Chapter 19: The White Fox
In order to improve efficiency, Su Yang divided the work of more than a dozen helpers, each responsible for a part of the process, and improved his proficiency earlier. And he himself made some simple molds out of bamboo, such as a circle the size of the bottom, a bamboo tube with the same length as the mud strip, and so on.
In this way, the pottery made is basically the same size, belongs to the assembly line product, and lacks creativity, but it himself is the source of the creative movement itself.
After another three days, Su Yang began to challenge the production of teapots, that is, pottery with lids, for the sake of his own life, although he is in great health, but drinking raw water for a long time will definitely affect his health. Once you have a teapot and drink the boiled water, you're good to go.
The difficulty of the teapot lies in the lid and the spout of the teapot, but fortunately, his current memory is not trivial, so he can think of a way to solve it.
He rubbed a strip of mud, passed it through a bamboo branch the size of a little finger, and made it hollow, and then inlaid it on the side of the clay pot, and pierced a few small holes in the paste to let the water flow out, and it was done. The handle of the teapot is also replaced with mud strips, and it can be glued with a few strokes of bamboo in the adhesive place, without scratching through, and it can be glued with some water.
The lid of the teapot is also simple, just make a circle smaller than the edge of the pottery with a strip of clay, and although it is not possible to close the lid without any gaps, it is enough to boil the water quickly.
"Perfect!" Looking at the final product, Su Yang had to stop his love for half an hour before he was able to ease up.
In addition, he also designed casseroles, barbecue plates, trays for storing grease, etc., originally he also wanted to burn the kind of water tank that would make Sima Guang famous in later generations, but that thing was too big, I was afraid that it would not burn well, so he gave up for the time being, and changed to a small bowl, mainly used to hold things, such as grease, broth, etc.
"Dundun, go over quickly, catch the rabbit again." Rong suddenly ran over in a hurry.
Su Yang asked the big girl to continue making pottery, and then went to the rabbit hole, he mainly wanted to distinguish between male and female, and when he saw the harvest, he was stunned on the spot, because this time the rabbit was mixed with another breed.
The sharp-eyed one hand grabbed it back, this little thing is just the size of a palm, snow-white, without a trace of variegation, but the eyes and mouth are wrong, the rabbit is red-eyed three-petal mouth, and the little thing in the hand is fat, big ears, and the head looks like a dog not a dog.
"What kind of animal is this?" Su Yang really didn't recognize it for a while.
It wasn't until he observed the male and female of this little thing that he suddenly smelled a smell, and immediately exclaimed in astonishment: "This is obviously a little fox, okay!" ”
It's no wonder he didn't recognize it at first sight, the fox is not a domestic animal after all, and it is still a little white fox. Now that he knows that it is a fox, Su Yang can't help but rejoice, because the fox wants to eat rabbits, if a fox is really fed in the rabbit nest, the consequences will be unimaginable.
I don't know when, Matsu came, and said loudly: "Dundun, take this thing and put it away, it's unlucky!" Apparently the old man recognized at first glance that it was not a rabbit.
Su Yang was stunned again, thinking to himself, could it be that primitive people also believe in Fox Daxian? Although he is taking care of the work of a veterinarian to earn extra money, this profession decides not to believe in those, otherwise how can he cut off the root of his troubles with one knife?
Pinched the little fox, fleshy, eyes blurred, well, haven't woken up yet, it looks very cute.
"Matsu, I want to keep it, raise this little fox." Su Yang also ran into it, and he just raised a fox left and right, and there were more rabbits in the future, so he was not afraid of being eaten poor. Foxes can also catch mice, so it's good to be a pet like a cat, but if you can't keep them, let's talk about it.
"Okay, then keep it." The old man waved his hand, not taking it to heart.
Matsu came here because he went to see the pottery, and he was very satisfied, and now he came to tell him something about the pottery.
"Matsu, don't worry, the pottery should be able to be burned." Su Yang already had a plan in mind, but because the pottery had not yet dried, he still had to wait for three or four days before it could be burned with fire.
Who knew that the old man told him that when the time came to open the fire and burn the pottery, he would hold a sacrificial ceremony, and he would have to divinate in advance, and only after getting the auspicious omen of the harvest could he carry it out, before that, he could not burn the pottery rashly by himself, otherwise he might collide with the gods, even if Su Yang had eaten the essence of the earth and was approved by the gods, he could not act indiscriminately.
After a while, Su Yang understood what the old man meant, and couldn't help but feel that it was too nonsense, but the etiquette could not be abolished, so he had to quickly agree.
Subsequently, the grandparents counted the rabbits together, and now there are more than 30 rabbits, of which there are only seven adult rabbits, four mothers and three males. All four female rabbits have been successfully shot by the male rabbit and will wait for a month at most to give birth to a baby rabbit.
And the male rabbit is not practically three, but now that the tribe has food, it is not in a hurry to slaughter it.
The rest of the half-grown rabbits are also fed separately by male and female to avoid the female rabbit being shot prematurely, which is also because it is about to be winter, which is too cold. Waiting for this batch of rabbits to be raised to the beginning of spring to breed, in fact, is the most suitable.
The feeding here is very smooth, the forage is sufficient and pollution-free, but the rabbits do not grow as fast as imagined, which is actually for a reason, just because there is no main food, such as corn and other grains, but he can't solve this matter now.
"Poof!" At night, he kept a small stove in the cave, and of course the food was reasonably distributed.
It's just that the bird's eggs are entrained private goods, and even this matter has been reported to the elders, under the pretext that it is to experiment with the quality of pottery, but in fact, it is to satisfy his appetite.
The two clay pots he exchanged last time, one was placed in the elder's place, and the other was in his hand, the pottery was on the fire, and the water in the jar was already boiling, only to see him leaning back, and a look signaled, and the kid hurriedly handed over the cleaned eggs.
Su Yang smiled and crushed the egg, the egg white mixed with the egg yolk flowed gold into the bamboo tube, and stirred well. And the shell that adhered to the egg juice was fed to the little fox casually.
Then he poured the egg juice in the bamboo tube into the clay pot, and then stirred it quickly with a bamboo stick, and suddenly the egg drop soup in the clay pot was boiling, which was not over, and then put some washed wild vegetables, although the taste was slightly bitter, but it also had a unique flavor.
Sprinkle some salt into the clay pot, and in the last step, put in a small lump of boiled grease, only to hear a pop, the grease dissolves in the boiling water, and a rich smell of oil and water spreads, making the eyes of several children around them green.
"Dundun, okay, no!" The eldest girl urged, and next to her was her cousin Dongdong, who had already joined Su Yang's followers.
In addition, several girls from the Su family came, saying that they were here to learn how to use pottery, but in fact, they opened a small stove.
"Right away!" Su Yang smiled and asked Rong to withdraw the fire and start another fire next to it, otherwise there would be no light in the cave.
It's a pity that there is no spoon now, he wrote it down, Ming'er hurriedly pinched some spoons and other small things, otherwise it would be so troublesome to drink soup in the future.
Now I have to wait, wait until the clay pot has cooled down for a while, and the temperature of the soup should be about the same, so I wrapped it in animal skin and brought it to my mouth, blew it gently, and then drank it, wow, this feels so refreshing, and it is heartwarming!
"Dundun, give me a drink, or I won't bring you salt in the future." The big girl shouted, she is now the salt-carrying person of the small stove combination.
Su Yang's eyes were confused, he tasted the wild vegetable egg drop soup carefully, and drank three sips in a row, with egg foam bubbles sticking to his mouth, and then he was satisfied and handed the clay pot to the big girl.