wild trail

Chapter 71 The Potter's Wheel
Regarding Lin Huo's compliment, Wang Lang just smiled lightly and said: "Actually, there are many animals in this world that are very useful to us, such as wolves that often wander around the tribe in the grasslands. If we We can train them, and the sensitive noses and ears of these animals can bring us a lot of convenience."

"Then when I go back, I will tell Jian Ya that they will catch all these wolves," Huo said.

Wang Lang shook his head and said, "You didn't understand me. I didn't tell you to catch those wolves immediately. That's not the point. What I mean is that animals are not just for eating meat. Some animals have been trained to It can be my powerful helper, just like the horned dinosaurs we saw last time. If we have animals like this, then we can move copper ore much faster. We have to pay attention to which ones are more docile, and Animals that can help us."

When people thought about Wang Lang's words carefully, they all felt that they were very reasonable. They kept recalling the animals they had seen in their minds, but their poor imagination and knowledge made them get nothing.

Kong Er looked at Wang Lang dejectedly and said, "Boss, I can't think of any animals that are useful, what should I do?"

Wang Lang smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if you can't think of it, I will tell you what kind of animals to pay attention to in the future."

Domesticating animals is not something that can be done in a day or two, and Wang Lang didn't want to continue this topic, so he said to Linhuo and Bark: "I'll talk about these things later. After we collect the salt in a few days, you two will go back to the grassland on a raft." Bar."

The two nodded. Although catching that kind of giant deer is also a very interesting thing, compared with pretending to be aggressive in front of other people, the latter is obviously more attractive to them, and the bark is even a little impatient. I want to see Kenya and the others surprised.

The next day, when people were gathering salt, Wang Lang sat in the tribe and designed his first pottery wheel. The shape of the pottery made by the clay rod method was very irregular, and there was no way to make thin pottery. Now The resulting pottery looks like bricks when broken.

With metal tools, Wang Lang had the idea of ​​making pottery wheels. Although he had never learned how to make pottery with pottery wheels before, he had never eaten pork or seen pigs run? The picture of pottery making appears, which is to put the mud on the rotating disc, and the shape of the pottery is shaped by the rotation of the disc.

The rotating device was easy to make. After Wang Lang simply drew the design on the ground, he took the tools and started to make it.

As he is not a professional carpenter, it took Wang Lang a day to make a few planks and some rectangular wooden strips, and polished them with a planer. After the sun had set, Wang Lang stacked the finished parts under the built shed.

Three days later, Wang Lang finished making all the parts and called other people to assemble the pottery wheel.

It took people more than an hour to assemble this pottery wheel in the shape of a square table.

There are two side-by-side discs placed on the base of the pottery wheel, and Wang Lang links them with tanned leather strips. By shaking one of the discs, the simple belt transmission starts to work, and the rotation of the connecting rod makes a tooth-piercing sound. The creaking sound drove the disc on the table for pulling embryos to rotate continuously, and the disc rotated quickly and smoothly.

People looked at this miraculous scene curiously. Three irrelevant discs could rotate just by being assembled together. To them, it seemed like magic. However, due to Wang Lang's previous warning, no one dared Relate all this to miracles.

Wang Lang turned it vigorously for a while, and was very satisfied with the pottery wheel he made.

Kong Er looked left and right around the pottery wheel, but couldn't understand anything. He walked in front of Wang Lang and asked, "Boss, why does this thing spin?"

Wang Lang smiled and didn't explain, but said: "You need to think about this problem yourself. If you want to understand why he turns, you have to think more and observe his operation process more."

Kong Er failed to get an answer from Wang Lang, which aroused his curiosity even more, and kept watching around the pottery wheel, turning it from time to time.

Although many people participated in the assembly of the pottery wheel, they didn't know anything about the purpose of this thing. People asked curiously: "Lang, what is this thing used for?"

Wang Lang patted the still spinning pottery wheel and said, "This is for making pottery."

"Can this thing also make pottery?"

People could hardly believe their ears that this eccentric big guy was actually used to make pottery.

Seeing people's astonishment, Wang Lang smiled, made people live in a piece of mud, and brought a basin of clear water.

After the thing was ready, people gathered around the pottery wheel, curious to see how this thing made pottery.

Wang Lang put the live mud on the pottery wheel, and asked Kong Er, who was still studying how the disc rotated, to speed up the shaking.

With the rotation of the disc, the ball of mud was continuously pulled into a cylindrical shape on Wang Lang's hands. Wang Lang dipped his hands in clean water and pressed his fingers lightly on the top of the mud column. The moist and soft soil quickly It was getting thinner and thinner under the rotation, and it didn't take long for a pot-bellied jar to appear in front of people.

Everyone's eyes widened in disbelief. The round and smooth jar in front of them just appeared in front of them. Compared with this jar, the things they made before are simply a pile of rubbish. Such a perfect thing is so perfect. Hurry up, such an unbelievable thing made everyone stand there in a daze.

Wang Lang told Kong Er to stop turning, took down the drawn pottery embryo and put it in a cool place to dry, washed his hands, looked at the shocked people, and said with a smile: "You guys can try it too!"

Hearing Wang Lang's words, people cheered and rushed to try this miraculous thing with their own hands.

Wang Lang didn't expect that he could do so well in making pottery embryos for the first time. He felt that he was still very talented in pottery making, but the fire he tried next obviously didn't have this talent. It's crooked, it's almost unbearable to look at.

In the midst of people's laughter, Bark pushed aside Huo who was full of embarrassment, and then kneaded the strange things made by Huo, and confidently asked Kong Er to shake the disc, but the things he made were the same as What Lin Huo did was comparable, and he was scorned by Lin Huo.

After trying several people in a row, only Kong Yi and a woman can do it well, and they obviously have no talent in pottery making.

Kong Yi looked at the others triumphantly. He who had no sense of existence at first was very excited to finally find his own value at this moment.

As the techniques became more proficient, people made dozens of pottery of different shapes. Three days later, the forest fire and bark left the tribe, took a raft full of supplies, and rowed towards the upper reaches of the river.

(End of this chapter)