Quick Wear: The Wronged One Becomes Rebellious

Chapter 229: The Merchant's Daughter Wants to Marry the General 26

There is a large red maple forest on the back mountain, and now is the perfect time to enjoy the scenery. Unfortunately, Shen Guli carved out a blank space on the west side and built a row of houses similar to inverted buildings, enclosing a large courtyard.

Shen Guli admired her processing workshop for a while before taking the grapes back to the main courtyard.

"Hey, I seem to smell the fragrance of osmanthus!"

Grape: "Yes, there are several large osmanthus trees outside the south gate of the village."

"It's already late autumn, and there are still osmanthus flowers?"

"Maybe it's warmer in the sun!"

Shen Guli turned around and went to look at the osmanthus tree again.

Then, not long after, Grape called for people to take things to collect osmanthus flowers.

Shen Guli stood aside, watching the servants surround the osmanthus tree with cloth, and then have them beat the branches with long poles.

The fragrant golden little flower spikes were like tiny pieces of gold, falling down with a snapping sound, and a fragrant golden rain fell in front of Shen Guli's eyes.

In short, in Shen Guli's eyes, anything can become the next good thing that she wants to make bigger and stronger.

"We can collect the pure natural golden osmanthus, dry it, make sachets, make osmanthus cakes, or just make tea with it!"

I just regret that I don't have enough manpower and a suitable team. Otherwise, it would only take a cup of tea for Shen Guli to surpass her cheap father's status!

Shen Guli finally calmed down and waited for two more days. The kiln and soda ash were ready. Grape asked someone to select a large basin of white sand with a higher proportion of quartz sand.

Pure manual operation!

It’s like picking red beans from soybeans!

She brought her people to Master Wu's workshop again.

The charcoal fire in the kiln had been burning for quite some time. She asked Master Wu to bring the crucible, add white sand, alkali and lime into it, and then put the crucible into the kiln.

Master Wu was confused by his boss's operation. What on earth was going on? Why did someone use sand instead of clay?

Thinking of this, he also asked, "Boss, what are you burning sand for? Stones can't be burned easily!"

If the sand and gravel dug from anywhere can be refined into bottles and jars, how can the porcelain kiln business continue?

Shen Guli chuckled. She couldn't explain the specific principle for the time being.

Anyway, the melting point of silicon in white sand is very high, and ordinary kilns cannot reach that temperature. But alkali can lower the melting point of silica to a temperature that can be reached by kilns, and lime can make glass insoluble in water and form a solid.

Master Wu stood in front of the kiln with a frown on his face, while Shen Guli went into the house to rest.

It doesn’t matter even if the experiment doesn’t succeed this time, it’s her first time after all.

Shen Guli didn't know how long it would take to cook this pot, so Master Wu came over and suggested that they start cooking based on his experience in making pottery.

"Okay. Let's go take a look!" Shen Guli stood up calmly and left.

Shen Guli still didn't need to do anything. Master Wu used pliers to take out the crucible lid from the kiln.

Even though it was daylight, after the lid was opened, the fiery red solution inside, which looked like molten lava, still attracted the attention of several people.

"Hey, why does it look like molten iron?" Master Wu exclaimed in surprise.

Shen Guli became interested. She lifted up her wide sleeves, picked up the ceramic tube next to her, spun it around in the crucible, picked out a ball of glass mucus, put the ceramic tube on a wooden rack next to her and kept turning it, puffing up her cheeks and blowing air into the ceramic tube.

Under the blazing firelight of the kiln, the ball of fiery red mucus gradually expanded, stretched, and became thinner.

With a faint dark green color, it presents an irregular container shape.

Several people stared with their eyes wide open as if they had seen some magical trick, watching Shen Guli's actions closely.

As the temperature of the molten glass drops, it becomes increasingly difficult to blow.

When Shen Guli had to give up after blowing until she saw stars, the irregular glass cup with a thick bottom and thin walls was basically formed.

"Ouch, I can't take it anymore. I feel dizzy." This was the extent of her demonstration.

Grape quickly supported the young lady, and spoke a little unsteadily, "Little Miss, how come you are so powerful?"

Lu Zhengrong blinked, wondering why someone interrupted him to say what he wanted to say.

Shen Guli supported Grape's hand and put down the ceramic tube. "Master Wu, I have taught you all the methods. It's up to you to figure out how to make it look good!"

"Hey, hello, boss." Master Wu looked at the strange shapes on the table that were slowly fading from their fiery red color with a look of regret. It could have been done better.

Shen Guli's cheeks were sore. She looked at her debut work and found it to be unique and beautiful.

Although it cannot be used for drinking tea, it is still very charming to place it on the table to grow flowers.

There was still a lot of glass liquid in the crucible, so Master Wu started to practice it himself. He was indeed an old craftsman. Even though he had never made glass before, his talent was something that Shen Guli could not compare to.

Master Wu puffed up his cheeks and blew hard, his eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets. With his skillful technique, he soon made a bowl that looked as good as if it was carved out of a mold!

"Wow! It's so beautiful." Grape exclaimed.

The bowls and cups have a light dark green color, which adds a touch of brightness and elegance under the sunlight, and are very beautiful.

It looks better than the pure white glass I originally expected.

"Well done, Master Wu, you did a great job." It turns out that professional matters should be left to professionals!

Master Wu rubbed his cheeks with a smile, and with his other hand, he reached into the crucible with the ceramic tube to pick up the glass liquid.

Wu the blacksmith had never thought that he could learn such a miraculous skill in his lifetime. The one he made just now was not perfect, so he had to make a better one to make his boss more satisfied with him.

Lu Zhengrong was so jealous that he looked at Shen Guli several times. Shen Guli waved her hand and said, "Brother Niu, if you want to play, go ahead. You can even make yourself a cup for drinking water!"

Lu Zhengrong ran with shining eyes, pulled out a new ceramic tube and began to pick the glass liquid like Master Wu did.

He wanted to make a beautiful glass cup and then show it off in front of Lin Shu!

"Miss!"

Shen Guli didn't even need to look back. "You can go if you want, but be careful. It won't look good if a girl gets a scar from a burn!"

"Yes, I understand, Miss!"

The glass liquid in the crucible was scraped clean. Shen Guli looked at the mess of glassware on the display table and asked Master Wu, "We still have time to make another pot today. Can you make a set of glass tea sets?"

Master Wu thought about it and said, "No problem!"

"Okay! Each of you take two of your products back as souvenirs, and smash all the other defective products." Shen Guli stressed seriously, "We can't let any defective products get out of here!"

The three of them responded and went to pick out their own treasures.