wild trail

Chapter 60 The Charcoal Controversy

After a day of cooling, the next day is time to verify the results.

Standing in front of the incomparably hard small soil bag that was burned by fire, Wang Lang used a sharpened branch to draw an arch on the general soil bag of the grave mound, and then he chiseled down hard along the traces drawn, without passing through. After a long time, the arched mud slab more than one and a half high was buckled down.

Wang Lang carefully put the clay tablet aside, and looked at the dark hole.

Scrape away the ashes with branches, and take a look at the burnt charcoal from the charcoal kiln. The result this time is very good. 90.00% of the wood has been burned into charcoal. Wang Lang asked people to put the charcoal into the rattan In the basket, six rattan baskets were filled with the charcoal burned this time. Wang Lang estimated that this charcoal kiln could produce at least several tens of catties of charcoal at a time. If more such charcoal kilns were built, the charcoal produced would be enough Horde used it.

With charcoal, Wang Lang wanted to try the difference between pottery fired with charcoal and wood fired.

Huo looked at the charcoal in the rattan basket that was no different from the ones he had made before, and asked, "Lang, can this thing really burn fire?"

The corner of Wang Lang's mouth twitched, and he said, "Of course, the pottery made with this thing will definitely be much better than the previous ones."

Huo picked up a piece of charcoal in disbelief and looked at it. This black thing was no different from burnt wood. He thought, "Can this also burn?"

Seeing their disbelief, Wang Lang said, "If it works, you'll know if you try it."

Although Wang Lang said so, people still didn't believe it.

Wang Lang didn't explain it to them. The principle behind it was like playing the piano to a cow when they explained it. Looking at the women who were in charge of making pottery embryos, he asked, "Those clay pots are dry!"

The women nodded.

"Now that it's dry, we'll use charcoal to fire the pottery, and you'll know the difference by then!"

People dubiously carried a basket of charcoal to the side of the pottery kiln, and put the ignited wood into the fire pond below under Wang Lang's order.

"Put those clay pots in there!"

After people put the pottery pots into the pottery kiln, they cover the kiln roof with pottery plates. This process is no different from what they did before. They also fired a lot of pottery before. After a period of time, it is fired with a high fire so that the fired pottery is not easy to break.

After doing this, people looked at Wang Lang, waiting for what he would do next.

Wang Lang observed the situation of the flame, and said, "Let's burn it with wood for a while, and then use charcoal instead when the fire is changed!"

"Can it be burned just by throwing it in?" Although Huo trusted Wang Lang very much, this matter was beyond his common sense, so he asked again uncertainly.

Seeing that he was still struggling with this problem, Wang Lang said angrily, "You wouldn't believe me if I told you that this thing can burn." After speaking, he took out a small piece of charcoal from the rattan basket and threw it into the firepit.

It didn't take long for the piece of charcoal to burn, and the originally pitch-black charcoal turned red in the calcination of the flame.

When people saw that the thing was really burning, they all exclaimed. Huo picked up a piece of charcoal and looked at it in front of his eyes. He couldn't figure out how the wood that had been burned once could continue to burn.

Huo broke apart the charcoal in his hand, and it was still dark inside. Huo looked at the charcoal in his hand with some fear, and he thought that all this was because Wang Lang exerted some mysterious power on the previous wood.

Huo threw away the charcoal in his hand as if frightened. People looked at Huo's behavior in puzzlement, wondering why he was going crazy.

However, Huo didn't pay attention to the eyes of these people, looked at Wang Lang stumbling and said: "Lang, have you obtained the power of God?"

Wang Lang was taken aback, not knowing why Huo asked such a question, he shook his head and said, "I don't have the power of a god, Huo, why do you ask such a question?"

"Then how are these burned logs ignited? Previously burned logs cannot be burned again."

After hearing Huo's words, everyone understood Huo's words except Kong Yi and Kong Er, who had just been in contact with Huo for a short time, and looked at Wang Lang in puzzlement.

Wang Lang looked at the fire with some helplessness. He didn't know how to explain the principle to them. He frowned and thought for a while and said, "This is not the power of gods. You just need to follow my previous practice and you will burn it out." The charcoal can also be burned, and what can be done by manpower, how can it be the power of God, maybe I have been guided by God without knowing it!"

People thought about what Wang Lang said, and they all felt that it made sense. How could humans have the power of gods? They also participated in the burning of charcoal. If according to Huo's statement, then everyone is a god. The people looked at Huo with contempt, and said, "Huo, are you talking nonsense to scare us on purpose? The fact that the leader knows so much is due to the favor of the gods. How can mortals have the power of gods."

Huo smiled a little awkwardly, and said, "Who deliberately scares you, didn't I just figure it out?"

Wang Lang waved his hand to make everyone quiet, and said: "It's not that all the unknown and incomprehensible things are the power of gods, it's just that we don't know how to do it, for example, Kong Yi and the others didn't know how to drill wood to get it before they came to the tribe. Fire, isn’t our ability to use fire the power of gods in their eyes, so are we gods?”

People listened carefully to Wang Lang's words, looked at Kong Yi Kong Er and the others, and then at the pottery kiln and surrounding walls in front of them. They realized that they were used to living like this. Seeing these things, do you think that you are a god now?

The way of life of the current tribe is completely different from other tribes. People don't need to collect and hunt, and they don't need to move around. They have a stable residence and a large corn field, all of which are created by their own hands.

What exactly is a god?Kong Er in the crowd kept thinking about this question.

Before he came to the tribe, he was terrified of flames. Before that, only thunder and lightning falling from the sky could create flames. He thought it was the power of gods, but now he can create flames by himself through learning, and he is a little confused. .

"Lang, what are the gods? We can live a good life with our own hands. Why do we worship gods?" Kong Er asked suspiciously.

Wang Lang looked at Kong Er and said: "Before I told others that God is the world, and God controls everything in this world, such as the sun's rising and setting, such as the birth or death of people, we human beings are favored by gods. Race, God gave us wisdom, so that we can understand everything he created, such as this fire, that is, our ancestors learned the skill of making fire under the guidance of the gods, those unknown things, but we have not yet obtained the knowledge of the gods Guidance, when I understand the location clearly, it means that the gods gave you the direction of thinking when you didn't realize it."

(End of this chapter)