Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 521
Chapter 520 Boil Kiln

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Lijiagou Forum.

"What are you going to do, Ditch Master, what are you going to do? I rely on this to amplify my moves!"

"There are still eight days until the end of the show! It's time to zoom in!"

"Lime glaze! If this thing can be produced, this program will really be revised, and it will be "I'm making intangible cultural heritage on a desert island"!"

"Emma still keeps people from sleeping, why do I feel more nervous than before the college entrance examination?"

"Will the kiln be successful? How much furnace temperature does it take to make porcelain? Can someone who knows how to do it tell me?"

"Temperature is not a big problem. Do you think that the ditch master's charcoal was burned for nothing these days? The chimney insulation was made for nothing? Porcelain firing requires a temperature of [-] degrees. Compared with the large kiln mouth, the ditch master's one cubic meter The temperature control performance of the kiln body can only be better, don't forget that the pottery from this kiln is of very good quality!"

"I just checked. A porcelain cup requires so many processes. How many processes are there in the ditch master? This... belongs to simplification and simplification, right?"

"That's not true. Counting from the earliest aging of pottery clay, there are quite a few processes now. How many processes are there in mud-making alone? It's just that the mountains and dews are not visible for more than a month. These two Did Pi plan to do this long ago?"

"It's not like, if I had planned to do this long ago, I would have been looking for stones a few days after I went to the island. I think it looks like I'm bored and want to do something."

"Emm... Maybe I was stimulated by Sister Ayin's music yesterday and Sister Ayin's archery today, and I want to have a fierce..."

"No matter what, as long as I can get it out, I will be a second skin fan from now on! If he abuses me a thousand times, I will treat him like first love!"

"Pfft... Er Pi abused men, right..."

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That night, Li Junge made the bellows, and A Yin finished the dry food and started cooking, steaming meat, washing sand, baking sand, and sifting sand. Before the break, both of them were in a state of inexplicable tension and excitement.

The Bellows Lijun Pavilion is modeled on the occasional water pump used in Lijiagou in the old days.

There are two platforms on both sides, and in the middle of the platform is a wooden shaft made of a tree trunk, on which are nailed four pedals for the feet to step on.

The water tank and water baffle were replaced by Li Junge with six bark paddles, which were wrapped in a flat cylindrical bamboo bellows box.One end of the bottom of the box is fixed to the ground, and the whole is covered with mud. A section of bamboo tube is attached to the ground as the air outlet, and the gap between the bamboo box and the wooden shaft is the air inlet.

The air outlet is connected to the air duct formed by several sections of pottery pipes. The air duct is covered with dry sand, bamboo shoot shells, bamboo shavings, and then bamboo shoot shells and dry sand to isolate the heat from the ground.

Around the air duct, a fire pit was surrounded by stones and broken pottery. When the time came, a charcoal fire was raised to heat the air blown in by the bellows.

In this way, when the air enters the kiln, it will not reduce the temperature in the kiln.

There is also a shelf in front of the bellows, which is convenient for Li Junge to operate on it.

Ayin was dazzled by the sight, the clay kiln that had been standing next to the shed for so many days had now become somewhat majestic.

The next morning, Li Junge opened his eyes and couldn't help laughing.

A Yin also woke up, and asked, "Er Pi, what are you laughing at?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "I laughed at us for being dazed. This is not the state of mind that Uncle Shitou carved stones or Uncle Bamboo Carpenter made fishing rods! If you are not in the right state of mind, you will not be able to do things well."

Ah Yin also understood now, and said with a smile: "Really, too excited and too nervous, like a crab that has been turned over..."

Li Junge laughed and said: "This is called being too concerned about gains and losses... Hahahaha, get up, carry water, feed quails, play and play, have a good day today! Keep calm and start firing the kiln in the afternoon!"

Today's A Yin is very careless, he follows Li Junge in everything, and he doesn't get annoyed by being taken advantage of by him several times. Even in the archery competition, he fell short of the level of the previous two days, which made Li Junge win a lot.

At noon, the two had dinner by the woods behind the beach, and then hung up a hammock for a lunch break.

This was Li Junge's first nap since coming to the island.

After taking a nap, the two went home.

Back home, Li Junge took out some mud cakes again, but this time there were no mud nails on the mud cakes.

Take the rice bowl embryo and turn it over, smooth the bottom edge with fine sandpaper, fill the mouth with fine sea sand, and then put the mud cake on it and rotate it until the excess fine sand is squeezed out. The mud cakes were turned over together and placed carefully in the clay bowl.

Put four bowl embryos on each pottery bowl, and Li Junge brought the pottery bowls to the pottery kiln, and placed them carefully.

There is a saying in an ancient book: "...the bowl is made of coarse mud, one of which is a mud cake and a vessel, and the bottom space is filled with sand... After being glazed, put it into a sagger, hold a light weight when putting it in, and burn it the next day. When you get out, you will become a col, and you will no longer be in Zhouzheng..."

You can't be too careful.

Cover the top layer of pottery bowls, and Li Junge covered the top of the kiln with pottery plates.

There is a big hole in the middle of the pottery plate, and there are five small holes around it. You can watch the temperature in the kiln through the small hole, and you can also seal it to control the oxygen intake. When necessary, in addition to sending charcoal from the bottom, the big hole on the top can also send fuel into it. .

Then Li Junge went to take a bath, changed into clean clothes after washing, and came over with a load of bamboo charcoal to start firing the kiln.

A Yin also came to help.

First firewood and then charcoal, the kiln fire gradually increased.

When Li Junge stepped on the windmill, the charcoal fire instantly turned blue and sprayed out from the cracks in the bamboo charcoal.

After the burning, Li Junge asked A Yin to take over. He sealed the big hole on the top with a pottery plate, leaving only a few small holes around it to pass through. Then he moved the big chimney to the top of the kiln and covered it with wet mud , let the charcoal fire burn inside.

Then he took over A Yin's work, and A Yin went to cook.

As it was getting dark, Ayin brought food to Li Junge. After the two had eaten, Ayin sat beside Li Junge and played the flute.

The sound of the flute was melodious and melodious. With the sound of Ayin's flute, Li Junge stepped on the bellows rhythmically, and his mood became more and more peaceful.

The Wangwang fire shone on the faces of the two of them, and Ayin turned to look at Li Junge's focused expression, feeling that Ailang at this moment was particularly attractive.

Li Junge woke up from the cessation of the flute sound, and said to A Yin: "A Yin, go and rest, I can't accompany you tonight."

Ayin blushed, spat, and said, "Who cares about your company!"

That being said, after she finished washing herself, Ayin brought Li Junge a small basket with a kettle, biscuits, and dried fruit in it, and a bucket of water with a wet towel on it, and said, "Erpi, what about that?" Thank you for your hard work, I will go to bed first, and I will replace you tomorrow morning."

Li Junge nodded, went down to pour himself a glass of water, and said with a smile, "I feel like I'm back to the days when the corn was ripe and guarding the wild boar. But don't worry, the bellows don't have to be stepped on all the time. This kiln needs to burn a good color. In the environment of reducing flames, just blowing wind and oxygenating is not necessarily good-looking!"

A Yin also smiled slightly, and went by herself.

No. 40 for three days.

After a night of silence, Ah Yin woke up just after dawn the next day, went to feed the quails and watered the flowers, then washed himself, and then rushed Li Junge to wash and eat.

Li Junge was still stepping on the bellows creakingly, and said with a smile, "Why did you get up so early today?"

A Yin said embarrassingly: "I didn't sleep very well, I suddenly felt a strange feeling sleeping in it alone."

After finishing speaking, he quickly changed the subject: "The dew in the mountains is heavy at night. I boiled ginger and orange peel honey water for you. Remember to drink some later. Go to bed after drinking!"

Li Junge kissed her on the face, and said with a smile: "It's good to have a woman at home! Then I'll go, and we will have dinner together when I get up at noon."

Standing up, he said to A Yin: "The fire is darker now than when you left yesterday. Don't worry about it. This is a reduction flame. Lime glaze needs to be fired like this. If you feel something is wrong, just call me."

After returning to the house and sleeping for several hours, Li Junge opened his eyes and went out to check the situation.

Seeing him getting up, Ayin turned her head and said, "Why don't you watch the fire, I'll go cook."

After seeing the kiln fire, Li Junge said: "It's okay, you've cooked it well, I'll come for the rice."

It was said to be cooking, but it was actually taking some broth, adding a handful of crushed vegetables, reheating a few pancakes, serving them with cold vegetables and bacon, and the two of them had a meal in front of the kiln.

In the last two hours, Li Junge added some bamboo charcoal to the fire again, and it was not until two o'clock in the afternoon that Li Junge removed the chimney, sealed all the kiln, and let the kiln turn off the fire to cool down.

A Yin looked at Tao Kiln, and said bewilderedly, "I really want to know the result now..."

Li Junge smiled and said: "The result has been decided, just wait for the cup to be opened, don't panic sooner or later. Anyway, everything that can be done has been done, and there is nothing wrong with it. We will go while there is still time. Have fun on the lake, and come back to open the kiln in the evening."

Regardless of Ayin's willingness or not, Li Junge put on a straw hat for her, took the fishing gear by himself, and went to the reeds on the other side of the lake to watch birds and fish.

As long as there are fish to catch, Li Junge is not in a hurry, and the small fish are always caught and released, just for fun.

After a while the float was submerged in the water again, Li Junge raised his pole and said, "Hit again!"

The fish was not small, and it slammed into the reed. Li Junge quickly got up to control the line, and walked a few steps towards the other side of the bamboo raft, away from the reed: "Come back!"

The big fish turned around on the edge of the reeds and started to swim towards the deep water again.

After going back and forth several times, retracting and retracting the wheel and pole three times, the fish reluctantly lay on its side on the water.

A Yin knelt on the bamboo raft, stretched out her small hand to touch the side of the big fish, and exclaimed in surprise: "Wow! Red carp! This is a good omen!"

Li Junge himself was an old fisherman, and he had seen a lot of red carp weighing five or six catties. He knew it was just an albino carp, but he never thought about it.

Hearing what A Yin said, he had no choice but to say: "Uh, since you've said that, let's put it away, carp is not tasty anyway..."

A Yin gave Li Junge a beautiful white eyeball: "I know how to eat! With this good sign, hurry back and start the kiln!"

Li Junge laughed loudly, seeing that the time had passed for more than four hours, he reached out and took the hook off the thick lips of the red carp, and poured some water on the cheeks of the big carp, and the big carp finally recovered Come, the body disappeared into the green water in a flash.

(End of this chapter)