Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 459

Chapter 460 Playing with Mud

Li Junge said with a smile: "This is only the roughest for emergency use. The real clay is particular about it. You need to adjust the pH value, knead the clay, age it, and then knead the clay to make the clay fine and compact and reduce the organic content. Reduces the possibility of air bubbles being created during firing, which can cause the pottery to crack."

A Yin laughed and said, "You speak clearly and logically, but you just don't know how the craft is."

Li Junge said: "Just kidding, at least I used to play in my grandfather's kiln when I was young, let's see my skills."

Li Junge started to process the mud by himself, kneading it like kneading dough, then beating it with a big wooden stick, and then kneading again. After a long time of tossing, he was tired of making a mud square, and then went to check the cooled mud cakes.

Tap it with your finger, there will be a bang, and after washing with clean water, there will be no marks on the nails.Li Junge held the pancake like the arhat holding the demon mirror in Journey to the West: "Hahahahaha! Tao! It's a success!"

After carefully inspecting the pottery plate, Li Junge pointed to some black dots on it and said to A Yin: "Look, blasting iron, a standard feature of good clay and bad craftsmanship."

Ayin couldn't help laughing: "Erpi, you have a reputation for knowing yourself!"

Li Junge scratched his forehead: "This is made from a firewood pile, it can't be measured by the standard of an electric stove!"

Pleasantly placing the pottery plate on the second floor of the stove, Li Junge started to build the third floor.

The third layer is a hollow cylinder. After building it, Li Junge started to ignite the fire in the middle layer.

This fire is scary, because the bottom is empty, the hot air goes up, sucks the air below, and burns loudly.

Let the fire burn to dehumidify the third layer, and Li Junge made several large clay boards with three holes and baked them, ready to be fired later to serve as covers.

With Li Junge's physical strength, he was a little tired today, so he asked Ayin to cook some dried fish and wild vegetables casually, and just deal with it casually.

While Ayin was cooking, Li Junge began to knead the clay cubes into balls, and did some manual work to rest.

First, rub the mud square into mud strips of uniform thickness, and then form a disc on the bamboo mat. Take a bamboo tube sawn into a cup shape to mix a cup of mud, and dip a bamboo knife to scrape the mud disc flat.

Take a bamboo tube that is close to a perfect circle and put it on top, and the bamboo knife cuts around the periphery to get a round bottom.

Take away the excess mud on the side, but leave the bamboo tube unmoved.

Take out a piece of clay and make it into a piece of clay, and then use a bamboo knife to scrape and press it to perfection. Use that piece of bamboo as a ruler, and cut it into a regular long rectangle.

Take a piece of thin bamboo wire to circle the circumference of the round bottom, and cut out a suitable length on the long rectangle, leaving redundancy.

Dot a circle of mud around the round bottom just cut out, gently take off the long rectangle cut out on the small bamboo mat, wrap it around the mud bottom and the outside of the bamboo tube, and make a quick stroke with the tip of the bamboo knife from the middle of the overlapping position of the mud pieces , Open the mud strip, take out the bamboo tube and the cut excess mud strip, gently scrape the mud on the edge of the mud piece, and stick the interface together.

After resting the cracks, a cup is made.

In the same way, Li Junge made another cup that was exactly the same.

This is actually the craft of making purple sand pots. Li Junge played with his cousin for a few days, so he is not a stranger.

When the water boiled, A Yin started to serve dried fish, and Li Junge started to make clay pots.

Because the inner diameter of the furnace is only half a meter, the pot is not big, only [-] centimeters.

After Li Junge plated the clay plate and scraped it flat, the two sharpened bamboo sticks and a bamboo stick were tied to form a triangle, and they were used as simple compasses to turn out a decent pot bottom.

Fill the center of the circle with mud and finish the work. The side of the pot can only be piled up with mud strips and pinched by hand. It can’t be fast. It's just careful work.

At this time, A Yin called for dinner, Li Junge washed his hands, and ate with A Yin.

During the meal, Li Junge said to A Yin: "There is no oil or gas, no salt and no taste. When the pot is ready, the first thing to do is boil the oil!"

A Yin said: "Boil the oil? What do you use to boil it? We have nothing but fish..."

Li Junge said: "Did you forget the beach? That thing is all over the place?"

A Yin's eyes lit up: "Coconut?"

Li Junge said: "The coconut meat inside the coconut looks like fat. Let's try it after the pot is cooked. Even if the oil doesn't come out, the salt won't escape, right?!"

A Yin laughed and said: "Yes! Then we will have a shot!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "Three days of hard work, today I finally got a lot of dry wood and bamboo. Tomorrow, I will make the tables and chairs, so I don't have to eat cross-legged anymore. The day after tomorrow we will go to the seaside for vacation!"

A Yin laughed and said, "Our life is getting better and better here, I don't know how the other seven teams are doing!"

Li Junge said: "Islands with such abundant supplies should be doing well. We have to work hard to keep ahead of them."

After dinner, A Yin took wild bananas and put them in a bamboo tube, added cold boiled water, stirred them with a bamboo stick, poured the juice into another bamboo tube, collected the seeds, and gave the banana juice to Li Junge to drink.

Li Junge continued his pottery art. While waiting for the pot to dry, he made two more bowls, several plates, and several spoons of different sizes.

When the pots were finally finished, Li Junge took them and put them around the firepit to roast, and then he and A Yin went to rest.

……

In the program that night, Nian asked Mr. Pei: "How do you think the performance of the teams today?"

Mr. Bei said: "Chersky of the Russian team finally changed his tactics and began to try to obtain food from the sea. He cut bamboo into eight-pronged forks, sharpened the fork teeth, and looked for fish in the trench. This is a good idea. But today their luck is not so good."

Lune said: "The British team, Isabella started to complain, eating raw fish and coconut juice every day, and tomorrow asked Charlton to accompany her into the mountains to see if he could find other food. The British team has no way to make a fire ?"

Bell said: "If there is no fire into the mountain, well, it will be very dangerous, because coconut water is a very clean water source. If they don't know the Jungle Lee method of water collection, they may drink unclean water. In the wild , dysentery is a very terrible disease."

Nian said: "The French team is still continuing their oysters. Both Sophie and Henry think the taste is good, but this thing can't maintain their weight because of the lack of calories. I guess they will have to find a way tomorrow."

Luen said: "The US team was lucky today. Tom caught a snake and the siblings ate meat for the first time."

Nian said: "The Argentine team is still roasting cassava, and the machete has come in handy to help them build a more comfortable shed. Passarella is learning to tie wooden beds with rattan."

Bell said: "The Australian team's bows and arrows are quite useful. Kewell shot several fish, and they also began to have food reserves. Tanya of the South African team has some experience in wild survival, and began to weave ropes with fibers and use stones to prepare them. and sticks to build traps. These are the beginnings of a virtuous cycle, and hopefully they go on for longer."

Lu En said: "Uh, the Chinese team..."

Bell said: "I think we should hire a guest? I don't understand what they did today. For example, in the morning, they peeled off the bark of the shrub to get the fiber, but they didn't use it directly, but soaked it in water. .”

Lu En said: "I know this. They are retting. By soaking, they use bacteria to remove the glue attached to the fibers, so that they can get purer fibers. But they spend the rest of their time repairing them. Big roof and start making pottery. Bell, is pottery necessary for wilderness survival?"

Bell said: "The use of pottery is mainly used to boil water and cook food, but these are not without substitutes. Jungle used their bamboo troughs very well before. I am more inclined that this is formed by their farming tradition. Influences and habits, after all, they are now capable of pursuing a more ideal life."

Nian said: "Jungle seems to be a naturalist. The houses he built, especially the bamboo tiles, are really eye-opening."

Lu En said: "Well, the cups he made are also quasi-industrial-grade, and the two cups are almost exactly the same."

Bell said: "He also used a compass creatively ... oh my god, compasses on a survival show ... it's unimaginable."

Lu En concluded: "This is the third day of "No Man's Island". The performance of the eight pairs of players is getting better and better, and the team is beginning to show a tendency to divide. The Chinese team and the Argentine team have solved the food problem and have entered a virtuous circle. , followed closely by Australia and South Africa, the UK team is also good, they have relatively easy access to food, but have not fully solved the storage problem. The rest of the team, uh, are still struggling to feed themselves, anyway, I wish them good luck..."

……

Early in the morning, after the two woke up, Li Junge came over with a piece of bamboo that had been ground straight, and said to A Yin: "Come on, A Yin, the book is on the same track as the Wenche, and we have entered the standard era today."

A Yin smiled and said, "Oh, don't make trouble, I still have to cook!"

Li Junge said solemnly: "This is an epoch-making important moment, not inferior to Cangjie's invention of characters. I guess blood will rain from the sky tonight, and hundreds of ghosts will cry at night..."

Ayin patted Li Junge: "Don't be scary!"

Li Junge grabbed A Yin's arm, wiped off her sleeve, gestured with the bamboo piece, and said, "A Yin's fingertips reach to the tip of his elbow... Ah, here!"

The sharp bamboo charcoal drew a mark on the bamboo ruler: "Dang Dang Dang Dang! The first weight and measure on this island was born. This is the Yiyin ruler, perfect!"

A Yin couldn't stop laughing: "You can really be funny!"

Li Junge smiled and said: "This is not a joke. I found a problem yesterday when I was making pottery. I must have a ruler. The next step is to divide this ruler and turn the ruler into inches..."

A Yin said: "How to divide?"

Li Junge smiled and said, "I have compasses. Don't you remember how to use compasses to divide a line segment into two equal parts? It's very simple."

A Yin smiled and said, "I know this, what then?"

Li Junge said: "Then divide into four, divide into four, and divide into eight...how simple!"

A Yin laughed and said: "Then the problem is coming, how do you divide a foot into ten equal parts?!"

Li Junge was dumbfounded, shit, this is really a problem!
(End of this chapter)