A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot

After finishing his lunch, Li Yi returned to the open space outside the restaurant and started to build a naan pit.

The most traditional naan pit is a rammed earth structure, which is made of clay mixed with wool, and looks like a large water tank with a wide belly turned upside down.

In some places in the southern part of the Western Regions, nitrate soil is used to make naan embryos, but in modern times, cheap and convenient red bricks are used for naan embryos in most parts of the Western Regions.

Li Yilei's is this new type of naan pit.

But although it is a new type, only the material is slightly different, but the shape of the naan pit is no different from the traditional naan pit.

He first laid a base with red bricks, then spread a layer of yellow mud on the red brick base, and then built a cylindrical cylinder with other red bricks.

The red bricks were glued together with mud, and Li Yi filled the gaps of the red bricks with yellow mud, trying not to leave any gaps.

When he arrived at the mouth of the pit, Li Yi came to the second bag of yellow mud that Liu Yifei and the others stepped on. He divided half of it and piled it into a pile. sent wool.

"Come and help tear the wool."

Li Yi called the few people who were idle over and asked them to help, and together they tore the bundles of sheared wool into strands.

"Why tear the wool?"

Zhao Jinmai was puzzled.

Li Yi patted the mouth of the pit, and explained: "The naan is made from the mouth of the pit, and the hand is put in to stick the naan on the wall of the pit inside.

So here will often bear weight, and the guy who makes the naan will press here, or kneel here to maintain balance, so it should be as firm as possible here, so that the naan pit can last longer. "

"Is there such a thing as exquisite?"

Wu Lei tore at the wool and exclaimed: "Brother Yi, can you speak cross talk?"

"Speaking of cross talk?"

Li Yi didn't understand what he meant.

"People say that there is a grocery store in the belly of cross talk, who knows everything."

Wu Lei smiled and said, "I feel like you are like this, as if you know everything."

"..."

Li Yi was a little speechless by his imagination, he shook his head and joked, "I'm not a grocery store, I'm an encyclopedia dictionary."

As he spoke, he squatted down, put the torn wool into the mud pile, added some salt water, and started stirring.

Soon, the wool was mixed with the yellow mud and turned into a mass of silky mud.

Zhao Jinmai also helped to stir together, and asked curiously: "Brother Yi, will wool become stronger in this mud?"

"Of course."

Li Yi said with a smile: "This kind of animal hair and plant silk are very tough. When there was not so much iron, wool and cotton were used as armor.

Including modern bulletproof vests made of wool, the effect is very good. "

"Too awesome."

Zhao Jinmai sighed: "I feel that a lot of wisdom of the ancients can be re-studied with modern technology, and it can radiate new vitality."

Hearing this, Wu Lei sighed from the sidelines: "Yes! I have always suspected that the invention of the pulley shoes was based on the armor and horse amulet used by Dai Zong, the Shenxing Taibao. Dai Zong might be wearing the first pair of pulley shoes in the world."

"..."

Li Yi looked at him speechlessly: "Even if you say you're on stilts, I'm considered a bit educated."

"Is not it?"

Wu Lei was not convinced.

Li Yi sighed: "If it's really roller shoes, then Dai Zong's nickname shouldn't be Shenxing Taibao."

"what is that?"

"Nezha, God's work!"

"..."

Liu Yifei on the side heard a black line, and was speechless: "You two can really talk together! I thought you would say that the road conditions are not so good! It turns out that it was inferred from the nickname."

The audience in the live broadcast room was also brainstormed by this topic, and they sent barrage discussions one after another.

"I think it makes sense, and I have always suspected that Hong Tianlei Lingzhen traveled through the past!"

"Haha! Is Nezha okay? But I also think the most likely one is stilts."

"How could it be stilts? You can't even walk on flat ground. Wouldn't it be even worse if you climbed mountains and crossed hurdles?"

"How did this go from wool to Water Margin? Isn't this thinking span too big?"

The audience was discussing enthusiastically, but Wu Lei was still pestering Li Yi and asked: "Then tell me, why can Dai Zong travel 800 miles a day?"

"That's a novel, it's exaggerated, you can't take it seriously!"

Li Yi explained with a smile: "However, Dai Zong has a prototype, which is an information transmission system in the Song Dynasty, called Jijiaodui.

In Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Bi Tan", there is a record of rush delivery.

The original text is: In Xining, there is another gold medal in a hurry, just like the ancient Yuxi. It is made of wooden plaques with red lacquer and gold characters, bright and dazzling, passing by like flying lightning, everyone who looks at it avoids the road, and travels more than five hundred miles a day. If there is a speedy punishment in front of the army, it will be issued from the front of the imperial court, and the three provinces and the Privy Council will not get it.

Back then, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou used 12 gold medals to urgently call Yue Fei back to Beijing, which was an imperial decree passed on in a hurry.

Express delivery was a real job in the Song Dynasty to transport information, and it could really travel more than 500 miles a day. In the novel, the fictional Dai Zong can travel 800 miles a day. Although it is slightly exaggerated for the sake of art, it is also understandable. "

Hearing Li Yi tell the source, Wu Lei was disappointed and said: "Well, I thought the pulley shoes were invented by Dai Zong!"

During the conversation, the wool mud has been reconciled.

Li Yi got up and covered the mouth of the pit with wool mud.

Wool mud mixed with wool has a better water-holding ability than ordinary yellow mud, so with a light spatula, the surface quickly becomes even and delicate.

However, in order to make it stronger, after wiping the mouth of the pit, Li Yi used a wooden hammer to knock the yellow mud on the mouth of the pit again to make it more compact.

The outer layer of yellow mud was relatively simple. Some straw residues were added to the remaining half of the yellow mud, and Li Yi wiped them on the outside of the naan pit.

He was the only one to do this job, Wu Lei and Huang Xiaoming were beside him helping him pass the yellow mud, while Liu Yifei and Zhao Jinmai were beside him fanning him, feeding him water, and wiping his sweat.

Seeing this treatment, the audience in the live broadcast room were envious.

"Damn! I'm plastering at the construction site, why don't I get such good treatment?"

"A master with four small workers? There are two beauties in there? Why don't you come to me for this job?"

"Brother Yi's method of plastering is not good! Let me replace it! As long as Maimai feeds me, fan me, and call me a good husband, all you need is no wages!"

"Who peed? Help me wake up that kid upstairs?"

"I come!"

"I'll come first! My urine is yellow!"

With the cooperation of everyone, it only took two and a half hours to build the naan pit.

Stepping on a ladder and jumping out of the naan pit, Li Yi lit a piece of paper, threw it into the naan pit, then bent down, listening to the burning sound of the paper at the vent below.

The heat brought by the paper burning will heat the air in the naan pit and rise, while the cold air will flow into the naan pit from the vents below due to the air pressure.

This step tests the ventilation effect of the pit.

If the ventilation is good enough, the firewood in the naan pit will burn faster.

After the paper was burned, Li Yi took Wu Lei to the warehouse to find a rainproof tarpaulin, and used a ladder and a wooden frame to set it up on top of the naan pit.

Seeing this, Zhao Jinmai asked curiously: "Brother Yi, if you expose it to the sun, wouldn't it dry faster?"

"No way."

Li Yi explained: "Nan pits in the Western Regions can be directly exposed to the sun, because the air humidity in the Western Regions is inherently low, and the moisture in the soil will evaporate quickly.

But the air humidity in the capital city is much higher than that in the Western Regions, and what we use is yellow mud, not cement. If the sun is exposed to the sun, the evaporation rate of water on the sunny side and the shady side will be different, and the degree of dryness will be different. , forming cracks.

It is best to let it dry in the shade, wait until the degree of dryness is almost the same, then ignite the fire and burn it thoroughly, and the naan pit can be used. "

Zhao Jinmai listened, and nodded half-understood: "I didn't expect this naan pit to look so ordinary, but there are so many details."

"Is it normal?"

Li Yi turned his head and looked at the round, smooth and delicate naan pit, feeling a sense of accomplishment: "How cool is this skill!"

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