The tool used to dig the kiln was still a wooden stick with one end cut into the shape of a shovel.
It took them three full days to complete the kiln.
The technology involved is too complicated. Not only do you have to consider how to place the embryo, but you also have to consider how to add firewood and exhaust the smoke. For a layman, Jiang Xue is about to pull her hair out these days.
Fortunately, they chose a slope, which was divided into four layers. The bottom layer was used to add firewood, and the top three layers were used to place embryos.
After digging, Jiang Xue compacted the inside as much as possible.
In order to reuse this place in the future, Jiang Xue finally made dozens of earthen bricks and placed them inside to dry, intending to use them to seal the hole when she started firing pottery.
Although they are just mud bricks now, they may become red bricks during the pottery firing process. Even if they cannot become red bricks, they can definitely be reused.
They dug the kiln for three days, and the people in the tribe spent three days preparing the raw clay. Now there are as many as two hundred raw clays of various sizes in the pavilion.
Jiang Xue understood their thoughts very well, but the next important event could not be taken lightly.
That is to store as much dry firewood as possible.
Firewood is needed to burn the kiln, and wood is also indispensable for making fire and cooking. In winter, we can only rely on wood to keep warm. This thing cannot be taken lightly at all.
To this end, after careful consideration, she built two small sheds next to the earthen kiln to store firewood. She even thought that the people who kept watch at night would be cold, so she had people build a semicircular shelter with bamboo and thatch.
Another four days passed and the first batch of raw dough was finally ready for cooking. The weather was kind and it didn't rain during those days, so they took the opportunity to dry more firewood.
The day for firing the kiln finally arrived. Jiang Xue solemnly led all the family members here and bowed several times to the earthen kiln.
She was not seeking peace of mind, but wanted to tell them in this way that this might be their only means of survival here in the future, and everyone must take it seriously.
After the first batch of thirty-five pottery pieces were placed in the earthen kiln, Jiang Xue had people seal most of the openings with earthen bricks and mud, leaving only a square fire starter hole. Then he put thatch in it, and used Mu Feng to light the fire, and began to actually burn pottery.
The pottery was fired for two full days. After the temperature dropped, they removed the bricks at the entrance of the cave. Jiang Xue was surprised to find that only eight pieces of their first batch of pottery were broken!
This success rate is too exaggerated!
Without waiting for her to say anything, after taking out this batch of pottery and transporting it back to the tribe, they immediately started firing the second batch of ceramics.
Seeing that everyone in the tribe was using pottery bowls as she wished, Jiang Xue also started to boil water and cook food in pottery as she wished, and she felt so happy.
After eating barbecue for more than two months, her mouth was almost stained black and could not be washed clean, and finally boiled vegetables came!
People in the tribe finally don’t have to eat lotus roots anymore!
That night, Jiang Xue used a stone knife to cut the lotus root into pieces and cooked it together with the wild rabbit she had just hunted.
There was also no oil, only salt. However, since it was boiled in water, she could drink some hot soup while eating meat and vegetables. Jiang Xue squinted her eyes happily. This is what life is all about!
Jiang Xue decided that now that the clay pot was ready, she would wait until mushrooms appeared in the woods in the spring and then she would find a way to catch a few pheasants and make chicken soup.
Soon, the amount of pottery in the tribe increased little by little.
The damage rate was beyond Jiang Xue's control. Sometimes only seven or eight pieces would break in a kiln, and sometimes as many as half would break. This was a real headache for Jiang Xue, and she had no way to improve the situation, but fortunately, the damage rate was still within their tolerance.
After half a month of training, the physical fitness of the people in the tribe has improved significantly, but what comes with it is that food is becoming increasingly scarce.
Everyone is exhausted every day, and the members of the gathering team and the hunting team are rotated regularly. Fortunately, there is a lotus pond that can provide enough lotus roots, so they don’t have to go to training on an empty stomach.
But Jiang Xue couldn't sit still anymore.
The fishing net in her hand has been lying in the system's package for more than twenty days. It's time to take it out and use it.
The fishing net is made of nylon fiber, but I don’t know if I can exchange it for it in the system redemption page in the future.
While everyone was training that day, she gathered the elders and children in the tribe to the river.
Everyone thought she was looking for another place to dig clay, so they followed her without saying a word.
But when they saw her suddenly take out something they had never seen before and throw it into the river, everyone was stunned again.
When Jiang Xue cast the net, she felt it was very heavy.
She had never fished before, let alone cast a net, and had no experience at all.
Fortunately, the tribesmen saw that she was having some difficulty pulling it up, so they came to help her without her asking.
But then, they were stunned.
The children pointed at the lively fish hanging on the fishing net and jumped up excitedly: "Fish! Lots of fish!"
When the net was cast, dozens of fish were pulled up.
The fish caught was fat and big. It was the first time that Jiang Xue had seen such a big fish. She smiled and asked everyone to start picking up the fish.
Since there was nothing to put the fish in, Jiang Xue asked someone to pick some grass, and then thread the grass into the fish's gills and out of their mouths. Five or six fish could be strung on a handful of grass.
Jiang Xue asked the children to return the fish, and they cast another net, which also caught dozens of fish.
After casting their nets twice, they wanted to cast more, but Jiang Xue stopped them. She said, "This fish is enough for us to eat for a few days. Let's go fishing again in two days."
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