Chapter 126: The Potter's Wheel
This dinner party gradually dispersed in Ye Feng's depression and in the celebratory atmosphere of the clansmen.
Early the next morning, Ye Feng led the people to build a cowshed, because the wild buffalo is extremely fierce, not as docile as the domestic buffalo, this cowshed was built by him very strong, and it took a lot of effort.
Ye Feng sat on eight copper bull nose rings in the industrial group and put them on the noses of these eight cows. Some people may ask, why do cows wear a cow nose ring?
We all know that Liu's temper is very stubborn, otherwise he would not use a cow to describe a person's stubborn temper, and it is not so easy to want a cow to be obedient.
Therefore, the cattle handler learned in practice that the nasal septum of the cow is thin and full of nerves, as long as the nasal septum of the cow is held and stimulated, the cow can feel pain and obediently obey, and concluded that a metal ring can be used to pass through the nasal septum and put a rope on the rope to lead the ox away.
In fact, it is also possible to use a knife to cut a wooden pin without a metal ring, or simply to make a hole in the middle of the cow's nose and use a rope to pass through it, but that is really inconvenient, it is better to use a metal ring.
In order to build this cowshed, Ye Feng and the others were busy all morning, and it was close to noon before they carried the eight cows into the cowshed and tied them to their nose rings with ropes.
After a night and a morning, they were still lying on the ground softly, if it weren't for their noses still fanning, Ye Feng would have thought they were all poisoned.
After finishing these things, Ye Feng felt extremely thirsty, picked up a clay pot, and poured the water inside into it, after drinking, Ye Feng shook the empty clay pot, and felt that this clay pot was extremely heavy, and he felt that he still had to make a potter's wheel.
Now the tribe makes pottery with the clay strip plate construction method, the appearance of the pottery is very unsightly, and it is very heavy, and there is no way to make very thin pottery, if it is broken, I don't know if people still think it is a stone.
Nowadays, with metal tools, it is very easy to make a potter's wheel, although I didn't specialize in pottery before, but if I haven't done it, it doesn't mean I haven't seen it. In the information age, you can see everything, and he saw a video of only making pottery on a video website. In this video, the clay embryo is placed on a rotating disc, and the shape of the pottery is shaped by the rotation of the disc.
The turning device was very easy to make, Ye Feng drew a simple drawing on the animal skin, and then came to the industrial team, took the tools and began to make it.
As a hand-broken version, Ye Feng failed many times, and it took two days to make a rough appearance.
Three days later, he finished making all the parts, waved to the industrial team, and assembled the potter's wheel.
People were also very curious about what Ye Feng had spent three days making and what it took them more than half an hour to assemble this potter's wheel.
On the base of the potter's wheel are two side-by-side discs, one large and one small, and the small one has a protruding grip on the top, and the top of the large disc is as smooth and flat as a tabletop.
Ye Feng uses tanned animal skins as leather strips to link them, and as long as Ye Feng shakes the grip on the small disc, he will drive another large disc through the leather strip, and as long as the clay embryo is placed on the large disc, the pottery can be made.
The clansmen looked at such a picture in amazement, two large and small discs, which seemed to have nothing to do with each other, but through the connection of the belt, with a slight shake, the big disc could be rotated, if it wasn't for witnessing Ye Feng's hand-made part by part, they would have thought it was a miracle.
Ye Feng looked at his masterpiece and nodded, very satisfied with his work.
Liu Junting looked east and west around this potter's wheel, and even put his hands up and down, touching east and west, but he didn't understand anything, so he walked up to Ye Feng and asked, "Ye Feng, what is this thing for?" ”
Ye Feng smiled and said, "This thing is called a potter's wheel, first carry it to the pottery team, and you will know when the time comes." ”
Liu Junting saw that Ye Feng had sold Guanzi, and his heart was as anxious as a cat's paw, and he couldn't wait to have two more feet and go to the pottery team as soon as possible.
Duoye, who rushed to hear the news, heard that he was going to move to the pottery team, so he exclaimed: "Ye Feng, this thing is used to make pottery?" ”
Ye Feng saw that the guanzi he sold was exposed, and said embarrassedly: "Yes, this thing is used to make pottery." ”
As soon as the words fell, people were stunned, although they were not from the pottery group and did not know the firing method of pottery, but they still knew the general process - didn't the homemade pottery be pinched out of a shape by hand and burned in the fire?
Seeing the surprised look of the people, Ye Feng smiled and asked the potter's wheel to be carried to the pottery making team, and the ready-made clay embryos there were used to make pottery.
Ye Feng put the clay embryo on the potter's wheel, waved his hand and called a clansman, and asked him to shake the small disc.
As the disc rotated, the lump of mud in Ye Feng's hand gradually changed from an irregular shape to a cylinder, and he pressed the top of the mud pillar with his fingers, and the soil slowly expanded outward, and finally turned into a bowl.
Seeing this scene, people's eyes suddenly shattered, especially these people in the self-deprecation group, their eyes lit up with golden light. They looked at the round and smooth bowl in front of them, and compared the pottery they made, it was simply heaven and earth.
Ye Feng carefully put the drawn pottery bowl in a cool place to dry, and said to the crowd: "How is this thing?" Not bad! ”
Hearing Ye Feng's words, people hurriedly nodded and praised, and they were going to blow Ye Feng into the sky.
Ye Feng was in a refreshed mood when he was blown, he was lucky, he got started for the first time, and he actually succeeded, if he failed, this potter's wheel would definitely be questioned by the clansmen.
In the thunderous applause of the people, Ye Feng called the people from the pottery making team over, and then handed them how to use the potter's wheel, and they quickly learned it.
Although the pottery they kneaded was not so beautiful because of their hands, they were a major improvement from the previous clay strip plate construction method.
Looking at the happy appearance of the clansmen, Ye Feng felt a burst of satisfaction in his heart, and his work was finally not in vain.
But then a huge sleepiness hit, and he felt that he had to sleep well after a few days.
Shaking his head, he drove the sleepiness away, this is not a place to sleep, it must be in a cave to sleep comfortably.
He pushed through the crowd, walked slowly to his bunk, fell headlong, and fell asleep.
《》