The little ancestor of the family

Chapter 341 Grinding Carbon Powder

"Why doesn't Lieutenant General Lin apply frostbite cream?"

Ye Xinran asked while looking at his red and swollen hands.

"Paint it!"

Lieutenant General Lin took out a small porcelain bottle from his waist and opened it to show Ye Xinran: "Look, isn't this a lot of it? This ointment is really useful. After applying it, it doesn't itch so badly.

But the journey ahead is long, so I have to use it sparingly."

The others nodded after hearing this, "Thanks to Miss Lu, otherwise we wouldn't be able to sleep well tonight."

"This is not a solution!"

Ye Xinran sighed in her heart.

Prince Rui saw through her thoughts and comforted her, "Xinran, I know you are kind-hearted and can't bear to see others suffer, but people like us are used to living in the open air, and we have experienced this kind of situation before.

Just be patient and it will pass.

Going further, we will reach the Qilian Mountains. As we walk along the foot of the mountain, the wind on the road will be much smaller than it is now.

It wasn’t so painful then.”

"The most important thing is sleeping at night."

Ye Xinran said, "When you're active during the day, at least your body is still a little warm, but when you sleep, your body is motionless and exposed to this kind of weather, it's really easy for something to happen."

After he said this, everyone around him fell silent.

Two soldiers froze to death last night.

When they were found this morning, both of them had taken off their shirts and were lying bare-chested in the snow, motionless.

Experienced veterans know that they take off their clothes not because they are hot, but because they are cold and have an illusion that they are in a warm environment, so they take off their clothes.

Zhao Yun has already issued an order today, asking everyone to be alert when sleeping at night. If they see anyone trying to take off their clothes, they should stop them immediately and carry the person to the fire.

"Let's light a few more fires tonight so that everyone can sleep in alternate positions."

Rui Wangdao.

"Actually, I still have an idea."

Ye Xinran knew that even without her help, these people would be able to get through this difficult time.

Just as they said themselves, they would crawl to the northern border with all their might and deliver the food.

But doing so comes at a high price.

Not to mention that those with poor health will freeze to death on the road. Even if they survive, they will suffer from lifelong cold legs, arthritis, frostbite that will recur in winter, and other problems arising from them.

They have paid a lot and don't deserve to suffer this anymore.

Thinking of this, Ye Xinran said, "My master gave me a recipe before, called a warm baby. When this thing is attached to a person's body, it will automatically generate heat and bring warmth to the human body. If it can be made, everyone can stick the warm baby on their body when they sleep at night to avoid the suffering of the cold!"

"Bao...Bao?" King Rui didn't react for a moment. Why did this thing have such a cute name?

"Ahem," Ye Xinran coughed awkwardly, "Actually, you can call it a heating pad!"

"So how can we do that? We have to walk at least 80 miles every day now. We are running non-stop, so how can we have time to make this?"

King Rui didn't want to delay his trip because of this.

Every day we waste on the road means the situation in northern Xinjiang becomes more dangerous.

Ye Xinran thought about it.

To make a heating pad, the main ingredients used are iron powder, activated carbon, non-metallic mineral powder and table salt.

Now she has all these things in her laboratory, the only thing missing is activated carbon powder.

Due to the large amount used in daily life, there is little activated carbon powder left, but there is still some activated carbon.

"I have all the necessary materials here."

Ye Xinran said.

"You have them all?" Even though King Rui knew that Ye Xinran was not an ordinary person, he was still surprised when he heard this.

"Yes, you will definitely have what your master passed down to you."

"But what you have is just a drop in the bucket. One or two people might be enough, but how can our army of 20,000 people be able to do it?

It's getting colder later, you should make some for yourself."

King Rui looked at the long line and sighed.

"If it was for my own use, why would I come all the way to tell the prince!"

Ye Xinran straightened her thin shoulders to make herself look more credible: "Since I have brought it up, there must be a way to solve everyone's problem."

"So many people?"

King Rui raised his hand and pointed at the team that seemed to have no end.

“Yes, there are so many people.”

Ye Xinran said.

"Everyone is guaranteed to have eight heating pads a day, to be applied to the feet, legs, lower back, and stomach. Eight pads per person, 8 people would have 8 pads."

"16!" Just hearing the number, the deputy generals around were almost scared to faint.

It is probably impossible to steam 16 steamed buns in one day.

"Of course I didn't do it myself."

Ye Xinran looked at everyone's expressions and said, "How can I make a heating pad worth 160,000 yuan by myself?"

"Who will do it?" everyone wondered.

"Everyone should work together, and each should do his own thing. If you are driving a cart or riding a horse and don't have time to spare, I can take your place."

"But, the prince just said it. We have to travel every day, so where do we have time to do this!"

Ye Xinran raised her chin and said, "We walk with our feet, not our hands. We can do it while walking."

"what?"

"Can this still happen?"

"Don't worry, it's not hard at all. It's a simple task."

"In that case, Miss Lu, please teach us how to do this."

"Ding Qiao, go get me two pieces of charcoal." Ye Xinran turned around and instructed Ding Qiao.

"Yes!"

Ding Qiao turned around to look for charcoal, while Ye Xinran took out a small cloth bag from her body.

No one could see where she took the cloth bag from.

I just wonder why she would carry such a thing with her.

When Ding Qiao brought the charcoal, Ye Xinran stuffed the charcoal into his pocket and found a clean stone to put in as well.

Ye Xinran threw the bag of charcoal and stones onto the ground. After the charcoal was broken into small pieces, she picked up the bag and swung it in her hand.

Everyone watched attentively, and no one understood what Ye Xinran was going to do.

After shaking it for a while, Ye Xinran opened the bag and showed everyone the charcoal powder inside: "If you want to make a heating pad, you need a lot of charcoal powder. Now we have charcoal, but no charcoal powder, so we need everyone to work together to turn all the charcoal into powder.

The finer this thing is ground, the better the effect will be. What I have now is just in a relatively rough state.

So everyone needs to try to turn the charcoal they are given into powder while walking. I will collect it at night and put the charcoal powder together with other things to make a heating pad. "

“Can this thing really work?”

Everyone knows that burning charcoal can keep you warm, but few people know that this thing can generate heat when ground into powder.

"Sure. We'll start tomorrow."

Ye Xinran also didn't want to delay any longer.

King Rui hesitated for a moment and said, "Aren't the charcoals you brought used to fill the hand warmers? As far as I can remember, there weren't many."

With King Rui's words, everyone's excitement was suppressed.

The charcoal was originally used by the young lady for heating herself. How could they have the nerve to use all of the girl's charcoal?

"Why don't you just not bother?" someone said.

"It's getting colder as we go further back. The charcoal is all used up. If Miss Lu gets frozen again, it will be bad for her health."

"That's right, we are all made of iron and can endure hardships!

If Miss Lu gets sick, who will treat our illness?"

"Yes, yes, the lady's body is more important."

Everyone tried to persuade Ye Xinran.

On the one hand, they didn't want Miss Lu to get cold because of everyone, and on the other hand, they still didn't quite believe in the idea of ​​the heating pad proposed by Ye Xinran.

I'm afraid it will be of no use in the end.

It's okay to put in a little effort, but if you waste the best charcoal, it will be more trouble than gain.

"I know how much charcoal I brought, so your Majesty doesn't need to worry about me."

Ye Xinran responded directly with just one sentence.

"Now, as long as everyone is willing to cooperate with me, it will be fine."

In fact, I can do it on my own even without Ye Xinran's cooperation.

I just don’t want to scare everyone when something suddenly appears.

Some things still need some preparation.

"Okay. Then let's do as Miss Lu says!"

King Rui said, "Zhao Yun, go and tell all the team leaders to gather here. Let's listen to Miss Lu's explanation of the operation. We will start tomorrow."

"it is good!"

Zhao Yun led his men from the front of the team to the end.

When he came back, everyone was there.

"My Lord, what are we learning?"

someone asked.

"You all have to watch how Miss Lu does it. Starting tomorrow, we will grind the charcoal into powder while we march."

After King Rui’s introduction, Ye Xinran started her performance again.

This time, she explained while doing it, and emphasized the key details, such as: the mouth of the bag must be tied tightly, the stones must be clean, preferably with some edges and corners, but not too heavy...

Everyone took Ye Xinran's words to heart.

Finally, Ye Xinran announced: Tomorrow, I will distribute all the bags and charcoal to everyone. You can grind them while walking, and hand them over to me in the evening.

"Okay, I understand!"

These small leaders didn’t know what Ye Xinran wanted to do by grinding carbon powder, but their advantage was that as long as the orders came from their superiors, they would complete them without reservation.

So Ye Xinran doesn’t have to worry about them being lazy, she just needs to make her needs clear.

The next morning, baskets of charcoal were unloaded from the carriage brought by Ye Xinran.

People who were far away couldn't see it, but the food delivery team who were nearby were so shocked by this operation that their jaws almost dropped.

How could such a small carriage store so much charcoal?

However, due to their identities, they did not dare to go forward and explore too much.

Besides, at this time, many things were more important than the carrying capacity of a carriage, so later on, everyone began to get used to it. Whenever there was charcoal being brought down, they would pass it one by one and slowly transfer it to the beginning and end of the team.

Along with the charcoal, white cloth bags were also passed over.

The material of this cloth bag is very strange. It is neither cotton nor linen. It looks very shiny and feels smooth to the touch. It is obviously a very expensive material.

Everyone felt a little regretful when they got it. It was such a waste to use such good material to grind carbon powder.

However, it was a pity, no one dared to disobey the order and hide the bag.

Everyone followed the instructions of the little leader, put the charcoal into their pockets, and picked up suitable stones from the ground.

Some of the stones were dirty, so they washed them clean with snow and then wiped off the snow with their clothes.

It didn't take long for this food delivery team to start to act strange.

They walked forward one by one with big strides.

Everyone was holding a white cloth bag in their hands.

The cloth bag passed through the air, making a slight buzzing sound.

If someone stood on a high place and looked down at this time, they would feel that the people in the team were like butterflies with one white wing, constantly flashing one side of their wing, stirring up the quiet air around them.

This beautiful and strange scene formed a unique landscape that lasted until the afternoon.

When it was time to rest, the butterflies finally stopped flapping their wings.

The soldiers opened their bags and found that the charcoal inside had indeed turned into fine charcoal powder.

Someone exclaimed in amazement, and said that he would try to grind flour using this method after returning home.

Some people even groaned and complained about the pain in their shoulders.

"I've been shaking my arms all day, and now I feel like my arms don't even belong to me anymore!"

"Then why don't you switch and use your other arm?"

"Can we? When the leader demonstrated it to us yesterday, he didn't change hands?"

"He shook it for a while yesterday, so of course he didn't need to change hands. What's your brain for?"

"I was saying, today I saw Brother Wang shaking his hand with a grin on his face, it turns out he didn't dare to change hands!"

"Hey, if you break this arm today, you're going to break that arm tomorrow!"

Amid the joking voices of the crowd, the man called Brother Wang blushed.

"I'm just being more serious, right? Even though my arm is broken, I can guarantee that it's better than yours."

Several people standing next to each other opened their bags and compared them. It turned out that Brother Wang's looked thinner.

"You see, mine will definitely not be worse than yours tomorrow!"

"Mine is the same, I just didn't practice it today, tomorrow will definitely be better than today!"

Amidst laughter, everyone passed the bags of charcoal powder to Ye Xinran one by one.

Ye Xinran took the bag and put it into the space. After everyone's charcoal powder had been handed in, Shunzi, who was sitting in the corner of the carriage, didn't see anything extra in the carriage.

"Ms. Lu, are you going to start making the heating pad? Am I in the way here? Otherwise, I'd better go downstairs!"

Just now, Ye Xinran was so focused on her work that she completely forgot that there was someone behind her.

Now when Shunzi opened his mouth, she was startled!