I've been transported to the orc continent.

Qing finished making the baskets that Bai Ling wanted. Bai Ling wanted three baskets in total. The square baskets were covered with a layer of animal hide, making them look airtight and perfectly meeting Bai Ling's requirements.

Bai Ling put the basket aside, planning to make the bellows tomorrow; he needed to build the iron smelting furnace today.

After considering the area, Bai Ling decided to place the iron smelting furnace behind the low hill. It wasn't far from the tribe, with mountains in front, forest behind, and open grasslands all around. A short walk into the forest led to a stream, making it easy to fetch water.

Bai Ling brought two people to build the iron smelting furnace, while the others went to cut down trees or collect iron ore.

The iron-smelting furnace is not complicated. It is a round-bellied blast furnace that is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. Two air inlets and one outlet for molten iron are required on the furnace.

Even though the iron-smelting furnace wasn't complicated, it was Bai Ling's first time making one. He didn't lay the bricks very quickly, stopping to check after laying two rounds, afraid of making a mistake.

It took Bai Ling a whole day to finally finish building the iron smelting furnace. Faced with this strange creature, the clansmen who helped him were also very curious. The two of them circled the furnace, marveling at it.

Besides the iron smelting furnace, two earthen pits for holding molten iron also need to be built, and Bai Ling also plans to build a simple house here.

Winters in the orc world are very cold. To smelt iron in the winter, it's impossible to do so outdoors. Bai Ling decided to build four walls with adobe bricks to surround the iron furnace, and cover the roof with dry grass and animal hides. This way, even if the outside temperature is low, it won't be too cold inside with the furnace burning.

The people Zhan found for Bai Ling were all skillful tribesmen. After Bai Ling demonstrated how to build the wall for a while, two tribesmen took over the wall-building work from Bai Ling. Bai Ling sat to the side and began to make bellows.

Bai Ling had finished making the fan blades. He removed the handle from the fan blades, used a stone knife to poke a small hole in the animal hide of the basket, placed the fan blades in the basket, with the base of the fan blades passing through the basket, and finally reattached the handle. A simple bellows was now complete.

Bai Ling tried it out, and the bellows produced a decent amount of air. Although it was nowhere near as powerful as the blowers of later generations, it was still quite remarkable that such a bellows could be made under these conditions.

*

Making ironware requires molds, so Bai Ling asked the best potter in the clan to help him. He made molds for knives, axes, hammers, sickles, kitchen knives, and iron pots. Among them, the knife for Yue was the one he put the most effort into.

Bai Ling wanted to make Yue a heavy broadsword, a cleaver with a wide blade.

Bai Ling first worked with his tribesmen to make molds for axes, hammers, kitchen knives, and sickles. This took half a day. After making these molds, both the tribesmen and Bai Ling became somewhat proficient in mold making. Next, Bai Ling led his tribesmen to make molds for machetes.

Other molds can be used as substitutes, but not Yue's. This is the first piece of ironware in the orc world, the first gift he gave to Yue, and his chance to go down in history with Yue. Of course, it has to be perfect.

Bai Ling and his tribesmen spent the entire afternoon tinkering and finally made a mold for the machete.

Orcs are much stronger than humans, and Yue is one of the bravest among them. Bai Ling needs to make a knife that is larger than the machetes on Earth, with a wide and thick blade and a long enough handle so that Yue can use it more easily.

Everything was ready, but they couldn't start forging iron yet. Bai Ling and Yue had agreed to forge the first weapon in the orc world together. Yue was currently hunting for the tribe and wouldn't have time to come for another three or four days, so Bai Ling wasn't in a hurry to start forging iron.

*

Bai Ling promised to make noodles for Chen, his younger brother's birthday, a few days before winter. With all the preparations for the iron smelting done, Bai Ling had some free time this afternoon, so he decided to make noodles for Chen today.

The wheat that Bai Ling had exchanged with the Dahe tribe was already dried. Bai Ling carried half a basket of wheat on her back, found a suitable stone by the river, washed the stone clean with river water, and began to pound the wheat.

There are no stone mills in the tribe, so Bai Ling can only use the most primitive method to remove the husks from the wheat.

Fortunately, he is now an orc, and his strength is much greater than in his previous life, which is why Bai Ling has the strength to continuously swing a stone.

Bai Ling carried half a basket of wheat on his back, and it wasn't until his wrists ached that he finished pounding all the wheat.

Now the wheat grains and chaff have been almost separated. Bai Ling put all the wheat into a shallow basket, grabbed the basket with both hands and swung it up and down, and the chaff was thrown to the top.

Gently gather the dough together with your hands and pick it out. Don't throw away the wheat husks you pick out, but put them in the small basket next to you.

Wheat bran is wheat bran, which can be used to feed sheep.

As the sun began to set, Bai Ling finished gathering all the wheat. The flour he made wasn't a fine white, but a coarse yellow. There was nothing he could do about it; there were no electric mills in this world, and it was already quite an achievement for him to produce this much flour.

He'll have to get the stone mill out after he starts planting wheat next year.

*

The tribe members eat together, and some tribe members cook for themselves. Most of these tribe members have elderly people and children at home, and they cook in a corner of the square.

They would definitely cook better food if they cooked for themselves, but apart from children and cubs, no matter how delicious the food was cooked by the tribesmen, the adult orcs would not take it.

Bai Ling lit a fire in a hearth, placed an earthenware pot on it, and began to simmer bone broth. He added the bones and ribs of the sheep beast to the broth, and placed a woven bamboo steamer on top of the pot, with sausages on it.

After doing all this, Bai Ling found a ceramic basin, poured in the freshly pounded flour, added water, and began kneading the dough.

There was some wheat bran in the flour. After Bai Ling poured in the water, she used clean seashells to scoop out the floating wheat bran so that the noodles would taste better.

A member of the tribe asked, "Ling, what are you making? I've never seen this kind of food before."

Bai Ling said, "This is flour, made from wheat. Today is Chen's birthday. In the world I dreamed about, people eat noodles on their birthdays. I'm making a bowl of noodles for Chen."

One of the clansmen said, "Ling, is wheat what you're going to plant next year? I think I've heard you mention it before."

Bai Ling nodded and said, "Yes, I will plant wheat next year. After the wheat is ground into flour, we can make many delicious things. We can make noodles, steamed buns, dumplings, and pies. They are all very delicious foods."