon dioxide at high temperatures. As a solvent, limestone can react with impurities such as carbon, silicon, and phosphorus in the ore to generate calcium salts and form slag.

With the help of the "Geological Report of the Bovila Mountains", Cheng Mo easily found the gray stone. The orcs of the Long Nose Tribe transported it overnight without alarming other tribes living nearby.

Cheng Mo encountered many setbacks during his first iron smelting. The book did not mention the ratio of limestone to ore, so Cheng Mo could only experiment step by step. Fortunately, they had plenty of raw materials and could withstand the test, but Cheng Mo felt that he was under a lot of pressure. Every failure was a heavy blow, which made him breathless.

Every time Cheng Mo failed, he would sit by the furnace and think, and occasionally he would cry secretly out of anxiety. The orcs saw this and became extremely anxious, so one day the chiefs of the three tribes and Xiong Bai grabbed Cheng Mo and wouldn't let him leave.

Cheng Mo was worrying about yesterday's failure. Early in the morning, Xiong Bai pulled him mysteriously and wouldn't let him leave. The three clan leaders also said they had something to talk to him about, so he stayed at the entrance of the cave and waited to see what they were going to do.

"Cheng Mo! Do you remember what day it is today?" Xiong Bai handed the animal skin map hanging on the wall to Cheng Mo.

Cheng Mo looked at the animal skin map in his hand in confusion and shook his head: "What day?"

Yan Hai anxiously gestured for him to look at the map in his hand. Xiangshan and Xifa also looked at Cheng Mo expectantly, which made Cheng Mo even more confused.

Xiangshan was still anxious, and he reminded him, "City."

Cheng Mo suddenly realized that his mind had been focused on iron smelting recently, and he had no time to remember the city. He left the construction of houses to Xiong Bai.

"Has the city been built?" Cheng Mo asked Xiong Bai expectantly.

Xiong Bai nodded. Although the roads and green areas in the city were not well built, the houses and drainage systems had been completed. So the city could be considered built, right?

Cheng Mo excitedly clenched the animal skin map in his hand: "What are we waiting for? Let's go and take a look together!" After that, he ran out.

Xiong Bai looked at the three clan leaders who were still in a daze and said, "Let's go together." The four of them ran out together.

Cheng Mo ran to the edge of the city in one breath, looking at the red brick houses, he couldn't hide his joy: "Great! That's great! This house is so beautiful!"

Xiong Bai caught up with Cheng Mo breathlessly: "This, this is, of course!"

Cheng Mo walked in along the reserved road. One by one, red brick bungalows stood quietly in their own positions. Each house had a small courtyard. There was a small wooden sign at the gate of the courtyard with the name of the owner of the house engraved on it.

Cheng Mo found his own house. There was a lot of space inside. It was designed according to the size of orcs and beasts. Cheng Mo walked up the stairs. There were already several pieces of furniture inside. Cheng Mo looked at Xiong Bo in confusion. He didn't ask anyone to prepare furniture for him.

"It was made by Banmu. He made his own bed and cabinets." Xiong Bo had heard a long time ago that Banmu was making furniture by himself. He had been learning from Xiongtai for a long time. Originally, the furniture in each house was prepared by the orcs themselves. Some orcs had poor craftsmanship and had to find orcs with good craftsmanship to help. Banmu was the only one who taught himself.

Cheng Mo felt a little touched when he touched the bed, because he had told Ban Mu before that he would put a big bed on the second floor in the future, so big that he could roll on it without falling down, and there would also be a big wardrobe, because when he was young, he envied those children who had their own independent wardrobe. However, there are no such things as wardrobes in the orc world, and there are not many orc skins. Basically, there are only two pieces that can be replaced, and they are made into a new one when they are worn out, so there is no need for a wardrobe. But he didn't expect that Ban Mu still remembered what Cheng Mo said casually at the time, and actually made a wardrobe!

Cheng Mo now wants to hug Banmu and cheer, wants to touch the big cat’s head, and wants to bury himself in the big cat’s belly!

"Ah cut! Ah cut!" Banmu, who was still fighting with the guardian beast, sneezed. The guardian beast seized the opportunity and threw Banmu away. Banmu's body left a long mark in the snow.

The guardian beast licked its paws and said nonchalantly, "I'll kill you while you're sick! Have you learned that?"

Banmu got up and shook off the snowflakes on his body: "Maybe Xiaomo missed me just now. Xiaomo said that one sneeze means scolding me, and two sneezes mean missing me."

The guardian beast looked at Banmu with disdain: "It's also possible that you are sick, love-brained!"