Chapter 18: Batch firing
When they came to the rabbit forest, everyone put down the chestnuts and lynx to rest for a while, and restored the stone slabs of the trap for catching rabbits.
After walking and stopping all the way, they finally returned to the tribe before the sun went down, and looked at the bonfire rising by the river, the woman washing the fruit by the river, the old man preparing to roast the fish, and the children digging the pit, and the hunting party felt a very reassuring joy.
The hunting team took out the chestnuts like a treasure, and everyone in the tribe was very happy when they saw it, and Chen Chao saw that they didn't use a clay pot to cook things, so he asked, "What about the clay pot?" ”
Several old men who were preparing to grill fish waved their hands and looked at Wu again, which meant that they were not with us, but at Wu.
Chen Chao thought suspiciously, he was going to cook, why didn't he take out the clay pot and use it, but put it away, and then thought about it, maybe Wu was reluctant, but it was understandable, it just came out, fresh baby~
In the future, the pottery can be mass-produced, and this kind of stoneware waste pottery can be played with by witches casually.
You can also use one to drop one ~~
But it's useless, you can also use it to cook chestnuts.
Chen Chao put down the lynx and went to look for Wu, and finally found Wu and Huang Yan in the corner of the cave who were staring at the silly music of the mud embryo.
He helped his forehead, the old child's fingernails were stained with yellow mud, and when he first arrived, he saw the hands of other old people and children outside.
Looking at it again, there are 30 new clay embryos next to the original clay pots, of different sizes, but they are still dominated by amphora straight clay pots.
Wu saw Chen Chao coming back, like a child begging for praise, stretched out 4 fingers and said proudly, "Clay pot, I." ”
Huang Yan on the side also hurriedly compared two fingers, "Clay pot, me." ”
Chen Chao first gave a thumbs up to both of them, and said repeatedly, "Awesome, amazing!" ”
The old man smiled and was suddenly very happy. I saw Chen Chao take out a handful of chestnuts from behind him like a trick, and in front of them, "Ga Bang" bit off the chestnut skin and began to eat the pulp.
Seeing that their hands were covered with yellow mud, he wiped the chestnut skins and stuffed one for each of them.
Wu and Huang Yan followed Chen Chao's example and spit out the chestnut skin and ate the pulp, and then~
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Chen Chao asked Wu to take out the clay pot and began to cook the chestnuts, and after a while, the chestnuts were cooked, but because the pot was too small, only he and Wu and Yun in the tribe were divided into 3 each, and the others were two.
Wu was very curious about this chestnut, which could be eaten raw or boiled, and he gestured and asked where he found it?
Chen Chao smiled and said, "I found it in the forest behind the rabbit forest." There is a whole forest of chestnuts. ”
Wu repeated Chen Chao's words, "Rabbit forest, back, chestnut forest." ”
He was very happy with the discovery, and the tribe finally had a fruit tree/orchard of its own.
The tribe's collection has always been very unstable, not only to go far away to collect, but also the number is very small, this time I heard that there is such a large chestnut forest, you can go every day in the autumn, so that you can save a lot of food for the winter.
The hunting team went for two more days, brought 7 litters of lynx, and two lone wolves, and harvested a total of 14 large lynx skins, 20 small lynx skins, and 2 wolf skins.
When I came back in the evening, I also brought back 50 little rabbits from the rabbit forest, counting the original ones, there were 70 little rabbits in the tribe.
When he came back that day, Chen Chao saw that the pit for burning pottery had been dug, with a diameter of about two meters and a depth of about 50CM, which should be appropriate, if it was still too small, it would be burned a little less.
I went to the cave again to see that the first batch of mud embryos had completely dried up, so I asked the others in the Wu Organization tribe to carry out the earliest batch of mud embryos.
There are a total of 6 amphora straight clay pots and a pot-bellied amphora, as well as a special-shaped masterpiece by Huang Yan. However, there were already cracks on the top of the alien, but Chen Chao still didn't throw it away, because the broken pottery shards could be used as very sharp blade tools, and they could be used to deal with lynx after being burned.
If there was just a crack, Wu was absolutely reluctant to let Chen Chao smash it in vain, and took a few clay pots that were burned first, and Wu had to put them in a place where he could see them before going to bed every day.
If it weren't for the fact that the animal skin was not big enough, he would have been eager to stuff the three clay pots into the animal skin quilt, for fear that the three clay pots would crack again if they caught cold, so he didn't listen to what he said, and Chen Chao went with him.
Chen Chao saw that it was a little less, and then took the next day Wu and the others to pinch it, and took out 12 of the better quality of the yin drying, and only the first two spoons for scooping the soup were also added to this batch of firing.
When Wu saw that he was about to start firing pottery, he was very excited, and drove all the old and young people in the tribe to pick up flammable dead leaves and twigs, as well as some wood.
After moving all the pottery embryos out, Chen Chao saw that there were already high dead leaves and small branches piled up next to the dug pit, and the wood was also stacked crookedly and so high.
After laying the hay and wood, with the help of the onlookers in the tribe, Chen Chao neatly placed the dried pottery embryos on the licorice, leaving a distance of about one finger between each pottery embryo, a total of 20.
Then Chen Chao stuffed the dead leaves and small branches into the gaps, Wu originally wanted to come down, this is the recent squatting every day to make mud embryos, and his waist is a little uncomfortable, or he went down to help stuff half of it.
After pressing the dead leaves and small branches by hand, and then making the remaining dead leaves even more broken, although it rained a few days ago, the sun has been out for several days, and these dead leaves are collected before the sun sets, basically when they meet Mars.
After the remaining dead leaves were broken, he covered the pottery embryo, pressed it down when it felt almost done, and then continued to cover it until it covered all the pottery embryos and was much higher, Chen Chao let One-Eye stop together.
Just when One-Eye thought that he could start lighting the fire, after all, what he saw last time was that after this step, he directly lit the fire, but Chen Chao asked the rest of the tribe to go to the small river to get water.
The soil that the old people and children dug is still on the side, and now they basically do not remove the excavated soil without affecting their lives, because it is also tiring to move, and it also needs a container to remove it.
After wetting the soil, it begins to mix with the mud, and unlike the mud used to make the mud embryo, this time the mud needs to be added with more water to reach a softer and thinner state.
Under the gaze of other onlookers in the tribe, Chen Chao picked up these thin muds and pasted them on the dry grass, and the one-eyed did the same, pasting tightly from top to bottom.