Chapter 277

It's not far, but if you don't have your own boat, it's really super inconvenient, and you can only contact by phone.

It was for this reason that the fifth cousin Shi Baoquan gritted his teeth and purchased the iron boat that year.

This time I went home with my fifth cousin's family, and my mother brought Li Junge and Ayin to prepare two baskets for the New Year's gift.

When the boat arrives at Baimi Township, you can see a big stone pestle on the rocky beach from a distance, with a sharp top and wide bottom, a little dumped to the center of the river, and there are two small piers next to it, which really looks like a toad.

Li Junge pointed his hand and said to Ayin: "Ayin, look, that's the toad stone." ”

It was the first time Ayin had seen her, clapped her hands and smiled, "This is a good neighbor! ”

The old mother smiled at the fifth cousin: "Since the good girl has said it, she must do it, otherwise she will find blame!"

The fifth cousin said: "It's okay, it's okay, I'll buy a lot of incense, candles, money and paper, and when the time comes, I will give you some of it, and I should burn some for the toad fairy." ”

When the tin boat was parked, everyone got off the boat and came to the toad stone with the basket on their backs.

There are many traces of incense and candles under the stones, and it seems that the villagers of Baimi Township have not forgotten their old neighbor during the New Year.

The next group of people is to light candles, burn incense, and burn paper money.

Ayin pious Heshi said: "Toad Daxian Toad Daxian, bless the coming year with good weather and good weather, and our people along the Wuxi River are healthy and prosperous. ”

After speaking, he bowed three more times to Toad Stone.

Li Junge thought that this daughter-in-law was really okay, so he didn't bring it home.

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Walking across the rocky beach is a dirt slope, and a dirt road is a stone road that runs through a few clumps of yellowed Nandi.

Walk along the stone road through the paddy fields and bamboo forests, walk on the road, and walk a little further, there is a green tile greenhouse on the side of the road, and there are many kinds of mud piles under the shed, and in the middle are two steamed bun kilns, where several people are busy working. It looks like a traditional family workshop.

On the other side, there are some fired finished products, the black oil glows faintly, and the shell wall is very thick, which is the specialty of Baimi Township - coal sand jars.

The coal sand tank, a very rustic name, has a very rustic appearance, but it has quite a few functions.

The cooked rice is particularly fragrant, the steamed glutinous rice is particularly sweet, the brewed mash is particularly mellow, the boiled porridge is particularly delicious, and the stewed chicken soup is particularly fragrant.

In the hot summer, the porridge in the coal sand jar can be kept for three days.

In particular, boiling traditional Chinese medicine not only makes the medicinal properties fully penetrate, but also boils out traditional Chinese medicine with better effects than other pots and pans such as iron pots and stainless steel.

Due to the abundance of white mud in Baimi Township and the lack of coal mines in Qianzhou, it provides material conditions for the manufacture of coal sand tanks.

A man in his fifties was making clay embryos there, and when he saw the arrival, he shouted: "Fifth brother, second sister!

The person who spoke was Li Junge's uncle.

A young man who was working raised his head: "The fifth uncle and the second concubine are here? Hurry up and come into the house and sit down! Erpi! Hahahaha, your kid is finally empty this year, wow?

The grandfather came out of the house: "It's dirty! What's so funny! The security is back? You see that every year I have to trouble you to take my second sister across the river, and I will eat at home today!"

The fifth cousin waved his hand again and again: "No, Uncle Cousin, this hasn't settled down yet! I'll go home first and then come over to give your old man a New Year's greeting!"

Grandpa kept a few more words, and then sent the fifth cousin away.

Li Junge led Ah Yin over to greet his grandfather: "Grandpa, Happy New Year! This is my girlfriend Ah Yin." ”

Grandpa laughed so hard that his eyes narrowed: "Then hurry up and sit in the house." Ayin, right?

Ayin said sweetly to her grandfather: "Grandpa, Happy New Year!"

At this time, my grandmother and aunt also came out of the kitchen and said hello again.

My aunt took off the basket from Li Junge's back and said, "Take so many with you every year!"

Grandma didn't even hold Li Junge's hand, and directly took Ayin's hand and walked to the inner room: "Good girl, come back, let grandma take a good look at you." ”

Everyone entered the house, sat down in the hall, aunt brought candy melon seeds, grandfather made tea, and everyone talked together.

Li Junge said: "Uncle's business is good! Why don't you take a break this New Year's Day?"

Grandpa pouted: "What's the matter! This thing is stupid, it's getting harder and harder to sell!"

Li Junge was surprised: "Wouldn't it? This is a good thing! The little doll uses this to boil porridge, and the old man uses this to boil medicine, and the effect is better than that of other pots!"

My grandfather sighed and said, "Alas, you say that these are all empty words, and you can't always throw money into them if you can't sell them, right?" Your uncle is ready to find a time to cease fire this year, and our old kiln should also be repaired. ”

Li Junge couldn't sit still, stood up and said to his grandfather: "Then grandfather, grandmother, mother, you talk first, I'll go and have a look with Ayin." ”

came out with Ayin and came to the shed, and the uncle looked at it and said, "Ouch, what are you doing with Ayin, it's dust!"

Ayin squatted down to watch his uncle make embryos, and said, "Uncle, tell me about the craft of making coal sand cans." ”

The uncle smiled and said, "What is there to say about this? The general process is to crush coal and all kinds of mud, sieve and add water evenly, knead into mud balls, grind billets, renovate, fire, and glaze. ”

After speaking, he pointed to a few baskets of mud and stones on the side and said: "The raw materials roughly include small cinders, white mud, sand mud, astringent mud, yellow mud, and cow mud. ”

The small cinders are divided into the coal after burning, commonly known as the "final coal ash", and the cinder crushed by the unburned lump coal. ”

"White mud is Baishan mud, the scientific name is kaolin, and some people used to eat this mud when there was a famine. ”

"Cow mud is also called clay, and it has a certain stickiness. ”

"The other mud is the one you see every day. Crush these things, sift them, and knead them together in a certain proportion, which is the clay embryo. ”

"The sand jar is made in two halves separately, and the materials used in the two halves are also different. ”

The uncle grabbed a handful of mud and said, "Do it first, you can't miss two dollars for each weight of the mud, and the bottom embryo will be uniform in size." ”

"The lower section is made of white mud, yellow mud, sand mud, and burnt cinder ash, which is first made into a bowl and bowl, and then placed on the partition and put to dry. ”

After saying that, he stepped on the turntable, and after a while, a sand bowl came out from under his hand.

Then he said, "Since you are so interested, then Uncle will show you the full set?"

Ayin clapped his hands and said, "Okay, okay, uncle, do it quickly!"

The uncle got up and took a dried sand bowl, and said with a smile: "It's really rare for a girl like you to be dirty, many people hate dirty, let alone a girl." ”

After speaking, take out a large basin and put it on the grinding disc to step on, and then rub it in the basin with your hand, just like just making a sand bowl, constantly adjust the position of the basin, and finally make the center of the basin coincide with the center of the grinding plate.

Then put the sand bowl on the turntable, adjust it to the center of the circle, and start to apply sand and mud between the large basin and the sand bowl to compress it, and say, "This is stable, and you can start to do the first half." ”

Ayin clapped his hands and said: "The simplest tools and techniques, the best effect, just like the dividing pond of our village pond, this is the wisdom of our ancestors!"

The uncle smiled and nodded, grabbed a handful of wet mud and began to make the upper part, and said as he did it: "The mud in this upper section is made of white mud, yellow mud, cow mud, astringent mud and block coal ash slag in proportion, which is lighter than the lower section." In this way, the first is not too afraid of leakage in the upper section, and the heat preservation is better, and the second is that it is stable in this way, which is also the wisdom of the ancestors. ”

Stepping on the grinding disc, a jar was formed under the uncle's hand in a short time.

The uncle said: "If you want to make a soup pot, you have to make a mouth, and if you want to make a soup pot, you have to make a lid with a mouth." ”

When the jar was ready, the uncle put the jar on the shelf to dry, took off a large casserole that had been dried, put it on the grinding plate and said: "Next, it's time to trim, to remove the burrs, and the soup can should be repaired to the edge, and the lid can be placed firmly without leakage." ”

Li Junge added: "When firing, it should be deformed, which is also easy to produce defective products, so the pot and lid should use the same batch of mud, otherwise the expansion and shrinkage rate will be different after firing." ”

The uncle smiled: "Hahaha, do you remember what I said?"

Li Junge nodded and smiled: "That's a must! I dreamed when I was a child that I could make a sand pot when I grew up!"

The uncle took out a square steel and began to step on the grinding disc to make the big casserole rotate, and then used the square steel to touch the pot body, and after a while, the casserole was smoothed and tidy.

Ah Yin was surprised: "This casserole looks very delicate now, why are there some small bumps and protrusions on it?"

Uncle smiled: "This is the problem of the mud, once the material is overheated, many things in it will produce bubbles or something, resulting in such changes in the pot body, which is also a helpless thing." ”

Li Junge said: "It is precisely because of this that the casserole will have the function of breathability and heat preservation. Although it is ugly, this is the advantage of casserole that is different from other pots, and it is also the key to the flavor of casserole. ”

Uncle smiled and nodded: "Your baby is a delicious dog when she is young!

Li Junge rolled his eyes: "Uncle, don't expose my old story in front of my girlfriend, okay?"

The uncle thief smiled and said, "I'm here to help you say good things! In the future, Ayin will pass through the door, and I won't be afraid of losing my mouth!"

Ayin blushed and stomped her feet: "Oh, uncle!

Uncle smiled and said, "It's nothing, the next thing is to fire and glaze." ”

Ah Yin thought it was very strange: "Huh, shouldn't you glaze it first before firing?"

Li Junge pulled Ayin to his eldest cousin's side and said, "Just look at this. ”

The cousin held a long steel bar, bent his head into a bend, and stood by the kiln to watch the fire.

Seeing Li Junge and them coming, the eldest cousin turned his head and said to Ayin: "This kiln is called a steamed bread stove, do you want to put the two steamed buns on the ground?"

Ayin smiled and nodded.