Chapter 30 New Pottery Kiln
Pottery making has always been an important public affair in the tribe. Everyone is very active in starting pottery making.
There is nothing to do in winter, so everyone divides the work and cooperates.
The beastmen go to dig clay, and the sub-beastmen make pottery blanks.
Jian Mo was assigned to the sub-beastmen group. He sat in the open space of the tribe, basking in the sun with everyone, and worked slowly.
He specially wore animal leather gloves, which made the work not too uncomfortable.
Sitting here, you can also hear the gossip of each tribe, which is quite fun.
Just when Jian Mo was working and listening to the gossip, Ban Ming and his team brought back several large baskets of soil.
Jian Mo was a little drowsy and his mind was not very clear, so he said, "Don't move it anymore. We have enough clay now, and we can't use it up even if we move more. Let's wait until the weather gets warmer, then we can dig more mud. Don't suffer this in such a cold day."
Ban Ming, who was in the lead, was a little surprised and asked in a loud voice, "Is that enough?"
Qing Kuan looked up and said, "Just a little more."
Jian Mo looked at the piles of mud, "We can't finish it."
Qing Kuan smiled and said to him, "We need to build a kiln. We need to move more mud."
Jian Mo then remembered and said, holding the pottery in his hand, "I said we already have so much clay, why do we need to move more?"
Everyone was laughing.
After a pause, Jian Mo said: "Actually, I wanted to say this last time. It's too time-consuming and laborious to pile and fire on flat ground every time."
Qing Kuo: "Then how else can you fire it?"
Jian Mo: "Jian Kiln."
He said the unfamiliar term again, and everyone looked up at him.
Jian Mo knew what they were thinking, and without waiting for anyone to ask, he took the initiative to explain: "It's a space like a small house. When firing pottery, we put the pottery in and fire it inside, which can better maintain the temperature inside."
Qing Kuan reacted immediately: "Isn't that the same as sealing it with mud?"
Jian Mo: "Yes! That's the idea, it's just that the kiln is changed from a one-time use to a long-term use kiln. In this way, we don't have to use so much mud to seal the pottery every time, and building a proper kiln will be more efficient in firing pottery."
"It seems feasible."
"But if we build it, wouldn't it be just like building a house, it would be easy to collapse, right?" "
Our house is too big, so it's easy to collapse. Building a small kiln won't be so easy to collapse?"
"Then do we need to build a hemispherical kiln? We usually make the kiln into a hemispherical shape for firing. Can we build a hemispherical kiln?"
"It can't be built? What about the top?"
All the problems came to Jian Mo at once.
Jian Mo hesitated. He was not very familiar with architecture, but the kilns he had read in books seemed to be hemispherical.
Just when everyone was looking at Jian Mo, Wu Jiong, who had been silent, said, "Can we fire directly in the cave?"
Qing Kuo was confused: "Cave?"
Jian Mo immediately matched Wu Jiong's train of thought and said, "I think it's okay!"
The winged beast had fallen into the cave before, so it shouldn't be a big problem to open a hole at the top of the natural cave.
Moreover, the cave has been formed for such a long time, and its stability should be stronger than the ordinary pottery kiln they built.
Jian Mo looked at Wu Jiong, his eyes sparkling, and said: "This is a good idea. If we can find a suitable cave to transform it, it will be much simpler than building a pottery kiln directly."
The people around him gradually understood and joined the discussion.
"If that's the case, it won't be troublesome to try it?"
"Isn't it just to make a hole? I will change back to the beast form, and I can dig a hole with two claws."
"That's right, if it doesn't work, you can still bite it with your mouth. Didn't you bite your house down when you were a child?"
"Ban Ming! Do you think you didn't bite a hole in the house when you were a child?!!"
The young beastmen got angry while arguing, and they didn't care that there were sub-beastmen nearby, and they changed back to beast form and bit each other.
Jian Mo watched a large group of cats and dogs fighting, and was very sure that there was no beastman they liked here, otherwise they would not be so childish.
Speaking of which, the idea of late marriage and late childbirth is quite advanced in this world.
For example, Ye Luo, a beastman of Qingkuang's generation, is still single, and everyone doesn't talk much, it seems that people are very tolerant.
Qing Kuang calmly ignored his son who was fighting with other beastmen, and said, "If you really want to use a cave instead of a kiln cave, the double-mouthed cave seems to be okay."
Jian Mo: "Double-mouthed cave?"
Wu Jiong: "A small cave by the river, I'll take you to see it later."
Jian Mo couldn't wait and said, "Don't wait any longer, let's go and see it now."
"Okay." Wu Jiong said to the others, "I'll take Jian Mo to see if the double-mouthed cave is suitable."
Qing Kuang: "Let's continue to think about other caves here."
Wu Jiong nodded, turned into a giant wolf, carried Jian Mo on his back, and walked directly to the river.
It was estimated that in less than three minutes, they were at the lower reaches of the river, and Jian Mo stopped a little below where he often put the fish cage.
Wu Jiong changed back into human form, picked up the animal skin robe and socks that fell to the ground and put them on: "It's right here."
Jian Mo was embarrassed to look at him, so he turned his back and observed on the cliff, and soon found a small cave.
There was a door made of wooden boards outside the cave, and there was a pile of dead grass outside the door. He had been going back and forth so many times nearby but had not discovered that there was a cave here.
He struggled to move the door open and found a pile of bottles and jars inside.
Wu Jiong had already put on his clothes and walked over from behind: "This is where our tribe puts sundries, and those jars are filled with fruit wine."
Jian Mo sniffed: "I smell it."
This cave is not big, but it is quite deep. From the entrance to the innermost part of the cave, it is about six or seven meters, but only three or four meters wide.
In addition to the hole blocked by the door, there is another small hole on the side.
No wonder it is called a double-mouthed cave.
Wu Jiong looked at Jian Mo walking back and forth in the cave and asked: "Is this cave okay?"
Jian Mo: "It should be fine. We can fix it. Block the big hole at the entrance with mud, make a small hole on the top for ventilation, and then pile some mud to block the deep part of the cave. Dig a little more on both sides, and it may be almost done."
Wu Jiong nodded.
Jian Mo explained: "The main thing is that we must ensure that the temperature inside the cave is as uniform as possible. It is best to keep the four sides of it with similar areas, otherwise it is easy to burn and crack the pottery."
Wu Jiong: "I know."
Jian Mo thought for a while: "For safety, we can also pick up some stones and make them into pillars to support the top."
The tribe is full of stone houses. Everyone has good construction skills and it is convenient to quarry nearby.
Wu Jiong: "Should we use mud to cover the stone pillars?"
Jian Mo: "Use clay and add some dead grass or something. Wouldn't clay become hard once it is sintered? It should have good stickiness."
The two of them discussed the cave in a few words, and when they went back to tell everyone, everyone thought it was good.
Qing Kuang said directly: "Ban Ming and the others are so strong, they can still fight outside, just let them dig a hole and vent their energy." Jian
Mo raised his thumb: "It's a good thing to kill relatives for the sake of justice."
Qing Kuang shrugged, called Ban Ming and the others over, and told them to dig a hole.
Ban Ming hadn't turned back into human form yet. Hearing this, he had a cat-like face and complained quietly: "That will make your claws bald."
Qing Kuang: "Anyway, you don't go out hunting much in winter, so let them bald. It's convenient for you to fight with other beastmen, and you won't get into trouble no matter how you fight."
Ban Ming: "What about spring?"
Qing Kuang was very calm: "The nails will grow longer in spring."
In addition to Ban Ming, the young cats and dogs were sent to dig holes, commanded by Jian Mo.
Jian Mo was surrounded by such a large group of furry creatures, and the whole person felt a strange sense of funny, as if he was dreaming.
He is a pet doctor, and he usually deals with furry creatures, but now he has changed to another way of dealing with them.
I have to say, life is quite magical.
Ban Ming and his friends didn't think too much about it. When they got there, they asked directly, "Brother Jian Mo, how are we going to dig?"
Jian Mo looked around and felt sorry for the big cats' claws. He simply ordered two canine beastmen to come out and expand the left and right sides of the cave. Canine beastmen
's claws are more suitable for digging and are not easily bald.
The other beastmen stayed behind to assist, first transporting away the existing debris in the cave, and then digging out the excavated soil.
It happened that the cave needed to be repaired, so the excavated soil did not need to be transported out and thrown away, but directly piled up at the back and blocked the cave entrance.
No one had any objections, and the two canine beastmen lowered their heads and drilled into the cave.
The cave was indeed a bit small and could only accommodate two canine beastmen.
When the two canine beastmen entered, they had to lower their bodies, spread their hind legs, and try to get in.
Jian Mo looked at the two big dogs and couldn't help but smile.
Ban Ming saw it very clearly from the side and couldn't help but shudder: "Brother Jian Mo, what are you thinking about?"
Jian Mo raised his head: "Nothing." He
just remembered that when he was interning in a famous pet hospital, he walked eight big dogs a day.
At that time, he didn't know what the dogs felt, but he was as tired as a dog.
Thinking of it this way, there is nothing wrong with traveling to the orc world. At least the dogs in this world are well-behaved enough.
The two canine beastmen are very efficient, or it may be that the soil in the cave is soft enough.
They dug down a lot of soil with their claws in a short while.
The other beastmen were also busy. After clearing out the debris inside and outside the cave, they compacted the soil and blocked the cave entrance.
Some beastmen climbed to the top of the cave, cleared the weeds on the top, and marked the location where they would dig the hole.
The beastmen were so big and strong that they were really good at their job.
Jian Mo led them to work for a day, and they dug out the kiln and repaired it.
The repaired kiln is hemispherical inside, with a small hole on the top and a small hole on the side.
If you want to send air in, you can directly install a vertical hand-cranked fan outside the hole on the side, and then the fire in the kiln should burn more vigorously.
The kiln was dug out, and the beastmen looked at the results of their labor with a great sense of accomplishment.
They couldn't help but suggest to Jian Mo:
"Brother Jian Mo, the kiln has been dug out, why don't we burn a batch of charcoal first?"
"Yes, yes, Brother Jian Mo, didn't you say you wanted to check the effect of the kiln? Burning charcoal is the fastest."
"I would like to burn pottery directly, but unfortunately the pottery has not been dried well, so it's okay to burn some charcoal first."
"Brother Jian Mo, if you think it's okay, we'll go cut down trees tomorrow!"
Jian Mo didn't have any objections. The principles of burning charcoal and burning pottery are similar.
At most, when burning charcoal, the kiln needs to be sealed and let it smolder.
During the smoldering process, the heat will dry the kiln, making it stronger and more able to gather heat.
At the same time, after high-temperature baking, its effect can also be detected.
If there is anything wrong, they can remedy it in time.
Thinking of this, Jian Mo readily agreed: "You go cut down trees first, and burn a batch of charcoal the day after tomorrow, and we will see if there is any problem with this pottery kiln?"
Ban Ming immediately cheered and asked: "Then brother Jian Mo, can you discuss with the tribe leader and others? We contributed more to the charcoal burned this time, can we have a share? I want to send some to Amon."
Amon is a beastman that Ban Ming likes, but he is from the Xiongying tribe.
Jian Mo: "I can help ask, you can tell the details in person."
The technology of burning charcoal is a secret of their tribe, and Wu Jiong and others must have other instructions.
Ban Ming: "No problem! Brother Jian Mo, if you ask, the clan leader and my father will definitely agree."
Jian Mo nodded and said, "After you cut down trees, remember to plant some more trees. Otherwise, the number of trees will decrease. If you cut down more trees, the mountain will be barren."
Ban Ming and his friends laughed, "We know this. My father has told us so."
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