030 Pottery

Ah Yue actually wants to go back?

How can this work?

It seems that this fire kang has to be hurried.

It is always unsafe not to cook raw rice to maturity.

Early the next morning, Zhao Hao began to concentrate, dig out his mind, and look for materials to build a kang everywhere.

The hard work paid off, he turned around for a long time, returned to the house, looked at the clay pot that his mother had sent over not long ago, and finally thought of a good material, that is, bricks!

Isn't this clay pot made of clay?

If you make clay into a square and bake it in a fire, won't it turn into bricks?

With bricks and a fire, it's not easy!

Of course, it is not so simple to burn bricks, it is definitely not possible to roast clay like barbecue, it seems that there must be a special stove, and the fire cannot be small, the fire is too small, and the bricks burned are useless.

This stove doesn't seem to be able to be made at this time, for the same reason as the ondol, there is no suitable material!

However, it doesn't matter, you can also use an earthen brick kiln.

The structure of this clay brick kiln is actually very simple, that is, first make some large adobe bricks with a thickness of about twenty or thirty centimeters to dry, and then put a few rows of fire ditches like barbecue grills on the flat ground, and then make the clay bricks and firewood or briquettes on the fire ditch, one by one, just like sandwich biscuits, a clay brick and a firewood, a clay brick and a firewood, a full layer, and then a layer up, and so on. Then fill the fire ditch below with lit firewood and burn it for a while, ignite all the firewood in each layer, and open the kiln to take bricks after all the firewood in each layer is burned.

This process is simple to say, but it is not easy to do, first of all, to make adobe bricks, you need to have a mold.

This mold is usually nailed with wooden boards, and there are no nails at this time, so how to make a mold?

Zhao Hao had no choice but to directly use the divine soldier to dig out a square hole in the sharpened large wooden block as a mold, fortunately, the divine soldier was sharp enough, and it was not very difficult to dig out the hole, he took out three in one go, one large adobe brick, one small brick, and one large clay brick.

The small brick is the size of an ordinary brick, and this one is used to build the base of the fire kang.

The large clay bricks are two ordinary bricks thick and three ordinary bricks are long, which are used to build the bottom bed board of the fire kang.

This guy is also fighting for a happy life in winter.

He didn't ask anyone for help, because many parts of the process were too cumbersome to explain, and he might as well do it himself.

First of all, it is to find clay, this clay material is very important, if there is too much sediment mixed in it, the burned bricks will not have much strength.

Fortunately, there was still a lot of clay in the bamboo forest, and he found a huge piece of clay in less than an hour.

He directly uprooted the bamboo on the clay soil and threw it aside, then brought a large shale with a flat surface to the side of the clay soil, and then swung the mold on the big shale, and then dug it next to the big shale.

There is a particular point here, that is, it is best to place the brick platform directly where the clay is dug, so as to save the time of carrying the clay back and forth.

Also, this brick is not to take a brick to shoot people's heads, but to lift a large piece of clay into the wooden mold, as long as you are skilled enough, shoot down, and then use a wooden knife or bamboo knife to scrape off the excess clay on the wooden mold, and then knock out the clay bricks in the mold, and a clay brick is considered to be formed.

There is also a trick to knocking out the clay bricks in the mold, that is, it is best to smear some water or powdery fine sand on the inner wall of the mold in advance, otherwise, the clay bricks inside are difficult to knock out, even if you knock it out, nine times out of ten it will be deformed.

Zhao Hao uses water plastering because the surface of the bricks is smoother.

He was just working alone on the clay floor for a day, and the various types of bricks were just finished, and when Ah Yun and Ah Yue ran over to find him to go back to eat meat, they were really startled by the scene in front of them.

This guy, why is the ground full of square clods?

Also, how did this guy look like a mud monkey?

They really can't understand why people who are so big in the sky still play with mud, and they play for a day!

Actually, Zhao Hao also wanted to invite them to play with mud, because there was a movie about playing with mud in later generations that was very famous, and two people played with mud together, which was called a romance.

However, if it is three people playing with mud together, it seems that it will not be romantic, because they are not that relationship at this time.

Because there was a ghost in his heart, Zhao Hao didn't explain much, he jumped directly into the nearby stream to soak for a while, washed the mud off his body, and followed them back.

Early the next morning, he went to the woods near the bamboo forest to look for firewood.

You can't just pick up some dry branches for this firewood, you need to find a big tree that is about as wide as a brick, otherwise, it will be more troublesome to build a brick kiln.

There are naturally many such trees in the mountains and forests, but for various reasons they are broken, dead, and dry in the sun, but it is difficult to find them, and it took him a long morning to find enough firewood to move back to the clay soil.

The next step is to chop firewood.

This firewood can't be chopped indiscriminately, it needs to be split to about the same length as a brick, otherwise, it is not easy to build a brick kiln.

He worked for another hour, and finally got the firewood ready.

At this time, the clay bricks on the ground are almost dry, and the adobe brick kiln can finally start.

He directly put the large adobe bricks on the ground for a few walks, arranged them into a rough square, and then began to build terracotta bricks and firewood on it.

Fortunately, otherwise, he would have to build a ladder.

The last step of this adobe kiln is to seal the kiln, that is, to seal the left, right, front and back of the built clay bricks, and seal them with hay and soil.

After a busy afternoon, a small adobe kiln was finally completed, and Zhao Hao directly lit the firewood and boiled it below.

When Ah Yun and Ah Yue ran over to find him and go back to eat meat, they were startled by the situation in front of them.

God, what the hell are you doing?

Yesterday I played with mud, but today I am playing with fire here!

These are only children's play, right?

Also, what is this tall earthwork for, why do you have nothing to pile up this thing for, can it be used to grill meat and smoke fish?

I don't think so!

Zhao Hao still didn't explain much, and when the firewood below was enough, and smoke began to rise on the top of the adobe kiln, he jumped into the stream again to wash it, and then followed Ah Yun and Ah Yue back.

Early in the morning of the third day, it was finally time to accept the results, what is the strength of the clay bricks burned in this way, and can they be used to build a fire?

Zhao Hao ran to the side of the adobe brick kiln, dismantled the surrounding adobe bricks, took out a large clay brick directly from it, and used two adobe bricks to erect the ground in the air, and then, the whole person jumped on the big clay brick and jumped around.

As for why this acceptance method is adopted, the reason is not enough with outsiders.

In short, the strength of this large clay brick is still very good, and he jumped on it for a long time without breaking it.