Mr. Li: "Glazing pottery is not just about aesthetics and improving sealing. If the glazing is successful, the surface of the pottery will become smooth. Glazes are divided into colorless glazes and colored glazes. The glaze we are using is a colored glaze. The glaze itself is a silicate. It is made by grinding quartz, charcoal, wood ash and clay, adding water and mixing it on the outer body. After high-temperature firing, a thin glassy layer will form on the surface of the pottery after the temperature drops."
The quartz and charcoal had all been ground into powder. The four ingredients were put into the coconut shell in different proportions and stirred. Water was slowly added until the mud became like silky chocolate syrup.
"Glazed pottery can increase its durability and stability, prevent corrosion from liquids and gases, and is also easy to clean and maintain. The glazing method used by the anchor is quite old-fashioned and was used by people in the past. Now, with the advancement of technology, most of the glazes we use in our daily lives are lime glaze and feldspar glaze."
Stir the glaze vigorously with a stick; this time, the glaze will definitely be applied perfectly.
After the clay body dries, a small brush made of palm leaves is used to apply glaze thinly to the pottery. After the first coat dries completely, a second coat is applied. This process is repeated six times, ensuring that no part of the pottery is neglected, and even after the glaze is applied to the body and interior of the clay body, the bottom is not forgotten.
He tried his best to make sure that the coating was applied evenly to every part. After it dried, he placed it on the mud frame in the center of the kiln. This time, he planned to fire it directly with wood.
The kiln was small; there was no extra space to fit three clay figures. The top was not sealed off, but rather resembled a chimney from the last century.
The firewood and the clay do not come into direct contact. There is a thick, perforated clay block in the middle, which is wrapped around a wet wooden frame. The pottery to be fired is on top of the block, and the raging fire is below.
The flames crackled and popped, shooting through the holes in the baffle into the space above. He could see the clay model, which was now burning red-hot, through the small hole for storing firewood.
"This kiln needs to be constantly filled with firewood and kept burning very hot. Its temperature is about 1,000 degrees Celsius. This process is also very long, requiring six to seven hours of firing. That means we have to wait until evening to cook the coconut crab."
At the beginning of the live stream, there were always occasional questions about the support team, saying they were not helpful and were like a burden, bringing no benefit to the team.
However, judging from the current situation, those who made such statements have been thoroughly proven wrong.
Li Sheng was very busy, but Naituan was also busy. The wooden Naituan, which Li Sheng had instructed to drill holes in, spent two days working without stopping and completed it perfectly.
The same action, constantly drilling wood, is tedious and boring. Even an adult would find it tedious and have back pain and want to complain. But Naituan didn't. When she got tired of sitting, she would stand up, and when she got tired of standing, she would sit down. Her hands never stopped working.
With her father no longer by her side, she spent most of her time working alone in the shelter. To be able to endure loneliness at such a young age, she must either have extraordinary resilience, an extremely rich and wonderful inner world, or she must be a fool or an idiot.
It's obvious that the milk group isn't stupid or an idiot.
Even after completing the task, she didn't relax and immediately helped her father make clay figures. These clay figures were much more beautiful than Jia Xingye's. One looked like it was made by a craftsman who had been working for a hundred years, while the other looked like a chamber pot made by a primitive man.
Jia Xingye has already fired six kilns but has not yet succeeded. The closest he came to success was an irregularly shaped cylindrical jar, but it still cracked in two.
Wang Guoqiang: "You're already very close to success. Keep up the good work. Although you're not particularly bright, you're very diligent and hardworking, a quality that many young people today don't possess."
Wang Guoqiang's usual tactic of giving a slap followed by a sweet treat is to his students. Now, Jia Xingye has been eating grass leaves for more than a week, almost two weeks. He is visibly thin and haggard. Due to insufficient energy intake and lack of sugar supplementation, even with his gentle personality, his dissatisfaction has been suppressed to the extreme.
Her tone was icy: "I don't want to spend any more time making pottery. I need to find food. That broken pottery jar can still be used at an angle."
At that moment, Wang Guoqiang was practicing Tai Chi in an open space and explaining health preservation to the viewers in the live broadcast room, completely unaware of the strange tone in Jia Xingye's voice.
The words that came out of his mouth after he detonated the gas cylinder were: "I just praised you once and you can't even wait to get it. How can you do academic research or write a good paper with such a lack of ambition? The goal I set for you was to create a complete piece of pottery. You can't even meet this requirement. You have disappointed me too much."
No sooner had he finished speaking than Jia Xingye smashed the cracked pottery jar in his hand directly at Wang Guoqiang's feet, shattering it into pieces instantly.
"Damn it, stop threatening me with your graduation thesis. I'd rather quit this graduate program and get the hell out of here."
After saying that, he turned and went into the woods without looking back.
This really got to Wang Guoqiang, throwing him into a panic. This scene was also recorded in the live broadcast room, and everyone immediately realized what was going on.
A supervisor is using the graduation thesis to threaten students, saying they won't graduate if they don't comply.
Such incidents are not uncommon and are exposed from time to time, involving the exploitation of students as laborers or the theft of their work.
Just as many students are cheap labor for capitalists, many second-rate schools force students to work in electronics factories during their internships, and some companies profit from this. Even some universities with a decent reputation treat interns who are cheaper than cattle and horses.
Earning a salary of a few hundred yuan, which is not even enough to cover rent, they have to do the dirtiest and most tiring jobs. Some even have to pay their employers out of pocket. They suffer such great injustice but have no choice but to do it. If they resist, they will face the prospect of not getting their graduation certificates.
In Wang Guoqiang's group's live stream room.
"The professor's career is about to collapse."
"No wonder I couldn't like him, turns out he's an old pervert."
"Another hidden sixth brother has finally revealed his true colors."
"@####School official account, aren't you going to do anything about this or are you just tacitly agreeing that students should be bullied like this?"
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Within a minute, a barrage of insults erupted, but Wang Guoqiang, being a professor, immediately offered an explanation.
"I swear on my integrity that I am absolutely not the teacher you are talking about. I am just stricter with my students. If they have any complaints about me, they are free to choose another teacher as their mentor. I will not stop them. Just consider it as all my good intentions being wasted."
Wang Guoqiang's face turned bright red, but he remained serious. Accustomed to the honors he had received, he couldn't think of a way to put his face back on that accusation.
However, the audience did not buy it and strongly suggested that Wang Guoqiang be disqualified from the competition. They felt that the appearance of such a morally corrupt person in the public eye had polluted the atmosphere of the entire live streaming industry.
I strongly suggest a complete ban!
Most of the people watching Wang Guoqiang's live stream were students, who were very empathetic to Jia Xingye and extremely angry.
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