Where did Huang Chengzhi dare to think about anything, after all, he was already frightened, so he had to agree again and again.

After waking up the next day, Huang Chengzhi found that he was still sleeping in bed, not in prison at all, and what was even more amazing was that when he got dressed and walked into the courtyard, he found that the master had already drunk tea there after breakfast.

Huang Chengzhi was stunned, and hurriedly asked the master what was going on? But his master didn't have any memory of everything that happened before, and asked him if he was dreaming? Have a nightmare?

Huang Chengzhi stood there, how he was arrested, how he was thrown into prison with his master, he still remembers it vividly, how could it be a nightmare? Where is a dream so real? Instead, he felt that the people he had seen in the prison last night were dreams.

However, Huang Chengzhi asked the master again about the previous encounter with the immortals.

The master was so shocked that the teapot almost fell to the ground, and asked him how he knew.

Huang Chengzhi said: "Master, you told me?" ”

Master Huang Chengzhi looked puzzled, claiming that this matter was his own secret, but he never told anyone, not even his favorite disciple Huang Chengzhi.

Huang Chengzhi had to say that his master said it yesterday when he was in prison.

After the master listened, he said in a loud voice that the immortal had manifested his spirit, coupled with the so-called nightmare that Huang Chengzhi said, which made him convinced that if he didn't do what the immortal said, the master and apprentice might not be able to avoid this disaster.

However, firing porcelain coffins is not so easy.

Normal firing of porcelain, divided into seven steps, the first step is to collect porcelain stone porcelain clay, because porcelain is made of porcelain stone and porcelain clay as the basic raw materials, the ancients first found that the clay burned by the fire will harden, in the process invented pottery, and then discovered how to fire into porcelain.

The second step is to crush and grind the raw materials, namely porcelain stone and porcelain clay.

The third step is to wash and precipitate fine pottery powder, and pour the stone and clay porcelain processed into very fine pieces into a square or round pottery washing tank for pottery washing. The specific method is to follow the mountain situation, use the slope, build three or four pools (as many as five or six) from the high down, pour the fine broken porcelain into the pool and turn it into mud, the water slurry flows to the low pool through different pools, the coarse porcelain precipitates first, the finest porcelain precipitates in the lowest pool, and the evaporated water becomes a mud block, that is, the porcelain blank mud. After kneading it many times, it can be used to make porcelain blanks.

The fourth step is to make the porcelain blank.

Speaking of this, the torture carefully recalled: "From the fourth step, no, strictly speaking, from the third step, you have to be careful and careful, the step of making porcelain blanks is easy to have problems, if it is a large piece, it needs to be divided into two sections to pull the blank separately, and then connect it into a whole vessel with tire slurry or tire mud, and this so-called large piece, it is far smaller than a coffin." ”

The fifth step is decorative painting, which is generally carved, scratched, printed, painted, carved and so on. And each method needs to be carried out in different states of the blank tire and the blank mud, for example, the carving decoration needs to be carried out with a bamboo knife when the blank tire is not dry, the printing and sculpture need to be made when the blank mud is wet, and the painting must be carried out after the carcass is dried, and different raw materials must be used to paint according to different needs.

The sixth step is glazing, which is also more complex and takes a different approach, and the delicate procedure is no less than the previous one.

The seventh and final step is to enter the kiln and fire. The decorative and painted blanks are glazed and then put into a sagger and fired in a kiln.

In the process of firing porcelain, in order to prevent the damage and fouling of the body and glaze by gas or harmful substances, the ceramic and the body are placed in a container made of refractory materials and baked, which is called a sagger.

In different periods, the firing temperature of porcelain of different porcelain materials is also different, and the average temperature must be between 1100 degrees and 1300 degrees.

After the torture technique finished speaking, he frowned and said: "So, even if the other conditions are met, you still have to find a way to make porcelain blanks and make saggers that can hold porcelain coffins, without these hard conditions, you can't do it at all." ”

Huang Chengzhi knew that if these problems were not solved, the porcelain coffin would not be burned at all, but in that case, he would not be able to achieve this condition? If he and the master do it, they are surrounded by discerning people, and they know at a glance that they are going to fire large porcelain, and they will definitely track it down, and the end will not be the same when the time comes?

Xie Meng turned around and asked, "But Huang Chengzhi still fired it." ”

Wei Chiran said: "Yes, it was fired, and that night he dreamed of that figure again, that is, the so-called immortal, the immortal provided him with all the convenient conditions, let him go into the mountain to burn the porcelain coffin, where everything was ready, this was like a dream for Huang Chengzhi, at that time he firmly believed that he had met the immortal." ”

Huang Chengzhi spent nearly half a year on the mountain, and finally fired a porcelain coffin, that is, in this process, he often came into contact with the so-called immortals, and the immortals also taught him some skills that Huang Chengzhi had not touched.

The so-called teaching is actually only oral, and it is very blunt, so Huang Chengzhi immediately guessed that these crafts spoken by the immortals were also heard from others.

But Huang Chengzhi is very smart and got everything he wants from these blunt words.

It didn't take long for Huang Chengzhi to leave the school, and his master died, and died peacefully, and after the master died, he also had a dream that the master was taken away by the so-called immortals and went to another world, and the immortals also told Huang Chengzhi that he would hide the craft of firing porcelain coffins and teach them to his descendants.

In other words, Huang Chengzhi's descendants must have someone inherit his craft.

For hundreds of years, Huang Chengzhi's descendants would choose someone to inherit all this, and although some did not do it, the Huang family became a famous porcelain family in Jingdezhen.

The torture continued: "My father knows Huang Chengzhi's descendant, called Huang Lecheng, my father once had an eye on porcelain, if he hadn't met him, I'm afraid he would have lost a lot of money, if you want to say that Huang Lecheng's research on porcelain is not to say, he knows the general things at a glance, no matter how good the imitation is to him, it will only take a few minutes to identify, so he and my father have become close friends." ”

When he talked about his father, he clenched his fists with both hands, and it could be seen that he hated the enemies who killed his father and adoptive father, and he probably didn't understand his hatred.

Originally, even Jiuqi didn't know about the porcelain coffin, until a certain year, Huang Lecheng suddenly called Lian Jiuqi to tell him, saying that he was not in good health, and hoped to see Lian Jiuqi before parting.

Lian Jiuqi received a phone call, and went to Jingdezhen overnight with his torture skills to meet Huang Lecheng.

Who knew that when I saw Huang Lecheng, I found that he was drinking and watching TV happily at home, and there was nothing wrong with him?

Lian Jiuqi was a little angry at the time, but at the same time, he felt strange, he knew that Huang Lecheng must have something, after all, he knew Huang Lecheng's temper very well after knowing all these years, and knew that this person was not smiling on weekdays, and it was impossible for him to make such jokes.

Huang Lecheng told Lian Jiuqi that he was leaving, because the ancestors who had asked his ancestors to burn porcelain coffins had come to him and wanted to take him away.

Lian Jiuqi was stunned at the time, and hurriedly told Huang Lecheng not to believe these things, where are there any immortals?

But Huang Lecheng is convinced, because the family heirloom cannot be fake, not to mention before, even now, no one can use the traditional craftsmanship of the early years to make a large porcelain coffin.

Immediately afterwards, Huang Lecheng told the story of his ancestor Huang Chengzhi to Lian Jiuqi.

After listening to it, Lian Jiuqi was expressionless, and then seriously analyzed the story, thinking that it was just something similar to folklore, which was completely unbelievable, and with his knowledge, he definitely did not believe in the existence of porcelain coffins, although modern craftsmanship could be made, but it was also difficult.

Huang Lecheng got up directly and led Lian Jiuqi to the backyard, and in the warehouse in the backyard, he showed Lian Jiuqi the porcelain coffin he had made.

That was the first time that Lian Jiuqi and the criminal father and son saw a large porcelain coffin, and it was not too shocking to the criminal art at that time, after all, he didn't know too much.

Xingshu said: "The porcelain coffins we are talking about in a broad sense are all small and medium-sized, and they basically belong to urns. Although I have seen porcelain coffins before, it is a porcelain coffin that is no more than 60 centimeters long in the southern Fujian generation, so at that time, I thought that such a large porcelain coffin was nothing, and I did not think it was very unusual, but my father was dumbfounded. ”

Since the Tang and Song dynasties, the Fujian people migrated to the Leizhou Peninsula on a large scale, and also brought this custom to the past, all of which were buried in small porcelain coffins after live burial, and the porcelain coffins were painted with twelve chens and four spirits, and this burial method used graphics and words to make up for the lack of geographical feng shui.

Lian Jiuqi looked around the porcelain coffin for a long time, and couldn't even speak for a long time, he even thought that the porcelain coffin was a piece of handicraft, but after checking, he found that it was fired as a whole, and said that it was impossible.

Huang Lecheng stood there with a smile, looked at the surprised Lian Jiuqi, and then said calmly: "This porcelain coffin is for me to use." ”

Lian Jiuqi was stunned, stepped forward and said, "Lao Huang, don't you really believe it?" There are no gods in this world! ”

Huang Lecheng was about to explain, but he still smiled, shook his head and said, "Let's go, let's drink and don't talk about this." ”

The two sat down to drink, and the young torture art looked at the porcelain one by one on the side, which could be said to be in love, but they were afraid to get started because of the rules.

Huang Lecheng is also generous, let the torture take whatever he likes, don't be polite.

I didn't dare to torture, but just watched my father even nine chess.

Even Jiuqi knows that these are Huang Lecheng's treasures, let alone taking them, it is usually difficult for someone to get started, is he really planning to leave? Or is he looking for death?

Huang Lecheng just said: "The secret of heaven must not be leaked." ”

The meal was finished in this strange atmosphere, and after the meal, Huang Lecheng led Lian Jiuqi to the room where the porcelain coffin was placed, and explained in detail to Lian Jiuqi how to fire the porcelain coffin.

After finishing speaking, Huang Lecheng regretted it again, saying that the gods had told him not to tell the process, otherwise he would encounter a catastrophe, not only could he not become an immortal, but also died in an accident.

Lian Jiuqi hurriedly relieved him, and even asked Huang Lecheng to see a doctor, of course, Lian Jiuqi was referring to a psychiatrist, at that time Lian Jiuqi firmly believed that Huang Lecheng must have a serious mental illness, which led to so many conjectures.

Who knows, when Lian Jiuqi and the criminal father and son left Jingdezhen seven days later, Huang Lecheng died.