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Chapter 75 The earth kiln is completed and the production of twisted porcelain begins!
Chapter 75 The earth kiln is completed and the production of twisted porcelain begins!
Netizens in the live broadcast room saw Ye Xuan going up the back hill, looking around, and finally stopped in front of a pine tree that was wide enough for two people to hug.

"found it!"

Found what?

The netizens here were still puzzled when they saw Ye Xuan, who was looking at the tree roots and red soil a few times, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and he specially zoomed in to introduce it to the netizens.

"This mound looks ordinary, but it's actually a white ant nest."

"The red mud from White Ant Nest has no impurities and is of very high quality. If you want to play in mud next time, this is a good choice!"

"Of course, we have to thank these hard-working worker ants!"

While talking, Ye Xuan also gave a thumbs up in front of the camera, and then started to work.

At this moment, the netizens in the live broadcast room were speechless and choked up when they saw Ye Xuan giving a thumbs up to the hard-working ants with his front foot, smashing the white ant nest with a stone with his back foot, and lifting up the soil from the white ant nest.

Good guy!
It’s you who praises these ants for their hard work, and it’s you who tear down these ants’ homes!
As expected of you, Mr. Ye.

Even the white ants’ wool has been gathered up!
"Ye Xuan has really taken waste utilization to the extreme!"

"Even if you don't accept the wall, you have to accept it!"

"White Ant: You destroyed our home and you still say thank you to us, you are so kind!"

"Ye Xuan said: Thank you to these hard-working worker ants, but in his hands: without any courtesy, he demolished the home of these worker ants!"

"White Ant Inner OS: Thank you for your affirmation, can you give us the soil back?!"

……

While netizens were flooding the screen, Ye Xuan had already knocked the white ant nests into clods one by one, put them in his backpack, and moved them back to the small courtyard.

At this moment, seeing that Ye Xuan needed so much clay, the netizens in the live broadcast room also came to their senses.

“What kind of mud play requires so much dirt?”

"It's not like playing with mud. It took us most of the day to find mud..."

"I have a bold guess. If there is so much clay, Ye Xuan, you are not going to make pottery, are you?"

……

Back in the small courtyard, seeing that the amount of clay was almost there, Ye Xuan finally stopped collecting all kinds of clay.

Noticing the comments from netizens, Ye Xuan also answered everyone's questions.

"That's right, let's build an earthen kiln first to facilitate later firing."

Seeing that Ye Xuan did not deny it, the netizens in the live broadcast room became more and more frightened.

"I'll go! Others are talking empty words, but you are making ceramics with empty words?!"

"That's right, these materials are purely (not) cheap!"

"It's so funny, you can see Ye Xuan's true nature right away from the front row!"

"Don't you need a master to make earthen kilns? Ye Xuan is only in his early twenties, how come he knows everything?"

Under the camera, Ye Xuan had already started to shape the wet clay from the river into a disk shape, and then punched holes in the disk with his fingers.

"Let's make a grate first to allow the flames to pass through later."

Waiting for the completed grate to be finalized, Ye Xuan first picked an open space outside his house, then dug a pit and began the formal process of building the kiln.

Only when the entire pit was about one meter deep, enough to be used as the foundation of this earthen kiln, and a mud path was left, did Ye Xuan stop what he was doing.

Afterwards, Ye Xuan smashed the clods of soil one by one, mixed it with water, jumped directly into the pit, and used his feet to break up small clods of soil.

After all the small lumps of soil under his feet were trampled until they were in a muddy state, Ye Xuan added dry palm leaves and mixed them in to complete the initial base making process.

Soon, Ye Xuan continued to repeat the clay mixing action, wiping the clay into the deep pit one by one.

The same movements were repeated continuously, and the mud ball under Ye Xuan gradually took on a basic shape.

It was seen that the shapeless mud ball gradually formed into a square rectangular mud block, with only a square gap left in the center.

At first glance, it looks like a U-shape.

"The clay now still has moisture and needs to be baked and shaped." As he spoke, Ye Xuan took out a branch broken off from the mountain. After quickly lighting a fire, he placed the lit branch in the gap in the clay. Location.

As all the branches turned into ashes, the mud that was still wet just now also took shape.

Ye Xuan continued to stack the clay blocks higher. When the clay blocks were stacked high, he put in the lit branches again to finalize the shape.

After repeating it many times, everyone saw that the deep pit originally dug by Ye Xuan was filled up bit by bit with the black mud in his hand.

After lighting the branches for the last time so that the mud block was completely formed, Ye Xuan picked up the dry grate that had been placed aside, placed it directly above the mud block, and began to pile mud around the grate.

Looking at it, the netizens in the live broadcast room also had a lot of fun.

"This looks very interesting. It makes me want to build an earthen kiln at home."

"Why do you have to keep raising the height?! Is there anything special here? Is there anyone who can enlighten me?"

"I'm a ceramics major at the Shandong Academy of Arts and Crafts. I'll do it! Ye Xuan is using earth balls as an insulation layer for the base to prevent heat loss from the earthen kiln..."

……

In the popular science among netizens, as the sky turned dark, Ye Xuan also stopped what he was doing and said he would continue the next day.

Repeatedly stacking the clay blocks, fixing the shape, and firing them into shape. By the next day, a clay kiln about one meter high would rise from the ground.

While waiting for the earth kiln to dry naturally, Ye Xuan also started the process of preparing the mud.

“Everyone has been waiting for a long time, and finally it’s time for us to play in the mud.”

Speaking of this, netizens in the live broadcast room couldn't help but burst into laughter.

After watching the process of building an earth kiln for two days, I finally came to the key content of ceramic making.

Netizens in the live broadcast room began to refresh their screens, hearing that Ye Xuan had already introduced the process this time.

"Let's make mud of different colors first."

"Here is kaolin clay, which can be used to make white clay."

"The red soil from the white ant nest can be used to make red mud..."

"Over there is river mud, which can be used to make brown mud..."

As he spoke, the ideas in Ye Xuan's mind began to take shape.

This time, what he wants to make is not ordinary ceramics, but twisted porcelain made of mud materials of various colors.

However, just when Ye Xuan started busy with the mud-making process, the netizens in the live broadcast room were immediately confused by Ye Xuan's series of introductions.

White clay made of kaolin?

Red mud made from white ant nests?

Brown mud made from river mud?
Why does Ye Xuan need so many colors?

Thinking this way, netizens in the live broadcast room have already typed a series of question marks.

"I just made pottery casually. It turns out that Ye Xuan pays attention to colors!"

"As a student majoring in ceramics, I'm here to educate you. The most common type of pottery that remains is red pottery, followed by gray pottery, black pottery and white pottery. I guess Ye Xuan wants to try every color, right?"

"Yes, a single color is too boring. Ye Xuan wants to be colorful..."

……

While netizens were expressing their opinions, Ye Xuan also looked up at the barrage in the live broadcast room and noticed what the netizens said.

The corners of his mouth slowly curved, and Ye Xuan shook his head slightly.

“Who said I wanted to make ceramics in a single color?”

The characteristic of twisted porcelain is that it is made of clay of different colors.

Although Ye Xuan already had a formed idea in his mind, the netizens in the live broadcast room were already shocked and shocked by his sudden speech.

(End of this chapter)