Pottery firing is a technical work, which can be roughly divided into three steps.

Kneading clay, glazing, firing kiln.

Of course, this is the simplest, a little more complicated, how to mix the clay, how to pinch out the shape, how to dry it for a few days after molding before it can be glazed, how to color, how to fire the kiln, there is more attention to it, otherwise there will be no title of pottery master.

Chen Fan had read "Soil Method Pottery" carefully twice last night, and before that, he dug a simple pit kiln with his own hands, and barely brushed his pottery skills to LV2 (5/50), and finally reached the apprentice level.

Although there was no master to guide him, he felt that he could give it a try.

Anyway, there is a skill board, and if you fail, you can also brush up on experience points, and if you fail a few more times, you can go directly to the teacher, build a fixed kiln by yourself, and become a master.

If you can get lucky, it's pure gain!

With this in mind, he began to concoct clay. The clay is stirred repeatedly, discarding the impurities in the soil and taking only the most delicate part and putting it in a wooden basin.

Then let Jiang Lili play in the mud under the eaves, and she took out some colorful small stones and smashed them into powder with a hammer.

These small stones were taken by him at the brigade headquarters. In the past, Lujiawan also did a lot of water conservancy projects, and some of the remaining building materials were stacked in a shed at the brigade headquarters.

When he asked the Luo custodian of the brigade headquarters to get it, the Luo custodian thought that he wanted a lot, but he took a jar of small stones and a scoop of lime, and he didn't even bother to register, so he directly asked him to take it.

The reason why we want to find this kind of colored crushed stone is because this kind of stone contains metals, and lime is used as the main raw material, mixed with this crushed stone powder, and mixed according to a certain proportion, it can be made into a less standard "lime glaze".

Anyway, Chen Fan doesn't care about the color, as long as he can add a smooth enamel layer to the surface of the pottery, it will be successful.

After smashing the stone and mixing the glazed water, Chen Fan went to see Jiang Lili again.

He looked at the pottery bowl in front of Jiang Lili, his facial features were huddled, "What kind of shape are you shaking?" ”

Jiang Lili puffed out her cheeks and pouted unconsciously, "I want to make a bowl, but I can't pinch it." ”

It was the first time Chen Fan saw her expression, and he couldn't help but rub his face, trying to return his expression to normal, and then said, "Then you can't pinch it." ”

Jiang Lili's eyes widened, "Can the bowl not be round?" ”

Chen Fan said with a smile, "Anyway, you don't take it out and sell it, you keep the things you keep for yourself, as long as you can hold things, don't say it's not round, you can pinch a square one, and if you can't pinch an irregular one, no one can care about it." ”

As he spoke, he grabbed a handful of clay, "Look, I'm going to pinch a clay board now, so I'm going to ......press it to the wooden board."

In a few moments, a not-so-regular rectangular clay plate was ready.

Chen Fan took out a piece of bamboo, cut off the irregular edges, it was a boxy pottery plate, and flattened the cut clay to make it a small round pottery plate.

Jiang Lili looked at what he did, and seemed to have some understanding, it turned out that pottery could still be so casual?

So she began to use her imagination to pinch out small clay blanks by hand.

Under the moonlight on the winter night, the ice and snow on the earth did not melt in the slightest, reflecting the moonlight and illuminating the heavens and the earth.

In the small courtyard of the educated youth, an orange light illuminated the room, and also illuminated the two figures at the door.

Chen Fan and Jiang Lili sat on a small bench, facing a pot of clay, you say a word, you pinch a bowl, I pinch a pot, on the big wooden board next to it, there are more and more clay billets of different shapes, gusts of wind blow, a little laughter scatters with the wind, and disappears into the night sky.

……

February 10, the 23rd day of the lunar month, the northern lunar New Year.

It's a pity that this is Jiangnan, and the New Year is the 24th of the lunar month, so today is still an ordinary day.

Chen Fan got up early in the morning and yawned.

Yesterday I got it late, and I didn't go to bed until 10 o'clock. …… Wait, 10 o'clock? Just?

Chen Fan reacted, and couldn't help but feel a little trance.

Before the crossing, it seems that 10 o'clock in the evening has just finished busy, and you are about to go to bed and lie down and swipe your phone? Or are you still working overtime at the company and are ready to stay up until midnight?

In this era, I went to bed at 10 o'clock but it was already late, and before I knew it, I had become a person of this era.

Scoop water in the water tank, brush your teeth with toothbrush dipped in tooth powder, go to the urn to fetch water to wash your face, and hang a towel on a bamboo pole......

Actually, there's nothing you can't get used to.

By the way, when the pottery skills are raised, you must burn a set of bathroom supplies, go back and build a "modern" toilet, and make a set of local shower equipment, preferably a large bathtub!

In this era, everything else can be endured, but the toilet can't be endured.

Really, if the office buildings were all the same aqua toilets as they are now, "paid" would never exist. Chen Fan believes that no one can swipe their mobile phone in the dry toilet for half an hour!

After eating breakfast in a sweet dream, I carefully checked the clay billet pinched last night, and found no cracking, and then inspected the various animals raised, fed two fish meat to the falcon, and brought all the things to prepare to go to work, Jiang Lili took the puppy to play with the pony and lamb, and cooked pig food by the way.

As soon as I reached the gate of the courtyard, there was a knock on the door.

Chen Fan opened the door and saw Captain Yang standing at the door, he was immediately stunned, and he didn't invite anyone into the house, and asked directly, "Captain, is there something wrong?" ”

Captain Yang looked at the things on him, "Hey, have you joined the militia?" ”

Chen Fan raised the gun in his hand, quickly shook his head and smiled, "No, this is a waste gun, and Company Commander Zhang gave it to me for practice." ”

"Oh."

Captain Yang's eyes rolled slightly, not knowing what he was thinking.

Chen Fan asked again, "Are you here at this time, is there something important?" ”

Meaning, if it doesn't matter, I'm going to work!

"Ah, something."

Captain Yang habitually glanced at the courtyard, and didn't see Jiang Lili's person, but saw a large wooden board under the eaves of Chen Fan's room, which was full of various things, and couldn't help but be a little surprised, "What are those?" ”

With that, he walked in.

If it was someone else's house, he would definitely not do it, but this spot is originally a semi-open place, as long as you don't enter the room, other places are not guarded, so it doesn't matter.

Seeing that he had walked in, Chen Fan could only follow behind with a wry smile and said, "These are all pottery blanks, I want to try to burn a kiln of pottery by myself." ”

Captain Yang turned his head sharply and stared at him intently, his eyes full of surprise, "You can burn pottery?" ”

If Chen Fan can burn pottery, will he not have to buy the bowls in the team in the future? Or even go a step further, you can start a side hustle team?!

Private factories are not allowed, but the production team is no longer in this list, the production team has done a lot of side jobs before, but unfortunately they have been incorporated by the commune, and now there are only 10 teams left on the oil mill, mill and cotton mill, these three are closely related to the life of the peasants, and they cannot be collected, so it is not easy to keep them.

Chen Fan smiled bitterly and said, "No, no, didn't you go to the commune two days ago, and I happened to meet Master Zhu'......"

He briefly explained the situation, and finally said, "One of the books is "Tufa Pottery Burning", and I want to try it myself. ”

Then he pointed in the direction of the backyard, "Anyway, there are a lot of miscellaneous trees there, and it won't take much trouble to dig a pit, so let's try it." ”

When Captain Yang heard this, he couldn't help but smack his lips and shook his head, "It has to be you cultural people, we are coarse, and we may not be able to learn it if we are taught, let alone learn it with a book." ”

Then he smiled and said, "Okay, you try slowly, if there is anything you want to help, just say." ”

Chen Fan smiled, "Okay, if you have difficulties, you must find a leader." ”

Captain Yang suddenly laughed, "What kind of leader am I, at least I need cadres from the brigade department, if you really want to count it, you are one of the leaders in our brigade." ”

Chen Fan laughed awkwardly, if he wants to be regarded as a leader, then there will be more leaders in the whole country.

At this time, Captain Yang finally remembered, he coughed dryly, and whispered, "You finished work this morning, can you come back?" ”

Without waiting for Chen Fan to ask, he continued, "I asked the commune primary school for a set of test papers, but there are few literate people in our team, and the highest education is the junior high school graduate, and it has been several years, so it is best if you can preside over this exam." ”

Chen Fan understood, he was talking about the examination for the selection of veterinarians, which was set the day before yesterday.

He immediately nodded and said, "Okay, if there is no special situation at the brigade headquarters, I will definitely rush back." ”

In fact, he came back every day in the past few days, but the Zhiqing Point was at the back, and there was a small forest across it, and the people in the village didn't know about it.

Seeing that he agreed so happily, Captain Yang also nodded with satisfaction, "Okay, then don't be busy at noon today, just eat at my house." ”

After saying that, he left with his hands behind his back.

When I left, I also looked at the clay blank on the wooden board, and silently made a small abacus in my heart.

It should be back to normal tomorrow

(End of chapter)