The Transmigrated Farm Girl Has a Cheat Code

Chapter 91 Nuomi

The next morning, as soon as the craftsmen outside started their work, Lin Yan heard the noise and got out of bed.

She went outside and found Zhang Peng, who was helping Lin's father.

"Brother Zhang Peng!"

Zhang Peng looked up and saw that it was Lin Yan calling him. He immediately responded, "Hey! Miss Lin! What can I do for you?"

Lin Yan took out the materials she remembered from last night and handed them to Zhang Peng. "Brother Zhang Peng, I would like to trouble you to help me find the things on this paper. Buy them if you can."

Although Zhang Peng wasn't good at physical labor, he had been traveling around the streets and alleys for many years and was quite familiar with the situation in each village. Many of these raw materials were not common items in the market, so he had to search for them from various places.

Lin Yan felt very reassured leaving the task to Zhang Peng.

Zhang Peng took the paper and looked at the words on it. Some he recognized, and some he didn't. "I recognize sugar, salt, ferrous sulfate, saltpeter, and quartz. What is this?"

Lin Yan also overlooked Zhang Peng's incomplete literacy skills, so she could only guide him to memorize them one by one first.

"Straws? What do you need these for? You can just find them anywhere in the village." Zhang Peng didn't understand what the things on the paper were for either, and he was completely confused.

"Quartz stone, isn't that a stone from the mountain? Sometimes it's used for building houses, so it's easy to say."

Towards the end of his speech, Zhang Peng suddenly took a deep breath.

"What?! I want to, I want to pee again!" Zhang Peng's eyes widened, and his voice trailed off as he spoke, afraid of being overheard.

“Miss Lin, what do you want this dirty stuff for! Is this written wrong?” Zhang Peng strongly disapproved. How could the glamorous Lin Yan touch such things?

After thinking it over, he finally came up with a reason and asked, "Do you want to compost fertilizer?"

Lin Yan didn't want to use urine, but she couldn't find a good way to get ammonia, so she had to start with this.

"It's not for composting fertilizer, but we really need it! Do you know if there's any way to get some?" Lin Yan blinked.

“This…this…” Zhang Peng looked at the people working at the Lin family’s house, “It’s not hard to say! As long as you don’t mind, you can have it right here.”

"I'll put a bucket there so they can use it to pee from now on," Zhang Peng said, grimacing with obvious disgust.

They couldn't understand what Lin Yan was going to do.

However, since his employer had given the instructions, Zhang Peng had no choice but to go and find them.

"There's also a ceramic crucible. Just make it like this, 1.5 feet wide and 6 feet long," Lin Yan described her requirements, which were the dimensions of the mirror she planned to make.

“Yes, I’ll have them make it at their ceramics factory, but custom-made ones might be more expensive,” Zhang Peng nodded.

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Brother Zhang Peng!" Lin Yan thanked him gratefully, took out twenty taels of silver from her pocket and gave it to him, "If it's not enough, just come and ask me for more!"

“Hey! We don’t need that many, Miss Lin. These are cheap things, many of them are free!” Zhang Peng quickly declined.

"Don't refuse, take it. These things are a mess and quite troublesome. If you don't spend them all, consider it a running fee," Lin Yan advised.

"Thank you, Miss Lin!" Seeing this, Zhang Peng no longer refused and accepted the money. He thought to himself: Miss Lin is indeed generous.

Lin Yan asked Zhang Peng to help her sell the raw materials. She chose a place at the foot of the mountain, which was far from the house, and decided to set up a temporary experimental site. Just by looking at the materials, she knew that she could no longer work at home.

"Master Li!"

After Li Deshan arranged the work, the workers proceeded in an orderly manner, while Li Deshan lay in his rocking chair, checking the progress every now and then.

When Li Deshan heard Lin Yan call his name, he tilted his head and asked, "What is it?"

"Hehe! Does Master Li know how to make a kiln?"

"Kiln? What kind of kiln are you talking about, the kind used for living in?" Li Deshan frowned.

"No, it's the kind of porcelain they make!" Lin Yan shook her head and explained.

"What are you going to do with that? You want to make porcelain and open a factory, don't you? Didn't you also want to build a winery?" Li Deshan looked at her in confusion, thinking to himself: This girl really does come up with ideas on a whim, her head is full of ideas all day long.

"We don't plan to start anytime yet. We're just researching some things and need a place to fire them!"

"What new ideas have you come up with this time, you silly girl!" Li Deshan was very excited when he heard that Lin Yan was going to come up with something new again.

"Hehe! Let's make some glass first!" The glass that Lin Yan wanted to make was called "liuli" in modern terms.

"Glass!" Li Deshan sat bolt upright in his chair. "This stuff is expensive! You really have to deal with these high-end goods; there's no market for them in the county!"

"Besides, do you even know how to burn glass?!" Li Deshan looked at Lin Yan suspiciously.

"No way..." Lin Yan wasn't very confident either. She had never made glass before, and all she knew was the process in the book. She didn't know what it would be like to actually make it.

Now she has no worries about food or clothing, and she has enough money to build a house. Her main goal is to strive for a high-quality life. It would be best if the glass mirror could be successfully developed, but it doesn't matter if it can't.

Li Deshan glanced at her speechlessly, "Why are you getting involved?"

Lin Yan said nonchalantly, "Hey, life is about daring to try new things! I have a process, let's give it a try."

Li Deshan lay back in the rocking chair, nonchalantly swinging his legs, and said, "Go ahead and try it! It's not like I'm paying for it!"

“Making a kiln is simple. I’ll make you a small one first. It’s right next to the mountain, so we can build it against the mountainside. Let Li Ping and the others do that first. Anyway, you’re paid by the day, so they’re not unhappy about it.”

Lin Yan smiled broadly upon hearing this, "It has to be Master Li, he can do everything."

"Hey! Stop flattering me! Let's go!" Li Deshan waved his hand impatiently.

Li Deshan called a few workers, and they walked around a place that was quite far from the house several times before finally choosing a location that happened to be next to the test site that Lin Yan had chosen.

"Since it's going to be a kiln for firing, it needs to be well-ventilated. Let's make it far from home. This is fine!" Li Deshan marked a spot on the ground with a stick.

"The bricks are all ready-made, so just start laying them according to this size..." Li Deshan began to direct the workers, and Lin Yan listened along.

"Hey, it seems like we don't have any cement. How are we going to build this wall?" Lin Yan realized that without cement, how could she lay the bricks?

Li Deshan and the workers looked at Lin Yan in surprise when they heard her question. Li Ping scratched his head and asked, "What is cement? Isn't glutinous rice used for building walls?"

Lin Yan: (owo?)! "Nuomi..."

Li Deshan snorted and said with amusement, "There's something else you don't know! For general construction, you just mix glutinous rice, sand, lime, and the juice of the goat's tooth vine to make a kind of adhesive mud. It's very sticky, hard, and waterproof and earthquake-resistant after it dries! It's durable! However, for kilns used for firing, you still use clay slurry, which is more resistant to firing!"

Lin Yan: (????????? )? "I see, I've learned something!"

Lin Yan suddenly realized, thinking: So cement didn't exist back then! I didn't expect they used glutinous rice as a binder. No wonder there were so many bags of rice in the kitchen. They must have bought them to use for building the walls. I thought everyone liked to eat rice!