Wild farming: I was hugged by the cold patriarch

Chapter 82 082. The difficult kiln-firing process

It was Ye Sang's first time doing it and he had no experience. He just followed the instructions in the book and moved for fifteen to two ten minutes.

Seeing her doing something new again, the tribesmen who had nothing to do after dinner all gathered around and looked surprised.

In the second step, after moving the soil properly, start making the blank.

Ye Sang is going to make a bowl. This is the simplest one. Make the simplest one now and make the complicated one later.

We weighed two ounces of mud with a scale, first shaped it into a wotou shape and put it on the runner. Then we started turning the wheel with one hand and squeezing the adobe with the other hand to make the mud into the shape of a bowl.

This was very difficult for Ye Sang. She had no foundation in making pottery. The bowl was as ugly as it could be made. As a last resort, Ye Sang kneaded the clay into a ball and started over.

After repeating this five or six times, my hands got the feel and experience, and I finally made a somewhat decent bowl.

Ye Sang stopped the wheel, then slowly turned it to see if it smelled like that.

After some tinkering, the bowl finally became rounded.

Ye Sang placed the bowl blank on the blank board and then made the second bowl blank.

With the first one, the following ones were easier. It took three reworks to make the second bowl blank.

After making eight bowl blanks in a row, Ye Sang stopped with satisfaction.

Next make the plate base.

Ye Sang didn't intend to innovate, so he kneaded an ordinary plate in a regular manner, with a flat "body" and a shallow bowl body. He reworked it five times and kneaded out the plate blank again.

I cut four plate blanks and placed them on the slab. They were lined up in a row, which looked pretty good.

Then Ye Sang made eight pairs of chopsticks, eight spoons, eight bone plates, four sauce plates, eight cups, one fish plate, and two soup basins.

She plans to make this set of tableware for collection, good or bad.

It was easy to say that by the time Ye Sang figured it all out, it was already ten o'clock in the evening. Many tribesmen couldn't bear it and went to bed. Only a dozen tribal warriors who were better at staying up late were still there.

Ye Sang washed his hands and put all the blanks in the cave. Next, he needed to dry them in the shade, and then do the next step.

Ye Sang yawned and returned to the cave. Youhua helped her look after her sister. She felt much more relaxed. The three children all slept. Xi and Yun'er each slept in a bed, while Hua still slept in the corner.

After looking at Yun'er, the little girl was sleeping very soundly, so there was no need to worry. Ye Sang carefully entered the bathroom, took a quick bath, then returned to the cave, went to bed, and fell asleep.

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The next day, Ye Sang continued to use the remaining mud to make pottery.

Everyone is short of water containers now. Ye Sang is worried about everyone's urgent needs and holds a water tank today.

One morning, Ye Sang made twenty water jars.

After her guidance, the tribesmen made eighty water jars and placed them in the cave, occupying most of the cave.

Knead a large water container or a small one. Nowadays, people use bamboo tubes to drink water. In the past, they either used leaves or held them with hands, which was very crude.

Ye Sang taught everyone how to make bowls. In one afternoon, they made [-] bowls.All the kneaded blanks are placed in the cave to dry in the shade.

Next make the bricks.

Before making bricks, you need to make a mold. Ye Sang has already prepared it in advance. Just follow the steps now.

The clan members were stronger and could do it more easily than Ye Sang. After seeing how they got started, Ye Sang let them do it while she prepared to burn the kiln.

I was busy making blanks for five days in a row, and on the sixth day, it was finally time to glaze the pottery.

Use a polished stone jar, fill it with clay and mud, and stir the mud evenly before glazing.

Ye Sang clasped the bottom of the bowl with his fingers and put the bowl into the mud at an angle, so that the inside and outside of the bowl were covered with a thin layer of mud.

He wasn't very good at it at first, but he got better at it after a few more attempts. Ye Sang looked at the glazed bowls and looked forward to the finished product.

After watching the pottery for a while, the tribesmen began to get started. Seeing the pottery being glazed one by one, they felt an inexplicable sense of accomplishment lingering in their hearts.

After glazing and drying for a day, everyone worked together to put the pottery in the kiln. The pottery was placed in a separate kiln and the bricks were placed separately.

When placing bricks, be very particular.

The "Kiln Kang" generally has two platforms, high and low. The platform at the same height as the top of the "Fire Court" is equipped with a "big fire blocker", and the platform at the top of the "big kiln door" is equipped with a "small fire blocker". The two "Kiln Kang" The height difference is only one meter.

The so-called "fire stops", large and small, are set up according to certain rules to reasonably divert the fire and prevent the flames from escaping randomly or rising straight up, hence the name "fire stops".

Ye Sang stood in the kiln first, and the tribesmen brought the bricks over, passed them to her through the second kiln door, and began to assemble the "big block fire".

In advance, find the "flue" that reaches the sky on the kiln wall facing the "big kiln door", and build a brick in advance, which is called "Master Brick" and is also known as "Laojun Brick".

Then according to the width of the two bricks standing side by side, the height of the vertical and horizontal hams is stacked to form a "fire blocking hole". Between the two adjacent "ham blocking blocks" is the "fire blocking hole", which is also the width of the two bricks standing side by side, both in a fan shape. Align the "fire court" and the "big kiln door" longitudinally, and leave a certain gap between the bricks and the kiln wall to facilitate uniform fire and smooth smoke exhaust when firing the kiln.

After the first floor foundation is laid, start assembling the second floor bricks, and assemble them neatly from the opening to the kiln wall, leaving appropriate gaps between the bricks and the kiln wall.

The assembly of the third floor is similar to that of the first floor, except that the hole height is changed to one horizontal brick, all of which are assembled correspondingly to the upper and lower floors of the first floor.

The fourth floor also lies across the hole like the second floor.

The five-story "fire blocking surface" is in the shape of "wheat ears" and is vertically installed with locking bricks on the left and right sides. From there, it extends to the kiln wall in the shape of an "eight" chain.

Starting from the sixth floor, every two floors are assembled repeatedly according to the pattern of the fourth and fifth floors. Each layer of locking bricks protrudes a brick corner towards the "fire court", and several top bricks and "small fire blocking" are also used at appropriate heights. The side walls are supported and reinforced to ensure that the "fire stop" is fastened and strong to bear sufficient pressure.

When the height is close to the "small fire" kiln kang, start assembling the "small fire".

The first floor is changed to the height of one horizontal brick, and the rest of the assembly method is the same as that of the "Big Fire Barrier" above the fourth floor. Each layer of "wheat ear-shaped" lock bricks also projects a brick corner in front of the "Fire Court".

At this time, it was changed to Ye Sang and Tancang to assemble the large and small "fire blocks" at the same time, gradually protruding to meet them. Similarly, roof bricks were used to support and reinforce the two "fire blocks" at appropriate intervals, forming a "dome" in the middle. The layers of shapes go up until they are close to the top of the kiln.

The space from the outside of the "fire block" to the kiln wall can be equipped with a large number of bricks, "cat heads" and "drips", or the bricks can be cleverly "locked" to create an independent space.

In this way, until the entire kiln is fully installed and leveled, the kiln roof bricks and defective bricks that have been used many times will be laid flat on top, leaving a distance of about one palm width from the kiln wall, and a single row of horizontal bricks will be laid on the edge. The vertical bricks are connected end to end to form a round pool on the top of the kiln. The pool is covered with yellow mud about a finger thick, smoothed, and evenly covered with soil about five or six inches thick.

(End of this chapter)