These days, she didn't let the charcoal from the fire turn into ashes in the fire as usual. Instead, she used a stick to pick it out, put it in a backpack, and placed it in the cave for future use - only taking it out after she actually started making pottery.
After completing all the preparations, Jiang Xue placed the ceramic bowl in the stove, added enough charcoal, and lit the fire. After the fire was burning strongly, she left a hole at the bottom for later addition of firewood and ventilation, and then started burning directly.
Mu Feng looked at her in confusion. He had been a little surprised when Jiang Xue first started playing with mud, but in his eyes, even playing with mud was incredibly beautiful. Now, seeing her start to bake something with her own eyes, he belatedly realized that this girl was truly a treasure.
Let me ask you, whether it is the Snake Tribe, the Eagle Tribe, or any other tribes on the continent, who would have thought of using the mud in the river to burn things?
He looked at her with great interest, and even privately instructed his tribesmen to try their best to meet Jiang Xue's needs.
After two days of burning the fire, Jiang Xue had used up several baskets of stored charcoal. She had no idea what was going on, let alone if it would work. When she finally took the pot out of the kiln, she was apprehensive, fearing it wouldn't work. But when she took the ceramic bowl out of the furnace and placed it in front of everyone, not just her, but everyone else's eyes widened.
This bowl is fired very beautifully. I don’t know if it’s because it was fired for too long, but there is a layer of glaze on the bowl.
As soon as Jiang Xue saw the bowl, her eyes narrowed.
She really didn't expect that she would succeed in firing the ceramic bowl for the first time!
Moreover, the surface of the fired bowl was very smooth without any impurities. What made her even more satisfied was that there was a layer of glaze on it.
The glaze was like a layer of oil on the bowl, sparkling in the sunlight and blinding her eyes.
“It really burned out!”
Jiang Xue screamed with excitement. For the first time in the tribe, she jumped and shouted like a child, pulling Xiaohua, who had always been by her side.
Mu Feng saw her excitement and a faint smile slowly appeared on the corner of his mouth.
When Jiang Xue placed the finished product in front of the tribesmen, they looked at each other in surprise. Dashu couldn't contain his curiosity and reached out to touch the bowl.
The bowl was still slightly warm. He held it in his hand, touching it and looking at it curiously: "Hey, this bowl is really light. Ah Xue, how did you come up with the idea of using clay to bake this bowl?"
The Snake Tribe had always been limited by their living conditions and had never used bowls. They had seen other tribes using stone bowls at flea markets before, but they were too heavy and bulky, and they didn't know how they made them. In comparison, this bowl was so light that even a one- or two-year-old Maomao could hold it.
Jiang Xue hummed, "I saw everyone drink water from the river by scooping it up with their hands. And when it rains, the river rises rapidly, and a handful of water is half mud. So I thought of making something specifically for drinking water. But I was also afraid I couldn't make it, so I kept it a secret from everyone."
At the beginning, she also thought about carving a bowl out of wood, but there were no iron tools in the tribe, and she couldn't get them in the system. If she used stone to carve, the speed would be too slow.
She also thought about using bamboo tubes directly, but recently they just broke the bamboos as soon as they were cut down and used them to make backpacks, baskets and other items, so she gave up the idea.
But now it’s different. She has successfully made the bowl. In the future, if the tribe produces it on a large scale, it will surely cause a sensation in all the surrounding small tribes.
The development of a tribe is inseparable from its population, and the development of its population is inseparable from advanced tools.
The pottery bowls, backpacks, baskets, and even the shoes they wore were all things the locals had never seen before. In the future, if conditions allowed for the production of iron tools, the Snake Tribe's defenses would undoubtedly be significantly strengthened.
By that time, let’s see who dares to underestimate the Snake Tribe.
Mu Feng's eyes were full of smiles.
He looked at the excited Jiang Xue, resisted the urge to pick her up, cleared his throat, and said, "Starting tomorrow, the hunting team and the gathering team will be merged into one team, with half the number of people. Everyone will bring a backpack, and the rest will go to the river to dig mud to make bowls."
As soon as he finished speaking, he received an immediate response from everyone in the tribe.
In fact, they saw all the steps Jiang Xue took to make this ceramic bowl.
At first, everyone in the tribe was doing their respective duties, except Jiang Xue who went to the river alone to dig mud.
After digging out the mud, she found a relatively smooth stone slab by the river and, using the river water, rolled the mud into long strips bit by bit, then coiled it up in circles. Once it was done, she carefully placed it in the cave to dry in the shade. During this time, she was also worried about cracks in the bowl embryo. Finally, she built a tall furnace and fired it for two full days before it was finally completed.
"good!"
The tribesmen agreed immediately and were about to start working hard when Jiang Xue said quietly, "Don't worry, I have a question for you. The cave is only this big. What if the clay model is accidentally damaged?"
Mu Feng frowned.
This problem is very realistic.
Moreover, the old patriarch had left the Snake Tribe. Although they had no news of him, some of his close associates were still in the tribe. Although he didn't say anything on the surface, there was no guarantee that they wouldn't do something bad behind his back.
He thought for a while, then suddenly looked up at Jiang Xue, who looked relaxed.
He suddenly had an idea. Since Axue asked this question, she must have a corresponding plan.
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