Captain Lee continued to command:
"Add wrought iron—"
The so-called wrought iron is iron that can hammer out the tools of rural production and life after forging and firing. In the 1950s, rural China was still half-Stone Age. Wrought iron tools are very rare and expensive. It is a valuable possession for every family. They are also used with wooden handles, such as knives, sickles, lifts, forks, and ice shovels for ice fishing in winter. The amount of iron used is very limited.
At the initial mobilization meeting, Director Zheng said: "When steel is refined, it is mechanized. Each member left only a sickle for the autumn harvest, and a shovel for repairing the fields was enough. The rest of the farm tools must be selflessly contributed. ”
After dinner that day, there was a meeting again, and Director Zheng stressed: "We must voluntarily contribute with the attitude of the master, and those who contribute more are praised." Not positive, white flags are planted in front of the door, and the struggle is criticized."
Captain Wang said: "Folks, old and young masters, according to the types of rural iron tools, the superiors have set the tasks of each family, and everyone should remember well: Pig iron: good iron pots are big and small, there is no limit to broken pots, one big wedge, one two wedges, and one three wedges. Wrought iron: cross pickaxe, large pickaxe, two pickaxes, small pickaxes, two teeth, foreign branches, broken shovels, old hoes, old kitchen knives, ice shovels. Beyond that, the more the merrier. Don't be a bad example of being criticized for struggling on the streets. The superiors have drawn policy levers – being caught on the right, or planting a white flag, a lifetime of dirt and filth, but also to influence the children (dialect, can not lift their heads to be human). ”
Now I really threw these tools into the stove, and my heart ached.
Old Master Han muttered, "Alas, heavenly angel's house, alas."
Zhang Laohan said: "Without the tools to cultivate the land, how will I work in the future?"
Uncle Tian said, "Now that the machineization of shouting will really fall from the sky at once?" I'm so confused, I can't see through, I can't see through." After that, I couldn't stop shaking my head.
"Ignition—"
This sentence Li Lu shouted the most excitedly, a long tonal tone. People were uplifted again to watch.
Wu Er opened the furnace door, Qin Hai handed a pine wood Mingzi torch, director Deng took it and inserted it into the furnace. Green smoke rose from the mouth of the blast furnace.
"Blowing wind—" the furnace chief shouted.
The four young men immediately shook four blowers—wooden windmills used by peasant families to mill rice. The wind blows through the canvas pipe into the bottom of the furnace.
The smoke from the blast furnace became thicker. It was a heavy physical labor, and in about ten minutes, the young man was sweating profusely and the speed of the car was slow.
"On the second shift—" Six more lads came up, and the car spun around again.
"On the third class—"
"On the fourth class of the earth—"
Smoke billowed from the blast furnace, and flames were faintly crept up at the mouth of the blast furnace. As you know, it's already raging.
Gradually, the smoke thinned out. You can hear the crackling of charcoal burning in the hearth. The charcoal fire must have turned red.
……
Uncle Tian asked Second Uncle Lu, "How long will it take to refine this furnace?" ”
Second Uncle Lu said: "In a word, it is called 'a hundred refining into steel,' who knows? Who has experienced it? The big girl sat in the car – for the first time"
Secretary Hong announced that "non-steelmaking workers disbanded and rested, and came to see the steel in the evening."
In the twilight of the twilight, the blast furnace was already brightly lit, and the whole village gathered again.
The big children shouted, "Steel is coming!" ”
"There must be an iron bull"!
"Communism is coming"!
The children shouted:
"Ah--ah——,-ah-"
Director Zheng asked loudly, "Director Li, how's it going?" ”
Li Lu's long voice was already hoarse: "I guess, can it be done?" There is no smoke on the top of the blast furnace, and I can't hear the crackling charcoal burning in the furnace, who knows? Your director looks at it and gives the order."
Director Zheng loudly ordered: "Out of steel"!
People had forgotten to breathe, their eyes wide open, just staring at the steel mouth, and their eyes froze.
Captain Li personally went into battle, holding an iron hook that was more than a foot long, and opened the furnace door, and the inside was red and red. Dahe suddenly remembered a phrase from Uncle Zhang Yunhe:
"Iron is made red is steel, and molten steel rushes down."
However, the molten steel did not rush out, as if the red was a large piece. The sand mold under the furnace door leaned over and waited quietly.
People waited with bated breath.
The sand mold under the furnace door was still leaning over and waiting silently.
await
The red in the hearth slowly turned dark red. The crowd was a bit commotion, but couldn't get close, the stove was too roasted.
The next morning, the blast furnace had cooled, and the inside had changed from yesterday's red to today's black. The half-melted iron pot pieces, pickaxes, axes, hoes, and knives, like the snowman in the sun, looked plausible, changed some appearances, but the silhouette of the frame was still there. It's just that they all froze together and became a big stone. Charcoal chips are also in the fun, and a large and small black hole appears in the brick. These iron tools were half melted together, never to be separated again, and let Master Li strike hard with a large iron fiber.
In the afternoon, the stove was dismantled. Roll down an irregular square-like circle-like and elliptical multi-prismatic object. Like a fallen alien visitor, like an irregular asteroid in the asteroid belt of the solar system; and like a Taihu stone that has just been fished from the bottom of the lake and has not been artificially obtained.
A few days later, Secretary Cui of the Great River Bay Commune came to the Emerald Bay Brigade to preside over a meeting. Pointed out; now, the large-scale steel smelting is in full swing. The county party committee instructed us not to be afraid of setbacks and failures, failure is the mother of success, be good at summarizing, continue to move forward, and make the remaining raw materials must be refined into steel.
thereupon:
Chief Li went back to various places to learn the scriptures.
Master Yang continued to cut down trees and burn charcoal.
Stone technicians rebuild the blast furnace.
A dozen days later, an irregular multi-prismatic object was created.