Chapter 153 Pottery Master

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Cao Ren led the troops out to support Xiahoudun on the front line, his eldest son Cao Tai also went out with his father to experience the battle, and the second son Cao Kai and the third son Cao Fan were still little children, so Cao Ajiao and Sun Lang had the highest status in this mansion. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Yes, no matter how Sun Lang tosses in the house, no one dares to make irresponsible remarks. Not only that, some family members who admired Sun Lang's magical powers also took the initiative to come over to help him, saying that he could learn ability and ability by following Sun Xianggong.

They have indeed learned their abilities and skills, and not only that, but they can also gain insight and experience.

I saw Sun Lang make a disc with a diameter of about half a zhang out of a wooden plank, dig a hole in the middle, put an iron shaft in the hole, and support it on the ground. It is also kneaded with hemp rope into a track, wrapped around the edge of the disc, and the track is attached to a modified small waterwheel, and the waterwheel is erected next to the small waterfall of the rockery in Fuli.

What is this thing for? Everyone can only look at the freshness, but they don't know anything about it.

I saw the waterfall of the rockery flowing down, washing the impeller of the waterwheel, the waterwheel bone rotated slowly, driving the transmission of the hemp rope, and the longitudinal force was transformed into a horizontal force through a series of mechanical mechanisms, and the disc that was supported on the ground was also driven to rotate at high speed......

How have you ever seen the principle of mechanical transmission in this later generation? They all clapped their hands and applauded. Although it was applauded, I still had no idea what it was for.

And Sun Lang made this without stopping, leading five or six people to spread the kaolin on the ground, smashing it with an iron hammer, knocking the chunk-like kaolin ore into a fine powder, and then putting it into the water mill used to beat it uncontrollably. After several times, the kaolin mine has become an authentic "flour", mixed with water to rinse it, remove the slag and sediment, and then rub it repeatedly with your hands or step on it with your feet, so that all the air in the mud is squeezed out and the water in it is evenly distributed.

Think about it, if this raw material is full of impurities, how can you make fine porcelain? Whether the tire quality of porcelain is delicate and whether it is smooth to the touch are the key criteria to distinguish its good and bad. And this difference in fetal quality is precisely the important difference between the shoddy "pottery" of the pre-Qin dynasty and the exquisite "porcelain" of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the later generations.

Sun Lang knows that sharpening knives does not require woodcutters, this process step is called "refining mud", which is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive, fortunately, Sun Lang has Xu Chu's natural divine power at this time, and the selected family members are all strong young men, and they don't feel hard to do, and they have been refining a bunch of fine soil required to make fine porcelain, as if they are like flour and dough, so that people can't help but pull off a piece to taste it.

In the past few days, Dong Xi came back, and sure enough, he brought back a reply from Cai Wenji, Sun Lang hurriedly opened it and saw that it was still written on the parchment scroll with flying white calligraphy, and this time it was a small poem written in the genre of Han Yuefu, it is estimated that Cai Dacai saw that she wrote poems for her, and she was not willing to lag behind, so she also replied in the genre of poetry.

The poem is nothing more than showing how she thanked herself for her kindness in rescuing her and returning to Dahan, and highly praised Sun Lang's youthful chivalrous actions, and said that she would definitely be like Ban Chao and Su Wu to stay alone and stay in the desert, not losing her ambitions, and waiting for Sun Lang's good news.

However, to Sun Lang's delight and surprise, at the end of her Yuefu poem, she actually used a sentence "When you see a gentleman, Yunhu doesn't like it." The wind and rain are like obscurity, and the roosters are crowing" as the end. Sun Lang knew that this was a famous sentence in the "Book of Songs", which said that a woman listened to the terrible rooster crowing outside the window in the stormy night, and missed her favorite person more and more. If you can see the lover in your heart, you will naturally be infinitely happy in your heart, even if it is thunder and rain in the sky, you don't care at all.

She compared her current situation to a stormy situation, and Sun Lang felt that it was very appropriate. But it was really unexpected to compare herself to the "gentleman" she was looking forward to day and night in her mind.

Sun Lang's face was red and his heart was pounding, so he continued to reply to her, comforting her not to be anxious, and he would definitely find a way to redeem her back Yunyun. The format of the letter is also in the Yuefu genre, but it borrows the words and phrases in the "Queqiao Immortal" made by Qin Guan in the later generations, and "The clouds are clever, and the flying stars spread hatred." Tenderness is like water, and the best period is like a dream" and other words were kneaded in, as if it became an ambiguous love letter.

Dong Xi rested for a day, and then went north to deliver the letter, he enjoyed the beautiful scenery of the prairie every time, but he did not feel tired.

After writing a letter and flirting with Cai Wenji, Sun Lang's motivation was even more sufficient, although there was a pile of mud in front of him, it would not be long before it would turn into many exquisite porcelain, and these porcelains would turn into yellow gold, and which talented woman through the ages would be redeemed from the hands of the Huns.

The five or six strong men from before continued to refine the mud, and Sun Lang chose two or three more skillful students to follow him into the next process.

The tire soil is ready, and the next process is called "blank drawing". The mechanical turntable that was made earlier finally came to great use, holding a pile of tire soil on the turntable, and the tire soil rotated at high speed with the turntable. With your hand on the clay, with the curve of the palm, you can squeeze and stretch the clay into a rounded porcelain shape.

Sun Lang is obviously not very good at this work, and the soil is too hard at first, and he can't pull out the blank several times. Later, I found out that there was too little water in the soil, so I put a water bowl on the side and slowly poured water on the tire. It was drenched too much, the fetus was too soft, and it collapsed on the turntable again, becoming a pile of mud.

The family members were very surprised to see that there was still something in the world that Sun Xianggong would not know, and they watched in a circle with bated breath. I saw that Sun Lang tried thirty or fifty times, and finally pulled the soft fetal soil into a porcelain blank.

Only then did the family see that Sun Lang was making a bottle. This kind of bottle was the most common decoration in the homes of officials and authorities in the Qin and Han dynasties, and it was all made of bronze, but it has never been made of clay. I thought that Sun Xianggong was really extraordinary, and there was a mysterious color everywhere, which made people unable to figure it out and couldn't see their minds clearly.

They didn't know that Sun Lang was so tired that he was going to break his hands in order to pull up such a bottle of blank. This is an extremely delicate and delicate job, which requires very delicate strength in his hands, but he has divine power at this time, and the slightest movement of his fingers will break the blank. The shrinkage ratio of the fetal soil also needs to be noted, the shrinkage rate of kaolin is about 20%, if you are not careful, it is easy to break when baking. Fortunately, Sun Lang is experienced, he has never eaten pork and has seen pigs run, and secondly, he has amazing perseverance, and he has a mentality of not hitting the south wall and not looking back.

In short, it is necessary to trim the tire shape more and more smooth and round, and put it in a cool and ventilated place to dry, so that it can gradually solidify, and it can become a hard blank after a few days.

In his spare time, Sun Lang taught those few families the trick of pulling blanks. Several of the family members are skilled craftsmen who do handicraft work in the house, and they get started quite quickly, and they can understand it at one point, which is better than the blank shape molded by Sun Lang.

Sun Lang smiled dumbly, thinking that since he had a successor, he would not have to do this kind of fine work by himself in the future. simply pointed out the shape of the blanks drawn by the housekeepers, and taught them seven or eight styles of porcelain in later generations, such as gourd bottles, gooseneck bottles, lotus cups, chaotian bowls, and high-foot bowls. (To be continued.) )