travel to primitive tribes

Chapter 166
"Isn't this panning soil? I'm sifting soil. Look at it." Seeing that all the pottery clay has been packed back, the space at the bottom of the weaving basket is not big, and the walls around the basket are fine, so Liu Shu wanted to sieve the soil at an angle, so he grabbed it. Swing the edge of the basket back and forth and scoop out the dirt with your hands so that it sifts down better.

Casey looked at it in a daze at first, but it was only when the fine soil was slowly sifted out that she finally understood it, and immediately leaned forward without hesitation: "I'll shake it and you pinch it." Go over the basket, squeeze Liu Shu aside and then shake it regularly with hands, fine dirt rustling down.

Liu Shu, who was squeezed past, was full of helplessness, but sifting the soil was just such a big job, but she didn't compete with Casey to roll up her sleeves, she stretched out her hands in the basket while digging out and pinching the soil clods, the two worked together The soil was sifted for the first time very quickly. The soil to be sifted was much finer, but it was still not enough, so I had to sieve it several more times, so it was a repeated process.

After sifting three times, the pottery clay is basically no problem, all the mud is crushed and all the sundries are removed, now you can do the second step, mixing mud, mixing mud is also skillful, adding more water If the mud is fine, the soil will not stick together, but if there is too little of the finished mud, it will easily crack. Therefore, it is not easy for a human being to do that in the world.

Naturally, Liu Shu is here to do the technical work of mixing clay, but Casey is not idle either. Liu Shu is rubbing the pottery clay while Casey is scooping water with a wooden bowl, so be careful not to make mistakes. Be careful and add some soil if you add too much. In short, the two laymen are groping forward silently.

When the sun began to slant, Liu Shu finally felt that her mud was kneaded. The clay was kneaded so well that there would be no chance of accidental cracking. Finally, they didn't waste their hard work for a long time, which is gratifying Congratulations, I wiped the sweat off my face, it's not cold today, Kathy is purely over-stressed, and it's hard to add water and dirt to her, it's all delicate work.

"Can we pinch?" Kathy waited so long for the flowers, she finally arrived at the place she was most looking forward to, and she couldn't wait to gear up.

Liu Shu twitched the corners of her mouth and didn't know what to say about this guy. She rolled her eyes for a while and said, "Don't think that making pottery is just like making clay puppets you make."

"Isn't it?" Poor God, she still thought so, and now when Liu Shu said that it wasn't Kathy who was confused, she asked weakly: "Is it difficult? I can learn it and let it go." I can't do well." I hope she can learn it.

Seeing her pitiful appearance, Liu Shu couldn't help laughing, patted her on the head with a 'good-behaved' compliment and said: "Actually, it's not very difficult, it's just that the method is different, come and watch me do it."

Liu Shu's mind was turned away when she discovered clay. There is no turntable here. She wants to do more research. It seems that the simplest turntable in that book is to use hands and feet to exert force, but Anyway, Liu Shu can't get it out now, so this can only be decided tentatively.

There are only two ways to make pottery without a turntable. One is the kneading method, and the other is the mud strip construction method, but it is said that the kneading method has long been lost. Now the only and simplest method is the clay strip construction method. And she had no choice but to choose the last one.

The method of building a mud strip plate is just like its name, first of all, it is to rub the mud strips. Liu Shu thought about it and decided to make a deep plate first. This is also simple. The first method is to make the bottom of the plate first, and Liu Shuxian’s second is to make the chassis first. The chassis is easy to make, just make a mud cake, grab a ball of mud, rub it into a circle, flatten it, and rest it carefully.

The finished mud cake was placed on the ground and followed by the body, and then took out the clay from the mud ball and rubbed it slowly on a smooth stone slab. Liu Shu lowered his head and rubbed vigorously, rubbed to a certain extent and began to repair it carefully to make sure the mud The thickness of the strip is absolutely average, and then the wall is built along the mud cake of the chassis.

Circles and upward circles are accumulated like coiling flowers. After coiling a piece of mud, rub it and then coil it again. After watching it twice, Kathy found his work, and started to make mud with this mud. But Liu Shu just concentrates on the plate, and the division of labor and cooperation between the two is perfect, and a deep plate was made in a short time.

"That's good, Casey still doesn't believe it, it's so simple?" Scratching his head and looking around the prepared plate, he wanted to find out the differences and mysteries.

"Don't look at it, now it's just a piece of broken mud. We still have to burn it. It's not early today. Let's make two more. After the mud is finished, we have to hang it overnight and wait for the next day to see that it is not damaged. If so, we can try to burn it."

As soon as Liu Shu said that Casey was really not in a hurry to read, look, any time is fine, and now he is doing serious business, so he took the mud ball and began to rub the mud strips again, such a hands-on effort, Casey is already very fast. With experience, the mud strips rubbed are also well received.

The second Liu Shu chose two bowls, well, she just wanted to use these two bowls for her and Aweier, so she specially made one of the bowls much bigger, because the family raises foodies I am really troubled.

The two bowls are similar to deep-mouthed plates, the main reason is that the rim of the bowl is deeper, the mouth is slightly smaller, and the mouth is tighter, but these are not problems. The two bowls are ready and put aside. I know whether it will be broken when burned, and if I make too much, I can only waste it.

"Xiao Shu still has some mud left, make me two." He Ni still has a lot of mud left, so Liu Shu naturally wouldn't disagree with Casey's request, so he waved his hand and said, "Okay." , you can figure it out for yourself, what you want to do, now we are just trying, whether it will work or not is another matter."

"Yeah, okay." Joyfully rubbing the clay like a treasure, Liu Shu shook her head with a smile on her face, and said to herself that it was as if she had never played with clay before, and she was really easy to be satisfied.

Casey is doing what she likes here, and Liu Shu is not idle either. The finished mud can't just be left in the shade, it needs to be put in a cool place overnight, and it can be fired tomorrow, so look left and right and put it away. The house that has been vacated since forming a bond with Avel.

There were beds in this house before, but after Aweier moved away, Liu Shu cleaned up all these things, leaving only some odds and ends. She cleaned the house every day and it was not dirty. She put three pieces of mud into this house. In the shade of the room, look around with your hips on your hips and wait for tomorrow.

After going out, Liu Shu saw what Kathy had done. He made a bowl and there was a square one. He didn't know what it was, so he asked curiously, "What is this square one?"

"I want to make a box, but it doesn't seem to work. Forget it, let's treat it as a plate." Casey said with a depressed face.

(End of this chapter)