Tuesday 10 November 2020

Chapter 12 The First Experience of Burning Pottery

 The children in the tribe looked curiously at the rope in Chen Chao's hand, and looked at the stone slab supported by a small stick not far away, and felt that Monk Zhang Er was puzzled.

    But just as they were discussing it, they saw a bird landed on the ground and began its leisurely walk after dinner.

    The children headed by Huang Yan watched the bird stepping into the stone slab step by step, pecking at the little fruit under the stone slab bit by bit. They instantly understood what Chen Chao was going to do!

    Hearing a soft "pop", Chen Chao gently pulled the rope in his hand. The stone slab supported by the small sticks lost its balance, and the bird that was tasting the fruit was pressed to the ground.

    "Wow!" The children's exclamations were mixed, and they all surrounded them curiously.

    Chen Chao bent down to remove the slate and took out the little bird. He sighed and missed the dustpan... After

    re-supporting the slate with small sticks, Chen Chao returned to the rabbit’s nest and began to pull the hay from the inside. The children also learned everything and started to make draft ropes.

    It’s just a bitter for the rabbits, but fortunately, it’s not yet winter, and the presence or absence of hay does not have a great impact on them, and in winter, these little rabbits will be moved to caves and other places.

    Even when a female rabbit wants to give birth to a baby rabbit, she will choose to use her own hair to make a nest for the baby rabbit.

    After making more than a dozen one-meter straw ropes, the hay in the rabbit’s nest was announced, and they were still eating the fresh green grass slowly, without realizing that their nests had been copied. Bottom upturned.

    Taking advantage of the fact that there is no need to hunt today, Chen Chao started the idea of ​​teaching children to speak Mandarin. After all, education must start with the baby!

    Starting from what he was doing now, Chen Chao took the draft rope and said word by word, "Grass, rope."

    Huang Yan responded first, and he also said like Chen Chao, "Grass, rope. "It’s

    just that the pronunciation is still not very standard, but children learn things very quickly. If you say it a few times, you can imitate the pronunciation very similarly.

    If someone takes the lead, the children behind will all learn, "Grass, rope."

    "Weave, grass, rope."

    "I, weave, grass, rope."

    Chen Chao is not greedy, and can learn four or five a day. One word is pretty good. Now the whole tribe can hear children holding straw ropes and saying to their mothers, "I, weaving, straw, rope."

    As for fathers... the

    mothers don’t know who the father is. ...

    ...

    after finish editing the rope, Chen Chao pondering things from the container, the tribe has several stone basin, but this thing, not burn hot ah ...

    even a soup can not burn ...

    his library I searched for several methods of making pottery, but without exception, not only need to build a kiln, but also to build several layers, and there are certain requirements for soil quality.

    After constantly switching keywords to search, Chen Chao finally saw it in a corner-the pottery made by the local method.

    It is so simple that it only needs to dig a deep hole, put firewood on it and burn it directly.

    But it should be the case. The people who discovered how to make pottery in the early days must not have discovered it from the three-story kiln.

    After finding the method of firing, Chen Chao began to ponder the clay for firing pottery. What he knew, such as kaolin, would definitely not be found now.

    Loess can also be used. Chen Chao looked at the soil that was turned over by a wooden stick. Although he was not very satisfied, he could still use it. At most, he would use a stone to smash some small hard pieces to remove these visible impurities. .

    He dug two pits, one for burning pottery, about 60cm, and one for processing pottery clay, which is more casual.

    The people who dealt with the moa's corpse by the small river looked over curiously. One-eyed was in it. He was holding a small stick while handling the moa's intestines while watching Chen Chao playing in the mud.

    Chen Chao first squeezed out 3 small straight-tube pots, which were about 15-20cm in length. There were too many pits to be dug. To make larger pottery, it is estimated that either a kiln or a larger pit should be built.

    Otherwise, such a small open-air pit, I can't even think about it...but it's just a trial mentality this time.

    He turned his head and looked around, because the pottery-making process was relatively long, and Chen Chao was either digging a hole or playing with mud. After a few glances, everyone didn't care.

    So Chen Chao saw that there were no more people watching, there was no psychological burden, and there was nothing wrong with failure. If it succeeds, consider making it on a scale next time if you have time.

    He first found a relatively flat stone, and then a wood with no protrusions as a rolling pin. First, he squeezed out the required pot wall, and then used a wooden stick to roll it to almost the thickness, and then made a round bottom.

    As for why it is to make a straight pot instead of directly using other more complicated shapes, there are several reasons, 1 is that he does not.

    2 is the pot is simple, use a piece of mud to circle into a tube, and then connect the bottom to connect it, and then treat it to become a pot.

    3 The pot is needed now, and can be used now. You need a pot to boil hot water, cook a fish soup, and stew a meat.

    Although he now has a cheat that can be online at any time, but searching for suitable information does not mean that he can make it right away.

    Many things that need time to accumulate still belong, and they will be taken as soon as they are seen, and they will be discarded as soon as they are done. In this regard, Chen Chao has already been psychologically prepared.

    After all, his skill points are planting and hunting... After

    squeezing the straight pot, Chen Chao found a cool place to dry them in the shade. Not all the mud embryos need to be dried in the shade, but he is not sure whether this can be done in the shade. It is better to be safe when exposed to the sun.

    The pot was squeezed in the morning, and when Chen Chao went to see it in the afternoon, he felt it was almost the same after touching the mud embryo. After all, it was not a big thing, and he was not sure about the standard of dryness, so he could only experiment repeatedly.

    After checking, I made sure that the pot wall was as thick as possible. I put hay in another pit, covered the grass with a layer of fine wood, and then put a layer of wood, and finally put the mud embryo on the wood. Top.

    Then cover the top with small firewood and hay to start the fire from above. During this period, some flammable twigs were continuously added.

    After the bamboo chips burned, Chen Chao was still worried that the temperature was not enough. Another layer of firewood was added.

    Waiting for more than two hours with anticipation, Chen Chao went down to the river and used rattan baskets for a basket of fish and picked out two palm-sized fish.

    Cut open the belly of the fish with a sharp stone, remove the internal organs and gills, and then scrape off the scales of the fish and save it for later use.

    Two hours later, after shoveling away the ashes, you can already see the color of pottery, Chen Chao almost shed tears, changing from frugality to extravagance is easy, and from extravagance to frugality is difficult...

    He finally can drink his mouth hot Water!

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