The second kiln burned for ten full days before it went out.
After the thick smoke dissipated, let it cool overnight and prepare to open the kiln.
In order to receive the second batch of pottery from the tribe, all members of the tribe went out as usual, and adults and children went down the mountain cheering and noisy early in the morning.
The most anticipated and excited ones are undoubtedly the group of women responsible for cooking.
Recently, they have gradually become accustomed to using earthen pots to stew food.
However, the first batch of clay pots were very small, and the quantity was not large. It was not enough for everyone, so they had to assist in grilling some food for each meal. However, the tribe had already been conquered by stews such as porridge and meat soup.
None of them like roasted dry roots and multigrain cakes. Every time they eat, they all eagerly wait for the stew to be divided into earthen pots. In order to give priority to the needs of pregnant women, the elderly and the weak, they are a group of busy kitchen workers.
I can't even eat part of the time.
Therefore, their demand for large cooking utensils is even more urgent.
In addition, stoves are convenient for making food, and they also want to use these new stoves and cooking utensils as soon as possible.
A large group of people came to the kiln factory.
Four kiln workers were already waiting in front of the kiln.
There was no ceremony or paint, just dozens of excited faces and excited cheers.
A group of children were cheering and playing in the open space, and the pony seemed to have seen the herd of horses grazing in the distance, and kept neighing along with them.
"Open the kiln!"
After arriving, Xu Chen didn't waste much time. He just went to the fire hole of the kiln door and took a look inside before ordering the kiln to be opened.
The four kiln workers immediately picked up wooden hoes and wooden sticks and stepped forward. After a while of digging and prying, the stones and mud blocking the kiln door fell and collapsed, revealing the situation inside the kiln.
This time is different from last time. The kiln is full, surrounded by pottery, with limestone below and clay bricks above.
When they were first stacked, it was simply planned to allow for ventilation and even kiln fire. Moreover, when stacking limestone and ceramic bricks, there was a lot of dry firewood mixed in between.
However, after ten days of continuous burning, all the wood was burned to ashes, so the limestone and pottery bricks in the middle seemed to be piled together, making it look messy.
Xu Chen didn't care about the chaos. He only cared about whether the pottery and lime were fired successfully.
So after the dust caused by the collapse of the kiln door slowly dissipated, he climbed up and took out a large earthenware pot over one foot high and took a closer look. He found that the color was darker than the last pottery, with a kind of
The color is blue-gray, and when you tap it lightly with your hands, the ding-dang sound sounds very crisp.
A smile instantly appeared on Xu Chen's face.
The quality of the firing this time was obviously much better than the last time.
Not only did the sound of this clay pot sound crisper, but there was even a faint luster on the surface, indicating that it had obviously been burned through and the clay had begun to vitrify.
"success!"
Xu Chen raised the clay pot with both hands and shouted.
"Sou Ga~"
A group of waiting primitive people immediately jumped up and cheered, especially the four kiln workers, who were like crazy demons, raising their hands in the air and making howling sounds like ghosts and wolves.
There is no need for Xu Chen to give detailed instructions next.
Several kiln workers cooperated, climbed in and took out the surrounding pottery first.
These pottery vessels are huge, including seven or eight crooked pots of different sizes and shapes, seven or eight crooked pottery basins of the same size and different shapes, a few pots and two hanging pots, and more than ten pots of different sizes.
spoon.
But unfortunately, this time, whether due to the size or the heat, several pieces had cracks, and two pieces were even completely broken.
Therefore, during the process of taking out these pottery, a group of people would inevitably sigh and lament, and some people even beat their chests and stamped their feet with expressions of despair.
Xu Chen was very calm. With such a large pottery, it was almost impossible to succeed all at once. If porcelain was fired, the entire kiln might be ruined due to poor control over the fire.
Although pottery is crudely made, it can still be damaged due to uneven heating.
And this is because this kiln is relatively small and the firepower is relatively uniform. If it is a large kiln, it is more likely to cause problems.
After taking out the pottery, next comes the pottery bricks.
Because there are no molds, these ceramic bricks are laid on relatively flat stone slabs and cut with a trowel. Therefore, the size and thickness are slightly different, but overall they are pretty good. They are about ten centimeters wide and about twenty centimeters long.
Centimeter, about five centimeters thick, it is said to be a brick, but in fact it is closer to a ceramic plate.
Xu Chen originally wanted to make ceramic boards similar to floor tiles, but unfortunately the conditions and strength did not allow it, so he could only make this specious thing first.
However, this batch of bricks was fired quite well, and they were all burned through. They were green-gray in color and quite strong.
There are about two hundred ceramic bricks, and the bottom is all limestone.
It is still in the state of quicklime, and the surface of the pebbles has been burned to a reddish color, and most of it has cracked, revealing the snow-white limestone.
Xu Chen took a piece and looked through it carefully, then placed it in a pottery basin and poured a handful of water on it.
I saw that this white stone started to roll and expand while steaming.
"quack!"
A group of primitive people suddenly screamed out in fright, and backed away as if they had seen monsters.
Xu Chen breathed a sigh of relief, squatted down and gently pulled it with a branch. The piece of lime soon turned into a pile of broken white powder.
Before the advent of cement, lime had always been the best building bonding material.
And lime also has an excellent property, that is, it is waterproof.
Pools built with lime as the main binder have better water retention than cement pools.
Although lime is far less strong than cement concrete, it is the simplest and most accessible material, which is fully in line with the current primitive production technology and urgent needs.
Next, Xu Chen arranged for the kiln workers to pick out all the lime in rattan baskets. After the kiln was emptied, a group of people carried the lime and pottery bricks up the mountain in a lively manner.
Back on the mountain, a group of women happily took the pottery to clean and dry it. Xu Chen boiled some lime with water and mixed it with clay to make mud, and began to build the countertops for the edge of the fire pond and the stove.
The workload was not large and it was completed in less than half a day. Then a group of women began to boil water to smoke the stove, and he began to plaster and seal the back of a row of stone cellars where grain was stored.
It was already sunset when they finished their work, and a group of women had already started cooking food on the new stove. The aroma of the steaming food filled the mountainside, and the entire cave was filled with laughter and laughter.
After the renovation, the cave looks neat and clean, completely different from before.
The stone wall blocks the entrance of the cave. Although it is slightly darker, it makes people feel more secure and safe.
After the neat fire pit and the newly built row of fire stoves were laid with neat ceramic bricks, they suddenly became countless times taller. A group of primitive people were excited to see them, touching and knocking, and some people knelt down on each brick.
If you look carefully, some people even want to lie on it and lick it a few times.
Dinner was not yet cooked, and everyone couldn't wait for Mu Ba's call. They all sat in a circle around the fire pit, waiting for the meal to begin like a pilgrim.
When Muba called for the banquet to begin and Xu Chen came over to wash his hands, the whole cave resounded with a thundering cheer. Men, women, old and young stood up one after another, surrounding him like stars holding the moon, and sat down in the center. Then Muba and
A group of women brought the best food in front of him.
"Uga!"
Some people raised their hands excitedly.
"Wuga~wuga~wuga~"
A group of men, women and children immediately raised their hands and cheered together.
Wu Ga didn't know what it meant, because there was no reference object.
It seems that it is only used on the most solemn occasions, and it is only suitable for the most important things and people to receive this kind of treatment.
Xu Chen felt that this might have something to do with primitive and simple worship, just like later generations cheering for long live.
It can be seen that his status has risen very rapidly recently.
Especially the appearance of pottery made the tribesmen begin to worship him.
This was certainly a good thing for him, so he smiled from ear to ear and everyone nodded.
Seeing that Xu Chen was so loved by the tribe, Muba was happy, but felt even more nervous and entangled in her heart.
The higher the wisdom Xu Chen shows and the more things he invents and creates, the more tribes will compete for him in the future, and the less likely he is to stay.
The Ba tribe could not bear the cost of losing him.
Even if ten people were exchanged for him, it would still be a loss that the tribe could not bear.
So while everyone was happily eating and chatting around the brand new firepit, Mother Ba felt a little sad.
After eating, Mother went into the cave silently.
"Chenga!"
After dinner, Xu Chen was sitting on a stone with a cup of aphrodisiac tea and looking at the dusk scenery.
Ye came over and called him.
"Gaha?" Xu Chen turned his head.
"Thread!" Ye handed over a spindle wrapped with thin threads.
"What's wrong with the thread?" Xu Chen's face was full of doubts and curiosity.
"Won!" Ye made a gesture of spreading his hands.
Only then did Xu Chen realize that she had finished spinning all the flax she had made last time, but for several days he saw that this girl was no longer spinning. He probably didn't say anything because he was busy, so he stood up with a smile and said:
"Take it and see!"
"Not good...look..."
Ye murmured softly, but turned around and went to the cave. Soon he brought out a round basket made of thin rattan, with a pile of spindles wrapped with thin threads inside.
Xu Chen took it out one by one and looked at it carefully. He found that the top ones were obviously more uniform, and the lower ones were rougher. It was obvious that after he became more familiar with the later ones, the quality of the threads would be much better.
"Very good, bring me the loom again!"
Although this sentence was very complicated, Ye quickly understood it under Xu Chen's gestures. He turned around and ran into the cave again, and soon he brought out a pile of round and flat sticks.
"Mobaba quack!"
When putting down the stick, Ye gently tugged on his fur skirt.
Xu Chen was startled, thinking that this girl still wanted to fight with him in the hay nest, so he quickly covered his butt and turned around, and found that Ye Zheng was looking back in the direction of the cave, so he breathed a sigh of relief and asked in surprise: "Mother Bagaha?
"
"cry!"
Ye made a gesture of wiping tears and whispered.
Xu Chen was stunned for a moment, and looked at the cave with confusion on his face.
My mother was fine during the meal just now, why would she cry?
Moreover, the tribe has been having a lot of happy events recently, including bows, arrows, pottery, and food collected many times more than in previous years. Today, the fire pit stove and the grain storage granary were just repaired. The mood of the tribe has obviously been very high recently. Everyone
She had been smiling all day long, but there was no reason for her to cry suddenly.
Are you too happy?
After much deliberation, Xu Chen felt that only crying with joy could express the old woman's recent mood, so he rubbed Ye's messy hair and said with a smile: "Mother is happy!"
"oh!"
Although Ye felt something was wrong, he couldn't seem to figure out the reason why Momba suddenly cried.
Just as Xu Chen thought, in her very simple life and emotional world, everyone has become more and more happy recently, and there is no reason for her mother to hide in a cave secretly and cry alone.