Chapter 188: Clay Products
When it got dark, I dug a drainage ditch and sprinkled a lot of grass and wood ash around the camp to feel a little relieved.
The two of them ate grilled fish, grilled octopus, and some octopus soup, and ate a large ripe pineapple, feeling a little full.
At this time, Su Tian finally became interested in the large basket of clay he brought back: "Fanfan, why are you digging so much mud? What's the use?
"Of course not!"
"What's the use of that?" Su Tian wondered.
"These should be clay, I'll try it and see if I can make some better containers. Ren Bufan said, "Like larger bowls, cups, pots for catching rainwater, and pots for cooking rice and boiling water." ”
"Can this be done too?" Su Tian's eyes widened.
"The main thing is that this clay doesn't look like the kind I used to play with when I was a kid. Ren Bufan said, "Make a simple water cup first, and then make others if you can." ”
"What are you going to do?
"No, if you can't sleep, keep knitting. It's better to play with mud than boys, it's too dirty haha!" Ren Bufan took a basket of sticky mud as he spoke, and then scooped some water with a bamboo tube.
Su Tian sat on the side, weaving his robe by the light of the fire, and looked at him curiously.
Ren Bufan cleared out a piece of flat land, and then found a relatively large and flat stone and cleaned it with seawater.
Then he grabbed the clay from the basket and rubbed it in his hands to turn it into a circle.
The ball is then placed on the surface of the stone and flattened down by hand to form a mud cake. Then use your fingers to squeeze the surrounding area as thick as possible in the middle.
After making it, rub the clay back and forth, this time directly into a long strip, carefully place it on the edge of the mud cake, and gently press it, while rubbing the fingers in the water back and forth at the interface to make it join together, and try to eliminate the seams.
Wait until you're done, then rub a strip and stack it upwards in the same way, taking care each time and trying not to make mistakes.
After a while, the prototype of a water cup appeared in front of Su Tian, which made her quite amazed.
Ren Bufan glued a clay handle on the outside of the quilt and smoothed out its joints.
"It's pretty decent, but how do you turn it into a usable cup?" asked Su Tian curiously.
Ren Bufan smiled mysteriously, took the "spear" and dug a pit on the side, digging a small hole, just enough to hold the cup.
He carefully turned the cup upside down and put it inside, spread a layer of hay on top, and at the same time took a burning firewood from the fire, put it on and lit the hay, and began to pile up dead branches on top of it.
Su Tian asked, "Is it all made of those ceramic furniture?"
"The principle is about the same!" Ren Bufan nodded.
When the cup was firing, Ren Bufan did not stop and continued to make other things.
There was no way to calculate the time, but until he was very sleepy and sleepy, and it was determined that it was late at night, Su Tianling's clothes had been braided, and he kept yawning. Ren Bufan put aside the ashes and took out the cup with bamboo chopsticks.
Although Su Tian was very sleepy, she still came over curiously.
"Bang bell!" Ren Bufan took the bamboo chopsticks and knocked the cup a few times, making a crisp sound.
"Wow! It seems that it can really be!" Su Tian said excitedly.
"Well, this clay can be used. Ren Bufan nodded, "It should be able to be burned overnight! Anyway, just put it in the fire." ”
"Great! Is that why we can have a big pot that works better than a coconut shell tomorrow, and we can drink boiling water from a cup?" asked Su Tian happily.
"Yes, there will be better containers for collecting fresh water. ”
"Extraordinary!"
"Huh?"
"What the hell are you not going to do?" Su Tian looked up at him adoringly.
"Hehe~ You'll know in the future, husband, I'm omnipotent!" Ren Bufan said proudly, reaching out to put his arm around her shoulder.
"What?" Su Tian's face flushed, "Take advantage of me again!"
"Well, it's late. Ren Bufan said, "Hurry up and go to sleep!"
"What about you?"
"I'll burn the rest and go back to bed later. ”
"Oh!"
At night, the storm hit again, but it didn't happen.
On the second day, when Su Tian got up, Ren Bufan was asleep.
The fire was about to be extinguished, and the blackened dead trees shimmered with red sparks.
There are fired clay pots and clay jars on the side, and there are two clay bowls and two clay cups next to them, all of which are smooth and clean.
These were all made by him in one night, Su Tian looked back at Ren Bufan, and felt that he had the ability.
He really knows everything!
Put hay and twigs in the fire to wake up the small flames, and when they are lit, put in more dry wood to make the fire bigger.
Fire is the hope of two people to survive on the island, and it must be kept burning.
While Ren Bufan was asleep, Su Tian tested the temperature and found that several clay products were already cold, and he took them out of the fire in the early hours of the morning.
I don't know if I got up after a night's sleep, or if I didn't fall asleep until the early hours of the morning.
These days, Ren Bufan is working hard, Su Tian took advantage of his sleep, first ran to the beach with clay products, and carefully cleaned them in the shallow sea area.
After checking the fishing trap placed by Ren Bufan, she found a very fierce eel, which frightened her at that time.
Fortunately, the fishing trap can be retrieved directly, and the eel will not bite her in the basket, so she quickly returns to the shelter with the basket.
Although he wanted to deal with the eel before Ren Bufan woke up and make breakfast so that he could eat it directly, he confronted the eel in the basket with a "knife" for a long time, and finally couldn't muster up the courage, so he could only hang the basket next to him and pick up some dry firewood nearby.
When Ren Bufan woke up, he couldn't see Su Tian beside him, so he quickly got up and looked around, and soon saw her coming out of the woods with a small bundle of dead branches.
"Tian Tian, there are poisonous snakes on the island!" he hurriedly greeted him, but the firewood in Su Tian's hand, "You still ran inside, what if you get bitten?"
"It's okay!" Su Tian replied with a smile, "I will use this branch to sweep all the way over, and the snake will scare away first." ”
"That's too dangerous!"
"But we're pretty much done with firewood!"
"I knew that I was going to wake up and get some back, and I needed more materials to build a new shelter. Ren Bufan said, "Just let me come, don't take any risks!"
"Then you can take the risk?" Su Tian looked up into his eyes, "If you are in danger, I am also worried!"
These words warmed Ren Bufan's heart, and he reached out and touched her head: "Fool! I am a child in the mountains, and I have been used to running all over the mountains since I was a child. When I was a child, I used to go up to the mountains with my parents to chop wood! Can you be the same as me? Be obedient, don't take any risks, just leave it to me!"
"Oh!" Su Tian knew that he was worried about himself, and his heart was sweet, "Ah, by the way! I went to collect the fishing trap in the morning and found a very fierce eel! It's just that it's too fierce, I don't dare to kill ......."
"It's okay, I'll come!" Ren Bufan saw the fishing trap hanging on the side, took it down directly, and found that the eel inside was really fierce, "Tiantian, you also light the wolf smoke, this can't be forgotten." I'll deal with the eel, and we'll eat the grilled eel later!"
"Hmm!"
Although the eel is fierce, Ren Bufan is not afraid.
Take it outside, pour it out and step on your head, and cut it off directly with a knife.
The eel that lost its head was still struggling desperately, but it didn't prevent Ren Bufan from taking it to clean.
After digging out the internal organs of the eel, they are thrown into the fishing trap as bait, and the trap is thrown into the sea again.
Breakfast was fragrant eel meat, and both of them had a great time.
After breakfast, Ren Bufan prepared to go into the forest to "chop" some small trees to build a new shelter and collect firewood.
Afraid that Su Tian would be bored, I picked a lot of coconut leaves for her first, so that she could continue to weave things.
Su Tian also likes to knit, especially learning to weave all kinds of things from Ren Bufan.
Yesterday I knitted a coat and it felt good to wear on my body, so I wanted to make one for him too.
Ren Bufan told her to shout immediately if there was a situation, or if the rescue team appeared, he would also call him loudly, and he would not go too far anyway.
Su Tian agreed.
It's been a few days on this island, and the rescue team should be almost there, right?
We may be able to get there today, but a new shelter will still be built.
In case the rescue team does not appear, there must be a safer place to stay, otherwise there will really be a poisonous snake on the big banyan tree, and it will be dangerous for both people to fall asleep at night.
There are knives and spears made of iron rods of pedal boats, but cutting trees is still not as easy as flowing wind legs.
It takes half a day to beat these iron tools, and you can kick them down with a single kick, so why waste your strength?
Ren Bufan had an idea of the shelter to be built this time, and he must have used a lot more materials than the previous ones.
In addition to safety, it is more important to live comfortably.
Fortunately, it has the same ability to cheat, and the speed of collecting materials is not at all understandable to ordinary people.
Others may have spent days or more cutting down trees, but here he has no drag at all, and one foot at a time.
Soon they were dragged out of the forest, and after a few trips, they formed a small hill.
Not only are the materials used to build shelters, but the green leaves and branches can be used as necessary materials for wolf smoke, and after drying or drying, they can be used to make fires.
The weather has been bad these days, and the sun doesn't show its face at all.
It's not raining now, it's time for the event.
I hope that there will be no more wind and rain today, let the rescue team find this side as soon as possible, and take myself and Su Tian home!
Ren Bufan is confident that he will live well with Su Tian, after all, the island is relatively rich in materials.
But after so many days, the family must be in a hurry to death, and the companions who came over together must be also anxious at this moment.
The most important thing is that he feels quite uncomfortable without mobile phones, computers and the Internet without modern society. And the discovery of the poisonous snake made him even more worried about Su Tian's safety, and he didn't want her to be harmed here!