Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 13

He dived twice and didn't even see a fish.

I wanted to dive again to confirm, but it should be because I didn't eat breakfast, and I was hungry for most of the day yesterday, so my blood sugar was a little bit low.

Now paralyzed by the lake, the whole person is dizzy. If he didn't come up at that time, he might have to sink directly.

After waiting for a long time, I finally took a breath.

During the period, seeing the three tribe members who had no idea what to do and were about to call for help, Zhou Xu waved his hand with difficulty.

"I'm fine, I asked you to dig the mud, how is the digging going?"

"A lot has been dug."

While speaking, the tribe member with muddy hands pointed to the side.

"Are these enough for the leader? Not enough for us to continue digging."

Hearing this, Zhou Xu tilted his head and glanced to the side. The excavated mud had already piled up into a small mountain of dirt, but in Zhou Xu's view, it was obviously not enough.

"Keep digging."

Relying on two hands alone is too inefficient, but even Zhou Xu can't come up with any decent tools for them right now.

There is no way, this thing has to be done one by one.

Accepting the reality that there are no fish resources, Zhou Xu adjusted his plans for the next few days in his mind while taking a break.

The adjustment is almost done, and people have basically slowed down.

His arrangement for this afternoon, apart from confirming whether there are fish in the salt lake and digging the lake mud, the most important thing is to study the pottery making technique.

As long as the clay pot is successfully fired, the fresh water can be stored in advance, so it won't be as tight as it is now.

But Zhou Xu didn't intend to just start playing with mud.

If a workman wants to be good, he must first sharpen his weapon.

Although Zhou Xu hadn't studied pottery before, he liked to drink tea, and bought some teacups along the way.

In order not to be tricked, he also studied a little bit and mastered a lot of useless knowledge.

Tea cups are not pottery, they are usually porcelain, but these two things are fired with soil, so they have something in common.

And what is the most important thing if you want to burn this kind of utensil?It's a furnace, and it's better to be the kind surrounded by furnace walls, so that the internal temperature is higher and it is more stable.

So now he needs to use the stones he picked up to pile up a furnace that can form a stable temperature inside.

If it is too big, it will definitely not be able to be done, and we can only make a living first.

At the same time, these stones cannot fit perfectly, so for these gaps, Zhou Xu's method is also very simple, that is, directly paste them with mud.

This is also one of the main reasons why he asked the three tribe members to continue digging. He still has to build a stove, and the lake mud is definitely not enough.

Holding a palm-sized, relatively flat small bone plate as a tool for paste mud, after pasting the inner, outer, and outer layers several times, the stove looks like that at first glance.

"almost."

Putting the bone plate aside, looking at the stove which already had some appearance, Zhou Xu patted the mud on his hands and nodded in satisfaction.

However, his work of firing pottery obviously has not been able to officially start.

The matter of firing pottery does not mean that you can use the mud to burn it just by pinching it. After pinching, you have to wait for him to dry naturally. This stage will take at least two or three days.

He is still in the preparation stage right now.

After taking a sip of water, Zhou Xu, who had finished building the stove, walked to the lake in a leisurely manner and made mud.

[This feeling is really amazing. 】

After all, he had done things like playing with mud when he was a child, and when he grew up, he basically wouldn't do such things.

He didn't make any big things as soon as he came up, Zhou Xu first made some mud and made that kind of small rice bowl.

After all, he is really a novice when it comes to firing pottery, and he doesn't even think that he can succeed once, and he must experience many failures during the period.

It’s easier to pinch a small bowl. Anyway, if it burns out, replace it with another one and continue to burn. In this way, you can accumulate experience and wait until you can stably burn out a small bowl before tossing those big clay pots.

In case I have no experience at the beginning, I just burn the big clay pot that I worked so hard to make, and finally toss for nothing.

Zhou Xu's two hands have limited precision, and at the same time, he is not an experienced master craftsman. The small bowls he pinches are somewhat irregular. At first glance, each one is different.

A little adjustment, that is, it has been raised to a level that can barely be seen.

Fortunately, playing with mud is not difficult in itself, and since it is the first time for everyone, he really may not be able to do much better than primitive people.

"The rest will be left to you, and the kneaded pottery bowl will be put here to dry."

He took the lead in pinching five or six times, and after the tribal members on the side almost understood and learned, this matter naturally fell on them.

Because Zhou Xu discovered that under such a harsh environment, the mental state of the tribe members was generally better than his.

In other words, their bodies have already adapted to the days when they can't eat a few mouthfuls of food or drink a few sips of water a day, but Zhou Xu's body obviously hasn't adapted yet.

At this moment, he was already hungry and tired, so he had to sit by the fire to drink water and rest. At the same time, he gave pointers to the handicraft team on the basket weaving. When he was free, he squinted his eyes and took a nap.

Until the collection team headed by Dashan came back.

"Leader, according to your wishes, we picked up a lot of stones, and the number of branches far exceeds any time before!"

Speaking of the latter, Dashan's voice was filled with excitement that could not be concealed.

I saw that at this moment, the branches brought back by their collection team were piled up in bundles, directly piled up into a hill as high as one person!
With this amount, I feel that in the next two or three days, they don't need to deliberately collect branches, and they can just pick up some when doing other things.

The freed up manpower can be used for other arrangements.

"Good job, thanks for your hard work."

After seeing the wood and stones they collected from Dashan, Zhou Xu praised them without hesitation.

"Oh, by the way, how many bugs have you caught?"

This is undoubtedly one of Zhou Xu's most concerned issues at the moment, after all, it will directly affect how much food each of them can get at night.

It turned out that Dashan and the others had achieved quite impressive results this time. Judging by the quantity, it was at least two or three times as much as before.

But if you think about it carefully, it doesn't seem surprising.

They just arrived yesterday, and when they got here, it was already late, there were so many things to do, and there was not much time to catch bugs.

Unlike today, they officially set off early in the morning. The main tasks for most of the day revolved around picking up branches, stones, and catching bugs. It was only natural that they caught more than yesterday.

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