"Huh?" Tang Qingchuan, who was more calm than he imagined, raised his eyes slightly and looked at Xiao Zhang.

Xiao Zhang saw that the teacher signaled him to continue, and said in a heart: "Actually, I went to the Baijia kiln to burn pottery figurines yesterday, and I didn't hide it from the teacher, I burned there from morning to midnight yesterday, and fired a total of almost 100 pottery figurines. ”

"How much?" This time Tang Qingchuan was really stunned.

"One hundred and three pieces. Xiao Zhang felt embarrassed.

"You burned for a day and a night?" asked Tang Qingchuan.

Xiao Zhang touched his head and said, "I didn't go home until after one o'clock in the morning." Xiao Zhang smiled embarrassedly.

"What does this have to do with the fact that you have drawn the blanks for Ru porcelain, don't say that you took the time to fire the clay figurines and asked those workers about the blanks, your blank drawing skills are much better than ordinary workers. Tang Qingchuan's face was full of disbelief.

Xiao Zhang continued: "Of course not, in fact, the teacher and I went to practice the kiln. ”

"Huh?" Tang Qingchuan was stunned again.

"In fact, you also know that I am very interested in Ru porcelain, and I know a little bit, otherwise the first time in the Baijia kiln, I can't win Mr. Bai's apprenticeship, but I haven't been in contact for a long time, and my hands are relatively raw, so I went to the Baijia kiln to practice my hands, burned a hundred pottery figurines, and felt the feeling of firing the kiln, so that I can glaze the Ru porcelain clay tire after pulling the blank to fire more smoothly, you don't mean that you are only familiar with it, I will go to burn more, after all, his mud does not need money. Xiao Zhang forcibly explained.

"So, in addition to drawing blanks, you also have research on the glazing and firing of Ru porcelain?" Tang Qingchuan hit the subject directly.

"Back to the teacher's words, I understand a little. Xiao Zhang smiled.

"Do you still need to go to the Baijia kiln to practice?" My disciple of Tang Qingchuan still uses to go to the kiln of other people's houses to practice?

"Teacher, don't be angry, I don't know where your kiln mouth is, and I'm embarrassed to ask, you're testing my feel, I don't want to surprise you, as for the figurines because this thing is easy to pinch, and there is no need to glaze, it is much easier to control than Ru porcelain." Xiao Zhang continued to round the field.

Tang Qingchuan sighed and said, "So when you tried the feel yesterday, the mud threw on me on purpose?"

"That can't, that's really a long time since I started, my hand is raw, so I'm afraid of being embarrassed, and it's the first time I'm nervous in front of the teacher, I started after the teacher left, and if I'm not nervous, it will have an effect, I dare to go to the Baijia kiln, the teacher can rest assured, I will never go to the Baijia kiln in the future, then the teacher will take me to see our own kiln?" Xiao Zhang said with a smile.

Bai Qingchuan nodded and said, "You kid, you are eccentric, the craftsman must be calm, I really can't understand whether it is a blessing or a curse to accept you as a disciple!"

"Nature is a blessing, and it must be a blessing. Xiao Zhang hurriedly said.

"Take your mud tire with me. Tang Qingchuan stood up.

Xiao Zhang hurriedly used a tool to take off the mud teacup on the mud ball and followed Tang Qingchuan away.

After walking a short distance to the left, Tang Qingchuan took Xiao Zhang into another room.

"Xiao Zhang, but for the teacher to underestimate you, if you know that you have this ability, the teacher will not prepare the mud for you, let you mix it yourself, now there is no hurry, this glaze for the teacher will not give you ready-made, you mix it yourself, all the raw materials here are available, and you don't need to buy them yourself to dig up the mountain, and the teacher will see you deploy here. Tang Qingchuan continued to increase the difficulty.

"Teacher, what about after I put on the glaze? Where is the kiln mouth, I have to fire it." Xiao Zhang asked.

"The blank and the glazing are so close, do you say that the mouth of the porcelain kiln can be far away, you get it first, and then I will take you there. Tang Qingchuan said.

Xiao Zhang nodded, put the tea cup in his hand first, and then looked at the dozen or so large barrels placed on the ground in the corner of the room.

Sure enough, it was filled with a variety of raw materials.

The glaze raw materials for modern firing Ru porcelain are mostly deep mountain ores, such as feldspar, quartz, talc, kaolin, etc., which are melted under high temperature forging to form a bright glaze.

To make the glaze form a specific glaze color, it is necessary to choose the material, find the appropriate kiln ratio, the general glaze, such as some daily porcelain glaze color is easy to match, as long as you find the right raw materials, some even use a single ore can.

However, the configuration of azure glaze, the basic tone is a light azure, commonly known as duck eggshell blue, the glaze layer is not thick, with the change of the shape of the change, showing the shade of the level of change.

The deep mountain ore is melted and then glazed with agate, the glaze is moist and soft, pure as jade, there is an obvious feeling of ghee, the glaze is slightly translucent, and it is mostly milky or crystalline.

The glaze that is fired in this way is like silk, warm and simple, bright and moist, the glaze is like a pile of fat, quiet and elegant, the color is moist and pure, the pattern is crystal and changeable, and it is regarded as the green peak and green color, and there is the beauty of jade and non-jade.

The glaze is more than red halo, some are like the morning sun out of the sea, some are like the sunset, some are like the rain and the sky is clear, some are like the rainbow hanging in the air, the world is called "the azure is precious, the pink blue is still the sky, the sky blue is precious." ”

At present, Xiao Zhang's skills in firing Ru porcelain can only be fired with azure glaze, as for pink blue and sky blue, or moon white glaze, they are all unattainable.

Xiao Zhang selected the ore in the vat, fortunately, the ore in Tang Qingchuan's studio was made into frit first, which saved Xiao Zhang a lot of time.

"Teacher, where are you weighing?" asked Xiao Zhang, holding the raw materials.

Weighing is a very critical step, and if the proportions are not even, the glaze color will definitely not be up to par.

Tang Qingchuan pointed with his hand.

Xiao Zhang nodded, and at the same time prepared the materials.

"Teacher, I'm ready here, do you want to take a look?" Xiao Zhang asked with a smile.

Tang Qingchuan still needs to look at it, from the time Xiao Zhang selected the materials, he could see that this kid really had something in his head.

Whether it is the selection of raw materials or the selection of proportional weight, it is completely decent, without a trace of flaws.

"No need, it's passed, let's grind it in a while, and go to repair the billet first." Tang Qingchuan was not verbose.

Xiao Zhang nodded, he hadn't repaired the blank after he finished pulling the blank just now, and the foot of the tea cup was still not adjusted.

Returning to the previous room with the tea cup, Xiao Zhang put the tea cup mud tire on the wheel.

Pick up the scraper and start spinning the wheel.

The bottom is trimmed to make the thickness of the green body appropriate, the surface and the inside are smooth, all the excess mud is removed, and then measured with a ruler to determine the due size.

Although the size of Xiao Zhang's kneading is almost identical, meticulous attention to detail is the basic criterion of the craftsman.

"Teacher, I've fixed this, let's go and burn! Xiao Zhang said with a smile.

Tang Qingchuan sighed, this kid really has two hits.