Volume 1: Building the Castle Chapter 16: The Birth of the Axe (3)
To make a product such as a mask, you only need an outer mold and an inner mold.
The difficulty of the axe casting lies in the hole of the handle through which the wooden handle is pierced. Holes must be left at the same time as the axe is poured, otherwise it would be difficult to cut a single piece of bamboo, let alone drill a hole in an iron tool, with today's productivity.
This requires the use of more complex models, such as the device that creates the handle holes. Taken together, it is called exemplary.
The word eventually leads to other meanings. The earliest provenance is here.
The good vermiability of the weathered stone allowed Wang Tian to quickly make the shape of the axe. Kuroko looked at this stone axe that could be crushed with his hands, and he didn't know what it was for.
The tribesmen cut and washed the fish in front of the pond, some people were responsible for carrying them, and some people were responsible for threading and hanging the fish with Teng sticks. Wang Tian asked people to collect fish fat, fish eggs, and fish paste separately. The children of the tribe were divided into two groups, one group guarded the wild fruits spread on the observation deck to dry, to prevent them from being taken away by the black species in the sky. And steal a bite from time to time. The other group took the fish that had been dressed and worn, trotted all the way from the pond to the place where the fish were dried, and hung them up, and took one of the runs once, and enjoyed it. The shelves for drying outside the cave have been tied, and the bamboo poles are full of fish.
Wu who was standing on the side looked at this fish forest, and his face full of vicissitudes showed a pleased smile. "What's going on inside the witches?" Wang Tian asked. He asked about the use of smoke to drive away mosquitoes in the cave. Snakes and rats don't know, mosquitoes are indispensable. "Okay, why does the Son of Heaven @"? Wu asked puzzled.
"The cave is dry, people don't get sick easily, and they can repel mosquitoes," Wang Tian explained.
The open fire in the cave had been extinguished, and several pregnant women were cleaning up the ashes of the plants and trees, and Wang Tianrang gathered them together and piled them in a pile. Grass ash can be used as fertilizer, and clay and grass ash can also be used as cement. If the lime is burned, it can also be used to make preserved eggs. Well, I thought of food again.
After the cave was cleaned, Huo Yi and Huo Er instructed everyone to pour the half-wet soil into the uneven part of the cave, and Wang Tianrang stirred it with grass and wood ashes to tamp it down.
At this time, Wu brought the four people who were in charge of building the shelf to find Wang Tian, and the cave wall was empty, and the bamboo poles could not take root, so the shelf could not be erected. If you want to make a hole in the rock wall and can't reach the height, you can't do it, and you don't know what to do.
I can't eat so many fish, and I don't feel at ease when I hang them outside, so I can't worry about witches. "Don't worry, there is a way" took out the string of sabers and drew a ladder on the ground, so that the four of them must be tied strongly. Wu and the others were puzzled at first, but then rejoiced. Wu eyebrows and eyes stretched.
Wang Tian asked Heizi Xiaoling to find a long enough teng stick, measured the length of the bamboo pole to be erected and made it a little longer, sawed off the end of the small head, and made a motion of smashing the bamboo with a wooden stick. This is to use the resilience of the bamboo to allow it to hold itself up.
In this way, if the bamboo is too long, it will be sawn, and if it is a little short, it will be padded with a wedge and struck with a large log.
"The long ones are sawed off, and the short ones are knocking on the pads, understand?" Xiao Ling was the first to nod and explain. Then I went to explain the translation to a few people.
Wang Tian took the sunspot, and beckoned a group of boys to leave the cave with firewood, Wang Tian took a bamboo knife, and a group of people walked towards the place where the kiln was burned. Seeing the Son of Heaven leaving, Wu hurriedly called the two to follow and protect him.
After arriving at the place, take the soil and mud, step on it repeatedly with your feet, and let it dry a little for later use.
I took a look at the brick mold and the tongs used to melt the iron. The brick mold is ready to burn and does not need to be completely dry. As long as it is fired into shape, it does not need to be as strict as pottery.
Wang Tian asked someone to bring fire to light the four pottery kilns, and then put the brick molds flat and carefully put them in
In the kiln, there are three layers in total, two layers below, two layers each, and one layer on the top layer, for a total of five. A total of 20 of the four kilns were burned together. Even if the finished product is only half, it is enough.
After all the brick molds were put in, the firewood was added to slowly increase the fire. The previously made mud sticks are spread parallel to the chimney mouth at the top of the kiln mouth, and after half an hour, when the water in the mold is almost gone, pick up the previously made tiles to cover the kiln mouth. Then put on a fierce fire to keep the kiln temperature stable.
Wang Tian moved the tongs and pot blank to the kiln door to add materials and baked it. Arrange for five people to star. Others continue and clay is used to make pottery.
Wang Tian and Heizi smashed the particularly fine mud that had just been put aside on the stone slab several times, then cut it into two rectangles of the same size with a bamboo knife and carefully scraped the horizontal surface. Then Wang Tian washed the mud on his hands, and after drying his hands, he picked up the weathered stone axe, and carefully pressed the weathered stone axe into the mud in the right position. Press into the symmetrical midline of the axe and stop immediately. Then carefully remove the weathered stones.
Next, wait for the air to dry and fix before making the other half.
Wang Tian asked Heizi to take a dry hairy child to continue to make a batch of pottery bowls and pots according to the previous batch of pottery blanks. In particular, the pottery bowl should be one per person. He himself planned to make a blower bellows shell to melt the molten iron to raise the temperature in the kiln.
There is no suitable material for making fan blades, only volume is used to make up. Wang Tian pinched the bellows into a guitar shape, and the guitar strings were pulled into an opening, with a mouth, and the headstock was cylindrical and gradually became smaller, with a diameter of ten centimeters. The whole blower is 60 centimeters long and 40 centimeters wide.
Such a thing is basically a closed object. It takes a lot of effort to connect the mud strips one by one. When Wang Tian finally finished, there was already a group of mud monkeys around him.
"Have you waited for a long time?" Wang Tian asked. The mud monkeys shook their heads, "I'm hungry", and the mud monkeys nodded, "Then don't go wash it and go back to eating". "Drink soup in a bamboo tube at noon".
"Yay!! ……”
A group of children cheered happily. Last night's bamboo tube fish soup was tasted, and they couldn't compete with adults. At noon, the tribesmen were much less, and the Son of Heaven personally agreed.
"Kuroko,...... Kuroko, you stay and watch the fire, don't put out the kiln." I'll bring you ten tubes of bamboo soup in a moment.
Wang Tian left two male bodyguards, including three older children, a total of five people who were responsible for taking care of the four kilns, and led the children in the tribe back to the cave. Passing by, I saw the pottery they pinched, which was a variety of shapes, and the five-flower door. The pottery is decorated with various patterns, birds, fish, insects, flowers...... The whole nine yards. Wang Tian thinks it's better than Wu painting!
"Son of God, I,...... Can I ask for two bamboos? A crunchy voice sounded, with a slightly frightened expression, but in an affirmative tone. Oh! Wang Tianjian was a four or five-year-old boy, "Can you finish eating?" As long as there are no leftovers, you can eat as much as you want. ”
Well, the little boy replied heavily.