Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 520 Preparation
Chapter 520 Preparation

Li Junge said: "This in itself is impossible. With your temperament, you dare to attack when you are three-point sure; while for me, you have to think before and after when you are seven-point sure. The style of doing things is completely different. It is impossible to say who is better. Poor, whether it can be done or not depends on the circumstances."

Ayin said: "It's still you who see clearly, from now on I will hold you, you hold me, and we will do what we have to do together!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "I'll think about these things when I get back to Lijiagou. Your task now is to relax and have fun, and take care of your body. Otherwise, when you return to Lijiagou and find that you've lost weight, your parents won't treat me like that." beat to death!"

Ayin giggled in embarrassment, and said in a low voice: "I was the one who dragged you here, so how dare you carry this pot?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "I'll take the blame for this. This kind of thing that is a bit out of line in the hearts of the fellow villagers is my style. You, just continue to be the demon-suppressing stone in their hearts and suppress me, a monster. , or they should worry about our cause again..."

Ayin nodded, blushing with embarrassment: "It seems that I have played a bit too much this time!"

Li Junge said: "What happened! It should be! My daughter-in-law can play the flute and be a husband. I don't even know how busy you are? You just think that all the overtime work in the past is exhausted! I think Who dares to gossip!"

Ayin didn't agree now: "Oh, who is your daughter-in-law! You haven't gotten married yet!"

Li Junge laughed loudly: "We have lived together in the new house for so long, did you go in through the window before passing the door?"

Now A Yin was even more reluctant, and the two chased each other happily for a while, and then got tired of going home together again.

Back home, the two continued to do handwork.

A Yin dug out yesterday's leather work and began to make a satchel with thread.

Li Junge first collected the bamboo charcoal in one place. After two days, all the waste bamboo materials piled up in the workshop were burned into bamboo charcoal by Li Junge. In two days, twelve kilns produced one or two hundred catties of charcoal.

Then he collected the ore mud and the unknown mud on the side of the stove, and put them one by one in front of him. After staring for a long time, Li Junge closed his eyes and began to search for something deep in his memory.

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"The clay urn is strong, but the wine is clean, and the wadden is clean, and the smelt is recommended. Later generations, the earth will be effective, and the artificial appearance will be different, and the pottery will be elegant. It has the image of plain muscles and jade bones. It hides a few feasts, and the civilization is amazing. , will it always be solid..."

"...Hehe, Piwa, don't underestimate the coal sand pots in Grandpa's house. The ancestors discovered that pottery can be glazed from here. At that time, the ancestors discovered that when hot pottery meets pine smoke, it will hang a black and shiny layer. There is a name in the mouth of the experts, called 'fallen gray glaze'..."

"...The white enamel glaze of Fanrao town is made of Xiaogangzui mud and peach and bamboo leaf ash, which is like clear swill. The porcelain fairy of Quanjun uses pine hair water to make the mud. When all the utensils are glazed, shake the inside first, then use your fingers to dip the strings on the outside, and it will flow all over..."

"...Piwa, so don't think this thing is too mysterious. Hahaha, the so-called 'no ash, no glaze' can be made with plant ash..."

"...All glaze materials are produced anywhere...The grass is the firewood for the residents...The pottery family took the ashes, poured water into a cloth bag, and filtered them. If the coarse ones were removed, the fine ones were taken. Two bowls of ash were mixed with red clay. A bowl of muddy water, stir it very evenly, dip it on the paint base, and burn it to create a self-colored color..."

"Piwa, this grass ash is added to the glaze fruit on the mountain, and a layer is hung. Although the fired thing is milky and bluish, and it is not too transparent, it still has a precious light. This is the earliest grass ash glaze..."

"Grandpa, what is a glazed fruit? Is it a fruit picked from a tree?"

"Hehehe... you little greedy cat. Glaze fruit is all kinds of stones on the mountain, and anything that can be burned is called glaze fruit..."

"...unnamed and different...does not grow deep soil, but floats on the ground, and the deep ones can only be dug three feet...the upper ones turn into emerald hair color, the middle ones are slightly green, and the lower ones are close to the earth brown...like the top-grade fine material and The imperial vessel dragon and phoenix are all painted with the above materials...After the materials are calcined, they are grinded in a mortar, and then mixed with water. When researching, the color is like soap, and it becomes blue when it is put into fire...It is made of glazed tiles... …The fineness is painted and dyed with decocted juices such as nameless and palm hair, etc. to become green daisy; ocher, rosin, cattail grass, etc. are painted and dyed to become yellow...then enter another kiln, reduce the firewood, and force it into a glazed color..."

"Later, everyone found out that the luster of glaze fruit and grass ash is not strong, why? It is not fully melted in the fire, do you know how the ancestors solved this problem?"

"How did Grandpa and the others solve it?"

"The ancestors found a co-solvent that can melt the glaze fruit powder at a relatively low temperature. Isn't it great?"

"It's amazing! Grandpa, isn't the co-solvent you mentioned very precious?"

"Xiaohanbao, if it was precious, the price of porcelain would not be what it is now! It's not precious at all, it's just common lime! Grass ash glaze becomes lime glaze! Hahahaha..."

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The experiences and conversations in the grandfather's house when he was young and the historical records in ancient books complement each other, and they churn in Li Junge's mind. When the plan is formed, Li Junge suddenly opens his eyes and starts to make mud.

First use lime paste, plant ash paste, pig bone paste, light blue glaze fruit paste, a little bit of unnamed foreign paste, add water and stir, and prepare a tank of white with light blue mud.

After the mud was prepared, Li Junge took a long flat wooden board and placed mud cakes on it.

Each mudcake has three spikes with the spikes pointing upwards.

Take the rice bowl embryo, hold the bottom ring with three fingers and draw a circle in the mud. After the mud is full, turn the bowl over and put it on the mud cake, and gently draw a circle on the inner side of the bowl with your fingers. The mud becomes thinner at the mouth of the bowl, and some natural flowing patterns are formed in the bowl.

Then take a brush and dip it in the mud, draw a circle along the outer bottom circle of the bowl, and fill in the places where there is no mud on the fingers.

Soon, more than a dozen rice bowls were placed on the wooden board, which had become white.

The ground was still a little wet after the rain two days ago, and the air on the open dam was also clean. Li Junge was not worried about dust pollution in the air at all.

Then I took the wind chime embryos that Ayin made that day from the shelf, passed them through with twine, put them in the mud to hang them, and hung them up one by one.

A Yin was making a leather bag, when she saw Li Junge coming over, she smiled and said, "So you want to make this, are you sure?"

Li Junge laughed loudly: "I'm not even [-]% sure, but there is always a dream. What if it comes true? Oh, the kiln still needs to be worked on."

The first is heat preservation. Li Junge wrapped a thick circle of bamboo shavings around the outside of the kiln, then wrapped a layer of bamboo shoot shells with bamboo silk circles, and finally covered the outside with a layer of thin mud to isolate the air.

After doing this, Taoyao turned into a short and fat man, and the brown silk hats that used to protect him from the rain were not big enough.

Then trim the inner surface. The key is that the bottom surface should be flat, otherwise the pottery will be deformed due to gravity in a semi-melted state.

Then the inner wall was smoothed. Although the bamboo charcoal is almost smoke-free, Li Junge decided to eliminate all possibility of smoke pollution caused by rough kiln walls.

After everything was dealt with, Li Junge called A Yin, and the two carefully lifted the wooden board with the pottery bowls into the work shed, and then carefully put the mud cakes holding the pottery bowls on the shelf one by one.

A Yin looked at those big bucket bowls, and pouted to Li Junge: "Why don't you do these?"

Li Junge said: "I haven't figured out how to do it yet, try it with small pieces first, and if the method is feasible, then seriously consider their matters."

A Yin was surprised: "You can come up with a lot of tricks?"

Li Junge said: "Hehe, I underestimated your husband, and I also underestimated China's thousands of years of ceramic history. Even under the current conditions, there are too many tricks that can be played. Just to give an example, those little Bowls, after being scalded in the sun, put them in cold water and immediately come out, and the boiled things will appear ice flakes! But there is a premise for all of this, that is, the most basic things can be formed, so it can be called an upgrade."

Ayin said, "How can I help?"

Li Junge said: "We have to work in two shifts. The book says that the fire will burn for twelve hours, that is, 24 hours. At that time, you will watch the day and I will watch the night. You will have at least two days to play." It won't work."

A Yin said: "This is a rare way to promote our country! Don't say that you can't play in two days, even if you spend all your time on it, even if you can only succeed in one wind chime, it will be worth it!"

Li Junge said: "It's still the same sentence, do your best and obey the destiny. We will do what we can, and God and ancestors will bless the rest!"

A Yin said: "Then I'll make some dry food tonight, then fry some sour bamboo shoots and sauerkraut, steam some bacon and sausage, and add broth. Don't pay attention to eating, and concentrate on doing things."

Li Junge said: "Okay, I'll boil the salt first, you stretch a cloth sieve, we will do our best."

The two had a hasty meal in advance, Li Junge started to boil the salt recovered from the cured meat, and A Yin started to make dry food.

After that, Li Junge continued to transform the pottery kiln.

In order to reduce the loss of temperature from the top of the kiln mouth with the hot air, Li Junge built a huge chimney, which is two meters high.

The thing is very heavy, Li Junge also made a crane with bamboo poles and wooden pulleys, and used it to lift and place the chimney.

With the insulation wall and high chimney, the temperature in the kiln can be well maintained.

Ayin looked at Li Junge's big project and said, "Erpi, how high can the kiln temperature be if you make it like this?"

Li Junge said: "These are just insulation measures. Charcoal usually burns in the air, which is about [-] degrees. To achieve [-] degrees for porcelain, it is necessary to raise the combustion of charcoal to an incandescent state, which is close to pure oxygen. A state of burning."

"Charcoal in an incandescent state has a temperature of about [-] degrees, but to reach that level, another item is needed..."

A Yin is too familiar with this thing: "Bellows! Hey, is it the same way our ancestors fired porcelain? How much manpower does that big kiln require?"

Li Junge said: "The ancestors used the dragon kiln built along the hillside. They used pine wood, which was large in size and long in distance. They used the temperature difference between the kiln roof and the kiln mouth to inhale air, and then burned it in the combustion zone, using hot air to burn it. By transferring heat, this temperature can be reached in this way, and even because the temperature is too high, empty bowls must be placed on the layers close to the combustion zone to insulate the temperature..."

A Yin admired and said: "Then they are really amazing!"

Li Junge laughed and said: "It's amazing, but the fuel consumption is also astonishing. A kiln consumes dozens of tons of firewood! So it's not bad if we can do this. It's still the same sentence, do your best, listen to the destiny, and do what you can think of." Thinking about it, try to do what you can, and leave the rest to God..."

(End of this chapter)