After shaping the pottery, in order to prevent these clay vessels from cracking under high temperatures, Lin Shuhang placed them one by one on the open ground to dry naturally.
There were no plants growing in Lin Shuhang's bamboo courtyard, and the sunlight was at its strongest stage of the day. In less than two hours, the clay pots were completely dry.
Lin Shuhang put the dried clay vessels into the clay furnace one by one, and then sealed the kiln.
The method of sealing the kiln was simple and crude, with a large stone slab covering the furnace.
The purpose of this is to further increase the temperature in the clay oven and make the chemical reaction inside the pottery more intense.
In order to prevent the furnace from "exploding" due to excessive temperature, Lin Shuhang used a bamboo stick to poke a hole in the side of the clay furnace before lighting the fire, so that the gas and smoke in the furnace could be discharged.
Firing a kiln is a time-consuming and boring job. Taking advantage of the free time while firing pottery, Lin Shuhang made himself a new weapon using the animal bones left over from the last hunting trip.
The bones are those of giant goats from the Titan continent. They are very hard in texture, especially the thigh bone, which is as heavy as an iron rod.
Lin Shuhang found a stone slab and squatted under the water pipe to sharpen the bone knife.
For survivors, a knife is an indispensable tool. It can not only be used to kill prey, but also has great uses in life, such as cutting food, cutting down plants, etc.
Because the bones of wild goats were too hard, it took Lin Shuhang two hours to sharpen a bone knife.
When the finished bone knife appeared in Lin Shuhang's hand, Lin Shuhang accidentally tried the knife on his hand. After the sharp bone knife passed through his palm, the skin and flesh were immediately torn open, and blood gushed out.
"Fuck!" Lin Shuhang jumped up from the ground in fright, and quickly sucked the bleeding wound with his mouth.
"Why is it so sharp?" Looking at the wound on his hand, Lin Shuhang was horrified. He had always thought that the iron knife was the sharpest thing in the world, but he never expected that a knife made of bones could be so sharp.
In order to prevent the bone knife from accidentally injuring himself, Lin Shuhang removed a piece of bamboo from the bamboo wall, broke a section of the bamboo tube, and made a simple sheath for the bone knife.
Knives are life-saving things and should not be left lying around.
Lin Shuhang found a vine and tied the bamboo tube with the bone knife firmly to his calf. This method would allow him to draw out the bone knife and fight as soon as possible in an emergency.
Lin Shuhang was reluctant to throw away the remaining bones, so he used stones to grind dozens of bone arrowheads.
These hard bone arrowheads will become his sharp weapons for hunting!
After all this is done, the pottery in the furnace is almost done.
After the fire naturally extinguished and the furnace body cooled down completely, Lin Shuhang stood up and took off the stone slab on the clay furnace.
A faint purple smoke slowly floated out from the furnace, making the entire kiln look like an alchemy furnace in the fairy world.
"Haha, you are just like cultivating immortals and refining elixirs." Lin Shuhang fanned the overflowing smoke with his hand.
The first thing that catches the eye is a burnt mud altar.
It was obvious that there was a problem with some part of the clay altar, which caused the clay altar to be unable to withstand the high-temperature firing and directly shattered into pieces in the furnace.
"Damn it, it's burned!"
Although Lin Shuhang had long expected that the first time he fired pottery, he might fail, but seeing a burnt pottery at first sight was always an uncomfortable feeling.
"Hopefully the other pottery hasn't been burned."
Lin Shuhang carefully inspected the pottery in the furnace.
One, two, three...
Most of the jars in the furnace are failures. Some have cracks on the surface, and some are completely burned by the high temperature. These items cannot be used.
Lin Shuhang became anxious, lying beside the stove and rummaging around.
If all the pottery is burned out, a day's work will be in vain.
The voice of "Ding Dang Dang" sounded in the kiln. Suddenly, Lin Shuhang's hand stopped.
Because, a complete thing finally appeared in front of Lin Shuhang's eyes.
A fiery red pottery appeared in front of Lin Shuhang.
When Lin Shuhang's giant hand touched the still warm wall of the pottery pot, his expectant eyes had a different kind of brilliance.
"Thank God, the firing was finally successful!"
Looking at the intact clay pot, Lin Shuhang's hanging heart finally dropped.
Lin Shuhang felt so happy and excited at the moment that he carefully put the fired pottery aside and continued to search for other pottery in the furnace.
Since it was my first time to make pottery, I may not have mastered the heat properly. More than half of the dozens of pottery failed to be fired, with various degrees of cracks appearing. Only 3 pottery pots, two clay dishes and one clay pot barely managed.
It can be considered that the firing was successful.
Lin Shuhang was very satisfied with this result, because firing pottery itself is a matter that tests skills and experience.
Lin Shuhang believed that the next time he fired pottery, he would be much better than this time.
"Haha, the pottery was fired successfully. Let's improve the food tonight, chicken stewed with mushrooms!"
Lin Shuhang excitedly put on his homemade hunting bow, picked up the newly made bone knife, and carried the huge stone hammer out of the bamboo courtyard.
Now, he still has two hundred kilograms of chicken left to eat, and is going to pick some mushrooms in the forest to improve his food.
"I have long said that I, Lin Shuhang, will lead a better life than Uncle Robinson!"
Lin Shuhang carried his stone hammer and hunting bow, walked through the tall grass forest, and entered the gloomy giant forest hunting ground again.
Tonight we want to improve the food, chicken stewed with mushrooms. With chicken, how can we miss out on mushrooms?
Lin Shuhang was like an experienced hunter, walking through the huge trees, carefully looking for fungi on the ground.
Everywhere in the giant forest was full of surprises and unknowns. Under an ancient tree covered with vines, Lin Shuhang stopped.
The vines on the tree look like they have been dead for many years.
Dry vines climb up along the roots of the big tree, twisting layer by layer, until they grow to the crown of the big tree. They look like a well rope that has been exposed to the wind and sun for decades, which is very mysterious.
At the roots of the big tree, there are a bunch of skeletons of unknown animals scattered around.
From the outside, these skeletons remain quite intact.
There are no obvious scars on the surface of these bones, but the posture of the bones is very strange, and it seems that they struggled violently before death.
Through various signs, Lin Shuhang concluded that the owner of the bones probably died of poisoning.
But what puzzled Lin Shuhang was that there was not just one animal skeleton under the tree. These skeletons were scattered around the big tree, like an animal cemetery.
Of course, what Lin Shuhang really cares about is not this, but the mushrooms growing under the tree.