Chapter 34: Entering the Age of Pottery
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"Qiaoma, you can try."
"Me?"
Qiaoma looked at Li Qi excitedly, as if she couldn't believe it.
Li Qi nodded and said, "That's right! As he spoke, he let go of the stone underneath his buttocks.
Qiaoma sat up with lightning speed, as if she was afraid of being robbed, and said to Rong: "Rong, I'll turn around by myself, I don't need your help." ”
"Oh."
Rong retracted his feet, and looked at Li Qi aggrievedly, as if asking, why not me first.
Look at what I'm doing, you're such a bull X, it's a waste of your talent to let you do this thing. Litch turned a blind eye and began to teach Qiaoma how to pull the embryo.
Qiaoma really doesn't need Rong's help, because she still has this little bit of strength, this kind of thing is done by Rong, it's like killing chickens with a knife, and her big toe thumb is much more flexible than Rong, and she can be slow or fast at any time.
Li Qi was carefully guiding on the side, looking at the rotating potter's wheel, some memories of pulling embryos flashed in his mind, which was full of sweetness and romance, and then looked at the reality, and sighed bitterly in his heart, why is it not a beauty sitting here? How much fun that would be! No, Richie, you can't judge people by their looks, or you won't even make a friend here. No, no, Li Qi, you have to judge people by their appearance, if you lower your standards, then you will definitely be sorry for your wives, if you judge people by their appearance, even if you can't go back to the Great Song Dynasty, you are destined to die alone.
When he came back to his senses, he stared at the potter's wheel and exclaimed, "A pillar of optimus? ”
Qiaoma looked back at Li Qi and asked, "What pillar of optimus?" ”
Li Qi pointed to the pottery embryo on the potter's wheel and wondered, "You... Where did you get your inspiration? ”
Qiaoma also seemed to be a little confused, and looked up again.
Li Qi followed her gaze and raised his head, immediately reacted, and said angrily: "Rong, close your thighs for me." ”
With a melt sound, he clamped his thighs tightly.
Li Qi waved his hand and said, "You just sit on the side, don't interfere with Qiaoma." ”
Rong obediently sat to the side, he hadn't reacted yet.
Li Qi cleaned up his mood and taught him seriously, he didn't dare to get distracted anymore, in case Qiaoma got more chrysanthemums out, it would be really embarrassing.
Qiaoma is also worthy of being the most ingenious woman in Blackstone Valley, and soon, she has mastered the know-how, of course, mastering the know-how does not mean that she will learn it, this craft can only be practiced to make perfect, and it is impossible to reach the sky in one step.
In their eyes, this is not work at all, this is playing, so why not play together?
Neither did Richie favor one over the other, and he let his pottery team take turns to practice.
However, they are not pots and bowls, but pottery wheels, which are much simpler than pots and bowls, because if you use wood as a potter's wheel, it is not very easy to use, after all, wood is not so smooth, and it will rot and deform when it encounters water, and the wood is just a turntable underneath.
Of course, this time Li Qi did not say that the pottery embryo should be put into the fire and roasted immediately, this was no longer an experiment, but let them put it on the big leaves to dry first.
And that night, no one asked Li Qi to tell the story, most of them were making the wheel, they had been watching it all day, and they were already itching, so they could only make the wheel themselves, including the little boys who were also seriously cutting wood.
Although their tools are very backward, this is what they are good at, and they have grown up to make either stone tools or wood tools. Moreover, there is a lot of wood here.
Seeing this scene, Li Qi thought that Blackstone Valley would usher in the moment of national pottery.
However, reality told him that he really thought too much.
The next morning, I saw these little children stepping on a wooden wheel with their feet, and using their feet to force back and forth, causing the wooden wheel to roll forward, and playing in front of the hole.
Of course, only their terrifying balance could step on such rudimentary wheels and walk freely in the bumpy clearing.
"Brute, you're walking so slowly."
"Believe it or not, I'm going to find Richie and ask him to help me come up with an idea and become faster than you."
"I can go to Richie, too."
"But Richie likes me the most."
Quite arrogant.
Li Qi didn't care about them, and he still focused on his pottery group.
In addition, this required a lot of earth, so Li Qi simply asked Taba to take people and dig a row of caves directly on the hillside.
And he was in front of the cave, continuing them to teach them their craft.
When Li Qi walked in the crowd and looked at the roulette wheels that rotated like machines, he felt that he was in the era of artificial intelligence, which was really cool.
This undoubtedly accelerated the birth of pottery.
……
On this day, all the people of Blackstone Valley came to the front of the hillside, because the first batch of fired pottery was about to be baked today, and everyone was very much looking forward to it.
When Rong carefully opened the stone slab covering it, Li Qi squatted down and stared inside, a smile gradually appeared on his face, and the others stood at the bottom of the slope, looking forward to it.
After a while, when Richie took out the stew pot he had made himself.
Down the slope was an exclamation.
It was much more beautiful than what they had done last time, black and shiny, and in their eyes, it was like a treasure.
Li Qi looked at the stew pot carefully, when he saw these pottery for the first time, he thought that he had fired porcelain, because the appearance was very bright, but in his hand, it was not so smooth, maintaining the texture of pottery, and it was heavier than the pottery of later generations!
The stew pot was a little heavy in his hands, but in their hands, it was too light.
Taba leaned in and looked at it, asking, "Why is this so much better than last time?" ”
Only then did Li Qi explain the original reason to Taba, mainly the difference between high temperature and uniform temperature.
After listening to this, Taba sat down and thought quietly.
Li Qi didn't care about him, because Taba's comprehension ability didn't require him to explain too much, he raised the stew pot high, and said loudly: "Tomorrow I will use them to make more delicious dishes for you to eat." ”
There was another cheer down the slope, much louder than just now, after all, for them, eating is the most important thing.
And Richie had to use pottery immediately, so that they could produce more pottery, and if it wasn't used much, they would immediately lose interest when the novelty wore off.
Later, Rong took out the other pottery, and most of the first batch were potter's wheels, and only Li Qi made two stew pots.
But immediately put the other ones in, this batch is all bowls, after all, they are all made by novices, far less exquisite than those bowls in later generations, but they are much better than those bowls at the beginning. In fact, Li Qi does not have high requirements for the bowl, as long as it can be used.
When Rong lit the fire again, everyone happily returned to the cave with the newly baked pottery, and as soon as they returned to the cave, they began to make pottery, they had just received the new potter's wheel, and they had to try it immediately, which also made them very motivated.
Richie didn't go back to the cave with them, he went to a large rock, his eyes scanned over it, and suddenly, his eyes were fixed on a small hole.
No way! It's incredible! Li Qi looked at the small handful of white crystals in the hole, with a shocked look in his eyes, and after a while, he stretched out his trembling hand, wiped a little white crystal from the small hole with his fingers, put it on the tip of his tongue and licked it, suddenly his eyes opened, and said, "What pure salt!" How is this possible. This salt... Salt actually grows on trees. ”
On that day, he poured all the juice of the ginkgo into this small eye, the purpose was to see if it was salty, or the fruit would taste like this, he never thought that the fruit really contained salt, and this salt was much purer than the salt of later generations, and what was even more amazing was that this salt still had a little bit of fruit's unique fragrance, which in later generations, it might be sold for a sky-high price.
"It's a shame......."
Li Qi suddenly sighed, "It's a pity that no one has done business these days, and even the grain is not allowed to come out, otherwise, with pottery and this salt, what kind of hunting will we have, break our legs, and then lie down and wait to eat." ”
Speaking of this, he narrowed his eyes and smiled, "That's not right! If there is no now, it does not mean that there will be no in the future, trading is also a kind of civilization, and if I want to accelerate civilization, I must light up this frosty civilization tree. ”