Chapter 34 Entering the Pottery Age
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"Qiaoma, come and try it."
"Am I?"
Qiaoma looked at Li Qi excitedly, as if she couldn't believe it.
Li Qi nodded and said, "Yes!" As he said that, he gave up the stone under his butt.
Qiaoma sat up at lightning speed, fearing that she would be snatched away, and said to Rong: "Rong, I'll turn it myself, you don't need your help."
"oh."
Rong retracted her feet and looked at Li Qi with grievance again, as if asking, why wasn't I the first.
Look at what I do, you are so awesome, asking you to make this thing is really a waste of your talent. Li Qi turned a blind eye and began to teach Qiaoma how to pull the embryo.
Qiaoma really doesn't need Rong's help, because she still has this little bit of power. If Rong does this kind of thing, she can kill a chicken with a knife, and her big toe is much more flexible than Rong, and she can be slow or fast at any time.
Li Qi was carefully guiding the side, looking at the rotating pottery wheel, some memories of pulling the embryo flashed in his mind, full of sweetness and romance. Looking at the reality, he sighed in his heart, why isn't the person sitting here? How interesting it would be! No, Li Qi, you can't judge people by appearance, otherwise you can't even make friends here. No, Li Qi, you must judge people by appearance. If you lower your standards, you will definitely be sorry for your wives. If you judge people by appearance, even if you can't go back to the Song Dynasty, you will be destined to die alone.
When he came to his senses, he looked at Tao Lun in a narrow voice and exclaimed suddenly: "A pillar of the sky?"
Qiaoma looked back at Li Qi and asked, "What a pillar that holds the sky?"
Li Qi pointed to the pottery embryo on the pottery wheel and wondered: "You... where did you come from the inspiration?"
Qiaoma seemed a little confused, so she looked up again.
Li Qi followed her gaze and immediately reacted, saying angrily: "Rong, close your thighs."
He melted and clamped his thighs.
Li Qi waved his hand and said, "You might as well sit on the side and don't disturb Qiaoma."
Rong sat aside obediently, but he hadn't reacted yet.
Li Qi calmed down and taught him seriously. He no longer dared to be distracted. If Qiaoma made too many chrysanthemums come out again, it would be really embarrassing.
Qiaoma is also worthy of being the most skillful woman in Black Stone Valley. Soon, she mastered the trick. Of course, mastering the trick does not mean that you can learn it. This craft can only be practiced to make perfect, and it is impossible to reach the top in one step.
The people around them were both blinded and itchy. In their eyes, this was not working at all, this was playing, so why not play together?
Li Qi was not favoring one or the other, so he asked his pottery group to come up and practice in turn.
However, they did not make pots and bowls, but pottery wheels, which were much simpler than pots and bowls, because it was not very useful to use wood as pots and bowls. After all, the wood is not so smooth and it will rot and deform when it comes to water. The wood is just a turntable underneath.
Of course, this time Li Qi did not say that he would immediately put the pottery embryos into the fire to bake them. This was no longer an experiment, but asked them to put them on the big leaves and dry them first.
On that night, no one asked Li Qi to tell stories anymore. Most of them were making wheels. They watched them all day long and were already itchy and could only make wheels themselves. Little kids like Man and others were also seriously cutting wood.
Although their tools are very backward, they are good at it. From childhood to adulthood, they either build stone tools or wood tools. Moreover, there is a lot of wood here.
When Li Qi saw this scene, he thought that Black Stone Valley would usher in the moment of making pottery for all people.
However, reality told him that he was really thinking too much.
The next morning, I saw little kids like Man and others step on a wooden wheel with their feet, and use their feet to force it back and forth, causing the wooden wheel to roll forward, playing in front of the hole.
Of course, only their terrifying balance can step on such a simple wheel and walk freely on the bumpy clearing ground.
"Man, you're walking so slowly."
"Believe it or not, I'll go find Li Qi and ask him to help me think of an idea and become faster than you."
"I can also go find Li Qi."
"But Li Qi likes me the most."
He said arrogantly.
Li Qi didn't care about them either, and he focused on his pottery making team.
In addition, this required a lot of soil, so Li Qi simply asked Taba and his people to dig a row of kilns directly on the hillside.
And he continued to teach their crafts in front of the cave.
When Li Qi wandered among the crowd, looking at the roulettes that were rotating like machinery, he felt that he was in the era of artificial intelligence, and it was so cool.
This undoubtedly accelerated the birth of pottery.
...
On this day, everyone in Blackstone Valley came to the hillside, because the first batch of fired pottery was about to be released today, and everyone was looking forward to it.
When Rong carefully opened the stone slab covering it was about to open, Li Qi squatted down and looked inside. A smile gradually appeared on his face. The others stood at the bottom of the slope, looking forward to it.
After a while, Li Qi took out the stew pot he made himself from it.
There was a burst of exclamation below the slope.
This is much more beautiful than what they did last time, and it is shiny and black. In their eyes, it is like a treasure.
Li Qi looked at the stew pot carefully. When he saw these pottery for the first time, he thought he had burned out the porcelain because it looked very bright, but it was not so smooth in his hand, it maintained the texture of the pottery, and it was a little heavier than the pottery in later generations!
The stew pot was a little heavy in his hands, but it was so light when it was melted into their hands.
Taba approached and looked at it, asking, "Why is this much better than last time?"
Only then did Li Qi explain the reason to Taba, mainly the difference between high temperature and uniform temperature.
After listening, Taba sat aside and thought quietly.
Liqi didn't care about him because Taba's ability to comprehend him, so he didn't need to explain too much. He raised the stew pot and said loudly: "Tomorrow I will use them to make better dishes for you to eat."
There was another cheer under the slope, much louder than before. After all, for them, eating is the most important thing.
Li Qi also had to use pottery immediately so that they could produce more pottery. If they were not used too much, they would immediately lose interest when the freshness passed.
Then, Rong took out other pottery. Most of the first batch were pottery wheels, and only Li Qi made two stew pots.
But I immediately put the other one in, and this batch was all bowls. After all, they were made by novices, which were far less exquisite than those in later generations, but they were much better than those in the beginning. In fact, Li Qi had low requirements for bowls, so he could use them.
After Rong ignited the fire again, everyone happily returned to the front of the cave with the newly baked pottery. As soon as they returned to the front of the cave, they started making pottery. They had just got the new pottery wheel and had to try it immediately, which made them very energetic.
Li Qi did not return to the cave with them. He went to a big stone and glanced at the stone. Suddenly, his eyes were locked in a small hole.
Impossible! This is really incredible! Li Qi looked at the small white crystals in the cave, with shocked eyes in his eyes. After a while, he stretched out his trembling hand, wiped a little white crystal from the hole with his fingers, put it on the tip of his tongue and licked it. Suddenly he opened his eyes and said, "What pure salt! How is this possible? This salt... salt actually grows on a tree."
On that day, he poured all the juice of the ginkgo fruit into this little eye, with the purpose of seeing whether it contains salt or the fruit will taste this way. He never expected that the fruit actually contained salt, and the salt was much purer than the salt in later generations. What was even more amazing was that the salt actually had a little bit of the unique aroma of fruits. This may be sold at sky-high prices in later generations.
“What a pity….”
Li Qi suddenly sighed for a sigh of relief, "It's a pity that no one is doing business these days, and even grain is not allowed to be released. Otherwise, with the help of pottery and salt, we would have hunted, breaking our legs, and then lying down and waiting for food."
Chapter completed!