Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Method of Firing Pottery Without Building an Earthen Kiln
The next day, the senior brother did not lead the people out hunting after eating as usual, but followed Han Cheng and the seven or eight children and the lame to the river.
They were accompanied by witches, and the rest of the tribe, who were curious to see what good things the Son had come up with.
After a night, these mud embryos have dried up a lot, the water on the surface has disappeared, and you can feel that these mud embryos are much harder than yesterday when you touch them lightly with your hands.
Wu looked at this piece of things, his eyes showed a look of thought, if these things are really hard enough, they can indeed hold a lot of things, and it is really as the Son of God said, it is far better than a stone bowl and a stone basin.
But the point is that this thing is made of mud, how can it be strong?
Wu was very puzzled, even if he had the knowledge passed down from generation to generation of witches, he still couldn't understand what kind of method the Son of God would use to make these things made of mud hard.
Wu is very smart, he knows such a thing as mud not being strong, and the Son of God must know, since the Son of God knows and still says and does this, there must be a way for him to make the mud stronger.
"With fire, burn."
Han Cheng said his method in Mandarin.
It's just that after this method was said, Wu and Senior Brother were even more confused, because in their cognition, fire can burn a lot of things!
Shouldn't mud be loosened when it is burned with fire? How is it possible to become strong?
There's no way to communicate, because it's so hard to explain this series of things!
Han Cheng had to resort to the old method, attributing all this to the gods, without explaining too much, and explaining with the final results, which could save a lot of tongues.
After coming here to take a look, not only did he not understand it, but he was even more confused, the senior brother went to hunt with the equally confused people, while Han Cheng took these little guys in the cave and continued to make mud embryos.
Wu didn't go back, but watched Han Cheng and the minors in these tribes play with mud.
Watching them make these mud into strange-looking things, after roughly figuring out the process, Wu also joined the ranks of playing with mud......
On the third day, the mud embryos made on the first day were already half dry, and Han Cheng looked at the more than fifty mud embryos placed on the ground, so he temporarily stopped the production of the mud embryos, and began to lead these people to collect things such as dead grass and fallen leaves and small branches.
Because it is spring, and the people here are not in the habit of setting fire to the slope, there is a thick layer of hay on the ground.
These minors, after hearing that they could make these things with their own hands, have already aroused a strong interest after hearing that they can make these things with their own hands.
It's not too tiring to do it one by one.
By the afternoon, a large pile of hay and firewood had been piled up nearby.
On the fourth day, the first batch of mud embryos had almost dried up, because of the weather, except for the three cracks that could not be wanted, the rest were intact, Han Cheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it can be regarded as a good start, right?
Han Cheng threw away the three broken ones, and then circled a place of about two square meters nearby, and asked people to dig down thirty centimeters deep, and then spread a layer of hay on them.
With the help of the elder brother and others who came to see the rarity, the mud embryos made on the first day were carefully placed on top of the hay and placed neatly, leaving a gap of about five centimeters between each mud embryo.
Then, under Han Cheng's demonstration, everyone filled these gaps with hay and firewood collected yesterday and pressed the porcelain with their hands.
Then the dead grass is more broken, mainly the stalk-like dry grass that is resistant to burning, and the mud embryos are covered, each cover is about ten centimeters, and then try to compact them with their hands, and then continue to put the grass until the tank made by the black baby with a height of more than one meter is covered and covered with more than ten centimeters, and then stop.
At this point, all the pottery was covered by broken grass, and there was no trace of it.
Just when many people, including Wu, thought that they could start igniting the fire, Han Cheng gave an order that surprised them.
Han Cheng didn't let the fire be lit, but asked people to draw water from the river, water the floating soil that had just been dug up, and then mix the mud.
Different from the relatively hard mud used in the manufacture of mud tires, according to Han Cheng's requirements, this time the mud is relatively soft and can be called thin mud.
Well, Heiwa and Zhuang are now in the mud......
Under the gaze of everyone, Han Cheng picked up these thin mud and pasted it on the pile of firewood and grass covered with the mud embryo, from top to bottom, all the firewood and grass must be sealed everywhere he passed, until the firewood and grass could not be seen from the outside.
After the Heiwa and the others came down in the past few days, they were already familiar with playing with mud, and after Han Cheng's demonstration and Han Cheng's order, they began to learn from Han Cheng's appearance, and put mud on this firewood and grass pile from different angles.
At the bottom of the pile of firewood and grass, Han Cheng did not let Heiwa and them do it, but did it himself.
On all sides of the ground, four gaps of twenty centimeters were left behind, which were not sealed with thin mud.
"Send the fire."
Han Cheng opened his mouth, and without him assigning a candidate, Senior Brother Sha, who was watching here, had already quickly run towards the cave.
Although he didn't understand why the Son of God did this, he could still feel the difference from this series of orderly steps.
Here comes the fire.
Han Cheng took the burning tree trunk from Senior Brother Sha's hand, and went to the four openings left behind, setting them on fire one by one.
Because they were filled with specially broken dead grass and leaves, and they were very porcelain pressed by hand, they didn't burn very quickly, and they didn't even start an open flame.
Especially after making sure that the fire would not be extinguished, Han Cheng sealed the four ignition openings with thin mud respectively, leaving a small hole with a diameter of less than half a centimeter for ventilation, and the flames inside burned even more slowly.
Han Cheng, who breathed a sigh of relief, told Wu, Senior Brother, and everyone that it would take three days to know the result.
This made the crowd who were anxious to know the result a little anxious.
But there was no way, everyone stayed here for a while, and the senior brother, who knew that he would not be able to see the results in a short time, went out hunting with the hunting team.
In spring, when the glacier is civilized, swimming fish are not as easy to catch as in winter, and hunting wild animals has become the primary source of food for Duluo.
Wu didn't go back, but stayed here with Han Cheng and the others.
After playing around for a while, under Han Cheng's beckoning, a group of underage primitives began to make clay embryos again.
However, unlike the concentration of the past, today they seem to be a little absent-minded, and from time to time they will turn their heads to look at the woodpile sealed in the mud, hoping that the silent woodpile will bring something magical sooner.
Not to mention them, even Han Cheng took a few glances from time to time, and sometimes climbed to the ground to see through the small hole to see if the fire inside was extinguished.
After all, this is also his first time making pottery, and he just watched the video once, whether he can do it at one time, he has no score in his heart.