Chapter 14: The Mysterious Ritual Necessary for Pottery Making

This kind of time-consuming and laborious thing has to be really made, so that the people in the tribe can see and understand that this thing is easy to use, and then mobilize manpower to get it.

As for the distribution of manpower, there is no such thing as bringing a few new things and being able to take the place of the leader immediately, which is too much to take for granted.

Either the power transitions peacefully, or the leader is killed, which will be faster. But now there are only 50 people in the entire tribe, and there is no need to do this, after all, Chen Chao is already standing at the highest place in this world.

Chen Chao smiled, "You think I'm at the bottom, but I'm actually at the top." Just thinking of the current situation, he sighed softly, even if these 50 people were allowed to rotate in a row, there was no way to step into modern civilization in one step. We can only speed up the progress of human civilization as much as possible.

Unlock more new populations and absorb them, wasn't there a Wudang Mountain Tree Tribe that was revived before...

But there is no way to burn it today, after all, it takes time to dry in the shade. Chen Chao made some more mud, added some water, and began to rub the mud with One-Eye, Wu and Huang Yan.

Now that he has a helper, Chen Chao plans to do more, and then dig a bigger pit, burn more at a time, and burn other more practical things.

Chen Chao first took out some mud from the pit, and in order to teach three people at the same time, he deliberately slowed down some movements.

This time he tried to make a clay pot, after all, the clay pot that was directly made of two pieces of things together like the previous one is not sure if it is durable, but since it can really be burned, then simply burn a whole one.

He first made the mud into lumps, and directly lived a big one. Knead the mud together just like the dough, and then pat and rub it.

After repeating it a few times to make sure that it was ripe, Chen Chao motioned for others to pull small mud from the big mud if they needed it.

And then this time I didn't just make a piece like before, and this time I mainly used the mud rod method.

That is, to rub the mud strip first, Chen Chao will take a small piece of the cooked mud, knead it into a mud ball, and then use the palm of his hand to rub the mud ball into a mud strip that meets the requirements on the operation board with one hand and then both hands.

Then he paused and tilted his neck, and found that the mud strips rubbed in the hands of the old, middle and young people also stopped and crooked their necks.

Chen???

I'm just a little tired... After all, it's a bit tiring to rub the mud strips directly after living the mud, and the neck is a little sore, move your neck, hey~~~ It's not a mysterious ritual necessary for pottery, hey~~~

He would tilt his neck at the thought of a mud strip in the tribe in the future...

It's too beautiful to think...

But Chen Chao didn't correct them immediately, mainly because he didn't understand the language now, and he couldn't put down the things in his hand and gesture, so he gave up correcting them...

So...

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Chen Chao checked whether the thickness of the mud strips of the old, middle and young people was uniform, the diameter was about 1CM, and the 1CM here was tentatively set as the length of an adult's fingernail.

Then you can start to make the bottom of the tank, wrap it around one end of a mud strip and tighten it, and use the sticky mud to smooth out and strengthen the gap at the bottom of the tank.

Then make the body of the can, coil a strip of mud on the bottom of the jar in turn, and then use your fingers to stick a little clay on the inner wall of the jar body to smooth out the gap between the mud strips and reinforce it, and then reinforce it to the height of your design while superimposing.

I used the same method to make the lid of the pot, because when Chen Chao was stewing the fish soup just now, he found that it was still more difficult to boil directly without a lid, and it would consume more wood.

Chen Chao made a straight clay pot this time, he originally planned to make a pot-bellied clay pot, but in view of the fact that he is not very skilled at present, and there are still 3 apprentices to bring, it is a little safer.

This time, I also deliberately pinched a few handles, but when I glued them, I had to dip them in water at the interface, so that it could be a little stronger.

After taking the three apprentices to make a straight clay pot, Chen Chao let them play freely, he tried to make a pot-bellied amphora clay pot, looking at the clay embryo with no patterns, a little boring...

There were still some small mud strips left next to him, Chen Chao designed some shapes, and then wiped the paste place of the can with a little water with his fingers, and after sticking the small mud strips, he nodded with satisfaction.

Turning his head to take a look, the old, middle and young people also completed their respective works, Wu and One-Eye both made a two-eared straight clay pot in a decent manner, and only Huang Yan pinched a strange-shaped thing out.

But Chen Chao didn't say anything, there is still a sense of innovation!

Beckoning everyone to put these 6 straight amphora clay pots, as well as the matching pot lids, as well as 1 pot-bellied amphora clay pot with its lid, and a strange-shaped... I don't know what it is, but one piece was taken to the cave to dry in the shade.

This time it's enough to be yin, and it's been three or five days for him, I don't know if the one that cracked last time was not enough time to dry in the shade, and there was a problem with the practice...

As for the big pit for burning pottery, after this batch of pottery embryos is dry, it is not too late to dig it, or let Huang Yan dig it during the day with the children in the tribe who don't need to collect it, although it is slow, but it should be no problem to dig for several days.

Wu also deliberately sent One-Eyed to sleep near the pottery embryo, not allowing other people in the tribe to approach here, and specially explained that Yuan was not allowed to let children come here to make trouble, if these things were destroyed, they would all be driven out of the tribe!

In the evening, Chen Chao stewed two pots of fish soup in the remaining two straight clay pots, one of which belonged to Chen Chao, the leader Yuan and Wu, and the remaining pot was given to the other adult males to taste each.

Everyone has no opinion on this matter, after all, this thing was made by someone, and the leader Yuan and Wu were originally the highest level of this tribe.

As for the cracked clay pot, Wu was not willing to throw it away, but carefully put it away.

At night, the only thing in the tribe was the crackling of the campfire outside the cave and the movement of two old men who were on night patrol.

In fact, they are old people, but they are only relative to the lifespan of primitive people and the age of the young people in the tribe.

According to the current algorithm, it should be in his early forties, but now, it is considered very old.

Although his hair was all white, he still had no problem keeping a night vigil in front of the entrance to the cave.

And now they can go to spearfish during the day, mainly because they don't have to go out to hunt and gather, and there is no physical labor during the day, so when necessary, they can also catch up on sleep during the day.

And they also need to take care of the fire at night, so that the fire can not be extinguished.

Although the people in the tribe have learned to drill wood to make fire, it is still too troublesome, and it is better to let these elderly people take care of the fire.

Wu hadn't slept yet, he sat in front of the entrance of the cave, looking at the clay pot that had cracks in the firelight over and over again, and only heard him read softly, "The clay pot is made of clay." ”

And from time to time what is drawn on the floor with stones ...