The Mountain of Ice and Fire

"A noodle knife, long and with a toothed surface, similar to the gears of a large Oak City gate winch. First, place two noodle knives in a fixed chute, adjust the meshing distance between the two knives, and then secure them with buckles. The chute allows adjustment of the gap between the two knives. A larger gap makes thicker noodles, a smaller gap makes thinner noodles."

"Place the kneaded dough on top of the noodle knives, and turn the toothed crank. The gears on the crank drive the gears of the noodle knives, causing the two knives to rotate inward, and thin noodles will be continuously produced from under the knives."

"Catch the noodles with a noodle stick, and when they reach a suitable length, cut them off with scissors. Hang them in the sun to dry, then cut the noodles into certain lengths with a knife handle. Tie them with clean cloth or silk ribbons, either two catties per bundle, five catties per bundle, or ten catties per bundle, and store them in the grain warehouse for consumption at any time. When eating, boil them in boiling water for a short while. This delicacy is best eaten with chopsticks from the West."

Master Tob was stunned.

Mountain saw the master's expression and was not surprised.

"Master, have you ever eaten noodles?"

Master Tob shook his head, his movements stiff and mechanical.

He had eaten a lot of black bread, but never noodles.

Black bread, a rough and primitive food culture, is too far from the refined food culture of China.

Noodles are only eaten by noble families who have servants, professional chefs, and the leisure to prepare them. The noodles are thick and short. Calling them noodles is more like calling them dough blocks, and because they are too thick, the taste is naturally not good. However, compared to all kinds of tired bread, they can improve the taste for the nobles and make them feel very good.

However, that kind of rough and primitive so-called dough block noodles is not comparable to Mountain's refined noodles, which are several levels higher in civilization.

The limitations of the era determine the height of civilization, including diet.

The more advanced the society and the higher the level of civilization, the more specialized the division of labor; the same is true for dietary civilization. The more refined the dietary civilization, the more advanced it is, which is certain.

Chopsticks are a symbol of the Chinese Dragon race that has run through the initial primitive civilization of animal husbandry, agricultural civilization, industrial civilization, and modern technological civilization without being eliminated and is the most dietary culture. Its thousands of years of practical history have proven that it is suitable for any civilization and transcends the limitations of any dietary civilization.

Mountain knows this very well and agrees with it.

Master Tob had never heard of a noodle knife, nor had he ever eaten noodles. And any great nobles, kings, and princes in this world, although they have eaten noodles, have never seen refined noodles and noodle knife machinery that are several levels higher in civilization.

The ironwork level in this world can already manufacture noodle knife machinery, without electricity, hand-cranked, relying on gears to drive the rotation of the noodle knives, can produce completely refined noodles.

As for gear devices and the principle of leverage, they have been applied to the mechanical opening of giant city gates with iron-clad edges in this world.

When there are chopsticks, a magical tool of dietary civilization, in a low-end civilized world, everything refined and advanced dietary civilization has a real possibility.

Salt is the absolute monopoly of the royal dukes, but wheat flour is not. With wheat flour and noodle knife machinery, refined noodles can easily become a reality.

The mechanical knowledge that Mountain, the university engineering dog who traveled through time, learned for several years has not been completely returned to the teacher.

The hand-cranked noodle machine is mechanically simple. Even a piece of iron with a dozen small holes drilled in it can immediately produce rice noodles.

Next, Master Tob became an elementary school student, listening to Mountain explain the principle of the noodle knife and the manufacturing of the mold with a bewildered expression. Master Tob also heard about chopsticks for the first time, and even though Mountain broke a branch into two pieces to gesture, he seemed to understand but didn't really understand.

The things Mountain said were completely unheard of by Master Tob. But the master has a foundation, and it didn't take long for Master Tob to get started.

The master has also made winch machinery for city gates, and he is no stranger to the principle of gear rotation driving the city gate to rise through ropes. The same is true for the noodle knife. A crank can drive the rotation of two noodle knives, and then the extremely small gap between the noodle knives can produce noodles that he has never seen or heard of.

Mountain told him that noodles can be eaten raw or boiled, as you like.

Moreover, the technology for storing food in this world is at its peak. Because winter may come for ten consecutive years, people have to rely entirely on stored food to survive this long winter. The made noodles can also be stored for a long time.

In the evening, the group stayed in the town of Aegon in the territory of the Shalyot family in the West.

Just after dinner, Master Tob knocked on Mountain's door.

He came in awkwardly, followed by Gendry with a puzzled look on his face.

Mountain knew that Master Tob was here to ask him about how to draw the mechanical drawings of the noodle knife. The master was completely fascinated.

To make machinery, you must first have drawings.

The drawings are in Mountain's mind.

And Tob seemed to have completely forgotten Mountain's terror. Once he entered the topic, he forgot everything.

The noodle knife, a never-before-heard noodle knife machine, deeply attracted Master Tob. Although he is a master of weapons and armor in this world, he is limited by the low level of his own civilization, and his knowledge of mechanics is far inferior to Mountain's.

As for why Mountain would come up with such a strange but indeed feasible mechanical device, it was not within Master Tob's consideration at all. His focus was only on mechanical manufacturing, and other things had nothing to do with him.

After achieving peak results in the industry, Master Tob lost interest in creating the same old swords and armor. What he really liked was more complex and sophisticated mechanical devices. Making weapons was his job for earning a living, and he had done this job to the top of his peers, and also to his own peak. Mountain's novel noodle knife gave him a brand new direction and activated his already lazy life.

Mountain removed many things such as electric motors, rollers, and slides, and only gave the noodle knife, an iron frame triangle for fixing the noodle knife, and a chute design for clamping the noodle knife, plus a hand crank with gears.

When they arrived in Clegane territory two days later, Tob had completely lost his fear of Mountain, and was single-mindedly focused on perfecting the various details of the noodle knife's design. Now he completely understood Mountain's requirements and ideas, and what remained was his actual work - the manufacturing of the noodle knife mold.

Everyone has a certain job that they like most, and creating novel machinery is Tob's favorite, and he also has such talent.

When Mountain and his party returned, outside Clegane Keep, Earl Gavin, his father-in-law, Jeyne Westerling, his fiancee, Mrs. Ellen, the steward of the kitchen, Julie Clegane, his adopted daughter, Hallyne, the maester, Thomasman, the stable master, the scribe of Clegane Keep, and the people of the territory who were helping to build houses in Clegane Village after finishing their farm work, all came out to greet them.