Chapter Twenty-Eight: Burning Tiles
"Worms......" Thor muttered under his breath, not knowing what kind of place it was. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Noam—" Thor was about to continue asking Morey about Worms when he was interrupted by a shout from behind him, and it turned out to be Blacktooth's return.
He had to look helpless at Morey, who smiled and said, "Lord Nome, I can tell you what I know at any time, as long as you have time." ”
"It looks like I won't have time right now. Saul quipped, whether Worms or Servelo, was a little far away from him for the time being, and there was much more to go on in front of him.
"Noam—did anyone tell me you were looking for me?" Blacktooth came up to Thor, his face and neck covered in sweat and panting, as if he had been running all the way.
"Yes, I think you should take half of the clay diggers out of the clay diggers and cut the wood, and we will have to make the beams. ”
"No problem. Blacktooth happily took orders, and he had always obeyed Thor's orders unconditionally.
Thor looked at the busy crowd and his heart moved.
The climate on the island is hot and rainy, although the previous storm may be rare in a hundred years, but the usual rainstorm relies on the mud roof alone to keep out the rain, I am afraid that it is not very durable, or make some tiles to use as a roof.
Thor sat down beside the large amount of clay piled up waiting to be used.
"Tula—come here!" saw the little boy Tula coming with a basket of clay, and Thor hurriedly called him to the eye, he was missing an errand runner.
"Lord Noam—" Seeing the leader calling to himself, Tula hurriedly put down his basket and ran to Thor.
"Tula, I'm going to teach you how to fire pottery, do you want to learn it?"
"Think about it, of course you want to!" Tula was very excited, although he did not reject the work of pulling soil, after all, everyone was doing it, but compared to the boring and tiring back clay, of course, it was more interesting to learn pottery with Nome.
Thor asked Tula to fetch some firewood and fire, and found himself a large stone to use as a backing plate, and took some clay and beat it on the slate.
"We need to make an earthen kiln before we can fire," Thor said as he spoke, feeling that Tula was one of the most worthy people to cultivate among the Soths, and Thul, who felt that he was short of manpower, seized every opportunity to cultivate potential people, hoping that they could help him.
Tula nodded, and studied carefully, he was too interested in these things involving dirt and stones.
Thor kneaded the clay into a round cake about two centimeters thick, made a dozen thumb-sized holes in the clay, and placed it on a stone slab to dry.
"Come, bake it with a torch," Thor pointed to the clay round cake on the slate, and commanded Tula, and the little boy hurriedly drew the torch from the raised firewood and baked the round cake.
"Noam, what is this for?" asked Tula curiously, roasting the clay on the slate.
Thor came to him, sat down, and waited for the honeycomb of round cakes to dry and harden, and explained to Tula:
"It's a grate, and it's going to be erected at the bottom of the kiln so that you can put tiles on it. ”
"Tiles, but aren't we going to burn pottery?"
"Stupid, learn this first. ”
"Ao ......" Since Noam said it, little Tula naturally didn't dare to refute, and obediently sat beside Saul, waiting for the stove to dry.
At this time, Thor saw Kratos and the others coming back from a distance, they were either holding clay pots or carrying baskets on their backs, and they seemed to be fully loaded, and everyone had a smile on their faces.
"Tula, you watch here, take it off when it's done, and try to make a few yourself. With that, Thor walked towards Kratos and them.
"Nome ......" Tula sat on the ground slightly aggrieved and said Okay, teach me how to make pottery?
Naturally, Thor can't just revolve around one thing a day, even if there are Morey, Diana, Kratos and others to help mediate, there are still many things that need to be asked by him personally, so he will have a lot of help and a desire for more helpers.
When he came to Kratos and the others, he saw that sure enough, everyone's back baskets were full of big fish.
"What a good harvest. Thor exclaimed
"The fish here are stupid. Kratos put down his basket, and he carried two by himself, which was full of fresh fish that were jumping around.
"Haha, isn't it better to be stupid, it's almost noon, let's organize everyone to eat. Thor said and looked up at the sun, walking right into the middle of the sky.
"I think these fish are probably enough for us to eat for a few days, and if we can't eat them, we will first dry them into dried fish. As he spoke, Thor touched his nose and said with some embarrassment: "There is other work for you to do in the afternoon, after the foundation is laid, you have to lay stones, there are many large stone slabs on the seaside, you can bring more soldiers up in the afternoon." ”
Kratos was still the same, nodding his head to show that he understood, Thor was a little ashamed, everyone in the tribe worked as hard as bees, only the work he did seemed to be the least.
"Well, mental work is also labor. Reassuring himself, Thor began to organize the hand-made fish soup to be distributed to the returning clansmen in turn.
It was not long before the whole camp was full of aroma, and the delicious fish soup was the best reward for the hard work, and the people of Sos did not find it hard at all, and the last two days of life were heaven compared to the days when they had been driven to slavery or starvation, and what was the work to do.
After eating, Thor took a small jar of fish soup and went to the pile of clay, where Tula was still roasting the grates, and there were about three or four grates on the slate, and it seemed that the little boy had made some of them himself, and was now roasting with torches, and did not even notice Thor's arrival.
"Here, get something to eat. Thor put the jar down and sat down beside Tula, startling him.
"Noam!"
"You can't work all the time without eating, come and eat some fish soup, Kratos they just caught, it's fresh. ”
With that, Thor got up and went to the other side, and after looking for a while, he picked up a piece of bluestone that was arm long, and began to dig the earth, and in a moment, he dug a small trench on the flat ground.
He laid the bluestone across the ditch, revealing a circular hollow, just enough to put the grille up.
Then he went and fetched a small jar of water, watered the excavated earth, surrounded the small ditch with bluestone pads, wrapped the grate, and built it in circles, and in a short time, a small earthen kiln was completed.
The top is a cylindrical stove, and the bottom is vacated by the bluestone and the grate, which is used to add firewood, and the inside of the cylinder is empty, so you can put the finished tiles in it and burn it on the grate.
"Whew, it's finally done. Thor wiped his sweat, looked at the many grates left around him, and thought, "Why don't you make a few more, and it will burn faster." ”