Traveling back to ancient times to make money and raise children is also free

Chapter 119 Searching for Clay

In the evening, I returned to town, still thinking about cement.

I went to bed at night. I still couldn't remember it completely. But when I woke up from a nap, my mind was more inspired. The formula of cement emerged clearly in my mind.

There are several recipes. The simplest one is to calcine limestone, clay, and iron powder.

This is relatively simple and can be made quickly as long as you find the raw materials.

But where to find the raw materials?

I remember that Baidu introduced the properties of clay used to make cement.

Generally speaking, the color is brown, gray or reddish brown. And its texture is fine, without obvious granularity. It has very high viscosity and very low water content. And its plasticity is also good, so it can play a role in viscosity and cementation in production.

Clay is formed along rivers and lakes where water flows and deposits fine soil particles. It can also be found in swamps and other wet areas. Clay can also be found in low-lying areas, farmland, cultivated land, and underground soil layers.

In other words, perhaps clay could be found in the mountains behind the big houses in the village.

So if I want to find clay, I have to go back to the village and into the mountains.

Without further ado, I asked Su Chen to harness the car and drive to the mansion.

Su Chen saw me hurriedly getting on the car. On the way, he muttered to himself, and looked like he was in trouble all the way to the village. He asked me in confusion, "Boss, what's wrong with you?"

It would be too difficult for me to find it by myself. I could only ask a few more people to go to the back mountain, the riverside, or places with water or heavy moisture to look.

"Shopkeeper Su, do you know where to find a very sticky soil?"

"Very sticky soil? Dongjia, do you mean the kind of soil that has strong adhesive properties?"

"Yes, yes, yes. The kind that's really sticky. Any color is fine."

Su Chen thought about it seriously and shook his head. He suggested, "What do you want to do with this kind of soil? If you need it urgently, you might as well ask a few more people to look for it."

I just had the same thought, so I nodded and asked him to call someone.

Soon, Su Cheng called Zhang De and his family over.

I introduced the characteristics of clay to them, and they went to look for it in places with water or soil with extremely high water content. When they found it, they should not show off, but come back and tell me.

Zhang De nodded solemnly, then led everyone out through the back door.

Seeing them leave, I also put on my backpack, picked up my bamboo hat, and went out the back door, thinking of the place where I first discovered Gastrodia elata, a place of Feng Shui that allowed me to earn my first pot of gold and solve my food and clothing problems. I haven't visited it for a long time, and now that I have time and need to find clay, I decided to look in that direction.

The weather was a bit hot, so I wore a hat on my head to block the sunlight, making me feel a little cool in this hot weather.

This road is not easy to walk on as few people come here. I found a branch and knocked and hit it, stopping and starting. Climbing up the hillside, I saw a sea of ​​dark green. There were one or two different colors dotted among the trees, adding another touch of charm to this dark green ocean.

I was in a good mood and couldn't help but whistled. I don't know which naughty bird on the tree in the forest heard my whistle and responded to me with a high and low whistle. After a whistle battle with the bird for a while, I was in a good mood and couldn't help laughing.

I walked down the hillside slowly and came to the valley. The ground was a little wet. There should be spring water in the middle of the valley. The road was wet when I stepped on it. I looked around and accidentally slipped and fell on my back.

I lay on the ground, speechless. The white clouds in the sky floated slowly by, like a reserved beauty, glancing at me shyly and then slowly going away.

A bird quacked twice, then dropped a pile of poop from the sky and flew away arrogantly.

I pounded the ground in anger. You are just a stinky bird, yet you are so arrogant? What are you so arrogant about? I will pluck your feathers when I have time.

I pulled the grass off my head, put my hands on the ground, and tried to get up. But my feet slipped and I fell again. I pulled my feet up, but the dirt under my feet was like a mouth, biting my shoes.

Oh, you damn mud, you bully me too.

No, the mud looks like it has a mouth? Isn't that the nature of clay?

I didn't care about my embarrassment. I sat up on the ground, pulled aside the grass, and tried to grab a handful of soil from the bottom with my hands. It was a bit difficult, as if I forgot to stick it on. This is good! Isn't this the clay I'm looking for?

I didn't expect it was so close to me. Great, I found it, is God helping me?

When luck is good, nothing can stop it. I can find what I want by falling down. I hid in the corner of the valley alone, laughing. If someone saw me, they would think I was a fool! Fortunately, no one passed by at that time.

I reached out to pick up the backpack that had been thrown aside and took out a hoe from it. I cleared the grass on the ground and dug out a few shovels of soil with the hoe. I rubbed it vigorously with my hands to make sure it was clay. Only then did I feel relieved.

Taking this point as the center and looking around, you will see that all the way there is this kind of clay.

After walking around, my whole body was covered in sweat. My excitement gradually cooled down in the sweat and I began to think calmly.

Land is always controlled by the political power. If I want to use the soil here, a little bit, maybe no one will know. But if I use too much, it will not work. If I really want to make cement, then I must own this piece of forest. The only way is to go to the government office, go to the village, and buy this piece of land.

I carefully searched my memory again, and it seemed that this piece of land was still ownerless. I didn't remember who it belonged to. As long as it hadn't been sold, I would have a chance. What I had to do now was to grab this opportunity.

Having made up my mind, I didn't stop, put on my bamboo hat, put the clay I dug into the pineapple, and put it on my back with all my strength, preparing to go back.

The backpack was very heavy, pressing down on my back. It was almost noon when I returned to the compound. Su Chen saw me coming back and quickly took the backpack off my back.

Seeing that my backpack was full of black dirt, his eyes lit up, "Boss, have you found what you want?"

"Found it, these are what I brought back," I replied in a very happy mood.

I didn't care what they thought of me. I wiped my face and went to the village head's house. I wanted to ask as soon as possible how to get this piece of forest.