Chapter Thirty-Eight: A Work of Art?

Although Situ Jin had a lot of questions that he wanted to discuss with Fukasawa, Fukasawa didn't seem to want to talk to him too much. After eating, Fukasawa said hello to Situ Jin, and went up the mountain with a bamboo basket on his back to collect medicine.www.biquge.info

Situ arranged for Hurt and Tavis to clean up what they had eaten, and then he walked out of the courtyard alone.

When he went out in the morning, he saw a low slope at the gate of the small courtyard, and the soil on the low slope was all clay.

To tell the truth, since the discovery of tea trees on the island of Erland, Situ Jin has always felt that drinking tea with a glass is very untea-drinking, and he happened to see clay here that can make stoneware, and he had taken a course to learn to make ceramics in his previous life, so he wanted to make a few teacups and teapots for drinking tea!

When he returned to the small courtyard with a large bag of clay dug from the hillside, Erwin looked at him with a puzzled expression: "Baron Situ, what are you carrying so much dirt back for?"

Situ Jin smiled: "Make a few cups!"

"Cup?" Erwin thought for a moment, obviously not understanding what Situ Jin meant, but he didn't ask anything more, just stood there, making a look like he wanted to see what Situ Jin was going to do next.

Situ Jin didn't look at Erwin, walked to the corner of the courtyard alone, poured all the clay he got back on the ground, then poured water on it, and began to knead the mud!

Kneading clay is a physical work, in the previous life, Situ Jin had to spend a long time to knead the clay every time, now it is different, when he practiced carving before, he practiced the most is the control of his body strength, and now he uses this wonderful control of body strength to knead the clay, which is also very applicable!

Soon, the kneading of the mud was almost done!

Immediately afterwards, Situ Jin walked out of the small courtyard with his feet raised, and when he came back again, he was holding the stumps of two large trees in his hands, which were obviously newly cut outside.

With Erwin's somewhat surprised look, Szeto Jin began to make the potter's wheel.

The so-called potter's wheel is the main tool used to shape the ceramic embryo. Under the existing conditions, Situ Jin could not have made a too complex potter's wheel, but a simple and primitive potter's wheel was not difficult for him to make.

How to make a simple potter's wheel? In short, there are only two steps, one is to make a roulette wheel that looks like a "wheel" out of wood, and then a shaft is erected in the middle of the wheel!

For others, these two steps, especially the first one, can be difficult to do, but for Situ Jin, who has already perfected his carving skills, there is no such problem at all. You know, before practicing carving stone statues in stone, he didn't know how many trees he destroyed and how many wood carvings he carved!

I am afraid that Situ Jin is more familiar with wood than many carpenters! Not only that, but it is even no exaggeration to say that Situ Jin's craftsmanship in this area is probably much higher than that of most carpenters on the mainland!

At this time, the set of knives that Situ Jin had obtained when he first arrived at the Mainland Academy came in handy!

Seeing pieces of sawdust flying off by Situ Jin like pieces of flying meat, Erwin, Hutt and Tavis all stood on the spot in an instant!

This was just the beginning, and then, Situ Jin's hand holding the knife waved faster and faster, and the three of Erwin could not see where Situ Jin's hand was except for the phantom of Situ Jin's incessant swinging of the knife.

Situ Jin's body was quickly surrounded by the sawdust that he flew off, and his whole body looked as if he was sitting in the fluttering snowflakes, which was extremely unreal.

Erwin and the three of them were still looking at Situ Jin in a daze, but suddenly, Situ Jin stopped what he was doing!

The three of them subconsciously looked at Situ Jin's hand, and were surprised to find that a log that was still in Situ Jin's hand just now had magically turned into a small wheel-like wheel.

After processing the small wheel a little, Situ Jin took a little time to get a vertical shaft to stand in the middle of the small wheel, so that a simple potter's wheel was ready!

Immediately afterwards, Situ Jin took a ball of clay that he had kneaded before, and began to shape the embryo shape of the teapot on the potter's wheel! This process can be said to be the most important and the most testing process in the whole process of pottery making.

While he was doing the process, Erwin, Hurt, and Tavis were staring intently at Situ Jin's hand, trying to see what he could come up with.

After a long while, after making sure that he was satisfied with the shape of the small teapot he had shaped, Situ Jin changed to a scimitar and began to carve patterns on it.

When he finished carving the pattern on the teapot, Erwin's eyes swept over the teapot, and his face immediately showed a look of amazement.

Being able to make others recognize what he carved at a glance shows how exquisite Situ Jin's craftsmanship is, no wonder Erwin has such a look.

After completing this step, the process of making pottery can be said to be more than half completed, and then he only needs to put the shaped pottery pot outside to dry, and then put the pottery pot in a high-temperature fire to smelt it!

Although the clay pot was not yet fully finished, it was not difficult to see his affection for this clay pot in Erwin's eyes: "Baron Situ, what kind of pot is this, and why does it look so strange?"

Situ Jin put the clay pot aside to dry, and said, "This is made of clay, so it can be called a clay pot!"

"Okay?" Erwin keenly grasped the words in Situ Jin's words, "Is it called anything else?"

Situ Jin took another ball of clay that he had kneaded from the side, intending to continue making teacups, and said, "Of course, I'm more used to calling it a teapot!"

"Teapot. Erwin read it to himself, and then asked, "Why is it called a teapot?"

Situ Jin deliberately sold Guanzi: "You'll know this later!"

Erwin nodded, looked at the clay pot placed aside, and exclaimed: "Baron Situ, I didn't expect you to have this kind of craftsmanship, it really impresses me! Although this pot is very strange in method and shape, I think it can definitely be called a beautiful work of art!"

After speaking, Erwin hesitated for a moment, but still spoke: "Baron Situ, I have a reluctant request, I wonder if you can give me this clay pot?

Situ Jin raised his head and smiled at Erwin: "Don't worry, I will not only give you this clay pot, I will also give you a few clay cups!"

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