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Chapter 276 Coal Sand Tank

Chapter 270 Seven

It's not far, but if you don't have your own boat, it's super inconvenient, and you can only contact by phone.

It was for this reason that Uncle Wu Biao Shi Baoquan gritted his teeth and bought the iron boat.

This time I went home with Uncle Wu's family, and my mother brought Li Junge and A Yin, and prepared two baskets for the New Year gift.

When the boat arrives in Baimi Township, you can see a big rock sticking there on the rocky beach from a distance, with a pointed top and a wide bottom, which looks like it is falling towards the heart of the river. There are two small blocks beside it, which really look like a toad.

Li Junge pointed his hand and said to A Yin: "Look, A Yin, it's a toad stone."

It was the first time seeing Ayin, she clapped her hands and laughed, "This is a good neighbor! We will have to say goodbye later."

The mother smiled at the fifth cousin: "Since the good girl said it, she must do it, otherwise she will be looking for blame!"

Uncle Wu said: "It's okay, I buy a lot of incense, candles and money paper, so I should share some with you and burn some for Fairy Toad."

When the tin boat was parked, everyone got off the boat and came to the foot of the Toad Rock with their baskets on their backs.

There are many traces of incense candles under the stone. It seems that the folks in Baimi Township have not forgotten their old neighbor during the New Year.

The next group of people will light candles, burn incense, and burn paper money.

A Yin said devoutly and sincerely: "The Immortal Toad, the Immortal Toad, bless the coming year with good weather and good weather, and the people along the Wuxi River will live in peace and prosperity."

After speaking, he bowed three times to Toad Stone.

Li Junge thought that this daughter-in-law was really capable, but he didn't bring a word home.

……

Walking through the rocky beach is a dirt slope, and a dirt road goes up a few clumps of withered and yellow Nandi to become a stone road.

Walk along the stone road through paddy fields and bamboo forests, walk on the road, and walk a while. There is a green tile shed on the side of the road. There are many kinds of mud piled up on one side of the shed. In the middle are two steamed buns. busy there.It looks like a traditional family workshop.

On the other side, there are some finished products that have been fired. They are black and shiny, and the shell walls are thick. They are the special products of Baimi Township-coal sand pots.

Coal sand tank, a very rustic name, has a very rustic appearance, but it has many functions.

The cooked rice is particularly fragrant, the steamed glutinous rice is particularly sweet, the fermented glutinous rice is particularly mellow, the porridge is particularly delicious, and the stewed chicken soup is particularly fragrant.

In the hot summer season, porridge in coal sand pots can last for three days without spoiling.

In particular, boiling traditional Chinese medicine not only fully penetrates the properties of the medicine, but also has a better effect than other pots such as iron pots and stainless steel.

Because Baimi Township is rich in white mud and backed by Qianzhou coal mines, it provides material conditions for the manufacture of coal sand tanks.

A man in his fifties was making clay embryos there, and when he saw anyone coming, he shouted: "Fifth Brother, Second Sister! Oh, Piwa is here too? Rarely, Piwa, you haven't been here for several years, uncle." It's home!"

The person who spoke was Li Junge's uncle.

A young man who was working raised his head: "The fifth uncle and second lady are here? Hurry up and sit in the room! Erpi! Hahahaha, you are finally free this year, kid? Do you want to play with the coal sand pot?"

Grandpa came out of the room: "Dirty! What's the fun! The security guard is back? You see, I have to trouble you to take my second sister across the river every year. Let's have dinner at home today!"

Uncle Wu waved his hands again and again: "I can't do it, Uncle, I haven't left the house yet! I'll go home and beat a head first, and then I'll come over to give you New Year's greetings!"

Grandpa stayed for a few more words, and then sent the fifth cousin away.

Li Junge led Ayin to his grandfather to pay New Year's greetings: "Grandpa, happy new year! This is my girlfriend, Ayin."

Grandpa laughed until his eyes narrowed: "Then hurry up and sit in the room. Ah Yin, right? Where's the good girl!"

A Yin sweetly said to Grandpa: "Grandpa, Happy New Year!"

At this time, grandma and aunt also came out of the kitchen, saying hello again.

My aunt unloaded the pannier from Li Junge's back, and only said, "I bring so many every year! Let's go and talk in the room!"

Grandma didn't even hold Li Junge's hand, she just took A Yin's hand and walked into the back room: "Good girl, come back, let grandma take a good look at you."

Everyone entered the house and sat down in the main room. My aunt brought candy and melon seeds, and grandpa made tea. Everyone talked together.

Li Junge said: "Uncle's business is good! Why don't you take a break this New Year's Eve?"

Grandpa curled his lips: "What the hell! This thing is clumsy, and it's getting harder and harder to sell!"

Li Junge was surprised and said: "No way? This is a good thing! Little babies use this to cook porridge, and old people use this to cook medicine. The effect is better than that of other pots!"

Grandpa sighed and said, "Hey, what you said is empty talk. If you can't sell things, you can't just throw money back in, right? Your uncle is planning to stop the fire sometime this year. Our old kiln should also be repaired."

Li Junge couldn't sit still anymore, he stood up and said to his grandpa, "Grandpa, grandma, mom, you guys chat first, I'll go and see with Ayin."

I came out with A Yin and came to the work shed. The uncle looked at it and said, "Oh, what are you doing with A Yin here? It's nothing but dust!"

Ayin knelt down to watch his uncle make the embryo, and said, "Uncle, tell me about the craft of making coal sand pots."

The uncle smiled and said, "What is there to say? The general process is to crush coal and various mud, sieve and add water evenly, knead the mud, grind it to make a billet, repair, fire, and glaze."

After speaking, he pointed to a few baskets of mud and rocks beside him and said: "The raw materials generally include small coal cinders, white mud, sand mud, astringent mud, yellow mud, and cow mud."

"Small cinders are divided into burnt coal, commonly known as "final coal ash", and unburned lump coal crushed cinders."

"Baishanni is Baishanni, its scientific name is kaolin. Some people ate this mud during famines."

"Cow mud is also called clay, which has a certain viscosity."

"Other muds are the ones that you can see every day. Crush and sieve these things, knead them together according to a certain proportion, and they will become mud embryos."

"The upper and lower halves of the sand pot are made separately, and the materials used in the two halves are different."

The uncle grabbed a handful of mud casually, and said, "Do the bottom first, and the weight of each grab of mud can't be wrong by two cents, so that the bottom embryos produced in this way can be even in size."

"The next part is to use white mud, yellow mud, sand mud, and burnt cinder ash, first make it into a bowl shape, put it on a partition and let it dry."

After speaking, he stepped on the turntable, and a sand bowl came out from under his hand after a while.

Then he said: "Since you are so interested, then uncle will show you the whole set?"

Ayin clapped his hands and said, "Okay, okay, uncle, do it quickly!"

The uncle got up and took a dry sand bowl, laughed and said, "It's really rare to see a girl like you, many people despise dirty, let alone girls."

After speaking, he took out a large basin and put it on the grinding disc, and then rubbed it with his hands, just like making a sand bowl, and constantly adjusted the position of the large basin until the center of the large basin coincided with the center of the grinding disc.

Then put the sand bowl on the turntable, adjust it until the center of the circle coincides, start to apply sand and mud between the big basin and the sand bowl, and say: "This way, it will be stable, and you can start to make the first half."

Ayin clapped his hands and said, "The simplest tools and methods, the best results, are the same as the water diversion pond in the mountain pond in our village. This is the wisdom of our ancestors!"

The uncle smiled and nodded, grabbed a handful of wet mud and began to make the upper part, and said while doing it: "The upper part of the mud is made of white mud, yellow mud, cow mud, astringent mud and pieces of coal ash. The proportions are reconciled, and it is lighter than the lower section. This way, the upper section does not need to be too afraid of leakage, and the heat preservation is better, and the second is that it is placed stably, which is also the wisdom of the ancestors."

Step on the millstone, and after a while, a jar was formed under the hands of my uncle.

The uncle said: "If you want to make soup and medicine jars, you also need to make the mouth; if you want to make a soup pot, you need to make the rim as the lid."

When the pot was ready, the uncle put the pot on the shelf to dry, then took down a large casserole that had been dried, put it on the grinding plate and said: "The next step is to repair, the burrs need to be removed, and the soup pot needs to be repaired." Repair the edge of the exit, and the lid can be put on firmly without leaking."

Li Junge added: "When it is fired, it will be deformed, which is also the time when it is easy to produce defective products. Therefore, the same batch of mud should be used for the pot and the lid, otherwise the expansion and contraction rate will be different after firing."

The uncle laughed and said, "Hahaha, Piwa still remember what I said?"

Li Junge nodded and smiled, "That's necessary! When I was young, my dream was to be able to make sand pots when I grow up!"

The uncle took out a square steel and began to step on the grinding plate to make the big casserole turn, and then touched the body of the pot with the square steel, and the casserole was repaired flat in a short while.

A Yin said in surprise: "This casserole looks very delicate now, why are there some small bumps and protrusions on it when it is burned?"

The uncle laughed and said: "This is the problem of the mud. Once the material is overheated, many things in it will produce air bubbles and iron, which will cause such a change in the pot body. There is no way to do it."

Li Junge added: "It is precisely because of this that casserole has the function of ventilation and heat preservation. Although it is ugly, this is the advantage of casserole different from other pots, and it is also the key to the flavor of casserole dishes."

The uncle smiled and nodded: "Your son has been a delicious dog since he was a child! He knows how to eat!"

Li Junge rolled his eyes: "Uncle, don't expose me in front of my girlfriend, okay?"

The uncle laughed and said, "I'm here to help you speak nicely! In the future, when A Yin passes through the door, I won't be afraid of being unlucky! Hahahaha!"

A Yin blushed and stomped her feet: "Oh, uncle! Didn't you mean the pot!"

The uncle said with a smile: "It's nothing, the next step is firing and glazing."

A Yin felt very strange: "Huh? Shouldn't the glaze be applied first before firing?"

Li Junge pulled Ayin to his eldest cousin and said, "You will understand after looking at this."

My cousin was holding a long steel bar, with the head bent into a bend, and stood by the kiln to watch the fire.

Seeing Li Junge and the others coming, the eldest cousin turned to A Yin and said, "This kiln is called a steamed bun stove. Do you think they look like two steamed buns placed on the ground?"

Ayin nodded with a smile.

(End of this chapter)