Chapter 136, Making a Teacup
"I had this hobby before, so I learned it when I had time. As a result, I became a teacher after learning it." Mu Jin said with a smile while playing with the clay.
Mo Xi smiled with a hint of admiration and said, "Then you are really amazing. You can become a master without hesitation."
"It's just for fun." Mu Jin's ears turned slightly red after hearing Mo Xi's compliment, and she said very embarrassedly.
Gu Dingchen sat aside and watched the two of them chatting lively, and his face was already dark. Originally, he wanted to teach Mo Xi how to make ceramics, but when he saw the dirty mud in Mu Jin's hands, when, I gave up.
"You have to concentrate on your work and don't whisper to each other!" Gu Dingchen was very unhappy that the two of them were chatting and laughing in front of him, so he consciously took on the responsibility of supervising the work.
The two of them had a good chat at first, but after hearing Gu Dingchen's low and cold warning, they both fell silent in a tacit understanding.
After Mu Jin got the clay out, he said, "Let's start with a slightly simpler tea cup."
Speaking of this, Mu Jin asked carefully, "I heard that what you want to make is a complete set of tea cups?"
"Yes, a gift for an old man." Mo Xi nodded and responded.
Mu Jin nodded and said, "Okay, generally there are 6 or 8 tea cups in a tea set. How many do you want to make?"
Before Mo Xi could say anything, he heard a person named Gu who had been sitting aside for a long time say leisurely: "Six!"
How could she touch so much dirt with such white and tender hands? She just needed to keep face, and the old lady couldn't be serious.
Besides, why do you do so much? When you get tired, it’s not worth it!Gu Dingchen thought to himself.
"Then let's get six." After all, it was a tea set given to his grandma. Maybe grandma likes the six-piece tea set. It will be whatever he says, Mo Xi thought very casually.
When Mu Jin heard Gu Dingchen's sudden voice, she felt a little puzzled, but it didn't show on her face. "Okay, let's see what kind of teacups and cups we make." She took out a booklet from the table. Pass it to Mo Xi.
"There are six different tea cups in the album. The cup you are opening now is the flip-top cup. Its characteristic is that the rim of the cup is turned outwards into a shape similar to a trumpet. The picture on the right is an open-top cup with its rim It is larger than the base of the cup, and is also called a cup-shaped cup.”
As he spoke, he turned another page for Mo Xi, and then said: "This is a straight cup. The mouth of the cup is as big as the bottom of the cup. It is also called a cylindrical cup. The one below is a cup with a closed mouth. The mouth of the cup is smaller than the bottom of the cup. It is also called a drum-shaped cup. The one on the upper left is called a handle cup. As the name suggests, it is a tea cup with a handle. The lower one is a lid cup, which is a cup with a lid. It can be added with or without a handle."
After introducing the types of tea cups to Mo Xi, he said thoughtfully: "The production of flip-top cups, handle cups and lid cups is relatively complicated, so I don't mind novices making them, and you have finished it." It should not be too simple to give to the elders." Mu Jin looked at the album again and said, "I think it would be better to choose between an open cup and a closed cup."
Mo Xi didn't know much about grandma's preferences, so she turned around and asked Gu Dingchen for help, saying, "Which one of these two do you think is better?"
"Close the cup!" Gu Dingchen thought about it for a moment. Most of his grandma's teacups seemed to be open, so she might like Mo Xi more if she kept them closed.
"Okay, then close the cup." Mo Xi said to Mu Jin.
Mu Jin glanced at Gu Dingchen and then at Mo Xi, but without saying anything, she started teaching Mo Xi how to make a teacup.
After a long time, Mo Xi finally made six rough tea cups.
(End of this chapter)

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