Tianyuan Shoufu is two and a half years old

Chapter 160 Burning Kiln (3)

The mud embryos for making bricks and tiles need to be stepped on repeatedly, so Qin Songtao, his apprentices, and a few nephews who were recruited temporarily all took off their shoes and stomped on the mud repeatedly.

When the stamping is almost done, start to cut one by one, put the mud embryos in the mold and compact them, then take them out and arrange them, and after a large number of mud embryos are made, they are put into the kiln for burning.

Qin Songtao did not forbid others to watch him burn bricks and tiles, so there are still many people around to watch. These people are basically not workers in the workshop, and there is not so much work at home, so he went to the kiln factory While watching Qin Songtao and the others make bricks and tiles.

The onlookers were very curious when they saw Qin Songtao's apprentices and nephews stepping on the clay. Some half-grown children thought it was fun. After consulting the people who were working, they happily took off their shoes and ran in to follow them. .

Qin Songtao is making the mud embryos of ceramic toilets. Compared with the mud embryos of bricks and tiles, the mud embryos of toilet bowls need to be polished more carefully.

Although it doesn't need to be as elaborate as ceramic teapots, teacups, vases, etc., it also requires more thought than bricks and tiles.

Qin Songtao had never made pottery by himself before, and he was very familiar with it.Fortunately, he has awakened the fire-earth dual-element ability. When making pottery, because he has the earth-element ability, he is not so busy when controlling the mud embryo.

"Songtao, are you really going to burn bricks?" A villager who was similar to Qin Songtao asked beside Qin Songtao who was busy making mud embryos.

"Didn't you see other people making mud embryos?" Qin Songtao said amusedly, "If I don't plan to burn bricks, I don't need to invite so many people to play with mud, right?"

"Can you burn?" the villager asked concerned, "Although you are a mason, don't you just lay bricks and tiles? When did you learn how to burn bricks and tiles?"

"I didn't know it before, am I just learning?" Qin Songtao said helplessly.

He doesn't know everything. Although he knows the structure of building materials and the like, he has never fired bricks and tiles, and he doesn't even know how to make pottery.These are all what he has learned now, how can he be proficient?

The villager became even more worried when he heard the words, "You planned to make a kiln when you first learned it. Now that the kiln has been built, you are not afraid of screwing up, and the money for building the kiln will be wasted?"

Qin Songtao shook his head and said, "Don't worry, I can definitely learn it."

The villagers were still very worried, but he didn't continue to persuade, but asked, "If you really burn out the bricks and tiles, I will buy some from you."

"Is your family planning to build a house?" Qin Songtao asked while making mud embryos.

"Isn't my son getting married? The family is discussing to expand a room, and let him and his wife live in the newly built room after he gets married." The villager said.

"Your family is not building another house, but you plan to expand a room?" asked another villager.

"Hey, what can I do? It's definitely not enough money to build a new yard, and I can still get the money to expand a room." The villager said.

"That's right." Another villager nodded in agreement.

Everyone chatted and chatted about whose kid was engaged and whose kid was planning to get married.After the boys get married, they will be nervous about the house they live in, and after they have children, they will be even more nervous.

Qin Songtao didn't care so much, and continued to play with the mud embryo in his hand.

Qin Songtao made mud embryos for two toilets on one side, and his apprentices and nephews made hundreds of mud embryos for bricks and tiles on the other side.

Qin Songtao looked at it, and asked the apprentices to continue making about [-] bricks and tiles and then stopped making them. They were left to dry naturally before being fired in the kiln.

It takes one or two days for the mud embryo to dry, that is, the weather is good and the sun is stronger, so even if the mud embryo is dried in a shed under the shade of a tree, it takes about two days.

Qin Songtao led his apprentices to load the dried mud embryos into the kiln. After all the more than 5000 bricks and tiles mud embryos were installed, they began to burn coal.

The kiln needs to be fired continuously for three days, and the fire cannot be cut off.So Qin Songtao and his apprentices basically lived in this side of the kiln. Fortunately, when they built the kiln, they also built a thatched house here.

The thatched hut is about twenty to thirty square meters in size, and there is only one big wooden bunk inside, which can sleep ten people.

If you want to take a bath, you have to go back to the village to wash. Anyway, the kiln is only two miles away from the village, which is only 1000 meters away according to modern terms.

As for eating, it is in the shed built next to the thatched hut. The three sides of the shed are surrounded by walls made of thin strips of bamboo, and the stove inside has also been built long ago.

But in fact, this simple kitchen is seldom used. They basically use the fire on the other side of the kiln to cook water and cook rice, which saves the need to light another fire.

The fire on this side of the kiln has to burn continuously for three days. Such a large fire is not used to boil water and cook, but to make another fire. Isn't that asking for trouble?

Of course, to face such a big fire, it is very exhausting to burn fire close to the kiln on a hot day, so Chen Qiuxiang prepared a lot of drinks and medicines for his father-in-law and his apprentices, so that They were able to be a little more comfortable while firing the kiln.

After the three days passed, the fire was stopped, the kiln door was closed and a layer of soil was covered to stew the kiln.Stew the red-hot brick embryos and tile embryos in it for a period of time.

After the kiln cooled down, Qin Songtao and the others opened the kiln door to see how many bricks and tiles were successfully fired and how many were burned out.

On the day when the kiln was opened, many villagers from Qinjiazhuang also came to watch the excitement. After all, it was the first time their village had a brick kiln factory, and most of them saw the kiln for the first time, so of course the day when the kiln was opened Come and see the world.

It just so happened that Chen Qiuxiang's sister-in-law, Mingshuang, had finished all the clothes she wanted and brought them to her from Chenjiacun, and met Qin Songtao and his brick kiln to open the kiln.

"I haven't seen anyone firing a kiln before? I haven't seen the opening of a kiln either, why don't we go and have a look?" Mingshuang said eagerly.

"Yes, yes, I haven't seen it either." Liu Wenwen also said.

"Why don't we go and have a look together?" Gao Xueyao also said.

That's right, when Mingshuang came to deliver Chen Qiuxiang's ready-made clothes, Gao Xueyao also came to see her son, and Liu Wenwen also followed when she saw that all the sisters-in-law were coming to Qin's Village.

As for the children, they will be taken by the parents-in-law.

"You guys go, I won't go." Wang Mingya waved her hands and said, she really can't go, she still followed this rule that pregnant people can't go to the construction site, she didn't plan to challenge it.

Anyway, if she wanted to see it, she could still watch it after the baby was born. After all, the kiln built by Qin Songtao didn't intend to only fire it once.

This kiln will continue to be used for a long time in the future. She only needs to wait until the baby in her stomach is born, and then she can see how brick kiln ceramics are fired?
　The kiln firing steps are from Baidu.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)