Chapter 45: The Dream of Hard-boiled Eggs!
First of all, he thought of the easiest jar to make, which was easy to make and not easy to burst.
However, at the beginning of the production, he did not dare to pinch too big, so as not to be unfamiliar with the process, bubbles appeared, and it was easy to explode when it was fired.
Carefully knead the yellow mud little by little, try to avoid bubbles, according to the memory in his mind, Chen Xu's fingers moved, and in a short time, a jar the size of a human head was pinched out.
In order to ensure the success rate of the jar firing as much as possible, Chen Xu greatly thickened the bottom of the jar, and even the perimeter of the jar was more than twice as thick as in his previous life.
However, despite its simplicity and abnormality, looking at this jar made of yellow clay, a sense of pride still arose from his heart, no matter what, this is an epoch-making item after all.
"I don't know how much this pottery can sell for if it is handed down to future generations?
With boring thoughts in his mind, after the first work was formed, Chen Xu also let go of his hands and feet, and began to knead pottery in a wild way, but most of them were still the previous daily necessities.
Among them, there are pot-shaped, pot-shaped, and bowl-shaped, and even, in a hurry, he even pinched out a huge pottery in the shape of a wooden barrel.
After an hour, the loess on the rocks had vanished without a trace, and in its place stood a number of strange vessels, which were strange to the apes, at least to the apes who cast their doubtful eyes from time to time.
"It's done, the rest is to dig a kiln for burning pottery, but this thing has a lot of science and technology, and I haven't seen it at all, but when I was a child in my hometown, I saw a stove that burned fire, presumably, it was a simple kiln, as long as a kiln room was put on it, and a chimney was made out of the back, it was estimated that it would be fine!"
"At least, it's much more effective than firing pottery directly out of wood!"
Touching his chin, Chen Xu walked around the rock a few times, recalled the shape of the wood-burning stove in his mind, and then jumped off the rock and prepared to build the kiln room.
It just so happened that the super ape and the ape-man general led a group of sturdy ape-men, who had just come back from cutting trees, were sitting on the edge of the river drinking water and resting.
Chen Xu directly called them over, found a place on the side near the hill, drew a circle, and asked them to dig a hole down.
When it is dug to a depth of about two meters, it begins to dig horizontally in the other direction, digging in two layers, the bottom layer is wide, the upper layer is narrow, and it is continuously excavated in the shape of a steamed bun, and it is dug from the half-planed position, so that the pottery made by Chen Xu can be completely put into it from the outside.
The bottom layer is dug very wide, the area is more than twice that of the upper layer, which is convenient for the placement of firewood and grass, in the edge of the upper layer and the bottom layer, Chen Xu carved out a lot of fire channels with a diamond dagger, and in the case of ensuring that it does not collapse, he used the dagger to carve many fire holes on the compartment, so that the flames of the lower layer can be infested.
After the two fire silos on the upper and lower floors are dug up, the rest is on the other side, avoiding the upper space, digging down, digging a hole with the thickness of an arm's length with a tree branch, and going straight to the end of the lower fire silos, it becomes a simple chimney.
After two hours of excavation and polishing, the strange cave that I don't know whether to be a horizontal kiln or a vertical kiln was completely completed.
At this time, the sky had already darkened, and the return of the ape-men who had gone out to work in twos and threes had more or less some harvests, and the day's labor was completely over, but Chen Xu knew that his work had just begun.
After such a long time of drying, the utensils he had pinched before were almost dry, and he carefully put a few of these utensils into the upper kiln chamber that satisfied him, and then took the slab stone that had been prepared long ago from the hand of the ape general beside him.
The stone chips were embedded in the upper kiln chamber and completely sealed them, Chen Xu greeted, and the apes who had prepared them a long time ago handed over the dried firewood and artemisia grass they had collected.
Chen Xu filled the firewood into the lower space, then lit it with a torch, then squatted in the big pit, and began to fill it with dry firewood.
Even if he couldn't grasp the magnitude of the flames inside, he had to try to make it as smooth as possible so as not to affect the pottery inside, after all, this was the first time, and he didn't want to fire all the pottery that was unusable.
All night, while the other apes were falling asleep, Chen Xu was still looking at the kiln with full energy, looking forward to the results of the first pottery refining in his life.
In the early morning, the apes woke up from their sleep one by one and began their day's work according to the orders of the god of fire.
In the big pit, Chen Xu, the god of fire, also looked at the stone slab in front of him with a nervous expression, and for a while, he didn't know whether he should uncover it or not.
In fact, the firing of the pottery was over in the middle of the night, and he knew in his heart that it would not take much time at all, and that he had been burning it far longer than he actually needed.
However, for the sake of insurance, he still tried to burn it for a while, and after cooling in the middle of the night, in fact, the pottery inside was either successful or not, and it had already been decided.
It's just that he is still nervous in his heart, full of anticipation and hesitation, this kind of mood, he hasn't experienced it for a long time, and he remembers this mood when he first stepped into the college entrance examination hall.
"Grandma's, God forbid, don't let a finished product be left alone, that would be too big a blow!"
Taking a deep breath, Chen Xu rubbed the long hair on his head fiercely, slowly stretched out his big hand, buckled the edge of the slate with a pilgrimage mentality, and with a little force, he pulled out the slate embedded in the soil.
A faint smoke drifted away, and six pieces of fiery red pottery appeared in front of him, although he had expected it in his heart, but when his palm touched the thick and solid pottery wall, Chen Xu couldn't help but feel a feeling of tears in his eyes.
Roaring excitedly, he quickly took out the six pieces of pottery from the kiln, and after a careful inspection, Chen Xu couldn't help but mutter, "It's a good start, I didn't expect it to be a good start, grandma's, none of the six pieces of pottery have cracks, am I really a genius?"
With grinning excitement, Chen Xu began to carefully examine the six pieces of pottery in his hand, the first of which was the first jar he kneaded the size of a human head.
The thick and sturdy red pottery wall ensured its sturdiness, and his fingers poked into the jar and scratched through the slightly rough inner wall, and a soft touch came, making Chen Xu almost cry out in comfort.
"Hard-boiled eggs are not a dream anymore, grandma's, not only hard-boiled eggs, but even bone broth is not a dream!"
muttered a few words in a low voice, and put the pottery aside, this time, Chen Xuke was not careful, judging from the solidity of this red pottery, unless it was deliberately beaten down from a high place, it was impossible to break it at all.
Turning his gaze to the other five vessels, one of which was a large cauldron that took on a semi-circular shape, twice as large as the jar, was originally Chen Xu's whim, ready to be used to boil water.
I didn't expect it to succeed in the end.
"With this big pot, you can cook meat and eat it in the future, and a few more big crabs, tsk, this little day!"
Hehe, with a smile, Chen Xu couldn't help but clap his hands, celebrating his departure from the previous dark life.
In addition to these two large pieces, the remaining three utensils are three pottery bowls, which are about the same size as the large bowls of later generations, but they are much rougher, but they are much more convenient for eating and drinking.
The last one is a long spoon that can be used to stir soup, scoop water, and even be used as a bowl for rice!
"Grandma's, I can't stand it anymore, I can't stand the half-cooked beast meat anymore, I want to eat boiled eggs, I want to drink fish soup, I want to eat boiled crabs. ”
With a continuous fragmented thought, Chen Xu took all the six utensils into his arms, and as soon as his body moved, he jumped up to the big pit, shouted, and told the apes to go to the river to catch fish.
He himself found a high ground and began to dig the stove with a vajra dagger, and in a short time, a simple two-hole stove appeared in his hand.
Putting the clay cauldron on the stove and filling it with firewood, Chen Xu looked left and right, but found that those ape people had not come back yet, so he cursed, couldn't help but stand up, and strode towards the river.
He didn't know how efficient he was, and under the temptation of food, he dug a very short stove, and in less than a minute he dug out a rudimentary stove.
This time was barely enough for the apes to reach the creek.
When he reached the river, the apes went into the water, shouting with bamboo spears, and catching panicked fish everywhere, but this was the Stone Age, and there were many big fish in the river, although the apes were not familiar with this way of hunting, but with their agile skills, it was not much effort to fork a few big fish with bamboo spears.
Shouted a few times, drove these apes out of the river, and ordered them to leave the big fish, what should they do, Chen Xu himself leaned on the edge of the small river, washed and peeled a few big fish, cut them into several pieces with a dagger, and found a slender and soft branch to wear it.
Each of these big fish weighs four or five catties, although the amount is sufficient, but it is much more troublesome to cook, Chen Xu, who has endured it for so many days, but he can't bear it for a moment, he is eager to eat cooked food, this fish is too laborious, and naturally it has to be ranked behind.
At this time, after washing and peeling the big fish, Chen Xu's attention was condensed on the aquatic plants along the river bank, and at this time, the water surface calmed down, and some palm-sized big crabs lazily poked their heads out.
Around the big crab, palm-sized lobsters continue to stir the water surface, showing a harmonious river scenery.
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