Chapter 14: Building the Kiln (Part II)

Since you do it, try to do your best, but it takes a long time to fire a piece of pottery, and it takes four hours to do it.

The delicate soil was finally done, and Wu Yi picked up a coconut the size of a human head from the ground, wrapped the mud evenly on it, wrapped it in a semicircle, and made such a decent bowl!

The mud bowl wrapped in the coconut cannot be taken off for the time being, and it needs to be dried before it can be separated from the coconut......

Of course, before it dries, Wu Yicai still needs to give this bowl a rest, and its bottom needs to be strengthened!

Wu Yicai made the bowl to facilitate eating in the future, it can be used to boil water to drink, cook food to eat, so the bottom of the bowl must be thick!

The thick bottom of the bowl is not easy to crack by fire, and it is also durable, so the most important thing in a bowl is the bottom!

Wu Yicai got some dirt and pasted it on the bottom of the bowl, he simulated the round edge of the bowl they used in their daily life, there was a lot of mud, try to make the bottom of the bowl thicker, which will increase the service life!

All right!

A neat bowl is made in this way, and it only needs to be dried!

He made a total of three such bowls, and also made two clay pots, although the clay pots are not very rounded and oval-shaped, but they are also a little shaped......

He may have made a little more bowls and jars, because he was afraid that there would be cracks when he fired the pottery, after all, this is only an attempt, so the more he makes, the better!

After getting the mud blank and looking at the kiln, the hole mud slab has completely dried, and the flame passes through the hole, most of the flame is offset on the right side, and the flame on the left side is basically absent......

Adjust the firewood in the pit so that the flames are evenly distributed, and then prepare for the most critical part of the kiln!

Suddenly, there was silence in the jungle!

The birds in the jungle were singing very cheerfully, but just now, they all flew away......

Wu Yi was sure that there was no sound just now, could it be that something was moving in the jungle?

He still couldn't see clearly in the depths of the dense forest, but he still kept an eye on it, and the spear and short stick were always at hand!

He is working in the jungle, so he can deal with emergencies!

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In order to get the kiln up and running as quickly as possible, he had to go to the outskirts of the jungle again, and he had to mix some dry leaves with the dirt, which was resistant to rain!

It rains every once in a while on the desert island, and if the kiln doesn't use this mixed soil, he believes it will be washed away by the rain in a few days!

Wu Yicai came to the periphery of the dense forest with a spear and a short stick, carefully observing the movements in the dense forest, the mysterious creature similar to the canine family just now was probably still wandering around, or it was still hiding in some dark corner to spy on him!

Without knowing his opponent, he must always raise his spirit and watch out for every move in the dense forest as much as possible!

He collects the fallen leaves on the ground, and it is very quiet in the dense forest, only the sound of "ropes" made by him collecting fallen leaves!

Fortunately, he never found the unknown creature again, and if it suddenly appeared, he really didn't know how to deal with it......

He took a lot of rotten leaves from the periphery of the dense forest, and by the way, he got a little dirt together, and the leaves themselves were dry and fallen leaves, which should have been accumulated in the damp dense forest for a long time and caused the stagnant water to erode!

He had collected a lot of these leaves, which were not rotten too thoroughly and needed a little force to crush them!

The leaves are broken up with gravel and mixed with the dirt......

He did this very simple job for a long time, his arms were tired, and in the end he used his feet to step on it!

The crushed leaves and dirt were finally completely mixed together, and of course there were some unlucky earthworms inside......

The volume of the mixed soil has also increased by 40%, and the color is grayish-brown.

The new type of dirt made by mixing leaf fragments with dirt is very useful, and the original soil can be easily pulled off, and this kind of soil can be drawn!

Well...... It looks like brushed powder for fishing!

Seeing these mixed dirt proves that his theory is correct!

The mixture of crushed dry leaves and wheat straw and soil used to build walls in the countryside has the same effect!

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Now that the new type of earth has been made, let's start building!

Wu Yicai pulled a large piece of leaves mixed with soil, and kneaded it into a cylindrical shape, the diameter should be about four centimeters, this thickness should be enough to support the outer wall of the kiln up to one meter high!

With the help of fire, the soil that Wu Yi had just placed slowly lost its moisture and began to become dry, and the soil after drying was very hard, which could fully support the subsequent piling up......

After more than an hour of hard work, the outer wall of the kiln was finally piled up, and there was still some dirt left, which was still useful and could be used to make the lid on the kiln!

The lid doesn't need to be round, just a thin clay tablet!

He arranged a few branches into a square and used it as a mold, and then placed the earth in the square, and under his press, a clay tablet was formed!

The square mold is arranged, not reliable, and can be moved, which also leads to the fact that the clay tablet is not very neat, a bit like a diamond, but its thickness is very uniform, about one centimeter!

Put the clay tablet together with the stone in the sun, and it won't be long before the clay tablet will dry out, so just use it when the time comes!

The clay pot that had been exposed to the sun had also dried out and turned grayish-white, and the clay bowl had separated from the coconut!

It's finally time to get ready to burn pottery!

If you put the mud blank directly into the kiln, you can feel that the temperature in the kiln is very high, but it has not yet reached the expected temperature, and it will continue to heat up!

It is necessary to continue to increase the firepower, and Wu Yicai has added a lot of firewood, which will make the fire bigger and burn the pottery as soon as possible!

The new firewood seems to burn a little slowly, and the wood is dry, so it stands to reason that it will burn soon......

Just as he pondered what was wrong, there was another sound from the depths of the forest!

This time it looks like some animal is chasing!

"Squeak~!"

"Suosuo~!"

Wu Yicai seemed to be in trouble again, there was a rapid chase from the depths of the dense forest, and there were things running in the dense forest, and there were a lot of them!

He held the spear a little nervously, and at the same time picked up a stone with his other hand, and if something rushed out, he would launch a long-range attack on it as soon as possible!

Wu Yicai waited anxiously, curious about what kind of animal it was, and at the same time had a trace of fear for this unknown animal......

That thing hasn't stopped all day, it's just hiding and scaring people, is this to kill him?

To be honest, he was nervous, and he had been working by the fire, which was so hot that his forehead was covered with beads of sweat......

Sweat slid down the bridge of his nose, a little itchy, he didn't dare to wipe the sweat with the back of his hand, because he was afraid that a predator would rush out when he wiped the sweat, and he delayed the follow-up reaction because of the small action of wiping sweat!

The beast is absolutely fast, it will rush out of the dense forest in a matter of seconds, knock him down, and even bite his throat!

Wu Yicai could only pout his lips and stiffen his nose vigorously, which would make the sweat flowing on his face slip off as soon as possible, the amplitude of his nose might be a little large, and he heard the "click" of the cartilage in his nose!

It should have been a long time......

The hurried sound continued, as if something was fighting together, and the beast roared as if it were warning!

Wu Yicai shook his body to see what it was, but no matter how he shook his body, his vision could not penetrate the dense vines and layers of dense leaves......

It's so tormenting...... I wonder what kind of creature it is!

But Wu Yicai's mood at the moment is more about the embarrassment of facing the next unknown situation, and the torment of speculation and uneasiness in his heart.

The beating continued for a long time, as if something had escaped towards the dense forest on the left......

It must have been quite small, and he saw some small trees that were swaying back and forth by it through the gaps in the loose trees!

It was running, and he could see its vague shadow through the gaps in the trees!

Wu Yicai quickly picked up the telescope hanging around his neck, he should have seen it clearly!

This is......