As the earth kiln began to be built, the foot of the mountain began to become lively.

Ye Shi often brought a few older children to join in the fun. Although he couldn't do heavy work, he could do no problem in helping clean up impurities such as grassroots, leaves, stones and other impurities in the soil.

Even helping with mud.

During the busy rest, Xu Chen and others would take a group of children to the river beach to catch fish and shrimps. Although the harvest was not big, it was cool and lively, and they could always get a few pounds in half a day. When they were hungry, Ye took the children to peel the fish and shrimps and wash them and start making slate roasts.

Sometimes Ye would take a group of children to the nearby area to pick some delicious berries and come back as snacks.

With this group of children following the trouble, the construction site became more and more lively, and the tribe's people also came to see each other for some time, making the land of the mountain, which was usually deserted, slowly turned into a hot land.

The making of pottery is actually very simple.

It mainly depends on the quality of the mud.

The earth kiln has not dried yet, so Xu Chen also has enough time to repeatedly experiment with the process of each link of pottery making.

In order to make the pottery better, he also made several simple tools with wood, mud knives, tile knives, scrapers, cutters, diggers, seal knives, etc., all of which were large and small. They used wooden buckets of different sizes to cut out the shapes with stone knives and axes, and then polished them with stones and then scraped them smoothly.

As Xu Chen made more and more tools, a group of people respected him more and more. Therefore, he completed all his arrangements very carefully and did not dare to be careless at all.

While playing and having fun, Xu Chen also slowly made a batch of pottery clay.

Because it was the first time to burn pottery on a large scale, Xu Chen had no idea about temperature and other things. In order to ensure the quality of the firing, he did not make it too big. It was all small utensils such as rice bowls, water cups, plates, kettles, etc.

And this is also the most lacking daily necessities at the moment.

After accumulating some experience, you can start firing large utensils in pottery basins, pots, pots, pots and even large utensils in pottery jars.

Relatively speaking, the larger the size of the utensil, the more difficult it is to make, the greater the chance of failure of firing, and the longer it takes to firing.

Whether it is pottery or porcelain, the temperature is very important.

If you master the heat of the kiln, you will basically succeed more than half of it.

The earth kiln is filled with fireworks every day. After several consecutive days of smoke and roasting, the wet soil around the landfill begins to change color, and the mud applied in the kiln is also smoked into a sauce-black sauce.

More than ten meters away from the earth kiln is a special mud pit. Clean the clay and pour it into it. After adding water, it is repeatedly used to scatter and trample it with a wooden hoe until it becomes even wet mud.

This kind of mud is not made directly into pottery, but is placed in a ball under the pergola and covered with wet grass and shade for two days to make the mud more flexible.

Cut the mud with a mud knife into appropriate size clumps, place it on a clean stone slab and knead it repeatedly. After it becomes completely soft and appropriate, slowly pinch it into the desired shape.

The smaller the utensil, the easier it is to make, and the larger the utensil, the more difficult it is.

The mud Xu Chen made right now is not big.

However, there are many styles and rich shapes, especially the kettle and cups, which have specially made lids and handles.

Cutting mud with mud, forming tiles, trimming scrapers, cutting knife mouth repair, digging holes with digging, and engraving of seal knives.

As Xu Chen gradually became familiar with it, the style and appearance of the pottery made became more and more exquisite and beautiful.

He is also increasingly immersed in this natural wildness and creation.

Not only did he have to carve four texts produced by Pasteur on the bottom of each mud clay with a seal knife.

Even on some exquisite muds that you think are made, you will simply depict some patterns of flowers, birds, insects and fish, and write some hieroglyphs.

Every time Xu Chen starts to engrave words, Ye will hold his breath and stand beside him without blinking his eyes. After Xu Chen has finished engraving, she will carefully hold it with her hands and put it on the stone slab.

After seven or eight days of busy preparation, there were already hundreds of pieces of clay made, enough to burn a kiln.

Therefore, Xu Chen planned to carve the last few and then put them in the kiln to make them.

Seeing Ye's attitude of studying so seriously, Xu Chen handed her the carving knife and then handed him a pottery pot.

"Yega, give it a try!"

Ye obviously didn't expect that he was a little at a loss when he held the carving knife.

"Try it, it's very simple!" Xu Chen smiled and encouraged.

So Ye mustered up the courage to take the pottery pot, picked up the carving knife and slowly carved out four words underneath.

Although it is crooked, no word is wrong.

"good!"

Xu Chen gave a thumbs up and pointed at the body of the pot.

Ye's thin body was nervous and trembling slightly, but under Xu Chen's encouraging eyes, he thought for a while and slowly engraved a circle of numerical symbols, and then handed it to Xu Chen with a nervous look on his face.

"Very good, it seems you're familiar with numbers!"

After seeing this, Xu Chen nodded with a smile, greeted Gu Heju and others and began to send all the prepared mud into the kiln. At the same time, there were also a group of strange human and animals pinched by children.

Half an hour later.

All the mud blanks were placed in the fire kiln and placed in circles. After observing that there was no problem, the kiln door was closed with stone and soil, and then the fire was formally lit.

As the kiln fire began to burn, thick smoke rose from the flue on the top of the kiln, everyone cheered excitedly, and the scene was filled with joy.

Although Xu Chen was relieved, whether he could successfully fire the real pottery in the next step depends on the power of the kiln fire.

To increase the kiln fire temperature to about 800 degrees and allow the clay to melt slightly, we must continue to add firewood to allow the kiln temperature to accumulate and increase.

In that way, there must be no manpower during the day and night, otherwise it will burn during the day and extinguish at night, and the temperature will be high and low. It is estimated that the kiln mud will be scrapped.

Thinking of this, he went to discuss with his mother and asked to arrange someone to come and watch the night.

Mo Ba naturally cared about this matter and arranged for adult men who stayed on the mountain to go down the mountain to watch five times a day.

This was the first time the tribe spent the night at the foot of the mountain, so everyone was very nervous, but the location was just below the mountain, which was not very dangerous. Nothing happened in two days, so the tension quickly disappeared.

Taking advantage of the past two days, Xu Chen began to make medium and large utensils, mainly clay pots, clay pots, clay jars, clay jars and some jars and jars.

Compared with ordinary daily objects such as cups, bowls, and plates, this large pottery is more useful. Cooking food, storing food, boiling water and cooking rice, etc. can truly improve the quality of life of the tribe.

However, it is much more difficult to make large pottery. The mud is too wet and it is easy to collapse. The mud is too dry and it is not easy to form, it is too thin and cannot stand up, and it is too thick and it is not easy to burn through.

So after two days, he only made seven or eight samples.

However, during this exploration, I became more familiar with the pottery making technology with a group of bricklayers. Whether it is clay or shaping, my skills became more and more handy. Xu Chen also kept letting a group of kiln workers participate in the production. At the same time, in subtle communication, the language and texts about pottery making were gradually learned and accepted by everyone, making it more convenient to communicate.

Especially a group of children, they accepted it very quickly. After a while, they could accurately understand every item Xu Chen said, and even counted simple quantities. There was basically no problem with counting within ten.

Ye can already use simple addition and subtraction to perform some simple operations.

Because of the emergence of the kiln, the tribe's past living habits were completely broken.

People who stay in the cave when they go out to work will come to the kiln factory to take a few glances every day.

Especially in the process of making clay, I was obviously very interested. Not only did a group of children pinch some pottery toys, but adults sometimes couldn't help but make a few utensils under Xu Chen's guidance.

As the kiln factory became more and more lively, everyone gradually became familiar with the atmosphere of life at the foot of the mountain.

Xu Chen also began to plan to let some people move down first.

Of course, to go down the mountain to live, safety factors must be fully considered. At least a circle of walls must be built near the kiln factory and some houses must be built.

As autumn arrives, the weather becomes cooler and the food for animals will become less and less. Medium- and large beasts such as wild wolf, leopard, leopard, leopard, wild boar, still pose a huge threat to humans.

The valley is surrounded by primeval forests, and there is definitely no shortage of large beasts like tiger bears. They roar like competition all day long. Once one of them breaks in, there will definitely be heavy casualties.

It is impossible to cut down trees when building a house.

The stone sword and stone axe can only deal with small trees and vines and thorns that are thick with arms and legs. If you are a little bigger, you can basically not do it. Therefore, the best thing is the fence stone.

There is no shortage of mud and stones at present, but there is no manpower.

However, this matter should not be too late. Although the cave is safe, it is not a waste of time to climb up and down every day.

Therefore, while Xu Chen was teaching a group of people to make pottery, he also observed everywhere near the kiln factory, and gradually he had a relatively mature idea in his mind.

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The kiln fire continued day and night, burning for five days and five nights.

Xu Chen thought it should be almost done, so he asked the kiln workers to cease fire.

The first dozen simple mud pieces made randomly can be burned in a fire pit overnight. Now they are burned with a special kiln fire for five days and should have been burned thoroughly.

What's more, the instruments are not big.

Even if the temperature is a little different, it will definitely be much better than the first time.

In addition, firewood and grass are not available for burning for too long. In recent days, a group of people in the kiln factory have been picking up firewood and weeds for most of the time. The dead tree trunks within a mile of the garden at the foot of the mountain have basically been picked up.

Continue to burn and get more money.

In fact, he has only now discovered that without coal, the most consumed wood is the kiln.

At present, the tools are simple, and hunting is basically driven by chasing, and burning is basically picked up. This is a sad group.

After annealing for one night, early the next morning, all the tribesmen went down the mountain collectively to observe the epoch-making great moment of opening the kiln.

Mother Ba's head was covered with feathers, and a string of strange-shaped necklaces were hung around her neck. The inheritance staff covered with runes and patina was taken out again.

A group of women devoutly painted oil paints for the men.

Although Xu Chen was not yet an adult, the power of the mother Patriarch gave the adult status, so he was painted with colorful patterns again, like a rainbow paint man surrounded by stars and moonlight.

After the fire was turned off overnight, the kiln temperature had subsided, but due to the continuous high temperature baking, plants within a radius of dozens of meters had been dehydrated and withered, and the soil around the kiln had become a dry state. In extreme dryness, you can still feel the unique dryness of a kiln fire when you get close to it.
Chapter completed!