Chapter 3 Trying to make pottery

Nothing was said all night.

Cheng Ran woke up early in the morning, looked at the fire, there was still some fire, so he filled it with some firewood, picked up the stone that he had cut wood before and went to cut rattan.

Cheng Ran woke up not long after leaving, and after eating some fruit, she walked to the beach.

When Cheng Ran was chopping rattan, he thought, if you weave something, you should cut some thin rattan, and it shouldn't be easy to weave if it's thick.

When Cheng Ran finished chopping, he looked at the sun and it was about eleven o'clock, Li Yuxin also picked up some shells and a big crab and came back, and after the two finished lunch, Cheng Ran thought about the water source and walked away.

When Cheng Ran arrived at the water source and saw a messy animal footprint on the ground, Cheng Ran was immediately angry, but he couldn't watch it here twenty-four hours a day.

Now the situation is that one or several animals live on this island like them, and the water source here is also where these animals often come, and they must compete with these animals for water in order to survive, and if they want these animals not to come here to drink, they have to think of a better way to deal with it.

To kill these animals, the best and most direct way at this time is also the first way that Cheng Ran thought of.

But random Cheng Ran felt that it was unrealistic, if there was a knife or other tools in his hand, it would be simpler, but there was nothing else except a pair of hands, and it was unwise to rashly use force to do anything with these animals, even if it was a problem, how to eat it was a problem, and how to preserve the meat that the two of them couldn't eat was another problem.

If you try to put a fence around this puddle, and then find a lot of long sticks and rattan next to it and move it to the water source, after the materials are ready, Cheng Ran found another stone of the right size.

Cheng Ran first inserted these wooden sticks into the ground next to him, then picked up the stones and smashed them, and then fixed them with rattan when they were all smashed.

If it can be prevented, the problem of these animals drinking water in the future will be guaranteed, Cheng Ran wiped the sweat on his head and thought a little panting.

After resting for a while, Cheng Ran got some carefully selected soil and got it next to the water source.

Looking at the dirt, it should be enough to make one or two things, and Cheng Ran plans to do it all at once, because the coconut is almost gone.

Cheng Ran has seen videos like this before, the first step is to remove these clays, first find a relatively flat large stone and use it as a pottery workbench, the first thing is to pick out all the impurities in the soil, otherwise it will be easy to crack when fired in the future.

Placing the dirt on top of the stones, all the stones and the rest of the impurities were picked out one by one, leaving only two mounds the size of a football.

Cheng Ran planned to make a simpler, smaller thing to test the water first, decided to make a pottery like a casserole first, and after a while, when he pinched it out, he looked at his finished product, smiled with satisfaction, and pinched two bowls and a larger spoon, just when he wanted to pinch a pottery filled with water, he found that the soil was not enough, and it was dusk at this time, so he took the finished product and walked back.

When Cheng Ran walked to the shelter, he saw Li Yuxin still making things up and said, "Let's rest,"

"It's okay, I can make it up early if I make it up a little more every day, so that I can use it earlier." Li Yuxin replied

Cheng Ran said while putting the shells and crabs on the stone to roast, "I didn't have enough time today, so I made a pot and two bowls." ”

"So much?" Li Yuxin said in surprise

"I bake it every day, and I can't eat it for a long time." Cheng Ran looked at the baking shells with an uncomfortable face and said

"Then I'll make up the fish catches earlier." Li Yuxin said

"When the pot is ready, then you can cook and eat, I haven't drunk fish soup in a long time." Cheng Ran said, picked up a shell and handed it to Li Yuxin.

After the two of them ate, Cheng Ran walked into the shelter, and Li Yuxin was still sitting by the fire weaving tools to catch fish.

The next morning, Cheng Ran woke up and felt uncomfortable in his mouth, thinking that he had not brushed his teeth since he was killed, and then suddenly remembered that he had heard that wood charcoal could clean his teeth, so he picked up a piece of burned ash from the fire to clean his teeth.

When she came back, Li Yuxin asked curiously, "What are you using charcoal for?" ”

Cheng Ran picked up the pottery he pinched yesterday and said, "Charcoal can clean your teeth, I went to brush my teeth just now."

Li Yuxin also picked up a piece of charcoal and said complainingly, "Then why didn't you say it earlier?"

Cheng Ran walked towards the beach and said, "I just remembered it."

Cheng Ran walked to the beach, put the pottery on the ground to dry, and then returned to the shelter, where he picked up a few fruits and walked towards the water source.

Cheng Ran plans to make a larger pottery so that he doesn't have to come over every day to fetch water.

, but it's not easy to do bigger, in case the viscosity of the soil is not enough and the crack can't be used, you can only try to do it, this time it's not done, then next time you will continue to do it, you will always be able to succeed once, Cheng Ran thought firmly

In a blink of an eye, it was about noon, and Cheng Ran picked up some firewood while walking back.

When I walked to the shelter, I saw Li Yuxin preparing lunch, and suddenly thought, if it keeps being like this, there is a woman who has been waiting for her home, it would feel good!

Li Yuxin saw Cheng Ran coming back and said, "I'm back, I'm hungry, let's eat something first." ”

Cheng Ran picked up something and ate it, and said while eating, "Wait a minute, the pottery made yesterday should also be dried and ready to be fired." ”

"That's good, if you can, you can cook and eat, and it's uncomfortable to bake and eat every day." Li Yuxin said as she ate

After eating and resting for a while, Cheng Ran walked to the beach to check the pottery dried in the morning, and found that it was all dried, so he picked it up and walked to the jungle.

Cheng Ran picked a few pieces of charcoal that had been burned to a larger extent, and then put the pottery on the charcoal, and then piled a lot of firewood around, in the middle and at the top, and almost all of them were coarse wood, and the pottery was covered tightly before stopping.

The next thing is to light the fire, just wait for the firewood to burn out, Cheng Ran feels that the follow-up is to make an oven specially used to burn pottery, this time I feel that the temperature is not particularly high, and the effect may not be ideal, if you want to make a better pottery in the future, a kiln specializing in firing pottery is essential.

After waiting for about twenty minutes, the firewood was almost burned, and the burned charcoal ash had completely covered the pottery, so I waited for a few more minutes, and when the temperature dropped a little, I found a small wooden stick, picked out the pottery inside, and took it to the beach to hold water and tried it, the effect made Cheng Ran feel very surprised, and there was no water leakage at all, it could be used to hold water, I didn't expect that the first time I tried to make pottery, it could be used, I felt that these pottery can still be used for a while, and it is not so easy to break.