Portable Space: Small Peasant Girls Farm to Get Rich

Chapter 5
The poorer you get, the more money you get. Fortunately, there is a village chief, and there are fewer things that happen.

The container was half prepared, and Liu Qingcao went to the riverside where there was silt to find soil that could be used for pottery.

If she wants to make it easier for herself, she can only go to the river to find it. It has been eroded and scoured by the water all year round, and the rest is basically soil with high plasticity and good cohesiveness. This soil is enough for her.

Along the river, Liu Qingcao slowly found it. The river at the end of the village is basically full of stones. Going upstream, the fewer stones, the thicker the loess.

"It's here!"

Liu Qingcao stood still, the loess under her feet, next to the river, was the loess softened by the river.

Rolling up his sleeves and taking off his shoes, Liu Qingcao dug a large piece of yellow mud with his bare hands and put it aside. In order to remove impurities and leave more viscous pottery clay, he stepped on it with his feet. Dry your feet, put on your shoes, and return to the thatched cottage with clay in your arms.

It is estimated that this large piece of clay can make a lot of kitchen utensils, but the waiting time is a little longer.

A large plantain leaf is spread on the floor of the house, and there are sixteen bowls, pots, and pots on it.

In the morning, I thought about using it to store things after it dries in the shade. At this moment, Liu Qingcao decided to take it out and burn it. The loss does not matter at all, as long as it is easy to use.

Liu Jiangbei watched his sister calmly, pinching a bowl like this and a pot like that for a while, very curious, but he didn't step forward to make trouble.

I didn't help my sister clean up the things on the ground until I finished!

"Sister, when can these bowls be used?" Liu Jiangbei looked at the bowls in the corner of the room with sparkling eyes.

Liu Qingcao felt it. In this weather, it may take only three to five days to finish. During this period, except for looking for food and building a simple kiln, if the rest of the time is spent collecting firewood, it will probably take a week in total.

"Seven or eight days should be enough. After noon later, let's go to the river and dig some more soil, and try to get the kiln out today."

Liu Jiangbei: "Kiln? What is that!"

Liu Qingcao didn't explain, just smiled, turned around and went to the small kitchen to make food, the kiln, to put it bluntly, is for Juwen, but how to explain it to Liu Jiangbei is a problem, so let's not talk about it at all. Just look at it directly.

After a simple lunch, Liu Qingcao took Liu Jiangbei to the river to carry the loess. They went back and forth a dozen times before Liu Qingcao called to stop.

In fact, if termite nests can be found, the nest soil of termite nests is particularly sticky soil, which is not very good for making pottery.

However, Liu Qingcao has been to the river fields in the mountains for the past two days, so she just didn't see this thing.

Liu Qingcao couldn't help wondering, there are no such things as termites in this world?

The soil for making pottery kilns should not be too casual, otherwise it will be easy to fry the kiln. The loess brought back from the river must be stepped on repeatedly to soften it, remove stones and sundries, and then put a little plant ash, dry grain grass, After repeated stepping, kneading and fusion, finally, the kiln started.

At the beginning, Liu Qingcao didn't plan to make it too big, so she built a kiln with a diameter of one meter in the yard. She and Liu Jiangbei wet the ground with water, dug a hole in it with a strong stick, and used Come to make a firepit, surround this circle, and start to build it with the prepared soil.

There is a fire rack in the middle, and on the top is a reserved shelf for storing fired products, and a chimney is on the top.

Pottery kiln is not difficult to build, at most it takes more time.

The kiln was built thickly with willow grass. Why dry it? It took a long time and it was crisp. The willow grass caught fire and started to burn it dry. After a few days, the pottery in the house was completely dry, and the firing could begin.

In summer, the weather was hot, and the temperature in the house was high. It didn’t take three days to use it. The smaller pottery bowls and pots were dry, and a lot of firewood was piled up.

This morning, Liu Qingcao got up early to cook. After eating, Liu Qingcao began to cook six bowls, two scoops, two plates, and four pots in batches.

The basin is a bit big, one of which is for washing with willow grass, and the other two are for washing vegetables.

It takes three days to burn batch by batch. It really takes a long time to wait for the cooling time, otherwise it wouldn't take that long.

After three days of firing, the finished product greatly exceeded Liu Qingcao's expectations.

Only one of the six bowls was cracked and could not hold water, but it could hold dry goods.

There are two plates, one ladle, one has a broken handle, but it can be used, and one pot is cracked, but it's okay.

Maybe it's because the impurities in the clay were removed cleanly and dried in the shade, so there must be such a success, Liu Qingcao thought.

Looking at the big and small things, Liu Jiangbei's smile never disappeared.

Picking up one with one hand, touching it carefully, it is very precious.

Liu Qingcao looked at this younger brother, who also worked with her in various work these days, and never complained of suffering or tiredness. She gently patted his head and said with a smile:
"We'll burn those two big clay pots tomorrow, so we'll have water jars."

Liu Jiangbei grinned, with a smile in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)