Chapter 460: Playing with Mud

Li Junge said with a smile: "This is only the roughest emergency use, the real clay is exquisite, to adjust the PH value, knead the mud, aging, and then knead the mud, so that the clay is fine and compact, reduce the organic matter content, these are all to reduce the possibility of bubbles in the firing process, so as not to burn the pottery." ”

Ah Yin smiled: "It's true, but I don't know how the craftsmanship is." ”

Li Junge said: "Just kidding, I played at my grandfather's kiln to see my skills." ”

Li Junge began to deal with the mud himself, first kneading it like kneading dough, then beating it with a big wooden stick, and then kneading it, tossing for a long time, and after getting tired of a mud square, he went to check the cooled mud cake.

Knock your fingers, when it rings, wash it with water, and there is no mark under the nails. Li Junge held the cake like an Arhat holding a demon mirror in Journey to the West: "Hahahahaha!

After carefully inspecting the pottery plate, Li Junge pointed to some black ideas on it and said to Ayin: "Look, blasting iron, the standard characteristics of good mud and bad craftsmanship. ”

Ah Yin couldn't laugh anymore: "Erpi, you still have a reputation for self-knowledge!"

Li Junge picked his head: "This is a firewood pile, and it can't be measured by the standard of an electric stove!"

The pottery plate was placed on the second layer of the stove, and Li Junge began to raise the third layer.

The third layer is a hollow cylindrical type, and after Lei is good, Li Junge begins to ignite in the middle layer.

The fire was terrifying, because it was empty underneath, and the hot air went up, sucking in the air below, and it burned with a whirring sound.

Let the fire burn to remove moisture from the third layer, Li Junge made a few large clay tablets with three holes and roasted them, ready to be fired out later as lids.

With Li Junge's physical strength, he was a little tired today, so he asked Ayin to cook some dried fish and wild vegetables casually, and deal with it casually.

While Ayin was cooking, Li Junge began to knead the clay recipe into a ball, and did some manual calculations to rest.

First, the mud square is kneaded into mud strips of uniform thickness, then coiled into a disc on the bamboo mat, a cup of mud is mixed with a bamboo tube sawn into a cup, and the mud tray is scraped flat with a bamboo knife.

Take a bamboo cylinder ring that is close to the perfect circle and put it on it, and the bamboo knife will be along the periphery to get a round bottom.

Take away the excess mud on the side, but the bamboo tube does not move it.

Take out a piece of clay and make a clay piece, and also scrape it with a bamboo knife to perfection, and use that bamboo as a ruler to cut it into a regular long rectangle.

Take a thin piece of bamboo wire to circle the circumference of the round bottom and cut the appropriate length on the long rectangle to leave redundancy.

Point a circle of mud around the round bottom that has just been cut, gently remove the long rectangle cut out on the small bamboo mat, wrap it around the mud bottom and the outside of the bamboo tube, quickly draw it with the tip of a bamboo knife from the middle of the overlapping position of the mud pieces, open the mud strips, take out the bamboo tube and the excess mud strips cut off, gently scrape the mud on the edge of the mud sheets, and glue the interface.

After resting on the cracks, a cup is made.

As concocted, Li Junge made an identical cup again.

This is actually the process of making purple clay pots, Li Junge has been playing with his cousin for a few days with coal sand mud, so he is not unfamiliar.

The water boiled, Ayin began to dry the fish, and Li Junge began to make pottery pots.

Because the inner diameter of the furnace is only half a meter, the pot is not large, only 30 centimeters.

After Li Junge flattened the clay tray, the two sharpened bamboo strips and a bamboo stick were tied into a triangle, which was used as a simple compass, and turned out a decent pot bottom.

The center of the circle is filled with mud and finished, the side of the pot can only rely on the pile of mud strips and hand pinching, not fast, after a few laps on the plate, you have to wait for the mud to dry and then plate, otherwise it will collapse, this is the fine work.

At this time, Ayin called for dinner, Li Junge washed his hands and ate with Ayin.

During the meal, Li Junge said to Ayin: "There is no oil and gas at all, there is no salt and no taste, when the pot is made, the first thing is to boil the oil!"

Ayin said, "What do you boil oil? We don't have anything but fish......

Li Junge said, "Have you forgotten the things that are all over the beach?"

Ayin's eyes lit up: "Coconut?"

Li Junge said: "The coconut meat in the coconut looks similar to fat, when the pot is burned, we will try it, even if it can't boil the oil, the salt can't run away, right?!"

Ayin smiled: "Yes! Then we have dates and no dates to play a shot!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "It's been three days of hard work, today I finally got a lot of dry wood and bamboo, tomorrow I will make tables and chairs, I don't have to eat cross-legged anymore, and we will go to the beach for a vacation the day after tomorrow!"

Ayin smiled: "Life is getting better and better on our side, I don't know how the other seven teams are doing!"

Li Junge said: "With such an abundance of materials, the islands should be doing very well, we have to work hard to catch up with them." ”

After dinner, Ayin took the wild banana and put it in a bamboo tube, added cold boiled water, stirred it with a bamboo stick, poured the juice into another bamboo tube, collected the seeds, and brought the banana juice to Li Junge to drink.

Li Junge continued his pottery, and while waiting for the pot to dry, he made two more bowls, several plates, and several spoons of different sizes.

When the pots were finally finished, Li Junge took them and roasted them around the fire, and then went to rest with Ayin.

……

On the show that night, Nian asked Bei Ye, "What do you think of the performance of the teams today?"

"The Russian team's Chersky finally changed his tactics and began to try to get food from the sea, cutting into eight-strand forks with bamboo, sharpening his fork teeth, and looking for fish in the trench," Bei Ye said. It was a good idea, but they weren't too lucky today. ”

"Team England, Isabella started complaining, eating raw fish and coconut water every day, and tomorrow asked Charlton to accompany her into the mountains to see if she could find anything else," Luan said. Isn't there a way for the British team to make a fire?"

"If there is no fire in the mountains, well, it will be very dangerous, because coconut water is a very clean water source, and if they don't know Jungle Lee's method of getting water, they may drink unclean water, and in the wild, dysentery is a terrible disease," Bell said. ”

"The French team is still going on with their oysters, Sophie and Henry both think they taste good, but they can't keep up the weight because they don't have enough calories, and they will have to figure out tomorrow," Nian said. ”

"Team USA had a bit of luck today, Tom caught a snake and the siblings had meat for the first time," Luan said. ”

"The Argentine team's roasted cassava continues, machetes come in handy to help them build a more comfortable shed, and Passarella is learning to tie a wooden bed with rattan," Nian said. ”

"The Australians' bows and arrows were very useful, Colwell shot a couple of fish and they started to have food reserves," Bell said. Tanya, on the other hand, had some experience in the wilderness and began to weave ropes out of fibers and build traps with stones and sticks. These are the beginnings of a virtuous circle, and hopefully they will go longer. ”

Luan said, "Uh, the Chinese team ......"

"I don't think we're hiring a guest?," Bell said, "and I don't understand what they did today, like peeling off the bush in the morning to get the fibers, and instead of using it directly, it was soaked in water. ”

"I know this, they are dipping hemp, and by soaking it, bacteria are used to remove the gum attached to the fibers, and you can get purer fibers," Luan said. But the rest of the day was spent repairing their big roof and starting to make pottery. Bell, is pottery a must to survive in the wild?"

"The use of pottery is mainly used to boil water and cook food, but these are not without substitutes, and Jungle has used their bamboo troughs very well before, and I prefer that this is the influence and habit of their farming traditions, after all, they are now able to pursue a better life," Bell said. ”

"Jungle seems to be a naturalist, and it's really eye-opening to see the houses he builds, especially the bamboo tiles," Nian said. ”

"Well, the cups he makes are also quasi-industrial level, and the two cups are almost identical," Luan said. ”

"He also made creative use of a compass...... Oh my God, the compass is on the wilderness survival show...... It's unimaginable. ”

"This is the third day of No Man's Island, the performances of the eight pairs of players are getting more and more exciting, the team is starting to show a tendency to divide, the Chinese team, the Argentine team has solved the food problem and has entered a virtuous circle, followed by the Australian team and the South African team, and the British team is also good, they have relatively easy access to food, but they have not completely solved the reserve problem." The rest of the team, uh, is still struggling to get enough to eat, anyway, good luck to them......"

……

Early in the morning, after the two of them got up, Li Junge came over with a straightened bamboo piece and said to Ayin: "Come, Ayin, the book is on the same track as the car, and we have entered the standard era today." ”

Ah Yin smiled: "Oh, don't make trouble, I still have to cook!"

Li Junge said solemnly: "This is an epoch-making important moment, not inferior to Cangjie making words, I estimate that there will be blood rain from the sky tonight, and a hundred ghosts will cry at night......"

Ayin patted Li Junge: "Don't be scary!"

Li Junge grabbed Ayin's arm, wiped her sleeve up, and gestured with the bamboo piece, and then said, "Ayin's fingertips are to the tips of elbows...... Ah, here!"

The bamboo charcoal drew a mark on the bamboo ruler: "Dangdangdangdang! The first weights and measures on the island were born, this is a sound ruler, perfect!"

Ayin couldn't laugh anymore: "You can be really funny!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "This is not funny, I found a problem when I made pottery yesterday, there must be a ruler, and the next thing is to cut this ruler and turn the ruler into inches ......"

Ayin said, "How to divide it?"

Li Junge smiled: "I have a compass, don't you remember how to use a compass to divide a line segment into two equal parts? ”

Ayin smiled: "I know this, and then what?"

Li Junge said: "Then it's two to four, four to eight...... How easy!"

Ah Yin smiled: "Then the question comes, how can you divide a foot into ten equal parts?!"

Li Junge was dumbfounded, damn, this is really a problem!