Chapter 521 Preparation

Li Junge said: "This is an impossible thing in itself. With a temperament like yours, you dare to attack if you have three points of certainty, while like me, if you have seven points of grasp, you have to think about it before and after, and your style of doing things is completely different. I can't say who is good and who is bad, whether it can be successful or not depends on what the situation is. ”

Ayin said: "You still see it really clearly, then I will hold you, you will hold me, and we will do what we have to do together!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "Think about it when you return to Lijiagou, your task now is to relax and have fun, and take care of your body, otherwise when you return to Lijiagou, you will find that you have lost weight, and your parents will not beat me to death!"

Ah Yin smiled embarrassedly, and said in a low voice: "I originally pulled you here, why are you embarrassed to carry this pot?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "I'll carry this pot, this kind of thing that is a little out of place in the hearts of fellow villagers is originally my second skin style." You, just continue to be the demon suppression stone in their hearts, and suppress me, the demon, or they should worry about our cause again......"

Ah Yin nodded, her face flushed with shame: "It seems that this time I have played a little too much!"

Li Junge said: "What's over! It should be! My daughter-in-law can play the flute and be a husband, I don't even know, what kind of tired you have become? You should be tired of working overtime in the past! I don't think anyone dares to gossip!"

Ayin stopped now: "Oh, who is your daughter-in-law!

Li Junge laughed: "The new house has been lived together for so long, and you went in through the window without passing the door?"

This time, Ayin was even more disobedient, and the two chased after each other for a while, and they got tired of going home together.

Back at home, the two continued to do crafts.

Ayin turned out yesterday's leather work and began to make a satchel.

Li Junge first collected the bamboo charcoal to one place, two days down, all the waste bamboo materials piled up in the shed were burned into bamboo charcoal by Li Junge, two days and twelve kilns, this is one or two hundred catties of charcoal.

Then he collected the ore mud and nameless mud on the side of the stove, put them in front of him one by one, and after staring at them for a long time, Li Junge closed his eyes and began to search for something in the depths of his memory.

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"The mud urn is strong and the wine is clear, and the Wadden is clean and drunk. In later generations, the soil was effective, the artificial expression was different, and the pottery became an elegant vessel, with plain skin and jade bones. Cover up a few feasts, civilization is lovely, how can it be fixed in the end......"

“…… Hehe, Piwa, don't underestimate the grandfather's coal sand jar, the ancestors found that the pottery can be glazed from here, at that time the ancestors found that the hot pottery will be hung on a black and bright layer when it meets pine smoke, and there is a name in the mouth of the connoisseur, called 'falling ash glaze'......"

“…… The white porcelain glaze of Fanrao Town is made of small port mouth mud and peach bamboo leaf ash, like clear swill juice, and the porcelain fairy of Quanjun uses pine hair water to adjust the mud, and the celadon glaze of the county is not detailed, and it is contained in the jar. All the utensils are glazed, first swing the inside, and the outside is dipped in the strings with a finger, and the natural flow will flow all over the ......"

“…… Piwa, so don't think this thing is mysterious. Hahaha, the so-called 'no ash and no glaze', the grass ash can be made......"

“…… Where the enamel is born everywhere...... The grass is the salary of the residents...... The potter takes the ashes, the cloth bag is filled with water and filtered, the coarse one is removed, the finest is taken, each ash two bowls are mixed with a bowl of laterite muddy water, stirred very evenly, dipped in the blank, and burned out of the light color......"

"Piwa, this grass ash plus the glaze fruit on the mountain, hang a layer, although the burned thing is milky and blue, and it is not very transparent, but it has the same treasure light, this is the earliest grass ash glaze ......"

"Grandpa, what is a glaze fruit? Is it a fruit grafted from a tree?"

"Hehehe...... You little gluttonous cat. The glaze fruit is all kinds of stones on the mountain, but everything that can be burned is called glaze fruit......"

“…… Nameless ...... It does not grow deep soil, but floats on the ground, and the deep one digs down three feet...... The upper one is out of the fire and becomes a green coat color, the middle one is slightly green, and the lower one is close to the earth brown...... Such as the top grade fine material and the royal dragon and phoenix, etc., are painted with the above materials...... After calcining, grind the material with a milk bowl, and then mix the water. When investigating, the color is like soap, and when it is fired, it becomes green...... It is made of glazed tiles...... The color is dyed with decoction juice such as nameless and palm hair to become green daisy, and ochre, rosin, and cattail grass are dyed yellow...... Re-enter the other kiln, reduce the fire, and force it into a glazed treasure ......"

"Later, everyone found out that the glaze fruit and grass ash are not strong in luster, why?

"Grandpa, how did they solve it?"

"The ancestor found a co-solvent that can make the glaze powder melt at a lower temperature, isn't it powerful?"

"That's amazing! Grandpa, isn't this co-solvent you said precious?"

"Xiaohanbao, if it is precious, the porcelain will not be the price it is now! It is not precious at all, it is the common lime! The grass gray glaze will become lime glaze! Hahaha......"

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The experience and conversation at his grandfather's house when he was a child and the historical records in the ancient books were intertwined, churning in Li Junge's mind, until the plan was formed, Li Junge suddenly opened his eyes and began to mix mud.

First, use lime paste, plant ash paste, pig bone paste, light cyan glaze paste, a little bit of anonymous paste of the middle material, add water and stir to prepare a vat of white with light cyan mud.

After the mud was prepared, Li Junge took a long flat wooden board and placed mud cakes on it.

Each mud cake has three nail feet, the nail feet are facing up.

Take the rice bowl embryo, pinch the bottom circle with three fingers and circle in the mud, after the mud is full, turn the bowl over and put it on the mud cake, take your fingers and gently draw a circle on the inside of the bowl, the mud becomes thin at the mouth of the bowl, and some natural flow patterns are formed in the bowl.

Then take a brush and dip it in mud, draw a circle along the outer bottom circle of the bottom of the bowl, and fill in the few areas of your finger that are not muddy.

Soon, there were more than a dozen rice bowls on the wooden board.

The ground was still a little damp after the rain two days ago, and the air on the open dam was also clean, so Li Junge was not worried about the dust pollution in the air.

Then take the wind chime embryo made by Ayin that day from the shelf, pass it through the twine, put it in the mud to hang the slurry, and then hang it one by one.

Ah Yin was making a leather bag, and when he saw Li Junge coming over, he smiled and said, "It turns out that you want to do this, are you sure?"

Li Junge laughed: "I don't have a hundred percent certainty, but dreams are always there, what if they come true? ”

First of all, heat preservation, Li Junge wrapped a thick circle of bamboo shavings around the outside of the kiln, then wrapped a layer of bamboo shoot shells with bamboo silk circles, and finally smeared a layer of thin mud on the outside to isolate the air.

After this time, the pottery kiln became a short and fat man, and the brown silk hat that used to protect it from the rain was not big enough.

Then trim the inner surface, the key is to make the bottom surface flat, otherwise the pottery will be deformed due to gravity in the semi-melted state.

The inner wall was then smoothed, and although the bamboo charcoal was almost smoke-free, Li Junge decided to eliminate all the possibility of smoke pollution caused by the unsmooth kiln.

When everything was dealt with, Li Junge called Ayin, and the two of them carefully lifted the wooden planks containing the pottery bowls into the shed, and then carefully put the mud cakes holding the pottery bowls on the shelves.

Ah Yin looked at those big buckets and bowls, and said to Li Junge: "Why don't you get these?"

Li Junge said: "I haven't figured out how to get it yet, so let's try it with small pieces first, and if the method is feasible, then seriously consider them." ”

Ayin was surprised: "You can still make a lot of tricks?"

Li Junge said: "Hehe, underestimate your husband, but also underestimate the history of China's thousands of years of ceramics, even under the current conditions, there are so many tricks that can be played." For example, those small bowls, after they are hot in the sun, they will be burst out with cold water, and ice chips will appear in the burned things! However, there is a premise for all this, that is, the most basic things can be formed, and they can be upgraded. ”

Ayin said, "How can I help?"

Li Junge said: "We have to work two shifts, and the book says that this fire will burn for twelve hours, that is, twenty-four hours, and then you will keep the day, and I will keep the night, and there will be at least two days to play." ”

Ayin said: "This is a rare way to promote our country! Not to mention that you can't play it in two days, even if you spend all the time on it, even if you can only succeed in one wind chime, it's worth it!"

Li Junge said: "It's still the same sentence, do our best, obey the destiny of heaven, we will finish what we can do, and the rest, God and ancestors bless it!"

Ayin said: "Then I'll make some dry food tonight, then fry some sour bamboo shoots and sauerkraut, steam some bacon sausages, and add broth, don't be particular about eating, concentrate on work." ”

Li Junge said: "Okay, I'll boil the salt first, you stretch a cloth sieve, we have to do our best." ”

The two had a hasty meal in advance, Li Junge began to boil the salt recovered from the cured bacon, and Ayin began to make dry food.

After that, Li Junge continued to renovate the pottery kiln.

In order to reduce the temperature and hot air from above the kiln mouth, Li Junge made a huge chimney, up to two meters high, which is also made of bamboo silk shavings bamboo shoot shells as the core, and the inside and outside are pasted with mud.

Things were heavy, and Li Junge also made a crane out of bamboo poles and wooden pulleys, which he used to pick up and place chimneys.

With insulated walls and high chimneys, the temperature inside the kiln can be well maintained.

Ah Yin looked at Li Junge's big project and said, "Erpi, how high can you get the kiln temperature if you make it like this?"

Li Junge said: "These are just heat preservation measures, charcoal usually burns in the air, that is, about 800 degrees, to achieve 1,300 degrees of porcelain, then it is necessary to raise the burning of charcoal to an incandescent state, that is, close to the state of pure oxygen combustion." ”

"The temperature of charcoal in the incandescent state is about 1,700 degrees, but to reach that level, you need another item......

This thing Ayin is too familiar with: "Bellows! Hey, is this the case with our ancestors burning porcelain? How much manpower does that big kiln need?"

Li Junge said: "The ancestors used the dragon kiln built along the hillside, using pine firewood, large volume, long distance, using the temperature difference between the kiln top and the kiln mouth to inhale air, and then after burning in the combustion zone, using hot air to transmit heat, in this way, this temperature can be reached, and even because the temperature is too high, in a few layers close to the burning area, but also place an empty bowl to insulate the temperature......"

Ayin said admiringly: "Then they are really amazing!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "It's amazing, but the fuel consumption is also amazing, a kiln consumes dozens of tons of firewood! So it's not bad if we can do this, it's still the same sentence, do your best, listen to the destiny of heaven, think of what you can think, do as much as you can, and leave the rest to God......