Volume 1 Building the City Chapter 10 Let's Play with the Mud (1)

Early in the morning of the second day, Wang Tian woke up very early, walked out of the cave and took the little Fu Ma to the waterhole.

I saw the small fish that I put in yesterday, and at this time it was surfacing and opening its mouth to breathe. It seems that the fish have adapted to this place.

Wang Tian let go of the horse's reins and let it freely nibble on the tender grass with dew by the pond, squatted by the water Tan and washed his face, leaned down and rinsed his mouth with a few mouthfuls of water.

Today is the third day of the crossing, and I am really not used to it without toothpaste and toothbrush! Before the crossing, I felt that I was living the most miserable life in the world, and I didn't want anything. But now that I think about it, how rich I was in the material things I had at that time.

And in this era, Wang Tian doesn't even have a second pair of underwear.

All right! Instead of lamenting the future generations, it is better to strive to look forward and make your present better.

Wang Tian returned to the cave alone, and saw that Wu was arranging for people to grill fish, and yesterday he had enough food, and Wu finally added a breakfast, which was not available before.

But is it really good to eat barbecue early in the morning? It seems that today before firing the brick kiln, I tried to make pottery. It's good to have a soup in the morning!

"Wu, early"!

Wang Tian smiled and greeted Wu Da. Kuroko and Xiaoling, who got up early because of the smell of fish, beckoned Wu to sit down. "Dry fish, catch fish, build walls, don't hunt". A flurry of fingers, coupled with body language, finally made Wu understand what he meant.

In fact, it is just a sentence: today's personnel arrangements were handed over to him, and Wu agreed to his request.

At this time, the sorcerer called the leader over and told the leader what Wang Tian requested. The boss also knew that he didn't have to go out hunting today, and he nodded in agreement. clenched his fist at Wang Tian and slapped it twice on his chest, which meant that there was no problem, and everything was subject to Wang Tian's arrangement.

After breakfast, Wang Tian was not polite and arranged for the people in the tribe to come.

First of all, 12 people and 20 female adults were left behind to protect the safety of the tribe and take care of infants and young children, and they continued to pick wild fruits near the tribe.

Among the remaining 13 people, eight people, including the five who dug a ditch yesterday to fish, will continue to fish in another place according to yesterday's method. But the fishing was scheduled for the afternoon.

In the morning, clean the fish caught yesterday, clean the internal organs, and dry them in a cool and ventilated place. In this way, when the water of the fish is dried, and exposed to the sun for a few days, the fish will become as hard as dry firewood, and even if it is not salted, it can be stored for a long time.

The two sika deer obtained from yesterday's hunt and the remaining wild boar meat from last night were cut into strip-shaped pieces of meat of about two catties with a stone knife. Pick up stones from the observation deck outside the cave entrance and put a stove on it, and when the fire is burning, extinguish the fire with a pine branch with green leaves. After the smoke rises, two layers of bamboo slices are placed horizontally and vertically on the stove, the bamboo slices are shaped into a tic-tac-toe shape, and holes are left one by one in the picture to facilitate the smoke and heat to run upward, and the size of the mouth is subject to the meat strips that will not fall, and then put the meat strips. Wang Tian turned around and entered. When I entered the cave, I found a few pieces of old skin that had lost hair and were useless, and covered the meat on the bamboo strips tightly.

The rest just need to pay attention to the stove at all times and not have an open fire (bacon because the meat will drip oil into the stove, it is easy to cause an open flame, so people must keep an eye on it at all times, once the open fire is started, the meat will all be burned into carbon), Wang Tian handed over the matter of staring at the fire source of the stove to Huo Er, that is, one of the two old men in the tribe who take care of the fire source at night, and then he no longer cares.

Huo Er was on duty in the middle of the night last night, and Huo Yi was in the second half of the night and was now sleeping.

The remaining four female adults plus six adult males made up ten of them, led by the second brother of King Kong, and the group went to the bamboo forest to dig down the bamboo, remove the branches, and drag them back to the tribe to prepare materials for the baskets and the scaffolding needed to build the walls.

All the rest, except for the ten men needed to dig the earth and build the kiln, were arranged to go up the hill to cut down trees, build fence gates, and burn bricks, which required a lot of wood and fuel. All adults over the age of 10 are also required to go with them to collect any dead grass and leaves that can be burned. This group is led by the boss of the leader.

Wang Tian led the ten people to the vicinity of the river bank to dig clay mixed with water and mud, and rubbed it repeatedly with their feet.

The soil used to make bricks should not be too wet, otherwise the air-drying time will be very long, and you only need to smash the soil into the brick mold and pat it with your hand to compact and pat it tightly.

Now the mud is used to build kilns and fire brick molds, and the more water in the mud, it is easier to shape. In addition, Wang Tian also plans to try to make a batch of larger clay jars and clay pots and bowls, so that he can drink hot broth and fish soup. I was able to boil water and drink it, too.

In this era, there is no pollution, but there are still various germs and insect eggs in the water, and drinking raw water is always uneasy.

Wang Tian instructed everyone, and after setting the standard, they began to build a kiln for firing embryo brick molds. He completely handed over the matter of mud to the slender head Tuo Laosan.

If you want to make red bricks for building walls, you first have to burn a mold that can make bricks, and to make a mold, you first have to build a kiln that can burn a mold of bricks. Well, that's a bit of a mouthful.

Meals should be eaten one bite at a time, and things should be done one by one. Prioritizing and planning is the biggest difference between man and beast.

Wang Tian used a bamboo tube to fetch a bamboo jar of water, came to a relatively flat ground, and used the freshly reconciled mud to coil out a solid disc with a diameter of about one meter and an original degree of about ten centimeters, and try to achieve the same thickness. In order to prevent it from being unable to lift up after drying, Wang Tian specially added a handful of crushed plant fibers to it to increase its toughness.

After doing so, glue water to both hands and apply it back and forth on the surface of the disc to make it smoother. After all the trimming is done, take out a section of bamboo tube, replace it evenly on the disc, and dig out round holes of similar size.

This solid disc with many round holes is used to isolate the fire source and the partition of the product to be fired. The top of the partition is used to place the brick mold and the pottery clay blank, and the bottom is the source of the fire, and after the ignition, the flame rushes up through a hollow round hole made by pressing the bamboo tube. Give the fire source a sufficient space to burn and use it to increase the kiln temperature. Wang Tian gave it a name, called the pottery placement board.

Due to the toughness of the soil and the drawbacks of the larger the volume and the greater the weight, the pottery placement board should not be made too large and too heavy, otherwise it will crumble and break even if it is lifted after drying.